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THE CHINA MAIL.
TYPHOON.
HONGKONG Disaster.
STEAMER FOUNDERS.
MANY LIVES BELIEVED LOST.
TERRIFIC WIND FORCE.
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE ASHORE AND AFLOAT.
After passing through four typhoons this season without suffering serious danger, Hongkong this morning underwent what must rank with its very worst ordeals. Although the damage has not been so great as that in the 1906 disaster it has been serious enough and the actual squall force of the wind has been considerably greater, per- haps the greatest ever recorded in the world. This morning's typhogg resulted in the loss of one steamer stated to be the Indo-China a Ming Sang" or the French steamer "Jade" in different" sources. The ship foundered after being swept away from her moor ings. Many lives were lost, it is believed. One of the Royal Navy submarines the L. 9-got into difficulty near Statue Pier, and went down, the members of the crew being saved by men from the Japanese steamer "Ginyo Maru." No lives were lost. During the worst part of the blow the huge liners "Empress of Australia" and "Andre Lebon" were in grave danger owing to their anchors dragging. Ashore extensive damage was done and it is feared that later reports will bring tidings
of serious losses.
STEAMER FOUNDERS.
* Pro
ALL HANDS LOST?
HOW THE SHI WAS LOST,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1923
mighty fury and demolished the One peculiar aspect of the severity be forecast with depes- scaffolding almost completely. typhoon was that pillars, buildings stable accuracy? Here it lay piled high, com- &c. on the water-front were charged would seem to slow that the answer
pletely blocking the Road so with electricity. Dienchied people
What follow
that it was possible only to who leaned up against them receive is in the affirmative. Earthquakes, - make progress by means ed shocks which they could not volcanic eruptions, and steptar
How It Bogan,
of the sheltered cover-way which understand. had been made to shelter pedes- trians from falling masonry when the building was being demolished. A gnarled trunk of a tree showed through the debris whilst the cor ner of Yee Sang Fat's building showed signs of damage where, it is said, a standard had fallen
mother earth. Several rickshas
were shattered, but no lives, fort- unately, have been lost. Damage his been done to scaffoldings out side the A.P.C. building in Queen's Road, around the statue of Sir Henry May, and in other places.
Small Craft Lost.
FERRIES STOP RUNNING.
The typhoon which struck Hongkong this morning the
Was
disturbances have been studied. by scientists, and much valuable information has been guined. Only one' man hus, however, evolved a reliable theory whereby it in posal- · ble to foretell these catastrophes scientist named Clements.
one which began to the against it on its downward way to south of Guam on August 11. The moon and the sun especially Yesterday afternoon the No. 2 the former have great influence, he typhoon signal was hoisted and says, on earthquakes, eniption, and indications last night went to show storms. As is well known, the that Hongkong was in for another moon, by her pull; influences the Wet week-end. It began to rain tides, but under certain conditions heavily about mid-night. Yesterday her power is enormously increased when the sun shone brilliantly | so much so that the pressure of the (there was 'a wedding 1,) it looked atmosphere on the surface of the as if the spell was about to be earth is disturbed and in places so broken, but hopes were dampened much weakened that the earth top- considerably later on when it beces below the enist are given more CAUGHT IN THE TYHPOON,
came known that another typhoon freedom, which results in earth- When the stora had slightly was on the way. At 6 o'clock last quakes and volcanic eruptions if abated shortly after eleven o'clock evening the Observatory reported conditions are favourable where many Europeans went on to the it to be in about Lat. 22 N. and the disturbance is the atmospheric Praya to view the damage and Long. 119 E. during the after pressure takes place. Under other
rather rapidly ico.ditious, the Moon's pull attenu-- parties from the King's Regent noon, moving
W.N.W. or W.
ates the atmosphere, and initiates, Wharves, which had already Last night all graft made for a vacuum, which at once begins to been affected by the typhoons of shelter, and the steaners roured fid. This severe forms are caused, last month were badly damaged at the wharves left for more) and this is probably what happen- but the Canton Steamboat Co.'s favourable quarters. The Empressed at Swatew.. It should be rem=""} wharf withstood the onslaughts of of Australia" went out to a buoy in Cibered that the moon exerts her a large lighter which lay on its mid stream. windward side.
were sent out.
