1931-08-03 — Page 7

MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1931.

MORE ABOUT THE TYPHOON

concerned in a piracy sá a jurik in Chinese waters off Tai-ft on Janu-

ary 29, 1927,

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(Continued from 'Page 1).

Severe damage was caused to the bathing pavillons at North Point, the plers were entirely washed away.

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force expected (any direction)" hoisted in its place thus giving THE ROMAN GALLEYS® was hoisted, and just before rise to the possibility of the 11.20 the three bombs announc-typhoon's return. ing that the typhoon was here were fired.

OF ALDERSHOTE

Secrets of the First Tattoo Rehearsal.

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A CITY ON HINGES.

Ferries Resume. Ferries started running at Most of the Chinese-shops 3.20 o'clock, and later as the har- had up to this time remained bour became calmer, smaller craft open for business, not expecting ventured out of their anchorages. the blow to

cume 80 Boon. Government House Flag Pole. When the case was bulled before

As soon as the bombs were The flag pole at Government Mr. W. Schofield, Mr. T. Murphy.

A small private matshed pavilion ired the shop fokis were galvan-House was broken by the gale. A.S.P., asked for a further ad- opposite the Hong Kong Electric sed into activity either. Becur Train Services Suspended. journment, stating that hls wit- Company's quartens was wholly deng or bringing down their sign- The Kowloon-Canton Railway. The first rehearsal of the com- nesses, who lived on Cheung Chamolished. The Chinese Athletic boards,

There was sont more suspended their train services at plete programme of the Aldershot) Island, were unable to come in shed was damaged while the pler fun in this activity with men 11.80 a.m., resuming at 5.35 p.in., Tattoo in full daylight proved al- Hong Kong on account of the was washed away.

perched perilously at the top of but to Sumchun only.

most as thrilling as the real thing. typhoon,

The bamboo extensions of the tall ladders which swayed dan-

Washed Away.

All of the 5,000 troops, who took His Worship gave an adjourn2 | piers of the South China Athletic gerously with each gust of wind, A section of the motor road part. wore service dress. We saw ment until Wélnélday.",

Association, the

Civil and half a dozen or so fokis on south of the Taipo Market in the Romana fighting for their lives,; Chinese Weather Reports,

Servants Bathing Club and thei

the pavement at the foot of cach New Territories' was washed Boudicea and her daughters dash- The following were issued by the Chinese Bathing Club were wreek Indder putting all their strength away, it is reported.

ing heross the arena in a chariot, Royal Observatory yesterday

to keep it from falling.

Pitiful Kowloon Scenes. and medieval troops in full battle 5.0.5.

Kowloon appears to have suf-- in khaki

· At about 11 o'clock news came fered. far worse than the island. We saw a human sacrifice ris- through that a Japanese "he main thoroughfare, Nathan ing alive from 1 Roman temple) Portions of the roof of the house coal stenmer, the Ryhuli Road, was strewn with folinge alier, dead soldiers coming to life, belonging to Mr. Harry Cooms, Maru, owned by the Dairen from the trees, which presented the laying down and removal of former Sanitary Inspector; situated Kisen Kaisha, was in dis- pitiful sight. The roof of the property. "rivers," complete with on the hillside at Shaukiwan, was tress 60 miles to the "Wee" Golf miniature course at shrubs along the canvas banks. blown off.

east or Hong Kong and needing Middle Road was lifted off by We saw the great Roman city of The roof of the Fung Keong immediate assistance. She was the strong wind, which also swept Camalódunum nearly half a mile rubber factory at Shaukiwan, was later able to proceed to Shanghai) down severnl Chinese gardens. away. damaged.

under her own stearn.

Uprooted Tree. ·"

Sheer Magic. It was rather like, from behind

At 10.55 am. The typhoon filled up after enter ing the const.

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A depression is shown between Hanoi and Touranc.

Forecast:-S. E. winds, moder- nte, fair to showery,

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At 5.32 p.m.

A feeble anti-cylone is central to the NE. of Tokyo.

A depression is central to the South of Hanni.

Detailed Report.

cd.

Extensive damage was done to the Chung Wah Theatre building near the tram terminus...

A concrete wall surrounding the Forecast:-Enst winds, moder-back yard of 37, Main Street, Shau- ate, generally cloudy, occasional [kiwan, was demolished.

The roofs of four houses in Sai rain.

Wan Ho were partly blown off.

Twenty feet of the iron railing ..on the east side of the East Gute of the Taikoo Docks collapsed whilst a portion of the west, rool of the Sai Wan Ho Market also suffered damage.

