Shanghai, July 14, HANGHAI'S recuperative powers are well known. No matter what kind of adversity may strike the ty it is a safe bet, to say that, sooner or later, the effects will be surmounted and life will go on as nothing had happened, Shanghai was visited by one of the worst typhoons it has experienced for many years on July 12, Winds tearing through the city at 75 miles an hour and over wreaked havoc in all districts. Hoardings crashed, walls and houses collapsed and trees were uprooted. Yet a trip around the city yesterday would have belied the fact, except for a few demolished hoardings and some extensive flooding in the Western areas.
In the Central district there was continuously since the beginning of little to show that the city had been the typhoon on the morning of July visited' by a violent. gale. Perhaps 12. Over two hundred men are en-the only tangible evidence was the gaged in this work. huge sign over the Palace Hotel on Trouble calls began to pour in at the Bund, Bent and battered by the 730 am. on July 12, during the furious wind, it was being removed first hour over a dozen being re-{in the afternoon by a gang of coolies ceived. By 3 p.m. the slumber had owing to the danger of its crashing reached 700, The peak number was to the ground below. Jinkee Road reached between 1 and 2 pin, when Was still yeped off but there was no over 200 calls were received and at debris along the street, At the Wing 5 p.m, the total had reached 888. On store two of the windows were From that time onwards there was still boarded' up. Otherwise there decline until a grand total of 3,250 wore no signs of the gale's effect.
Was reached yesterday morning. "Of these, 1,150 have received attention, Uprooted Trees only 10) being outstanding at 16 Despite the normal appearance, am, The situation is well in hand, however, extensive damage was the Power Company stated yesterday wreaked by the violent winds and when reporting that the distribu heavy rain, A trip to Bubbling tion system would be back to normal Well" Cemetery where six giant at about 3 pin. Throughout the trees—many of them over 30 years duration of the typhoon eight tel old—iay in utter contusion, "their phone operators were required on roots drying in the afternoon sun, the switchboard to handle trouble and to ihe Vu Yuen Rond district, calls received.
Where deep floods covered the rox way from. the Public School for service were caused by metal sheets, Most of the interruptions, to the Girls to almost as far as St. George radio aerials, gutters, down spouts, ore mute testimony to the fury of signboards and other detached obthe. storm.
Jects which were blown into the Throughout the evening of July 12 Hines, either cutting them or resting and yesterday morning the dama across them so that short circuits Was being repaired, Gangs of coolles were caused, In a number of cases Were speeded to. isolated points lines were cleared and service the winds died down and the elt restored only to be interrupted again wounds were healed, "Repairs we short time afterwards. The most SUL being conducted tate serious damage occurred at two as the damage was s0 points. In the Yangtzsepoo area a ff the places which received the full high brick boundary wall collapsed, fury" of the typhoon was the Race breaking three poles and causing course, Here the sports pavilions, the collapse of four other poles. many. of them damaged badly in the Western area a large steel Teaned drunkenly as coolies worked factory chimney blew down across to repair roofs and walls. On the the lines, snapping the wires and baseball ground debris was scattered causing the collapse of eight poles. fay and wide from the pavilion in Laodah Safe front of the stand, which had been Last seen floating away on an demolished by the wind. As at overturned launch before the full Nanking Road, however, where the force of the gale the No. 1 laodah flooding on July 10 had been of the Minghong Yacht Club was fensive, there was no sign of water, reported safe yesterday, In his 'A Different Story efforts to tle up the boat he had 'This was due to the effects of a been carried upriver for a great strong breeze and the sun, which distance and' on finding that his shone for most of the day. Tu downs Position was precarious he jumped town areas the floods quickly vanish. from the launch "and swam to a fed, Along Bubbling Well Road and buoy where he was buffetted by Hart Roud there was no sign of water, the wind "and, waves before being but at Tifeng Road it was a al ferent story. Here the water covered Two ships went adrift during the the whole length of the thoroughhhelght of the gale. These were the fare on both sides of Great Western British s. Baron Incheape and the Road. On Vu Yuen Road cars and Norwegian s, Randy. Six junks buses splashed their way through Jaden with flour sank in the vicinity floods one-foot deep for a consider of the latter steamer and are now total loss. The British steamer able distance and, in front, of the was towed back to buoys 33 and #4, British Military Headquarters but the Randy went on the mud Tifeng Road, cooties did a roaring and yesterday efforts were being trade pushing cars, which had stop-made to get her back to buoys 26 ped in the deepest parts.
"A visit. to. the perimeter revealed and 27. Further upriver divers the fact that the British soldiers Wore at work trying to salvage the sunken British naval launch, which there had suffered from the effects of the typhoon, thir straw hut ink near H.M.S. Duchess, while at Shanghai Yacht Club other hein devoid of roofing in several divers were continuing their efforts parts, Along Keswick Road, a few to refloat many sunken craft, yards away, other soldiers were re~ halving damaged telephone cables.
There was only one fatality as a Disappearing just as quickly a they result of the typhoon, this being had done in the International Settle caused by a roof collapse at the tent, the floods in the French Con-'Tsitsihar Market where six people were injured, one of them fatally. fession had vanished. At the corner of Rue Cardinal Mercier where, on Over 53 persons were injured in the Settlement by falling debris Sury' To, the water: had oyertlowed and other results of the storm. Into the Cathay Mansions, the road Luckily none of them was serious. was perfectly dry. Along Avenue Joffre the same conditions existed, One of the worst accidents of the "AL the Shanghai Refugee Relief day happened at Foochow Road where a rickshaw coolie was struck 'Association's crimp on Tunsin Road, by apiece of corrugated {ron roof however, conditions "were not 33 ing, his foot being severed as if cut She months' old buildings there had ood. Housing 9000 refugees, the an axe, No serious troubles were collapsed like matchwood before the reported by the Shanghai Telephone Ca, and every effort is being made fury, of the wind. Repairs were to restore interrupted service. Most issu carted out yesterday, to proof the damage was caused to the vide temporary relief "but many company's wires in the outlying thousands of dollars will be needed to repair all the damage, At the areas.
International Relief Committee's amp in the French Concession the damage was not so extensive, al-
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