TYPHOON IN CHINA. Sydney, December 4.
Information has been received from Hong Kong that the typhoon season h?s been terribly severe. Many vessels aie reported to have been wrecked, and many lives have been lost. Disastrous floods have taken place at Winchow.
Villages have been washed away, and several thousand persons drowned. At Winchow the country people were reduced to such straits that they resorted to cannibalism
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 426, 7 December 1889, Page 5
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67TYPHOON IN CHINA. Sydney, December 4. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 426, 7 December 1889, Page 5
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