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THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19TH, 1913.

EXPERIENCES INto an elephant tree. Then they settled down for another rest, but just before daybreak discovered that the waves, were again lapping them, and climbed further up the hillside,

THE TYPHOON.

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at the same time to the Press. A very natura resentment is folt by the parents who have supported the voluntary effort that so little regard should have been shown by the Government for their position in the mat- ter, and if the present feeling endures we S. WATSON & are afraid the Government will have to look for opposition rather thus co-operation. The bungling of the matter is greatly to land in a westerly direction passing hungry. One member of the party, who peels of thunder were followed by dashes given the shipping moored in Junk Bay

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be regretted, because the Government. school will need all the support it can possibly get from parents resident on the Peak if the school is to become approxi- nately self-supporting. It could scarcely have been unknown to the Education

The chart of the track of the typhem issued by the Observatory yesterday shows that the typhoon struck the land just a little with of Macao and proeseded

very close to Paklioi,

TURTLE HUNTERS CATCH THE TYPHOON

PARTY OF LODAL SPORTSLIEN EXPERIENCE GREAT HARDSHIPS,

IN JUNK BAY.

The U.S.S. Wilmington appears to have

Referring to the thunderstorm

A few other yachtsment were out on Saturday afternoon, he stated that dur- Saturday when the typhoon camo on, but ing many years in Hongkong and the Far we learn that all have safely returned to East he has never witnessed anything so the Colony little the worse for thoir awe-inspiring and withal so magnificent. experience. When day broke the rain was pouring

While dark and lowering clouds moved down in torrents and all the half-elad along and obscured one part of the sky, sportsmen were miserable, weary and another part was a lurid red. The heavy thought. Tai O was adjacent, suggested of forked lightning which appeared to

on Sunday a bad time. The little cruiser. that they should start immediately for zigzag about the island and frequently had ber towed to the bay from the that haven. The others, most of whose Inen strike the rocks. geographical knowledge was limited, im- mediately agrees, and the little band started climbing the first hill which was between them and Tai O. But travelling through blinding rain and typhoon winds is difficult in the most advantageous of circumstances, and these

Even after the passing of the thunder. Taikou Docks when she fired a signal of storm it. was felt by some of the islanders distress, but her anchors did not hold and that the worst was not over, consequently her drifting gave the officers of other they were not taken entirely by surprise ships an anxious time. She smashed up when the typhoon struck them. While one of her boats by colliding with the When a trancar from West Point pulled

the wind was at its height the party in Taming, but eventually her nachors got of the Voluntary School st have incurred up at the Post Office about ten o'clas

the YM.C.A. matshed became alarmned firm hold. expruse in the equipment of the school and Testerday morning a party of half-clad,

| by the rocking of their temporary dwell- certain obligations both moral and financial weather-beaten and weary men alighted, remembered, were but half clad and ing. and decided to leave it. As they

CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS AND Department that the Managing Committee

PERFUMERS,

2X1?17, be it

A LANDSLIP.

As a result of the heury downpour ou

BY APPOINTMENT TO HE. THE GOVERNOR distinctly reprehensible that the Government stares. They were a party of local made the start, Mr. Spurge hnd rescued was attached to the main construction Sunday a Inndslip basi uccurred at the

with regard to the mistress, and it is and made haste to make themseires | already exhausted. Nevertheless, hey got outside, a small kitchen matshed which | should have ignored these considerationsportsmen who left by the launch Pueris only one boot from the water, so with a

was blown over bodily, nud went rolling junction of Macdonnell and Kennedy. on Saturday on a turtle hunting expedi- towel he endeavoured to make a kind of down the hillside until it was smashed to Roads immediately beneath the Military An amicable arrangemeut, no doubt, would

tion to Lastno, and who had the slipper for the other foot. But the im- pieces against the rocks. Then the main Hospital. The landslip is a considerable have been possible, and, without having any

oncounter the typhoon.promptu slipper was not a muthority for making the statement, we

matshed collapsed, leaving the party, and a terrace of Soldiers' quarters shelterless.

in the vicinity has been affected to some - They started off for the venture to think that the Government

Police Station, reaching there after s

extent thereby. strong struggle in the teeth of the gale, which was sufficiently strong to blow one

