JAPANESE TYPHOON.
WARSHIPS DAMAGED. BIG TOLL OF LIVES. MANY REPORTED MISSING. United Press Assn. —Elee. Tel. Copyright. KOBE, Nov. 15. In the severe typhoon yesterday the aircraft-carriers Hosho and Ryujo and the cruisers Asagiri and Ikazuchi were driven ashore and badly damaged at Yokosuka, near Yokohama. In Sbimidzu Harbour the Kirishima Maru took refuge, but she dragged her anchor and turned broadside on to the waves. Thirteen of the crew were washed overboard. Spectators on shore watched helplessly as the ship was broken up. In the same region 37 of the Motonasa Maru’s crew of 43 were drowned.
Twenty of the crew of the Unkai Maru were drowned and a cruiser picked up 10. There were several minor wrecks.
At Ito, which was devastated by the earthquake In 1930, 575 houses were destroyed, also the breakwater, which cost £IO,OOO. The wind reached a velocity of 79 miles an hour and was the most violent experienced in Japan for 30 years. The official estimate of casualties in seven prefectures is: 53 dead, 46 injured and 62 missing, probably drowned. Five thousand houses were demolished and several steamers were lost.
In Fukushima prefecture 150 fish ermen are dead or missing.
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18795, 17 November 1932, Page 7
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