WIDESPREAD DAMAGE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 80, 30 June 1928, Page 5

WIDESPREAD DAMAGE

' " FlidODSi IN JAPAN, ' ... j WORST FOR 20 YEARS. i ■ •• . ■ ■ tiiuted" Brew /Assn.—By Electric Copyright. (Received/ 9:20 A.m.) [ hu-i. TOKIO'y .June 29. ’' Rainstorms of greater severity than; any experienced’ 7 for twenty years: are raging in the south-west, especially iri Kyushu, doing ~widespread damage., Thousands of houses suffered as did also the railways and: bridges. The waters are rising and fhjAptehing > the - levees. Danger stiil’thfqatens, and troops are ahandQniVg/ their manoeuvres and have bipen pi)dared, to assist in relief. Australian Assn.