SEVERE TYPHOON
GREAT DESTRUCTION IN JAPAN HEAVY DEATH-ROLL FEARED (Australian Press Association.) (Roc. August 2, 8.15 p.m.) Tokio, August 2. A typhoon, the severest iu eighteen years, has been continuing for three days in' the districts surrounding Tokio, causing rivers to overflow, landslides, and collapse of embankments and tunnels. Railway communication is interrupted. Tlie material damage is estimated at two millions. . The death roll is feared to bo heavy, and is known to exceed twenty. Reports from outlying districts have not been received.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 260, 3 August 1928, Page 11
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83SEVERE TYPHOON Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 260, 3 August 1928, Page 11
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