275 escaped. Of the four Police Pinnaces one sank at her moorings with a River Steamer on the top of her, another sank to the East of the Kowloon Peninsula, a third was on the slip where she remains imprisoned by a launch sunk in front of her and the fourth escaped. The sunken launch has been raised and is repairable and the one that ran on shore can be got off. One of the pinnaces has been raised but it is doubtful whether she can be made good and divers have hitherto failed to locate the other. I have authorised payments amounting to $3,676 for raising one launch and one pinnace, for floating the other launch and for the hire of launches for Police purposes during the days immediately following the catastrophe.
11. The Floating Fire Engine sunk in the harbour near Causeway Bay while endeavouring to reach the typhoon shelter there. Two attempts to raise her have had to be abandoned on account of fresh typhoons; a third, which it is hoped will be successful, is to be made at once.
12. The Public Works Department's Dredger is safe but a 10 ton pontoon crane employed on pier-work, went down at Kennedy Town. The crane will be recovered and the raising of the iron pontoon on which it