CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10] — Page 315

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The General at Canton proffered in kindly terms those of the European residents in that Settlement.

Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Moore, Commander-in-Chief on the China Station sent a sympathetic telegram from Wei Hai Wei and the Commissioner of that Colony wrote expressing his distress at the disaster which had befallen us.

Viscount Hayashi, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Japan, telegraphed to the Imperial Japanese Consul here, to convey to me the expression of his sincere and profound sympathy and the Chief of the Japanese Military Staff in Formosa sent an Officer to me for a similar purpose. These various messages and the subscriptions from outside the Colony sent to the Relief Fund, to which reference has already been made, were pleasing evidence of the esteem in which the Colony is held.

In the course of my report on the damage done by the typhoon of the 18th September, I have referred in several places to the delay in repairing that damage due to subsequent storms. On the night of September 19th/20th, a typhoon moving West-North-West across the China Sea with unusual velocity passed South of the Colony

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311 The General at Canton proffered in kindly terms those of the European residents in that Settlement. Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Moore, Commander-in-Chief on the China Station sent a sympathetic telegram from Wei Hai Wei and the Commissioner of that Colony wrote expressing his distress at the disaster which had befallen us. Viscount Hayashi, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Japan, telegraphed to the Imperial Japanese Consul here, to convey to me the expression of his sincere and profound sympathy and the Chief of the Japanese Military Staff in Formosa sent an Officer to me for a similar purpose. These various messages and the subscriptions from outside the Colony sent to the Relief Fund, to which reference has already been made, were pleasing evidence of the esteem in which the Colony is held. In the course of my report on the damage done by the typhoon of the 18th September, I have referred in several places to the delay in repairing that damage due to subsequent storms. On the night of September 19th/20th, a typhoon moving West-North-West across the China Sea with unusual velocity passed South of the Colony

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311 -General at Canton proferred in kindly terms those of the European residents in that Settlement. Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Moore, Commander-in-Chief on the China Station sent a sympathetic telegram from Wei Hai Wei and the Commissioner of that Colony wrote expressing his distress at the disaster which had befallen us. Viscount Hayashi, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Japan, telegraphed to the Imperial Japanese Consul here, to convey to me the expression of his sincere and profound sympathy and the Chief of the Japanese } Military Staff in Formosa sent an Officer to me for a beequent Ty- -phoons. similar purpose. These various messages and the subscrip- -tions from outside the Colony sent to the Relief Fund, to which reference has already been made, were pleasing evidence of the esteem in which the Colony is held. In the course of my report on the damage done by the typhoon of the 18th. September, I have referred in several places to the delay in repairing that damage due to subsequent storms. On the night of September 19th. 20th. a typhoon moving West-North-West across the China Sea with unusual velocity passed South of the Colony

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-General at Canton proferred in kindly terms those of the

European residents in that Settlement.

Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Moore,

Commander-in-Chief on the China Station sent a sympathetic

telegram from Wei Hai Wei and the Commissioner of that

Colony wrote expressing his distress at the disaster which

had befallen us.

Viscount Hayashi, Minister of

Foreign Affairs in Japan, telegraphed to the Imperial

Japanese Consul here, to convey to me the expression of his

sincere and profound sympathy and the Chief of the Japanese

}

Military Staff in Formosa sent an Officer to me for a

beequent Ty-

-phoons.

similar purpose. These various messages and the subscrip-

-tions from outside the Colony sent to the Relief Fund, to

which reference has already been made, were pleasing

evidence of the esteem in which the Colony is held.

In the course of my report on the

damage done by the typhoon of the 18th. September, I have

referred in several places to the delay in repairing that

damage due to subsequent storms. On the night of September

19th. 20th. a typhoon moving West-North-West across the

China Sea with unusual velocity passed South of the

Colony

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