WATSON'S

CELEBRATED

CORN CURE

WATSON'S

PRICKLY HEAT LOTION An invaluable and most effective rondy

school in that event would have been

gladly welcomed, for so long as the existence A safe and certain cope for corns, warts of a school on the Peak is dependent upou the kindness and generosity of a resident and henions. Effective and painless. who is ablo and willing to devote a portion of his residence for the accommodation of the school, the institution cannot bo regarded as being on a satisfactory and permanent basis. Vo have long been of opinion that the Government should at least provide school premises on the Peak No school in that district, whether run by Government or by private enterprise, is ever likely to attract all the children on the Peak of school age, but if the Eduen tion Department Lud backs of those who have been doing what they can to meet the educational neods of the Poak by private effort, we feel sure that sufficient support could be obtained for the school to at least keep it from being more burdensome to the rates

children in other parts of the Colony.

Immediately allys the irritation.

WATSON'S

LAVENDER TALCUM POWDER

An

invaluable Toilet and Nursery

fortune

From the crown of the hill they saw Mr. Millar's party approaching, and awaited their arrival. This was about

Dam

of the party over au embankment. There they found the sportsmen of the launch geris, whose experiences are related elsewhere, and who were, like themselves, looking for shelter.

DAMAGE AT OUT DISTRICTS.

The village of Aberdeen appears to have felt the full force of the gale. The main roadway has been badly damaged, and where there was a comfortable passage way fur autor cars before the storm, only

success. All the party were old bands at the sport, Slowly the little party struggled up the and the fact that the red typhoon signals hill, eventually, reaching the top, but were up when they left, did not trouble by this time Mr. Sparge was a cripple, them, as they expected to be back in having injured: a tendon of his unbooted Hongkong early on Sunday before the foot. blow came on. But the unexpected hap pened, as it often docs, and the turtle hunters had an experience which they will long remember, and the like of which

When the two parties of the same they will probably not wish to go through expedition met, Mr. Millar's men were

But the police quarters could not hold pedestrians can pass at present. The new told that the others were making for Tai all comfortably, so the Y.M.C.A party

reclamation has been practically introy- again.

Sixteen men left on the expedition to, and decided to accompany them. But were billetted on different missionaries, and the damage done to the Tai Sing

Mr. Spurge was unable to travel further, who did all in their power to make them paper mill is estimated at $15,000. Lantao, and they were landed at different

so Mr. Sorby remained with him while comfortable, and whose kindness and

The gulf links at Deep Water Bay are sections of the island. The first party to

They had but shortly hospitality were greatly appreciated by

now..practically a sandpatch, and 'somo put ashore from the Peris comprised the rest pushed un

parted company When the typhoon all the members of the party.

$1,000 damage has been done to the Brick- works. But, the Y.M.C.A. members were not increased in violence, the wind being so strong on the top of the hill that as it the only unfortunates. A matshed

At Fanling the matslid of Mr. P. W. Goldring was blown down, and he and

not put up the H. S. Spurge, R. C. Barlow, Martin, y strunk tha two remaining men it stung belonging to lady missionaries and & his guests had to seeks shelter elsewhere.

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washed away, causing delay to the rail- way service, bait this damago will soon

A railway embankment near Shatin was

Messrs. J. Gibson, J. A. Tarrant, J. Spittles, J. Craik and two of Mr. Gibson's sons. At the next beach Mesars.

Sorby and J. James were landed, while poured down in torrents. For some four number of Chinese houses were practically

their faces like sand, while the rain police matshed were demolished. at another beach on the island Messrs. Ehuurs they sought shelter from the gale washed away owing to the high tide and Miller, Tulip, Maze, Rainsay and another under rocks, but the rain beat down upon the heavy sea which swept then. A large sportsinan were put ashore. They spent them during all this time and they junk was washed ashore, but all of the a few pleasant hours in the sport for shivered with cold. The other men, who crew with the exception of an old man which they had set out, and Mr. Millar's hoped soon to arrive at Tai O, straggled were saved by missionaries and others United Services Recreation Club at weather conditions began to attract attention and to cause members of the party to think that it was time they were seeking shelter.

ragnisite, son!hing to the most sensitive than are the existing schools for European party had captured a turtle before the along with great fortitude until they met who went to the rescue. The old man was |

skin and a useful adjunct of our well-

known Lavender Water.

The French mail of the 15th July was delivered in London on the 10th August. Mr. R. C. Morton, who has been for some years Agent of the Pacific Mail A. S. WATSON & CO., Steamship Company at Kobe, has been appointed the Company's Agent in Hong- LIMITED,

kong and assumed charge from Saturday

HONGKONG ÂND CHINA.

