TYPHOON IN JAPAN
Japan has suffered severely from the elements in this year of her war. The Yellow River has overflowed her battlegrounds in China; but the unkindest cuts have come in her own land, where earthquakes and fires have followed one another, and the worst typhoons for more than 30 years struck Yokohama, Tokio, and other places. Yokohama, one of the chief of her ports, with half a million inhabitants, w’as nearly wrecked, the town was plunged in darkness owing to the destruction of the electric supply, and over 100 lives were lost.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1938, Page 9
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94TYPHOON IN JAPAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1938, Page 9
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