DESTRUCTIVE TYPHOON
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS SWEPT WORST FOR YEARS Press Association—By Telegraph • Copyright. MANILA. November 26. (Received November 27, at 9.55 a.m.) The most severe typhoon experienced in the Philippine Islands in years swept the southern Luzon Island, the gale at times reaching a velocity of seventy miles an hour. The damage is estimated at millions of dollars. Thirty per cent, of the cocoaimt crop is reported to have been destroyed. Legaspi, a port town, was flooded and the Government buildings were damaged. Several small ships were wrecked at various points along the coast. graph lines are severed, and the wireless reports of the destruction are fragmentary.—Australian Press Association,
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Evening Star, Issue 20034, 27 November 1928, Page 5
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108DESTRUCTIVE TYPHOON Evening Star, Issue 20034, 27 November 1928, Page 5
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