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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 1, 1941

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FREAK TYPHOON PASSES OVER

TRAIN OFF RAILS,

Last Night's Almost Dead Calm Marked Passage Walla-Wallas Run CATHOLICS

AND THE While Ferries Stop: IDEOLOGIES

Minor Mishaps

ONE OF THE MOST FREAKISH OF DISTURBANCES TO DIS - RUPT HONG KONG FOR MANY YEARS, THE TYPHOON WAS OF- FICIALLY DISPOSED OF SOON AFTER EIGHT ¿O'CLOCK THIS MORN. ING, WHEN ALL WARNING SIGNALS WERE TAKEN DOWN.

The harbour was still somewhat disturb- ed by a steady wind from the south-west, and the ferries did not resume service until 9.10 a.m., though it was eloquent commentary on the real conditions that much earlier many persons made the harbour crossing in motor- boats, without the slightest difficulty.

were stranded in Kowloon until last night, the monthly salary

THEN BACK

Amazed railroad m

men

In answer to a Catholic told in Columbia (Geor- Member

gia) how part of a fast of Parliament, Cardinal Hinsley has passenger train jumped the track ran a half mile written as follows:-

partially derailed and then climbed safely back on the rails.

"Two

encylicals of Pius x 'Diyini Redemptoris' against albelstic Communism and that

against Nazism, state fully and clearly the Catholic condempation of both these movements.

The City of Miami, Illinois "Our country with our Allies Central streamliner, stopped after is fighting against the immediate the freak mishap and a passerby, eques, usually paid on the last Nazi attempt to subjugate Europe. H. W. Corbett of Columbus, avert- "No one who knows what the led another possible accident. when were held up day of the month. and, to-day being a Bank Holi-Anti-Christian ideas and practice he flagged to a stap a Fort Benning day, they will not be issued until of Nazis are, will for one moment troop train, just before If. rolled

be deceived by Hitler's latest pose into the damaged track, to-mofrow.

Seawall Crashes

as

the champion of European civilisation or think it has become in any way less vital to resist his attempt to enslave the continent."

Three children, two boys, aged-Reuter.

six-year-old 16 and 11, and a girl, were injured yesterday when

Ferry Wharf sudden enved in and fell which they on the sampon in were sitting,

the ad-

Except for an interval between 5 p.m. and the seawall at Tsun Wan pm. last night, when the centre of the phoon was actually passing Hong Kong children were rescued and Lose to Waglan, gales lashed the Colony for more than twenty-four hours.

and

to

Calm And Quiet

The sampan capsized but mitted to the Kowloon Hospital.

Man Killed

A Chinese employee of a tim- ber yard was blown by the gale into a nullah yesterday afternoon when he was attempting to remove a signboard. The body has yet been recovered,

not

NAZIS AND BRITISH AIR RAIDS

Sectors Foreman T. E. Baze- more reconstructed the accident this way.

more

One or

trucks of streamliner left the rails ata crossing two miles south of the

The town,

train rolled on at little diminished speed while the derailed wheels sliced off spikes -and--tore-tiès.

The train roared, on across, a - 160-foot trestle and whản it sung into a curve the dragning trucks climbed, back on the ralls. It wasn't determined just which The German High Command trucks were involved but none" communique, dealing with British was badly damaged, and the City air raids, says that on the night of Miami" continued its run. of June 29, the enemy dropped high explosive and incendiary bombs in the coastal regions of

Northern Germany, mainly (says craft guns were again successful. the statement) on the residential in the'r defence against this British Between attack from the air. them, they shot down thirteen of the attacking British bombers

False Alarm

the Fire Brigadequarters of Hamburg and Bremen. The civilian population suffered few casualties in dead and in jured.

The quietest period was while The roads presented a carpet the centre was practically over of green, strewn with grass and the Colony. Nevertheless, this leaves. morning the wind never reached | gale force after three a.m. and strong criticism was expressed at the suspension of the ferry ser- Near Fort Street, the barricade vices, though buses, trams

prevent unauthorised people motor-boats were running.

from entering the small quarry An Observatory statement on there, was blown away. but. Last night

which typhoon.

produced strangely enough. the refugees Stations received a false over five inches of rain, says that huts at North Point appeared to mons, resulting in three fire ap- the depression was moving slow-have escaped unscathed, the wire pliances being sent to the neigh- ly northwards from 3 p.m. yes-fence, with its creeper, around the bourhood or the Alhambra Thea- terday.

camp showing no sign at all of the tre, where it was found that the been force of the gale.

automatic fire alarm had smashed.

