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WORST HURRICANE WITHIN MEMORYContinued from page 1 STRONG WALLS/ LARGE TREES LIE FLATStrong boundary walls like the orison wall lie Hat and large trees, some over 100 years old, are uprooted and have been thrown. some distance from their growing site.. The two senior soldiers, late of Jamaica, had to abandon their quarters and seek shelter in the lee of a large concrete tank.By the vivid blue flash of one bum of lightning they saw one humble .dwelling place on the edge of their compound completely disappear from view.A great'number of the population are homeless having lost their all and it is pitiful to see them sitting daaed and bewildered . among the remnants of their former home.Furniture, bedding, clothing, evenin well built houses which success^fiiUy withstood the hurricane liesoaking.Many copses, renowned as bird sanctuaries, have not a tree left standing and no bird life has bern visible today. -• Commissioner Arrowsmith was amongst the homeless sufferers issuing food tickets. Urgently required are lumber, shingles, scantling, nails and hinges. No reports have come about Caicos.The United States Weather Bureau issued two-hour warnings through Messrs Cable and Wireless Limited.SALT BEDS FLOODEDThe. Sftitaas are flooded and filledwith Wreckage .of one time houses.'(Salt raking is the most important industry of the Turks Islands. About L5Qfi,00fi_hushels, equal to 50,000 ton*,, is raked annually and exported to the United States, Canada and theLASCELLES de MERother West Indian Islands.(To enable the salt ponds to be put into re*pair the authorities had marie a loan of £2,000 to the small proprietors.' r(An application had also been made for a grant from the Colonial Development Fund for the erection of warehouses giving storage room for 250,000 bushels of salt. :(The Jamaica Government, has id lt;paid off the indebtedness of the Salt industry of £20,000. The salt holdings had been re-arranged on a cooperative basis under Government control and the industry was experiencing boom in the American and Canadian markets owing to the wai^.• *4 More MembersOf To jo CabinetContinued from page 1ese newspapers that the tone and colour of the news gave the impression that General MacArtnur was nego* tiatlng with the Japanese Government and he made it clear that General MacArthur was not negotiating, he was dictating orcers.TO JO IMPROVING The condition, of General Tojo, whoIn the RealmsThe CastortThe Sooner We Rea)SHFRU
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Kingston Gleaner
Kingston, Kingston, JM
Sun, Sep 16, 1945
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