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MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1927.

THE TYPHOON

Full Force Very Near Hong Kong.

115 MILES HOUR,

All Local Services Held Up

Saturday.

THE CHINA MAIL.

During the afternoon a house in similar difficulty in taking and Saturday morning when the vicinity of Red Hill, Planta- landing her passengers. A num- pronounced ahiyer ran through Rock. The wind at Gap Reck, a few miles to the south of Gap tion Road, lost part of the roof, ber of ladies who found. It Impos-the vessel

which was carried away by the eible to negotiate their way discovered that she was

and it was however, remained steady

ground-floor

at

noon, which might mean that the E.N.E. until; three in the after-

speed of the typhoon had de- creased.

wind. Another house in the aboard were necessarily left being at a fast rate towards the mov (neighbourhood wns flooded hind.

throughout the

Hong Kong shore. It appears that the one anchor which was госта.

The Peak tram was in good de Damage, to shipping was not down slipped and the sudden By four o'clock the wind had mand when running was resumed, considerable. The China Naviga-strain loosed the buoy hawser at

yard.

In the Harbour,

พ.

The s.s. "Rawalpindi," which dragged her buoy, reported on Sunday morning that her anchor had fouled the "Kau Sing" moor- ing. The tug "Henry Keswick" was sent to her assistance and the ship was re-berthed at her buoy later in the morning.

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tion Company's 8.8. "Taikoo Wan- It required four coolles to manage yi" went ashore off the Kwong each chair on the higher levels. Tak Cheong Shipyard to the After making Hong Kong and Curiously enough there was not Kowloon uncomfortable all day so much small wreckage in the North of Messrs. Bailey's-ship on Saturday, the typhoon hit the way of boughs, etc., visible on the coast just south of Macao that upper levels as was to be seen in

town. afternoon. The gale at one The Peak trams resumed run- period equalled 115 miles an hour, and there was 4.86 Inches of rainning as per schedule at 6.50 p.m. in twelve hours.

Service of the lower level trams Hong Kong hud full warning of was suspended throughout the

night. the typhoon's approach and was

The Peak Hospital. prepared for a blow of some sort

There. was considerable alarm lain more or less derelict in the The Chinese gunboat which has as early as Friday afternoon. In the early hours of Saturday at the Peak Hospital when during Yaureati shelter for some morning the first heavy winds the height of the blow plaster siderable time, dragged its anchor and by 10 am. from some of the walls began to and after being washed against sprang up the gale had increased

to fall and it was noticed that the the breakwater, capsized and typhoon force, and upper and walls were bulging.

As there was a possibility that being rescued by a

sank, the two watchmen on board lower trams, as well as the ferries, were on the point of the foundations of the Hospital taunch, the occupants of which censing. operátion. Throughout were in danger, a message was observed their plight in time. the day there were intermittent sent to the Fire Brigade and a blows and rainstorms, with trans-motor ambulance was despatched River Boats Damaged. port services at a complete stand-ready to facilitate the removal of

River boats, many of which still until around seven in the the patients if it should be found sought refuge in shelters during evening, when the Peak tram necessary, also a fire appliance the worst of the gate, suffered restarted running.. The ferries with full complement in the event minor damage, the mast of the put out at 10.30 p.m., passengers

of a collapse.

"Yuet On," "together with boat having difficulty in boarding and An argent message was also covers and all loose deck fittings landing as it was impossible to sent for the attendance of an being blown overboard. lower the gang planks. There architect to make a report on the The 8.8. "Wing On". had her were fitful but hefty blows in building's stability. It was for wooden awning battens torn off evidence at this hour.

tunately found that there was no and her mast wrenched out, while cause for alarm, the foundations the "Tai Lce," "Anjou" and being pronounced perfectly safe. "Kwong Ying" also suffered some

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In Kowloon there was a house collapse in which two Chinese The services of the Brigade op- what similar damage. were killed and six still missing.

The P. and O. "Rawalpindi," pliances were not required.

In Kowloon.

Bank line

the ship-end. Luckily the ship's engines were got into action and the strain taken from the hawser before the vessel hit the wharf. She had then got abreast of Jubilee Street. Later in the afternoon the "Rawalpindi" was able to steam slowly to her origin- al mooring.

