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were practically in danger,httention was turned to the compradore of the ship. Five minutes, is was reported, before the Kwangch foundered her compradore in a frantic condition was rush. ing up and down the place, begging thase on board to save his life. Three thousand dollars to the one who can save my life," was what he was bawling out. At such a time and nader such circumstances money is a thing that is forgolled, and life is what is being remembered. The ship gradually settled down and a wave which broke over the ship carried With his eyes the compradore overboard. turned towards the sinking ship the man was heard to gurgle "Five thousand dollars," bat before he could finish the sentence, another wave struck the ship and the unfortunate man was seen no more.

THE MISSING POLICE LAUNCH.

A TERRIBLE TIME

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 1906.

kong. They were nevertheless got to the station. At the police-court this morning the man with the bag of coppers was fined $15 for unlawful possession. On the second charge, that of assault, the quartelte were sent to gant, for one month and to be exhibited in the stocks for six hours. And still looting gaca pal

THE HAVOC AT SEA.

TH TALE OF A passenger..

party in a proper way of rescue... One of the three women was quito old, with the sunken cheeks and protruding chin of toothless-old age,, but no consideration was given her; in fact, a man and the other two women fought neainst her to be the first hauled up by a certai rope. For some, mirues there was a struggle during which the old woman was underneath and now and again completely submerged. fler rescue was ensured only by her remark Tremendous us is the wreckage wroughtable pluck and the steadying hand of à Japan. ese sailor, who, balancing himself with each within the harbour by last Tuesday's typhoon, Inot on a floating spar, held her with one hand

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P455 wrinkled and scrawny armi, fisher folk, taken unawares, should not Gnnoticed. While barge, junk, launch, river bont and eccon-vessel have suffered like fates within the very harbour limits, in the outside open it is of necessity the sailing craft which more certainly faced doom in "encountering the dreaded typhoon, that monster of the China Sex This Police launch No. 3, which was reported miss | storm is part aspect of Tuciday's awitl'] lashed to the high corner of the stern.

evidence by the reports of ing with Sergeant Houlger and PC. Berry aboard, steamers arriving since then-which steamed into the harbour yesterday afternoon, weathering the gale themselves were called to her mother. and made for the police pier at Tsim-tra-tsui. upon for hours after to perform the rescue act toward hundreds of fisherman Banting on rafts She presented a sorrowful picture. When seen by a

representative e of this paper, they told that

their ¡ll-fated former craft, and drifting-drifting time. When the typhoon stuck the Colony

on an apparently relentless seo. on the 18th instant, the launch was at her moor- ing auTaipo, New Territory, Steam was pull on, but it was of no avail, and the No. 3 dragged her anchar. She was, pitched and Jossed about mercilessly and on one or two oc casions it got so bad that those on board thought she was going over. The awning removed badily stanchions heat and twisted, the life-boat carried away from the davits and in fact, naing the words of him of those on board her at, the at the point of destruction, they "weir

which four Chlaese were crouching too far spans to resist, if such had been their intention, his clambering aboard to share their fate. When we were only a short way out from the Waglan light we sighted this raftlul away th the south and altering our course by a right- angled turn we soon covered the several miles af separation. The pilot's white trousers as he af stond erect were quite the most conspicuous mark wo had yet seen, but it was not until we were practically upon them that we made hiar out as European..

the afternoon we passed many dismantled junka still, however, tidies well under, one, or two jury masts, though most of There ten had no sooner been safely "deck- them appeared rudderless Although acros ed " than the bulk of what proved to be their the distance we could see that they were sign. junk was sighted with only a bit of the stern alling for our aid, they were in such au incom out of water, and of course completely disparably better condition than others whe mantled, On this two men were crouched without immediate help would almost certain- with a three-year-old cblid, a' girl, I think, | ly perish that we passed them by. Unfortun

These ately one or two dismantled halka seen away were soon on board and the little and restored on the castern horizon were left unaided and the memory of it with the thought of the fate The next party rescued amounted to twenty of the possible refugees upon them still lingers four and were taken, from a dismantled with some of the eye-witnesses on the Sado and sinking hulk. Two of the people had Mars. We are at a loss to understand why come from a craft whose total crew before the "One point to which attention should be given storm was seventeen. Later on a party of is the matter of allowing drifting bulks twelve survivors, seven men, two women and to continue a menace to unwary ships at night three children, from a roll of twenty-seven, instead of breaking them up or scuttling them, were taken off the upturned bottom of a good We allowed at least three large sixty T sized junk to the smooth and wave-swept sur seventy-five foot junks to continue the dan face of which they managed to cling by

by the nid gerous driftings simply because there were kong harbourat about seven o'clock on Tuesday evening-her passengers getting a

no appliances no board our steamer by means ropes brought around from the inside now fine opportunity to view the awful Tavuc shown

the under side of the craft, The broad and of which they could have been broken up. It all along the Kowloon side the harbour

their ship fattish bottom of the Chinese junk here proved would seem that some international law should steamed nearly the whole lengiti.

