JAPANESE TYPHOON
DEVASTATION ASHORE
v NAVAL VESSEL1 DAMAGED
(Eeceived 17th November, 9 a.m.) r T.OKIO, 16th November. Official: Tho casualties in the seven Prefectures from the recent typhoon arc: 53 dead, 46 injured,'and 62 missing, probably drowned. Five thousand houses were demolished and several steamers lost.
The Fukushinia Prefecture reports 150 fishermen as dead or missing. _ Marine damage done,by the typhoon includes the naval aircraft' carriers, Hosho and Ryu jo, and the cruisers, Asagiri and Ikazuchi, which were driven ashore and badly damaged at "Xokosuka.
In- Shimidzu harbour, where tho Kirishima Maru took refuge, she dragged her anchor and lay broadside to the waves. Thirteen men! were washed overboard, spectators ashore watching helplessly. The ship broke up. In the same Tegion tho Motonasa Maru lost 37 of her crew of 43 and the Unkai Maru lost twenty drowned. A cruiser picked up ten. . Manor wrecks have not been counted.
At Ito, _ which was devastated by earthquakes in 1930, 575 houses were destroyed, also the breakwater, which cost 100,000 yen.
The wind had a velocity of 79 miles an hour. It waa the most violent for thirty years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1932, Page 11
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187JAPANESE TYPHOON Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1932, Page 11
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