At 3 p.m. the glass stood at 28 and was still dropping.

Quarry Bay Bathing Sheds. The bathing sheds which Quarry Bay on

recently erected at an elaborate scale by the Chinese Athletic

were

Club and the Chinese Bathing Club were very badly damaged in the typhoon of which they appear to have caught the full force,

Three men were rescued from a capsized junk by a Police launch near Green Island yesterday.

As has grown to be almost an accepted thing during a typhoon or heavy rainstorm, Happy Valley golf course was completely flooded. At.Sookumpoo, football stands were demolished, also the military football stand at Murray Parade ground.

Misses Hong Kong. At 5.30 on Saturday afternoon the Observatory reported that the typhoon was a few miles south south-west of Gap Rock, moving west north-west. This would indicate that it struck the coast south of Macag.

The same report stated that a feeble anticyclone was over the Sea of Japan.

central

The local forecast at 5.80 p.m. on Saturday was "cyclonic gales, moderating, overcast, rain.”

reached E. force 10 and the barometer had fallen to 28.62. The typhoon was then a few miles to the south south-west of Gap Rock, moving W.N.W.

At the Observatory the wind veered from N. force 7 at eight o'clock in the morning to N.E., force 8 at 10 o'clock in the morn ing, to E.N.E., force 10, at noon, and E., force 11 at five o'clock in the afternoon.

...

The lowest reading of the barometer was 29.01 at two o'clock in the afternoon. At 6.30 p.m. it was rising but oscillating considerably.

115 miles an hour.

The greatest squall velocity was

p.m. on Saturday totalled 4.86 Rainfall from 4 a.m. to 4.90

inches.

POSTE RESTANTE.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS AND PARCELS.

Mail for the following is lying at the General Post Office:-Messrs. R. T. Boffa, Raul Bigazzi, E. Holton, J. J. Booth, E. K. G. Briant, M. L. Brodie, Mrs. R. Brodsky, Messrs. Alex. Black. Messrs. S. L. Bardett, G. Bonavita, Henry Carter, A. W. Dewatee, H. A. Epston, C. G. Coverdale, D. Y, Costan, E..

Finnie, Fuson, Fong Sau-ling, H. A.

Misa M. Girdlestone, Messrs. Go, ho, & Co., Hailey & Co., W. M. Hewlett, O. 1. Hollen- weger, Mrs. R. M. Hutchens, Mesars. Hong Kong Corp. (Tele- gram), M. Ide, A. R. Jones, Mrs. M. R. Jones, Mesars. S. Jones, R. M. Johnson, Thea. Lowther, L. Y. Lloyd, I W. Malby, Mrs. A. More, round about 8 p.m., at which time. Mauncio, Lee Nagel, Glvanni The force of the wind abated M. M. Morgan, Rev. J. C. Morisan, typhoon signal No. 4-gale ex- Piaget, Messrs. Michel Prankoff, Nicolis, Mme. Poneau, Miss Rose pected from the East (N.E. to Alex. Ramsay, C. E. Richardson, S.E.)—was hoisted.

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Wind Abates.

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Official Report. The following statement was furnished by the Director of the Hong Kong Observatory on Saturday night.

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Ferry Boat Damaged. which was to have left with the

-One of the "Star" ferry boats Home mall at noon on Saturday, Next to the Peak, Kowloon ap-which was lying at anchor off as well as a B, and S. coastal pears to have suffered most. The Stonecutters was dragged by the boat, had difficulties in the Hong Kong and Kowloon Taxicab force of the storm on to the rocks Harbour, A ferry boat ran Company garage collapse is more at Stonecutters. Although it was ashore at Stonecutters Island.

serious than was at first reported, reported to be badly damaged, Hardly a vestige of the building there appears to have been little An official report on the typhoon was issued by Mr. T. Fwere observed at daylight on tion of the Chinese crew on board

remains and beams and bricks or danger of it sinking: The posi Claxton, F.R.A.S., Director of the Sunday to be piled around cars was, however, a precarious one Royal Observatory, Hong Kong. and motor bicycles many of which and on the vessel's plight being Throughout Saturday afternoon were badly damaged, some beyond observed, a message was des- crowds of nightacers thronged the repair. A Chinese driver who en-patched to the Government rescue doorways of business houses on deavoured to extricate a car while tug, the "Kau Sing," to render

W. F. Sidebotham, Mrs. Claude Connaught Road in the vicinity of the blow was on had a narrow assistance in standing by and tak

Thurston, W. Tesch, Talt & Co.. the Star Ferry pier and Blake escape from death when the wall ing off the crew Pier, watching the choppy and collapsed.

if necessary.

