Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Wednesday 26 September 1945, page 1


EXTENSIVE TYPHOON, : 32 DAMAGE CAUSED ¡

IN HIROSHIMA V (From

Our Correspondent,

George;. Johnston )

Details which have come in on the a typhoon which swept, the Japanese islands of. Southern Honshu,, Kyushu and Shikoku last, week, reveal that among the thousands killed. were some of. Japan's leading medical re-anarchists, who. were continuing their investigations, into the results, of the atomic bombing, of Hiroshima.

The victims included Professor

Shunichi Madame, Dean of the Medical School of the Kyoto Imperial University, and almost the entire medical

and physics faculties of Japan's, second greatest university.' '"' 'TI

The edge of the typhoon cut a broad swath of destruction across. Southern Honshu . and", with grim:

irony the most severe casualties were

inflicted in Hiroshima which earlier -had been almost annihilated . by an

atomic bomb.

In Hiroshima Prefecture 130 000 have been reported as killed, injuredor, rendered homeless while 27.00 people are missing, 6,000 houses were destroyed and another 50,000 houses were inundated by floods caused by the terrific rain and almost tidal

waves.

Rioting broke out again to-day after a brief lull when a grenade was thrown on to a crowded railway platform. Already a more, than. 100

arrests, have been made.