1960-06-11 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1960

Cathay Pacific Operates fastest service

by prop-jet Electra

Only 2.45 hours by the fastest propsjet in the world to Saigon, delightful "Continental" city of the

East. Superb service and the ultimate attention to your comfort

are a normal part of flyings.

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9.45 hours

ABOVE: The gale-force

gusts of winds had hardly

slackened before road- · clearing squads began. their task, Huge uprooted trees and branches flung across main roads, like this one in Kowloon, were cleared first.

RIGHT: Workmen began

temporary repairs on the red tiled roof of the Kow", Office heavily

HONGKONG is left this weekend battered and dazed as Typhoon Mary cuts her destructive way into China after hitting the Colony with a fury that left more than 30 dead, 76 injured, 34 missing and almost 18,500 homeless people. It is too soon to estimate the dam age, but a preliminary sur- vey showed it to run into

millions of dollars,

These photographs, taken by China Mail staff photo graphers and members of the public who braved the hurri cane-force gusts of wind and

THE HAVOC OF TYPHOON

BLOODY MARY

rain, show the terrifying signs of building sites in Des devastation 'Bloody Mary.

Typhoon

LEFT: while their elders cast despairing, eyes at the destruction, children found some cheer in their pavement playing fields being suddenly converted into knee-deep wading pools.....

ABOVE: Scaffolding and

Voeux Rood-Central toppled with a crash on a from island, sealing® the main arterial road.

RIGHT: Two of the few who braved the deluge and winds to run an errand under an umbrella “turned-inside- out by the force of the storm.

ABOVE LEFT: Some indication of the power of the typhoon-lashed waves in the harbour can be estimated from the damage seen here to the causeway leading to the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club, Kellett Island. ABOVE RIGHT: The sea of rain water that covered the car park and junction of Salisbury and Nathan Roads in Tsimshotsui was several feet deep in places.

LEFT: A hardy taxi-driver ploughing through the flood- ed roads near the Peninsula Hotel. Those vehicles, which operated almost all through the typhoon, were the only means of public transport of times. RIGHT: Winds reached a velocity of over 100 knots during the storm, effortlessly scattering lighter cars like these around car parks.

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