AIRPORT:
MILITARY PROPERTY:
NAVAL PROPERTY:
8
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entire length of the narrow inlet, devastated Taipo Old
Market and continued inland for a quarter of a mile. The
average height of the wave was between 5 and 7 feet. The
Manager of the Railway estimates that at one point it rose
to a height of 30 feet. Houses were demolished, stores
of food and clothing were ruined, fields were innundated
and livestock drowned. The wave alone was probably
responsible for some 150 deaths.
30. At Kai Tak Airport a section of the hangar roof
was blown away and windows were smashed. The floodlight
was demolished and all wireless masts were blown down.
The slipway and the Pan-American Airways pontoon and terminal building were wrecked.
31.
at all barracks and in Kowloon al 1 matsheds and the Marine
Camp were swept away. But at Mount Austin barracks
£4,000 worth of damage was done, 6 married soldiers'
quarters and one officer's quarters being rendered
uninhabitable. Six barracks roofs were badly damaged. Command Headquarters estimate their losses at £6,500.
The Military Authorities suffered minor damage
They are
32. H.M.S. Suffolk and one destroyer lost several plates when a drifting steamer swung into them. now in dock with repairs nearing completion.
to the Naval Yard was of a minor nature but extensive.
naval hospital suffered heavily.
The damage
The
33. The speed and efficiency with which normal con-
ditions were resumed after the typhoon was remarkable. Water and gas supplies were not affected. Telephone and electric services were impeded not more than a few hours.
34. The typhoon came at a time when the cholera
epidemic was near its height and when every available hotel