THE TYPHOON AT HONGKONG.
TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE
PERISH.
SIX HUNDRED JUNKS FOUNDER.
Received September 23, 4.53 p.m HONGKONG, September 22.
Tbe latest accounts concerning tbe disastrous typhoon at Hongkong state tbat ten thousand lives were lost.
The increased death roll is due to the loss of the whole of the fishing fleet of six huudred junes. Active measures are being taken to relieve the sufferers. Ihe Nord Deutscher Lloyd Steamship Company has given six thousand marks to tbe relief fund, and' tbe Chinese in San Francisco have cabled ten thousand dollars.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8244, 24 September 1906, Page 5
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91THE TYPHOON AT HONGKONG. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8244, 24 September 1906, Page 5
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