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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1941
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TYPHOON HITS AT 108 M.P.H. Passes Colony During Tiffin ONLY 12
14,000-ton Ship On Green Island
THE TYPHOON WHICH HAS BEEN THREATENING HONG KONG SINCE SATURD AY PASSED BETWEEN 10 AND 15 MILES SOUTH OF THE COLONY AT 1 P.M., STRONG GUSTS BEING EX- PERIENCED BETWEEN 12 NOON AND 1.30 P.M., ONE GUST OF 108 MILES AN HOUR BEING REGISTERED SHORTLY BEFORE 1 P.M. AT THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC INSTALLATION AT NORTH POINT. THE NO. 9 TYPHOON SIGNAL WAS LOWERED AT 2.20 P.M. AND REPLACED BY THE NO. 8.
SHARP TOBRUK FIGHTING
A 14,600-ton British vessel went aground on Green Island, a 3,000-ton unidentified ship was ashore off Mount Davis, and a ship still under construction was swept from its moor- ings off the Taikoo Docks and blown oshore near the Ritz at North Point.
the
Junks drifting helplessly before bav at Castle Peak was caught ini. the gale were sighted, but so far a gust and overturned, and sunk, no casualties have yet been re- throwing the occupants into ported. One large junk sank off water. The five or six men, how- Castle Peak.
ever, managed. to swim shore.
Restauran's in town did a roar- Two large cargo trading junks coming trade as many office workers were sighted drifting at the mercy who habitual'y return home for of the gale past Kellet Island and lunch were stranded by the sus-off Wanchai.
A 14,600-ton British ship, senti pension of the ferry service.
the out a wireless message to
A Middle East munique states that patrols from Tobruk have intensified their activity
Shipping Disrupted carrying out a series of
Shipping between Hong Kong brilliant raids against the
and Macao was disrupted, the enemy position facing the ships concerned cancelling their
de- eastern sector of our
Portuguese Colony while no vessels arrived fences.
from Macao.
One Italian officer and three other ranks were captured from one strong point!
clearances
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the
PANAMA
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Admiral Frank Sad- ler, Commandant of the 15th Naval Dis- trict, said that if necessary he was pre- pared to send out ad- ditional ships and 'planes to track down the German raiders re- ported to be operating within the range of Panama Canal ship- ping, and revealed that the Army were cooperating with the Navy in the search. International News Service..
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Seventeen German bombers were shot down in a tremendous air bat- tle in which a hundred 'planes participated, in an unsuccessful German effort to smash the de- fences of Leningrad.
Two German regiments were routed, one losing eighty per cent. of their effectives, the High Command in Moscow announced in gesupplémentary communique.
Marshal Timoshenko's: forces on the Central Front are now only 12 miles from Smolensk.・・ Dut- ing, the last 10 days, 20,000, Rumanians have been killed in the.. Odessa sector and thousands mora captured. International, News Service.
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Water Police etating that the (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") ship had gone aground on Green Island, No details were avait- able at the time of writing.
An
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA, MAIL"I The Chamber of Deputies in Col. Frank Knox, Secretary of Buenos Aires has adopted a mo- the Navy, has criticised Lindbergh tion declaring the German Ambas-for the assertion that the British, Ship In Bathing Shedssador persona non-grata, amount-Jews and the Roosevelt Adminis
ing to a declaration that Herr Von tration are leading the nation into vessel Hermann is not welcome after the war. almost completed which was to undergo trial activities Investigated by the Little "My reaction to this is that the Ferries ceased operations a few to-day was swept away from her Dies committee. Hermann is ex-words are dictated by Goebbels himself. The address is un- minutes after the No. 9 Typhoon moorings off Taikoo Docks and pected to leave immediately.
The deputies also called on the American, but this is not the first At two other strong points, close Signal was hoisted and tramcars went aground on the west side of
The the Ritz at North Point, crashing Government to dissolve all Nazi time Lindbergh has made such fighting took place wherein the Were recalled to depot.
service bus
on the
organisations in Argentina.-In- un-American speeches.-Interna¬ mainland into one of the matsheds. enemy sustained heavy casualties,
A smaller vessel, the s... Tangternational News Service.
tional News Service. ceased functioning at 12.30 p.m. on leaving twenty killed ground and two prisoners in our and those on the Island were res-Wo, was blown ashore on Stone- hands. In addition, one
field tricted to routes 5 and 5A serving cutters' Island, while a 3,000-ton between Kennedy Town and ship. name and nationality yet gun and one anti-aircraft
Happy Valley and Kennedy Town unknown, was reported to were destroyed.
and Tai Hang.
gone aground off Mount Davis.
Colony, boards,
the
.
gun
In retaliation, a strong enemy Gusts of gale force swept the
force supported by a number of tanks engaged, and overran. by sheer weight of numbers one of our listening posts containing six
men.
in
have
Observatory Report
tearing down sign- blowing away flower
An official statement issued by pots, and ripping off leaves and branches of trees in certain neigh-| the Royal Observatory at 11 a.m.
to-day stated:
"The typhoon continued to ap- proach the Colony slowly during last night and at 6 a.m. to-day the..bulb being blown was centred about 60 miles south-
Three German tanks employed bourhoods.
this operation were subse- A suspended electric light at quently engaged and captured by the junction of Pedder Street and British tanks and the enemyl Des Voux Road Central was dam- concentration was then dispersed aged. by heavy artillery fire, d
to bits, while trees were uprooted east of Hong Kong, moving.
"The centre is expected to pass
In the frontier area, two enemy off Wongneichung Gap Road fall- slowly north-west." columns containing armed fight-Ing. across the highway and ing vehicles carried out recon-blocking
it. Coolies from the Hong Kong during the day and winds of gale force are likely to continue until the evening.
naissance in force penetrating P.W.D. were sent out to clear the some. miles across the frontier... way. The Traffic constable's Under cover of close air sup- "box" at Star Ferry was also port advance elements of our blown away. mechanised forces engaged these
columns tnficting considerable damage and losses upon them.
Wild-Harbour.
"The No. 9 Signal replaced the No. 7 at 9.27.a.m
"The highest gust recorded at the Royal Observatory up to 10.30 am. Was 84 miles per hour: from One German medium tank, Very rough weather was exper-registered at 8.30 a.m.. complete with crew, was cap fenced in the Harbour with huge north-north-east, tured Both enemy columns are waves slashing the waterfront. The rainfall has not been very how withdrawing, closely fol- Several junks were seen drift heavy 0.69 inch being recorded lowed up by British troops."ing at the mercy of the gale from in the 24 hours ended at British Wireless
east to west while some ocean- 10.30a.m. to-day." going vessels went aground, A Ponies Aboard
At 6 am. a large junk from It is understood that the final Chinese territory whilst taking batch of Australian ponies, a [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL" shelter from the gale. In a little total of 30 in all made up of 20
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subscription griffins and four MAND IN CAIRO ANNOUNCES back with heavy losses... Under griffins, are on a ship, just out- FIERCE FIGHTING BETWEEN cover of aircraft support, British side Hong Kong, BRITISH AND AXIS TROOPS troops and mechanised units en- ON THE EGYPTIAN-LIBYAN gaged enemy columns which then FRONTIER..
withdraw, followed by our No. 9 signal, indicating that the At Torbuk enemy columns pene- troops,-International News, Sergale is expecting to Increase, was
(Continued on Pago 10) trated some miles but were thrown vice,
Driven Back
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