Hongkong, Oct. 4.
The Coloniat Government was deeply concerned to-day over the absence of meteorological "reports since the Japanese Navy took over Pratas Shoals Weather Bureau, the most important station of its Kind in South China.
Shipping throughout all. southern waters has been endangered, it was Feporied. Negotiations were started with Japan but so far they have resulted only in meagre and often Inaccurate reports from a Japanese warship standing by the shoals.
'Two. American mail liners, the' President Wilson, en route to San Francisco, and the President Jefferson, en route to Hongkong, wirelessed thai they are battling a typhoon of severe intensity. Both ships were [supplying valuable information con-teeming the typhoon to Hongkong. substituting for the Pratas recordings.
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