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TYPHOON AT HAIMEN.

TOWN HALF WIPED OUT.

On Thursday July 15, the typhoon was reported to bave Tuck the coast of Chekiang somewhere near Wenchow. From

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sight which met us. when the town itself. One could see with any clearness. cerrain things were all too ap tarent. Every wharf and jetty had gone including the long wood jetty used by the S. D. Cc. instal- lation, the iron pontoon used by the steamship companies was a

reck and partially sunk, nol

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THE HONGKONG TELMARAPH. WEDNESDAY: - JULY

WHISKY QUEUES.

BAR STEWARDS OVERWORKED.

New York, June 16-Sinoa the United States wont dry by Can- stitutional amendment the boats to Cuba have been crowded, as well xa those to Europa.

On avery vessel the bar staward is overworked. Prohibition shouki be favoured by the steamship companies.

In one week recently 14,000 | persons laft Now York for desan

voyages.

One large British linar reported

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the other day that its bar receipts Selected Fillets - 60 cents per lb.

on one crossing wers 5,025 dollars (nominally £1,005)—a record.

Ships officers say that man who Finnan Haddocks ·

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Long before the bar opens there is a line waiting.

Some of the more thirsty make the smoke-room their headquar-| ters during the voyage, lest they miss something.

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Instances are not rare where, the visible supply of drinkables' has been exhausted before the voyage ended, this resulting in scenes of infinite pathos.

pelling before them roughly made rafts: it was an easy matter for them to enter the godowns and shops as the doors were burst in bw the flood.

Any commodity they could obtain was game to their net, often taking cases of goods which were already irrevocably ruined by water. A merchant that escaped both looters and the flood was indeed fortunate. I have not yet heard of one.

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JAPANESE TENNIS EXPERT, for the general playing of the!

Property damaged or destroyed is as follows: Practically all river HOW SHIMIDZU LEARNED frontage is gone, all shops and

THE GAME.

game. Some of the Indian players

I have come across are quite

| good, and I understand that there

is every hope of establishing an All-India Lawn Tennis Associa-

contes: the Davis Cup next year.

AGE T. YOUTH.

buildings along the river are The sensational defeat by Mr.tion, and they may send a taam to either in complete in orez. Shimidza, the famous Japanese ground floor has been destored player, of 3. Gobert, the French I bave already said that all

the lawn tennis championship river have been destroved.

ties, pontoons etc. along the champion, was the great event.af meeting at Wimbledon recently. The loss of river craft is very

la the following special article learned the game, and gives än account of their lightness in com- fairly well probably

methods of Japan:- parison to the junks. About 30 insight into the lawn tennis saved. Per cent of the former were

on

It was about 40 years ago that the game of lawn tennis was into Japan from introduced England."

W#5

But 1

In regard to my own exper- iance on English courts 1 cannot say much, as I bave not been the following tragic description, sampans were to be seen, and heavy, however the sampans got Mr. Shimidzu relates bow he long enough in England to formi

any definite impressions. of England very much, and I find it would appear that Haimen few junks: however, after a wait received the brunt of it. Haimen of about an hour, a sampan came As it was too dark, so

may say that I like the climate

is some 30 miles north of Wen- for us.

playing in the tournaments a cbow. At least 700 lives are think of conveying the baggage.

very pleasant experience. And may say that I especially Sampans and junks strew the Patimated to bave been lost. The we left same on the steamer,

admire the sportsmanship that interior country for miles, sam- correspondent says nothing of hoping to have it delivered on

I have found amongst all English pans have been found washed as

In the beginning the regulation foreigners but presumably they.the following day. living farther back from the river On landing it was seen at once far inland as 10 H, while junks covered balls were used, but the players, and the great kindness! escaped.

that practically all the town in-are frequently seen at half this game being chießy played in tha: has been shown to me.

I admire, also, the fine stand- schools, on hard courts, these Haimen, July 18-On Wednes mediately in that vicinity on the distance.

It is impossible to estimate as covered balls were found to beard of play that is upheld by the day, July 14, the trouble started. river front was a roin, in many

It has older English players. We were at Sbib-pu and intended cases many shops, which we knew wet the casualties as so many too expensive, and after a little been a wonder to me that, there! to leave that evening by the str. well, were entirely gone, others bodies will have been taken out time the uncovered ball

Although the game

are not more first-class players | Pao Hua for Haimen. The wind with the whole of the lower walls to sea on the receding tide. Those adopted.

but the upper in the immediate vicinity of Har has since then made enormous among the younger generation. began to freshen at 4 p.m. We washed away.

men, must number nearly 500. strides, the uncovered ball is still know that there are other got our effects on board and were storey standing intact. then informed by the Captain! We proceeded through flooded probably far more.

