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. THE HONGKONG Tɔ LEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMNER 18, 1936.

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Six "Hits" of the Day Plano Medley No. R.18

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The Greatest Storm That Hongkong Ever Experienced

THIRTY years ago to-day,

8.30 am, on September 18, 1906, Hongkong was en- joying the type of weather that usually denotes the end of the summer and the be- ginning of winter.

Dawn had broken dull, wet and threatening, but had the dawns of many previous morning.

There WAB nothing to in- dicate that anything was amiss. Amahs and cook-boys Stubbs Rd. bustled in the

Hongkong Hotel Garage

Phone 27778/9.

The

kitchen, pre

paring the breakfasts of Hong kon g's

Hongkong Telegraph.20,000 Europ

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 1936.

EGYPT'S NEW STATUS

Egypt's new status

independence,

... Primo Scala Accordeon Band. sovereign

It's been so long-Fox Trot

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Piano Medley No. R.19

ears.

E

THE taipan glanced idly at his morning paper as he of chipped the at-top off his hard-boiled There

Charlie Kunz, Lained as

號 result of

the

will

Primo Scala Accordeon Band. Charlie, Kunz.

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HONGKONG'S tale of misery

did not end with the typhoon. Thousands of ghouls were abroad, robbing the bodies of the dead, which werd strewn

waterfront.. over the entire

tragedy in the century-old his- were being sacrificed by the Burial in Hongkong was im- tory of this Colony became hundreds, and not one soul possible, and the bodies of. uh- news that horrified the world. could do a thing about it. The known Chinese were unloaded gimcrack sampans and the un- into junks and taken to Kwang-

ro crushed to tung for disposal. AT eight o'clock in the morn- wieldy junks

ing, life in Hongkong was matchwood. These of the luck-

Passengers and the crew of as it has been on every ordinary less occupants who succeeded in day throughout our history. reaching the Praya walls were many a stranded vessel were At five minutes past eight, bashed to picces against the forced to fight off pirates almost

almost

...

from the time they wont ashore. Even dis near to the Colony as Wan- chai, pirates boarded one vessel and made repeated unsuc- cessful attempts to capture her British officers.

·In some cases, pirates were suc- cessful and those who had escaped death from the ty- phoon met it at the hands of the second dread enemy of the China Seas,

O

ON Friday, September 28, ten days after the first visita- tion, a second typhoon struck the Colony. It finished the work of the

egg. was nothing Robins and Rosos-Fox Trot ....Casoni Club Orchestra. new treaty with Britain, A Melody from the Sky-Fox Trot Casoni Club Orchestra, in all, pobability lead to her much to in- I nearly lot Love go slipping through my fingers-Fox Trot. Carly admissión as a member of terest him. British the League of Nations. The The

The Kowloon Wharves after the 1900 Typhoon, Got to dance my way to Heaven-Fox Trot.

Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. understanding reached by the fleet had been

accorded

cordial in the typhoon gun was fired and rocks by the ungovernable rage first. Hopes of refloating many vessels were dashed, 'an- five minutes later the black ball of the sea.

other hundred lives were lost. I'm a learner in love-Fox Trot ..Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. Anglo-Egyptian Treaty settles a

Nothing could be done to save That: the damage and destruc- The Scone Changes-Fox Trot...Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. problem which in the past had vitation at Port Arthur, was hanging from the yard-

urm of H.M.S. Temar.

them; they were beyond help, tion in the second typhoon, There was no warning. The and people on land could only ..Johnson's Orchestra. been extremely difficult to com- Further out in the Pacific

as severe as the first, look on at their agonising faces Every time I look at you-Fox Trot ..Johnson's Orchestra. pose. By no means the least the Mongolia, well-known in typhoon was here.

Immediately there was a as they drowned. Ten thousand was not greater was due almost 8817 Six "Hits" of the Day (Series 5)

important factor in its conclusion Hongkong, was hard and

scene of bustling activity among people lost their lives in this entirely to the fact that the entire native fleet had been was the Italian defiance of the fast on Midway Island and the junks and sampans, attempt manner in the short space of wiped out on September 18.

ing to scramble to safety before two hours.

There was nothing left for the League of Nations last year, His Majesty King Edward the typhoon burst. which made it extremely desir-

Many larger Bea-going liners September 28 typhoon to des- The wind was comparatively fared no better than the junks troy. able that the long-drawn struggle VII had opened a Fair in

It benefited the Colony in- light; and many people thought between extremists representing Birmingham.

the gun had been fired accident- and sampans. Horrifying was British Imperialism and Egypt-

The taipan wished, as he ally. But at 8.15 a.m. sudden the end of the steamer Kwong- directly, for it removed the dan Chater Road. Nationalism should be folded his newspaper, that the black squails blew through the chow, which had just arrived ger of an epidemic.

streets, and whistled in the from Canton when the typhoon

has Hongkong suffered brought to an end. When, in weather would clear up for the shrouds of the shipping caught started. Packed below her decks ONLY on one previous occasion

were hundreds of travellers. the early part of this year, Italy week-end, but the report from unawares in mid-harbour.

Not one was saved when the typhoon as severe as the 1906 finally annexed Abyssinia, what the Royal Observatory gloomily

There was no breathing space. ship foundered. The Master, visitations and that was in 1841,

tion. had previously appeared desir- predicted moderate winds with By 8.30 am, the retreat of the Captain Meade, went down with the year of the Colony's founda-

native floating population had his ship.

It is hardly likely that such The Kwongchow was only one heavy loss of life as that suffer- been cut off; they were caught perative. In the early days of after the taipan folded his in the throes of the storm like of many. Two French and one ed in 1906 will ever occur again. British warships a score of Science has removed the sheep in the slaughter-pen.

