HURRICANE AT THE MARSHALL ISLANDS.
Telegraph Press Association. Copyright Sydney, August 25. Details of tbe laic hurricare at tba Marshall Lalauda show thai; 71 Kve§ were lost. Ja'.uit was al&osii completely submerged by a tidal wave 6ft high, wb'eh swept tbe islands, leavi jjj devastation n its tract. Tbe Jalui'i Company's big jetty and all tho floating plant wa9 swept away. There was great destruction of copra. The only bouses left standing weM the Governor's and a port ; o j of tho mission station, wh9i*e many nativai took refuge.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 28, 26 August 1905, Page 2
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