MANILA TYPHOON
WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION EIGHTEEN DEATHS REPORTED. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HOMELESS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MANILA. December 9. A terrific typhoon swept over the provinces in the south-east of Manila, leaving thousands homeless, disrupting communications and causing widespread floods and extensive damage to property and crops. Eighteen persons are reported dead. FEARS FOR STEAMER. BELIEVED TO HAVE SUNK. (Received This Day, 9.45 a:m.) MANILA, December 9. At least twenty people are dead. Hundreds are homeless. Communications have been destroyed. It is feared that the freighter, Admiral Halstead, with her crew of 35, trapped in Sorsagon Bay, has foundered.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 December 1938, Page 7
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