TYPHOON SWEEPS JAPAN
TIDAL WAVE INUNDATES BUILDINGS ,200 FISHING BOATS MISSING (UXITED TRESS ASSOCIATION —COPTEIGHT.) (Received September 12, 11.30 p.m.) TOKYO, September 11. The Weather Bureau announces that a typhoon struck Shikoku Island, communications with which are severed. The hurricane is moving in a north-easterly direction towards Tokyo, Osaka, and Yokohama. A later message states the typhoon swept over Japan. Considerable damage was done in Yokohama city, and 11 were killed, and steamers held up at Kobe. A tidal wave inundated 600 buildings in Osaka. Two hundred fishing boats are reported missing. Fifteen persons, mostly children, were killed when two schools were destroyed at Takamatsu. Fifteen were killed in a lands.ide at Kyoto.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22196, 13 September 1937, Page 9
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