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At present it is difficult to "say, how mitay of the ship's crew' were aboard when the catastrophe occurred. Emally when the ship is in part the whole of the compradore's staff go ashore on leave, and it they were fortunate enough to be ashore this time, eight or nine lives less are to be accounted for. If, as seems
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 2015, 1935.
The respective owners of the two river steamers Fik Wah and Sun Tuck were particularly unlucky, sin both vessels only changed hand, a few days ago. The stramers are now aground in, different parts of the Harbour,
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SERIOUS DAMAGES TO THE.
NAVAL OILER,
The Naval Oiler Kharbi broke adrift from her moorings in the harbour and was, carried to the Nayal Armanent Depot where she smashed a coruer off
AT THE PEAK.-
PEAK RESIDENTS · HOMELESS,
GREAT DAMAGE TO HOUSE
PROPERTY. :"
probable, the steward's staff, the dert Green Talami, "mit"with disaster by, first the sea wall dislodging huge blocks of as any in the Colony. Many of the houses
hands, and the engine room staff were on board, then the total crew, together with the seven Europeans,,would be about thirty-six.
The Wing, which brought up on
[of all, breaking away from her moorings, and then fouling her propellors in the buar. TLIGHT
ps
'OF THE "GINYO MARU," The T.K.K. Gingo_|_Maru, « (South America line). from which the reseus was made, also auffored heavily from the air, she arrived in Hongkong 22 Fri-
The Feak District suffered as severely
masonry; then wang round and enme
were unroofed or so badly damaged as tu be uninhabitable. It is said that" somet broadside on against the timber a thing like a hundred people were tender. which was lifted off its reinforced con-fed homeless and either sought shelter The launch sent but by Messrs.
crete foundations. The timber surface with friends or found necommodation st Jarding, Matheson & Co. returned fate yesterday evening, bringing with them
of the quay was pushed a foot or two the Hongkong Hotel. Datonge was more for less severe on all experts parts of out of alignment and the steel is now threr Chinese bodies which they picked up
protruding from several of the concrete the Peak-for instance, roofs of the newer round a Why Island. They picked up day morning. and was moored down at niles which were crumpled by the foren houses on Lugard Road were damaged no survivors, but they learned from a Chinese scurce that four Chinese members the Eastern end of the Harbour. When of the blow. of the crew had been picked up alive by other bts during the day and taken into Hongkong. Ip to going to press this information had not been confirmed.
A
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for
but it seems that the gale same raging with its greatest violence through the gale came an all batches were bat- The vessel, still broadside
one down, movable objects lashed, and bumped incessantly against the quay her Gough Hill and Mount Kellett The on. Was Magazine Gap and aeros the Valley to everything ninde ready for heavy wea-bridge crashed against a ther. When the seas were at their worst which side-stepped, about a yard under suffered merely. Roofs were much dam
steam crane houses that chister round Magazine Gap the buoy to which she was moored hegan the impact, tearing up its track and aged at Mrs. W. G. Lay's, Mr. V. Sorby's, MR. SUTHERLAND INTERVIEWED, to drag its cable, and then, all of a sad throwing all the points of the light rail- Mr. A. E. Wright's, Mr. Jacks, and Mr. Mr. R. Sutherland. Shipping Manden, the cable parted. The steamer came way, completely wry. The Kharki pre H. Goldsmith's; at Kenvels & chienney Medarding Mason up the harbour before the weather at ceeded, for the duration of the storm to was torn away from the masonry and tremendous speed, and it at first appear crumple her ribs against the quay. The foll through the roof. Mr. Cavalier's & Co., Lttl.. iLE 2621 interviewed
ed that he was going to dush against quay is considerably damaged and the house, now occupied by Mr. L. V. Lang, renmarked that in the the Naval Dockyard. Saturday,
By stroke of Kharki's side is buckled like corrugated suffered severely Windows were driven past, the Company had had wonderful seamanship on the part of the iron. Her deck platas and side plates in at Dr. Forsyth's where M. Karaten fu run of luck in typhoons, as regards officer at the wheel the vessel's stern hit have started, she is taking water and has Larsset is in residence. The roof of the luss of life. As far as he could recollect the seawall, and slowed the rest of the a list, but on Saturday evening she still Customs residener occupied by Mr. C. they had not lost a single European vessel round. With the smart co-opera floated. A large crowd of Chinese watch Thorne was damaged and windows in the Officer by typhoon since 1904. They had tion of a number of British, bluejackets ed her from the Praya end of Arsenal large tower were driven in. Matsheds escaped loss of life during the Swatow on the quay rope was made fast to the Street and the Naval Yard Police gave near the new houser on Mount Cameron typhoon, whilst not one life out of 500 on shore, and after some difficulty the ship mecial attention to prevent entry to the were utterly destroyed.. hoard the Kna Song was lost when was brought alongside Tater in the day Depot being made for purposes of loot. she went ashore reatly in the typhoon anyway was let down. The stern of ing. off the Philippines.
the hat suffered rather heavy damage, but otherwise it is believed no harm was dune. Had the vessel not been pulled up ao prontptly at the Tard she would have carried straight on and cut clean through another Japanese ship, the Sektus ar which had gone aground alongside of
The Loong Sang has a gross tonnage of 1,738 and nett toning of 16. She was previously known as the El and was built in 1800 at West Hartlepool and registered in London. Nearly all her service in the Tudo-China S.. Co. has hern spent on the Manila Hongkong run.
