Tokyo, Feb. 15.
Estimates of casualties in the fire Jwhich consumed the Manchu theatre Jat Antung yesterday varied consider bly. to-day. One report said that than' 630° bodies had already been recovered. A Tokyo newspaper Jcorrespondent telegraphed that the oral might Teach 800, while other sources at Antung believed the total would be lower. Antung police and [Japanese troops in charge of rescue of was reported that one entire family "of 21 persons, Including 2 Hiather and grandmother, had been killed in the disaster.
Thirty neighbouring houses were [burned but their to hospitals: suffering from severe burns but it was believed that many others died after taking refuge in private homes.
The fre apparently started behind the screen of the theatre. The gallery collapsed upon those underneath in the course of the blaze—United Press,
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