DISASTROUS TYPHOON.
| i HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST.f;|s ; ! ' ' k< ;\- DAMAGE.AT HONGKONG. , :By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright Jil Port Darwin, September 1. * Eastern flies .show that during the recent typhoon in Hongkong 800 trading boats and , n lj| junks, 11 guardships, foui revenue cutters, ;uiv» 20 steam launches were destroyed, fx)gether with the river steamer Zingking. The latter carried 430 passengers, incljid- V|| ; ing two Europeans. Only 12 were «imd;>|s|§ the drowned including Captain Page and , the two European passengers. |f||§j O'P The loss of life during the typhoon was j§s very-, great, and i probablv .will nevei be || ■ accurately knfiwn. " - •'J' 'f' V' . 9 Four hundred house® were destroyed. '• || ■ ;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13844, 2 September 1908, Page 7
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