It is certain that a number of The crew were seen to jump on to small craft were caught in the the wharf from ropes suspended storm. A large three-masted junk from the side and the conclusion is was trying to make. for the that they are safe.
Yaumati shelter at 9 am.. while at Оле of the submarines 8 a.m. the motor-boats at Arsenal -L9- lying
Naval Street were still tied to the sea- Camber lost hex mooring wall.
in the
Liners in Peril.
and was carried out into the stream. It is known definitely that Just off the Hongkong Club, she ship stated to be the "Jade" Iras | went down close to the foundered and that a number of "Ginyo Maru." Eyewitnesses lives were lost, the chances being state that two men were rescued vory notch against anyone on board by ropes thrown from the Japanese reaching the share.
merchantman, accompanied by The ship W7249 first noticed hearty cheers from a British sloop drifting
pust the Courts ufor gunboat in the vicinity. It has Justice, carried in a westerly direc-not been ascertained whether the tion by the abnormal carent run-submarine submerged or sank., ning. At this stage hur bow was in the air. She almost struck the Stone Pier at the foot of Pottinger Street. A China Mail reporter saw the rest of her movements till she sank in no great depth with only the tops of her red funnel and two masts showing. After passing Pottinger Pier the bow went down and the stern was showing up at some height at an angle of over 45 degrees. In the mist it could be seen that a wire rope was suspended from the stern' tawt into the water. A number of hands were moving about on the rigging chang, ing their positions as the starbound! gradually dipped into water.
Coolies' Heroism.
At this stage the storm was at its height. The few onlookers, on shore realised that there was little chance
Heals Over.
DRAGGING THEIR ANCHORS.
Record Wind Force.
REMARKABLE BAROMETER
'READING.
Interviewed by a China Mail re- porter at ten o'clock this morning, Mr. T. F. Claxton. Director of the Royal Observatory, said that it was now certain that the typhoon would pass to the south of Hong- kong, because the wind North- North-East was veering,
Mr. Claxton said that the squall force of the wind was probably the highest ever recorded in the of world.
The C.P.S. "Empress Australia" and the French Mail Andre Lebon," glant liners in their way, were seen drifting west wards dragging their anchors and their plight caused much anxiety to the shipping men assembled on shore. Both of the ships were in other parts of the harbour but they Sunken vessel although they had drifted perilously close to the
steam up.
Extensive Damage.
WRECKAGE ALONG PRAYA.
...
Kowloon's Orden!.
At 9.40 the force was 123 miles an hour and at 10.13 the velocity had increased to 130 miles an hour. The mean velocity was 80 miles an hour.
The barometer, continued Mr. Claxton, was falling very rapidly and at 10 o'clock it stood at 23.66, in Hongkong. The rainfall was the lowest figure ever registered
1inches between midnight and 9.30 this morning,
Other Mishapa.
to
Verandahs
The ferries ran with stripped awnings, an indication that a severe blow was likely to he felt, and early this morning, about gceased running.
greatest power at an angle of 45- degrees, but this pull is very much increased if the sun is so placed as to be pulling in the same direction.
The first phase of the Swatow ty- phoon may be said to have started Lull Before The Storm, at about 8 30 p.m. At this moment the moon was above the horizon at Up till seven o'clock there was an angle of 40 degrees to Swatow, as seen by the layman-no storm The sun had set, and was at an hovering near. At eight o'clock angle of 107 degrees. The angle the Observatory reported that the between the two planets was there- typhoon was within thirty miles of fure about 60 degrees so the moon. Waglan moving westwards. By was acting alone. The disastrous o'clock the storm had reached phase of the storm began at 2.30 typhoon force the black cross am, and lasted till 3.10 am, superseding the other signals. (The Shortly afterwards the three guns mean tincs). made their ominais boom.
