OVER 1500 DEATHS
PHILIPPINE DISASTER Neglect of Precautions (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received October IS at G. 30 p.m.) MANILA, October 16. Governor Quezon blamed false Government economy for the heavy loss of life in the typhoon and the subsequent floods cabled on October 13. The known dead now number 54G. There is little hope for 1045 missing. Senor Quezon said that the Government. were so anxious to maintain a surplus at the Treasury that they had failed to maintain important - dykes which could have been done for fifty thousand dollars a year. Now the cost will be half a million to repair ?»ie damaged dykes. He promised that the. work will start immediately.
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Grey River Argus, 19 October 1936, Page 5
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