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一拜禮 號七十月八英港香
MONDAY, AUGUST 17,
1936.
日一初月七
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SUNNING BREAKING UP NEAR
40
IN HOUSE COLLAPSE
PASSENGERS ON TWO DIE BRITISH SHIP IN DESPERATE PLIGHT Driven Ashore in Fierce Typhoon in Junk Bay
POLICE LAUNCH ATTEMPTING
RESCUE
IN
HUGE SEAS
Driven ashore at the height of the storm the Butterfield and Swire steamer, Sunning, 2,555 tons, British officered, and with 40 passengers aboard, was reported at 6 a.m. to-day to be breaking up rapidly off Rennie's Mill, Junk Bay.
No. 1 Police launch was attempting to effect a rescue through terrific seas, and little hope is held out for the passengers and crew on the ship.
The Chief Capilano, the big freighter which has been at anchor in Kowloon Bay for some months past, laid up, and with only watch- men aboard, has brok en adrift and stranded off Bailey's shipbuilding yards. No apprehension is felt for those aboard.
A number of persons were killed and injured in the crowded, Several houses Chinese quarters of Hongkong during the night.
collapsed. Police were taking stock of the damage and casualties at the time of going to press, but it was known that at least four were killed and a dozen more or less seriously injured.
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One of the Chinese gunboats which was moored in the harbour, broke adrift and was blown some distance, finally taking hold again-off-West Point She-is- now believed to be safe.
Tsun Wan, in the New Territories, was badly flooded and many houses col- lapsed. Property damage is serious throughout the New Territories, Kowloon and Hongkong island.
100 BURIED ALIVE
All ambulances on the island were summoned urgent.
ly at 9 a.m. following a report that 100 workmen had been buried alive when a contractor's matshed at Stanley had collapsed.
away
The structure was one of the biggest in Hongkong.
from but they were driven their work by the accurate shooting of Captain Pringle and his offers.
AL 9.45 a.m. the Sunning was bumping heavily in a choppy sen and efforts to take off the passen
gers had failed,
The tug Henry Keswick, the typhoon tug Kau Sing and the No. 1 Police launch were all standing"
by.
A military encampment, in the
WIND OF
TERRIFIC FORCE
This was their last attempt to regain MR. C. W. JEFFRIES' the ship, which was finally brought imping into Hongkong on November 17, 48 hours later.
Drag Anchors
The yacht Shenandoah, which
vicinity of the wreck, attempted was anchored in the 'lee of Stone-
but without-success.
LONG VIGIL
OBSERVATORY STATEMENT
SIX KNOWN HURT IN COLONY CAUSEWAY BAY MISHAP
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A two-story building at 85 Jardine's Bazaar, Causeway Bay, collapsed shortly after 5 o'clock this morning, causing the death of two men and injuries to six, Including women and children. The building was comparatively old.`
Thu frst floor was used as 'n residence, while the lower part was la storehouse for Brawood, belonging
to the Man Cheong Shop.
The Fire Brigode was on the scene
hustly after the alarm, and feverish digging resulted in the recovery of the two bodies and the injured por- sone, who were subacquently re- Government Civil
moved
Hospital.
the
The names of the two men killed at Jardine's Bazaar ore Leung Sun, 1 aged 56, a coolie; end Ah Chung, A Hakko, ge
and
surname unknown. About an hour before this incident, another two-storey building, at 7 Blacksmith Lane, about 100 yards away, collapsed. The premises were occupied by the Kwang Tai Wo rat- tan shop. Part of the first floor was blown away. The escape of thirty occupants who were
then sleeping on the gipund floor WILS miraculous. No-one was injured.
the
Wanchai Damage Signaboards and glass from broken window panes littered the streets of Hongkong, especially in Watch. to-day.
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VICTIMS OF SPANISH WAR
The spectacle of dead and wounded in the streets of the cities of Spain la commonplace, with fieres fight- ing in a score of sectors between rebels and loyalists. In San Sebastian, as the illustration shows, hospitals are receiving their daily quota of casualties, and women and children stand at the entrance, with doctors and. nurses, hoping to identify victims of the civil strife.
