Fearful damage is reported as the result of the storm which raged in the northern part of Formosa on August 28 and 29. The Government investigation was concluded on August 31, and shows that 1,357 house were completely destroyed and 1,690 partly collapsed, while' 123 were washed away. Some 10,082 houses were submerged. Great damage was caused to rice-fields, bridges and roads—many of the latter being washed away. The total Loss of life reported is 56, and 18 were injured and 61 are missing Nearly two thousand persons are homeless and are being provided with food, but the weather improved on the 30th and the Tamsui river, which had been in flood or some days, subsided considerably. Means of communication were temily re-established and connexion made with Shinchiku, Giran and Taichu, from which points ineagre reports show that they also have suffered, although the southern part of the island escaped serious damage. A Tainan message reports that the storm set in on August 23 and the Dainan and Dakusui rivers rose alarmingly. Bridges were swept away and telephone and telegraph connexion was cut off.
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