DEATHS & DAMAGE
TYPHOON FOLLOWS DELUGE IN JAPAN THOUSANDS OF HOMES FLOODED. MANY CASUALTIES AMONG FISHERMEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) TOKIO. July 22. Many lives were lost and thousands of homes were flooded when a typhoon hit Shizuoka, bringing to a climax ten days of almost continuous rain. Shizuoka bore the brunt of the storm, 35 lives being lost and many persons injured there. Some 26.000 homes were inundated.
In the Tokio area there were 25 deaths and 12,000 homes were flooded. The casualties among fishing boats are expected to be- very high. Crops were inundated and rail services disorganised.
The Weather Bureau predicted that by tomorrow night the rainfall would be the heaviest in Tokio's history.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1941, Page 6
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