Tokyo, Sept. 2.
Deaths from the typhoon" that swept across eastern Japan yesterday morning totalled 99, according to 4 police report at 9 am. today. In addition, 77 persons were injured andi 69 are missing.
The dead include: three in: Tokyo: thirty in Tochigi Prefecture; 27 in Gumma Prefecture; 25 in Saitama Prefecture; and four in Kanagawa Prefecture, Demolished houses number 1,560, including 278 in Tokyo, 468 in Kan-agua Prefecture, 351 in Saitama Prefecture, and 170 in Obaragi Prefecture, Houses only partially destroyed total 4,808, These were found as follows: 678, Tokyo; 2,301, Kanagawa Prefecture; 963, Saitama Prefecture: and 144, Obaragl Prefeeture. Houses washed away number 208, including nine in Tokyo, 160 in Tochigi Prefecture, and $9 in Gumma Prefecture.
About 12,00 persons are taking refuye in concentration camps, while Jo number of others have been vender-Jed homeless, and are staying with friends or relatives, Shipping losses in Yokohama are estimated at ¥.8,000,000, including damage to wharves, dredgers, motorboats and fishing smacks.
'Oficial estimates of the total damage, including losses of crops, are not yet' available, but are expected 10 be enormous, Whole rections of Tokyo, and other ities and towns, were still in darkness last night, because repairs to the fighting systems have not yet been forees would pay full attention to the safety planes belonging to third powers, as long as they—speciiled their course, and gave other advice and information required, Imperial Airways, it is claimed, complied with the Japanese request, made last February, to follow a fixed course in their' fights to and from Hongkong.
As a result, it is stated, there has not been a single untoward incident.
It is emphasized that the Japanese forces have no intention of attacking any non-military Chinese plane as such, but they were not in the position to guarantee its safely when it came within the zone of operation of the Japanese forces.
"We believe this is quite proper," the spokesman went on, "because, firstly, it is extremely dificult distinguish different types of aircraft, "Secondly, even non-military planes are capable of serving for reconnoitring and other non-military purposes, "Thirdly, Chinese planes have in the past frequently come to attack the Japanese forces, and to reconnoitre over Japanese positions.
"Moreover, they are not marked according to the fixed standard,'—Reuter.
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