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The Daily Press.

HONGBONG, Acauer 19, 1913.

last.

The weekly return of communicable diseases shows that last week there were 16 cases of plague; 17 cases of cholora; 4 of diphtheria, 3 of enteric fever, and one of puerperal fever. The cholera cases were all Chinese and 11 proved fatal

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Somewhere about 1 p.m. on Sunday morning, when the sea was beginning to get boisterous, the lyer moved along the shore to pick the party up. Gibeon's detachunens got aboard safely, and the launch steaned along to the next beach where the anchor was dropped and Spurge's men. At this time the wind dingay seat ashore to carry off Mr. was increasing and the sea becoming con siderably rougher. It proved too rough, in fact, for the small launch dinghy The little party, who had cast off rust of their clothes to feel freer in the sport in

be repaired.

The Club House recently created by the

collapsed.

Kowloon was completely wrecked. The landed safely, but persisted in oing strong winds carried the roof away, the

water was knocked on the head with a aboard the junk again, and while in the ceiling fell in and the walls partly

piece of wreckage, the blow proving fatal, The force of the wind lifted the piles of the ferry whart about five feet, but the

Chinese and asked him how long it When he told them that a Chinamon would take them to reach that village.

take a European longer, they collapsed. could do it in 24 hours, but that it would

After consultation the men decided to wharf must have been strongly con- return on their tracks, and eventually brought up at a small and sheltered Chi- se village. They were received kindly by the villagers, who were apparently

when Messrs. Spurge and Sorby, who had of the headman. Here they were resting decided on descending the bill to seek shelter, and who had been literally blown down, artived. They were welcomed by their weary cornrades and by the head man, whose small dwelling was taxed to

vory poor, and found asyluni in the house

THE TYPHOON AT MACAO.

The typhoon visited Macau on Sunday

with great severity, and created incal- structed, for it remained intact. Three culable damage on sea and shore. Warn- Government stone lighters were washed ing was given on Saturday night by the up on the east beach, and smashed to firing of guns, but it was not till eight pieces.

o'clock on the following morcing that the. wind began to blow to any extraordinary

the strength of the gale. A dismantled its zenith. number of people on the island during and soon after half past une it reached A pathetic scene was witnessed by extent. It gradually increased in power

junk, buffetted and tumbled about by the and rolling over the Praya Grande. Big The sea literally boiled,

waves.

furiously lashing the Praya walla,

before the eyes of the sightseers, who ent up very badly, and enormous damage was being carried out to stress torn out by the roots, the roads were could not render any assistance, while was inflicted on house property in the three people aboard of her were racking and blown away, and articles of furniture city. Shuttels were violently sundered

The spectators watched until the junk. disappeared from view, "and," concludes dumb vet heartrending appeals for help our informant, "the memory of those

which wo

wers unable to render will I trust the unfortunate people came remain indelibly imprinted on my mind.

through the storm safely, and have since

The total number of cases of plague in which they werd indulging, placed their the utmost by the unexpected arrival of hopeless and frantic appeals for help. performed curious evolations.

the Colony from January 1st to the end of last week, August 16th, is returned as 303. Of these 300 were Chinese and 3, ather Asiatics. There has not been a single European case. Of the 203 cases 270 proved fatal.

CORRESPONDENCE.

A CURIOUS PARALLELISM.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

discarded garments as well as their little stock of provisions, on the dinghy, then got in the frail craft themselves, and the bontmen started to pull for the launch. Scarcely fifteen yards had been covered, However, before a beery sea struck the boat and capsized I consigning the clothing and provisions to the deep and leaving the men struggling in the water.

to go round.

Meantime, those on the launch, seeing what had happened. and thinking that the dinghy had been smashed, decided to go to Chungchau and get a surf boat.

been rescued."

YACHTSMEN IN PERIL.

moralised The electric wires were once The inhabitants were practically de-

capsized and went down in the Harbour again destroyed, and the lamps had a very bad time indeed. Several junka and many lives must have been sacrificed to the fury of wind and wave.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon the storm abated considerably, and com¬

parative cul persuaded many of the

inhabitants to emerge from their houses to view the damage. Wreckage was strewn all over the harbour, and some of the streets in the city presented a very deplorable appearance.

INTERPORT SWIMMING.

