DISASTROUS STORMS.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. tlleoeived June 13, 10 p.m.) SYDNEY, Juno 13. The steamer Prinz Waldemar brings news of a disastrous typhoon in the Japan Sea last month that did much damage to coastal shipping and fishing craft at Hong Kong. Many vessels were lost, and the death-roll was heavy. Big storms were also experienced in the Carolines, and several island vessels are missing. The Prinz Waldemar picked up five native castaways, part of the crew of an island vessel swept out to sea. They stated that tho captain, tho only white man aboard, jumped overboard and was drowned. The castaways were eight days without food, and suffered terrible privations.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15331, 14 June 1910, Page 7
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117DISASTROUS STORMS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15331, 14 June 1910, Page 7
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