indeed a boon. though often we have won-

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be chacied requiring caplains of vessels to to reach her anchorage at the western end. All dered at the ugly high stern of the native junk, render harmless any dereller they encounter at this has already been fully described by the

we had forcibly presented to us many times energetic news-gatherers of Hongkong, and we during the day at least one virtue of that fea wish now simply to give an account in as feature of marine architecture; for when all the

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thote on board the lannel; had had a fearful composed now of this part and now that part of been rescued by the larger. party, and had our captain did'not go to them.

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when the wind veered i:: and they were saved. No lives were lost aboard her, but the damage sustained to the No. 3 amounted to more than $300. Im mediately the weather quieted, they steameri farongkong, arriving here yesterday afternoon. Those on board report that on entering the harbourthe whole sea wasstrewn with wreckage, and more than 100 dead bodies were seen final. ing out.

30ẠT 101F CURPEE, Ajunk cumain ng twenty dead bodies was Inwed into the harbour by the steam launch Kwong-tung yestoday afternoon. These bodies were gathered from the beach at Stonecutter Istand. They were removed to the Kowloor morgue for burial. Policeman Apel hal -charged of lie launch.

NO SEARCH WORK.

We were given to understand that, owing to the condition of the weather yesterday the launches engaged by the Fung Wah Hospital fa pick up dead bodies in and around the harbour could not get to work yesterday. The launches were out nevertheless early this mot ing and up 10 noon to-day were successful ini -finding a few corpses.

"ST. BROCH" DAMAGED. The dredger S Enoch was badly slamage i during the typhoon of the 18th instant. At the time of the gate slip was at anchor in the Naval Yard camber and she had several plates punctured by being pitched against the cambir wall. Workmen are now..working day and night on board the dredger in order to keep her

afcat.

A BRAVE ENGINEER.

Yet we have to add another name to the Jest of uses of Those gallant men who, were successful is rescuing men and women hom `drowning during the typhoon, and that is Mr. W. Baker, an engineer, on hoard the dredger 57. Enoch. As already stated the dredger was in the Naval Yard camber during the typhoon. Before the gale had got half an hour old, Mr. Baker, who was on duty on the S7. Enoch, besid cries' coming from the water near the dredger.. Without waiting for a second signal the engineer'slipped off his cout and jumped into the boiling sea. As soon as he got to le surface he was just in time to see the head at a woman disappear below the water. Mr. Baker, who is no mean swimmer, struck out towards

Perhaps the steamer whose report shows the must energetic endeavour in this rescue work, wan the Nippon Yusen Kaishia's new European liner Sade Sture, which reached her buoy in

away as we of what we saw as passengers

on a worthy vessel coasting southward through the stars and its aftermath.

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in the harbour one of the great ship pink firms has ordered a number of the firm's disposable lighter to be towed down from Shanghai, thus replacing those that have been wrecked or foundered on Tuesday morn ing. Another leading firm of ship-owner is believed to have placed a fairy good order with the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., for a number of lighters to be towed down South as soon as ready. They also are intended to replace the crippled floating plant of a firm whose mainstay is the large fleet of ves sels whose operations in the East they control, either to the capacity of agents or as general managers SHORTAGE OF TURKS, Y

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The few junks that were spared by the ty phoon are reaping atharvest now. There is no much cargo to be shipped and so few junks'to undertake the work that many ships in the harbour, it said, cannot leave according to schedule time owing to the deficiency of cargo boats. That those cargo boat owners whose junks are at work in the harbour at the present moment are making hay while the sun shines, is a well-known fact, for they have been offered $70 a day for the hire of their boats and they have refused, averring that they could obtain double that sum at other quarters. This scar city of cargo-boats, it is reported, has been the cause of bringing our harbour authorities to action, for we understand that a Government official has been despatched to Canton and Maczo in order to induce cargo boat owners to come down here to work. These men at first refused, thinking, perhaps, that it would be necessary for them to take ont licences for their boats. This was told to the authorities and the representative was sent to Canton again yesterday to inform cargo-boat owners that it will not be necessary for them on this Occasion, 10. obtain licences, the only thing necessary would be the payment of twink, will be satisfactory to the junk people, twenty-five cenfi as "port dues." This, we who are expected here shortly. A certain enter: prising Hongkong geatleman when he heard their boats left the Colony for Canton at once to buy junks and bring them here to hire out. ON SHORE,

