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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 24TH, 1926

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An Unprecedented Week.

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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, PUBLISHED TO-DAY, GIVES A FULL AND CONNECTED ACCOUNT OF THE HAPPENINGS IN THE SATURDAY LAST UNTIL

FROM

· COLONY YESTERDAY.

Delage on Sunday Night. Havoc on Monday.

Repair work on Tuesday and Wednesday, A Second Typhoon on Thursday.

It has been a week unprecedented in the history: of

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The complete details are published in the WEEKLY, It is an issue of remarkable interest and one which hundreds of people will wish to keep for purposes of record.

All friends at Homie will welcome copies. There has pro bably been no time to write letters this week. „ WEEKLY will give the reason.

The Conference at Canton has, to some extent, been over. looked during the period of local excitement. The WEEKLY brings the Canton news up-to-date.

The report of the capture and release of the Police Patrol

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DAMAGE DONE BY RAIN.

GAS IN WARFARE.

SMALL PROPORTION OF DEATHS.

The following letter recently appeared in the London Daily Telegraph: ROUGH ESTIMATE OF A MILLION self A Sentimentalist states that SIB-Your correspondent signing him-

DOLLARS.

REQUIREMENTS BY THE P.W.D.

SIX LAKHS WANTED FOR THIS YEAR.

Reference was made to the damage done by Sunday night's rain at the meet ing of the Legislative Council Finance Committee yesterday afternoon.

dew medical officers engaged in the Somme battle of 1918 will endorse Captain Liddell Hart's eulogy of the use of gas in warfare," and adds: If phosgene and the like are to be used, there is not a man who has seen the effects of both would not prefer the mangling of high explosives."

I presume that medical testimony, to be valid need not be confined-to-these- who served in 2016; the war lasted for another two years, and with every month gas was used in greatly increas ing proportion, until for 1819-it-averag cd practically 50 per cent. as filing for shells, besides the great quantities dis charged by projectors..

THE TYPHOON.

STRANDED VESSELS GET OFF.

CITY AND HARBOUR NOW

NORMAL

FILLS UP

TOWED OFF

It has been - learned that the 3.5.

Pawnee, mentioned in yesterday's Daily Press," "did" not "actually go` sahore, at Chuné Hus Island, near Cap Sai Mus, although ine drifted very near to the shore. The Kau Sing visited her during THE BLOW GOES INLAND AND the day, and finding there had been no injuries on board and that her help was not required left the scene and passed on a message to the Kowloon Dock salvage tug Henry Keswick. The Henry Keswick- successfully refloated the Pawnee just when it was getting dark on Thursday. From what_is_learned_sho_bas not been

She is now seriously damaged. anchor behind Stonecutters, having been: towed there by the tug...

With the passing of the danger of the typhoon the second this season, the city and harbour has resumed its normal appearance.

Yesterday's scenes presented a distinct contrast to those of Thursday. In the City, business went on as before; while in all areas where debris-was-scattered this week gangs storm from the earlier

of coolies were to be seen engaged in clearing away the mess. Especially was this noticeable at the junction of Des Vaux Road and Pedder Street, where there stifl

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After the various items appearing on the Agenda had been disposed of, the COLONIAL SECRETARY said: There is one sther item I wish to bring up and that is

" CONFUCIUS” OFF. the vote, or rather I would put it, the

The Chinese steamer Confucius was authority from the Committee to proceed" The report of the Surgeon-General of

also re-floated by the Henry Keswick, with the work of restoring damage re- the United States Army for 1920 stated

She had taken refuge from the typhoon chat 258,358 men of the United States sulting from the rain on Sunday night. Army were injured during the war, in

threat in Kowloon Bay, but wind and The formal vote will be put before you cluding 31,249 dead on the battlefeld;

considerable tide proved too much and she grounded at the next Finance Committee when we 20,602 were admitted to hospital auffer quantity of silt. Also along Queen's just of the China Light and Power Co.'s

ing from gas alane, of whom 1,221 died. shall have and time to get more accurate Very few probably under 200, dicu Road, between the Naval Dockyard and works at lunghom. She is now at details, but in anticipation of your ap from gas on the battlefield, since concen- Wellington Barracks, the heaped-up anchor in howloon Bay and, as far as proval H.E. The Governor has authorised trations, suficient to kill within twelve banks of mud on either side of the can be ascertained, has not suffered

hours were seldom obtained." The total. the-Public Works Department to carry-on-deaths from gas were 9 per cent of the tram tracks are being carted away serious damage.

