Heavy Industries Areas Producing War Supplies Severely Disrupted Tokyo, Sept. 23. [APAN'S military strength will be greatly affected by last Friday's typhoon, which inflicted heavy damage upon the heavy industries of the nation.
This view has been freely expressed here, following the publication full reports of the losses suffered by Kobe, Osaka and Amagasaki, near Osaka, which districts include a better part of Japan's heavy industries.
These districts, stricken by the typhoon, have been working day and night during the last year, mostly on the production of military supply Most of the factories in these districts have been forced either to cease operations or to curtail them, thus seriously affecting the nation's preparedness.
To the long list of cities devastated Al Foreigners Sate by Friday's typhoon was added the Osaka, Sept. 24. name of Okayama, communication Hotels here are receiving hun-with which has just, been established.
Jdreds of inquiries regarding foreign 'The Nada District, between Kobe residents and visitors, whose and Osaka, known as the centre of friends elsewhere in Japan and the sake' industry, received a abroad are alarmed for their safety heavy. blow when' the sea waves owing to the constantly growing flooded the breweries. Thirty-nine Jdeath toll of the typhoon which thousand gallons. of sake valued Swept the heart of Japan last week. Y¥, 1,000,000 have been lost.
"The authorities "to-day reported in 'Osaka and Kobe, a Ihige cargo that all' foreign residents are apcof raw cotton and cotton textiles wi parently safe and unharmed.
Turned in the warehouses by the water, 'The raw cotton had just ar-Scores of inquiries have been rived from the United States and received from a dozen nations re-India, and' mare, than, 280000, bales Jgarding 'Mr. Henry Keyserling, were' completely, soaked in water. brother of Count Keyserling of The losses, estimated at ¥.60,000,000, Berlin, who is staying at the Kobe will be carried, to the extent of 80 Hotel and is somewhat disconcerted per cent., by the merchants. by the alarm in view of the the Government 1s unwilling to that he suffered no discomfort what face a Diet session, it will have to jever.—United Press. evolve means to obtain relief funds Havoc in Osaka from sources under its immediate control, Tokyo, Sept. 24 "he Second Reserve Fund, from New figures issued to-day by the on its Home Ministry revealed further however, Increases in the toll of death and [property damage taken by last week's to be too small for relief pure Typhoon, with 1542 dead, 145 stilt poses hissing and 4311 injured in the three "Another source at the disposal of prefectures of Osaka, Hyogo and the Government is the Y. $1,225,000 Shiga, alone. surplus from the 1993-34 budget, "The latest statistics showed a total Experts, interviewed to-day, express lof 11,49 buildings destroyed in the sed doubt. whether. these two sums three' prefectures, including 165 Would suffice to bring ald to the schoothouses, while 12,760 houses $0.00 sutorers "from the typhoon [were seriously damaged and 163,840 others were inundated by the floods Dealls of Losses Sccompanying the unprecedented Osaka, Sept. 22.
'Losses suffered by Marine insurance companies because of the typhoon which" wrought "havoc along the Paelfle coast of Japan yesterday are roughly. estimated at' more than 'Osaka Prefecture, the, industrial centre of Japan, was hardest hit, the atest tabulation' of losses shows:—
The famous five-storey pagoda the Tennoji Temple was brought crashing down by. the wind, and 20 bodies were recovered from the wreckage.
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Statics for Hyogo Prefecture, comprising the Kobe district, follow: wind that railway trains were over tume While there hay been little time to organize effective relief measures, the Army was prompt to go into action in Osaka Prefecture. The 4th Osaka Division despatched the and 87 Regiments to rescue children trapped in the wreckage of the schools.
Tokyo, Yokohama, and other cities in the Kanto district also were hard hit by the TO-mile gale.
Tokyo, a large part of the "ity wi inundated by the terrific down-our.
"The total private and public loss was placed at ¥.550,000,000, ¥.250,000,- (000 higher that at rst estimated.
Damage to private homes and property was set at ¥.100,000,000, in Osaka prefecture alonk Losses sustained by factories, power plants and power lines, shiping, and public buildings" were '¥.286,000,000. School houses destroyed were valued at ¥.6,500,000, while crops of a total value of ¥.15,000,000 were ruined, Damage to roads, highways and sewage systems was believed to reach Damege sustained-by shipping in the port of Kobe alone was placed by a Water Police estimate at Y.10, 000,000, Government rice stocks' of 768,850 bushels stored in Kobe were damaged by water—Rengo.
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