FLOOD DISASTER IN JAPAN CAUSES OVER 150 DEATHS
(N.Z.P. A.—Reuter). (Rec. 11.40). TOKIO, Sept. 17. The typhoon thus far has .taken one hundred and forty lives in the Nagasaki and the Saga prefectures. Another ten persons are missing. Fifty are seriously injured. Fourteen inches of raip fell at Sasebu in eight hours. Extensive damage was reported from Kyushu up to Hokkaido. At Ichinoseki, northern Honshu, five hundred homes are reported to have been washed away and fifteen hundred others destroyed. Gangs of labourers worked all night on the dykes and river banks outside of Tokio to prevent floods from sweeping into the city.
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Grey River Argus, 18 September 1948, Page 4
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