GALLANT RESCUE FROM THE SUNKEN SUBMARINE.
BRITISH BLUEJAUKET SAVES A LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER.
an the wharf, and attempted to
Statue Pier.
A STAR FERRY BOAT'S ADVENTURE. #NORTHERN STAR ”
A SEXKS NAVAL PAUNCH.
SPEKS NAVAL BASIN FOR SHELTER
One or two Chinese passengers were taken to the Tamar for treatment, but it is not clear as to how they game by their slight injuries.
HOW A CATASTROPHE WAS AVERTED.
::
Half the Military Sauitorium, en the low hill just beyond, was brought to the buildings have received considerable which reunins is badly wrecked.
Roofs, and consequently interiors, of ground and that part of the building damage at the Armament Depot Part rounding smaller structures are mere Sur of the sign hour of the Sailors' Home heaps of rubble. The place is unoccupied Here "Stubbs
tram way and hurled on to the lawns in Roads curves under the lee of the hill. was carried by the wind clean over theexcept by a watchman. the Depot Yard, The Hone also suffer-int the wind seems to have scoured round
el roof damage.
THE DAMAGE IN THE OTTY.
· THE LITTERED; STREETS,
against the
the terrible heating of the rain his gal Office yesterday morning we learn that tops, to disappear into the blinding rain. work of a new roof.
the hallow, for there is much wreckage even on the apparently sheltered slopes, Several steel electric wire poles-which would be thought likely to offer a very small mark for the wind--have been brought bodily to earth although theit stemy are several feet deep in the earth. When the typhoon had passed the The reason for this was evidently that A hotable net of gallantry was witness
whole of Hongkong was a scene of wreek- the fonds of water pouring down the ed in connection with the sinking of H.M.
were littered with hillside reduced the earth to the consist- The Star Ferry boat that landed itsg. The streets Submarine Lo The Bubamarine, which was moored a few yards away from the Passengers at the Royal Naval Tackyard, debris, sheets of corrugated iron, sigurney of mud, and the concerta bases of was the Northern Star. Her oxswain, boards, bricks, mortar, and rubbish of pillars and poles were therefore fairly Naval Yard, whs seen to drag. her moor."
after an adventurous journey arross the every description. When the wind was "asily shifted,, the poles acting as evers dashed on towards the Dockyard wall shelter and with the idea of landing bisa Wanchai, on the Freya by the regime hillside overlooking the paper mills ings and then break clean away. She harber, made for the Naval Bain for its height it was dangerous to header the pressure of the wind.
abroad in certain portions of the town. Chinese contractors' matsheds "on this and smashed up against it, breaking open passengers. There were exceptionally some of her plates. The crew, coria high seas in the basin and eye-witnesses clamation works, the wind was picking reservoir-were either blown down the ing a petty officer and three bluejackets.of the enxswain's gallant efforts to bring up sheets of corrugated iron ten feet long hillside or in one case lifted into the air managed to jump ashore, though one mat his craft to shelter have nothing but by six or seven feet brend, and hurling like an airship where it scon parted in first of all missed, and fell into the water praise for him. As ons gentleman put them through the air like leave for a mile or two. The police removed to the middle and scattered its fragmenta He was dragged out with some difficulty it und was found to be rather badly injured I stuck to his post gallantly. In presentative of the Daily Press who hap Two of the men had to be sent to the his efforts to bring the ferry boat to the ened to be in that portion of the town hospital a Chinese found badly injured Bick bay, it was nt this point that one his vesel collided with a small Naval ng sheets of iron, huge blocks of wood, matsheds and a very difficult task it was sile at the bow of the RMS. Tumar, pent an anxious fifteen minutes avoid amongst the wreckage of one of the of the most exciting and gallant incidents launch, used for Depot service.
The bricks and mortar, and portions of ver- first to get the litter, piecemeal, to the of the day occurred.