TEIN BOR SHANGHAI SELECTED.

A large crowd accepted the invitation of the V.R.C, to attend at the Club House last night, and witness the final interport swimming testa length races were brought off, and the

Four three-

times and finishes were as follows:-

First Race.-H. A. Lammert, 532.5

5445 sees.

50 2-5 secs. ;

47 4-5 secs.

so many refugees. The villagers flocked round to inspect them, and perhaps to sympathise and sell provisions.

But eatables were searce in that poor village, as the hungry sportemen subse A FRUITFUL tupic of conversation during

quently discovered. They were soon the past few days has been the circular sent

searching for food, but had to appease to residents on the Peak by the Director of Yesterday was the bithday anniversary

their hunger on eggs, cunje and what Education intimating that the Government of the Emperor Francis Joseph of has arranged to open a school on the Peak Austria-Hungary, who is now 63 years of

the villagers called chickens, but what one They all scon found their way ashore, of the party declared were hens which and contemplates building the requisito age. In honour of the occasion Mr. von

and spent some time searching for missing must have come out of the Ark. Never- premises if sufficient encouragement offers. Wiser, the Consul in Hongkong, held the In the circular it is stated that at least customary reception at which many lead-garments and boots, a few of which were theless, most of them made a substantial tecovered, but unfortunately not enough meal and slept soundly for a few hours ing residents attended to offer their con three attempts have been made (under)

on bare boards. The only difficulty Saturday for a week-end cruise had some A fleet of yachts which set sail on gratulations. private auspices) to establish a school at

appears to have been that they were so

The fleet com. eramped for room that when one man

thrilling experiences. the Peak, "but foulties have always

wanted to turn to see if he could get into prised the Scottengden (Mr. D. K. arisen, due to the natural fluctuation of the

a more comfortable position by resting Blair), the Beatrice (Mr. J. A. Dove), the population at the Peak, and the recurrent

on his opposite side, he had to give notice Finder (Mr. G. G. Woud), the Bat (Mr. loss of children of school-going years,"

As events transpired it was a very to the others and they all turned together. Orchard), the Spoondrift (Mr. Delauney) Only a few days efore this circular was

fortunate thing that they arrived at this 1n addition to the large party in this and the White Rare (Mr. Ainsley), issued there was published in the Hongkong

decision, otherwise the outing, which has friendly shelter there was the village

While near Kauchow Island the Daily Press a report on the work of a small

observed yachtmen DEAR SIR,--Shortly after reading Mr.enly proved anpleasant, rust have been [elder's family, and anyone who has seen

the typhoon school which has existed at the Peak for at Joseph Mede's article on Dr. Sun Yat- disastrous. The Peris had only left an ordinary Chinese village house will signals on Green Island and shortly least two years, and appears to have given sen, in Chambere Journal, to which about ten minutes, which was sufficient

afterwards were struck by a heavy squall. great satisfaction to the parents whose you referred in a recent leading article, time to take her to her destination, when

Sails were rezied and the squall success. children have been attending it. This school I happened to read Professor Giles' the storm broke, and had it not been for

fully weathered, but the vessels were has been inzaged by a small Committer, of China and the Manchus,” and came the accident to the dinghy there is little

driven considerably out of their course. which the BisHOF OF VICTORIA is Chairman,

across a literary coincidence which may doubt that to-day Hongkong would have

They were assembled on the beach Then the weather cleared and the fleet and it has become a matter of much unfat- [ be of interest to your readers.

her mourning the loss of a few well early on Monday morning, and when the had an enjoyable run to Discovery Bay

overtakeri As it yeris arrived about 7.20 o'clock she was There they were

by the; tering comment that the existence of this

Mr. Mede says:All this planning koown and respected residents,

олен! The Scottengden weathered it came to an end in September, 1911, when was, the launch got in shelter only just hailed with great delight, and the party typhoon. school and its Managing Committen seem to have been entirely ignored by the Education the train was fired, beginning with the in time, and there was nothing for it but lost no time in boarding her. Her course comfortably with two anchors out, but Department in valing its arrangements for incredibly short space of time half of take their chance.

province of Szechuan, and within an to leave the turtle bunters on Lantao to was promptly set for Hongkong, and she had to render assistance to the Bat. Mr. ran alongside a West Point wharf some Goulbourn put off with a Chinese boy in establishing a Government school at the

