Hongkong, June 22 Two persons were drowned and four were reported missing to-day Jtollowing a torrential 24-hour downpour which caused considerable damage. The victims were coolies employed in the waterworks project now under way here.
Happy Valley, where the racecourse fs located, has been turned into Hongkong, June 22.
Eleven inches of rain. which is bait of England's annual average, fell last night and this morning. blocking roads and holding up trafic.
The torrential rainfall, however, is a blessing for it will enable the lifting of the water restrictions which have been enforced in the Colony for nearly two years.
During.the early forenoon to-day it was so dark that trams and automobiles were forced to run with all their lights turned on—Reuter.
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