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What Happened Thirty Years Ago To-day
The Greatest Storm That Hongkong Ever Experienced
THIRTY
years ago to-day, 8.30 a.m. on September
18, 1996, 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 so had the dawns of many a previous morning.
There was nothing to in-
dicate that
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 1996.
EGYPT'S NEW STATUS
Egypt's new status
independence.
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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 were 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 un- could do a thing about it. The known Chinese were unloaded news that horrified the world.
gimcrack sampans and the un- into junks and taken to Kwang- Teight o'clock in the morn- wieldy junks were crushed to tung for disposal..
ing, life in Hongkong was matchwood. Those. of the luck- as it has been on every ordinary less occupants who succeeded in day throughout our history,
Passengers and the crew of reaching the Praya walls were many a stranded vessel were At five minutes past eight, bashed to pieces against the forced to fight off pirates almost
The Kowloon Wharves after the 1906 Typhovu.
from the time they went ashore. Even as near to the Colony as Wan-
chai, pirates boarded one vessel and inade repeated unsuc». cessful attempts Lo 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,
ON Friday, September 28, len days after the first visita- tion, a second typhoon struck the Colony. It finished the work of the
THE taipan glanced idly at his morning paper as he of chipped the his Primo Scala Accordeon. Band. sovereign
at-top off
hard-boiled a result of the ...Charlie Kunstained
There egg. Casani Club Orchestra. new treaty with Britain. will.
was nothing A Melody from the Sky-Fox Trot Casani Club Orchestra. in all pobability lend to her much to in- I nearly let Love go slipping through my fingers-Fox Trot. early admission as a member ofterest him. British the League of Nations. The The Cot to dance my way to Heaven-Fox Trot,
Jay Wilbur's Orchestra, understanding reached by the fleet had been
in the typhoon gun was fired and rocks by the ungovernable rage first. Hopes of refloating many accorded a cordial
vessels were dashed, an- five minutes later the bluck ball of the sea. I'm a learner in love-Fox Trot..Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. Anglo-Egyptian Treaty settles in
Nothing could be done to save other hundred lives were lost. The Scene Changes--Fox Trot...Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. problem which in the past had vitation at Port Arthur. was hanging from the yard-
That the damage and destruc- arm of H.M.S. Tamar.
them; they were beyond help, tion in the second typhoon, There was no warning. The and people on land could only almost as severe as the first, 8816 It's been so long-Fox Trot
Johnson's Orchestra. been extremely difficult to com- Further out in the Pacific
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 typhoon was here.
was a as they drowned. Ten thousand was not greater was due almost Six "Hits" of the Day (Series 5)
important factor in its conclusion Hongkong, was hard and Immediately there
scene of bustling activity among people lost their lives in this entirely to the fact that the wiped out on September 18. Primo Scala Accordeon Band. was the Italian defiance of the fast on Midway Island the junks and sampans, attempt- manner in the short space of entire native fleet had been
ing to scramble to safety before two hours.
There was nothing left for the 8822 Piano Medley No. R.19
Charlie Kunz. League of Nations last year His Majesty King Edward the typhoon burst.
which made it extremely desir- able that the long-drawn struggle VII had opened a Fair in between extremists representing Birmingham. British Imperialism and Egypt-
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Many larger sea-going liners September 28 typhoon to des- The wind was comparatively fared no better than the junks troy,
light, and many people thought
It benefited the Colony in-
the gun had been fired accident- and sampans. Horrifying was 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- folded his newspaper, that the black squalls 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 a 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, visitatioris and that was in 1841,
tion. had previously appeared desir-predicted moderate winds with By 8.30 a.m. 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 able, became in the interests of some thunder-showers.
been cut off; they were caught
The Kwongehow was only one heavy loss of life as that suffer- Britain and Egypt absolutely im-
British warships, a score of sheep in the slaughter-pen.
Science has removed the 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.
To-day, Hongkong is linked disappeared, from buildings that Kinshan, Fukai Maru, H.M.S. 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 am. with heavy loss of life.
centres in the Far East, and the The Bishop of Hongkong, the track of a typhoon is accurate- "PECTATORS battling against Rt. Rev. J. L. 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. Praya witnessed a horrifying John's Cathedral now
peralive. 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.
a shambles.
