TYPHOON IN JAPAN

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1932, Page 9

TYPHOON IN JAPAN

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HEAVY tOSS OF LIFE

KOBE, loth November.

During the whole of Monday an uai» seasonable typhoon raged from Loo* choo to northward of Yokohama. !Ee« ports of damage state that deluges destroyed many railway tracks.

. At Tokio' 300 houses collapsed, and[ tramways were blocked;' Ten thousand houses were flooded,and some coastal cities were in com* plete darkness. Atami, a resort, was! cut off from Communication, and lOflj houses were destroyed.' ; . The Shidzuoka Prefecture was thaf greatest sufferer, many, landslides blocking Japan's chief railway artery. ' Over sixty persons were buried undeij houses at Yokohama, and' ex-service» men are digging them out. According to another report, a land* slide buried 120 persons at Yokohama, and the death-roll is not yet' known^ Telephonic and telegraphic communication with Tokio is interrupted. Three hundred houses at Suzukawji were burned.'■'■'- v ■' ;

i Notwithstanding the violence of thai storm,, the autumn army_ manoeuvres were completed, and the Emperor- held "a monster parade at Osaka in the pre* sence of 80,000' spectators. . ; - A,-late message from .Tokio state* that villages on the Loochoo Island^ are devastated. '

Very heavy damage was done at Nu« madzu, including the burning of 50(| houses.

There is widespread flooding in low* lying parts of" the,country. .