At the junction of the Taichow.universally used in Japan. It is sports which absorb the talent true that among the test players of the younger players, and that owing to the falling of the streets (about 2 feet) to ont quar-! glass and the continual increase! ters. arrival there, we fu and Hwang Yo Rivers, over there is a desire to play the game perhaps this may be the reason of the wind, he considered that received a fall account of the 200 bodies of men, women and in every essential as it is played why lawn tennis is not taken

more seriously. leaving for Haimen would not be, typhoon which has played such children were seen floating, but in international contests, sed in I think this is a pity, because these are not included in the

some of the schools and colleges the High winds were experienced above estimate, as it is impossible the covered ball is being taken in my opinion & player has no

to say to what district they be- weather improved. He according during the latter part of Tuesday long. Nothing is yet known of up again, so that those of us who chance of qualifying for first-class ly steamed to the most sheltered and

come abroad are made familiar honours unless he has begun to part of the harbour where we throughout the following day. the damage done to other towns with the conditions under which play early and become well At 6 p.m. on Thursday, the outer and villages in this neighbour-the game is played in the country grounded in the game while

hood. Ramour states that both of its origin. At dawn of the following day, wall of the Yung An Steamship Taichowin and Huangyen have the wind bad increased consider-; Co.'s building blew in and at 8

also suffered, but this is not In Japan it is customary with than grass courts. It is a faster ably,and continued to grow more p.m. the town was invaded by a certain. violent throughout the day, patil tidal wave which at that, time Over 100 brick houses have us to develop separately two game, the bound is troer, and at 11 p.m. part of the superstruce was only about 18 inches deep, been destroyed and ten times styles of play. There is the net there is more vigour about it.

player, who keeps his position up Next year I hope we shall be ture was carried sway and as the but which rapidly increased to a strain was becoming too great for depth of five feet, even in the this number of straw houses. the single anchor down, another back streets. I believe that the A MILLION DOLLARS AT LEAST. at the net, and the base-line able to get together a Japanese The destruction of property in player, who occupies a position team to compete for the Davis R. C. Mission buildings situated was let go.

in a mixed double. We have got of prominent players, such as I. Thoughout that night there on a hill were not in any way men alone amounts to at least on the court similar, to the lady Cop. We have quile a number were many Roxious moments but damaged.

Opium held clandestinely by yet learnt to play in combination Kumagae and S. Kashio in New certain merchants and lost or as is done in a men's doubles York, and S. Okamoto in Calcutta. nothing parted and at dawn of the following day, Friday July 16,

looted during the flood, will pro-here. Moreover the net player the wind was a good deal easier. From 8 pm onwards its bably-totel another half million, in our game does not serve, this By noon, although the glass was difficult to obtain a collected while it is quite impossible to being done each time by the still decidedly low, the Captain count of what actually occurred, estimate the damage done to the player on the base line. thought it safe to continue the it was undoubtedly a scene of distress and casos, voyage to Haimsn, which was by terrible

advisable, and so decided toja havoc. remain at anchor

remained that night.

antil

at Haimen at 7 pm.

A TIDAL WAVE, -

continued to

THE LOOTERS.

increase

walls

$1,000,000.

crops, because as yet the farmers!

TWO STYLES OF PLAY.

young.

To learn the game thoroughly

I think hard courts are better

AN IMPORTANT SECRET OF HEALTH In Japan I was a net player, do not know if any can be saved, which accounts for the fact that is to keep the bowels free and no means plassaut as bad sampans floating up the streets, certainly not more than 30 per my service is not so well develop regular. Constipation is the root Westher was met when we got houses falling, strong

If I had had an opportunity of stacks, disordered liver, coated outside. We eventually arrived colapsing, screams of drown-cent, at the most for the distance ed as I think it would have been cause of sick headaches, bilione

of many H.

tongue, ill-smelling breath, bad ing men, cries of little children

I have sent a number of Alms devoting more attention to it and women imprisoned in falling showing the damage done to I first began to play tennis temper and dull spirits.

If any of these symptoms masonry; the dead and drowning Messrs. A. B. Watson, & Co. when I was 15, and played for drifting hither and thither and no It was almost dark when we one to retrive the dead or succour there, those who are interested about six years in Japan. When trouble you take a dose of Pin- I went out to India, in 1912, I hadkettes, the tiny, gentle-as-nature got up the river, but we noticed the drowning. The tragedy con-

On bosh Friday and Saturday my first serious games on grass: Izzatives which neither grips nor *waterlogged sampan floating tinued until midnight, when at nights the town was again flooded, courts in Calcutta, and played parge, TO-NIGHT, and you will be surprised to find how much down with the current; however soon as the water began to write (Sunday morning) there for nearly eight years. better you feel to-morrow morning. we did not give it a second belde, looters began their work. the practically clear of The game in India is very thought other than thinking it These were of the worst of the

can obtain prints.

Again, but,sbere in mill

popak aunt of debris, là thế ba

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had been blown off shore during fishing classes,: they worked domu the previous night, so we were several man to crew, awED allogether unprepared for the through the flooded strestu, prod

the staged of play. Obtainable from druggista eYASY- biziz. Nekely every where, sisa póst free 60 cents the hse a tennis court, vis), from Dr. Williams Medicine gives very good facilities Ca, 95 Szechuan Road, Shanghai.

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