Hongkong's Worst.
times quoted are
local At 2.30 am, the moon had set, and bore to Swatow an angle of 45 degrees, and at 310 a.m. an angle of 40 degrees. The sun was also below the horizon and in such a position that it could add its pull to that of the moon. The result was an enoṛrous
THE GREAT 1906 DISASTER, Hongkong still speaks with tidal wave and a terrific storm. bated breath about the 1906 ty- After 3.10 am., the sun and moon hoon which is mentioned every
time the signals are hoisted. This drew further away from each other, typhoon struck the Colony without and consequently their influence warning and in less than two hours weakened and the storm diminish- 10,000. Chinese had been drowned ed. The positions of the sun and and fifteen Europeans, including Satow have been worked out the moon and their bearings on the Anglican bishop. Over 2,400 Chinese craft were reported lost after the event, and proof of the 141 Europeap vessels and launches correctness of the theory has been foundered or were badly damaged. adduced. If however, these factors could be obtained immediately the typhoon was reported, not only could the spot be accurately in- dicated where the storm would break, but the probable extent of its severity could also be foreteld.
www.and
Last Year's Disaster.
SWATOW'S TERRIBLE
CATASTROPHE.
What Would Happen.
EXPLAINS.
increase, it is interesting to recall
Hongkong.
The gale began at Swatow about 10 p.m. on August 2, and the centre TRAM CAR WRECKED. for the men on board when two At eleven o'clock the Praya Was
of the typhoon passed over the port The Alexandra Café had its large coolies were noticed crawling along unrecognisable. Wreckage was the Osaka Shett Kaisha wharf lying up to the pavement and de- plate glass window smashed in. about two o'clock next morning, DIRECTOR OF THE OBSERVATORY
Godowns, piers, pontoons adid with a long bamboo hook. They bris was being swept along the The Hotel Co.'s bus was wrecked
road. Fortunately the tide at the function of Canton Road, other property suffered extensive at her invitation, it will be rem were seem to make a precarious foot-
damage, and half-a-dozen coasting ONE QNina gaul. hered, that "Mid Baron" Uppering right at the end of the pier during this typhoon was not as The difficulty of trasportation and steamers were driven ashore, these
high as that in those
The three bombs having been of getting in touch with the authori- including the LC.S. "Tungshing," and his White Guards sought re. While onlookers on the pavement the preceding weeks otherwise ties makes it impossible to get at the LCS Choysang, the CNS fied this morning denoting that the fuge at Urga, an adventure that could not keep their feet.
nore damage would have been the true facts, but we are informed "Chili" and the C.N.S. "Shantung." wind force Was expected to ended disastrously for Unfern and
done. The strength of the wind that a falling tree completely sever Butterfield and Swire's godown what Mr. T.F. Claxton, Director of his men and gave the Reds an A number of Europeans arrived may be gauged from the sighted one of the tram-cars on
They nanged to along the sea-wall where the crests which it fell, without, we are glad Club buildings and the Ursuline happen if a typhoon came to excuse for their occupation of Mou-Jon the scone
was wrecked and the roofs of the the Royal Observatory, said would golia. The Female Buddha enter-secure lengths of rope from the of the waves were black with mud to say, any loss of life. Fained for a long fie ambitions for ship-chantlers in the neighbourhood which had been stirred up from the The Star Ferry's landing place Convent were blown away. In the case of the convent the Mother the independence of Mongolia bul and a rescue party started to crawl bottom. Kowloon could be seen received some mighty buffettings. Superior and the nuns had an al- The passage of the centre of a inter abandoned these and weaned out to the end of the wharf. dimly through the rain and it was It sides were stove in and sumer most miraculous escape from death. typhoon over z or more adjacent her husband from his espast of Shortly afterwards Sanitary Inspec impossible to see if other ships ous planks displaced. the Red car. When she did this tor R. C. Witchell, Senior Revenue
were in danger.
