1929-08-23 — Page 8

The Landsman's

Handy

TYPHOON MAP

OF THE

CHINA SEA

Guide

THE CHINA MAIL,

IN THE WAKE OF THE TYPHOON

(Continued from Page 7)

:

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Some windows were broken at the Water Police Station. A part of the chimney broke, and tiles Trees and fell from the roof.

werd the compound Failings in blown down.

Yaumati

No damage was done to the Police Station, except some broker panes of glass.

The richa shelter outside the Yaumati ferry wharf collapsed. No one was injured.

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Kowloon City Panes of glass were broken at the Police Station.

Six matsheds belonging to the Sang Lee firm of contractors were blown down at Ngau-shi-wan. No one was injured.

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Three teasheds on the Saikung- road collapsed. No casualty.

Two matsheds owned by the Foo Copper Cents Loong firm of contractors, at Ma-Rate of Native In- Laukok were blown down. No one

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Lands, Hotels & Buildings broke, mostly in Wang-street and

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The garden walls of houses Nos. R6, 103, 200, 232, 260, 289 and 306 Kowloon Tong collapsed, but the damage was not great, and there were no casualties.

A wall of the Mee Wah Knitting Factory on Kamtung-road col- lapsed. The roof of the Tong On Teashed on Prince Edward-road, was blown away.

The wall

of the yard of the Sung Wong Toi restaurant fel into the kitchen, making a hold in the wall. No one was injured.

Three matsheds collapsed in Kowloon Tong. No casualties.

SIGNAL HILL

Extensive Damage Done to the Mast

feathers and scattered in all direc-

tiona.

Shamshuipo was in darkness ali night, owing to the breakdown of the electric light, in spite of the fact that the China Light and Power Co. have a depot in Laichikok-road.

A large number of huts near the ginger factory in Shamshuipo, on the Taipo-road, were levelled to the ground, but fortunately no casual tiies were reported amongst the in-

mates.

At a new house in Sassoon-road a matshed was carried away.

A number of matsheds at Stanley beach were likewise blown down.

In Macdonnell-road a boulder is reported to have crashed through the kitchen of a house.

At the corner of Tytam reservoir

A China Mail" reporter this a number of matsheds have been morning went to the Signal Hill, razed.

A part of the roof of the Hong Kowloon, to see the damage done by the snapping of the typhoon and de- Kong Electric Co. house on the pression mast, which occurred yes-Peak was lifted off, and the windows terday afternoon at about two of the Government, pavilion blown

out. 1 o'clock.

The front row of matsheds at Approaching an assistant of the Station, who has been for 32 years Repulse Bay suffered badly, coming there, the "Mail" man was told that down like a pack of cards.

The Kwong Wah Hospital garden this was the second time that the mast had broken since the severe in Waterloo Road was seriously typhoon of 1906, which he recalled, damaged, the trees and plants suf

Asked by the reporter how the fering tremendously,

The steps at the entrance of the mast snapped he said that it was

were Waterloo Road caused by the wind blowing from the garden to

while another en- South-East, which was the strongest, washed away, and of typhoon force, that did it. trance facing the hospital, was im- Had it been from the North-West, passable, owing to debris.

One side of the galvanised iron the damage would have been serious;

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The Was blown down. Ing the lighthouse, which also would Road,

matshed was demolished. have been smashed.

The stand creeted in the premises- The mast, made of mild steel, and weighing 7,000 lbs., bent over of the Victoria Recreation Club for with a crack at 2.15 pm, taking the right fete, were blown into the with It the symbols that were dis-bath. played on the yard arms to their end, smashing several others that were on the mast's base. The yard arms were broken in four parts.

Our informant went on to say that

a new mast will be required, and that

AT CHEUNG CHAU

Roofs of Verandahs Blown Away

it would east something in the re- At Cheung Chau yesterday there gion of $3,000 and $5,000.

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by the wind, forming a green carpet.

In 1923 & 1906-

On August 18, 1923, Mr. T. F. Claxton (Director of the Royal Observatory, now on Home leave) said that the squall force of the wind then was probably the high- est ever recorded in the world. At

The smaller mast, which files the could be expected with No. 1 signal9.40 am. the force was 123 miles

ships flags as they enter the harp. bour, was not damaged, as the yard-

All the usual passengers went to

arm was lowered, and this made it the ferry for Hong Kong, but a wave easier for the pole to stand erect.

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM

of the hand from the coxswain in dicated that the ferry would not run that dayA

It was fairly calm up to about 11 It increased from the NW. The clock-tower at the Kowloon a.m. Railway Station up to the present is up to 1.30 and from then to 2.10

During that not functioning, the four faces still was absolutely calm. reading 8.15 p.m. The tower was in time the rain came down in "sheets." darkness last night, while repairs From 210 the wind blew with in- tense force from the S.W. until were being carried out.

The P.W.D. drain pipe storage in about 3.30, when it eased off, and at Middle-road, Kowloon, had one side 4 there was no wind to speak of, and the residenta were out inspecting the damage

of its wooden fencing blown in

The scaffolding at the new build ings being erected next to Wing Lok Budlog, on the old site of Victoria Gardens, guffered a little.

an hour and at 10.13 a.m. the velocity had increased to 130 miles per hour. The mean velocity was 80 miles an hour.

The barometer on that memor- able occasion fell very rapidly and, at 10 a.m., stood at 28.66 inches--- the lowest ever registered in Hong Kong.

In 1906 a terrible typhoon struck the Colony without warning and, in less than two hours, 10,000 Chi- nese bad been drowned and 15 Europeans, including the Anglican Bishop (the Rt. Rev Hoare). Over 2,400 rative craft were reported lost and 141 European vessels and laurches foundered or were badly damaged.

A Chinese was sentenced to one months hard labour at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning by Mr. T. 8. Whyte Smith for the theft of

Extent of the Damage Thore was damage done to Nos. 1 and 3. The roofs of the verandahs Calling in at the office of the Kow were blow away, as well as the Icon Moter Bus Co, Ltd., a "Mall chimneys. The other houses only reporter was Informed that no suffered minor damage. Trees mishap had happened to any of the were blown down all over the Island. Company's buses during the storm The Cheung Chau ferries did not a quantity of preserved fruit from yesterday.

run yesterday, but resumed the a villager at Pau Ka Pang, Sham It was strange to observe that the service at 7.40 this morning, when Shui Po. Yaumati Ferries resumed running the sea was like a mirror. before the Star Ferries after the lowest harometer reading was 28.65The wedding of Mr. Alexander

corrected.

Faulds Hunter, of Alya, Scotland, storm had abated.

The

A large number of cardboard boxes The whole of Cheung Chau guf- and Miss Grace Margaret John, of in a kniting factory in Nathan-road fered from a fall of pine needles Singapore, took place in St. were shot out of the windows like (whiskers of the pine trees) caused, Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore.

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