ENG-1954 — Page 295

Hong Kong Year Books 香港年報 All

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Although Hong Kong has not experienced a really severe typhoon since 1937, the Colony lies in the path of Pacific typhoons and therefore has to be ever on the alert. First warning of a typhoon in the vicinity is given when the No. 1 Signal is hoisted at the Royal Observatory. Below: Typhoon "Ida", the centre of which passed 80 miles south of Hong Kong in August, 1954, caused heavy seas in the harbour.

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