TYPHOON IN JAPAN
HAVOC ON LAND AND SEA MANY HUNDREDS KILLED & INJURED. . THOUSANDS MADE HOMELESS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. TOKIO, October 21. A typhoon yesterday devastated Kyushu, killing 226 and injuring 592, while 227 are missing. Thirty-five thousand have been rendered homeless and 3000 houses were washed away. The liner Yamabuki Marti was blown against Yokohama breakwater. A rescue ship has been rushed to the scene. The typhoon swept on to Yokohama, where seven passenger liners are overdue and thence to Tokio in the early morning, flooding ten thousand houses and causing many to collapse.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1938, Page 5
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94TYPHOON IN JAPAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1938, Page 5
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