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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
ANNUNCIO.
A Direccão do Club Lusitano tem o maximo prazer em oferecer o seu estabelecimento como Centro Social todos os Evacuados de Xangai. Hong Kong 4 de Setembro de 1937.
PUBLIC AUCTION -
THE Undersigned have received Linstructions to sell by Public Auction on
Wednesday, the 8th. September, -1937
commencing at 2.30 p.m. at the Sales Room,
No. 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon.
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
comprising:
FURNITURE
Black Wood Ware, Teak Bed Room Dining Room, Drawing Room and Office Furniture, Carpet. Bug. Enamel Bath, Pictures, Clocks, Ornaments, Hand Sewing Machine.
HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST AT CHEUNGCHAU
300 Junks Reported Sunk
Cheung Chau, Yesterday. The island was visited by an exceptionally severe typhoon, the worst ever experienced. A lot damage was done on sea and lar and being at night, the "air raid" was the more dreadful
of
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 4, 1987.
TYPHOON WREAKS HAVOC AS IT SWEEPS THROUGH MACAO: HARBOUR DEATHS
Extensive loss of life line in an effort to save the occu- pants of a sampan which foundered and unestimable damage beyond the Barra waterfront. to property were the re- Pitiful scenes were witnessed sult of the typhoon which after the typhoon had passed over, swept over Macao this especially in the inner harbour where native craft. were literally morning. Scenes on land piled one on top of another, while and on sea later bore their owners frantically endeavour- ed to salvage: what was left of their evidence of terrible ha-
properties voe caused by the 170- kilometre winds which destroyed houses and
FERRYBOAT SUNK
Many boats were cast ashores
other structures, causing while elsewhere, fishermen's huts were swept from their foundations the deaths of 17 persons and lay in heaps of wreckage on on land.
the upper levels of the
shore.
Among the steam launches which
No official figure can
were sunk during the typhoon were yet be obtained of the toll
e Chinese owned tug and the of human lives on water Macao-Taipa ferryboat, the latter but it is believed to be being the property of the Fire-
cracker Company, shockingly large.
Shore damage was considerable. Macao's first real taste of the At the Pan-American Meteorologi- typhoon was at 3.05 am. when gun cal and Radio stations, the roofs of signals from the citadel on the the buildings were carried away by Monte announced its advent, fur-the high-velocity winds. ther alarm being sounded by the In town trees were thrown down siren. Towards 6.30 am to storm and roofs were scattered- every- diminished in strength but half an where. Hundreds of signboards and hour later it renewed in fury.
HEROIC RESCUES
paster frames were term off their fittings on building fronts.
RUA CENTRAL DRAMA
Harrowing scenes were witnessed in different parts of the city where
At the height of the storm, all light and telephonie communica- tions failed and rescue and salvage]. work were greatly handicapped, but creditable work was performed houses collapsed and buried their by the authorities despite the dif- occupants beneath masses of de-
bris. ficulties.
On Rua Central, a Portuguese From the beginning of the gale, mother and her three children were Police and ambulance squads were kept busy and a number of heroic trapped beneath a staircase where sea-rescues were effected in the in-they had taken refuge when their
walls began to fall in pieces. cessful attempt by a Police officer was not until three hours later that
neighbours effected their rescue. who swam out at the end of a life-
ner waters. These included a suc-
a
CHOLERA "HOSPITAL”
DEMOLISHED
It
At the Government Civil Hospital,
The number of junks sunk is not had to crawl next door for safety rightly known, some believe 301 where they were cared for. Their and hundreds of lives lost. The belongings were soaked with water] bund, with its coping of huge con- and covered in many cases with the huts housing cholera patients were demolished by the storm. crete blocks tossed about, smashed mud and fallen debris. It was the all-wooden pier. Only the gauntwonder there were no serious in-Fortunately, a few minutes before niers remain to mark its position. juries. The concrete pier has again suffer ed considerable damage, the rail- ings having disappeared.
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SHOPS UNDERMINED
The centre of the storm could not have been far off and the fury of the gale will long remain în memories.
OUT
The barometer registered 28.2 at 4.45 am, towards morning it start-
The shops facing the pier were ed to rise rapidly but the gale con-
Electric Table Lamps, Cutlery, undermined d and are minus their tinned and torrents of rain fell flood- Glasses, Brass & F. P. Ware, Cooks. In many cases the cementing the house where the shutters ing Utensils, Crockey, etc., etc.
still is suspended in the air. The loss had been blown off as at 12A, 20 he rain and water must be con- and other places siderable, following the destruction of fire last year.
also
One Upright Piano.
On View from Tuesday, the 7th. September, 1937.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
CAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 4th Sept., 1937.
their destruction, the occupants had been removed to safety following an order from the Medical Officer.
-Our Own Correspondent.
SUFFOLK GOES IN DOCK FMS. Suffolk, whose bows were badly damaged in the typhoon, pro- ceeded to Kowloon Docks this morn ing for repairs.
CANTON FLOODED DURING GALE
Canton, To-day.
PUT OFF GUARD
According to reports received by the local police authorities, seven
during
the
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