came in for attention, and several A tidal wave swamped the Bund, stations affords a means of deter- WIS re mining the diameter of the calm the Living Buddha sent emissaries to Officer George Watt, Revenue Offi-
collapsed. It was a dangerous and the native city
duced to a heap of wreck area which exists at the centre of a proceeding
walk Peling to appeal for Chinese help cer Griminett and others got to the
along
age. When the wave broke with typhoon. If, for instance, at one the Praya but quite a in ridding Mougalia of the yoke of wharf with a lifebuoy lied to a the Hels: Recently, it is claimed, length of rope. While they were
number, including ladies, braved full force on the shore,, po station (A) the caim lasts for 20 the elements. There was
toons, junks and cargo boats were minutes, while at another station the female and Living Buddha half way the ship, to the consternm
lifted bodily over the bunding, (B) 2.4 miles to eastward, the calm watchers-pum- Kowloon got the full force of the sad group worked out a scheme for the ejection|tion of the would-be rescuers, sud-
merchant-men
many of them striking the frontal lasts 50 minutes and the typhoon is sailors of the Reds, with the help of a denly lurched over to her starboard typhoon and suffered accordingly, bering
mier of princes and league chief- and went down. She was last er Along all the roads troes were wives, anxiously looking to see buildings. The ruin was absolutely travelling north at the rate of 12 Hongkong to-day suffered ons of fairs. They were betrayed, the lying off the 0.8.K. wharf art for rooted and telephone wires blown Men flitted about but there was a amazing and nearly all buildings miles an hour, then the diameter of factive lenders were executed and from where H.M.8. Renown as down, making the roads well-nigh feeling of helplessness on all were rendered roofless. Fortunate the calm area would be 12 miles.
eventually found to be safe, but cast of (A) the calm the two Buddhas have been impri-sixchored when the Prince of Wales impassable. In some places podes- sides. A young Indian police-ly all the foreign population were At a third station (C) 9 miles to the details have not yet been reported but soned of, at least, their liberty has was here. The members of the crew trinns had to wade knoo deep man
carrying the loss of life amongst the Chinese last 50 minutes also, but the wind a life belt in a listless through the debris. Pieces of half-hearted manner, dawdling
was enormous, and no fewer than would veer, whereas at A and B is it is certain that many lines 494 bona evrestricted, and they have been who were clinging to the rigging for houses were blown into the streets by the scaffolding-what there was 28,000 dead hodies were afterwards would back, C being on the opposite
under surveillance, The Female their lives were lost sight of for and signboards were hurtling about. of it-by the Statue Ferry wharf. recovered.
side of the centre to. A and B. The dost. The China Mail is this first Buddha lind a large following among moment when they appeared i the Mongols, and the Reds are said broken raft to be carried westwards
Quite a number of people went The roads bore signs of falling of more than 100 churches, chapels it is called, differs in different In the surrounding districts out central calm, or eve of the stormas opportunity of expressing fts sympathy to have feared that she would renew at a speed of about ten knots. The down to the ferry at Kowloon but masonry, flower pots, wood, etc and missionary residences, 12 were typhoons. Its diameter varies from
her anti-Bolshevist campaign. To rescue parties ran along the Pinya ost of the were chary of crossing The Canton Stamers are all safe.
[to Hongkong, with a chance of being Much damage must have been detroyed and the others more or about 7 to 25 miles. Sometimes an prevent this, they are said to have in the hopes of being able to throw stranded on the island,. The ferries, donc on shore. It is too early yet csa damaged. At Gouason, out of almost absolute calm occurs and bribed some of the Court attendants line out but the elements were before they stopped, were hard put for reports. to poison her.
against their efforts and the roen to when taking their final trips, but it is known definitely that Wing Catholic families were the only c
have been sent in 20,000 inhabitants only half sometimes light, variable winds are Sometimes the sky survived, and at Haiki three prevalent. were last seen drifting nway beyond one from Hongkong taking at least On's were damaged, havoc being Survivore from a poptilation of partially, and sometimes the hear
completely, sometimes Wing Lok Street,
A suggestion was made by ex-} half an hour to get alongside, wrought to biscuits, bicycles &c. perienced men in the vicinity that through the wind dushing it against
worst typhoons in. Its bistory,
with the bereaved of så oommunities.
The Bolshevik War.
Another instance of the manner tin which the Bolshevike-remove those who refuse to embrace the tenets of red communion in con- taïped in a message from Peking, announcing the desil of the Fegade Buddha, wife of the Living Beddḥa at Urga. The unfortune lady is said to have succumbed to: poison. “deliberately_odmanistered in her food by a Balalavik agent. During fhe pass to years, the Feinale) -Budale has played an important
ut in Mongolian politing > It was]
Today's Poem.
