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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY.

1937. AUGUST 22

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TYPHOON DEATH ROLL DISASTER IN MANILA

HARBOUR.

GROWS.

(Continued from Pogs 1.). "MACÀO HAS NASTY EXPERIENCE.

VESSELS DRIVEN ASHORE OR DAMAGED.

:

The first nots of the damage infleted at Macao by the typhoon reached the Colony this morning, by the s.e. Chuen Chow and the s.s. Sui Tai, which were berthed at the Portuguese port on Saturday morning, and did not leave owing to the warning which had been issued.

TUG OVERTURNS AND 20 DROWN.

STRUCK BY HUGE WAVES.

The effects of the typhoon, which passed close to Manila ön Friday, resulted in a disaster, in which more than a score of people were drowned. Saturday's Manila Bulletin reports:

"

The steam tug Leyden, owned and operated by the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company, capsized just outside the breakwater in the Manila Bay at 10.15 a.m. yester-

Both the Sul Tai and Chuen day. Of the 95 passengers 26 still

were missing late last night. Chow were at wharves in a fairly sheltered position, but were able At 6 a.m. yesterday the Leyden note the damage done else-was dispatched from the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company's where.

to

The six warning guns were wharves near the mouth of the fired at 12.30 p.m. on Saturday, Pasig river to bring back 12 labour- and the blow reached its flereest era who were aboard another of about 6 p.m. The sea rose to the company's vessels, the S. S

Salvager,

ал

and

anchored inside

extraordinary height, houses and shops nearest the breakwater, near pier 5.

water's edge were soon flooded. As the gale increased, sampans which had taken shelter were carried bodily ashore for a dis-

I believe every person should in by the mouth above the watertance of approximately 400 yards, known how to swim, because and out through the nose under while the lower streets and alleys ability to swim provides a safe the water.

You can master this by the fol-were several feet deep in water.

Lighters, junks and dredgers guard

against drowning, and

local Harbour Works affords enjoyment of a healthful low breathing exercise: Enter of the

the water about waist-deep, bend were driven from their moorings recreation.

one of the forward with face near the sur-

and suffered damage by being cast Self-confidence is greatest asserts to the beginner. face of the water, take a deep against the sea wall, and many of If you are shy of water, you can breath through the mouth, close these craft have been hopelessly overcome this timidity by sub- the mouth, then dnck the head an broken up. merging the face several times exhale slowly through the nose before attempting to learn to under water.

Keep the eyes open. swim.

Repeat the exercise until free

Another asset to good swimming

Plunged in Darkness. Shortly after the blow comment-

is ability to breathe properly bubbling at the nostrils assuresed, the electric power station was All modern strokes are hinged you that the air is being exhaled with this method of breathing-without trouble.

TYPHOON WRECKAGE.

'CHINESE CHARGED WITH

LARCENY BY FINDING.

enormous

The sight of the amount of wreckage lying, about

SHOULD DOCTORS

TELL?

COMMONS SEQUEL TO RECENT LAW CASE.

inviolate;.

put out of commission and the town was plunged in darkness, adding to the terrors of the whirl ing elements. Telegraph poles, telephone cables and service cir- suits generally wore coming down in all parts, while the trees for many hundreds of yards along the Praya Grande were uprooted by:

the force of the gale.

The race course was soon entire iy submerged, while the matsheds and pavilions erected thereon wore carried away by the fury of the wind and scattered in fragments over a great distance.

the

About 7.30 am. when the Leyden attempted to return with the men, she was unable to pass through. the Engineer Island canal, which was jammed with more than a dozen river-lighters that had taken.

shelter there from the storm. The Leyden remained in the canal unt!! almost 10 n.m.

In the meantime another of the company's boats, the S. S. Industry, picked up about 50 labourers, some in the employ of the Altantic, Gulf and Pacific Company and others of the Simmie and Grilk Company, who had been working all night building a coconut oil tank on the steamer Steel Seafarer, docked at Pier 7. These men were being taken to breakfast.

Because of the fighters, the In- dustry, likewise, was unable to pass through the Engineer Island canal.

