Willoughby to make defi.la ingulites from a nuinbur of villager who could be seen, with the aid of glasses, from the deck of the Stanley bosily drying portions of the wreckage that had been washed on the beach. Unmistak abla evidence of the foundering of the Ting Zing was seen when the clear outlines of a lilaboat painted white were discerned on the sandy shore. Farther westward yet another lifeboat lay on the bleached sady shore, and this confirmed the belief that the wreck of the Ying King had been correctly located.
PLOTEAM AND JETSA12. Lieut. Beckwith ordered a boat to be lowered, Capt. Willougɩby sent ashore by her with an English-sprati ginember of his crew. The first object to arrest attention and which was made the rat ject of close examination was the lifeboat. On her bows were painted "S.S.
"Ying King, No. 4.” The bous port bilge was smashed, but otherwise it bare no evidence of having, bean terrifically buffelel by the wind and son. „Strewn all along the beach fir a dis. tance of fully, half-a-mila, was a quantity of flotsam and jaicam that had been washed Boxes of tea ashore from the wreck, were lying intact in the open sun to be dried. Strings and strings of firecrackers mixed with bundies of human hair-in promiscuous heaps Huge melons, which on the sandy shore. formed part of the ill-fated vestel's miscellaneous cargo, were thrown against the bucke spars that were blown on to land from the deck of the river steamer., Here the cover of the come pasion way, thera long lengths of the Iren handrails, and shme 'little distance away the bamboo pillows of the Chinese deck passengers' bote testimony to the anguish of mind which
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JULY 30, 1908.
THEITUNG WA LAUNCHES, The Tung Wa launches bucceeded to picking up si bisen bodies yesterday, one being that of a European, It was identified as that of Mr. Stephon Newmann from a pocket-book LIGHTHOUSES which was found on the body. It contained two cerificates of competency issued at Hongkong and acveral testimonials of firms under whom Mr. Newmann had served. The Tung Wa authorities reported the find at the West Point Police Station.
only temporarily. It is to be hoped, therefore that the Resident Engineer' a report will biol, may not be farther diverted from their prepar cheerful natum, 32 that the Colony's fands: channelspont
away by the ver, wad are believed to be driwati, ka half-dicwned condition. He was removed to Another man was rescued Gear Aplich ú'io »
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KOWLOON CITY NOTE NE to have been done to the lighthouses which the typhoon our of the crew are missing.
Five fishing boats ware driven ashora dering menta, are most liable to, feel the effects of a TAI exposed- -as they ara,, tdể thu fury of the ale. typhoon such as that which pasted over theThe police station at Tai O has been damag. Colony on Tuesday maraleg. From reports ad, part of the roof having been blown away. received by the Harbour Master, it' appeary "The junks were b’own sihore, but no lives premium AS CRUZ, B STO & CO.
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during the height of the gals, is driven ashore. The crow were pitched into the water, and all were rescued,
A stone junk (No. 16,430) was washed with the exception of two, who wałe drowned. the foreshore
The launches employed on the work of light-kepers quarters, but the lights them
that some damage has been caused to the recovering the dead to-day were the selves are intact Gap Rock seems Ting On, in charge of Messrs. Shiu. To fortunately, to have been outside the Fal and Chee Shek Yec directors of the Tong radius of the cyclone's centre and consequently. Way the latter gentleman was vice-chairman would oth ruffered. The centre of that locality was "tapled from, the ravages it of last year's committee. The other launch the serial desbance passed over Green was under the direction of Meuri. Chun
force of the typhoon, Cheuk Hing and Wa Hol Chow, one of which therefore experienced the fall
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One of the ten, women survivors of the` l'ing. King admited into the Tung Wa Hospital on. Wednesday bas since died.
ANOTHER TYPHOON.
The American Consul General received the fillowing Typhoon Warning from the Manila Observatory at 5:40 pm last night :-"Cyclone or typhoon E. of Southern Luzon, direction unknown."
