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THE TYPHOON,

Manila Paper's Account.

The following account of the Philippino typhoon is contained in the "Manila Times" of May

secure anchorage. The centre of the typhoon passed very nearly over that harbour, and the baro meter fell to a fraction over 20 inches, but owing to the protec tion afforded by the surrounding hills, the vessel aufered little damage.

FAR EASTERN NAVAL SQUADRONS.

Name

HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS ON THE CHINA STATION.

Class Despatch-boat

Gunbost

British sloop.

1,070 $ Water tank and tug

300 British sloop

1,070 Torpedo-boat destroyer 360 6 2nd class cruiser 4,350 10 Torpedo-boat destroyer 205 6 Torpedo-bost destroyer 280 6 let class cruiser 9,000 14 River gunboat

616 4 Surveying ship 1,040 1st class cruiser 14,600 - 1st clase cruiser 9,800 River gunbost

Tons Guns 1.H.P.

Commander

Reported al

1,700 12 2,000

Comdr, C. L. Lambe.

Hongkong

Admiralty tug

Master W. Weat

Hongkong

710 2

900

Lt-Com.B.E. Prichard

Yanglaze

Gunboat

710 2

900 Lt.-Com, W. H. Darwell

"Yanglaze

1,400 Comdr. H. Williams

Shanghai

300 Master H. Smith 1,400 Comdr. Mackenzie, D.S.O.

Hongkong

Hongkong

5,700 Lt-Com. Wilkinson

Hongkong

22,000

7,000 Capt. C. F. Corbett M.V.O. Shanghai 4,000 Lt.-Com. F. G. Brickenden West River 3,800 Lt. Com. Boddam Whetham Hongkong Capt. Allen T. Hunt C.S.I. Hongkong 1,200 Lt-Com. H. Marryatt

Yangteze

Capt. F. C. O. Pasco

Hongkong

27,000

Capt. G. C. Coyley

Hongkong

22,000

Capt. B. H.F. Barttelot.

Hongkong

Moorhen

ewcastle

2nd class cruiser

180 2 4,800 12 22,000

'800

Lt-Com. Alan Dixon

Hongkong

River gunboat

Torpedo-boat

85 2 385 В

Torpedo-toat destroyer

River gunboat

590 85

2

Depotship for Submarines 980

River gunboat

85

River gunboat

85 2

Torpedo boat destroyer

350 6

Receiving ship

4,650

6

180

Gunboat

Torpedo-boat destroyer

710 2 590

Torpedo-bost destroyer

Torpedo-boat destroyer

355 6 590-

W

Torpedo-boat destroyer Gunboat

360 6

5,900 Com. R. Neville

195

2

Gunboat

150

2.

150

2

Thesteamor Marinduque weath- Alacrity One hundred killed by the tyered the gale in Mangarin harbour,

Atlas plicon in Ilocos Sur is the news Mindoro, without damage, as did

Bramble which has come by wire to the the little steamer Research, which

Britomart bureau of education at Baguio and was working off Tican island Cadmus Is an absolutely pure beer brewed in their Well- from that place was sent to Manila when the storm struck, and which Cherub known San Michael Brewery, Manila. This beer willTimes." It was a brief message, bays on the coast of that island. Fame by the

correspondent of the found shelter in one of the small lio and is the only considerable piece The larger steamers Pathfinder Flora of news to reach this city to-day in and Fathomer were in Manila Bandy regard to the effect of the harbour when the first word was

Janus great storm which but recently received of the coming blow, and Kont passed over the islands. and delayed their sailing until Kinsha

Edward Murphy, superinten- the danger was past.

Merlin dent of schoole in Vigan, was the The "Cablenews" of May 15 Monmouth Minotaur ❤ sender, and this is what he said: adds:- "Typhoon Friday, 11 to 5, espe- cially severe north of Vigan. Two

Vague reports were received in schools only intact. Towns of Ba- shipwreck off the coast of Mindoro Otter

Manila yesterday afternoon of the Nightingale docand anag reported destroyed. of Mrs. Liddell, wife of former Ribble News lacking. Hundred killed. Judge Liddell, who owns and con- Robin

This is the ducts a lumber business in that Rosario People destitute." first severe typhoon to be felt in province. The reports stated that Sandpiper Ilocos Sur in three or four years. Mrs. Liddell, who it is presamed Snipe

Of the disasters at sea in the same tpyhoon little news add-was on her way to Manila, or was Taku itional to that of yesterday is to Batangas, had met with the storm Teal

crossing the narrow strait from Tamar hand. No word bas bren which drove her ashore, fortunate-Thistle received from the steamer Matipid, ly at a town where there was a Usk up to the time of going to press, telegraph station. and the launch Remedios is aleo among those of which nothing is Finding no assistance forthcom-Welland, known. One disabled vessel was coming in her plight, and being Whiting towed into fort last niglit, and ill from the exposure to the Widgeon an oil laden chooner has gone storm, it is said that she tele- Woodcock down, taking with her, it is feared, graphed to the officer in com- Woodlark all her crew of some ten mon mand of the army post at Batan Crippled and disabled, ilging gas and he in reply sent a launch distress signals and drifting aim with an army surgeon and two Sole Agents. Lessly away with the currents the hospital corps men to her assist-

Datoh ataamer Salahadji was sighted and picked up Friday It is believed that she was a morning by the Japanese steamer passenger on board the steamer

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BOMB AT SHANGHAI.

