The Archive · 1928

West Japan Swept by Typhoon

Serious Damage Done in Provinces Around Inland Sea Osaka, Aug. 20.

The second typhoon to affect Japan this year swept over a wide area in western Japan on Saturday jand Sunday.

The damage done in Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto is not serious, but the [provinees surrounding the Inland Sea appear to have been severely affected, It is reported that many places the telephone and telegraph poles have been blown dows while floods have damaged reads, bridges and railways.

yping on the coast been, suspended.

; phoon is now passing away of the Japan Sea.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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