TIDAL WAVES AND STORMS.
KOREA’S VISITATION.
GREAT DAMAGE REPORTED,
25,000 HOUSES SUBMERGED
Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received August 22, 11.30 a.m. TOKIO, August 20,
There are over 350 dead and 1000 missing as the result of -the storms and tidal wave in Korea. Great property damage is reported, but it has not yet been estimated. The storm devastated the shore, and at Yalu River, on .the western Korean coast, tidal waves submerged 25,000 houses.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15320, 22 August 1923, Page 5
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