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Manila, P. I., Tuesday, Oct. 16--A rearing typhoon ripped through Manila today with increasing intensity, causing great property damage and probable loss of life...
...September, the dread typhoon season. The late rice was in flower. The typhoon, striking at 60 m. p. h. and increasing to 120 m. p. h., headed straight into the dragon's throat where are the great tea plantations, the textile and munitions factories of Japan's second largest city, Osaka, the great port of Kobe, and ancient imperial Kyoto. These are three of Japan's five biggest cities...
...typhoon reached Osaka Bay six hours later, after the girls in their blue serge uniforms and the boys in blue and grey had gone to school. It tumbled down 77 primary schools in Osaka Prefecture, crushing 310 school children to death. It tugged down small skyscrapers. It swept away wood-&-paper houses like rubbish. An hour later it was gone, northward, but behind it came a tidal wave, to flood Osaka, Kobe and the carpet port of Sakai. It swept over a leper hospital and drowned 200, over an insane asylum and drowned 50. It tossed...
China. Sixteen typhoons have struck at Shanghai during the past summer. All have missed. Last week, as the rain-flooded Whangpoo River overflowed into Shanghai's business district, a 17tth typhoon approached to within 40 mi. of the city, then turned northwest. Toward nightfall, the typhoon changed its direction, aimed for Shanghai. Blowing with cyclonic force, it piled up mountainous seas at the mouths of the Yangtze and Whangpoo Rivers, sent a four-foot torrent flowing through the heart of Shanghai. The waters islanded the National City and Chase National Banks and most of the big downtown hotels. Having...
...Peers said privately that the government must fall. But how? There was no sign that the Army & Navy, which in Japan are responsible to the Emperor alone, and can hamstring the politicians, had wavered. The Army was last week engaged in annual "Grand Maneuvers." Suddenly at night a typhoon burst upon Tokyo, plunged the Capital into darkness as power lines were torn down, silenced telephones and telegraphs, engulfed 30,000 flimsy houses. Japan must expand, say her sabre-rattlers, because of her "population pressure." This is exerted by a population roughly half as great as that of the entire...