Tokyo, Aug. 29.
Desperate efforts made to save 2% members of. the crew of the Chinese freighter Hwah Wu, which was driven aground by typhoon at three o'clock this mornin Misaki Point, near the entrance to proved successful, all being taken off by rescue boats.
The freighter was en route from Yokohama to Shanghai when she was blown off her course. ably more havoc than was reported when it swept through Kobe and Osaka towards the Twenty persons are now reported to have been killed in Hyogo Prefecture and the surrounding country where fifteen houses were washed away, 31 demolished and 15,000 flooded. In addition, 44 persons were injured.
One hamlet near Kobe was wiped out by a landslide which was caused by the typhoon, and twelve persons were killed.
Six people were entombed in Wakayama Prefecture when a landslide demolished the home of a farmer All factories have suspended operations in Osaka where fourteen houses are under water, The tall-fend of the typhoon swept by near Tokyo but no serious damage has been reported.—Reuter, 34 Persons Pinned Under Debris Kobe, Aug. 29.
Seven persons are dead, seven others are missing and scores injured following ithe collapse of nine houses here in a landslide caused by torrential rains in the Kobe-Osaka area. early this -morning. Thirty-four persons were pinned lurider the debris.
rivers, swollen by the sudden' downpour, overflowed their bunks! to flood 10,000 houses here and 500 Osaka.
The harbour was reported Rengo. district in Osaka to be hardest hit—
Mavoe Greater than Believed The typhoon which first struck Kyushu yesterday wreaked consider
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