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THE SHIPPING. "Hopes were entertained yesterday that when the supreme effort was mide this morning
R. C. Mission in Hoogkook has suffer. H.M. destroyer Watting would be pulled off ad very severely by the typhoon. To the rocks in Lyeeman Pass at high tide to-day structure in Glesealy withstood the typhoon The David Gillies worked at the wreck with well, but the roof has sustained damages in her big salving pump until dark yesterday places. One very valuable window of Vesp. many parts, water coming through in many when she left. The destroyer is in no better tian mosaic representing the Annunciation of position (ban atthe last report. Anattempt at re-
Our Lady” has been broken by diörís „flying Boating will be made to-morrow morning, and against it. The Mission house, a strong build if it should unfortunately fail another effort willing of the fifties, and which had never suffered have to be deferied a fortnight as the tide will previously, paid its debt to the storm this time,
necessitating t the replacing of the tiles,{"i not be again favourable until (heu.
BALT COMMISSIONER'S CRUISER. The newly built cruiser for the Canton Salt Commisioner-the Shu nam-which grounded.
The Seminary, the Chinese Catholic Club, And St. Joseph's College being in line with the Cubedral, suffered a great deal. St. Joseph's iron' Cross palted down, and damage was dobe Church, in Garden Road, has had the frate
conaceted to it.
A passenger bout la mid-harbour resulting in the loss of one man.
up on
At the entrance to Tal ✪ Bay a fishing turned turtle. One of the fihermes is ma: sing, and there is no doubt, taking into con- sideration the ferocity of the wind, that he was drowned, et un b
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Very Hille damage, was suffered at Ping Chan. With the exception of three police taals which have disappeared, and a number been sustained. veder of sbedr blown down, so other damago, has
ASHA TIN,
During the height of the storm the wooden
To-day, the Shatis Police Station is now building, which had the name of a "police station," left its "moorings" and is somewhere drifting about the hills above Shatinggabri "All the Indian police constables had to take refuge in the calls, while the Europeass, were accommodated in the Mission House,
Considerable damage bas been done to the men's kits and clothing.
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those who had rested the'r heads on them for at Cheung.sha-wae, managed to be hauled off to the root, as well as, the rector's residanta | suffered more or less damage. ** Sollapsed,sions, Ice, &c, throughout the voyage.".
the last time on Monday must have felt when the ship took the final lurch and went ovar by her side to the bottom of the sea. Lifebelts, and there were many, were found all-over the beach silent evidences of the parts "they must have · played as naviners of
this morning with the aid of tha Dock Cols big tug: Her upper works, are badly damaged and she has been towed back to her builders' ship yard for repairs,
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St. Anthony's Church, West Point, foit al- most one half of its roof, which gave way.
The West Point edustrial School and Or; phanage was that on to such an extent that large repairs will be necesssrv.
The Cemetery, in Happy Valley, has had the ments and trees collapsed.
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All the European matsbeda hiva
but fortunately no one was injured. The ban suffered severe loss so far as roofs ware con galows, occupied by the contractars, have cerned, as
One coolie was killed cotright by falling piece of galvanised iron from one of the coolie
those who were not engulfed in that dreadful ¦ a'so got off by the David Gillies, She has two chapel roof and door brkes; big stɑne moau-other workman met his death in a almilar
night.
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or three bu'es above water, but is not seriously. damaged; she resumed har run this morning,
- THE 1. & O. LAUNCH,
As time was short, Capt. Willoughby and
The P. & O. 5. N. Co.'s beautiful launch his bost's crew made..for the title fishermen's hamlet where the natives were most will-franette is still partly under water. Pumps on ing to impart [ready.' information.
board of her are going for all they are worth. reply to questions an elderly locking in She is certain to be refloated before long. dividual who was drawing long whiff from his smoking pipe gave a coherent account of the foundering of the Xing Xing. As soon as
'THE "MORNING STAR."
The double ender Morning Star was floated off this morning and has been slipped for repairs.
THE "POCAHONTAS."
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So satisfactory has salving operations pro- ceeded with the as. Facahontas that the salvage party will try to lift her to-morrow. The wea ther has all been in favour of rapid and suc cessful operations.
THE "SCHUYLKILL."
