THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1960
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ABOVE: The gale-force
gusts of winds had hardly
slackened before road- · clearing squads began. their task, Huge uprooted trees and branches flung across main roads, like this one in Kowloon, were cleared first.
RIGHT: Workmen began
temporary repairs on the red tiled roof of the Kow", Office heavily
HONGKONG is left this weekend battered and dazed as Typhoon Mary cuts her destructive way into China after hitting the Colony with a fury that left more than 30 dead, 76 injured, 34 missing and almost 18,500 homeless people. It is too soon to estimate the dam age, but a preliminary sur- vey showed it to run into
millions of dollars,
These photographs, taken by China Mail staff photo graphers and members of the public who braved the hurri cane-force gusts of wind and
THE HAVOC OF TYPHOON
BLOODY MARY
rain, show the terrifying signs of building sites in Des devastation 'Bloody Mary.
Typhoon
LEFT: while their elders cast despairing, eyes at the destruction, children found some cheer in their pavement playing fields being suddenly converted into knee-deep wading pools.....
ABOVE: Scaffolding and
Voeux Rood-Central toppled with a crash on a from island, sealing® the main arterial road.
RIGHT: Two of the few who braved the deluge and winds to run an errand under an umbrella “turned-inside- out by the force of the storm.
ABOVE LEFT: Some indication of the power of the typhoon-lashed waves in the harbour can be estimated from the damage seen here to the causeway leading to the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club, Kellett Island. ABOVE RIGHT: The sea of rain water that covered the car park and junction of Salisbury and Nathan Roads in Tsimshotsui was several feet deep in places.
LEFT: A hardy taxi-driver ploughing through the flood- ed roads near the Peninsula Hotel. Those vehicles, which operated almost all through the typhoon, were the only means of public transport of times. RIGHT: Winds reached a velocity of over 100 knots during the storm, effortlessly scattering lighter cars like these around car parks.
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