Crop damage Damaging from the hurricane was severe as the storm Catastrophe destroyed Destroying about half of the fruit , vegetable , and hay harvest , leaving a loss Earnings_and_losses of $ 1 million ( 1927 USD ) .

The explosives Attack used were found Know to be gelatin sticks activated Process_start by timer devices and were concealed Hiding_objects in cars , motorcycles , bicycles , sideboxes of two-wheelers , denim and rexin bags , and fruit carts .

For instance , in the Pailin district , arable land was bought Commerce_buy from the villages and converted Change into plantations for the expanding fruit industry , dominated by the Chinese and Burmese .

Centered on rapidly growing fruit plantations , it was a conflict between a ‘ rich ad enterprising Chinese bourgeoisie which has taken possession of the land , and the alienated , indebted , and already semi-independent village communities. ” According to Kiernan , it was clear that “ corruption , the misuse of military and other authority , and increasing impoverishment , in the Samlaut , Pailin and Andoeuk Hep districts , for example , created a vast reservoir of peasant unrest that lacked only a reasonably sophisticated leadership .

Flooding Catastrophe and landslides in Jamaica took Bringing their toll on property , agricultural interests , and infrastructure ; fruit growers on the island sustained about $ 2.5 million ( 1935 USD ) in losses Earnings_and_losses .

Damage Damaging was minimal in Vanuatu , and was mainly confined Hindering to crops and fruit trees on the Banks and Torres Islands .

Damage Damaging in Tonga was mostly limited Limiting to vegetation and fruit trees ; infrastructural damage Damaging was also relatively minor .

In addition to infrastructural and public losses Earnings_and_losses , the environment was also severely affected Influence ; a native species of bat lost Earnings_and_losses roughly 80 % of its population due Causation to the lack of fruit .

The motorcycle was destroyed Destroying by the blast Attack , and a nearby car damaged Damaging , as were dozens of stalls belonging to fruit and vegetable vendors .