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TURKS ISLAND, Sept. 15, (Bg Special Cable to the Gleaner by Cable Wireless Ltd.)—The worst hurricane within the memory of the oldest inhabitants . can be claimed to have started withwindsof approximately fiftymiles per hour- at 10J.5 p.m. Thursday when the falling barometer registered 29.78 inches. The winds steadily increased . to a conservative ■estimate of 150 miles per hour. This first part of thehurricane hit the Turks Islands from a northeasterly direction and the barometer dropped to the towist level,28,83. inches, at approximately 1.30 a.m.The winds appeared to moderate considerably at this time for a period of approximately five minutes, then the hurricane came from a southeasterly direction with maximum velocity winds again.This second phase continued until approximately 3.50 a.m. on Friday when the winds moderated considerably, the barometer reading 29.73 at this time.GBEAT HAVOC AND PANIC CAUSED,During this period of approximately s five hours and 35. minutes great havoc was wrought, practically no house escaped damage of some degree or other. Large,-strong-buildings that had successfully withstood the 1925 and 1928 hurricanes now. He in shambles, noteworthy among these be ing the Baptist Church and the Methodist school house both of which are completely shattered.Great panic was caused when the church was blown down, as many of the poorer inhabitants had left their fzall houses to sdfek shelter there.No Damage To Nassau(Special Cable to the Gleanerfrom Mr.Cable and Wireless Ltd),NASSAU* Bahamas. September1 15:—The hurricane passed south of Andros and Nassan experi-enccd only windi of a mrimam_of forty miles per hour at 4 tun. No damage was reported here*It appears that nobody was killed when the church collapsed, but many children had to be dug out from the debris and there are many nasty cuts and bruises among these unfortunatey.\y rhXy.-. ■i ;a. • V• s • V ■• jm*m a* '*LL-' -V'* .'r' • ‘ ■' y/. ’ox ;*■*.w % «4k•x -a\ •..W.I, • • • • KiI!', ♦’•'1 i*'. ‘i!V■ ' ‘ ! wlx\ * ' — u.f ■' ' v.A*kiS“. iosf•? VASiRAISING SOVIET FLAG AT PORT ARTHURi . fRussian sailors raise the Soviet Flag over Port Arthur, following Japanese capitulation to the Allies. Arthur, at the start of the Russo-Japanese war, was the target of a Jap sneak attack, much like Harbour in World War II.—(Picture by Radio from Moscow to New York).PortPearlMEMBERS*•4r * «* * •*I- 4m m*3 « ;W %I. S. *** «CAMPS FORNAZIS INDOMEI NEWS AGENCY IS NOW UNDERALLtttrCONTROt-UPSWINGLONDON, Sept. 15.—Uni.\ IN R R I T1 S Hted States Eighth Army headThe Church of England SaintOBERUBSEL, Germany, September li.—The United States Army lifted the secrecy from its new interrogation centre at Dulag Luft yesterday, dis-ciosingMary’s suffered to a less degree, part pf the roof was damaged owingto some windows caving In under strain of the 150 mile per hour gusts..* One report estimated .that three-quarters of the houses in Grand Turk* including the Baptist Church and the Wesleyan school were' destroyed and the remainder damaged.Continued on page 8Jap Gun-Boat Stoppedtop Nazi military and political figures assembled from detention camps.. With the exception of roaior war criminals now in Nuremberg awaiting trial; „ almost all remain important Nazi prisoners in British or American hands are either, at the new centre or at 4‘Dust, Bin,” the British interrogation centre near. Frankfurt. •“Dust Bin” is the soecialjnterroga-tion centre where Fritz Thyssen and Jalmar Schacht and industrialists, financiers and men possessing technical information are held.LONDON, Sept. 13;—News is awaited soon of the formal surrender of Hong Kong which is expected to be made to-morrow (Hong KongT|me).The Japanese gun-boat Atakl, suspected of carrying-a -number of high-ranking Japanese from Singapore, was today stopped by an American warship and taken into Singapore Harbour;The new centre at Oberursel, six miles west of Frankfurt, has replaced “Ash Can,” the American Army’s interrogation centre in Luxembourg, as the main pool of captured Nazi personnel. Detailed interrogations cover every phaser of • Nazi military, political and economic regime.Field Mafshal Kesselring, Otto Meissner. Minister of State: Colonel General IJrnest Kaltenbrunner, former assistant to Heinrich Himmler andWan* RAt*f»h#»re ffttrnor flcvrman frtn.quarters^ at ~¥okohanur nn-nounced today that four more members of the'Tojo Cabinet and the former Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines surrendered yesterday andEXPORTTRADEFigures However Still Much Below 1938 Levelwere being held in Yokohama jail.The semi-official Japanese news agency. Domei, which was ordered Suspended by General MacArthur Friday prepared to * resume operations at noon today after halting itsservice to sixlyfive newspapers in Japan for a period of twentyone and a half hours after a conference at General MacArthur’s Headquarters with Allied.v Press Division officers. Officials of Domei agency returned to their office and told key executives to prepare to resume operations at noon.At Domei plant the entire news staff had waited throughout the morning hoping that the situation would be clarified.PSYCHOLOGICAL CAMPAIGN : Douglas Willis, B.B.C. correspondent .reporting from Tokyo, said Do-■ . A mm m m a 0■ », ^ T■mm nnw ttive* tnilitarv. ikftonomliL:LONDON, Sept. 14:—A Government statement issued in London shows that since peace in Europe a decided upswing has started In British exports trade. For the first six months of this year British; exports were valued at '£173,000,000 (about 700,000,000 dollars.) These figures are about one-third higher than for the same period last year, but they are still much below the level of 1938, Nearly all of this year’s ' extra trade was with the liberated countries in Europe. France and Belgium got supplies to alleviate distress and needed foodstuffs* Machinery went to Russia but nothing. like when British manufacturing capacity was able to absorb greater quantities by peacetime production.There was also ah amount of relief shipments from Britain to the Balkans, to Greece, and to Yugoslavia. But a detailed study* of the figures in connection With many exports, al-♦Vaiiifk 'am 4a 'aaiim_ I
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