CHINESE CATASTROPHE
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BUILDING COLLAPSES .HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE SEQUEL TO TYPHOON. BY GABLE PEEBS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.35 a.m. to-day. SHANGHAI, Aug. 9. A two-storey concrete Chinese market place on the edge of the French concession collapsed without warning, following the visitation of the tail end of a typhoon and heavy rains, killing over 100 men. women and children, and injuring 500.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 August 1927, Page 9
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63CHINESE CATASTROPHE Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 August 1927, Page 9
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