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 protectorale
In two hours, ten thousand of Egypt, and, after the war had safely ended, she immediately people had died. set about the difficult task of reconciling Egyptian aspirations for full independent nationhood
In 120 minutes, the greatest
with her own interests. In 1922, made by Mr. Henderson in 1930, 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
com-
-N.S.
acknowledged, subject however views on the fulare of the Sudan. The Boxers Who Try to Come Back
to
try to come back.
circles.
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contests quickly, no matter how
to the settlement of four in- The external ill-wind of Italian
The American nation clamoured for, Dempsey, having been beaten by portant points:-(1) Imperial imperialism has at long last aï-
sailor," who won the world's white man to conquer this coloured Tunney, and although an immensely communications were
befected what mere argumentation JACK Sharkey, the tough "Boston
even a large measure of heavy-weight boxing championship boxing machine, and eventually, in rich man, could not resist the temple- secure; (2) Egypt was to be and
from Max Schmeling in 1932 and lost 1910, Jeffries was percunded to leave tion to have another ling at the secured from possible foreign genuine goodwill was unable to to Carnera a year later, has gone his retirement. Jeffries by this time man who had rubbed him in the dust; for that famous fight at Reno must he has been told repeatedly by critics; friends and bitter experience that in 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 Joe Louis have been the cruellest torture....
the United States for "one more go" foreigners and minorities were to strength of British armed forces, have their interests property in Egypt has been settled. The repeated the oldest story of boxing. He is nearly 34, an age nowadaya
To be a successful boxer you have to considered to be that of a very old JACK Johnson seldom finished his at the world's light-weight title. safeguarded, and (4) the status Egyptians are to be allowed
to believe you can beat your man, no come back" is a great his domination might be lie molter who he is. That self-faith of the Sudan under A con-immigrate more easily into the man in the boxing ring.
"They never every day in boxing liked to tease and prod and glorled never dies. The flesh falls, but the
In his mastery.
spirit Ilves on.. Old boxers of 40 and dominium of Egypt and Britain Sudan, to own property there, truism heard
Jeffries went through nearly 15 50 feel the urge to try again every
Oght. was to be settled-with Britain and to contribute to its defence
rounds of merciless hammering betime they see a
But the pace gots hotter every year. as the senior partner. Negotia- and more fully than in the past
Better training methods are always Jim," the first of the classic box-time, and never had a chance.
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, lie was 35 at the
ing heavy-weights, tried many times! Again and again they opened, question of "capitulations" and to get back to the top, but his bril- line of champions of all weights with cords are broken at each Olymplad, They that has caused the fitter, and stronger boxers. and again and again they broke "mixed Courts" is to be brought liant skill avalled him nothing, even, similar story. It has not always so the world breeds and trains faster,
against the comparatively clumsy been money.
veteran to try again, for I believe put for mere into each round of box- an international Con-James J. Jeffries. down. The British repeatedly before
The latter, in his turn, suffered a Tommy Burny was well provided for ing, and burn themselves out quick-
our own Joe er. put forward proposals for obference, and with British suptragle fate for worse in its ignominy
Fights used to last 30 and 40 rounds. move than any of the defeats experienced 1920welve years, after he lost his the number being unlimited. But it taining the desired result. Report the Egyptians will
world tillo to Johnson,
may be that within ten years ten peatedly those proposals were for their abolition, On this by Corbett.
Jeffries, a tremendously powerful
Burns was 39, and Beckett was in rounds will be the order for chum- from rejected because
the basis the Treaty is founded; and American, retired in 1000, having no his prime. Maybe contempt for pionship lights. Boxers' careers are Egyptian standpoint they "be- it is hoped that Egypt will soon challengers with a ghost of a chance Beckett and for British boxing in also shorter. Most of them nown- of giving him anything of a battle. He spired Burns with the belief that daya are "used up" before they are even at that age he could strip, tot 30 But they still try to come back. was a happy and successful mon. fit, and whip a strong, hard-hitting They always will
His title passed to Tommy Burns, youngster of 25. He was, of course, Time will tell whether Potersen, of who was chased across the world by beaten.
our 24-years-old ex-champlon, will the famous Negro Jack Johnson, and One or two have retired and re-one day avenge his sensational de- finally beaten by him in Austraila in fused to return-Gene Tunney being Icat this week by Ben Foord.
H.L. 1908.
д striking example, Even Jack
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. trayed tack of confidence intake her place beside other retired, unbeaten, with money, and
Egypt and a desire to keep her peace-loving countries us In a state of tutelage". The last member of the League attempt before December last was Nations.
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