Tokio, May 25: Mount Tokachi erupted suddenly with a tremendous roar, which was heard twenty miles away. The inhabitants of Miye town, at the foot of the volcano, fled in panic. The town is seriously endangered and train service to it has been suspended. It is reported that sixty houses have been buried under lava.

One hundred and twenty persons, mostly miners are missing inside the local sulphur mine. A message from Hokkaido says that two thousand farmers are missing as the result of the eruption.

It is reported that 1,000 persons are missing and 200 have been drowned due to water gushing from the ground, as a result of eruption of Mount Tokachi, a dormant volcano at Hokkaido. A message from Hokkaido states that the reports of casualties from the volcano vary considerably, but it is officially learned that 100 bodies have been recovered.