Big Liners Waiting for Better Weather With a typhoon raging over the Eastern and. the Yellow. Seas, the black ball, denoting that Shanghai was in for a ole, was hoisted over hi the Customs House shortly after four o'clock on Saturday afternoon.
o'clock, "typhoon signals" were hholsted on' the semaphore tower at the end of the French Bund, which: read that there was a severe typhoon miles radius at 31 degrees north and 126 degrees east, a point opposite Shanghai in the Eastern Sea.
'The typhoon is travelling in: a northwesterly direction, between the Saddles, Kiusiu, and Korea, and is a serious menace' to shipping in Japan
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