H. Ward, and Lomblot Yeay.

gale-driven

Unpaid Correspondence:-Messrs. The necessity for this, however, sea wash over the Havoc was played with the Kai did not arise.

Singh, and M. E. Long. A. Gabarelis, D. Garcia, Khajan praya wall on to and across the Tack Aerodrome where eighteen roadway. A lot of amall wreck-aeroplanes were damaged.

Registered Covers:Mr. M. L. age, box wood and planks from theon Saturday evening the hangars, Late

Brodie, Mrs. R. Brodsky, Miss Chen sea was swept across the street in consisting of strongly constructed serious mishap befell the China 15th to the south of Guam and Luan-ton, (e/o Lim Tiaun-ging the course of the sudden gusts of matsheds, were stripped by the which, with others, was in Kow- since when there has been no Anton

Navigation steamer "Ichang"

passed near Aparri on the 19th, St. Stephen's College), Messrs.

Cadiz, wind. It was impossible to walk wind and in spite of the efforts of which, witte, ums of the observations from either. Basco (Hong Kong University), H. HISTORY OF OPTICS. N. Y. MAYOR'S TOUR.

Chan Wai-ylu along Connaught Road without the men on the spot who stood by holding on to the side of the build- and held on to the machines, con- typhoon. The strain on the cable dicate that these stations have Litvikoff, Mr. A. B. Mehta, and or Aparri, which seeins to in- Huang, A. R. Jones, Mrs. E. N. ings.

siderable damage was done. The caused it to break and the ship

Mas H. Wilson, The hotels and restaurants dur-living quarters of the officers and was in danger of being carried ing the afternoon and evening men were damaged and flooded ashore. Due to the prompt action were well filled with Kowloon and out and the aerodrome had to be of the naval officers and ratings Peak residents unable to get to evacuated, the officers and men averted by careful handling and and others aboard the danger was their homes. Passage to the Peak being accommodated for the night the putting overboard of two fur- was possible by means of motor at the Kowloon City Police station, ther cables. car, but few attempted the jour-and later removed to the Penin ney on account of the "top" winds sula Hotel.

on the upper levels which made The roof of the Kowloon walking extremely dangerous. Cricket Club extension in front of There was a wash-out off Lower the main building was completely Road at the bottom of Zetland blown off and the roof of the main Street, where a large quantity of building, was also badly damaged. Band settled.

It has been decided to repair the From the bottom of Ice House main roof and, with regard to the Street and along Battery Path to extension, to await the Govern- the Penk tram station were ment's reply as to the attitude to atrewn a large number of small be adopted to the request for boughs,

security of tenure.

The Upper Levels.

A fatality is reported from Kowloon where a Chinese was! The bottom of the upper sec-killed as a result of stepping on! tion of Glenealy, joining Caine a "live" wire which had been! Road, was over a foot under blown down at the junction of water owing to stones and small; Public Square Street and Nathan branches of trees chocking the Road.

drains. The water spread over Another accident is reported the whole width of Caine Road, from the Yaumati district where and ran like a miniature water- a Chinese lost his life under simi- fall down the steps at the top of lar circumstance, whilst walking the lower section of Glenealy. in Shanghai Street.

The compound of the Roman Two Chinese women were kill- Catholic Cathedral was under at ed at Kowloon Tong when a least two feet of water which boulder weighing about six tons emptied from the shallow drains crashed into the matshed where running down from the blocks of they were taking shelter. buildings on the slope of the hill overlooking the Cathedral, ・・・

Collapse at Kowloon,

Small branches of trees werd No. 199, Man Cheong Street, 1 strewn along Caine: Road, Samahuipo, collapsed at 4.45 p.m.; Glenealy, and Robinson Road. on Saturday, The firemen were on The least affected thoroughfares the scene within a few minutes in the central upper levels were and the task of removing the Arbuthnot Road and the upper debris was immediately under- section of Wyndham Street which taken when it was reported that adjoins Hollywood Road......

the inmates of all three floors were buried underneath. My

After several hours hard work. The full fury of the storm was twelve injured people were dug experienced on the Peak and up and removed to the Kwong alarming experiences befell some Wah Hospital...

