TYPHOON DISASTER
WORST FOR MANY YEARS IN JAPAN WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION REPORTED. LANDSLIDE KILLS 66 MEN ■ IN KOREA. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 11.50 a.m.) TOKIO, August 31. The worst typhoon since 1895 devastated Eastern Japan at dawn, plunging Tokio, Yokohama and other towns into darkness through the breakage of electric cables, rooting up trees, blocking streets, unroofing buildings, submerging wharves and levelling crops. A landslide at the Chuto Railway Station, in Korea, killed 66 sleeping workmen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 8
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78TYPHOON DISASTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 8
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