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Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1932, Page 5

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JAPANESE! TYPHOON

FLEET DAMAGED, MEN DROWNED

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

LONDON, November 16.

A Kobe message states the typhoon’s marine damage includes that to the naval aircraft carriers, Has bo and ißyujo, and the cruisers Asagiri and Iktazudhi, all of which were driver ashore”-’and badly damaged at ’’Yokosuka. "

In Shimidzu .'Ha-rbouPp the K’irishima Maru took refuge. Shd (Blagged her anchor, and lay broadside on to the waves. Thirteen were .washed overboard, while spectators -ashore were watching helplessly. The .ship broke

up. •In the tame re gi°n the Montonasa Maru lost 37 of her crew of 43. # ' The Unkai Maru logt twenty drowned. A .cruiser picked up ten. The minor wrecks are not counted. At Ito, which was devastated by earthquakes jn 1930, five ihundred and seventy-five houses have been destroyed, and 'also the hundred thousand yen breakwater. The wind velocity was 79 miles , an hour, -being the most violent for thirty years.

OFFICIAL REPORT.

LIST OF CASUALTIES

TOKYO, November 16.

Official—The casualties in seven Prefectures, aged 53 dead, 46 injured, and 62 missing, probably drowned. Five thousand Houses were demolished and .several steamers were lost. Fukushima Prefecture reports one hundred and fifty fishermen, are dead or mining.