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(Continued From Page • I)took the precaution of evacuating more than 2,400 persona from potential danger areas before the storm struck the island with windsof more than 100 m.p.h.*' # *■%■UNCONFIRMED reports saidtwo Ryukyuans were injured during the typhoon.Naha, seat of the Ryukyu Islands government, had its low lying areas flooded and merchandise and shop fixtures suffered heavy damage.Police said landslides were blocking main roads leading into the capital and in some places flood waters, more than 8 feet in depth, forced residents to seek safety onhigher ground.* * *THE TYPHOON’S rains and strong winds again damaged crops. Economic officials last month predicted a food shortage throughout the islands in January as a result of crops destroyed by Typhoon Cha.iiotte when she hit Oldnawa earlier this year.The Japanese island of Am ami Oshhna also was ripped by Emma’s winds. Heavy rain flooded one fourth of the city of Nase. There were no reported casualties.Japanese and Ryukyuan maritime authorities said Typhoon Emma had caused considerable havocwith shipping.* * *OFFICIATES FISTED eight vessels sunk and eight .others missing while unconfirmed reports said 47 ships were sunk or damaged during the storm. The fate of the vessels' crews remained uncertain. An Army spokesman said a Nike Hercules missile firing practice scheduled on Okinawa for Saturday, Sunday and Monday had been canceled.U.S. Air Force weather reconnaissance aircraft tracking Emma’s progress Saturday reported tropical storm Freda had been spawned in the Pacific Ocean,She was positioned 930 miles east-southeast of Manila moving west at 15 miles per hour with a maximum wind force of 70 milesper hour.Latest reports said Freda wasexpected to grow into a full typhoon late Sunday when she was due to be about 275# miles east of Leyte.
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Pacific Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, Tôkyô, JP
Sun, Nov 15, 1959
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