wed by "North-the China Daily pondent, Lieut. little say rey fight from Amoy. Like colleagues, he was smeared all over with grease and wore a heavy growth of beard on his chin, not having shay-fed since he left Shanghai. 'The three hours' flight from Amoy was eventless, he said. They flew through rain and mist virtually the whole way. They met with little wind and visibility was very good. Once they had sighted the harbour Hongkong. From Amoy they travelled at an average speed of 90 miles' an hour, but owing to the heavy mist they had to keep to a height of not more than 600 feet most of the way. phong which is a distance of just over 500 miles from Hongkong. Lieut. Smith. was confident before lie left. "that they would reach Haiphong before dark to-night.
During their stay: in Hongkong, the U. S. airmen had little time to spare to attend any official reception, Except for an occasional respite aboard the destroyer Paul Jone Lieut. Smith hardly left the side of his machine throughout the 48 hours the machines were here. His colleague, Lieut. Wade, attended Government House at. the request of his Excellency yesterday, He was the only representative to go ashore. Asin Shanghai, the Standard Oil Ca, was mainly responsible for the cxecllent ar-vougements made for the conveni-nee of visitors at the welcome and farewell of the airmen.
Hongkong's First Typhoon, 4 Apropos of the typhoon proviously mentioned, Fortunately, for the the typhoon of which they ned proved merely to be a rin, a storm in a teacup. The ominous warning displayed on Signal Hill was indicated at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning. According to the signs, a typhoon was expected to strike the const near Hongkong from the enst. It was the first time the warning had been given this season—rather an carly start, Native craft, junks, sampans'and the like made a hurried dive for shelter and by midday there was hardly a junk to be seen in the harbour. Several excursion trips to Macao were temporarily poste poned; the forty boats maintained their clock-work™ services, but with awnings well farled and the giant Empress of Australin which was lying at the Kowloon Wharf rode out of anchorage in midstream and spent the night at the buoy. Many of the river steamers sought the shelter of the Kowloon Bay. The Whitoun holiday crowds wore sca ed and bathing parties and plenies were put off. Though the signals atill "flew throughout Saturday night, the two green and white Tights on the Observatory mast standing out like a beacon light and Visible from all parts of the Har-dour, all that Hongkong felt of the prospective typhoon were spasmodic showers and a little wind, Yester~ morning the storm signals were removed. To-day the sun shone and the tennis matches were continued, After last y disastrous typhoon, Hongkong shipping people are taking no chances in future, This year, arrangements have been made by! the Harbour whereby Naval tugs will patrol the harbour when a typhoon is expected and will be at hand to tow any craft that requires aid to a typhoon shelter. In this week-end's. fiasco the Chinese wasted no time; they disappeared as if by magic a soon as the signal was hoisted.
This afternoon I visited Laichikok! and found that the leader's machine had been hoisted from the water by a Taikoo tug and an army of workers were busily engaged in repairing various damages. Lieut. Smith explained that a cylinder had cracked during the flight from Shanghai to Hongkong, which necessitated welding. This difficulty overcome, thanks to the Taikoo engineers' aid, a new pontoon was fixed. The cld float had been damaged it the take-off at Japan fand a substitute despatched on the
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