Clearing skies at 2 o'clock' this Kobe, July 5,
afternoon brought relief to western Japan threatened by disastrous foods as a result of continued rainfall,, Trafüc gri the Tokaido trunk line, linking Tokyo and Shimonoseki rê- mained interrupted, however, land-
ving buried bot between Kobe and Osaka
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Meantime, in Tokyo, Adrhiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, Home Minister, announced that material damage caused by the recent floods in the Kwanto district; where Tokyo and Yokohama ate located, was estimated at about Y.100000000. Heaviest sufferer was lbaragi prefecture where losses were put at 50000000, with Tochigi deste o total Y.10,- Bfefectures Second, having suffered damages calculated t
y 134 Lives Lost Speüking before his Cabinet colléadüés, Admiral Suetsugu announced that a fal check had established ives had b ieee een lost in land-the Home Minister continued, Whig Houses affected numbered 26 226,836 hectares of paddy fields and other farm land were flooded.
Eight prefectures in Central Japan including Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Tochigi, Ibáragi, Shizuoka and Yamiditashi suffered.—Domei, 1
Himalaya Expedition; Food from the Sky Munich; July 5.
The German Himalaya expedition's aeroplane completed in good weather a fourth flight to the Nanga Patbat, discharging over the site of camp No. 4 of 6300 metres 12 cases containing bonzing apparatus and fresh supplies of food which, borne by parachutes, descended gently to the ground, ae: carding to reports received here yesterday evening., Since communication with the lower amp was being hindered by new now, the áeroplüne is proving particulary useful to the mountaineers.—Trans-Ocean.
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