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Show PHILIPPINE ISLAND HIT BjfjyPHDDIi; RED CROSS RUSHES AID TO PHILIPPINE PHI-LIPPINE AREA SWEPT BY GREAT TYPHOON Tidal Wave at Same Time Adds tc Tradegy; Thousands Are Homeless; Home-less; Death Total Rises Over 300, Property Damage Heavy Manila A typhoon, a tidal wave and a flood in widely separated areas have .combined a joint visitation of the Philippine Phil-ippine islands, leaving in their wake death believed in excess of 300 and heavy property damage. The waters of Calumhang river, over which the typhoon swept, rushed back suddenly, carrying away to destruction destruc-tion residents in their houses. Roads and bridges were washed out and telegraph tel-egraph lines blown down, so that an accurate appraisal of the damage done ta imnnccihlo hilt t is Raid that ill the town of Batangas alone there are besides the known dead, approximately approximate-ly 300 missing. The Red Cross has dispatched physicians, phys-icians, nurses and medical supplies to Batangas for the relief of the sufferers and the United States army also sent food and clothing, but it is doubtful when the supplies will reach the sufferers suf-ferers because of the bad conditions of the roads. The typhoon struck from the direction direc-tion of the island and province of Smara, breaking disastrously over Batangas Bat-angas - province, damaging many towns, including Batangas, while at Bauan a tidal wave which engulfed it caused a hundred more deaths. In this one province, it is believed, the death toll will reach 200. Early reports of the tidal wave could not be confirmed, due to the protration of the wire service out of Manila, but officials arriving from Batangas stated the report was true and that there were a hundred deaths. Los Banos, which is on the sizeable inland body of water, Laguina de Bay, felt the effects of the storm, and many of the lighter buildings there were demolished. de-molished. The insular Agricultural college was among the structures seriously ser-iously damaged. |