TYPHOON AT HONGKONG.
MANY WRECKS.
ENORMOUS LOSS OP LIFE. '
| (Press Assn. — By Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received September 1, 8.15 a.m.) : SYDNEY, September 1. Eastern files to hand show that by the late typhoon at Hong-kong 800 business boats and junks, 11 guardships, 4 revenue, cutters, and 20 steam launches Mere destroyed, along with, the river steamer Yingking. The latter carried 430 passengers, including two Europeans; Only 12 were saved, the drowned including Captain Page and two European passengers. Tlie loss of life during the typhoon j was very groat. It will probably never be accurately known. I Pour hundred' houses were destroyed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11370, 1 September 1908, Page 5
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