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Sept.
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Sept.
Deiren, Taku, Taingtau,
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937.
The sa Ear Lee which was beached alongside the pray wall off Chatham Road during yesterday's typhoon.
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TYPHOON SWEEPS HONG KONG CLEAN
Continued from-Page 1)
Residents on, the Kowloon side the total must run into several congregated in their thousands | million dollars, and the damage to from very early morning waiting property" in the Colony has also for the ferry service to start, and been
very considerable; but not a few hoping it wouldn't. It nothing like the total which will did, however, and every praise is have to be debited to shipping. due to those in charge of craft for the splendid seamanship they dis played in making the crossing and particularly for the manner in which they brought the ferrles alongside the wharves. Although the gale had abated considerably, yet a gale was blowing, when the first three ferries made the cross- ing, and the slightest...error. of Judgment might have catised terrible disaster.
MATSHEDS LIFTED
NEGLIGENCE
Injured Men's Wait In Ambulance
The typhoon brought to light- another of the incidents" which contribute to the bad name of the Colony. A "Daily Press" repre- sentative, going his rounds yester- day morning, came upon an om- bulance near the Central Fire Station and on inquiring from the driver why the ambulance there, he was told that it had broken down,
Was
"Were you going out to answer, a call." asked our representative. And then the story broke,
The ambulance had gone to No. 18 Connaught Road, ground floor, at 4 a.m. to pick up two men who had been injured by “dying glass." One of them sustained-a cut ten- don in the arm) while the other was cut about the leg. While on the way to the Queen Mary Hos- pital, the ambulance broke down, in Wing Lok Street, and as there was no spare machine at hand, the crew got out and pushed it back to the Station, hoping. no doubt, that something could be done to the engine.
It is a great testimony to the To cut a long story short, this general efficiency of the Adminis-was either a particularly stubborn tration and the co-operative spirit engine, that refused to yield to of the people, that within a couple treatment, or it was not given the of hours of the storm abating, all proper attention, for at 11.45 a.m. essential services were being con- the ambulance Wis still "there. ducted as usual.
complete with the two patients who had not, up till then, received any medical attention!
Looking at Hong Kong to-day a man remarked, "It reminds me of home." He was a refugee-from Shanghai.
NOT SUFFICIENT
"WARNING“
one of our
FOUR KILLED
Rioting In Palestine Continues
the
Our representative was inform- ed that the injuries sustained by the two men were not serious, Be that at it may, there is still no excuse for this.deplorable lack of Repulse Bay, that most beautiful
attention to two injured men. In- of seaside playing places, looked
fection has been known to set in very much the worse for wear.
even with the slightest of bruises Hundreds of matsheds had been If the typhoon was "an expert" and in this particular case It terally lifted up and thrownence" to local residents, it was would be interesting to know who down by the typhoon, and it was even more so to the refugees from Was
responsible for this negli- remarkable to see huge concrete Shanghai, and when Interviewed gence. It looks to us as though a anchors, which keep the rafts in
representatives, a thorough investigation into position, strewn on the beach with number of them staying in the matter is not only desirable, but their massive chains still attached Jockey Club Refugee Centre were imperative. to the rafts which bobbed like unanimous in that "It was the corks in the foaming surf. That most terrible thing of its kinds very popular craft so popular with they have ever seen." bathers, the Lido Lady, had been The place, as may well be ima- whisked from her moorings one gined, was in a state of confu- hundred yards off-shore and now sion. The matsheds erected in lolls, somewhat Uke a naughty old front of the stands were blown. Arx who had been toying over-while that inside the golf course much with the boy Bacchus. Trees was also reduced to one heap of and shrubs, su difficult to cultivate debris. The ground floor of the in this part of the world, had suf- Jockey Club was dooded to a cer- fered badly, and this applied not tain extent but the Shanghal Daly-to-Repulse Bay but also to all indies, together with the "Hong parts of the Colony. Telephons 17772.
Kong lady helpers, rose to the oc- From a very early hour, even be-
fine style and set to fore the typhoon bad abated, work cleaning out the place with thousands of coolles were feverish- a thoroughness that commanded ly engaged in collecting faggots the admiration of all and sundry. Police and aircraft are standing and carrying away piecea
Up in the Members' Bar. the by for emergencies.-- wreckage for miles
thewriter came upon Mr. W. R. Par- Reuter. along foreshore on the Hong Kong and rott, a new arrival from Shanghai Kowloon sides. It's an ill wind. who was enjoying his breakfast. His bacon and eggs smelt nice and his coffee even more so, but there was work at hand and the Inner Man had to take a back seat.
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Many rickshaw pullers stop- ped touting for "ares" and joined In the mad scramble of picking up bits and pieces from ships, shops and wharves, which had been When asked what he thought of scattered by the mad fury of the the friendly Hong Kong typhoon, typhoon for many miles. Undoub- Mr. Parrott said that he had been tedly these voluntary scavengers In Shanghai for 10 years but he greatly expedited the enormous ( had never seen anything like it. amount of work necessitated by "It sure was tough," he said, and
Jerusalem: Sept. 1. Four more persons were killed to- day as a result of clashes between Arabs and Jews.