Whether typhoon weather was has responsible for

the incident not yet been determined.

the

The wind dropped after p.m. and for some hours, from

4

The bathing sheds withstood the

6 p.m. no wind of gale force gale very well, the only damage was registered, not cven In observed being that some of the Busts. At B p.m. there was bamboo and wooden steps leading practically complete calm.

to the water had been battered by both the waves and wind.

From that time, the direction of the wind changed from N.E.

When passing Deep Water Bay, which it had maintained for no

our representative saw the Macao less than 43 hours, to S.W., in-

boat coming into Hong Kong, dicating that the centre had pass-which was followed soon after by ed over.

At 9.58 p.m., the No.:

a small coastal shin.

5 signal was hoisted.

Midnight Gale

Gale force was registered from midnight to 3 a.m. the maximum gust velocity registered at the Observatory being 70 miles an hour during that period.

From then, the wind gradually died down and continued to come from the S.W.

Wall Collapse

sum-

Part of a wall on the top floor or No. 39, Fok Luk Tsun Road, collapsed yesterday afternoon, but there were no casualties.

Taken Off

On the whole the journey was

Seven of the crew of the s.s. uneventful and everywhere every- thing was calm and quiet, farm-Cheong On which went aground ers near

Aberdeen commencing on Stonecutters Island yesterday, their daily toll as they would on were taken off the ship

brought to Hong Kong by. Water Police launch.

any normal day.

Taytam reservoir was over- flowing and presented a fine spec- tacle.

Earlier Reports

and

a

A coolie, Wong Tong, aged 50, At Aberdeen the street was was blown off- the roof of Peak strewn with small boats and sam- Mansions about 11.30 am yester The typhoon, says the Ob-

pans which the owners had placed day and his dead body found in servatory, must have passed there for safety. No damage at Stubbs Road. Just east of Waglan at about all was visible in this area. the time of the absence of wind. It is probably' "rapidly filling up to the N.N.E.'of Colony.

the

"Th's typhoon, like so many of its species, did not have strong winds nearest its centre."

Little Damage

In Deep Water Bay there were a few junks, which had taken re- fuge there.

Uprooted Trees

Slight damage was caused when a small portion of the Hong Kong Football Club's public stand Happy Valley collapsed.

at

in

A tree was blown down Magazine Gap Road yesterday and traffic temporarily blocked.

Telephone communication.be- With the exception of two tween Hong Kong and Aberdeen bathing sheds damaged in the was disrupted shortly after noon front row at Repulse Bay- and two yesterday.

rafts lying on shore, Repulse Bay

A false fire alarm, the rescue withstood the force of the gale re

of seven members of the crewmarkably well. Here and there a

of the grounded s.s. Cheong On

Swept Into Nullah

was

few uprooted trees, were seen, Chan Sik-yan, aged 26, on Stonecutters. inland, the col-but one of the rafts was still rid fastening a shop sign in Shum Tapse of the verandahs of two ing the waves. The sea here was Chun Street at 12.30 p.m. yester four-storeyed buildings early this much rougher than at any other day when a gust of wind caught morning, the sudden caving in of place en route, the big breakers him and swept him into a nearby a. seawall at Tsun Wan which albeing ideal for suring.

[nullah: He was carried away by most killed": three children on a

the strong current, and is believ boat and the drowning of n At Stanley there was very little ed to have been drowned. Chinese who was blown by the

damage done,

Houses in Kowloon Tong were gale into a nüllah and drowned,

Near Mr. Lo's residence; a con- are some of the latest reports to- tractor's matshed was seen to given a strong buffeting, the front wall of Mr. J. M. Wong's' re- day.

have been flattened and there was sidence, Essex Crescent, being a small landslide. tour by a "China Mail” | re-

badly damaged. A wireless mast Several coping stones fell from of iron piping and about 31⁄2 presentative to Aberdeen, vio Shaukiwan Stanley, and Repulse P. & O. Building yesterday morn inches in diameter on the pre- Bay, disclosed that Hong Kong hing, killing a large rat on the miscs of Mr. W. M. Gittins, Suf- received little damage in the gale ground. Fortunately, no one was yesterday, unless damage had been in the vicinity at the time.

A

cleared-up very quickly,

But

for a few minor landslides, minor damage to bathing sheds, a few

Salaries Held Up

uprooted trees, there was little to Duo to the fact that many mom bers of the various office, starra

report.

folk Road, was bent badly and at Kent Road a cast iron sign- board was twisted by the terrific force of the wind.. A dividing walt between No. 37 and No. 80 Cumberlund Road was parti- ally damaged.

Many buildings were set on fire and damaged.

Reuter.

The British official figures of losses on these raids was eleven

Night fighters and anti-air-machines.

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