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The typhoon which was reported on Wednesday morning. 120 miles south of the Pratos and at 9.30 p.m. about 230 miles south-east of the Colony did not arrive here in full force till about 1 p.m. yesterday.

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The No. 2 signal, two green and a white lights went

up at 11 p.m. on Wednesday and the weather though calm and moonlit showed the usual signs of approaching trouble, a slight swell in the harbour and an illusion of darkness and closeness of the hills.

Yesterday morning the rain was falling fairly steadily but at 11 am wind and rai increased to a gale. The black crdss signal was hoisted during this period and at noon the "Star Ferry service was suspended. At half past twelve the Tram service also stopped. By 3.30 p.m. the worst of the storm had passed and though the rain was still falling heavily the wind bad eased. Before 4 p.m. the Star Ferry service was running again and there was no more than drizzle from the heavy clouds.

Nearly all business shut down at noon, when the typhoon guos were fred and did not reopen. The shipping escaped lightly considering the intensity of the storm.

Mr. C. W. Jaffries of the Observatory, who described the typhoon as "very severe,” said the wind rose to a maximum of nearly 120 miles an hour: The centre of the typhoon passed south of the Colony and probably struck the coast near Macao. Hurricane force was experienced · here at p.m. and lasted two hours.,

below:-

...

Full details of the damage, official reports and a number of personal experiences appear

DEVASTATION

ALONG PRAYA.

GALLANT RESCUE BY "POLICE POSSE.

The

The blue burgee fluttering slowly to the top of the flagstaff at the Star Ferry Pier at about noon was the signal for a concerted rush among a crowd of people waiting to crosa to Kowloon, writes a Daily Press representative. last ferry from the mainland had struggled bravely across the har- bour, discharging its passengers at 14.20. The rising seas made berth- ing a difficult matter. Much to the disappointment of the waiting crowd, the ferry returned empty to the typhoon shelter across the har bour.

"It looks like the real thing.' grunted member of the crowd. I hope the kiddies have been able to get home from school all right."* Great muddy seas commenced to break over the Praya, showers of spray being caught by the gusts of wind and sent with stinging force

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OBSERVATORY REPORT.

COURSE OF THE STORM.

The Royal Observatory Report is 25 follows:-

The typhoon appears to have formed during the afternoon of August 20, In Latitude 19 N., about 150 miles west of N. Luzon. · It followed a W.N.W. or N.W. track until 3 p.m. on the Zist, after which a more noïther- ly course was taken until 10 p.m. when it passed to the east of Pratas. Bubsequently it moved north-westwarda passing immed lately to the south of Hong Kong at 1.30 p.m."to-day. -

The lowest barometer reading at the Observatory was 28.948 inchea at 1.30 p.m. The greatest

squall was from the east at the rate of nearly 120 miles per hour. The wind reached gals force at Gap Rock at 10 a.m, at Waglan at 11 am. and Hong Kong at 11.50. a.m. Typhoon force cccurred at Gap Rock at noon and at Waglan and Hong Kong at about 1 pm, and lasted for over two hours at sách.. station.

ALL SHIPS SAFE.

FATSHAN'S ALARMING

EXPERIENCE.

were no

Torrential Downpour.

dashing into one's face made it a painful fent to keep one's eyer open. It was just possible now and again to catch glimpses of debris ang hither and thither by the

A large crowd of onlookers stand- A continuous rattle and crash of ing under shelter across the road falling debris reminded one of a were obviously thrilled at the pros-war-time bombardment, save that peet of witnessing the final crash. the explosions of projectiles were The police posse' struggled their missing. Instead, one heard a way forward and joined the crowd. sudden scream of rushing wind which spau, one around and gave a Just then an alert Indian constable feeling of complete helplessness. So caught sight of a hand waving strong was the wind on these oc- frantically through a small aperture casions that one found breathing

extremely difficult while the sting by a shattered window. He shouteding curtains of spray and water above the roar of the wind and drew the sergeant's attention to the fact that somebody was imprisoned with in the threatened hut. Without hesitation, the Sergeant shouted & gusta. command to the posse. He and a Wading knee-deep through swirl- Europena colleague led them in aing torrents, I returned to the dash through the storm, ignoring Praya. On those rare occasions the dangers offered by flying debris, when the torrential downpour cessed" aweeping seas, and teäring gusts of momentarily, I caught, a passing wind.

glimpse of leaden grey clouds scurry Despite the fact that the entire ing low overhead. Bacing seas structure was threatened with des raged across the harbour. A Blue truction at any moment, the brave Funnel liner was seen slowly drag

and sweeping party of rescuers ran on to the rock-ging her anchor ing wharf and, obviously at the risk astern. Then the dense curtain of of their lives, smashed down the rain blotted her out of sight, door of the but and freed the im prisoned meng

These foreign policemen have good face," remarked a Chinese on- looker calmly.