The oil-laden steamer Schuylkill, of the Standard Oil Co, of New York, proceeded on ber voyage to Manila yesterday, no docking having been canildered necessary by the
surveyors,
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The Rosary Church, at Kowloon, new buliding, stood well against the Serce efforts of the wind, but one fixed window gave, way, as of the side chapels. well as two crosses, which surmounted the walls
bar which ensures the supply of Fresh. Provi- The Steamer Is Installed throughout with the Electric Light
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The road leading to the tunnel, and from Lok-ho-hab to Tai Po, is severely damaged in most prils, caused, no doubt, by the numerous land lips.
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NORE BODIES RECOVERED:
No less than twenty men, mostly Chinese, Two more dead bodies, both Chinese, were employed in the tunnel, were sent to hospital; recovered in the harbour to-day off the West suffering from injuries about the head. A few THE P. Point Wharf of the Kowloon Wharf and Goare in a dangerous condition.. ward two more floating corpses, ware found; down Coat Sbek-cong-tsul. Fanther wen they were also those of Chinese and were seen on the water in front of the Kun Ho Chinese halal.
[From 'a, Spec'ul Correspondent.]
Canton, 29th July.
THE NEW TERRITORIES.
Some ten farge junka fully laden with rice and ground-net oil which were anchored in thé News of a rather belated character has river between Shamese and Fati, were annk reached us from the New Territories. From during the storm, and it is estimated that no what we can gather it would appear that the less than a rgillion dollars worth of cargo is death-roll has been more severe iban was an- lost. A number of firewood ju ›ky which were. ticipated. The many fishlog junks that have also machored in the same locality suffered the foundered and the many lives that hava perish-same fate, besides numerous ismpats and ed is amp'e verification of the severity of the slipper-boats which happened to be moored on
the side of the junks at the time.
storm:
-YAU-MA-TI.
More dead bodies hays been recovered from -the debris at the Fuk Sting Lane and Fortland
Street collapses.
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have been recovered from the debris. Seven Up to midnight yesterday eleven dead bodies were those of males and the remaloder those of females.
THE WATER POLICE, From the Water Polic: news comes of the recovery of a number of bodies from the barbour, as follows I women (17))
children ... Picked up in the harbour, man (65) ..:)
4 youngers were picked up on the sea-shore at Cape D'Aguilar..
AT SHAM-SHUI-PO.
the name of the teamer was mentioned the men, in a choron, affirmed their 'kanwledge of the awful tragedy that had overtaken that vessel. Their spoken nan relied that the night was very dark and a blinding rain was fallins; the wind blew with terrific violent. Through
INDO CHINA Co.'s “LAIBANG," the rain and in othe daiknyus they could see the outlines of a vessel, by maids of her lights,
The Indo-China S. N. Ca steamer Zaisang which they recognised as one of European was undocked this morning and went along. construction. They saw the vessel lasied inside the quay for repairs; her place in the No. the tempestuous rely they saw berio har death dry dock was laken by the emigrant ship Ebrees; fually, they saw her took the last long Crary. plooge which sealed her doom. Pointing in the direction of the tea, halfway between the beach and Lantan, the elderly fisherman raid: "There ! There! She went down. That was the latt wa taw.ol her?__The_fisher-folks could render no ld They' stond where they were, belpless. At the top if the howling.