The Ding On, a small cargo steamer, and I wish to obtain the authority of the gas casualties (contrasting with 335 per speedily as possible. The damage doné

cent in the British Forces and 3 per to Kennedy Road nullahs is also being formerly the Government dredger, is Committee for the work to be carried on

cent. in the German army). Of 187,686 American troops injured by bayonet, steadily repaired, and the vast amount still ashore near the Kwong Tax Chong bullet, or H.E., 48,449 died-24.75 per of debris in them taken out. Many of shipyard. She is not believed to be in cent of the total. Of 2,787,683 British the side streets of Wanchai are still any danger. casualties from these causes 578,000 died

With regard to the Confucius, the Kau 31.4 per cent. of the total. In other quite deep in mud.

In the harbour the contrast of the two Sing went alongside daring the day, but words, according to this medical testi-

On Thursday finding that it was not possible to do any mony, a man disabled by gas instead of days more is apparent. by bullet, or shell had ten times as much

to the extent to which the Public Works Department thinks it will require money this year.

The ɓgures tentatively put forward are: Hongkong

$510,000 Kowloon and New Kowloon $ 60,000 New Territories

$ 20,000

That makes a total of six laks, but I am afraid we shall not get off with that amount. That total only represents what the P.W.D. think they will want to carry on until December 31st. have not accurate estimates so I cannot give you exact details, but I think I am right in saying that roughly the estimate of the damage is a million dollars.

The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS: That is so..

The CHAIRMAN: We cannot tie the Public Works Department down to a Egure until they draw up their estimates and I want your authority for them to carry on with secessary work in the

meantime.

chance of recovery in the British Army morning there was not a native craft, thing at that time, and that the steamer and twelve times as much in the Amerimotor-boat or launch to be seen, and was in no immediate danger, the refloat- can Army. (Our percentage is affected the stretch of water was desolate excepting of her was left to the Henry Keswick. by our unreadiness to meet gas in 1915.) for a dozen or so vessels moored to In addition, the report states that 9,318

CAPSIZED.

United States soldiers permanently lost typhoon buoys Yesterday the harbour It has been reported that a sampan,

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was full of shipping, much of it consist ing of delayed vessels due on Thursday, which probably could not reach shelter but unable to put in before late on in time, was seen about 11.30 on Thurs Thursday evening or early the following day morning, doating about half a mile morning. Towards the close of the day this number was added to.

from shore just off Bokfulam. She was.. Many launches were plying to and from the capsized, and bottom up, two men were various steamers, motor-boats could. again be hired, and the ferries were in clinging to the derelict, and it is feared to the Fourth United full swing. There was also the familia they were" drowned. No report has come

daily sight, which one takes little notice foundered shortly before one o'clock.

to hand regarding the sampan" which of until it is absent, namely, the sampans and trading junks either moving about the harbour, or lying against the Praya wall. These craft appeared to be very Rescue Tug, Kau Sing, it is interesting. The Government's new Harbour and buer yesterday, and delayed cargo wasto ante, ras-on-duty-from-Wednesday being discharged on to the Fraya from them all day.

the use of limbs either by amputation "Gas caused none of these or damage. crippling or deforming effects."

Select Com Furthermore, before a mittee of the United States Senate in 1933, Dr. Francine, chief of the State Tuberculosis Clinic in Philadelphia from 1507 until he went to France as con- sultant-in-gas States Army Corps, and chief of staff to the great gas hospital at Toul, stated This authority was given.

under oath of all methods of war fare gas is the least. inhuman and the SUPPLEMENTARY VOTES FOR 1923. most effective." He flatly denied that The Colonial-Secretary presided at the gas caused tuberculosis as an after-effect, meeting of the Finance Committee and and said that, on the contrary, it would those present were: Hon. Sir Shou Son tend to present it and to assist the cure Chow, the Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Mof those who were tuberculous when C. McI. Messer), the Director of Public 828sed! This unexpected, result in cor- Works (Hon. Mr. H. T Creasy), Hon. roborated by the Surgeon-General's re- Mr. A. O. Lang, Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird port, which stated that the percentage of tuberculosis cases among men who had Leen gassed was 2.43 per 1,000. Since the annual rate for tuberculosis among enlisted men serving in France in 1916 was 3.50, and in 1910 4.50 per 1,000, it would seem to be apparent that tuber-

and Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard.

The Committee considered message No. 7 from H.E. The Governor containing items Nos. 295-998 to supplement the estimates of 1825 and items Nos. 12-138. to supplement the estimates of 1928.

The total required to supplement the

1995 ́estimates was $5,282.

The CHAIRMAN: I hope these votes will be the last required on the 1925 estimates.

They were agreed to.

Supplementary Votes for 1926.

The total amount passed to supplement the estimates of 1926 was 8149,556..

culosis, occurred less frequently among the soldiers who had been gassed than among those who had not been."