China was ablaze. By the middle of Still unaware that a typhoon was where about 10 a.m. The adventurers, by a dinghy, and got the Bus head to the Prak. While we agree that the time liss October the Manthus were beginning to approaching the men of the second party reason of their deshabille, caused con-

The assistance, however, proved arrived when the Government should feel that a great crisis was at hand, and regarded the capsize as a joke, and after siderable attention at the lauding stage of little avail, for Mr. Orchard's racht establish a school at the Peak, or at least the Regent was compelled to recall Yuran collecting all the articles of apparel they but they lost no time in getting to their was washed high and dry on to a paddy afford some support to private enterprise, Shih-kai, who had been summarily dis- could retrieve, they pulled the dinghy respective homes, thence to their offices field. Both the White Rose and the it seems incredible that the Education missed two years before."

above what they considered was high where they reported themselves, after Spoondrift were also driven ashore, and Department in making their arrangements Professor Giles writes: At last, in clothes to dry, and settled down to a sleep

Os p. 124 of "China and the Manchus," water mark laid cut their recovered which they returned home to enjoy a the Scottengden took their crews off. The

much needed rest.

latter vessel also rescued the crew of a to provide and maintain a Government September, 1911, the train was fired,

shipwrecked junk and brought them on school at the Peak and in issuing an invita beginning with the provines of Ssuch'uan.

on the sand. How long they had slept tion to parents to co-operate by sending and within an incredibly short space of

none of the party could say, but they awakened suddenly to find heavy, hear." their children to the school should not have time half China was ablaze. By the had the common courtesy to have first middle of October the Manchus were breaking over them, and as they felt the communicated the intention to the Com beginning to feel that a great crisis was

force of the wind, they realised that they had been overtaken by typhoon,

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readily understand how great the over- crowding must have been, and what an uncomfortable night the guests must have spent on Sunday.

THE GALE AT CHEUNGCHAU.

CONSIDERABLE DABÍAGE.

Residents of Cheungchau and week-end visitors bad sonte exciting experiences

wind:

secs: Pereira, 5145 sec,

Race. --Souza, Colmar, 54 R-5 secs,

Third · Race. — Farmer, Witchell, 491-5 secs.

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Fourth Race.Cooke, Finch, 48 2-5 secs.; Souza, 483-8 secs.

These matches were followed by game of water polo in which the interport team defeated the Rest by two goals to

The members of the

team which will represent Hongkong at Shanghai will receive notification of their selection by the Secretary of the V.I.C. to-day. The ceam comprisca : ----

C. J. Cooke (Captain), J. C. Finch.

L. Souza.

A. S. Ellis

J. M. R. Pereira. MAR. Souza.

J. Forbes.

H. A. Lammert,

Private Farmer, D.C.L.I. Gunner Colmer, R.G.A.

This year Hongkong is sonding only to Hongkong. The Evadne decided to ten, instead of, as heretofore, thirteen make for Pingchow, but was driven on men. Financially, this will be a saving. the south side of Lantao, where H.M.S.but judged from a sporting point of view. it indicates a confidence in the ability of A name Offer went to her rescue. Owing to the Hongkong's representatives. yacht's dangerous situation the Otter was which has been prominent in previous interport teams, and which will be missed. ton, who, unfortunately, is unable to representative team is leaving for the Y.M.CA. members, one of whom related managed to grasp it. Having attached North, and they should give a good account his experiences to a Doily Press repre- the line to the yacht, he slipped his of themselves in the interport events..

which will be decided at Shanghai on the sentative. yesterday.

28th, 20th and 20th instant.

wittes of Management of the Voluntary at hand, and the Regent was driven to Gathering together their little stock of during the recent blow, which appears unable to get close in and a buoy was in the present list, is that of A. A. Clox- School, and invited their co-operation in the recall Yuan Shih kai, whom he had clothing and taking the dinghy in tow to have struck the island with much force, thrown attached to a line. The buoy was effort it, we understand that the summarily dismissed from office two years they proceeded to elirah a hill running Among other visitors were a party of carried towards the yacht, and Mr. Wood get away this year. Still, a-strong and

first official intimation of the project was. received by the Secretary in the form of

the circular which had been sent apparently.

before."

The parallelism is certainly curious.- Yours faithfully,

STUDENT.

up from the beach, and when they were far enough, as they considered, from the arivancing sen they made the dinghy fast

Anchors and was towed to safety.