The typhoon gun was fired on Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock. not because of any immediate danger to locafshipping but rather to warn the small craft in the river of an impending storm. The smaller boats began ab once to scurry into the Soochow Creek where within a short time traffic became congested. Tug boats went out and hauled in the larger berges and steel lighters.
Information received. at the Siccawei Observatory late in the afternoon was to the effect that the centre of the typhoon affecting Shanghai was crossing the astern Sea and was believed to be near Latitude 28 or 29 and Longitude 124. It wag apparently inclining more to west-north-west, threatening the coasts of Chekiang and Kiangsu far north as the mouth of the Yangtze.
AN EXCITING RESCUE, The boisterous weather was nearly—rasponsibl(fqr one casualty in the afternoon, when the few people on The Bund witnessed an exciting resd@e by two officers and a bluejacket from H. M. S. Bee, Shortly after the warning gun was fired a junk passed the gunboat. Some gear was seen to have been carried away from the native craft. together with a Chinese who was holding on to it. It was soon noticed that he could not swim, and within a very short space of time al) that could be seen of him was a head and hands appearing momeatarily from the water. A motor-dinghy immediately put off from the Bee, manned, as_ far as the onlookers could make out, by two officers and a bluejacket. When they reached the unfortunate individual he had already disappear below the surface. The dinghy's crew, however, were able to fish him out. He was taken back to the junk, apparently none the worse for the ex-
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We understand that the Chinese authorities are on the look out for a prisoner who, freeing himself from his handcuffs and leg chains, escaped while being taken from a City police station to the District Court for trial. The guard, fearing that he would be punished, destroyed the charge sheet referring to the escaped man, but this was later discovered and he is now being held for trial.
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