Five persons were known to. be dead to-day as a result of battering by high sea waves of a wide area along Toyama Bay, facing the Sen nf Japan.
Fire brigades, young men's associntions and ex-service men's bodies were mobilized yesterday' afternoon as towering seas' threatened const cities and an all-night vigil was kept, The waves subsided this morning.
Most seriously hit were the towns of Namekawa, Nishhi-Mizuhasht and Higashi-Mizuhashi, in Naka-Shinkawa county, where four persons were killed and 90 houses destroyed, Another person was killed and 60 houses demolished in Shimminato and Fushikl, in the adjoining county Imi The sea-wall was breached In one place at Shima-Shikawa, according to dispatches reaching here—Rengo, Twe Ministry of Industry is reported to have instructed all government= owned railways to buy. their fire insurance policies from Chinese surance companies,
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