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Show CHINESE DEAD IN TYPHOON IS LARGE TERRIFIC STORM SWEEPS CANTON CAN-TON RIVER ESTUARY; SHIPPING FEELS LOSS Only Foreign Casualty Known; Dutch Resident of Hongkong; Few Are Saved; Loss May Reach 2,000 j Hongkong Two thousand Chinese Jsherman are believed to have perched per-ched in a typhoon which raged though-3ut though-3ut Monday. More than 100 junks, ivhich were engaged in fishing in the Canton river estuary and off the coast lave not made port, and are believed ;o have been wrecked or sunk. The only known foreign casualty vas the drowning of a Dutch resident if Hongkong, who was blown into the vater and drowned. Shipping at Hongkonk, a British colony, col-ony, and at Macao, a Portugese settlement, settle-ment, was badly battered by rough jeas, but the wind did compara-avely compara-avely little damage to the cities. Ships t docks made fast with additional tfnes and those anchored in exposed places were towed to safety. Thirty-five native fisherman clinging ;o wreckage were rescued by the crew sf the British steamer Hydrangea-, ivhen lifeboats were driven through plunging seas to their rescue. Hongkong and Macao frequently save been damaged by typhoons. Looted Lo-oted on opposite sides of the Canton river estuary, they are exposed to high winds. They are forty miles apart. Many lives were lost in Macao in 1923 ivhen the city was badly damaged by three typhoons. Hongkong, suffered severely, with considerable loss of life. The whole south China coast is sub-ect sub-ect to devasting storms. The hurricane hurri-cane of August, 1922, was said to have tilled 60,000 Chinese at Swatow. |
