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Typhoon(Continued from Page 1) ed sunk off Kyushu, the National Rural Police said.Units of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces were mobilized for disaster duty in Kyushu, and other members of the new army were placed on stand-by status to move into new stricken areas.Meanwhile Okinawa, “unbuttoned following an all clear” from weather observers. A preliminary check indicatedthat 16 houses in the Ft. Buckner area were destroyed, 17 were damaged and some 500 coastal homes were flooded by high tides accompanying the storm. The Twentieth Air Force reported that one L-20 liaison plane was -damaged by the savage winds.Tokyo Weather Central said that the storm—now traveling in a northeasterly direction at 12 miles an hotfr—is expected to pick up speed as it diminishes in velocity. By 3 a.m. tomorrow .it should becentered in west-central. Honshu, they said. Winds at that point should not exceed 90 mph, the forecasters added.'The typhoon may pass to the north of Tokyo sometime Saturday, the storm experts said. Rain showers and gusts of wind up to 50 miles an hour are predicted for the Tokyo area.
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