SWEPT BY TIDAL WAVE
NORTH PACIFIC ISLAND DEVASTATED
A UNCONFIRMED report
Br Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright.
(Rec. December 25, 5.5 p.m.)
San Prancisco, December 23.
'A report that Yap, a small island in tlie Caroline group, in the North Pacific, was swept by a tidal wave and devastated, is published in the “Hochi Sha,” a Japanese language . newspaper of Honolulu. No confirmation of the report has been received from any other source.’ The cable between Guam and Yap lias been interrupted since December 16. Tlie "Hoclii Siia” said that not a single house on the island, which has an area of 79 square miles and a population of several thousands, is left standing. Fear is expressed that other islands in the group suffered a similar catastrophe.—Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 78, 26 December 1925, Page 5
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