Launch was badly, holed and sauk like a andahs. A tramear was making a des- plner over heaps of debris, and then to Lieutenant Dickson. R... was standing stone. There were no casualties on theperate effort to negotiate the line. The convey the patient down the Peak Road
board launch.
vehicle would traverse about aix yarda, which strewn with blown-down trees The ferry was finally wedged and then a piece of sheet iron or a piece and bouglas. the abandoned muhmarinė. His object into the space between the bow of the of timber would blow in
Stable Road, hereabouts has been in jumping aboard was to take with him Temur and the camber wall where she wheels. The conductor, would remove it, badly damaged by floods and part of the a wire bawser in order to connect up was held in position by the exsurin's get back into the car, and the perform surface has stipied down the hillside. the vessel with the shore. He jumped, keeping the engines going ahead." missed his footing, and fell into the sea.
ance would be repeated. In the end the Following the track of the typhoon it He too, was dragged out, but, undaunted,nessed by large numbers in the Yard and ear was abandoned altogether. A coolie hast
The landing of the passengers was wit-poor man became disheartened, and the is evident that Gough Hill felt the full be made a second attempt. This time he the Commodore bad arranged for the who was in the road a little further along bailding, old and "not over substantial,!
The Police Station, a bungalow managed to cling to a-davit, and was washed away with the, submarine, which Nava! Yard police to be present to assist was unfortunate enough to be hit a had a narrow escape from comlele des was driven by the wind and waves in the at the landing. As the passengers jumped glancing blow on the head with a sheet traction. Cracks are apparent every. direction of the new Statue Pier. The from the ferry they were caught by the of flying iron. He was knocked senseless where in the walls. Windows and doors next thing that the anxious onlookers policemen, and so they were all landed, into the road, but a number of his fellow in the northern end blew in and the wind witnessed was the davit come away from
countrymen sheltering in a nearby go then actually tore the shelves from the the submarine altogether, bringing, the
down seemed to he greatly amused. A wolls of the men's quarters. The roof is officer with it. Lieutenant Dickson was
little persuasion from a European, how practically all destroyed, so that th thrown clear off the craft and struck out
|ever, induced them to carry the man whole place was flooded out. When one for a nearby buoy. The seas at this time
indoors where he received rough atten- of the windows crashed, a fragment of were exceedingly high, and stinging rain
tion, and under the European's adminis glass struck no Indian sergeant, eut was pouring down, so that it was difficult
tration came round within half an hour.
through his jacket and wounded him in the ribs. Another police man was HO to ace exactly what happened. Meur while, the submarine turned up her nose
What might have been a terrible dis-
There were times when it was impos- and sunk, the hole in her side having aster was only averted by the clever sible to stand on the Praya. The wind so badly cut about the head that he ha
since been taken to hospital. In addition up and hurled one filled her with water. It was half an hour Mail stenger Andre Leben. The Andre Against the nearest wall where it was wife and three children of another offer
senmanship of the captain of the French simply picked one
to the European officer in charge, the before it was seen that the lieutenant Leben had been anchored towards the necessary to stop for safety, The rain had fad arrived from the Central Police had reached the buoy. During this time Eastern end of the Harbour, and when heat down with such fury as to sting the station for a fortnight's "air" on the Peak. the agony of holly and of mind that he the typhoon broke on the Colony she first face and hands even worse than hail soffered can be better imagined than of all dragged" her moorings and then
(The lady decided, by the way, that the Nearly every road in the town was it had received her fortnight's allowance described. He was sighted by a gentle; broke her cable. She was driven down tered with fallen trees and tree branches of air during the typhoon and returned man in the Victoria Recreation Club, and the Harbour by the gale and was making and shortly after ten o'clock, partly for to the lower levels yesterday morning). the latter hosted to the Gringo faru straight for the Einpress of Australia, this reason, but mainly because the wires. The presence of these visitors was which, as reported elsewhere, had drifted The event was witnessed by hundreds of had broken down in a number of places, naturally an extra anxiety for those in alongside the Naval Yard. He could get people on the shore, and to them it seem tramoars all along the route were aban charg, and arrangements had to be made no attention, however, and then, suddened almost certain that the two vessels doned. Then it was that the wind seem-- Jr, he saw the almost naked figure of a would collide.
as to protection in ease the building col- Then the great French cd to vent its special fury. The canvas British bluejacket run along the Japan Mail steamer was seen to suddenly pull roofs of a large number of the cars were hill.
lapsed to seek shelter on the lee of the ese boat's fo'castle head, climb over the bows with a life helt round him and making her way up the Harbour under on rails round the top decks as a burst-Layton's house, the roof of which has
up and
swerve round, succeeding in ripped clean off, twisting and bending the Just below this. is Mr. Geoffrey life, line in his hands and swim out to the buoy, some forty or fifty yards away, moored.