A Peculiar Affair.

occurred.

H

One account states that the

ing, May 8, while off the Cabra point, Lubang island, the steamer run into the teeth of the typhoon |which swept the western coast of

Mindoro, and soon was at the

merdy of the terrific gale and tremendous seas, which not only tore away parts of the upper deck

but also carried off the heavy smokestack.

Unable to keep up steam, and much disabled, the steamer was carried by the winds and waves about 100 miles north and was picked up Friday morning 10 miles south of Cape Bolinao, Pangasinan.

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The White Star Line and Its Officers.

Virago

River gunboat

Gunboat

0.36,

C. 37,

0.38,

T.B. 035,

T.B. 036,

T.B. 037,

T.B. 038,

Hongkong

11

Capt. Frederick A. Powlett Hongkong 240 Lt-Comdr. M. Murray Yangisze 8,300 Lt.-Com,E.T.R. Chambers Canton 7,500 Lt-Com. E.J.G. Mackinnon Hongkong

240 L-Comdr. Nash

West River 1,400 Lt.-Comdr. N.E. Archdale Hongkong

240 Lt.-Com. I. S. Hutton 240 Lt.-Com. Maurice Leslie Yanglaze 6,000 Crunner W. H. Ryder Hongkong

Com. R. H. Anstruther C.M.G Hongkong 800 Lt.-C. Hon. Gay Stopford Yangtze 900 Lt.-O.E.R.N. Cotrell Dormer Yangteze

Canton

7,500 Lt.-Comdr. Maxwell

6,800 Lt.-Oom. H.D. Adair-Hall Hongkong 7,500 Com: Seymour

800 Lt.-Comdr. J.C. Borrett Upper Yangtze 500 Lt-Com, M. B. Blackwood Yangtze 500 Lt.-Comdr. Lloyd

Shanghai

Lt.-Com. Godfrey Horbart Hongkong. Lt.-Com. A. A. L. Fenner Hongkong.

L.-Com. J.R.A.Codrington Hongkong.

Hongkong Hongkong

Lt.-Com. Handley

West River.

Lt.-Com. Stileman

Hongkong.

Lt.-Com, Nicol,

Hongkong.

L-Com. H. W. Seymour, Hongkong.

Flagship of Admiral Sir A. L. Winslce, K.C.B., C.V.O., O.M.G. Commander-in-Chief.

FOREIGN MEN-OF-WAR ON THE China and JAPAN STATION. Kaiser Franz

-Joseph I Armoured cruiser

4,000 45 8,000: Capt. Hauta

French.

Duplaix **

Kleber. Deoidee Argus

Armoured cruiser Armoured cruiser Gunboat

River gunboat Gunboat Gunboat

10,014 30 20,000 Capt. Vergos 9,700 12 19,600 Capt. Gourts

645 10 1,000 Lieut. Vandier 180 6 570 Lieut. Dordet

500. Lient, de Jervillier Lieut. Collin

123 7 130

Shanghai

Shanghai Hongkong

Saigon

Canton

Canton

Tangku

Lieut, Dupuy Dutemps Tohong-kin

**Flagship of Rear-Admiral Colloch de Kerillis, Commander-in-Chief, the French China Station.

Fronde

d'Iberville Pistolet Mousquet Manche

Submarine

Lieut. Bolaix

Saigon

Submarine

Baigon

Armoured gunboat

Destroyer

1,798 10 *360 7

1,700

Lieut. Guillaume-Louis Saigon

303 Lieut. Aurillac

Saigon

Destroyer

Destroyer

130 7

Destroyer

307 B

300 Comdr, de Marquessao 300

Capt. de Frigate Ronisen Hongkong

Saigon

Saigon

Surveying-ship

Saigon

1,825 10 9,000 Com. Voisin

• Flagship of Commodore Boucicaut, Commanding the local defenos Indo-China.

Emden

Scharnhorst 8.90 Taku.

