SWEPT BY TYPHOON
Great Damage in Japan
FISHING CRAFT MISSING
(Received September 12, 8.30 p.m.)
Tokio, September 12.
The weather bureau announces that a typhoon struck Shikoku Island, communications with which are severed. It is moving in a north-easterly direction toward Tokio, Osaka and Yokohama.
A later message states that the typhoon swept over Japan. Considerable damage was done in Yokohama city and 11 people were killed. Steamers were held up at Kobe. A tidal wave inundated 600 buildings in Osaka.
Two hundred fishing-boats are reported to be missing. Fifteen people, mostly children, were killed when two schools were destroyed at Takamatsu, and 15 were killed in a landslide at Kyoto.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 298, 13 September 1937, Page 5
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