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the preliminary warnings were ignored.
20.
One, Leung Kwai Yau, the representative of
the Salt Fish Dealers in Shaukiwan, reported that a few
days before the typhoon 52 fishing junks left Shaukiwan
and proceeded to the fishing grounds. A few members of the crews of some ten of these junks were saved, and reported the loss of their fleet at the Water Police
Station. It can only be assumed that over 1,000 lives
were lost.
21.
At Aberdeen several junks, with the veering of
the wind from N.E. by E. to S.E. by E. at 4 a.m., broke
from their moorings and were driven out to sea. Sampens
were washed ashore onto Island Road. At Bay View
between 200 and 300 sampans and junks sank or drifted
away. At Shau kiwan many sampans were battered to
pieces against the sea-wall.
22. On the sea front around Kowloon 693 junks and sampans were wrecked or flung ashore - a presumed damage
of $96,245 - and it is certain that there were numerous
unreported casualties.
23.
In the island of Cheung Chau it is estimated
that between 250 and 300 people lost their lives. 25
bodies have been picked up in the harbour and in various
bays around the island. At Tai 0 $3,000 worth of
damage was done to junks and boats. 100 native craft
were destroyed at Sha Tau Kok, and reports of varying
losses in a lesser degree were received from Sha Tin,
Sai Kung and Ping Shan.
24.
The Harbour Office has information of a total
of 1,361 native boats being sunk, of which many were
junks with from five to twenty persons on board, and of
lesser damage being done to a further 600 boats.
25.
When it is considered that the wrecking of a