steem to the place whore she then ing shell might have done. In one case been removed so completely that one the whole roof was carried right off and What with the roughness of the sen und
From enquiries made at the Harbour sailed off at a great speed over house would suppose that tilers were just about to begin operations covering the wood. lant effort was a strenuous one indeed: the Emirers of Australia was towed out Yard, was enveloped by a huge tree. But after some time he reached the help from the
One car, standing just outside the Naval
On another house a short, solid concreta less officer, and the two were dragged stream by tugs
Kowloon wharves to mid This after the roof had been carried elimney pot has been broken off and laid ashore torether The deed was one of
on Friday evening.
with decorous neatness, square on the the greatest kallantry, and a credit to the When the typhoon struck Hongkong she way. The deck was broken, and it was.
tilės. Navy and nation to which the man he had not been able to raise steam, and impossible to move the car for hours. afterwards. The Tramway "Company
*Stewart Terrace, down in the hollow, louged. The rescuer was Able Seaman was left to depend entirely on the eventually turned off its current every missed the force of the wind which, ad- Trengus, of the Tamar, Lieutenant Dick strength of her moorings and anchors. where, and the service was not continued vancing to Mount Kellett, did much havoc son is now in Hospital.
White in harbour she had been under: till the evening,
thereabout. Scarcely a house in Des going some necessary boiler repairs and
damage. Vaux Villas escaped seriouis. several tubes were disconnected. The old A Tiongkong Hotel bus was only saved In one case, Dr. Koch's. considerabile C.P.S. buoy, which has three seven-ton froin being dashed into the sea by letch-renovations had just been completed. The situation of Green Island proved anchors, was not available, being in facting up heavily against some nearby rail This house is one of the few. insured most fortunate thing for shipping: six taken up by one of the smallest steamers ing or zeven voasele were brought up on is in the harbour. The Empress was allot..
against typhoons. Damage was also shores, when otherwise they would have ted A3 buoy all the best anchorage in along the Praya must. amount to thou Manor," the residence of Mr. H. Percy The damage to piers and wharves all heavy at Cameron: Villä... "Kel'ett been carried out to sea. Both Stone Koxicon Bay beink also taken up. A3 sands of dollars. The Star Ferry wharf Smith, suffered severely, and so did the entters and Green Island present a restocd the strain and the mooring was not had several floor planks forced up. and house occupied by Mr. McNicoll, Mr. W markable sight Ships literally litter their dragged at all. Prop's on shore got the scolies had to be placed on the work of Sinclair, who has just had his house re- shores, cast up haphazari by wind and impression that the vessel dragged her repair at once and in the height of the built aftor destruction by Bre, in obliged The Awangsai, which, as reported else. moorings a good deal this was breauge a typhoon, so argent was it that the dam to camp out in the verandah. At the new where, sunk off Stonecutters seems to have considerable length of cable was paid out age should be immediately repaired to Junior Mess of the Hongkong and Shang- been a singularly unlucky bout. This is when mooring wire was fixed to the an extent which would admit of an earlyhai Bank the roof is reported to have the second time she has rested on the sea bucy in addition to the mooring chain. résumption of the service. The Hong-fallen in and damaged two floor, beneath." bed, the first being in the 1900 typhoon, Several fathoms mare cable were let out kong. Canton and Macao Steamboat The terrace at Mountain View also beare when she foundered in a spot close to the dropped, so that the Empress was a good well, excepting that the wharfingers and many of the occupants have been each time when the two anchors were Company's wharf, weathered the storm evident signs of the buffeting it received scene of her present "disaster, At that time the wag known as the mangchau.
deal nearer the Praya during the typhoon office was completely wrecked, Some driven elsewhere. A corner of the roof The river steamer Chung On which was than she was on Sunday, when her moorwharves along Praya West have been of Sir William Rees Davies's residence seen to be in difficulties early in the day, ing chain had been taken in again.
completely wrecked that scarcely a trace was blown away; in fact hardly a house foundered nad sank late in the morning
remains of their original position. has escaped damage more or less" serious, of North Point. The crew and passengers
Just when the typhoon was at its height The wooden trestle bridge over the were got ashore without much difficulty The Royal Naval Dockyard suffered a two Chinese girls rushed out of the East, gutting running between Mount Kellett the vessel is owned by a Chine firm few thousands of dollars worth of damage Point Garage in Yee Wu Street, appar. Rond and Mount Gough Road was blown and commanded by Chpt.. Lovius,
as the result of the roofs of number ently to secure a better place of refuge down and dower blocking the Peak A steam launch belonging to the Kow- of store shede being blown off. The As they did so a wall in front of the garage motor road, which is also blocked a few loon Deckyard was sunk at North Point signalling station over the Commodore's fell on top of them and buried them com- feet further on by a heavy fall of earth. while attempting rescue work, and an office was badly wrecked, and, the mast pletely. When the Police and firemen It seems likely that a retaining wall will ether dock launch was munk off Quarry snapped off. Further signalling that day extricated their bodies they were both now be necessary to protect the Jardine Point.
was impossible.
found to be dead.
(Continued on, page 7.)
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