One item in the damage done by the recent typhoon in Shanghai was the destruction wrought upon the imposing Vat 69 Whisky bottle erected along Bubbling Well Road. The first day of the stormy session one of the sides of the bottle caved in revealing its gaping inwards. The second day the fury of the storm was foo much for its moorings, and the bottle toppled over to fall upon one side. It a good thing that the intensity of the typhoon was no greater than it was, otherwise the effigy might have "up anchored" and "gone with the wind," in which case Shanghai would have lost an interesting advertising display
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.