Points From, the Peak,

"Ichang" in Difficulties. What might have been a more

"Rawalpindi" Mishap. Passengers aboard the P. and O. .8. "Rawalpindi," which should have left from mid-stream around noon with the Home mail, had a rare fright at about 11.45 on

The typhoon started on the

broken down.

This (Saturday) morning at three o'clock the typhoon passed Pratas. Barometer reading was then 28.56, with the wind E.N.E.,

within ten miles of the South.

force 10.

At Gap Rock it veered to N.N.E., force 9 at ten o'clock, and E.N.E., force 10 at eleven o'clock, the barometer having fallen to 28.93.

From this it would appear that the typhoon was then passing a

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TRIBUTE TO FRESNEL'S WORK.

MR. WALKER'S WELCOME IN IRELAND,

It has been said that the history

London, Saturday.' of optica during the eighteenth cen.

Mayor Walker, who is spending tury is one of the blankest pages of the week-end in Ireland, was

The teaching of the care of the scientific story, In the previous body is more important to the in-century Snell, Grimaldi, Bartho-vated by thousands at Kings- dividual than any of "the three linus, Roemer, Huygens and Newton town harbour and given a civic R'B."-Sir John Robertson. had laid the foundations of optical reception in Dublin which the science, but nearly a hundred years members of the Cabinet attended. The Cinematograph Films Bill is separated Newton's work on optics As the boat hove in sight a inspired by vulgar Balham and the epoch making contribu- band on the pier played "Come Tootingish hatred of Americations of Thomas Young.. The eigh. Back to Erin and the American Col. Wedgwood, M.P.

teenth century it is true saw

the and discovery of the aberration of light Anthems.

Free State National Mr. Walker carried small Stars.

of the residents. The wall of the Two Killed, Six Missing. house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Two dead bodies, were later re M. G. Noll and their two children moved from under the fallen and Mr. and Mrs. W. Douglas masonry and taken to the Kow- (No. 165, Des Voeux-Villas) col-loon mortuary. lapsed the whole width of the

might six peo verandah, bricks, verandah Up to 10.30 last night six people frames and windows being piled

were still reported missing. up on the furniture, water and Com

Garage Collapses. mud entering everywhere and the The garage opposite the place being uninhabitable. Kowloon Fire Station, formerly Fortunately, the occupants had occupied by the Taxicab Company retired to the basement before the also collapsed. No one was in- collapse and remained there until jured, ye ha the worst was over. No one was

was over.

Ferry Servise Resumed.N injured, prekes The first ferry from Hong Kong

The adjoining house, No. 164, left the pier at 10.30m with at The St. Joka's River, one of the best choices when and the pater pools in the ricinity and reached his

also suffered considerable damage fairy full complement of passen to the roof and walls. This is oc gera. A shoppy crossing was ex- cupied by Mr and Mrs BH C. perienced and those aboard were Hallowes put ashore alongside one of the Some of the residences on the Godown Company' wharves as

levels were without electric the ferry.could not lower her

ghout- Saturday,even-planky – The first

Kön: arrived" üt

While it is twenty-three are also it was found gown and during one season alone in 1928. no less that Atlantie salmon would ring to a Ly, it is than four hundred salmon were taken by fly from considerable aborter since the discovery was made by Raymond Currie of Fredericton

these waters, the largest being a twenty-eight pounder, that these hugs fighting fish were to be caught manych Cain River another of New Brunswick's miles Inland in the rivers of New Brunswick," "Yat larger) vies with the St. John's, when it comes: to Beach in the fact that only adds to the world-wide record : Atlantic salmon, : This stream la'under lea90 eaputation" of the Provines of New Brunswick as a to. Earı), Allan, well-know-galde, whose outfits" ar dr big game hunting and fishing paradiis, (jungnahmin at the dansen) of, sportensen. The rock at Hartland,

