DEVASTATED BY A CYCLONE
• - COCOS ISLANDS ' SWEPT. . ' - — • ', . -•' ■ By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. '.;'-■; PjiKTH, November' 29./.'.;' News has been received by cable thai a cyclone yesterday practically " devastated the Cocos Islands, in the Indian, Ocean. ; ■; .|*v«s The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company's station was partially wrecked; Thej operating room was flooded, and all the '■■■ • ■ ■■■■■■■■■ *•* '-i | other, buildings were blown away. !« •• - - ■ . The Cocos, ■or Keeling, Inlands, a group of about 20 small coral islands, lie about 700 miles south-west of Sumatra, arid 1200 miles south-west of Singapore. The islands, which are covered with cocoanut palms, were discovered by Captain Keeling, in 1609. and were visited by Darwin in 1836. The/population in 1905 was . about 650, of whom four were Europeans and the rest Malays. JSS'JLJ!!?.?.".■." '"" '""" '\t ' ',
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14231, 30 November 1909, Page 5
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