FLOODS IN JAPAN
WIDESPREAD DAMAGE
TROOPS CALLED TO THE RESCUE WATER STILL RISING (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Tokio, June 29. Rainstorms of more unprecedented sever ity than for twenty years are raging in the south-west, especially in Kyushu, doing widespread damage. Thousands of houses suffered, also railways and bridges. The water is rising and breaking levees and danger still threatens. The troops are abandoning manoeuvres and have been ordered to assist in relief. —Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20527, 2 July 1928, Page 7
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