GIRLS PERISH
500 Dead, Thousands Injured TYPHOON IN JAPAN Collapse of Schools; Tidal Wave Sweeps Town . J. . • * S-r • > / - ■ » f -*.* WIDESPREAD DAMAGE i; r , . ■ ■ ■— By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. '• l (Received September 21, 10.10 p.m.) Tokio, September 21. Japan is in the grip of a fierce » i typhoon, and the havoc it is causing is increasing every hour. Communica- '... j tions have been disorganised, trains , wrecked, shipping driven ashore, ’ rivers swollen and tens of thousands ‘ of homes inundated. ■■i Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe suffered .< f most At Osaka, the Tennoji Temple pagoda, which has withstood storms for centuries, was overturned. Several schools were wrecked, and upward of 500 pupils, mostly girls, were killed, while thousands were injured. A tidal wave swept Sakai, near . Osaka. At Kyoto a girls’ school collapsed, and 300 children were killed and injured. v The typhoon at noon was sweeping ‘ Tokio and Yokohama.
“ Buildings have been wrecked throughout the country, and the total ■. casualties are unknown.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 306, 22 September 1934, Page 7
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157GIRLS PERISH Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 306, 22 September 1934, Page 7
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