TYPHOON DISASTER

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1932, Page 5

TYPHOON DISASTER

JAPAN VISITED

ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

KOBE, November 15

The whole of Monday an unseasonable typhoon raged from Lacliu .to northward's of Yokohama. Reports of damage state there were deluges, which destroyed many railway tracks. .Three hundred houses collapsed,:in. the typhoon, and tramways were blocked.

Ten thousand houses were flooded. Some of the coastal cities were in complete darkness.

Atami, a resort, was’cub off from communication. One hundred houses were deslvved there.

The Shid/.uolca Prefecture is the greatest sufferer. There were many landslide,?, blocking Japan’s chief railway artery. Over sixty persons were buried under their houses at Yokohama, exservicemen digging them out. ■ Three hundred houses at the town of Suzukawa were burned.

Notwithstanding the violence of the storm, the Japanese autumn military manoeuvres were completed, and the Emperor" held a monster parade 'at Osaka in the presence of eighty thousand spectators. ' A message from Tokyo states that the villages on Loochoo Island 'are devastated in the typhoon. Very heavy damage was 'also done at Numdzu, including five hundred houses that were burned.

A landslide buried one hundred 'and twenty people at Yokohama. The death roll is not vet counted. The telephones and telegraphs with Tokvo are interrupted.

There is widespread flooding in the low-lying parts.