The Sicio Murn left Woosung at about pm, Saturday, the fifteenth, and fine weather was encountered, with an exceptionally smooth many its temporary shelter failed before the haty ocean craft which lined Kowloon shore of the huge rates funk owners were charging for

Test of the bulk was submerged a bit of the stern, and sometimes a considerable part, was still protryding and on it the storm-beaten fishermen found a temporary refuge To how

arrivid of substantial and will never be known. But we rejoice that at least a few were kept long enough for our ship to snatch them from n watery grave.

sea, doring Sunday and Monday; though or Monday afternoon there was considerable in crease in the ocean swell, and in the wind, but nothing to indicate the approach of a I would doubilesi be a somewhat tiresome re vipient storm. As about nine p.m., however, petition to recount the details of every case. Le it suddenly roughened and by midnight it suffice to say that from ten in the morning until our vessel was in the midst of a heavy storm, four thirty in the afternoon, we were "hove to" of a high wind, driving rain and vivid lightning-perfoming rescues for a longer time than we

Letting the ship lay to " for just a quiet,

were steaming on our course. People who the captain determined that we were in the

had come from ten different boats were rescued right hand semi-circle of a typhoon moving

in eight "pick-ups." The largest number-taken west-north-west, and accordingly brought, the

from a sigle raft or hulk was twenty-four and ship's head on by having the starboard engine gowa were lone men, one on a mating sail our fullspeed ahead and the port engine full speed first rescue, aust one on the upturned buttom of astern,

Even then, powerful vessel ne shr mousedly is, the Sado Mher had all she could do to turn and breast the wind. Once and again the would swing around a point of

two only to have the wind drive her abeam

agam. Finally the ship won the all-important struggles and with only a few bad forches, une of which, carried the jolly boat clean-away right in front of any coin, by-snapping the ini ryelets of the davits, she got dead in the face of the wind and held her own, behaving very well indeed.

The worst part was encountered at about three to four a.m., when all deck state-rooms were water swept-even where doors and port holes were securely fastened, and for those who were unfortunate enough not to hase closed their doors,no efloit was made by the crow to perform this service for passengers in time-there was a perfect deluge, the sea having now and again free run of the deck and tree access to any opened-roum. availed nothing and some of the passengers, especially the ladies, were in no small di tress because of unwelcome waves within their

rodins,

Screen-doors

With the coming of dawirit more quiet sea was encountered and the rain became occasion. al instead of a stealy downpour as before.

Daylight revealed numerous pieces of wrecked junky, some quite large, and a sharp Ikout, was kept for any signs of bf imong these"

ruins. Several larger pieces were ap

sixty-three Chinese and one European -- 44 mev, a sampan rescued late in the alreancon, in all

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women, 6 boys; 5girls and a girl infant were rescued by nur ship. All of the junks, irom- which they came hailed from Macao except the pilot's boat and a junk from Cheng Chaw, which is out half-way between Hongkong and Macan. We picked them up scattered from Pedio Blanco off the upper end of Bias Bay to some ten miles southeast of Lema Island These boats involved in all some 183 people nl whom 64 ar about one-third were saved. In ane case an entire crew was saved intact, "evén with two rescues to their, credit, but in most cases the survivors reported the great majority of their mates as surely lost; che man being the sole survivor of a crew of eighteen, two others of a crew of twenty-three, and so ob

Doubtless the experience of our vessel was but typical and the cases of the people we rescued typical do. If that be true, it is, interesting to note that within the nc curacy of my statistics (which were gather ed carefully from each rescued patty through my attendant interpreter one-half of the men involved were saved, one-fourth the women, and one-sixth of the children. It is at least striking, if not necessarily conclusive, in connection with the oft- repeated statement concerning Chinese neg. lect of girls, that out of a total of sixty children involvell exactly half were girls and that the restues were in exactly the same ratio of one

to one.

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As we steamed through narrow Lyemun in the gathering shadows of evening dusk we little express our ship passed along the har. signs of havoc as met our eyes as hour to its anchorage at the west. The jumble of junks, launches, tiver steamers and even imply astounding and the impression of niless fury and power bringing swift des traction to even the staunchest vessels and hurling thousands of fellows into the great

The city is almost clear of the fallen trees unknown is Beyond our power to describe. Of

and other refuse, blown on to the roadi" by the one thing we can be sure-every passenger an

starm. All day long carts from" the Sanitary our steamer, however tough his personal ex.

