TERRIFYING SPECTACLE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 90, 21 August 1923, Page 5

TERRIFYING SPECTACLE

IN THE PATH OF THE TYPHOON BRITISH SAILOR'S HEROISM, Press Association—Copyright, Australian au<J N.Z Cable Association Hongkong, August 19. Saturday's typhoon caused deaths tentatively estimated at five hundred, besides property damage as yet untabulated. ~ The typhoon was the worst sinco 1905. The wind velocity was 130 miles an hour and the rainfall during the worst two hours was nearly five inches. The squalls uprooted trees, snapped telegraph pdes and unroof cd houses. v > The typhoon furnished a tenyfying

spectacle. Mountainous seas swept the harbor and washed over the sea walls, flooding the lower streets and leaving quantities of variegated wreckage.

The Japanese steamer Sinye Marn provided the stage for a wonderful deed of life-saving. A British submarine sailor named Twitogers got on board the steamer and then, being lowered from her bow with a lifeline attached, swam through the raging sea five hundred feer. and save I Lieutenant "Wicksoh, commanding the submarine L 9, which had sunk under him. ■_,>.. '.