The P. & O. s. Nyassa, which arrived winds they could hear the voice of the drown from Singapore yesterday afternoon, reports ing crying aloud for help, which, alas, never having passed a large copiized junk floating came and could not by any bum in means ba4 N. 3o W. from Pak Tsin ( <ssen' Ears), got to reach the hubdreds who were struggling Capt. H. S. Bradshaw,, commander of the on the crest of the mountainous waves to a Nyanna, also came across several sampans. ́s watery grave. Next day, the lễ bị that strewed floating beltom up. Much wreckage was mat the beach were washed ashore by the tide. with between Gap Rock and Sulphur Channel. Asked if they had seen any European answering+XPERIENCES OF RAILWAY EMPLOYES..Po the description of Capt. E. J. Page, of the Ving From the reports that have come to hand King, the men answered in the negative. They, detailing the experiences of those engaged on however, vouched the information that, the British section of the Kowloon-Canton yesterday, a pasty farded. It consisted of 'ont rilway it is evident that the safest place during tall European & wel'-built mag, swo coloured the typhone was the tunnel which is being - men and over ten Chicett. They did not kas pierced through Lion's Head Mountain." Most" the name of the Europeap. The villagers of the workmen's and coolies' quarters are knew nothing more,
built of wood and although the buildings are
ronfa were torn off by the force of the gale, the A'chuple of miles or so from this Etile ham-
timbers wrenched from the ground and the let was a very large cargo junk stranded on the buildings in many cases raced to the ground. beach; She was shored up. As far as could party of employés who thought it butter to brave the elements in the opin rather be judged with the aid of glasses the seagoing craft did not appear to have suffered much than await the inevitable demolition of the damage; a big gang of Chinese were at work quarters which had been assigned to their use on board the vessel, Constant communication had ac adventurous time, and it was only after between the junk and the village was they had beso lost and found three or four seemingly maintained as a stream of coc times that they discovered themselves at the lies, could be seen moving to and fro be tunnel in company with forty or fifty coolies tween the fuck and the village over the hill. and fadi.ns and several European foremen Not far from the stranded jurk was another Oo their way, they saw all the matabedi des- lifeboat which must have belonged to the Yingtroyed, while the heavy galvanised frog,roof of the engine-house was bodily raised by the King; it was lying on the batch.
The official-visit accomplished,, the Stanley storm and carried a distance of ico feet away.
Three deed brdies have been picked up by the police in. the neighbourhood of Sham-thaj
They are I man (3) picked up on the seashore at Cheung-sha wan....
man (3) picked up on the seashore at Cheung-shi-wan.
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infant (ang months old) picked up on a vacant ground at 3 Tai-kok-teni...
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Optional Goods will be landed here unleas instructions are given to the contrary before: 6 hours
Goods not cleared by the 5th proximo, al 4 PM., will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be affected by me ié- any case whatever..
wheel passenger tradic boats to interior LOWDE It is reported that many Chiness paddla- and villages were capsized and sunk during the storms "Although, the number of lives lost in
City and it is reparted that many unknown, yet it is not believed to be great. Canton
collapses have taken place in
people were buried in the debris. Verandahs, partitions and roofs of many Chinese restaur- anis or eating houses either collapsed wholly or in part, and nearly all the masheds in the city, erec ed annually for the purpose of pro- secting the people from the heat of the sun in- public streets, and others on the roofs of houses for the purpose of ventilation were blown off Hongkong, 29th July, 1908 and are causing obs ruction, to trafic in
maay
Damaged Packages must be "lask, in 'the
appointed hour.. Godowns for examination by the Consigner's and the Company's representative at AD
of the principal streets, leading to almost alt
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All claims must be presented within_ ̈tep days, of the steamer's arrival bere after which date they cannot be recognised.
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowas.
F. J. ABBOTT, Acting Superintendent,
the leading shops, business houses a dispsed and three c:bers were damaged. sidences.
In the Western suburb:-One house .col.
In the filth ward a few houses were slightly date seventh ward right houses were
damaged and one collapsed.
In
Some Alleen bousta were damaged in the Notwithstanding the large amount of work requiring: immediate artepijon, such as the
ward of the No. 4 police station and one coolie fallen electric posts, broken wirez, &c. causediously wounded. by the storm, the Chios Light and Power ( Go very promptly repaired their lines and had the currents connected with the Shameen before 9 pm, to the general satisfaction of the Leldents of the fritsh Cincension, Considering the very short space of time, their disposal and the great-smodal of repairing work which bad to be put through before accomplishing police at the h Kee it this task, certainly a word of praise in das too large Chinese hotels were seriously the concern for the creditable way in which damaged, and two men injured in the plaih
Boarding the gig, Capt. Willoughby returbed by no means of a ramshackle character the ing the typhoon. The deceased war about They attended to their business... with the official report to hischief,,
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A few houses were slightly damaged in the eighth ward. One buket containing 5:6) in čash ip clothing etc, was picked up, by the
ge
Two hop
houses were dimazed and a watchma infared in the teath ward, and
In wards it and iz police station, seventano houses were dampged."