Department have been busily engaged in col perience, may have been, was devoutly thank- ful that the storm had so impeded our progress. lecting loads of garbage from the heaps that that we were ten hours late in reaching Hong, have lain along Connaught Road Central kong. for had we reached here at the predicted since, Tuesday last; and a most hour, eight 3.m., we should not unlikely have pleasing duty it has proved, for as the top shared the fate of which there is such abanayer was removed the stench given out from dart evidence within the harbour, And then no doubt this'tate would not have been told.

C. K. E.

25th inst..

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slowy was nauseating in the extreme. But innumerable, still, are the groups of homeless unfortunates to be seen all along the road from Blake Pier nearly to West Point-some squat ting on mats and taking their rice in bowls. thing out of paper-wrappers," while standing and gazing at the wafers which have stolen their homes and their, all; and wondering what the morrow will bring forth.

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that sum of Ss0,000 would be forthcoming from the combined subscriptions of the Chi nese and foreign communities, Exceeding our most sanguine anticipations this amount bas already been exceeded by the Chinese sub scriptions alone to the extent of sixty par cent.

aggregato over and above the expected to noon to-day the Chinese ilst of the "Typhoon te Relief Fund had attained the magnificent total of eighty thousand dollars! This amount collected within the very short space of a week is a splendid commentary on the noble spirit of generosity Roimating the minds of our Chinese. fellow-citizens. The sum of $80,000 includes a second contribution from---.

H.E. Viceroy Shum.............. $3,000 The Czaion Charijable Insti-

6,000 San Francisco Chines0 10,000 Tl, 1,000 Shanghai Chinese Chinese in Australia*******

300 The individual subscription of H.E. the Vice- roy of Canton thus amounts to $6,000...

The General Committee has appointed a sub-committee of ten to deal with the distribu tion of funda,in the most beneficial manner to the unfortunate distressed ones. The sub-com mittes consist of the Registrar General (the Hon. Mr. E. A. Irving) chairman ex-officio; the Har bour Master (the Hon. Capt. L.A. W. Barnet- Lawrence. Mr. AG. Wood (Messin Gibb, Livingston & Co.

be Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., the Hoo. Mr. Wai Yuk, Messrs, Fung Wa Chuen, Lau Chu Pat Ho Kom Tong Francisco Tse Yat and Tang Twe-Ngong.

One of the first duties of the Committes will be to give effect to the practical suggestion of H.E. the Governor in regard to the building of cargo-Boats on account of the Committee to be sold upon certain easy terms to the formally registered owners who lost their craft on Tuesday last. The question of time for construction and price is being considered by the sub-committee. The distribution of

funds will, we understand, he undertaken as

soon as expedient.

THE WRECKS..

Work on the wrecks in the harbour is pro. gresting very satisfactorily. The Protector is setting out this evening to Saw Chau where every possible effort will be made to get the fengshow off as soon as possible. Her next job on the return from Saw Chau will probably be the raising of the French destroyer Fronde. The actual salving of the warship presents so insuperable difficulty, butther repairs will, of necessity, ba a work of considerable time and labour. The Protector was observed steaming round to the scene'of the Fronde's wreck this morning shortly after nine o'clock.

THE STEAMBOAT CO.'S SERVICE.

As may be expected the temporary dis.. abling of three of the best boats on the Macao and Canton ran has practically dis

The harbour is gradually assuming its.and in comfort, while others are sating "some-organized the service for a time. To cope

mornial appearance.be junks and sumpans that managed to weather the storm which sent so many of their class of craft either to thre bottom, or on to the Praya, in unrecognizable pieces, like heaps of firewood, have had their small damages repaired, their salls re-patched, and are once again in their old places along the. Praya looking for business..

CANTON'S PRACTICAL SYMPATHY, His Excellency the Governor has received. from Mr. Mansfield, H. B.M.'s Consul-General, Canion, a cheque for $1,500, being the sub- scr ptions of the foreign community at Canton towards the relief of the Chinese sufferers from the late typhoon,

Mr. Mansfield, in forwarding the cheque, says:-

EUROPEAN ON THE NINE-FINS.

