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The Official Buildings.
lisakar SentT'i6.'
Messages received jfrom -Tokio: say
that, with' the- exceptipn-^of' the -Home.
Office ? and the.- Department of Finance,
nearly all of the-official huildines escanni'
the flames. .- The- following premises 'iare
still- standing, although, they have been
shaken severely, and in some cases are
nninhabitable:— The Foreign 'Officei 'the'
General-. Staff Office. \the; 'Navy Depart
ment, the Diet Building; '.and .th'e'Rus-.
sian. Italian. Belf;iinri,'and Gertonn Em
bassies. _, .The American. French, and
Chinese Embassies were' burned.' ,'Tho
British-' Embassy' building us uninhabit
able, , bnt: the only house which \vas ac
tu ally burned . at ' tire t Embassy . was that'
of the '.Tapa'ncsc counsellor!
The Tokio. Central Station still stands.
as\well as all of the big buildings, flank
iiis**it' on' both sides of 'the ?commerc.ia!
quarter (known generally as . Mani
no.iichi). — Keuter. . -; ? -
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