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Show Ancient Buildings Imperilled by Ants. The Castle of Wakayama has been found to be In a state of ruin due to the attacks of African white ants. The main supporting pillars have been entire en-tire hollowed out by the insects. On examination It has been discovered that the barracks In Awajl and the Miyama fortresses in the Kil district are also being ruined by these harmful harm-ful Insects. The military department has dispatched dis-patched an expert to undertake the extermination ex-termination of the pests. He says that should the authorities fail In ex-temlnating ex-temlnating the Insects all the fortresses fort-resses along the Kii and Awaji waters will be ruined, and should the Insects once reach Kioto the temples and other oth-er ancient buildings would be lost in few years Japan Advertiser. |