TYPHOON IN JAPAN
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE CAUSED. WAVES DESTROY BREAKWATERS. (United Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 19.35 a.m.) LONDON, August 28. The Tokio correspondent of “The Times” says that a typhoon, moving slowly across south-western Japan, disrupted communications and caused extensive damage over an area of 350 miles in length. It prevented English, American aiTcl Japanese liners leaving Kobe. The Channel services to Korea and all air, land and sea coastwise services have been suspended, Waves 30 feet high destroyed the breakwaters at several small ports. An express to Toba was derailed by the burial of the tender as an embankment collapsed.—“ The Times.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 271, 29 August 1935, Page 5
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