Tokyo, June 6.
Four thousand one hundred homes were inundated, sx boats capsized, and one person killed, not to mention heavy damages to crops, when a typhoon lashed the Japan mainland all last night and this morning.
The blinding rainstorm which hit southern Japan, going northward at jo rate of 15 to 16 metres a second, brought 722 min. of rainfall, or a month's rain in 24 hours.
In Tokyo, 1,600 homes in the slum areas of Koto and Fukugawa were flooded, keeping the authorities busily ocengied in pumping activities as an aftermath of the storm,
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