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Show OSAKA, VENICE OF JAPAN IS SWEPX BY FIPX Osaka, Japan, Jan. 10. A score o' fires which broke out nt 1 o'clock thl? mornlg swept across the southern half ot this city, fanned by a strong wind. Tho firo was not under con-trol'untll con-trol'untll lntc In tho nftcrndon, when, according to official figures, f2GS buildings had been destroyed and 30,000 pel sous rendered homeless. During tho first four hours the flames consumed moro than 1,300 houses Osak, the Venice of the east, has a population of about n million, and is rated one olthe most impoitant manufacturing man-ufacturing and commercial cities of Japan. n |