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Six Japanese Government offices, Including the Finance Ministry, were! destroyed by fire at midnight night when several bolts of lightning struck the Government office quarter in Kojimachi Ward.
The blaze was believed to have been started by a thunderbolt which fell on the new building of the Aeronautics Bureau of the Communications Ministry at Otemachi, Kojimachi Ward, at 11 o'clock last night. The ensuing fire destroyed the entire building.
Fanned by a strong wind, the flames rapidly swept to other Government offices. Most of them were old wooden buildings which had been constructed following the great earthquake in 1923.
The fire gutted the building of the Finance Ministry, the Manchurian Affairs Bureau and the Planning Board of the Cabinet, as well as the rowly-built Revenue Superintendent's Office and the annex of the Welfare Ministry. The flames were brought under control at 12.10 o'clock' this morning.
Despite the rapidity with which the flemes spread, all important Government papers escaped damage as the employees of the offices removed them to safety.
Government offices which were destroyed in the fire had moved this morning to temporary offices and were carrying on business as usual.
In order to cover the damage caused by the fire, the regular Cabinet meeting today will examine the question
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