The British officials medical report on the war stated: "There is happily every reason to think that only a very small percentage of gas casualties of the war

THE KAU: SING!”

night antil 8.30 on Thursday night, with

Mr. C. J. Thompson-(Senior Boarding TYPHOON FILLING SP Officer) in command By nine o'clock on Wednesday night all nativo, craft were The Observatory report for yesterday at typhoon shelters and the harbour was stated that the typhoon is filling up to clear with the exception of ships at the North of Pakhoi (on the southern typhoon buoys. On Thursday morning, Kwangtung const) and now appears as a the Kau"Sing remained at anchor behind depression over S.W. China It went Stonecutters until the worst of the gale inland between Macao and the French had blown over, but later in the morn port of Kwang Chow Wan,

ing had commenced patrolling the bar- The lowest barometer reading at the bour. She, as stated, visited the two Royal Observatory at a.m. on Thure stranded steamers during the day, to see day was 29.263. At Gap Rock, which if assistance was required. The report the typhoon only missed by a few miles that the Kau Sing was dragging both the lowest was 28.89 et 11 am. Theso

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figures are by no means a record. The anchors and steaming full speed ahead is not correct. As a matter of fact he had lowest san level, on this aide of the both anchors down and was steaming harbour was 29.18.

slowing only occasionally. When she left ber anchorage it was due to the fact that the Fulcanus had got her cables entangled at her typhoon moorings and got across the path of the Kau Sing a number of times. It was, therefore, decaned wisest to get away from this vessels' vicinity.

will suffer any permanent disability." The highest wind velocity was 86 miles A Sentimentalist may prefer the an hour, at 8.54 am on Thursday. In Item No. 128 was for Port Works Extra-mangling of high explosives. Common the 1023 disaster, the windgauge regis humanity prefers a method which puts the highest poesible number of enemies out of action with the minimum of per- manent damage to them.-Yours,-

F. BRITTEN AUSTIN.

ordinary, Hongkong. Reclamation of Quarry Bay Marine Lot No. 4.-875,000.

Hon. Mr. BIRD; Was there not a con- tract for this work?

Sussex, June 9th

GIVING ACCESS-TO-NEW

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tered much over the 100 miles an hour mark. Force 10 (about 70 miles) an hour was returned from Gap Rock

The rainfall for the 24 hours ended at 1.90 inches, 10 alm. yesterday was making the total since January lat 83.49 inches, against an average of 47.95

inches.

The weather forecast for to-day is:- 9.Ewiads, fresh to moderate, overcast, occasional rain." ·

Two other steamers also dragged their The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS: There was a contract but it was made in 1923

anchors, but proceeded to fresh moorings.

and the whole work has been consider-

The Kau Sing patrolled the barbour until nine o'clock in the evening, and ably changed. This expenditure is in-

when the "all clear" signal was report- volved in the exchange of land with Messrs. Butterfeld & Swire. The plan

Led to the Harbour Master (Lient-Com- mander G. F. Hole, R.N.), she was berth- shows what exchange was made. The

ed at Kowloon and the officers and crew Government took over a row of buildings

A BUSY TIME, to allow for the widening of the road and Item 131 was for Public Works, Extra-

finished their twenty-four hours vigil.! The Post Office mail department cx It might be added that during the time in return agreed to reclaim certain land ordinary, Communications, General works and to put up a retaining wall to protect $37,140. The money was required to give perienced very busy time yesterday, they were on duty, there was littled mare the "reclamation. The work is still in access to new buildings which are near some of the inward and outward mails than a couple of hours sleep at the out- progress. The original contract was a ing completion and in some cases already despatch in consequence of the typhoon. Everyone got soaked before they were.

having been delayed from arriving and side, as any rate for Mr. Thompson. small one and the contractor failed in completed.

No fewer than five inward mails ar-free, and they experienced some very 1923. When the Netherlanda Company The CHAIRMAN: This is in Kowloon, is rived, these being by the Macedonia rough sailing in the choppy sen. came they took over the quarry from the it not?

The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS: In President Wilson (U.S.A., Honolulu, (Home mail due on Thursday), the original contractor and at the same time

A RIVER STEAMERS. took over the contract for this work. Hongkong. A great deal of the money Japan And Shanghai mail due on Thurs River shipping resumed yesterday mor The CHAIRMAN: The total amount re- is a re-vote from last year and covers 42 day), the Kashmir (Shanghai and ning after 24 hours' enforced idleness quired for 1926 is $135,000. You will be small items, curbing and channeling. Europe vid Siberia), Talma (Straits The Lungahan left for Canton, the Tai able to complete the work allotted to this making footpaths and so on.

mail), Szechuen (Shanghai mail), and shan and Sai On for Macao; the Fatshan year for that sum?

