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(INCORPORATED IN RONG KONG)

Hongkong Telegraph.

Pictorial Supplement

September 12th. 1931.

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This is how the Hankow Racecourse looked a few weeks ago ni result of the disastrous finude in and around the city. Latest reporta state that the water has reached the level of the grandstand roof.

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Sampant are in great demand an the flooded streets in Hankow, being the chief means of conveyance. On right, ie the entrance to the Hankow Club. The water has since rison above the wall.

Another view of the flooded racecourse at Hankow. Photo shows the starting gate at the nine furlongs port and the Judge's box in the distance partly submerged.

Here is another Hankow flood scene. It shows the conditions outside the former British

Police Station.

Hora is a scene on Jardine's Estate at Hankow. The water has since reached the cavOS of the houses, which have, of course, been vacated.

A typical scene on the Bund at Hankow, in the former British Cances- sion. The building soon in the foreground is the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

Two further pictures of the wreckage of native craft along the Western Praya during the recent typhoon blow. Top photo is by Mr. Denis H. Haxall, and the other by Men Cheung,

The East Asiatic Company's new mator ship Muinam, which was thrown open to public inspection in Hongkong on Friday of Init work. The vessel was greatly admlead by all who went on board,

A very pratty wedding took place at Union Church, Kowloon, when Miss Mary- Wilson Nicol, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Nicol, R.A.M.C., was married to Sur. goant J. Landau, B.AM.C. The above bridal group was taken after the ceremony. (Photo: Ming Yuan Studio),