In the Southèra suburb: fa the ward of the police station thirty-four, houses either totally collapsed or were damaged and a few
THE WANCHAY DISTRICT effice that and Frank Salisbury, a fireman go A report has been made to the police to the board the steamship Barra, was drowned dur twenty years of age, and was reported missing
To the British and French Municipalities from the ship at eleven o'clock on the night of the typhoon. The body of a Enropean walo, a word of praise is dos for their vary. picked up off Queen's Statue Fier about noon energetic action in having all the fallen trees to-day; it is probably that of Mr. Falisbury, and Tubbish removed from the Concession.
Within a few hours after, the storm the Sha meen Fund and all the streets looked as if nothing had haptened and to the many who visited the Bund in the early morning not a visible trace of storm was noticeable, except at the Lund, the landmark of the Concession, |for the disappearance of some big ancient (rees and a pumber of aber auge and beautiful tress-ihe pride of Shameen gardens...
Shortlyfter noon, the thres river gunboats the Bund walls, returned to their eld anchorage, directions in the harbour. The Viceroy seni which during the storm had ta'mgar alongside.
When the typhone was in ii blight nat've craft of all kinds were seen drifung in all immediately opposite Fhamoen, and a number of steam launches stated on their usual ru
PRISCEDES
At Tai Po side junks were wrecked, and twa greatly damaged. But as far as we can ascer
an no lives were lost.
The PW. D. matshed was destroyed. The bridge at Wang 1 Au was damaged and close by si le some six feet deep in visible in the ground,
Twenty telephone poles have been blown into the ardde filds at Tai O Tau
All the Railway sheds in the vicinity have been demolished.
CHEUNG CHAU.
sons were injured.
In Hnnam, over ten, houses collapsed and many others were damaged..
The above, reports were obtained from the diff rest police stations and they are considered to give the approximate amount of damage to house properties.
out a party of officers to make a tour of in- pection into the coeditis of the typhoon and
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Two 6hing junks were driven on to the catring passengCIS KONG BLOUIN 5% ceas: Phe.police officials boarded poam faunches to BREAKFAST: turned her nose towards Hongkong, and with Io another shed, rooflèss and gaunt, a Chinese rocks at Cheung Chau and smashed to atombaster boats, the report has been craise in the harbour to rescue the boat people wind and tide in her favour the tender landed huge, pisce, of iron sheeing.. He was made | lives were lost in this wreck✨ 1,505 reports | remained at their former anchorage, 'and: from
Lieat. Beckwith in Hongkong shortly after a
OFFICIAL CORROBORATION.
Two women are missing.
As to the
A other fishing jack sink, off Stanley, No Catfimed by many eye w'inesses of the scene
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The master of fishing boat. So
to-day that only five of the numerous boats
to the police that on the sight of the typhon aff Cheung Chat. Eighteen of his crew, com- while on bis way to Ku Chai bis boat founde e prising nine miles and pinn females, were droword.
with a crow of twelve aboard, was driven asbore. Shortly after this catastrophe, A rand junk. Four of the crew are reported missing. The remainder were picked up by fishermen in the vicinity.
*PING SHANDA
Chinese arces it is reported that over a hun picked up is the early morning by the salving dred dead bodies of singing girls, &c. were who nie wurking, to je fjal many of the foundered flower boala which were so luxur iendly. Sed up of the
line, one of the C.M.S.N. Co.'s boat; arrived in "Tân sa. Klo gluxe, of the Croton-Macho Canton at 3 p.m. (gth Joly) Fears were en
in distress; over two hundred lives were saved by the Water Police. The number of sampans lost in the accident is estimated to be not ́lers than two hundred. About 70% of the flower boots are either m'using or damaged, ba
The refuge erected on the new bund's short. tims ago for invalids from Hongkong daring the summer season collapsed. Fortunately no lives were lost, as the occupants had been re moved at the signal of the
pboon to another building in the acetatood. Tad patients were afterwards conveyed to the
心
TIFFIN
DINNER
supplied at
Cacton Fong: Pin bospital. The front wall of MODERATE RATES.
