TYPHOON IN JAPAN
DEATHS AND DAMAGE THOUSANDS MADE HOMELESS LANDSLIDES CAUSE HAVOC (Received October 19, ."5.5 p.m.) TOKIO, Oct. 18 The typhoon which caused deaths and heavy damage on Okinawa Island struck Kyushu island and killed 38 people. There are 33 missing and scores were injured. Thousands arc homeless. At Kagoshima, south-east of Nagasaki, hundreds' of fishing boats were destroyed. Landslides wrecked bridges and highways and disrupted communications.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23482, 20 October 1939, Page 10
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68TYPHOON IN JAPAN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23482, 20 October 1939, Page 10
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