A Coolie Rescued,

None of the shops along the waterfront were, open. Typhoon shutters were in position, many of them lashed with ropes to give them greater security. Every moment. aw the debris strewing the roadway increased. A wooden shed in the At the end of the Douglas Steam-vicinity of the water tanks was: ship Company's Wharf, a coolic blown bodily into the harbour by crouched precariously behind the gust of wind more strong than any doubtful shelter of a pile of timber. which had preceded it. The totter- Before the wind attained its full ing great iron structure on the volume, he had been endeavouring Canton Wharf took another and even more precarious list. A heavy to fish a large billet of wood out of the water. The task proved too

sea lifted a block of stone and wash--

Thanks to adequate warnings there

serious shipping mishaps within the limits of the harbour. The Fatshan, which left Canton at 8 am. yesterday came in for some very heavy weather in- deed, the bridge shelter being blown away on the tarboard.side.

The ship anchored for two hours at Castle Peak Bay and arrived here much for him, but it was not urtilled it into the middle of the road- safely at about 4.39 a.m.

River Boat Ashore.

he discovered that it was impossible way and

flagstaff from the top of

for him to fight his way back off rice godown was whirled to the the wharf that he became aware of ground, the fluttering remains of what had once been a gay-enloured Mr. Dickenson, the second officer, his peril. said the ship had been swept by

At least fifty Chinese stood in fag lashing on the end of broken heavy seas and it had been a most safety watching the hapless coolie halyards like a whip.

almost overcome with unpleasant experience for all conwho was

In the Chinese Quarter, recaed. They passed, what looked terror. No attempt was made to

Only the women and children ap- like one of the Wuchow boats rescue him until three European peared to trust to the safety of eground and in a bad condition. and two Indian constables linked Owing to the blinding rainstorm it arms, formed a chain, and effected their homes when the typhoon was at its height. The men appeared to had not been possibly to identify the his rescue.

¿ prefer to congregate in little knots. During the height of the typhoon," in shop doorways in the streets. ship and as the gale had moderated by then the Fatshan did not stap several vivid flashes of lightning Here and there one caught a but reported the matter to the Har- occurred. Many electric light wires glimpse of an impassive face peer- were fused, vivid Bashes running to

bour Office.

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and fro, giving a Dante-like touching from behind a partially-lifted according to a police report she is almost inee-deep through swirling pans, Lorn clothing and other part- Possibly the vessel is Caseum for to the scene. In places, one waded shatter. Wicker chaire, pofe and aground one mile to the West of sea-water. Heavy wooden signs be phernalia was blown from veran-

dabs. Sai Mun. Nobody was on board longing to Chinese shops and go- A pair of Chinese trousers, too

Linto the faces of the hapless. pèdes. of the typhoon. It was not so bad when a police launch went to her downs were whirled to the ground. long and too short, too wide and

Interviewed by our representative Mr. Jeffries, of the Royal Observa tory, had no doubt as to the severity as that of 1923, but very little short trians who were returning discon of it. Forming comparatively close solately, to their offices. Every to the Colony it had been extra

ordinarily hard to keep track of minute saw the sens rising higher it and no chances had been taken and higher, broken baskets, pieces with regard to the issuing of warn of rattan matting, billets of wood fings. and all the usual form of flotsam and jetsam peculiar to Hong Kong's harbour being strewn about the roadway.

The typhoon was beginning to make it's power felt. The gusts in-

assistance.

Taishan "Unscratched." We got through it without a scratch," said Captain Madden of the Taishan. "We went out to the Typhoon Anchorage at 11 am, and were back at the wharf at 6 p.m. The ship rode it out splendidly and never "budged. But it was very nasty blow and I felt sorry for people ashore! The Macao boats," he added, "lost, some awnings, and minor fittings but no serious damage was done. The Taishan left at 10 to Canton.

Pieces of glass, zinc, and shattered electric light bulbs were caught up by the wind and hurled about in every direction.

wind, whirled high into the air and too narrow, distended by the

out above the harbour, the legs waving about as though they were Sun Company's Misfortune. making strenuous but fatile attempts to kick their way back to terra Probably worth several hundred firma. An iron bedstead, complete, dollars, the massive plate glass win with mattress, sailed across the road dows in the ground floor of the and struck the coping of Sincere's'. Sun Company's new building were roof. There the bed and the mat shattered. Huge pieces of glass ress parted company and fell to the were blown about the pavements ground causing a Sanitary Depart- and into the store itself. A special ment official, wearing a shrapnel display of bathing costumes had helmet to jump hurriedly to safety. been arranged in one window.