Big liners were tossed about steamers, Including the San typhoon's most powerful wea- in mid-harbour like corks. Roofs Cheung, Shun Lee, Heungshan, pon--the element of surprise. disappeared from buildings that Kinshan, Fukai Maru, H.M.S.

To-day, Hongkong is linked had out-weathered dozens of Phoenix; Wingchai, and many by direct radio communication previous visitations. The Colony others were total wrecks, some with dozens of meteorological was denuded of trees by 9 a.m. with heavy loss of life.

centres in the Far East, and the The Bishop of Hongkong, the track of a typhoon is accurate- SPECTATORS battling against Rt. Rev. J. 1. Hoare, was ly plotted from the time of its the hurricane along the drowned at sea. A tablet in St. formation until it fills up.

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able, became in the interests of Britain and Egypt absolutely im- At: 10.30 a.m., two hours

the Great War, Britain made paper and thought about going formal what had long been exist to his office, Hongkong was in ing in practice, her protectorate In two hours, ten thousand

n shambles.

of Egypt, and, after the war had safely ended, she immediately people had died.

.

set about the difficult task of: In 120 minutes, the greatest reconciling Egyptian aspirations

for full independent nationhood

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the Protectorate was ended and but it proved impossible then to sight. On the harbour, lives memorates the tragedy, Egyptian independence was reconcile British and Egyptian acknowledged, subject however views on the future of the Sudan.

to the settlement of four im- The external ill-wind of Italian The Boxers Who Try to Come Back

portant points: (1) Imperial imperialism has at long last af- communications were

even a large measure

who won sallor."

have

of the Sudan under D.

was to be settlod-with Britain and to contribute to its defence

dominium of Egypt and Britain Sudan, to own property there, truism heard

circles.

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The American nation clumoured for Dempsey. having been beaten by the world's a white man to conquer this coloured Tunney, and although an immensely to be fected what mere argumentation JACK Sharkey, the tough "Boston

of heavy-weight boxing championship boxing machine, and eventually, in rich man, could not realst the tempta secure; (2) Egypt was to be and

it to Carnera a year later, has gone his retirement. Jeffries by this time man who had rubbed him in the dust; secured from possible foreign genuine goodwill was unable to from Max Schmeling in 1932 and lost 1910, Jeffries was persuaded to leave tion to have another fling at the for that famous fight at Reno must he has been told repeatedly by critics, friends and bitter experience that his aggression of all kinds; (3) bring about. The position and the way of all past champions who had grown fat. To him, the training while Kid Berg, despite the fact that best days are past recently went to His hopeless defeat by Jee Louis have been the cruellest torture....

the United States for "one more go" foreigners and minorities were to strength of British armed forces try to come backs.

on age nowadays their interests properly in Egypt has been settled. The repeated the oldest story of boxing.

To be a successful boxer you have. contests quickly, no matter how safeguarded, and (4) the status Egyptians are to be allowed to considered to be that of a very old JACK Johnson seldom finished his at the world's, light-weight title,

con-immigrate more casily into the man in the boxing ring.

"They never

come back" is a great his domination might be. He to believe you can beat your man, no never dies. The flesh fails, but the every day in boxing ked to tense and prod and gloried matter who he is. That self-faith and In hla mastery.

spirit lives on. Old boxers of 40 Jeffries went through nearly 10 50 feel the urge to try again every rounds of merciless hammering be-time they see a fight. As the senior partner.. Negotla and more fully than in the past

Better training methods aro always had a chance. never Jim," the first of the classic box- time, and

One could almost go through the being devised, and just as track re- tions proved extremely difficult to its civil government. The JAMES J. Corbett, "Pompadour fore the end came. He was 35 at the But the pace gets hotter every year. Again and again they opened, question of "capitulations" and ing heavy-weights, tried many times

to get back to the top, but his bril-line of champions of all weights with cords are broken at each Olympiad, They money that has caused the fitter, and stronger boxers. and again and again they broke "mixed Courts" is to be brought lant skill avalled him nothing, even a similar story, It has not always so the world breeds and trains faster, The British repeatedly before an international Con- against the comparatively clumsy veteran to try again, for I believe put for more into each round of box- down.

in Fights used to last 30 and 40 rounds, put forward proposals for obference, and with British sup- The latter, in his turn, suffered a Tommy Butllenged our vin for me, and burn themselves out quick-

fate far worse in ignominy when he

Beckett and met him in London laining the desired result. Report the Egyptians will move than any of the defents experienced 1920-twelve years after he lost his the number being unlimited. But

this by Corbelt.

world title to Johnson

may be that within ten years peatedly those proposals were for their abolition. On

Jelfrica, a tremendously powerful, Burns was 30, and Beckett was in rounds will be the order for cham from the basis the Treaty is founded; and American, retired in 1008, having to his rejected because

prime. Maybe contempt for plonship nights, Boxers' careers, are Egyptian standpoint they "be it is hoped that Egypt will soon challengers with a ghost of a chte Beckett and for Brilish boxing in- also aborter. Most of them nowa of giving him anything of a battle. He

even at that age he could atrip, get 30. But they still try to come back. trayed lack of confidence intake her place beside other roured unbeaten, with money, and spired Burns with the belief that days are "used up" before they are

Was a happy and successful mun. a

His title passed to Tommy Burns, ut, and whip a strong, hard-hitting They always will.. Egypt and a desire to keep her peace-loving countries as

who was chased across the world by youngster of 25. He was, of courss Time will tell whether Petersen,

beaten..

dur: 24-years-old ex-champion, will the famous Negro Jack Johnson, and One or two havà. retired and re- ono, day: avenge his sensational de- Gnally beaten by him in Australia infused to return-Gene Tunney being feat this week by Ben Foord

F. L. A striking example. Even Jack

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