Opposite the Shiukiwan Police Station the roof of an engineering store-house was blown off.

No. 9 typhoon signal was blown down from the staff at Lycemun Station compound,

This vessel, which was former- A tree at the junction of Mid- the scenes, seeing through a magi- ly the Meichi Mara, is a steel dle and Nathan Roads was up- tonnage. She was built in 1910 several enclosures of building is the troops who are taking part," screw steamer of 724 (427 net) ronted from the ground, whilst clan's trick.

"If anybody deserves praise, it by the Osaka Iron Works, Osaka,sites were also damaged, some of said one of the modest nameless Japan, and is registered at them to a great extent. Dairen,

Her dimensions are: Length 180; breadth 27; depth 19,

A report of the typhoon noon stated:—

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Sports Club Damaged.

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organisers.

Discipline is this year the motif A visit to King's Park found of the Tattoo, and in every item in that half of the roof of the one way or another this is bril South China Athletic Associa-Ilantly illustrated.

tion clubhouse had been carried} The retreat from Corunna was away, whilst a portion of the realistic even though the soldiers galvanised covering of the of Sir John Moore were in modern Y.M.C.A. clubhouse was also khaki.

A report issued by the Royal Ob- servatory yesterday states:-

This' typhoon probably formed on the morning of July 29, in about latitude 13 degrees and longitude 130 degrees. At 9. p.m., on July 30 the centre was reported by the

Traffic at Standstill. Manila Observatory to be NW. of

"Commencing from the Central Fire Station, Des Voeux Road Aparri, moving W, or W.N.W. At

Central is under water. 6 a.m. on July 31, it was about mid-

The way between Aparri and Pratus,

trams have stopped running and ripped off. Two basket ball posts The booming of distant cannon and passed over the latter station Barracks to the Shaukiwan Police motor cars, buses and taxis are under the force of the gale.

of the K.B.S.F.P.A. snapped echoed through the Rushmoor arena as dropping figures straggled track.. The Some damage was done to the

Extensive damage was suffer-in an irregular column in retreat. muximum wind force being force 8 wharves along the Praya, and in and running from west to east, ed by the Kowloon Cricket Club As they fell out, wounded or ex: on the Beaufort sexle. The central particular those along the Con- some sections of the city being pavilion, half of the front of hausted, comrades picked them up ealm lasted for more than an hour.naught Road West,

The Po Tak well under. The junction of Ped which was smashed like match- and carried them. None was left After the passage of the centra the Wharf had much of its decking re-der Street and Des Voeux Road wood. The wooden scoreboard, behind. wind (nt Pratas) blew with force 7

Central is crowded with sight- situated in a far corner, was also A counter-attack suddenly deve- from the, S.W, which suggested that the typhoon Way curving northward but it backed again, and by 1 a.m. on August 1 the wind was

between 8 and 9 p.m. on July 31,

n W.N.W..

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ward.'.

moved.

not to be seen anywhere in town. "Water is flooding the roads

smashed.

The Hong Kong-Macao steam-seers and those more daring are

loped. Heavy fusillades and rifte boat wharf had a part of its roof crossing the road to the Post

Several shutters of a terrace in fire were exchanged. Sir John ing blown, off,

The Chip On wharf suffered water.

Office Building knee deep in Ho Mun Tin were blown off when Moore was killed, and then came. the typhoon was at its height, the impressive burial scène, as' blowing with force 8 from South-slight damage to its roof.

"Business is at artandstill. The Two shutters of the Diocesan drummers of the Norfolk Regiment, The lamp posts at the Yaumat verandahs of the offices overlook- Girls' School annexe were also whose-predecessors performed the Ferry Wharf were brought down. ing the flooded roads are crowd-dislodged.

actual task, carried the hero to his The roofing of the slaughtered with people enjoying the esca-

A warning issued at 4.45 p.m. [grave. house matsheds at Kennedy Town pades of those on the roads. On read "Typhoon in 23 deg. lat. The booming of cannon and the was blown off.

Several windows were smashed completed yet, the pavement of N.W."

account of the drains not being E. by 113 deg., long. N., moving chiming of the bells of Corunna at Repulse Bay Hotel and damage Gloucester Building is under to the bathing mat-water. likewise the open pave- was caused tested. One, in the course of con-ment outside Exchange Building. MISSED THE STATION through the medium of an ampli-

struction, was blown down.