A report was brought into the Colony to-day by the s.s. Foxam, that the body of a Euro- pean had been seen on the Nine Pins, but as it was further stated that the, body had red hair and-a red beard, it was understood that it was not the corpse of anyone from the Colony,

AT MIRS BAY, "

The inhabitants of the shores el Mirs Bays seem to have come is for their share of the boisterous weather of Tuesday Inst. A report was brought into tows this morning by a visitor tthat region, to the effect that a tremendous to express our deep sympathy with your Ex-

On behalf of our little community I desire.sen, almost partaking of the nature of a tidal wave, b oke over the shores, doing consider. cellency and the Colony generally, in the ap able damage to the craft remaining in the Day, palling disaster which has befalien you,"

and inundating the houses. In one house a In acknowledgment his Excellency has Chinaman was asleep in his bed, when the high sen completely swamped the place, and the man was drowned in fis own house.

written; -

"I beg to convey to you most cordial thanks

for this generous testimony of kind and neigh bourly feeling."

THE OBSERVATORY COMMISSION. We understand that members of the mer cantle marine, and others who may be willing to give information calculated to assist the committee of Thquiry appointed to ascertain whether earlier warning could have been given of the typhoon of the 18th inst., are requested to call on the Chairman of Committee, at the Attorney General's chambers on Saturday, the 29th inst., at 10,30 3.16.

the woman and was in time to seize list before roached but gave no evidence of kuman sur. she sank a third time.. With great difficulty he got the exhausted woman on board the dredger. vivors. But at about ten a.m. when near the

Another thing which struck us was the Hearing from the woman that there were

rock Pedro Blanco (Tai-sing cham), which lies calmness of the women and children. There others in the water, the gallant engineer ook-

S. 46 E. by eighteen miles from Fokai Paint,

was no weeping or wailing at all if you neglect to the sea again and again and was the means

which is the end of the promontory between the crying of a two-months infant exposed to of saving four lives from destruction, When Bias and Hong Hai Days, a raft consisting of the fury of oceanic elements for hours past and he had got the four peons on the deck of the matting sail and mast with its booms and bat deprived of its mother's nourishing care. The St. och the woman-the-rst person-he fans, was sighted and in the midst the hend

mes were the most excited members of the rescued-could not do scough to bank Mr

and shoulders of a man still alive were dis

rescued parties and seemed also the most sel

THE DAMAGED STEAMERS. Baker for his gallant deed. She wok unctly discernible. The ship was put about to fish, women and children to taking second

A visit to Kowloon this morning resulted in from her pocket all she had and handed get near this unfortunate fishernian, and after

place with a calmness and in such a matter-of disappointing paucity of information regarding Baker twenty cents as fungahui,

Ronic twenty anxious-muutes an approach course way as to make one's ire rise-though the progress of work for the raising of the was effected, a life-buoy tossed and the man to look at it coldly, I suppose it is more proper wrecks in the harbour. The German 8.3 hauled on board. He probably owes his to save the male adult as the one upon whom Petrarch lies against the Wharf Company's life to his knowledge of how to put a the rest would be dependent. In many cases, seawall, with her huge rent on the stern, ap life buoy on as much as to anything else.however, preference was given to children,parently nothing being done to have her dock

though in no case to women.

That there are other gentlemen in this Colany who have done the same as Mr. Baker did, is a certainty but we hope that, although their names have not been in print, the Government; when the time arrives, will diligently inquire into the maher and, see that cone-even the most modest ones--including the palice and all, does not go unrewarded for it was only recently that the pluck and grit of Britons in Hongkong have been put to the test and from all accounts they have responded admirably.

CLEARING, AWAY DEBRIS.

Yesterday attempts were made by a Dock launch 10 clear away the débris- Boating near Jardine's sugar works. One or two attempts that were made to tow-away the wreckage proved bruitless for on each occasion the tow rope shapped. It was said that the wreckage in that locality is several Teet thick.

ONE MASS OF WRECKAGE.

Chin waa Bay, which is known to be the safest shelter for vessels during a ty phoon in this Colony,, did not prove in during the blow on the 18th instant. A gentleman who went there yesterday - sakl that the place was one mass of, wreckage All around the foreshore there are a number of disabled launches and hundreds of sampaus, nearly all completely destroyed.

Once when very near the ship and yet being washed away and toward the siers he seemed strongly tempted to make a plunge.

from the friendly ral and swim for the whip | This would have beenea, fatal step, for he had but little use left in his legs when landed an deck and could not stand without support Just before the buoy was successfully seizeda

ed. In all probability telegrams are being exchanged between her owners and the local agents determining the action to be taken for her repairs,

The Patrick's crippled neighboot, the

THE POLICE DASIN,

A visit to Kowloon this morning by a repre sentative of this paper was enough to convince. him that the work new being done by the police on the peninsula and elsewhere was not “all child's play" as a few pessimists seem to think. The police masin there is literally clogged with all kinds of rubbish. Here the hull of a damaged Sicam, launch can be seen, there boxes of decayed mushrooms, in fact all over the place is one complete mass of filth, and the stench- for the police believe there are corpses under- neaththewreckage-isabominable. Yet, Inspec tore Langley and Kerrand theirover-worked men are in the pond up to their waists, dragging out

the rubbish, in order, to clear the basin of its refuse to allow a launch, which is on the slip, to get out to work.

