Floods jand Landslides Do Much Damage; Silk Cocoon Stocks Saved Tokyo, July 3.
Japan faced new disasters from floods and landslides today as mass funerals were held here ín a: steady day-long rain for victims of the recent Tanimachí landslide.
Soldiers, firemen and police meanwhile cleared the Osaka-Kobe way after a new landslide near Okitsu, home town of Prince Saionji, had cut off communications between the two cities, Railway traffic was resumed late tonight after hours of work Thousands of workmen later manned river dykes along the e. tern coast district between Sendai and Shizouka as rivers continued to fise after hours of continuous downpour. Officials were particularly fearing a further disaster in Ibaraki where.
Lake Kasumigaura already had overflowed.
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