DISASTROUS FLOODS.
TYPHOON AND TIDAL WAVE A JAPANESE 'CATASTROPHE / 8Y CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 1.50 p.m. to-day. TOKIO, Sept. 13. The newspaper “Asalia Shimbun” reports that a tidal wave, driven by a tvplvoon, swept the head of Ariyako Bay, in the Island of Ivyushu, destroying three villages. It is estimated that over twelve hundred people are drowned or missing. To-day the highest tide of the year was experienced and this, with the typhoon and rain, caused all rivers to overflow', inundating five thousand houses.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 September 1927, Page 9
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83DISASTROUS FLOODS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 September 1927, Page 9
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