FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1929.
THE CHINA MAIL
IN THE WAKE OF THE TYPHOON trees are leaning to one side, as Wyndham-street,
the Yee Sang Fat building. above the flower vendors' stalls, which were also badly damaged.
The trees along. Queen's-road, seemed to have suffered most from the wind, and branches, some quite big, were strewn about the road; from the vicinity of the banks to as far east as Arsenal-street. One fairly large tree standing in the lane between Beaconsfield Arcade and the Murray Parade Ground was,
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A fine tree in the lawn in front of Helena May Institute was blown down.
The flagpole at Watson & Co., also Alexandra Building, was blown down.
IN KOWLOON
Incidents Observed Here & There
suffered con- if almost endeavouring to uproot siderable damage, many tiles being themselves.
blown into Wyndham-street.
The roads in and around Kow loon Tong were not damaged, and as soon as the gale had swept the Peninsula, the motor over buses were at once able to resume their usual runs.
PO HING THEATRE
$10,000 Damage Sustained to Roof
POLICE REPORTS
Review of the General Damage
The destruction of the roof of road, Lower and Upper Albert I
the Po Hing Theatre in Yaumati, On reaching the Ferry on the Kow-except for the frame work, was
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completely uprooted, and fell across loon side yesterday at 11.15 (writes the severest damage sustained in water front, between the Harbour 6 a.m.-6 p.m. in All Districts.
Queen's-road, making the therough fare impassable to traffic until it was moved to the City Hall front by the Police.
Des Voeux-road was completely deserted, except for a few ventur- ons souls who had gone out to see the result of the blow. At about 2.45 p.m., the wind was still strong along Des Voeux-road, and it was difficult to make one's way along from the City Hall to even as near as the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, against the wind, one had to put up with a drenching, the water which on the road being had collected occasionally blown up in sprays which almost reached one's head.
Middle Levels
work.
без.
HAROLD T. CREASY, Water Authority. Public Works Department,
Hong Kong, 22nd August, 1929.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
Auction
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
ON SATURDAY, August 24, 1929, commencing at 11 am.. at their Sales Room, Daddell Street.
Police reports on the effects of the typhoon were as under:
district.-Plate Central
HONG KONG WATERWORKS. glass windows af shops in Queen's-road
PEAK SUPPLY were broken. Trees were blown down in Queen's-road, Garden- IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that commenting. On SATURDAY, roads, and in Statue Square. 24th instant, the Supply to the Emergency water pipes on the Peak will be turned on daily from
Office and the Douglas Wharf another eye-witness) the red flag any one place on the mainland..
The roof which appears to have were broken and
washed across was flying, showing that the Ferry
The would be stopped at any moment. been constructed mainly of sheets the Prays into the But I was rather surprised at the of asbestos, was completely ripped Tung On Wharf, the Po Tak signal being up as the black cone was off; and when the storm had abat- Wharf, the Shamshuing Ferry few sheets of the Wharf, the Chiu On Wharf and still up. On enquiry of one of the led only a ticket inspectors, however, he told material (that had withstood the the Yuen Wharf, along the Con- clung to the frame naught-road water froni all suffer- me that the typhoon was very close.wind) still
ed damages to their roofs. This I personally confirmed by read-
The interior of the theatre was Telephone wires were blown ing the latest typhoon warning and
but not Lalf as down in Battery Path. An elec- comparing it with the "China Mail" also damaged,
seriously 48 the roof. Great tric cable broke in Old Bailey. typhoon chart.
pieces of plaster, that had crash-Gas lamps were put out of order ed down from the ceiling, were in MacDonnell and Bowen-roads.
The roof of No. 24, Connaught- those two have
ing а number of them. The road Central collapsed.. No one awnings that can always be taken down very easily, whilst the other theatre presented a dismal appear was injured.
covered as it was with
At the Central Ferries have wooden coverings that ance,
At Central Police Station dam- are handicap against the wind and broken plaster and other debris.
Interviewed, one of the manag-age was done to the roof of the a rising tide.
ing staff of the theatre said that quarters
of Mr. P. P. J.