As a result the 60 men were transferred to the Leyden, The men were tired and hungry Leuven to back out of the canal and they urged the captain of the

The and take them through the break- water to their destination. captain finally consented and per- mitted a few labourers on. En- gineer Island, who desired to cross the river, to board the vessel.

Circled To Starboard..

Afloat, things were but little Vessels taking shelter better.

The bay was unusually rough were subjected to severe buffeting,

washing Many email Chinese craft on the and huge waves were

the breakwater. Even were either driven over Delta run ashore or dragged from their an-though the Leyden is 125 feet chorage, with damage to fittings long the captain had to do some clever manoeuvering to get the and equipment.

vessel safely through the gap. The boat made a large circle to Starboard to avoid being washed against the rock fill outside the breakwater...·

Vessels Go Ashore. The Portuguese gunboat Macao was blown ashore, but subsequent ly came off again when there was a change in the wind direction, and so far as can be ascertained, is not seriously damaged.

The

In the House of Commons in in various places has proved in mail week, Dr. Vernon Davies ask- some cases too great à temptationed the Minister of Health if his for the idle Chinese who invari-lastention had been drawn to the ably wander about the seashore decision of one of H.M. Judges for and elsewhere in an endeavour to Birmingham Assizes that there retrieve any useful material which was no privilege for medicul men might be cast upon the sea-shore to refuse information to the Court or left abandoned after the ty- obtained confidentially in the treatment of a patient suffering phoon.

There were several instances from a particular complaint in which came to the notice of the spite of definite assurances in the Police during the last forty-eight past by the Ministry that such in- hours and, at the Kowloon Magis formation would be tracy, this morning, the greater and would be consider the desir part of the half hour in which ability of introducing legislation this to give a doctor the right, at least

All went well until the vessel the Magistrate dealt with morning's work, was occupied in the case of this disease, to re-

bad proceeded to a point about half way between the gap in the with cases of Chinese being fuse to give evidence about con- obtained fidential information

Hang Cheong suffered breakwater and the mouth of the charged with larceny by finding.

In the first case which came from a patient.

badly and after being driven Pasig river, or directly opposite up before his Worship, a Chinese

Sir Kingsley Wood replied that ashore on a mud bank, where she the oil dock inside the break- was changed by the Hunghom the attention of the Minister of still remains hard and fast, she water. At this point the steamer Police with being in possession Health had been drawn to the had her mast wrenched out, and was moving almost parallel with of two tins of kerosene reasonably case and he proposed to give very many of the deck fittings and and between 300 and 400 yards

to the awning stanchions, etc.,

away from the breakwater and suspected of having been, stolen careful consideration

carried away.

waves were washing directly over or unlawfully obtained.

points raised by it. The defendant, in pleading to Dr. Davies then inquired whe- At the worst period of the blow, the port side. One great wave the charge, said that he had found ther Sir Kingsley Wood would ask the barometrical reading was down struck the vessel,, throwing her the tins on the sea-shore at the Minister to bear in mind that to 28.54. Under these circum-to starboard on her beam ends, Cheung Sha Wan. He could not in dealing with panel patients this stances, anxiety is expressed for and, according to those who wit- explain how they came to be there. decision would have a very dele-the fishing fleet, which was out nessed it, not more than a minute

later she sank. ns the typhoon broke, Sub-Inspector Pain, asked his terious effect on the treatment of when

The Leyden was equipped with Worship to grant a remand for the disease, and that a state of nothing has yet been heard of life belts, life boats and other 48 hours for further enquiries as insecurity was existing among them; but since no wreckage in life-saving apparatus but be the Police hoped to connect the medical men and panel patients." any quantity has been sighted,

is hoped that they Sir Kingsley replied that there it two tins with the consignment which was on the junk that found-were many difficult questions aris- shelter before meeting the full ered at Causeway Bay on Saturing in connexion with this matter, force of the typhoon. day.

and the Minister proposed to give The defendant was accordingly consideration to these points. rémanded till Wednesday morn- ing.

