The Archive · 1926

When a Typhoon Comes

What Happens in its Centre:

Hongkong's Experience in the Past The following most interesting article appears in a recent issue of the Hongkong "China -Mail"—

Since 1928, Hongkong hes not felt the full' force of a typhoon. Then the wind velocity reached a record of 130 miles an hour.

Some residents are anxious to know what conditions are like when 'a the thick of a cyclone.

Hitherto Mrs T. F. Claxton, Director of the Royal Observatory, gave an idea of what would hap-Ten if a typhoon came to Hongkong.

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