salmon fishing in being considered, flows through the the Canadian Pacific Railwaya: The former one har (centre of the Provinca draining an unternive territory been pronon oed se one of the finest is the Provinos. and emptying into the Bay of Fundy. (The large fish (43. Ais interering polat la comiéction with the growths enter the river at ita noudly at the diy of Saint John of this sport, li^tal popularity with: American spor Ɛand pass up on their way to the spawning grounds of man, who are coping to New Brunswicke In'increas«,

seven that of Fredericton, was the first to describe the most suciting form of angling the Tobique, lying over 150 miles from the sanci James |ing numbers each person to take part in what they

usake the discovery. Ik was in 1908 that the first:tely found)

to the Miramichi was made; Nalli and Joseph Walker, even

booked and gaffed "their"/first-halmon

by Bradley and the Improvement and development of both reflecting! and refracting telescopes by Dol- and Stripes and the Irish lond, Short, Herschel and others, tricolour. but the theory of light remained Asked what he thought of the almost untouched. This relative reception Mr. Walker replied: stagnation, however, was followed Fine; I am thrilled by it. Gee, by a period of brilliant achievement. when I walked off the gang plank At the hands of Young, Malus, I got such a mighty welcome that.

Arago, Brewster Biot and Fresnel;

the science of optics received many tears came to my eyes. I could notable additions, while through not speak. I am not ashamed of the labours of Young in England it.” and Fresnel on France the undula- "When he reached the hotel tory theory enunciated by Huygens the band struck up. "The Star formed the basis of both expert Spangled Banner." mental and mathematical investi- Mr. Walker, in acknowledging gations of great importance.

this compliment, said: "Unaccus- Augustin Jean Fresnel was born tomed as I am to public drinking at Broglie, in the department of

Eure, May 10, 1798, and died at let me drink to Ireland on this Ville d'Avray near Paris, July 14, happy and lovable occasion," and 1827, just a hundred years ago. he drained his

The son of an architect, as a boy Reuter,

he displayed considerable ingenuity with his fingers but little aptitude) as a student.

Fresnel from about 1815 was sta- tioned in Paris. After the fall of Napoleon he had espoused the cause of the Bourbons, and for a time dux

wineglass.

fertile cause of industrial sickness Chronic rheumatism-that, most is a disease which is to a great extent preventable and curable ing the Hundred Days was regarded Sir William Willcox, M.D.

with suspicion. With the Restora-

tion, he was given a minor position

three

in Paris, and there he passed the The Government have rest of his days. Besides his theo years of stewardship to answer for, retical work, Fresnel fa alo remem- and, although it has been a period retical work, Fresnel is also remem of crisis upon crisis, we have not bered for his practical improvement yet capitulated Lord. Birkenhead. In lighting apparatus for light- houses. As early as 1819 it occur- red to him that lenses might be sub- stituted for morrors for the pur

pose of directing parallel rays of of the Academy of Sciences, and in light. It further occurred to him 1825 he became a foreign, metaber that lenses of large size and of of the Royal Society, whiel two moderate thickness might be built years later awarded him the Rum-s up into a system. Somewhat simi- ford medal for his development of Jar apparatus had been described the undulatory, theory as applied to by Buffon, Condorcet and Brewster the phenomena.of pokerised light: but their lences, were intended for and for his various Important dis sun's rays Fresnel was the first to coverlas in physical optics." Hia Instruments for concentrating the life was then, fast drawing to a suggest such lenses for lighthoues close. Never very strong, he was and polyzonal lenses designed by attacked by consumption, and t him were first made by the Paris was when he was on, his death bed optician, Solell, and in 1828 afted in Araro placed the Rumford medal, the light house of Corduan at in his hands, DYRE CET the month of the Garonne. Spon: Some of Fresnel's original papers after this they were adopted not remained for many years unpublish- only in France, but in Holland and ed and evan Arago's cloge, for in Scotland, an din 1886

ed political reasons, did not appear fon till 1838. His great lenses are pre

served In Paris Observat 1884 hemorial to himin

by the Trinity Fresnal for some year position of

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