A cannibal was sitting on a green
Pacific Indo-
With the temperature at ninety-
nine degreca,
His dress was rather senaty, in a
truly vige style.-
Just a pair of Boston garters
round his knees:
But be didn't scan quite happy, for
every now and then
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE,
f life-rockets had been available the wharf and knocking pieces of there might have been a possibility the woodwork off.
of these lives being saved,
Another Disaster.
SUBMARINE FOUNDERS.
Queen's Road,
of
was observed
Telephone lines were either blown 3,000. down or disconnected in town and sign-boards were lying where ricanas used to be.
Typhoon Warnings.
HOME PAPER'S INTERESTING. COMMENT.
would
nimbus merely gives way to a veil of thinner cloud. The barometric minimum (which varies from 27ins to 29ins) is said to occur sometimes at the beginning of the Part of the scaffolding of the old
calm, sometimes, shortly before, Post Office building has come
and sometimes thortly after;-but down being projected right across
as the time-scale of the ordinary the street up into D'Aguilar Street SCAFFOLDING WRECKED.
barograph is usually very contract= completely obstructing the road The enormity of the typhoon and ed and the driving clock an imper- This was a scene of topsy-
Wyndam Street and Gispaly, tidal wave that wrought such havoc fect time-keeper, it is frequently turveydom. Looking at the scaffold to mention no other thoroutes, to property and took such heavy impossible to say within 5, 10, or It appears that earlier in the ing around the A.P.C., building, as are blocked with broken and toll of life at Swatow on the night even 15 minutes, when the mini- store, the Japanese ship Ginyo it appeared from Wyndham Street, branches, while theof of of August 2 and 3 last year de-mum pressure occurs. Probably Muru" had got into difficulties. one thought how well the bamboo a house at the ction She was nianouvered into a posit- lashings were holding the structure Wyndham and Wgton Streets lag the longest possible warning calm, When the diameter of the of monstrates the desirability of giv-l it is within a few minutes of the And he shouted in a molancholy, was seen to be moored by her bows into Queen's Road to the left, the
longainst the Naval Yard and of poles and planks but on turning was carried away
of approach says the China Express calm area is large, and the sky -meditative tone
to the sea wall with wire-ropes. sight was almost unbelievable depot was ven
Before the der to return to and Telegraph It would be in clears, the temperature rises as the This ditty that I now repest to The conclusion is that help must At the open ing to D'Aguilar Street double de trams which were those living on the southern coasts no perceptible change.
'some of the finitely the advantage of centre passes, otherwise there is.. have been rendered by the Naval there was a mountainous pile of running the water front had of China and adjacent countries i Yard staff and it is certain that she scaffolding which the wind had theirs covers ripped open. was saved through their efforts, hurled from the buildings pow
disasters such as this one, and the INCREDIBLE VIOLENCE. N Let the Western Market" is al one at Hongkong in 1905, could Typhoons vary considerably" in Another, Japanese ship which golog up on the Old Supreme b of houses in the course of have been foretold. At present the strength. In some the violence of gave the appearance of being very Court lieThe scaffoldier Seeotidon The hoarding and warning conveys the information the winds, even 100 miles of the lightly loaded was the "Seniko fronting Queen's Road was in at was left of the walls are now a that a typhoon is coming, and the centre beggars description; while Maru of Fushiki. Somehow she themain, intact, but complete wreck. At other places in black signals indicate. Its im in others, a veksel may pass actually You ena't keep a good man managed to lay up against the cast the narrow street, or pass the town where construction work, minence, but no Information Is through the centre without sistain
down
of the Statue Pier where she was, which looks on to the new Qt going on considerable damage was given as to how severe it is likely ing serious dejunges dedop after considerable difficulty. Theatre, the wind had swem, with done to be. The question is, Canis (Continued on page 6.)
A groan escaped that tore his (25) breast in two ;
to you.
I have enton hostile tribesmen
With the gritost of urbanity,
1 have fenated on the yellow,
black and brown :
Was the neme of insanity;
But to eat missionary.
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