STORM AT GUAM
CASUALTIES & DAMAGE. APPEAL FOR RED CROSS AID. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) SAN FRANCISCO. November 4. The Navy has advised that a typhoon with a velocity of 150 miles an hour on Sunday raked Guam Island. A hangar was damaged and communications disrupted. Pan-American Airways said its tourist hotel was wrecked. Captain G. J. McMillan, naval governor at Guam, has cabled to the Red Cross asking for 50,000 dollars to relieve civilian distress. There were no Pan-American clippers in the area. The full extent of the casualties cannot be determined immediately.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1940, Page 5
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93STORM AT GUAM Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1940, Page 5
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