There are five other outstanding points to be discussed, the most important of which is the question lof the powers of the general manager and in fact of all the administration, as at present the Soviet side rule the roost.
There is no doubt that the strength of the Chang Tso-lin gov-jemment has much to do with the quick manner in which the Sovie Ihave agreed to the conditions put forward by the Chinese members, The Dalbank is short of ready money and merchants who have been accustomed to have loans promptly paid to them, find great difficulty in getting financial assistance from this bank to-day. Practically all the money which has been coming in from the railway for the past 10 days (since the Chinese control was appointed) has now to be paid over to the Chinese banks.
Hongkong, Aug. 20.
A typhoon is raging in Hongkong.
Fearing that the stables at the various military camps in Kowloon, may collapse the authorities let Jose between 900 and 400 horses and mules, Many stampeded on the Nathan and Chatham roads but nothing untoward occurred, bus was blown over on Sal bury Road, two Chinese receiving injuries, The trams in Hongkong: fand the ferries have stopped run. ning.
The P. & O. 8. Rawalpindi has postponed its departure, Government tugs have conveyed emergency crews of naval ratings to man the steamers of the China vigation Ca. which are lying in Kowloon Bay without any officers on board owing to the dispute between the firm and the men, Later, The "double-ender" Hongkong Kowloon ferry-boat, which was sheltering behind Stonecutters' Island, has drifted on shore, There were no passengers on board and no casualties among the crew.
The Rawalpindi is constantly drifting, but with clever seamanship. the vessel is being manguvred against a very rough sea and wind, Early this afternoon hundreds of spectators were watching the vessel's battle against the elements from the verandahs of their offices along the waterfront, Later.
The force of the wind is increas ing and there is a torrential, blindawafpindi, riding at anchor in mid-harbour, dragged her anchor and approached within a cable-length of the N.Y, K. S. Ginyo Maru. A collision was averted only ty the P. & 0. boat dropping her and anchor and steaming to keep itself in position. The ship is two cable-lengths from the sea wall, The foremast of the new Bri river gunboat Petrel, which is being assembled at Taiko Dockyard, has been blown off by the force of the wind—Reuter.
Hongkong, Aug. 21, A Chinese house collapsed at Sham Shui Po yesterday. Two.
dren and a man were Killed and.
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