Continuously, one beard the crash-

creased in intensity causing shop were torn from their fixing and p.m. last night for her usual tripFloating calmly on her back among ing of breaking glass, the rattling

The Kinshan after starting for Canton at 8 a.m. returned to the Typhoon Anchorage, but resumed her voyage later.

A Sensational Rumour, A ramour was prevalent that the Blue Funnel liner Tyndareus had broken from her buoy and was ashore at West Point. The ship had a singularly narrow escape, but with engines going full ahead and anchors down she managed to hold her own till the wind abated.

Several yards of 6-inch heavy galvanised iron piping, used to supply the tanks erected along the Prayn during the water shortage, signs to swing ominously to and fro. thrown across the road as though Torn flags and halyards fluttered they were mere straws. A structure an office on one of the veed as from swaying flagstaff. Crowds of

smaller jetties toward West Point sightseers congregated under the

was torn up and hurled into the shelter of the verandaha of the

water, the force of the wind push- offices along the waterfront. Az electric light standard fell with a ing it well under. "It reappeared crash into the roadway and caused moment later, quite intact, and the crowd to dodge back, as far as then a foaming sea sent it crashing possible, into the comparative safety against the seawall and it was of office doorways.

It was impossible to cross many of the side turnings at times. The The Agapenor and the Hector, of At 1.10, the full force of the writer, on one occasion, was lifted the same line, were at Kowloon Bay typhoon tore at the buildings along clean off his feet and thrown beavily and rode out the storm safely.

The C.N.C. vessel Kiangsu broke the Praya. A posse of police, tied against a little knot of Chinese from her buoy, B23, but managed together in fours, battled their way coolies who were crouching in a to get safely to the Typhoon An- along the waterfront, Driving sheets doorway. A second or two later, chorage. The Chinwah, of the same line, sailed on Wednesday night for of rain and spray hid the ships" in a massive glass sign crashed to the Haiphong but returned yesterday harbour from view, even at close roadway, smashing to pieces on the morning. range. Great pieces of corrugated spot on which he had been stand, iron torn from the roofs of sheds

Watchmen's Plight.

smashed into 'n stchwood.

ing.

the debris, the wax model of a of falling ironwork and the smash- young lady, arrayed in a crimsoning of beary seas upon the water- bathing costume and wearing a front. On the roof of the wireless rubber bathing cap and a pair of depot opposite Messrs. Sincere'a water wings, struck a rather incon premises, a tangle of wire repre- gruous note.

acnted what had once been a wire- On the pavement outside, a be less aerial. The mast, about 30 feet draggled doll, the plaything of a high, was bent almost double and Chinese tot, bobbed up and down kept twirling round and round 'at on the swirling stream of water, the whim on the wind. A motor- which washed along the gully. It car was blown on to its side in was brought to standstill by a Queen's Road West. broken sign bearing the legend, Drenched to the skin, I waded together with Chinese characters, back to the City.

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tree in Statue Square bad suffered In Liberty Street, a heavy teaks from the buffeting of the wind. scat was planted securely across a Many of them were torn up by the doorway, preventing a number of roots and sprawled belplessly across customers from leaving a small Chi- the footway. Indeed, damage to trees appeared to be fairly general, sine teashop.

Picking its way carefully betweez

even the stately palms in front of fallen, masonry and heaps of debris, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank motor ambulance stopped near the Building having fronds torn off. was lifted into it by attendants. typhoon appeared to me to be fairly World Theatre and an injured coolig

In all, the damage done by the Just as it was about to proceed on extensive. The only people likely its way to the hospital, a heavy to beneft by its visit to the Colony billet of wood whirled around the will be the builders, the sign-

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near the wharves were sent crashing One terrifice gust of wind tore at on the pier in which a number corner and struck a Chinese foki writers, and the glaziers. And even to the ground, while smaller pieces the roof of the Canton Wharf and of Indian watchmen and Chinese He fell to the ground and sat staring they, no doubt, would rather that

coolies were taking shelter. The stupidly at his left leg which was the typhoon chose

ather were whirled about and sent smash left it hanging procariously overweight of the roof pressing against doubled outwards.

"Broken," commented a police locality to work its havoc.

Yet, I am told, the typhoon was ing against the first obstruction in the water. Every second threatened the flimsy structure and the buffet-

a comparatively mild affairi their path. The gusts grew stronger the structure with dextraction and ing gusts of wind caused the hut to officer tercely as the ambulance drew I expect we one gust harder than the others quiver and tremble and it appeared to a standstill agai

.A.F until it was impossible to face them caused the heavy mass of iron and every minute as if the whole lot shall have a good number of cases

like this before we are finished."

"(Continued on Page 5.) steel to collide with a wooden hut would be swept into the harbour.

and breathe.