L.COTING

is being carried out by the natives with much vigour as before in spite of the strict watch being kept by the police. Reports say that when a shopkeeper boarded the ill-fated steamer Kwongchow on the morning of the Cantun, he had over $1,000 in notes to make 18th instant, with the intention of going to

purchases with. Before the ship went down the

au ail cloth, but when he was picked up on the beach at Kowloon later and identified the oil cloth was still there, but the money was gone.

with the heavy freight traffic the Company has chartered the ss. Sullberg for only a month to ron between this port and Canton. She is not intended to supplement the passenger. carrying service; she will run to and from Canton for cargo only. The Sullbery's Git$% trip ja.scheduled for to-morrow night, when a full cargo is awaiting her at Canton for her return journey on Sunday,

THE MAGAO SUNDAY. EXCURSION, Week-end excursionists by the delightful and bracing trips on the rungshow which have come to be regarded almost as a necessity by jaded workers in Hongkong, will segret the temporary abandonment of the 'e run commencing next Sunday. She can- not be spared at this moment for this special service. The will, however, make her usual irip from Macao to Hong. keng at 7.30 am. on Sunday, returning, to Macao at 2 pm same day. She will probably be employed, off and on, for despatch ser vice, conveying stores, etc., to her companion boals at Saw Chau and Castle Peak Bay.

THE S.S. KINSIAN." An amusing report has been given publicity that one thousand coolies are engaged digging a channel to enable the Kushan to bestowed out from the beach at Casile Peak Bay. The work of cutting the channel is, as readers of the Telegraph already know, being efficiently and rapidly done by the powerful dredger Canton River, belonging to the Hongkong and

Whampoa Dock Co... There are only onc hundred coolies working on the Kushan, instead of ten times that number. The channel should be completed by Sunday next, and at the highest tide on that day the first attempt to tug the fushan will at once be made.

AT TSIM SHA TSUI.

great wave, probably caused by the too rap life only by the shriek of our whistle as we after the storm on Tuesday. Nothing definite shopkeeper lashed the gates under his arm the jong rows of piecegoods carefully laid out

could be ascertained as to when the Dock

approach of our ship, broke over the raft and Completely submerged a and its passenger and for with a sort of grin the fellow bobbed up, wiped for a moment it looked as ifall were over. But, get aboard-in fact, one man loolishly jumped people will take her in hand,

his face, and scrambling over the spars and sail reached the life-buoy and in

few minutes was half hauled and half lifted from below up the Jacob's ladder which had been slung over the starboard quarter-the sole survivor of crew of eighteen.

of last Tuesday morning.

SINGAPORE'S' CONSOLATION.

The Police basin at Tsim-sha-tsui is gradually assuming it normal appearance again. The mass of wreckage and debris has been almost entirely removed, thanks to the untiring efforts of P.C. Sutton and Clarke, who had under their command a gang of. thirty coolies. No more dead bodies have been recovered there. All the cargo that was strewn carried by the coolies to the police go All promiscuously.around has been sorted out and

at the Tsim-shu-isui Station to be dried. All the colours of the rainbow are discernible from

on the tennis grounds which present more the appearance of a clothier's exhibition ground than a tennis court of a police station. P. C Wills has done capital work with his Commenting on the late typhoon in Hanggang of coolies by having all the bales of kong, the Singapore Free Press willes : cotton and other valuable cargo removed out of compared with the more energetic and wealth the Police grounds. Wills's work this fold Singapore may suffe many disabilities as the reach of temptation is Hoophom Bay to ier Hongkong, but at least we are spared the the Indian looters, who have been a source of periodical infliction of typhonas, with all their nulance in Hunghom Bay during the past tale of death and destruction And for that

week. immunity we cannot be too thankful. As mis- Police launch No. 1, which foundered near fortunes proverbially never come single, it is Tai-kok-tsui during the typhoon, was raised this

injury; as though one. experienc: nt the kind The launch was brought into the harbour unpleasant to see fat "another typhoon is morning by Inspectors Langley and Kerr, who expected." "This is almost adding insult to were assisted by a number of other men. were not enough for any oidinary lifetime. The later in the day and she was removed details of this great typhoon must be exciting to Causeway Bay. Pumps had to be kept hard reading, and we await the anival of the Hong, at work during the homeward trip in order to keep her afloat. She will be tomed over to Ah The Straits Times says: Reuter now joins King for repairs, we understand. in with our Special Correspondent in decorib. THE BOAT PEOPLE'S SKREWONESS. ing the dreadful 'convulsion at Hongkong.

