This was due-to the effects of a' strong breeze and the sun, which shone for most of the.day. In downtown areas the floods quickly vanish. ed. Along Bubbling Well Road and Hart Road there was no sign of water, but at Tifeng Road it was a different story. Here the water covered the whole length of the thoroughfare on both sides of Great Western Road. On Vu Yuen Road cars and buses splashed their way through floods one-foot deep for a considerable distance. and,- in front of. the British Military "Headquarters on Tifeng Road, coolies did a -roaring trade pushing cars, which had stopped in the deepest parts.
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