Those who overlook the outer har-hour can always tell when a typhoon coming by the return of the fshing fleets from the high seas. Somehow these old fishermen know by some instinct, (or perhaps it is long experience with weather conditions), the indications of a typhoon's approach. They carry no instruments yet they are never wrong, and the Whole feet sails for Amoy like Thuge ock of monstrous sea-birds.
a pretty sight to see the return, fof these graceful "sea-birds" as they' skim and bob in clusters Alling almost the whole outer harbour.
The typhoon this time blew with force violence. Less rain than usual fell, and, on the whole, the damage done was insignificant, One life only was lost, and little property was destroyed. With its art gusts forty sampans were damaged. These mosquito craft have little or no shelter from a gale since the long. concrete harbour front was flushed They lie in Jong Lines, stem and stern, ted to Manila hawsers like herrings fon a hake, If their flimsy fastenings should snap, strained by the strength fof wand and tide, a chaos reigns of crashing, colliding vessels, of wren-felling, muscle strained coolies, alt swearing, shouting and screaming together; their voices rising even above the noise of the wind. After the sampans were damaged, all water frame across the harbour with them belay left in Amoy and unate to get home. All road communication with neighbouring. cities was inter~ Fupbed, Telegraph poles on, the northern roads were blown down. The large steamers left the inner harbour to anchor for safety in the Outer roads. A girl of seventeen was keillea by the fall of a portion of the old cour wall at Amoykang, which has been standing in ruins for years crumbling with the weather and every gale. The girl is said to have been cooking in 'a wooden kiteher: nearby when a large portion of the wall fell burying the house and the ini, An ancient tree near the Chung Shan Park was uprooted. It tore up large portion of the street in its struggle with the wind, but fortunately no one was near it at the time or hurt, Five were injured later, one of whom only was seriously hurt.
Bus Held Up sums have been spent in to make roads; vast sums are earmarked to complete the proposed huge net work of roadways that will 'Qnally link the province together. But more than roads are necessary to cive peace to the people and security to travellers, A day or 0 ago, a. bridge was torn up about thirty' miles inland from Amoy. A motor-bus full of travellers "came rushing up and stopped. It was sur-Founded by twenty bandits, © The conductor, who sold and collected tickets on bus, attempted Femonstrate and was immediately shot. The passengers and the driver were taken away, no one knows where. When the' authorities heard of the outrage, they immediately sent the empty "bus and the corpse of the guard, Four thousand more pistols are wanted by the chief police officer of Amoy fully to arm his police and detective force. A requisition for this number was sent to the provincial capital a short time ago and seven hundred weapons. have just arrived as a first instalment towards the Fequired number. The completion of this local arsenal will, it is hoped, bring perfect peace to the city.
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