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THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1911.

HONGKONG'S · NAR-

ROW ESCAPE:

The Star Ferry service also resumed ab 3.45 p.m.

About i d'alock last night the typhoon appeared to be situated near ths Prates Stool, a little ca

the wast *TYPHOON JUST MISSED THE and moving to the westward. The:

COLONY,

Goes to Masao.

In spite of the Observatory forecut that the wind would freshen considumbly and the weather become squally last evening, the beautiful starry night gave absolutely no indication to the uninitiated that a typhoon was gathering fare in the in mediata vicinity of the Colony. So much so that every one of the numerous Canton ptamers loft punctually to sedule time, At the western end of the Praga up to Into hour, 11 pm. to be precise-great big junts were lying alongside the wharves discharging their cargo into the gedowns, while smaller craft word also neon dodging Here and there in the harbour with their Biring freight between ship and ship and the shore. Up to midnight everyone ri the ocean-going steamers wind the staller coaster was lying at anchor

their

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"CORONATION.

Interesting Views on the

Position of England.

barometer remained practicily” itsady in Hongkong, and during the night the The Coronation, says the Berlin corre typhoon moved to the west of the Colony, ponduit of The Westminster Gazette, in Ab 7.25 o'clock this morning anders were being made the subject of much comment given for the three bombs to bo flrod, an in the German Press; and it is the cause indication that the dreaded visitor was of many interesting sigwa of the present upon the Colony. Fire minutes inter the position of England and of the Empire. On contro was rapidly approaching the land. the Coronation coromany and faskivities, Right on tat about half past nine the wind themsalves, it must be said that oron the was very high blowing in arab gusts and Best-informed Germans show a curiga lack gradually increasing. However, as the of comprehension. This arises from their morning wore

wind son-nationalistic attitude towards tradition, and considerable decensed and no. 11.30 the from their negative attitude towards their glass was very low indeed, the contra of own history prior to the creation of the the typhoon passing between Hongkong new German Empire. and Gap Rock, moving in a W. S. W. direction. The barometer was 29.28 with the wind cast by south the fores being from nine to ten miles au bour subsequent by increasing very rapidly in the centre to between ia di miles and hour. At ten minites past noon the seargo"struck the cul ny going to the west. This we about the worst period of the day and while the wind cams far the most part in great gast it looked as if we were in for a bad tims.

fail, Mr Figg of the Observatory, said Seen by a representative of the China that the depression was first noted on the alat inst. west of Babington and it actually remained stationary for the next few days. Then it rose a little bigher and met a socond depression to the anat. This lattor

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The German nowspaper correspondents in London concentrate upon the anachron Then again, the English crowd his 'n isms in the ceremony, and its dissociation special attitude on such occasions. It la from the realities of the modern state; and not so obviously in a fostal mood as crand their descriptions are punctuated with ci- of some other nation might be. If one book prosous of surprise at various incongruiway too square feet of the ground in occupi ties, which scena so obvisus to them that od on Thursday, and examined whether prodictions are even heard that faturu the jostling neighbours who had been atrag British Sovereigns will be crowned with up against one another for so many hours

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moorings. But as the night wore on and the glass continued to fall ominously, the vessels at their busye one after another began Ba cast off until the Central Fairway because quite doworted by the hour of dawn. Away out in the western anchorage a fine four master was riding at anchor with none of her masts struck and the huge hull of the mammoth Tungu-Mart showed up against the background formed "by Stonecutters. Bebind the island sover phoon moved backwards and the high are associated with a past which, the them, nor pass up the line; or in another The Garden of Resurrection, by E Temple

Saigon and South traders had taken shelter and Yaunati Bay was studded with smaller Fessels notably the fleet of steel Lighters that are such a conspicnous tentue of Victoria Harbour.

presscro Ares Noved towards Hong- kong. Early yesterday morning it was

noticed that

the inat man,

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because those

the circle of their talk and repartee; 20 The Horseshoe, by Mrs Frod Reynolds. momentary carnival intimacies were formed. Life and Its Puppets, by Otto Rothfald.

Along the Malla clique of young men The White Peacock, by D. H. Lawrence. kept up a run of casual song, but it did not Tillers of the Soll, by J. E. Patterson.

