TYPHOON IN JAPAN
A DISASTROUS VISITATION. MANY DEATHS REPORTED. (Press Association—By Telegraph.—Copyright.) TOKIO, August 29 (Received August 30, at 1 a.m.) The most disastrous typhoon since 1923 visited Nagasaki and Kochi, on Shikokui Island. At Nagasaki 4000 houses are submerged and many bridges have been washed away. Fifty deaths have so far been reported, while the damage amounts to 2,000,000 yen. At Kochi there were 30 casualties, but communication has been interrupted, and full details arc not available. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20190, 30 August 1927, Page 9
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