CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3] — Page 593

No.

59.

Hongkong.

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14597

20 MPT

Government House,

Hongkong, 21st. March, 1907.

Goo 40623

Enclosure 1.

My Lord,

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Referring to the 41st. paragraphs

q6s of my Despatches Nos. 238 and 262 dated the 5th. and 22nd.

Enclosure 2.

October, 1906, respectively on the subject of the typhoon

which passed over this Colony on the 18th. September last,

I have the honour to transmit 6 copies of the Report, dated

October 23rd., 1906, of a Committee appointed to enquire

whether earlier warning of this typhoon could have been

given to shipping. The report is followed by the evidence

of Dr. W. Doberck, Ph.D., Director of the Hongkong Observa-

-tory and of others who were in or near this Port at the

time of the disaster and also by various documents put in

by the witnesses examined by the Committee including a

statement by the Reverend Aloys Froc, S.J., Director of

the Sikawei Observatory. I also enclose 6 copies of a

Report on the same typhoon by the Reverend José Algué,

S.J., Director of the Weather Bureau, Manila Observatory.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

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