Owing to the scheme which is at present The typhoon, which struck the port would seem under way by which it was decided to advance to have been one of exceptional ferocity, and

money to those unfortunates who have lost the long list of casualties grows longer and their all in the recent typhoon, with which to

In some cases all hands were doing their best to attract attention of passing vessels and even when we were fast approaching them with the evident intention of stopping to pick them up they kept on beseeching nur assistance American suling ship the S. P. Hitchcock, in with swaying arms Othen, however, seemed in the same plight. She lies with her list to have abandoned hope and were aroused to 10 starboard, in the same position as she was in approached the apparently deserted hulk. And then, such would prove the most impatient to from his hulk toward which we were fast

The French naval authorities have been well advised in deciding upon raising the torpedo. drifting and attempted to swim the interval.

boat Proud, now submerged near the Naval Hut for a umely life-busy and a friendly hoist Depôt at Kuvioon. We understand that, as he would have been crushed hetween his junk in the case of the Heungshen, the energetic and our ship's side. This impatier ce, natura!

Protecter will be entrusted with the raising of enough from their point of view, but from our the French warship. When once afloat she exalted station, on the promenade, deck,

will be turned ove to Mr. Wilson, and Itis cap: irrational and foolhardy, vanifested itself in the case of four men found on the same raftable staff at Kowloon, upon whom it can be raft relied that when the Fronde takes water again with Pilot Parsons One of them when the from the Hunghum yards, she will be, to all thirty yards away broke off a piece of plank if she had never been through the experience mass of sails, masts and boards was still some intents and purposes, as good a fighting ship as and with its support swam to the ladder's fool which he was lucky enough to reach, Vás soon The Prine Waldemar, when seen at her as we drifted a little nearer together a line was moorings on Sunday, cotter not be believed tossed to the three remaining on the ralt and

to have sustained d any daniage at all. She was, although several more ropes were about to be there was ample time, such was the hurry of the the Empress of Japan made room for her in the No. Dock. A minute examination dis- long exposed and frightened men that all three closed the fact that her shaft and rudder have of them, and each was a heavy man, grabbed been rather badly injured by being twisted. the first rope and no one of them would let go

Minor damages will also have to be made good The wreckage which up to this time bad and take one of the waiting ropes and all three before this Australian liner leaves the dock. been of comparatively small fragments now had to be hauled up the ship's side clinging to The Chinkul Muru is coming up to the sur-longer as details come to hand. We in there build new craft, the police are now being Every day come fresh cases of looting from began to comprise-inuch larger pieces ScBree

the one rope-a heavy load for the rescuers face of the water off Kellen's Island rather the wreckage both in Hongkong and at Kowly had the steamer resumed full headway on

and an awkward one. Pilot Parsons whom toon. At the Police Court, this morning, three her course before in the distance a flatish raft coolies were fined $25 each for being in posses with many,

black

we picked up well to the south east of Lema slowly, but none the lers certainly. Weather spots which now and again

conditions yesterday again hampered the work island, eight or ten miles away I should say, sion el 51,340 worth of native chemicals. The moved on it, was sighted and a little closer ap. had-açcording to his account given to sympa of the salving party. Pumping operation, the last twelve months' calamitous march of into the different police stations and informing

had to be discontinued off and on, only to police at Kowloon City were just in time lastproach resolved these black spots into people, thelic passengers between sips of tea, night to see the men getting the stuff out of the md heading the slip for the raft, which provest } elc,~been in the water ten hours al be resumed 10-day. 'When the Boarding quake, and the wind. ground, where they had previously buried it, again to be the all-helpful matting sails and together. He was awaiting the Norwegian was not then completely re-floated, but Officer left the ship this afternoon the Chin- to carry away. Two more, Indian sepoys were battans-the indefinite forms of people became arrested at Kowloon yesterday for possessing a distinguishable as seven men and three women,

work was steadily proceeding to that end, and we should not be surprised to find that within quantity of yarn, and this morning Mr. Hazeland who fac.lpard had been forced passengers on a

the week, the Japanese tramp will have found fined them S apiece! A tailor, residing at 145 | craft of such restricted accommodations. Here Aberdeen Street, was about 'to board a car

her berth in one of the Dock Co.'s establishe of had evidence WC

Chinese gallantry-though it seems but just to say that among the cores. bundle,

Lotments. ponding lowest classes of Europeans the same each-map-for-himself" might also have been

COFFIN JUNKS CAPSIZED.