Jewish leaders have issued "a proclamation in similar terms used by the Arab Higher Committee yes- terday, urging their people to keep calm.
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WEATHER REPORT
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ROYAL OBSERVATORY HONG HUNG"
10 am.. Sept. 2. Barometer (at sea level), ́29.78
ins.
Temperature, 77 F. Humidity, 91 per cent. Wind Direction, B.E.
Wind Force (Beaufort), 8. Temperature; maximum yester- day. ET F.
Temperature; minimum last night, 75 F.
Rainfall for 24 hours, ending 10th to-day, 5.93 Ins..
Total rainfall alnce January 1. 72.78 Ins.
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MAILS FOR SHANGHAI AND: DISTURBED AREAS
All mails for Shanghai and the disturbed areas are at pre- sent being sent via Canton-Hankow for delivery as circumstan- cea permit.
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6.00 PM
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5.00 PM
... Oortu ...Maron
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the clearing-up of the main then, as an afterthought, "I'll tell thoroughfares, and to that extent you what though, I was very sur→ they rendered splendid public ser- † prised we did not have more vice whilst turning, an extra cent | warning about the typhoon.
"Granted the No. 5., signal was or two for themselves.
The great dams and watercourses hoisted shortly after 3 p.m.. but I of the Colony are in flood; portion understand that signal only means of the Kowloon-Canton railway that there is a likelihood of a ty has been washed away; hundreds phoon visiting the Colony, but only of telegraph ines are down; a likelihood. bridges have become rickety and "In Shanghal we have so much portions of roadways have started warning that we regard a typhoon to slide. Thousands have been as something to prepare for but
Against an average of 68.01 1ns. brought to the verge of destitu- | have never met one like this."
Sunset to-night, 6.40 p.m. Hon; huge crowds "walt at the
Sunrise to-morrow, 6.07 a.m. mortuaries and police stations
4 p.m., Sept. 2. searching tor relatives yet Mr. Parrott then talked about
Barometer (at sea level), 29.77. through and over all the people Hong Kong hospitality and in this are demonstrating a remarkably connection he said that under the Temperature, 79. Humidity. 89. | Air Mall for “E.L.M. Bervica”......... } philosophical outlook on this ma- circumstaces he thought the "Hong (Beaufort), 5. Maximum tempera-
Wind Direction, E.S.E. Wind-Force die Amsterdam, 13th Sept. Ranpura Jor misfortune which has befallen | Kong people are to be congratu one of the most beautiful cities in lated on the way they have treat-ture, 87. Minimum temperature, 75, the world. Indeed, the cheerful-ed the refugees and they were all Rainfall, 0.08. ness of the masses might well be grateful for all that is being on taken as an object lesson.
DAMAGE TO SHIPPING
HONG KONG HOSPITALITY
their behalf. Speaking of the conditions in Shanghai, he said that "restoring peace in the Bet- Undoubtedly shipping has shar-tlement is one thing and restoring ed worse during this typhoon than business another proposition al- ever before. Already three ships together. I am very pessimistic have foundered, whilst twenty are about it-we are all willing to try. in very precarious positions All but whether we succeed or not re- that can be done is being done, mains to be seen." and in this connection the various units of the Navy at present in the harbour are deservig of the high- est praise. It was, it should be mentioned in passing, a remark- able sight when the typhoon warning-were-being-hoisted-to-see- the rapidity with which the many ships in harbour up anchored and to consider the latest develop- made all speed for the open sea. ments in the Mediterranean altua- However, many were caught before tion. It is understood Mr. Eden: they could reach the comparative has been in touch with the Prime safety of the high seas, notwith Minister with regard to recent standing the blockade. The damage developments.
THE MEDITERRANEAN,
SITUATION
London, Sept. 2..
A meeting of Ministers was held at the Foreign Office this morning
to shipping 'has been enormous........ · Reuter's Bulletin Service.
Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and EUROPE via Marseilles-due Marseilles, Int October.
KATURDAY
*Japan Smoy
Manila ...
FUNDAY
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE
Formors
TUESDAY
From September 3, to 9, 1937.
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Ord, 4th, 20
1\G.P.O. & K.P.O.
Par. 3rd, 5,0 H
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Reg. 4th, 8.45 AM
Ord, 4th, 10.80 & M
Saturday, 4th, G.P.O. &
·D'Arta man Anshun Pres, Grant
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K.P.O. Reg. 9.30 AM Ord.10,00 & M
1,30 rw- 4.00 PM
4.30 FX
Bunday, 5th.".
9.00 & M
Tuesday, 7th, G.P.O, &
K.P.O.
Reg. 8.30 À M
Sphinx
Ord. 9.00 A M
Bast, andý
South Africa, Egypt and EUROPE(
rin Murosillas-din Harrell 6th Sphinx October
O.P.O. & K.P.O.
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