TYPHOON IN CHINA.
MANY VESSELS WRECKED.
VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY.
THOUSANDS O£" PEOPLE
DROWNED.
SURVIVORS RESORT TO
CANNIBALISM.
Sydney, this day. Information has been received from Hong Kong that the typhoon season has been terribly severe.
Many vessels are reported to have been wrecked, and many lives have been lost.
Disastrous floods have taken place at Winchow.
Villages have been washed away, and several thousand persons drowned.
At Winchow the country people were reduced to such straits that they resorted to cannibalism.
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 288, 4 December 1889, Page 5
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81TYPHOON IN CHINA. Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 288, 4 December 1889, Page 5
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