Attempt To LONG WAR IS
Intervene In
Spanish War INEVITABLE
Montevideo, Aug. 16. The boards which surrounded the
The Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rotary playground were flattened, while several stalls in the vicinity has telegraphed all American powers, of the Southern playground were suggesting friendly mediation by considerably damaged.
them with a view to ending the civil
In the typhoon shelter at Causeway Bay there was considerable confusion war in Spain. with the bonts running into une angler, but 10. serious damage has.
Mediatory action might be arrang- been reported. Two small bouts editTM Wushington." He suggests, were said to have been caught last within the framework of the Pun- night just as they were entering the American. Union, or in some other shelter, and what happened to them
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not yet known.
Quite a number of trees in the War Department arca, especially near Scandal Paint, were 'uprooted, while some of those in the Murray Parade Ground, the Officers' mess Int Murray Barracks, and the Naval
Terrace, also fell.
The piece of land opposite the Lee Gardens which is intended to be
used as an amusement park in the near future, was a scene of desala- tion, with old furniture, timber and Brewood tying about.
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Kowloon Wreckage
capitul.-Reuter,
OLYMPIC
GAMES
CONCLUDE
HITLER ATTENDS LAST CEREMONY
WITH CROWD OF 100,000
Kowloon residents awake, to-day to find that overnight the fierce cale had transformed the district into a mass of debris and wreckage. Al- though widespread, however, the damage was confined chiefly to trees and no and temporary structures serious loss was incurred. to puss a life-line to the vessel, cutter's dragged her anchor in the
Granville Read was completely middle of the night and was only
At 9 am. Mr. C. W. Jeffries, blocked by fallen trees and a large
Berlin Aug. 16.. Rescue efforts are continuing. Just prevented from running ashore.
rock, weighing a few tons, dislodged J.C.3.L. liner Tibadak also Director of the Royal Observa- from Flagstaff Hill, hurtled
across Horr Adolf Hitler, German Chan- Later in the morning, it was stated The the the passengers from the Sunning, dragged her anchors, but remained tory, was still on duty, after 30 Chatham Road, Further along a cellor, was among the 100,000 per (Captain Brown) had been safely junder control.
hours of consecutive work, plot-Langfed mass of broken matshed and nons assembled in the floodlit Ofymi- taken ashore at Junk Bay.
The Pak Lok Cinema Company ting the course of the typhoon. bamboo poles allowed only sufficient pic Stadium to see the closing cere. nonies of the Olymple Games to Studios at Mutaukok, where a severe In a statement to the Telegraph, room for a small taxi to poss
Scaffolding erected on the eastern night, Are occurred recently, were com-Mr. Jeffries said:
side of the Peninsula Hotel was torn
As dozens of searchlights built a The China Maritimo Customs pletely destroyed, and a big matshed
down completely and littered Nathan
dome over the stadium, the Dlym- cruiser Hoi Teng was driven ashore at the Shing Mun storehouse at "The typhoon was first located on Rond.
iple flame, which has burned since the -by the typhoon and this morning was Hunghom was blown away,
August 11, whilst its predecessor At 7.30 a.m., the hotel was maroon-game began, was, extinguished and high and dry in Kowloon Bay.
At one stage during the morning was still in the Balingling Channel, ed by flood water which had risen the Olympic flag was slowly hauled the water was two feet over the and the two typhoons, remained in round the fountains, and a watch down. The allent crowd gave Kowloon Police Pier, the whole of existence together until the evening man waded up to his waist in an Olympic salute.
Kowloon of August 14. Last night's visitor endeavour, to clear away, the debris It was on Monday, November 16, the water front between 1920, that the Sunning was the vic Wharves and the Star Ferry being was then situated, about 400 miles which was blocking the channels. tim of one of the most sensational flooded. The scaffolding for the new cast of Manila, moving North-west. PW.D. inspectors arrived later and
on the Revenue Office at Kowloon Wharves piracies ever perpetrated
(Continued on Page 4) China coast, While on her way was blown completely away and the down from Amoy to Hongkong, she roof on the garage at the Water was noized in the customary manner Police Station was lifted off.