Vaterland

Calabria

of the Tatah of Kiangen at the has naturally been a prominent The San Agustin, which carried kesping, and, as soon as the com-Tsingtau. Mixed Court during the trial of figure in connection with this a crew of 11, was owned by H. R. lang Kwo-shing. Various rumours man's case. On the other hand Cooper, the local machinery im- are current with reference to the the story given below is our-porter and was valued at P7,000. affair, and some of these go so far

rent, although it is impossible The vessel was not insured,

Cruiser River gunboat Flagship Torpedo-boat Torpedo-boat Gunboat River gunboat River gunbost

Italian cruiser

900 12 1,300 900 12 1,300 3,250 24 11,000 900 10 1,350 3,400 22 13,200

Com. Sommi Picenardi Shanghai

The Imperial Merchant Service Vigilante Guild is officially informed by Peiho the White Star Lino of substantial Dondard de Lagree, Gunboat improvements in the pay and general conditions of the officers

Lyaz of the fleet, which will take effect Protee in the case of all steamers leaving Styx on and after May 1. All the officers will then be granted in- oreased pay, in many cases to the extent of £3 to £4 per month. A special system of annual leave for all the commanders and The Fumi Maru is commanded officers is to be arranged as soon by Captain G. Nishikawa and was as possible, and officers will be bound from Mojí to Borneo, gives an annual holiday extend- A telegram was received this ing to three weeks, two of which

Gneisenau the course of their investigations morning from Vigan by the local will be made continuous, when- Iitie they found an unloaded bomb in the room in which the explosion agency of the Standard Oil Com ever circumstances will admit of

pary reporting that the schooner it. Officers Royal Naval Reserve Jaguar drill will not be counted as holi Leipzig. San Agustin, which left Manila on

Слова Nurnburg Particulars have come to light neighbours saw a man in the acty, I with 1,500 cases of oil for days. The officers will not, as says the "N. China Daily News" of hurling a bomb into the houses off the coast of Ilocos Sur, sear

northern porte, had been wrecked hitherto, be required to undergon

the sight tests at the Board of of May 16, of a bomb explosion and from this arose the report Sinait. The wire also stated that Trade, but will be examined by which took place on Wednesday that the explosion was an outrage nothing had been learned of the iterable improvements are to be the company's own doctor. Con- afternoon in the house of Mr Loh on the part of the followers of Wei-gung, who, it may be re- lung Kwe-shing, aimed at the life lives during the typhoon.

crew who, it is feared, lost their

inaugurated as regards,watch- Tiger membered, was the representative of Mr. Lob, who since the trial

pany can arrange it, all officers throughout the company will be put on three wateres, and in a large number of the ships an ad- a to suggest that the explosion to abtain confirmation or denial

ditional officer will be carried in No news had been received at order that this may be done. Adamestor was an outrage perpetrated by from any squrare, nor even from time of going to press of the This eventually will lead to the Macao members of the Kunchinghui, the Mr. Loh himself.

coastwise steamer Matipid, or the entire abolition of the two-watch Patria society of disbanded soldiers in-"

The main point about the steamlaunch Remedios, and it is eystom in the White Star Line. angurated by Iung Kwe-shing second story is that a few days feared that both vessels went Improved conditions are also to Buch reports are based on sapago a parcel was brought to the down during the storm. Yester- be instituted. in connection with posed accounts by neighbours house, purporting to come from day Pujalte and Company, owners the messing of the officers, who in who witnessed some one throwing an acquaintance of Mr. Lob, and of the Matipid, dispatched the the first-class passenger steamers A-4 a bomb into Mr. Loh's house, but the maid-servant who received it steamer Maria Luisa Y to search will fare according to the first- A-6 Another and equally interesting was asked to keep it in the the northern coast of Mindora for class menu, the daily messing in

A-7 version is also given.

house until required. It was the missing steamer, and Captain this way to be arranged by ore

Albany The explosion took place about accordingly deposited there, and Ibanega was instracted to com-officer of each ship deputed by

Bainbridge two o'clock on Wednesday after it was from this that the ex-municate all news by wire. bia brother officers for the

Barry noon, and the damage done seems plosion took place. This might Ybelon and Company have also pose. In the second and third Callao to have been comparatively slight. account for the reported find of sent men down to the Bondos class passenger vessels and

Chauncey cargo The room in which the bomb was the police of an unloaded bomb peninsula in order to learn the teamers an improved scheme is Cincinnati

however it got, there was in the house. If this version in fate of the Remedios,

to come into force providing for Dale wrecked, the ceiling lifted off, and correct it would be a highly in- By the arrival of the steamer special fare in the case of com- *hole blown in the floor, while teresting point to know whether it Romblon, of the coast and geod-anders and officers.— "Times. Eleano the windows in the storey was also a plot against Mr Loh or etic survey fleet, this morning, above are amashad. Other agenuine request to the maid to al-Captain P. A. Walker, director wise the house escaped with low the parcel to remain there and of that bureau, had his last fears Anxiety In Kalgan. Monadnock Monitor out injury, As it happened the explosion purely an accident. dispelled concerning the five days there has been a run upon Pampanga Mr. Loh Wei-mung has just

