TYPHOON IN JAPAN
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE; ] ! TIDAL WAVE AT OSAKA ! fiOO BUILDINGS INUNDATED | I United Press Association H.y Electric Telecrraph-Copvriehtl TOKIO, 11th September. ' The Weather Bureau announces that! a typhoon struck Shikoku Island, communications with which arc severed, t is moving in a north-easterly d'section towards Tokio. Osaka, and Yokohama. A later message states that the typhoon swept over Japan, considerable damage being done at Yokohama city, and eleven being killed. Steamers were held up at Kooe, and a tidal wave inundated POO buildings at Osaka. Two J hundred fishing boats are reported to be missing and fifteen people, mostly children, were killed when two schools | were destroyed at Takamatsu, and fif- ! teen wore killed in a landslide at j Kyoto. j
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 13 September 1937, Page 5
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