came down from Canton in the afternoon The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS: There

Fanpura (Shanghai mail), -

In addition, there was the despatch of and the Tung On, Kinehan and Chuen is no doubt about that. I shall not come Item 187 was Harbour Office, Repairs mail to be attended to, among the Chow crossed from Macao.

to Launch $17,000. (In the tabular outward mails, being the President statement the figure was put at $1,700 baton for Manila (sailed yesterday),

EXPERIENCES AT SEA. this was a misprint) The money was the Kashmir for Straits (sailed yester Reports made to the Harbour Office: required to repair the damage done today), the facedonia for Shanghai (sail- yesterday by masters of incoming vessels the Police launch which went aground on ing to-day), the Hai Hong for Amor show that most of them had received June 2nd. --

Hon. Mr. BIRD: Has there been no Barnartonshire for Straite (sailed yes typhoon The Hydrangea, which came and Toochow (sailed yesterday), the severe buffeting as the result of the enquiry into this stranding 12

terday), the Hin Sang for Sandakan, into port on Thursday afternoon from: The CBA full report was re- the Linan for Shanghai, the fing Sang Kwang Chow Wan, met with-heavy seña and Lamina ecived from the C.9.F. and there docs for Haiphong, the Talma for Amoy and between the Ladrones any blame. Subsequently the Harbour for Home in Suez, and the Taiping for the barometer dropped to 2020, but the not appear to be any reason to attach Japan (miling to-morrow) the Ranpura Islands. Eetween seven and nine o'clock, Master held an enquiry and he is satisfied Manila and Australia. The sailing of weather experienced was not so bad as that no blame should be attached to the the Taiping, due to go yesterday was was feared High sens swept the docks people navigating the launch.

to the Finance Committee again on this subject. A difficulty now, however, is that the recent rainstera caused the Nether- lands Company a good deal of damage The wall is in process of construction at a very large discharge from the nullah got behind the wall and damaged it to some extent which they will have to make good.

COST OF DOG CATCHING.

Item No. 120 was for Police, increase in Coolie hire on account of dog catch ing, 34,500. A sum of $3,000 was provided in the 1928 estimates of which 82.401.08 has been expended to date. Owing to the outbreak of rabies additional coolie hire raised the monthly expenditure to $720 and 8745 in April and May respec- tively, and at this average the sum of $4,500 was required to supplement the Hon MY BIRD: That seems a lot of money for dog catching

DAMAGE TO POLICE LAUNCH No. 4

GOOD

OD WORK RECOGNISED.

delayed until today while the Ranpura antil the vessel reached Hongkong..,- and one or two of the last named The La Carmartonshire, from. Shang- steamers are not due out until this hai; the «.s. Luise Nielson from Manati, Item No. 125 was for miscellaneous morning. However, all thee maila had| Cubs; the facedonia, from Singapore, services $1,010. In rendering assistance to be dealt with before closing time as and the ... Kingchow from the South, to the stranded police izunch the tug the Post Office.

all report mountainous seas and rain Henry Keswick was hired from the

squalls in the typhoon area Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Company

AT MACAO.

Curiously enough, the Glennifer from

PEAK TRANS.

at a cost of 8500 Special services in At Macso nothing extraordinary The CHAIRMAN: It does seem a good connection with the salving of the launch happened. All river shipping was tuck Singapore appears to have missed if, deal of money, but the work required to were also rendered and in this connected away snugly and there was no dif. though he could not have been far be be done

tion the following honoraria were recomficulty in weathering the storm. The find. Her master stated that the wea Hon. Mr. BERNARD Have you any idea mended Mr. B Witchell (engineer, lowest reading on the baromatar of ther was good.. how many dogs you catch for this amount Messrs. W. 3. Bailey & Co.) #400; Mr. Capt. Muir (master of the Tung On) was The CHAIRMAN: I have not, but there Wong Chiu Pak (wireless operator) $50; 29.31. A few squalls were felt in the must be a record and I can find out. Mr. Mok Kam (launch engineer) $30, Mr. inner harbour. The new reclamation

Hon. Mr. Lane: It would be interest. Ip Lam (launch stoker) 830,

and breakwater works in the outer har ing to know how much it works out per

bour were not damagedate head. (Laughter.)

Similar conditions, it was learned on the arrival of the river steamer, pre vailed at Canton, where the typhoon was not felt.

It was promised that the figures should be made known to the Committee.

(Continued on next column)

The CBAIEMAN Honoraria for good work is a very good way of encouraging people to do good work in future.

All items in the message were approved,

The Peak Trains stopped running at 7.15 last night, owing to the lack of water required for the engine room. It. is hoped that a normal service will be possible to day; at any rate, during the early-bourn,