Deputy The middle levels also suffered
Superinten. Deciding to cross to Hong Kong the damage sustained to the roof Wodehouse. much damage, especially trees
Mr. Police, and
T. and window panes. The Botani- I boarded a bus and proceed along was very considerable. It would, dent
Director of tangle Salisbury-road.At the junction of he said, cost something like $10,000 Murphy, Assistant Gardens were a
Criminal Intelligence. Some panes to repair it. of broken branches and fallen Nathan-read the bus nearly came
The decorated ceiling, our in-of glass were also broken. a cropper. The vehicle suddenly was and it will mean con-
Electric fittings and glass were siderabic work for the Fores- caught by a huge gust of wind and formant said, would be repaired
side. (it having been pierced in several broken at the Central Police Sta- the swerved dangerously to one try Department before garden can again assume its former Fortunately the driver had the pre-places). Indeed the ceiling pre-tion and Police Headquarters. A MISCELLANEOUS GOODS AND sence of mind to accelerate speed, sented a quaint scene, in that it large electric light. in the com- shipshape appearance,
soon appeared to have been holed by pound was broken, and some tele- Glenealy ravine roared along its and by this means the bus course like a river, whilst the path-righted itself much to the relief of boulders dropped down from the phone wires broke.
sky! way was also under at least one foot the passengers. of water on account of the drains
cal
treas
I noticed that only the "Night
running because
Beside having to fight | Star" and the "Northern Star" were scattered all over the seats, smash-
being stopped up by twigs and stones from the hillside. This was also the case in town and other localities visited, and the Police helped appreciably to drain the! streets of water by removing as Much of the obstruction as they could.
Small "Lakes" Some of the houses with grounds on the upper levels, appear as if they were standing in small lakes. "Fairview," in Robinson-road, was particularly affected in this way, and the water came pouring down the steep pathway leading up to the twin houses like a waterfall.
The compound of the Roman Catholic Cathedral and those of St. Joseph's Terrace and St. Joseph's Building were also under water but
Bus Aimest Overturns
In Nathan-road it was observed that branches of trees were snapping in all directions, and the pavements, gutters and the middle of the street were soon bespread with foliage of all kinds,
Ominous Bombs Then were beard the ominousi three explosive bomba accompanied, as it were, by a gust of greater viol- ence than ever, causing rigshas to swerve, the pullers hats to blow away, umbrellas to fly outside in and like matchwood,—a
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of
On The Peak Nathan Road
The Peak. The roof of the As is generally the case, the verandah of the Sub-station was trees along the whole length of blown down. The south end of suffered greatly. the Summer Quarters and parts Nathan-road The road was litter with broken or the wall of the cable house branches, and the gutters choked collapsed, whilst mosquito wire with leaves and twigs.
netting on doors and windows were blown away.
Situated next Rose Terrace on the vacant piece of ground besides At the Gough Hill Police Sta- the Tanaka Photo Studio, a huge tion, yiases were broken on the -the gar- tree, that had withstood more than east side, and doors one typhoon, met its Waterloo yes- age were broken, also a window terday, being completely uprooted. frame and door of the servants' It fell across the doorway of the quarters. studio, blocking completely the
Matsheds Collapse
exit of the inmates of the house. Several matsheds collapsed on It was just as well that the tree the Peak as follow:
the roof of the One at the junction of Barker
Yun Tai firm of contractors. No one was injured.
pemonium that caused a amongst pedestrians generally.
Proceeding rapidly along Nathan Road it was seen that the bamboos did not fall on had been uprooted near the Orient photographers shop or quite a and Stubbs-roads, owned by the Factory. A wooden shed near West different story might have to be All yesterday, until quite View Building has been reduced to told! matchwood. Everywhere there were late in the evening, the Forestry of all Department were sawing the tree, leaves of trees and debris on account of the sloping nature kinds rapidly filling the gutters, and it was not until the pavement of the approaches, they were quick-whilst Chinese here already taking had been effectively cleared that ly drained as soon as the rain stopped.
ceased their away pieces of branches and treas to the Forestry men be used as firewood.
labours.
Mody, Peking, Chatham, Gran- vile-roads all suffered slight dam-
Conduit-road was obstructed in certain spots by trees which had fallen from the billside. The Peak- road, at its junction with Robinson road, was similarly affected, whilst bits of masonary from old walls Parts of a hoard-
After the Storm.
On returning to the ferry later in the afternoon it was noticed that age in the form of injured trees.
One Harley Davidson Motor
Cycle
Two Travelling Cranes Three Bales
Printing Paper (more or less damaged) Ter Cases Sardines Forty-six Boxes "Bee" Bar Soap Sixty-six Boxes "House" Bar
Soap
.
and
A Quantity of
FURNITURE. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, August 23, 1929. THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction
ON
MONDAY, August 26, 1929,
at 11 o'clock a.m.,
**
at Kowloon Marine Lot No. 49, Yaumati (for account of the concerned) 23 Logs Square Billleri and
25 Logs Round Billian. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, August 28, 1929.
The ceilings of the quarters and charge room of Aberdeen Police Station were badly damaged. The charge room was flooded with
Wanchai
Two at No. 250, The Peak, own ed by the Lam Dor firm of con- tractors. No one was injured.
