GRAVE DISASTER
TYPHOON IN JAPAN DEATH ROLL OF 226 NEARLY 600 INJURED 35,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received October 21, 7.5 p.m.) TOKIO, Oct. 20 Another typhoon has devastated Kyushu. The death roll is 220 and 592 people are injured and 227 missing. Those rendered homeless number 35,000, the storm having washed away 3000 houses. The liner Yamabuki Maru wai blown against the Yokohama breakwater and a rescue ship was sent to the scene. The typhoon swept on past Yokohama, where - seven passenger liners are overdue, and thence to Tokio northwards early this morning flooding 10,000 houses, many of which collapsed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23175, 22 October 1938, Page 13
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