The Tokyo district, which felt the storm's full intensity at 420 a.m., was a picture of? desolation this morning.
Traffic services were disorganized; both the cable and telephone systems were out of commission; at least a thousand trees, notably those bordering the moat around the Imperial Pelace, were uprooted; hundreds of hoardings were blown down and roofs of. houses were ripped off; and many streets were littered with glass, tiles and other debris.
So loud was the roar of the wind that many residents were unable to sleep during the night.
In the wage of the typhoon more than 50000 houses were flooded and three bridges washed away. Office buildings suffered much damage as a result of water seeping through closely-fastened windows.
Thousands of volunteer workers laboured all day in the task of clearing the streets of debris and of replanting trees.
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