The flood is deeper on the op-

At Cap Rock the wind backed from N.E., force 3, at 2 a.m. on August 1 to N.N.W., force 6, at 6 Am. and remained steady from this direction until 11 a.m., when force 12 was reported.

At Waglan the wind backed from NIE. force 1, at 6 n.m.

N.N.E.. force 8, at 7 a.m.

The early backing of the wind at-

Gap Rock and subsequent backing Bt Waglan, indiealed that the typhoon would pass to the cast of both stations, and probably enter the coast near Bias Bay. wind at Waglan veered again after 8 a.m., however, and the typhoon passed a few miles to the west of Hong Kong at about noon.

The

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accompanied the recitation of the poem "The Burial of Sir John Moore" by Mr. Henry Ainley,

fied gramophone record, which ha

The Frak escaped very lightly, posite side of the read, where Bishop Arrives Late for go up from a sick bed to make. of construction in Sai On Road deep

A Chinese house in the course the water has overflowed the Aberdeen, was demolished but for the tunately no one was injured.

Trees, fences and roofs on Stone-

cutters Island suffered. The iron

roofs of several verandahs were torn.

.channel and invaded pavement of Alexandra

Building..

Ferry Turned Back.

a Wedding.

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A Roman Machine-Gan." Ancient and, modern warfate were shown in vivid contrast. The AN ANXIOUS CONGREGATION ancestor of the machine-gun in the Roman period fired a flight of At a quarter to eleven they, P. Maud) failed to recognise

The Bishop of Kensington (Dr. arrows.

The medieval period produced Solar Star with passengers on An old Chinese hawker was hit board her, tried to dock at the the railway station in Tarporley another type of catapult, such as by a big glass pane at about three Hong Kong "Star ferry wharf, (Cheshire), and thus failed to ar-was used in the Crusade. It throw o'clock. The man

but the very heavy seas made it rive in time to start the marriage all kinds of missiles into the was bleeding

of Miss Angeln enemy's ranks, including the car- profurely when attended to extremely difficult. After thre Brocklebank, only daughter of cases of horses, in order to spread

by a St. John's Ambulance man.

The attempts, the seamen, managed m.ph. at 11.47 a.m. when a squall injured man was admitted to the to fasten one rope on a bulwark, the Hon. Lady Brooklebank and disease.

The mean wind velocity at the

from

36 Observatory increased

m.p.h. (true) at 10 a.m. to 79

at the rate of 136 m.p.h. occurred (from E. by N.), the greatest

squall velocity ever recorded at the

Observatory..

After noon the wind abated fairly rapidly until 2.20 p.m. when

slight increase occurred until 9.30 p.m.

The wind then decreased to 27 m.p.h. by 5 p.m. remained near ly steady till 7.30 p.m. and then decreased to 17 m.p.h. by 9.30 p.m. It veered to S.E. by 4, p.m., and backed again to E. by 11 p.m.

The typhoon was not severe when

Government Civil Hospital.

At about noon

ance member,

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A similar accident occurred at

ceremony

And then... a modern army But, within a few minutes, the the late Sir Aubrey Brocklebank,

near began a very modern battle, with of-Nunsmere.- Sandiway Chinese bosstrain being too much, the rope was injured by a sign-boned which enapped. People on the wharf, Tarporley, and Mr. John Vincent anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft runs, little Caterpillar machines, wireless, tanks, and was blown down near the Yauma- which was crowded, were thrilk Wrigley, at the parish church, drawn by ti Market. The boy was taken to ed at the spectacle.

Tarporley. the Kowloon Hospital.

A ferry wharf inspector

The train by which the bishop steel girder bridges which were A Chinese was injured by a fall shouted and signaller to the cox specially travelled from London erected in a few moments.

Presently the Roman galleys, gay ing glass name, outside No. 120,swain to leave and not to tie up. Brocklebank's marriage stopped in their coats of red, blue and

to Cheshire, to conduct Mies Connaught Read Central. He was The Solar Star then left and roll- attended to by a St. John Ambuled her journey back to the main at Tarporley railway station, and white, came sailing across the

land.

although a number of wedding arena, their sails straining in the The praya soon became crowd-guests alighted, the bishop by an wind, and their long oars swinging Upper Lascar Row when a Chined with curious onlookers, clad in oversight, did not leave the train, in unison. No one saw the twenty ese pedestrian was almost knock mackintoshes, buttoned up to the and was taken ten miles further men in the bottom of each of these vessels, who were pushing for it passed over Pratas but developed ed unconscious by a falling timber neck. In making his way from on to the junction at Chester.

the only motive considerably on its way to Hong The No. 9 signal, "gale expect the ferry wharf, a European's

Meanwhile the bride and bride-their lives, as Kong and apparently Alled up after ed to increase," was hoisted just topee became diamantled, and groom, their relatives, and 300 power,

before 10 a.m. on Saturday, and was blown into the harbour. The guests anxiously awaited the The trees on the mainland suf- after completing one more run European was wise not to try to bishop's arrival at the pictures-

LESSON SERMON. fered more damage than those on A few trees Hong Kong side.