coolie was found lying paralysed under
comforiahla for the moment, but when a party returned to his assistance he was found lying dead some yards away from the The villagers' account of this landing of shed, having evidently attempted to crawl to the party yesterday is corroborated by the safety and been struck by the timbers which Police district report from Ping Shan is ware flying in every direction. In the tunnel, the New Territories. It reads :-Ata there was scarcely a single refugee who was message was received from Castle Feak not injured. Some had broken arms or legs Bay to the effect that Mr. Fotheringham, and all were bruised, hey remained in the of the steamer Ying King, required assistance, tonrel, however, until daylight, when their The roof of the verandah of the Ping Bhan Sergeant Baker, accompanied by a number wounds could be treated. The roof of the police station was blown away.lin of his officers, proceeded to Castle Teak Bay hospital at Shatin had been swept off at an They found Mr. Fotheringham, the engineer, early stage, but temporary arrangements San Tia suffered little or no damage. From
BẢN TIN and the India watchman, of the Ying King, were made for the accommodation of those the reports received at bandquarters this mom
[From Our Own Correspondent] and thirty Chinese pissängers on the beach si
who were most seriously injured in the 15, it is reported that seven hoases have col
Canton, 29th July. Something like 1,000 ducks ware killed.
With regard to the visitation of the disastrous The police statloo'was a trifle damaged.
typhoon of yesterday morning, the natives siate, AU-TAURA
that they have not experienced such a violent No collapse, or any loss of life to be re-typhoon for over forty years. The following is conded, end
report in detail, on the damage of house pro- party. In the city of Castom zich out ammissaries to rescue and assist the FOR TERMS.
*flu the ward of Shang Moon Tali joalde the city four houses collapsed and eight others
Cantla Peak-The police were told, on arrival typhooo. It is stated that on the Shatin pied in Ibat districi, without any loss of life.
that there were two European passenger side of the funnel there ware two Chinese on the Ying King, who lost their lives. They are balinyad to be either from the Imperis! Maritime Customs, or assistaple of the Stand dard Oil Company, Mr. So Pui Chik, the Tatas manager of the Castle Peak Farm and the police gave assistance to the survivors,
METAL CAPT. PADE MISSIKO,
The foregoleg report explains the apparent aires into which most had fallen that the in of the like King: desired assistance,
killed and about 20 badly hurt. As regards the Has itself, nothing definits will be known how far or to what extent it has suffered the Resident Engineer has submitted his report to the Government, but from abo cial sources we are informed that, considering the violence of the storm; the track and stock have suffered comparatively li
Béveral fin were deraile
Ilon which li
trayed.
The roofs of many houses have been des The police station is undamaged, except for the plaster of the back wall tumbling dawb...
Macts and po news had since been heard of |tertained of her file, as she jett: Canton on the era of the storm at 3 p.m. (July a7) bound for
"her whereabouts.»'»
were seriously damaged:/" One man was killed and three others were wounded.
ice marchants and other to the Cheap Rice. the Wal Yuan godown at Fang Tsun gaVO WAY. About forty rice junks, some belonging to
Distribution Bureau, with about 2copɔ bagi of rice on board, were capalads been re
Sor far about twenty corpses have been covered in the harbour, During the typhoon the people in their drifting vessels were all
Dinner or Suppers
in a panic and rewed as hard as they could catered from 100 to 1,000.
towards the band, crying bitterly for helpinti number of bost people was
taken by the police to the stations for temporary refuge. The Charitable fastitutions sont poor people with rice. The telephone wires in Canton damaged to a great extent, and there will be no, telephone communication in Canton for a week an adroitised by the Tele
APPLY MANAGER
A cargo: boat, No. 8,503 Hy on its way to: in the ward of the No,* 3 police station some phone Company, the distribution" of cheap' (@WA ENESTONE ?CCO.
fave shelter at Kat O bay, was overte
Two men were drowned. 1333
ivanly houser ware püstly damaged, and ora
còman and one chlid were wounded
Foi the people were all bey need: immediata
firo days nutil the
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