Tokio, Aug. 29.
Circumstances are gradually coming to light showing that the typhoon, which on August 23 swept over the northeastern districts of Japan, hag caused unexpectedly disastrous damage on the sea. The str.. Kibi Marw (4,700 tons) of the Voyosaki Shipping Company at Kobe, on her way from Uokkaido with a cargo of timber, was sunk off tha Cape of Daito, Chiba Prefecture, and her whole crew, over 30 in number, are missing. Another cargo-boat, the Asahi Maru (3,500 tons), which was also bound for Kobe from Hokkaido, appears to have met with a similar fate to tha Kivi Maru off the Cape of Daito, with over 40 of a crew, as dead bodies apparently those of sailors ave being cast ashore one after another,—Besides. thoro are several steamers reported missing, and parties concerned ave making every effort to search for them.—Eastern News Agency.
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