Theft from Taxi Wreckage.

were

reached

2

it

cause of the suddenness of the accident all this was of no avail]"," Those who were able to swim to the breakwater or to keep afloat Houses Collapse.

until rescuing launches arrived were saved. Those who could While several houses have not swim are among the missing. collapsed or been blown down, All available boats in the har- The East Hull Labour Party, so far as can be ascertained there bour were ordered to proceed to at a meeting held in camera, pass has been no loss of life ashore.the location of the disaster. The The theft of wood from the ed a resolution, after a very heated

Both the Chuen Chow and the collector of customs reissued the

at Hongkong and discussion, expelling from the Sul Tai remained wreckage of the

their order soon afterward. The or Kowloon Taxicab Co. was men-party members who held Com wharves. Though the piers der was passed from boat to boat tioned before Mr. W. Schofield, minist views.

sufferedR certain amount of by the use of siren signale. refore whom a Chinese coolie was

damage this was by no means con- Fifteen, boats of various sizes charged with larceny of a beam:

siderable. The now Harbour went to the rescue but the sea was at 245 this morning.

to his Worship that the owner had Sub-Inspector Dorling said that been found for nine of the poles there had been several attempts but there had been no claimants by street coolles to take away the for the remainder. All nineteen fallen timber from the premises poles were found on the hillside and the assistance of the Police where the defendant had concealed had been sought to prevent the them after he had taken them from removal of any of the wreckage. the sea,

in' default.

}:

Works, including son walls and so rough that many were forced to reclamations, are practically in- return after going through the tact, although, as stated above, breakwater."

An idea of how rough the bay: most of the craft employed have suffered damage.

was can be obtained from the fact It is understood that repairs the army mine-planter Harrison, to the power station will take after making two attempts to go about three days, and Macuo will into the bay, failed. therefore remain in darkness for some time yet.

Life Lines Thrown Out.

The defendant, who pleaded His Worship, said that he did guilty, was fined $10 with the al-not know if the defendant could be ternative of 14 days hard labour sald to have actually stolen the

Much care had to be taken in roles as they were retrieved from

THE C.N.C. BOATS,

rescuing those who were' swim- the sea. Floating Poles..

After consideration, his Wox-

A Company's Correction..

ming to prevent them from being crushed against the sides of the Five charges relating to eigh ship found that the removal of

We are to-day in receipt of a boats. Lifelines and the life belts teen building contractor's pales, the poles from the sea coast coo- were preferred against an un-stituted larceny. If the man had letter from Mesars, Butterfield and tied to ropes were thrown to the

the employed Chinese, who claimed merely taken the poles out of the Swire stating that our report that struggling survivors.

The rescue launches took the sur that he had salvaged the poles sea and left them on the prayaa number of Naval ratings were. from the sea at the rear of the wall," he would not be committing conveyed by naval tugs to the vivors to the Atlantic, Gulf and An attempt was officers-less CN.C. ships lying in Pacific wharves

made to get the names of all those China Motor Bus Company's pre-larceny or any other offence.

His Worship convicted the de-Kowloon Bay was incorrect. mises.

larceny The letter further states that all saved but they were so panic atrick- The defendant was charged fendant on the with (1) larceny of two poles, charges and the count of unlawthe Company's vessels in Hongen, dazed and chilled from the cold the property of one contractorful possession, the two alternative kong were manned by G. N. Co. (2) receiving the same two poles, charges of receiving stelen pre-officers only and that no assistance knowing them to have been stolen;perty in respect of the first nine was requested from, or given by,

His Majesty's Naval Authorities. (3) larceny of seven poles, the poles were dismissed.

"On each of the first and last property of a second contractor;

two

ing them to have been stolen, fines of $5 or seven days hard The South Ching Athletic As (4) receiving the anid poles know charges, his Worship imposed with being in possession labour in default, while the de- of another, nine poles reason-

(5)

water that the maintenance of order was. Impossible. Several broke difficulty that a check of any kind away and ran and it was with much

could be made.

Those who were suffering most were given first aid on the wharf, Motor trucks were called and fendant was fined $10 or in de-sociation assess the damage to others were sent to the hospital huts at by the truck load. Late last ably suspected of having been fault 14 days hard labour on the bathing and recreation stolen or unlawfully stained second count of larceny, the King's Parke North Point and night 27 of the survivors sill wort

Sub Inspector Pain pointed out sentences to run concurrently;

Quarry Bay at $5,000.