During the bad weather yesterday two coffin

After this all passengers were on deck und x dozen glasses were anxiously and constantly scanning the boisterous sea through the mist and rain in search of unfortunates who needed immediate help. Many bobbing spars again and again deceived as by suggest ng the form of a man. The rougliness of the sea allowed only intermillent views of all but the very largest bulks and rafts, and occasional heavy downpours of rain prevented any really distant seeing." side how to starboard, now forrard and new alt, ever scanning the heating deep away out to the wavy meeting of sky and sea, alike a leaden colour.

junks capsized in the harbour off West Point, Officers and passengers went now to the tossed to them and everything was quiet and however, diy-docked yesterday morning, when kong mails with anxious interest.

and two near Cap-sui-man. These boats were used for carrying corpses into the interior for burial. At the time of the accidents there were the bodies of three men aboard. None „of the 'crew was drowned.

LOOTING.

for Shau-ki-wan yesterday with a when a lukove stopped him Inside the bundle was discovered about $500 worth of silk. He told Mr. Gomperiz to-day that he purchased it from the sampan people, but sa he could not get the sampan people to cor2 roborate his statement, a fine of $50 was im- posed. Acother coolie was arrested at Yau- ma-ti for being,in possesion of a bag containing 2,000 copper cents. Instead of going quictly to the station be called three other men to his Assistance and between them they arraulted the

steamer Vik and got caught before he could make shelter. He lost his sail at about six and shortly after was himself dumped over board with only an oar. The last he saw of his sampan his four sailors were safely abpard Bad attempting to reach him with lines but without avail Some time afterwards when just about

seen the inen, some of them no doubt the very to give up and let one of his temporary sub of the repairing staff is as follows:

the nearest

Straits extend our heartfelt sympathy to the sufferers and losers by this awful visitation at Hongkong, which marks another milestone in the Fiend, who rules the volcano, the earth

CHINESE MUNIFICENCE.

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ABROAD.'

26th inst,

To the future historian whose task it will be to chronicle the events of the Colony during the memorable year 1906, the present record of the spontaneous spitit of magoanimity on the part of the Chinese here in Hongkong and abroad, will furnish one of the most pleasing features in the record of the calamity and its and concealladṛdistress which overlook the Colony on the 18th inst. On the first day of the open- ing of the subscription list for the relief of the unfortunate people of the dealing fraternity we expressed the confident belief

The official list to-day of ships in the hands Kowloon Dock:-Vigilane,Sorengon, husbands of the three wonien, paid no alten

mergences be his last, his head struck what tion whatever to the internet which he

turned out to be a heavy ten-foot spar and to Changsha, Ch. Hardouin Sullberg, Deva this he clung with arms locked around it. After wongse, Print Waldemar, Fei,,H.M.S. Moore man to whom a rope was cast should make the raft fast alongside the ship, oilskin coat around the log and floated this way,

obit he managed to button two buttons of his hen, Francisque, and Johanne,

Cosmopolitan Dock: Radnorshire calmly tied the same around his own waist and continually dodging the sear breaking over

Strathmore. began to clamber up the side. Not until two him and nearly bladed by the cold driving hefty jap sailors went on over the side and rain for four hours until he came across a used headwork as well as brawn were the raft of matting, sails and junk sides on ad that, owing to the scarcity of lighters

LIGHTERS FROM SHANGHAI,

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put to a great deal of trouble. Sampar folks, who immediately after the typhoon estimated their toss at a certain figure are now Rocking the officer-in-charge that they had made a mistake in their first estimate and that their loss was double or treble the so they first reported. One officer suggested that, in order to overcome the difficulty which must arise, the "sampan people should be made to give their estimates in a temple and before the altar. Whether this will prove successful is a matter of opinion. One sampan- man in particular estimated on the 20th instant. that his loss amounted to $6,000. This moma«. ing he wanted to make the inspector believe he had made a mistake in bla estimate. When asked what he estimated his lost to be row the man unblushingly said $16,0col

LOOT, BURIED IN THE HILLS. In consequence of information received Sergeant Blackman and a gang of constables searched the hillside at Kowloon City for fally thirteen hours yesterday in search of look that