One behind the chair shelter on water. Stubbs-road, owned by the Liu Tan firm of contractors. No one Many trees were blown down in was injured.
the district, principally on Stubba, Trees Down
Bowen and Broadwood-roads, in Two trees were uprooted on Wong-nei-chong, and at Praya The Military mule sheds belong-Lugard-road, which
is closed to East. has stopped at 215-It was then 5,5. ing to the Royal Army Mule Corp ricsha traffic. Two other trees The steamers were coming back were
Telephone wires were broken. much affected. In most fell between No. 6, Police Station and glass smashed at No. 2, Police from anchorage. A Douglas steam-cases the roofs were shorn of and Mountain Lodge.. er was just passing Holt's Wharf, most of the matting material. was in whilst a Jardine's steamer was just progress, were blown down, but the workmen on the site repaired the damage immediately the wind had abated.
also came down.
ing at the top of Garden-road, where some excavation work
AROUND THE TOWN
Some More Effects of the Storm
On Murray Parade ground, there is a colossal pile of branches-a
the clock of the Railway Station
.quarantine flag.
In Yaumati
Middle Levels
Station.
The roof of the outhouse of the Wanchai Gap Police Station was damaged.
The matshed of the On Cheung timber yard, on the reclamation
Telephone wires broke, at differ- ent points on the Peak, whilst a coming in from outside flying the A vegetable stall in Waterloo-dozen street lamps were put out
road, in the district commonly of order. On reaching the Hong Kong side (known as Vegetable Market, was the ferry had to leave the broadside Jutterly wrecked. Curiously enough A telephone box at the junction at Praya East was blown down. on to the wharf, as the steps at the other stalls in the vicinity were of Conduit and Robinson-roads An Indian watchman named landing places had been broken and not damaged to any appreciable was broken. Three trees fell on Bishan Singh (53) was injured,. it was impossible for the Ferry to extent.
Robinson-road, outside house Nos. land passengers there.
20, 73 and 128, causing obstruc- tion to traffic. Those were subse quently removed.
KAI TACK BASE
An advertisement hoarding near the Tai Yat Theatre (and opposite the Yaumati Police Station) was blown down. Several of the trees
silent testimony to the terrific force Little Damage Sustained: Hangars that made Public Square-street so
of the wind blowing yesterday. A huge branch snapped away from an old tree just like a small twig fell or the first floor of Beaconsfield Arcade, on the Eastern side. The whole verandah railing was knocked away, and several lines of telephone wires were dislocated.
Another big chunk of tree fell on
the verandah of the Officers' Mess
at Murray Barracks, knocking down a portion of the railing.
picturesque were damaged.
WATER POLICE STATION
Foliage on Banking -
Two trees fell on Conduit-road, one opposite house No. 4, and the other near the Marble Hall.
West Point
and taken to the Government Civil.| Hospital.
Another patient taken to the Government Civil Hospital from Wanchai, was Ngai Fan-man (14),
foki of the Li Tak matshed on the Praya East reclamation. He was injured in the collapse of the On Cheung matshed:
Untouched
Considering the fact that the
Electric wires were broken, and R.A.F. Kai Tack Base is situated
fell across Queen's-road West.
The Sergeant of the Royal in the opon, and that the hangara
The roof and walls of No. 18, Naval Yard Police, on duty last and other sheds are constructed
Third-street, used as a dwelling, night, reported at 4 a.m., that a wholely of matting material, the The trees that surround the are reported by Ngal Fai, a tally-body was floating in the harbour damage sustained was compara- Water Police Station suffered man, to be in a state of collapse off the Dockyard.
A Police tively amall: A number of the great damage, a large number of The PW.D., were informed. They launch was immediately sent out, smaller structures that serve as branches being snapped in twain. took charge of the premises, warn- but failed to locate the body.. wash houses and lavatories were The trees were deprived ofed the inmates to clear out, and Shaukiwan damaged, their roofs in most cases most of their "coats" and the then put in shorings.
