Wind Rages; Streets Flooded; Shipping Delayed Shanghai, Aug. 31, ID Man Typhoon puffed and wheezed his way past Shanghai at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, cuffing the city with fierce blasts of ind and drenching it in a deluge of rain as he whirled en his way in a north-westerly direction, At 5 a.m, the centre of the typhoon was but 50 miles from Shanghai and it was at this time of the morning that the wind blew strongest here.
Apart from the usual floods, the typhoon did little material damage in the city as a whole. A good 75 fect brick wall surrounding the Race Course, however, was blasted out into Vu ¥a Ching Road while the wind raged "in the early "hours of the morning. Two hoardings, surmounting the stretch of brick wall, accompanied their foundation nits col-Tapse. The hoardings had evidently projected up from the wall at a con-Siderable height thereby acting as a fall, which the force of the typhoon struck full, crashing the hoardings fand the brick wall into the street, "The rest of the Race Course suffered no damage, the matsheds and bulld-asin the various parts of the recreation grounds standing up well lurider the storm. The clubhouse near the baseball grounds, which was completely caved in during the last typhoon, passed through with ying colours this time. Even the grounds, usually resembling a chain of miniature Takes on similar occasions, were {ree from floods, with the exception of the area surrounding the Police Club.
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