Cruiser Ashore
Pirates' Victim
by pirates, disguised as. pússengers,
the ship's offteors being overpowered,:
and full control of the ship gained.
standstill.
Blown Off Feet
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But the pirates had under-rated"). Walking in or about Happy Valley the intelligence and ingenuity of the was practically 'impossible early this ship's officers. They were allowed morning, owing to the strong wind on the bridge and at a given signal, blowing, which seemed to at its full Captain J. Pringle and the secondl force in that region, and evidence officer attacked the two pirates who was given of this fact when were controlling the bridge. There; Chinese male, while wallding near the after the Sunning's officers seized Police Recreation Club, was blown arms and fought the pirates to clean off his feet and thrown against The pirates used every means to the ground, receiving abrasions on regain the ship. Tire Chief Engineer the mouth and knees, Ho was other- was used as a shield when some of wise apparently unhurt, as he the pirates attempted to rush the picked himself up and walked away. bridge, with the result. that he was twice wounded from ahots fired by his colleagues. But in the total darkness which reigned they were completely unaware of his identity until later.
When this ruse had falled, the pl- rates endeavoured to fire the vessel,
Happy Valley
Happy Valley and the entire length of Queen's Road from the Valley to town presented a scene of havoc. Great trees were uprooted (Continued on Page 5.)
(Continued on Pago. 4.)-
the
After a minute's dead silence, the crowd sang the Nazi Horst Wesaci song and quietly dispersed.--Reuter.
TYPHOON SEAS WASH OVER BUND
Seas broke over the Hongkong, waterfront for hours during the typhoon, and the unusually high which accompanied the stoent, tough ed over la foora of all piers, dx cɑn be seen in the illustration."
But Spain's Premier Remains Optimistic
REBELS WILL MAKE NO TRUCE WITH MADRID
Madrid, Aug. 16. "We find ourselves faced with a long and serious war, though that does not mean that optimism is unjustified," declared the Prime Minister, Senor Giral, interviewed by Reiter to-day.
Spain's capital city has a practically normal appearance. There was even a bull fight to-day.
The bank moratorium, however, has been extended another month and a censorship is imposed on all foreign mails.
Mr. Ogilvie Forbes, the British Charge d'Affaires who has just returned from London, called a meeting of the British residents to-day at the British Embassy and emphasised the urgent necessity of their evacuation while the opportunity remained.
He answered the objections of the older membera of the community that departure would mean the loss of their livelihood with the advice to take that risk than to risk their lives.-Reuter.
"We Want Victory". -Seven British mine officials are staying at the Rio Tinto property to care for, the company's interests. Up to the present no damage has been done to the plant-Router.
Burgos, Aug.-10. · "We want nothing but "victory, smashing and finn)," declared Gen- | eral Mola, lender of the northern-in-|
surgent
• army, in the course of a radio broadcast to-day.
There
would be no
truce with Madrid's Government and no plty for the lenders, lie asserted-Reuter."
Britons Freed
Gibraltar, Aug. 16. Four, British officials of the Rio Tinto Mines, near Huelva,, arrived Hero by motor car to-day and are going to England on leave.
Majorca Mined
Gibraltar, Aug.-10.` | It is learned that, the Spanish insurgents at Majorca have laid mines at all the important quays and covoa of the "foland in order to pre-. vent Government expeditionary forces landing from the sea.
Foreign shipping has been warned by the insurgents of the presence of the mines and has been requested not to visit the island-leuter.
Fires on Town
·Gibraltar, Aug. 10. "They said the Communists, who The Spanish Government destroy- have seized the Miue and are pre-t paring to defend it against the rebel through the Straits, Oring about
Bhello twenty
On the insurgent forces advancing along the rallway batteries at Carnero Point.
The insurgents, however, did not tide from the coast, treated them very
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