Osaka, Aug. 12.
Yesterday a typhoon, with a velocity of 19 metres per second, which is of less force than the last baby typhoon, visited Oshima islands.
Communications were interrupted and some damage was done to the crops.
The typhoon is now travelling towards the north. Tt passed. Kagoshima prefecture last night.
Aug. 13.
'A typhoon, with an increasing! velocity of 26 metres per seconds, ravaged Kyushu and the Yamaguchi prefecture, in south-eastern Japan, Communications were interrupted, while several buildings were damag-Jed, Many houses are under water fsa result of the heavy rain.
The typhoon is now travelling in the direction of the Japan Sea.
Reuter, Fukuoka, Aug. 12.
Although the typhoon swept over the various districts of Kyushu at] the full speed of 17 metres this] afternoon at 4, it is expected tol die away immediately as the speed of typhoon had decreased to 13) metres at 6.20: p.m.
In Kagoshima, it is reported, the typhoon has done much damage throughout the district, flooding! 1,000 houses and interrupting telegraph and telephone services, while in Miyazaki prefecture the typhoon has blown at the speed of 26 metres! this morning and 2.500 houses have been innudated.—Rengo, Tokyo, Aug. 15.
Twenty persons are reported to have been drowned through the] flooding of a coal mice at Ube, near! Shimonoseki, as the result of the rains accompanying yesterday's typhoon, Four persons are reported to have been killed in various parts of Kyushu, in southern Japan, while widespread damage to crops and other property has been done by the typhoon.—Reuter.
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