DAYS OF TERROR
STORM & FLOOD HAVOC IN JAPAN OVER ONE HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED. CAPITAL SUFFERS HEAVILY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 10 a.m.) TOKIO, June 30. Japan has passed two days of terror, floods, tornados and earthquakes having caused havoc. The rainfall is the heaviest in living memory. The death-roll is over 100. All trains from Tokio have been cancelled. In Tokio 150,000 houses were flooded. The worst hit town outside the capital is Tsuchiura, where the entire popluation are refugees, The typhoon is now moving to the Pacific. Shipping services have been suspended.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1938, Page 7
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