In Statute Square no fewer than being shattered or knocked about. ground for some considerable dis- A number of trees on the Pok five trees were unrooted, and right The four large hangars that tance around was covered with fulam, Aberdeen and Victoria along Queen's-road East, Chinese house the entire fleet of aeroplanes fallen leaves. women and children were to be seen withstood-the-fury of the gale' and this morning busily picking up fallen were not damaged to any appre- Areas and dragging them home for cable extent. None of the aero-
fuel. Quite a rich harvest for "The planes was damaged.REM Wreckers."
GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
Roof of a House Carried Away
A Chinese named Chi Nin (44), employed at the Fung Keong Rub
ber Co., was fatally injured dur-- roads were blown down, causing ing the height of the gale Ho obstruction to traffic.
was blown, down whilet walking The wooden cover of emergency near the old Shaukiwan tram ter- water tanks on the water front be-minus, and severely injured on, tween Kennedy Town and Queen's the right side of the head. street was blown away,
was removed to the Government Civil Hospital, where he died at 12.30 a.m. to-day."
The roof of the opium factory at Kennedy Town was damaged, and the Kennedy Town Folice Sta- tion suffered slight damage, some
As in other districts, a number Practically all the temporary of trees were destroyed in Kow- shacks and hurts erected on the loon City. The gale did not dam- Damage to Government pro Praya East Reclamation were blown age their village to any great ex-perty was, on the whole, not of down, and signboards are to be seen tent, though some of the hut- great importance. hundred of yards away from their dwellings of the villagers were Several Government houses on glass being broken.. respective hanging places.
destroyed. With the torrential the Peak suffered in one way or Aberdeen Roof Collapse
arts.
In Des Voeux-road Central the massive sign of the Instone Bank-
He
The roof and verandah of the Tsatchimni Police Station was damaged, whilst the water, tele- | phone, and light
rain that fell during the whole of another and at least one of the The telephone at Aberdeen of order. services were but
the gain the Old City was flooded, residences occupied by high offi-Police Station is out of order. At the Shaukiwan Police Sta- in some places three feet deep.- cials was flooded badlyZAAAAA Acting Sub-Inspector A, V. tion only slight damage was suffer-
Kowloon Tong
The roofs of the houses on the Baker, officer in charge of Aber ed. Some panes of glass being
The Fire Brigade was called out to a roof collapse yesterday. The house where this roof was blown away was near the Koshing Theatre. Beyond the fact that a large Peak in which his Honour the deen Police Station, has been ad broken. No injury was sustained by the ten-majority of the houses were un-Pulsne Judge (Mr. Justice Wood), mitted to the Government Civil Tse Shiu, storekeeper, of the touched the remainder being Mr. D. W. Tratman (Assistant Hospital suffering from a eut ground floor of No. 2, Kwong U- The verandah of a house in Yee damaged to the extent of a col- Colonial Secretary) and Mr. wrist caused by broken glass street, reported that the root of Wa-street, Bowrington, collapsed lapsed garden wall-there is no A. G. W. Tickle (Technical Secre- whilst securing the windows at the the building, used as a godown, yesterday. Luckily no person was thing worth while mentioning as tary to the Hon. the Director of station.
had collapsed. No one was in- injured.
regarda Kowloon Tong, Public Works) live were damaged. The San Cheung Lee shop, on jured. The P.WD. has been in- In the course of a tour of in "Pinewood", the house in the the Main street, nt-Aberdeen col- formed and have uncertaken the apertion carried out this morning, now disused Pinewood Battery, off lapsed. Two persons were jur work of clearing the debris. ing Corporation (in liquidation) is China Mail" representative the top of Hatton-road, in the ed, a man named Cheurg Po (68) Tsimshatsui half suspended as are numerous noticed that a portion of the roof north-west of Hong Kong, in an and a youth named Cheong Ho Not much damage was done in other signboards along Queen's of house No. 150 was damaged, a exposed position suffered much (18). Both have been taken to the district Trees, guffered more road West
large hole being made on the top damage. The roof was carried the Government Civil Hospital or less. Some were blown down, At the premises of the Sun Com-half of the roof
away in the storm and the lady The concrete gate at the Chin causing obstruction to thorough peny a number of the massive Most of the gardens were dam occupant (to whom the house is cse Permanent Cemetery, Aber fares, but were all cleared before show windows were blown in, aged and in many cases the young let) could not pass the night in deen, was blown down, whilst darke Three of the employées were in and budding, trees, besides the the house
part of the seawall along the No serious, damage was done to jured by falling glass and remov.smaller plants, were sotally des The roof of the Warders Quar Main road collapsed tato the hare buildings. ed to the hospital.
troyedA great number of the ters, between Arbuthnot-road, and bour...
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