The Archive · 1929

Serious Damage by Baby Typhoon

Farther Affliction for Storm Wrecked Luzon

Manila, Sept. 19.

'A new "baby typhoon" has further damaged storm-wrecked central Luzon, missing Manila but sinking the schooner Romero off the coast of Batangas. All members of the crew were saved.

Sufferers from the recent heavy' typhoon were sorely tried by this newest storm, The Camerines provinces were! again flooded, while the Bicol region and the coconut-growing southern province of Tayabas was once more devastated by furious winds and rains.

Communications, only a few days! ago fully restored after the heavy storms which ran up a death tol of some 150, have once more been broken so that reports from out lying districts cannot be obtained.

nel Quezon, president of Senate, is marooned had gone on a trip to hoon damage on the Pilillo and in the province of Taynhas, over which he was once governor and whose coconut groves he did much to start on a large se: but the new typhoon cut off his return to Mani The legislature's intended recention for the Governor-General, Mr. Dwight Davis, has been postponed because of the absence of the Senate Despedida" dinners of farewell for Senator Quezon have likewise been postponed and it is expected that the Sonator's intended departure for Shanghai, where he was to be a guest of the National Goverament, will be put off since he was to have sailed to-morrow.—United Press.

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