survey vessels operating under the banks. One closed to-day, Piscataque taken a house in the Settlement

his direction. All of the ships though the Board of Trade says Pompey and was away when the explosion-

have reported that they passed that it is perfectly solvent. Sol-Quiros happened. Mrs. Loh and two maid- Honorary Degrees at Cambridge. servante were on the premises, Among those on whom it is through the recent typhoon un diers and police are guarding the Rainbow but fortunately escaped without proposed to cor for honorary do- scathed, although two of them larger banke while the officials Samar injury, the former being in the green at Cambridge are

were near the centre of the storm are trying to palm the poople. Saratoga drawing-room some distance Thomas Hardy, OM., Mr. J. 8. The Romblon arrived this The Mongolian situation adde Villalobos away, when the bomb went off. Sargent, R A., Admiral Sir W. H. morning from Calion, Captain to the general uneasiness, for Wilmington Gunboat The Chinese police were apprised Fawkes, Sir J. A. H. Murray, Sir Luce reporting that his vessel had Mongol troops now are at several Wompatuck? Tug of the occurrence, and held an F. G. Kenyon, and Mr. R. Lane ridden out the storm in Halsey points within striking distance of U.S.S. Saratogs Flagship Rear-Almiral B. F. Nicholson, Commander-in-Chief, United A inquiry, and

is stated that in poole,

harbour, which is a very safe and the Chinese advance guardo, iatio Fleet, temporarily,

Mr.

A-2

Cruiser

Gunboat

Gunboat

UNITED STATES VESSELS ATTACHED TO ASIATIC STATION.

Submarine

German,

Oruisar

3,600 22 13,500

Capt. v. Restorf

Swatow

Armoured cruiser

11,800 36 26,000 Captain Bruninghaus

Taingtan

Gunboat

Comdr. v. Gobren

Shanghai

Gunboat

Cruiser

Comdr. Vanselow Capt. Bohncke`.

Teingtau

Taingtau

Gunboat

Comdr. Bendemann

Taingtan

Capt. Morsberger

Taingtan

Capt. Lieut. Firle

Yangtaze

11,800 36 26,000

Capt. Bosing

Shanghai

400 8 6,500 280 4 900 10

Capt. Lt. Berrenberg

Tsingtau

6,000

Obit. z. 8. Claassen

Tsingtan

1,350

Comdr. Booker

Taingiau

223 4 223 4

1,300 500

Capt.Lt. Frhr.Speth v. Schulzburg Canton

Obli, z. 8. Prinz

Shanghai

14

2,145

Portuguese.

1,757

700

Capt. Anibal de 8. Dias Macao Capt. Martins

Maoso Capt. Jose de Carvalho Urato Macso

Ensign J. McU. Murray

Cavite

Lient. E. D. McWhorter

Ensign J. C. Van de Carr

19

Ensign O. M. Yates

Protected cruiser Torpedo-boat des. Torpedo-boat des. 420 7 Gunboat

243 8 Torpedo-boat destroyer 420 7 Protected aruisar 3,183 11 Torpedo-boat destroyer 4207 Torpedo-boat destroyer Gunboat Helens

Gunboat Mohican Station ship

Kalgan, May 11.-For several Monterey Monitor:

3,430 10

7,500 Commander M. L. Bristol Cruising

420 7

8,000 Ensign H. M. Jones

Cavite

8,000 Lieut. R. Hillsd

Canton

3,990

4,084

243

Sea going-tug Hepair ship Gunboat

854

3,085

Cruiser

Gunbost

$350 4,860 14 243.8

2

Orginez

8,115 14

Gunboat

370

1:3928

462

pur-

Decatur

***

Gunboat

420 ༡ 620 4 1,892 B .1,000 .8

250 Ensign W.L. Heiberg 8,000 Lieut. F. J. Fletcher 10,000 Com. S. 8. Robinson

8,000 Lieut. O, A. Woodrufl 8,000 Lieut. B. IL Green

600 Lt. Com.V.B.Gannon 1,988 Com. G. R. Marvell 1,100 Lieut. E. V. Lowa 3,000 Lient. E. P. Svary 5,277 Com. J. V. Chase - Lieut. B. B. Taylor 1,600 Lieut. 8. W. Wallace Lieut. W. O..Wallace

208 Lieut. J. J. Hannigan 1,800 L. Com, D. W. Wurtzbaugh

250 Lieut. G. Dichananl 17,401 Commander H. A. Wiey

208 Lient, E. Dorr

Cavite Oraising. Cavits

Shanghai Shanghai

Cavite

Olongapo

Cavite Canton d Cavite Shanghai t Swatowy

Shanghai or Swatowinien za Shanghai

1,894 Commandor J. F. Hubbard Hong kong he

650 Chief B'awain. P.B. Radcliffe Olongapole