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Englishman respects. He respects this past, because he has escaped from the depression had its bad sides. tendency to como towards Hongkong but peoples still live under the domination of Most other European at 3 p.m. It had moved somewhat to the the past, including the bad sides; and to wost of the Pratas Shoal. All day the th in the feudal pinblems and ceremonies barometer roso regularly but very slowly of Coronations remind them of a living and at 3 p.m. there was a big drop and the discontent from which Englishmal are free. glass continued to fall until 10.30 to-day On the Continent a Coronation is carried when 29.23 was reached about 11.50 which through for a few; the majority-look on it was the lowest point recorded.

with enmity or indifference. In England alone the fact that a King is crowned creates no sense of injury in sry class."

Launches gallantly maintained the service to and from Kowloon as long as possible and it was not until after the firing of the rockets and the hoisting of the black cross over the drun from the yard-arm of H.M.S. Tamar that the

Later it rose quickly and at 3 o'clock it “double-aiders” unde for a place of safety. read 29.51 and continued t rise. The wind They turned for shelter in the direction of veared from north to south to south east Kowloon Bay. The span of water acros

and at Gap Rock it was backing from N. W. the harbour was negotiated with com- indicating that the centre passed between parative esso, but they had to luffle against Hongkong and Gap Rock Mr Fig wind and tide round Blackhead's Point thought that the centre must have passed before they reached the smooth waters of over Macao or very near there. Hongkong the Bay. One of the Indo-China Co.'s has bad a narrow escape and the wird at stammers not having steam up obtained the it bighest over the Colony was between 18 assistance of the Dock Co.'s tug, the and 18 miles an hour.

There is no doubt that Mr Fing would David Gillies, to tow her into Kowloon have hoon justified in having the danger Bay. In the Naval camber at Tsimshatsui signals hoisted some two days ago as the there was a solitary vasol behind the break depression was on be border of the 300 miles limit bat as it was stationary it we water. In the Admiralty Tidal Basin of decided to take the risk and to delsy the the Naval Dockyard most of the vessels of actually warning as long as possible. Sub the Navy had gone for safety. Anlongequent events have proved the decision to

have been a wise one. others was the powerful tug atins be- All the lesser craft had long before taken side which was the old Wivera now out refuge so that the only damage recorded

against the junks and ampass is that of commission. It was a pileous sight to large junk was smashed to pieces at Was see a dismnated sampan in Wanchai Bay chai. It is believed that the crew are safe. Once again, undoubtedly for the last being towed helplessly about on the crest

the matahed at the Star Ferry wharf of the wares. The Ira little boat was has been blown down. It had been in a wholly unmangable and it must be surs mewhat delapidated condition for some mised tint in bar condition on the billowy time aalag to the sew structure halag speculations having watera hur occupants could hardly have erected so that,

hean prevalent in the Colony succeeded in escaping a watery grave. to whether it would stand b

At the time of writing the information obtainable from the Observatory officials was to the effect that the typhoon was B.E. of Hongkong and approaching the neighbourhood of the Colony. A violent gale with equals of typhoon force was to be expected probably from northward and anatward.

..

Hourly barometric readings are obtained from the two principal lighthouse stations. From these as these linca were being written It would appear that Waglan was foeling the affect of the gald much more than the sistar station scuthward. The respective barometer readings are:-

Gap Rock Waglan

39.20 29.11

Be far, thanks to the amplo warning given of the impending storm, no report of Any serious casualty has been received.

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Hyne when they stood up again the easier relation The Muzzled Oz, by Coralie Stanton and

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which is nearly na froe as Ingland, and south corner of Whitehail ands Trafalgar. though they were shown in so national & more devoted to equality, the idea of the square-it came into collision with them ment and exuberance. From a spectacular fashion without a perpetual run of excite Mr E. A. M. Williams joined the Corpe State is regarded with enmity by large against its intention. It had everywhere point of view it was the into t on the 28th June, and was posted to the masses. In England alone extreme de- Infantry Company..

