1924-08-16 — Page 13

BATURDAY AUGUST 16 1924,

HAVE YOUR EYES

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I DONT BELINE. I AM HOLDING MY PAVING ANY | TULHER, FROM ME THAN I ALWAYS HAVE-

IT'S FUNNY - THE TRIET VERMS SOFTER DEURKAO!"

"Tomorrow TEOPLE WON'T LOOK KINDER. DOUBLE--

IT'S JUST BECUSE I HAD

SIRAP ALWAYS AT OTS

DAD NIGHT LACK OF

"ŞAYI TIUS 15 DARKED QUEER – „I DORT BELIEVE

EDISON

15 GIVING AS GOOD UGHT. AS HE USED TO "

KNOW I DONT NEED GLASSES - ALWAYS HAD PERFECT EVESIGHT = I GUESS 211 PRED. TH AND

SEE A IDIOT AWAY -***

YES THE BOTTOM 'LETTERS ARE -A- NOW. WHIT A SECOND-I SEW THEM VERY DISTINCTLY-R-I-C "

"THEY DON'T LOOK GO ROTTEN ON ME-- DO JKY -

LAZARUS

Ophthalmic Optician,

12, Queen's Road Central.

The only European Optician in the Colony.

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ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIG TYPHOON.

TRAGIC EVENTS

RECALLED.

Saturday, August 18, 1923, has gone down in the annals of Hong- kong x the day on which the Colony underwent one of its very wprst ordeals of its history. From 9 a.m. till 11 a.m. the Colony was in the grip of a terrible typhoon which "brought Widespread havoc afloat and ashore.

At

the 10.13 a.m.

Roynt Observatory windcup whistled around ht: 130 miles an hour- probably the highest squall force ever recorded in the world and to an imaginative mind the sound was like the screech of some maniacal storm spirit exultant over its terrible work ef destruc- tion.

A few minutes previously the barometer had dropped to 28.66, the lowest figure ever recorded in Hongkong.

Swept Before the Storm. Foremost in the public mind will be the series of tragic events in our well-sheltered harbour. Early in the storm the old Indo-China steamer "Loangsang" had broken adrift in-Kowloon Bay. Holed in collision with another vessel; she was swept down the harbour to a point within 100 yards "of the Praya between the new Fire Station structure and the 0.S.K, wharf where the elements ad- ministered the coup-de-grace. Her captain and chief engineer had miraculous escapes but five Euro, pean officers together with the wife of the second engineer perish- ed, as did a number of the Chinese Though in danger them- crew. selves, the complements of the "Egremont Castle, "Kalgan" and "Hwah Ping" picked up some survivors.

Two acts of heroism in keeping with the best traditions of the senior service, marked the foun- dering of M. Submarine "L9" between the "Star" Ferry wharf and Statue Pier. Lieut. Dickson. R.N. and Able Seaman Treagus were worthily applauded for their. efforts in a raging sun which resembled a battlefield covered with gusts.of black smoke.

Hurled Ashore.

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About 9.20 the harbour became

a grey mist with din shapes faintly distinguishable. Refore 10.00 it was impossible to stund up in ang exposed spot without being Hüng about by the violent wind squalis. By noon. over 20 ships had been blown ashore in different pris of the harbour. The last "Star" Ferry from Kowloon early in the morning had. by a mira- enlous piece of luck, found refuge in the Naval Camber. Some of the ships which suffered were:-

Ginyo Maru (T.K.K), driven alongside Novál Yard and secured, ship's plates stove in; Seniko Maru, thrown alongside Statue. Pier and escaped serious damage Ships ashore:-Chinese Che- kiang; Chaksang; Haldis; Naval oiler Kharki; Naval rescue-tug: Lake Farrar Lake Onawa: Reims Cerf; Hang Cheong: Sun On; Sai Chiau; Wa Sun; Kwong Sui; Tai Lee; Wing Shing; Wo Fu; and the Repose on the following Tuesday.

Havoc was wrought amongst native craft and deep-sea fishing boats and for days after the typhoon reports of deaths were made. Approximate statistics of small craft involved were:- Yaumati, 8 junks wrecked; Shau- kiwan, 150 boats more or less damaged, 10 ashore, Aberdeen, 50 boats damaged; Cheung Chau, 2 large and 30 small bouts lost.

The Steamboat Co.'s service was Interrupted but only the "Sui An" was damaged, A Shek-ki-Hong- kong ferry launch sank.

Ilavoc Ashore. Indescribable scenes of 'con- fusion were to be seen on land dur. ing the afternoon, these including huge trees uprooted in Hongkong and Kowloon; tram-car damaged: wharves jostled up by wind and water; godowns flooded; masonry, flower-pots, corrugated iron, sign- boards, skylights and scaffolding scattered in the streets; roofs lifted off European residences on the Peak and at Cheung Chau, hardly a house in these two escap- ingi several Chinese houses shattered; the Kowloon-Canton Railway, roads on island and main land blocked by huge landslides; telephone and electric wires blown) down. One harbour telephone cable was damaged.

Udal wave at Shatin claimed several victims. In Hongkong a number of Chinese perished through electrocution by contact! with snapped wires.

Macao appeared to have suffered even worse than Hongkong. It was feared that several hundred lives were lost through junks going down and that 30 houses collapsed killing 5 and injuring 27 persons.

Photo by "Men Foúg.

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Badly battered by the storm, the Kongmoon stedmer To Lee" was driven to Kewloon Dock Point with a pronounced list, her masts broken and holes in her hull. Europeana from the Dock Co heroically, swâm out with a line"and rigged up a cable before the typhops subsidied,

Photo by Mee Fong.

Ab that showed of the "Laungsang" as the Week" iny of the Cenimi nga after the storm. Note the dunger, signal.

Photo by Mee Fong.

Hard afast on the rocks at the eastern end of Stonecutter's was the Hongkong-Canton steamer "Kwongsai" with her name in Chinese barely discernible at the side.

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