Connaught Road que village church. Central presented

The ceremony had been ar a thrilling were blown down at Repulse Bay,

At the time the No. 9 signal scene, the mountainous breakers ranged for 2.30 p.m. and by First Church of Christ; but in Taipe no fewer that 24 treas was hoisted it was stated that coming over the Praya wall and British ecelesiastical law a mar Scientist, Hong Kong. galo was felt most in the New of Bias Bay and would strike to the pavement, where the few minutes before three Leason-Sermen in all Churches of

It seems that the the typhoon was in the vicinity washing right across the road on riage is invalid if begun after

"Love" was the subject of the the Colony at about 8 p.m. people were congregated. The

on Sunday, All small craft had long before road soon became strewn with de o'clock the Rev. H. S. Scott, the Christ, Scientist," wharf and Blake Fier were lifted then gone to the various, and bris, but on the car park opposite vicar of Tarporley undertook August 2

The Golden Text washe out of their sockets by the heavy chorages on both sides of the Dodwell's one car braved the to perform the marriage cere waves during the height of the harbour. The river steamers storm, mony. He had not proceeded far Lord thy God in the midst of theo typhoon. A good portion of the left their wharves and went to

Times of Signals, with the service, however, when is mighty; he will save, he will railing enclosure of one side of the shelter, whilst the ocean-going

The exact times at which the the Bishop of Kensington raced refolce over thee with joy; he will terry wharf, near the pontoon was ships at the buoys took precas various signals were changed up to the front of the church in rest in his love, he will Joy over severely damaged. When

a taxicab he had hired at Ches thee with singing." the tions and had steam up and ex- ferries started on Saturtra No.

entering the coast.

were uprooted.

Territories.

Several beams of the Star Ferry

of the usual places.

stopped, at about 10.45. across the harbour, the ferries retrieve it!'

were:

three o'clock in the afternoon."

3; 17.)

(Zephaniah

Among the citations which: com- prised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: For I

day aftenoon, they had to dock at tra, anchors, lowered. The har... 7. "gale expected from the brine bishop entered, the church the end of the island pler instead waves breaking against the sea 5:45 p.m. on Friday, was lowered and afterwards completed the walls and spraying the Praya at 7.40 am. and in its place was marriage service which his de which was deserted by all forms hoisted signal No.5 "gale may puty had begun. of traffic, but there were many be expected from the N.Wal adventurous spirits there An official message issued GERMAN CENOTAPH. compared with the glory which "watching the fun, for about this time stated

The pump that supplies the den

water for the cooling plant in the King's Theatre was rendered use less, owing to the huge breakers Jashing against the praya, The big poster board on the Wyndham

Street side of the theatre came adrift, whilet a poster board at the Queen's Theatre was also damaged

The matshed sum shelter covering

Flagstaff House, the residence of

the G.0.C (Major Gene Bandilands) was half

atende a

reckón" that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be

skall be revealed in us. For the

for the manifestation of the sons of God. (Romans 8: 18, 29.

There was some #fon of "Typhoon about 100 miles Impressive Monumentet expectation of the creature

what with people south-east of Hong Kong, mov- having their umbrellas turning toward Blas Bay. Moderate in the Alte Wache

sorts,

ed inside out hats and even to strong North to west. Gale people being blown about some expected at Hong Kong.

The Gerroan capital is to have The Lesson-Sermon also includ-| perilously near the edge of the The No. 9 signalgale expect a war monument somewhat in the od the following passage from een wall where they had seda to Increase was hoisted at nature of the London cenotaph the Christian Befence Textbook, espScience and Health with Key to been designed drenchine. A rikisha, ortunate 948 am and signal No. 10"wind It

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Eddy Where the Spirit of the ument consists of Lord 15, there is lib

by a circular, and Truth, make free, but,

error

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ly empty was knocked over by of typhoon force expected (any Test

the wind and the poor

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a hopeless task trying

Ha direction) went up at 11.20, ac. in,

companied by three explosive

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