Tokyo, Sept. 1, BESIDES millions of yen damage to property, shipping' and crops, many people were killed or injured in the typhoon—the worst since 1902—which struck Yokohama, Tokyo and other parts of eastern Japan early today. the. fifteenth anniversary of the disastrous earthquake of 1923.
Casualties included 29 persons injured in a tram-car collision near Higashikanagawa, close to Yokohama, late last night when the typhoon roared through Yokohama; two Korean students were electrocuted by falling high tension electric wires; five members of a family were pinned under the debris when their house in Omori, the southern suburb of Tokyo, collapsed at the height of the storm, Four of the five were extricated, but the fifth, a her injuries.
Landslides following the typhoon increased the death-roll in many parts Jot the country.
Thirteen persons were killed in a village in Saitama Prefecture, while Jeleven deaths are reported in Gumma Prefecture, Three are known to be dead in 'Tokyo, where 12,000 people are taking. refuge in a concentration camp, and where 730 houses collapsed and' over 4000 were damaged.
Three were killed in Yokohama, where hundreds of houses. were demolished, three sailing boats and two dredgers sunk, and two steamers stranded, The total shipping loss in Yokohama fs estimated at ¥.5,000,000.
The typhoon originated south of the Bonin Islands, and rolled north-
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