THE TYPHOON AT HONGKONG.
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. Received September 21, 4.5 a.m. HONG KONG, September 20. It is estimated that five thousand Chinese perished as the result of the typhoon which visited Hongkong. The total damage to property is £4,000,000. The. steamer Heungsfcan, from Macao, with seventeen hundred Chinese passengers on board, was blown ashore at LantnoJ Island. All the Europeans were saved, numbers of Chinese being drowned despite the heroio attempts made to rescue them.
The sloop Phoenix is a total wreck. A SECOND TYPHOON. FURTHER DAMAGE CAUSED. Received Septemter 21, 10.30 p.m. HONG KONG, September 21. Further damage has been caused by a second typhoon at Hong Kong.
CABLE NEWS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8243, 22 September 1906, Page 5
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116THE TYPHOON AT HONGKONG. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8243, 22 September 1906, Page 5
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