PHENOMENAL RAINFALL
EIGHT INCHES IN FOUR HOURS (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) CONDON, July 18. The Daily Express Hong Kong correspondent reports that a long period of heavy rains culminating in a fall of eight inches in four hours, caused numerous landslides, and it is feared that many people were killed. Thousands*of tons of earth and rock collapsed and wrecked a number of houses in the west of the city. Two hundred Chinese were buried in debris, and only twenty have been rescued so far.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 July 1925, Page 5
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