.. of mocratic and even Socialist ideas are all the will to abide by the orders of its officials, Abyssinians that caught the poople's im- mediato favour and admiration. But from M. W R. Farmer joined the Corps on enlisted in the national cause; a fact, which | and bantered rather than stormed at them, a

political point of view, in the first pro the 12th July, and was posted to No. 1. explains the strange phenomenon, unknown as a French crowd might have done, tocassion, voluntary and vary amiabla minta- Artillery Company.

elsewhere, of

of British Socialiste der sked to express its discomfort. Again, it was tious were given, not onl to the Japanoso Chauvinist and militarism. Ridiculou M. D. Campbell joined the Corps on and inconsistent as is this last spectacle, it extraordinarily Paglish: in its admimtion represstativo, but by the German Orown

Prince. the 24th July, and was posted to the Scouts is a symptom of British national unity of the troops. A French crowd would spite of all panics, preserves hopefully In It was obvious that the crowd, in Company.

which it would be in vain to sock for in have put into its admiration the thought the mind the knowledge of German good- Germany, where Socialists; Radicals, and of the Army, its own honour and will, and the idea of a German ente-te ovun the Clerical Centre have been

its own experiancés îà military reconstructive of the international nations iden." Ginger A. A. de Carvalho of No. denounced as enemies of the Garservice.It. wouk have felt the military endship as the French enteate kas boer. And the English attitude to their Majesties The to egrams describing the scenes in tradition in which it had bean educated was probably distinct from what would be the London streets omphasise the voluntary orderliness of the crowds and the good itself, and it would have seen the trope as the attitude of any other untion to their

generally shown.

continuous examples and upholders of that royalty at the prevent time, It had s tomper gen

peculiar character, which has only attached Hurr Blub, in a trochun, dovutos tradition. But the English crowd'admired to it at the last two Coronations within re- several pages to this aspect of British the troops, almost as a sapamte and per cant centuries, and on which crews was civilisation, and says, among other flatter-

laid on Thursday. The crowd regarded ing things, that!

England is the only haps privileged clan is odometer their Majesties as altogether in a persona European country where the police are could see that, there was no conscript serrulation with themselves, and not at all in regarded with respect, and are even vizu in England, and that it was rare for an official relation.The secrob of your

for popular horses. In Germany a tenth

your King stida of the population leads the police for at of those present to come into contact liking

keeping order among the other nine avon with the gala aspect of military life, foreigner, that be does not tax you; therature, he cannot offend you; be A man and women were charged at the touths but the nine-tenths regard them Another eridones of this feeling was shown is apart from the sources of the national

instrument of oppresswa The A violent gusts tore down the hill Magistracy this morning with kidnapping English are on the aid of order, and, again by the medals which appeared on the civil discontent and you are always, sure that *** One maks.” said aides and struck wint appeared to be and the case was remanded.

alme la Europe, they have no pro-police or drew of many peoplain the crowd, testifying he is upon your side. comparatively smooth surface of water,

anti-political partion.rested to the sense that there wasome aspartion another, if you really ike your King

Look at your crowd, le in silent-till ha betwson. an English civilian and an Eng- comes. In Paris, when a foreign potestate makes a procession, we stand in the streets, cording to Bouter telegram the fish soldier. somi-oficial-North German Gazettə says: Comment was the thing which struck King Edward, used to incogalke we rattles. When shouting, ringing, ... using have passed in briliant and harmonious foreigners as missing in Thursday's crowd did not nontain ourselves. Yet, you pour SOLE AGENTS: fashion. At every opportunity the respect procession passed there wass moment's paste when your King octaully passen in which the King and Queen are held by contentration of cheering; and people You are nation with sentration, and the people wa B

wa given enthusiatic exraturned to their papers or their ordinary you are a nation with out party or division. [presion:""

talk without discussing the thing or break where your royalty in concorsed 1 Wo GarmanA

mans noticed with thankful interent with hearty exception was according intoany volubility. This English babit ed to nur Crown Prince and Princess and of reticence was peculiarly obvious after the to Prince Honry by the Enyal Family, y minta banden, with the y ang princes, the

Towards nion, the wind, which by this time had moderátod, veered round to the south and commenced making a mest picturesque display on the harbour.

IN THE COURTS.

sach stingy bile of wind seemed to A man was sentenced to thras: montlus lift the water into spray to a height of 40. imprisonment and four hours stocke fur or5 feat and to hurlitlong with tealing some clothing from the ma. Fat- velocity. The appearance was cactly like sh. He brought a friend to testify so to drifting in a snow storm. On the his character Ent the police were able to lower led the high was washed over prove that he had been banished both from the Frayn. The cars, stopped running Hongkong and Singapore, early. The inos in places were blooked with mud and metal and requirod

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