TYPHOON IN JAPAN
WITH TIDAL WAVE * — Many Lives Lost [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received September 12, 7.20 p.m.) TOKIO, September 11. The Japanese Weather Bureau announces that a typhoon has struck Shikoku Island, communications with which were severed. The typhoon is moving in a north-easterly direction towards Tokio, Osaka and Yokohama. LATER. The typhoon swept over Japan. Considerable damage was done in Yokohoma city, and eleven were killed. Steamers are held up at Kobe. A tidal wave inundated six hundred buildings in Osaka. Two hundred fishing boats are reported missing. Fifteen people, mostly children, were killed when two schools were destroyed at Takamatsu, and fifteen were killed in a landslide at Kyoto.
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Grey River Argus, 13 September 1937, Page 5
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