FLOOD DISASTER
JAPANESE DISTRICT FIFTY-TWO LIVES LOST ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE (Received August 25. 5.5 p.m.) TOKIO. Aug. 24 Fifty-two people were drowned and 75 were injured and 1200 houses and 20,000 acres of rice fields and apple orchards were seriously damaged in a series of disastrous floods and landslides at Owani, North Japan. The disaster followed the heaviest rains experienced for 50 years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 11
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