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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1958.
Bb Aa
3TAVI997
"I expect you've all read in the paper lately about pretty girls not making the best secretaries. Now, to
disprove this theory our firm proposes, for about an hour each day
100 A-BOMBS
NOTHING
begins with a whisper- ja tudjuttatafu
I as mutter.
and
some primeval instinct grips By
Assam, and
ON
JAMES WICKENDEN
London Express Service)
HAVE THIS
the aca
Bad Period
pro
Most of the Island, fourteen cubic miles of rock and earth, was seen by a shiu's crew to rise over the horizon in an explosion which hurtled it over 17 miles the scalp. The sound rises +++++P+II-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-·||||| to a titanic rumbling as if
disintegrating it into dust, which the fall of a billion tons of words through Indonesia, thence lava,
from there south in the earth's crust. The molten circled the globe for three years
however, which spouts ruck were heard through a castwards to the Pacific Islands front a volcano, does not usually on the upper winds, changing
the colour of sunsets. wall of cotton wool.
and New Zealand.
come directly from the earth's Into the 1,000ft deep cauldron core, but from a pocket set in left by the Island, The wave in the earth is
From New Zealand another deformed rock strata.
rushed and bolled, and then as clear as a stick passed fault, runs north to Jupun, then The melten rock in this pocket broke outwards in glant 60-foot under a carpet. The dust across the north Pacife, where a lown us magma. The worst tidal waves which swept ships rises, the solid, mountains passes under the sea to meet volcanic explosions result when from their moorings several west coast of water seeps through cracks to miles into the Sumatran jungle visibly jerk; then comes the and follow the South America.
drowned 30,000 the magms, whese white heat and
villagers reading and thudding of
Most earthquakes occur with instantly turns it into super- along the coast. falling masonry which in the 40 degree latitudes north heated steam.
This pressure drives a whole people to and south of the equator. Least blows open the top of the leap for safety.
affected
etod are (Africa, Australia, volcanu, releasing jels of magma,
Scandinavia
and which then becomes known as This has happened
recently Russia,
Canada. Malaya is near an Java.
AN.selentists predict these right across the globe, from the earthquake zone but stands on
convulsions? Is there any If this process repeats itself Ionian Islands and nearby Cyprus to Fill and New Zealand, dampens their effect.
a broad continental shell which with sufficient strength, the lava thing in store for us during the during another of the world's
may gradually rise thousands of next few months?
from the sea bed to form Earthquakes
practically islands. This island building is impossible to prediet, constantly going on, particularly their beginnings would
visible Inr The
underground. Pacific.
the
helpless The worst knowri velçanic ex- scientist is
position of watching the vibrat- plosionTM was the cruption of
In 1883. Krakatoa
Fos almost ing needles of his instruments, for from the a week there had been mindr ex- knowing that plosions which eventually, it is stillness of his gleaming listen- 300.000 believed, opened a crock in the ing post, cities are at that time people perished.
undersea foundations
In ruins, and he could .of crashing atom bombs set off together, say the same year Tokyo hed its Krakaton-then
In
a fair sized have done nothing to warn the scientists, would bo a worst-ever quake
which In fleabite compared with the glant 30,000 were killed.
island' between Sumatra and them. The town
Volcanoes are more predictable. onurgles harnessed beneath the was largely rebuilt of steel and Java, with animal and bird life
Examination of the rest of lava concrete on anti-earthquake
In craters sometimes indicates Most of us know the reason des
designs..
the approach of explosions. Just for earthquakes, if we remember
the In comparison,
beller -our-schooldays-explanation of known San Francisco earthquake
now thers are fairly strong in- dications that pressure-is-build-- the World's formation. The
and
FTER some preliminary
ing up again in Vesuvius, three-day fire of 1006 killed earth's crust is hardening and
The damage
rumbles, the sea poured into All the scientists can tell us cooling, causing shrinkage and only 452 people.
Krakatoa's heart, and the world about earthquakes is that they vast pressure on the centre. Such was estimated at $500 million.
But the most spectacular heard what may have been the come in periods. We are in a pressure maintains the core at
of the earth is the greatest noise since life began. bad period now. But where the tremendous heat and in a liquid upheaval stale, like pitch.
molten eruptien of a volcano, It was audible 2.000 miles away next quake will be and when,
is anybody's guess. The shrinkage also rucks up which is a vent through a fault across the Indian Ocean.
periodic bouts of quaking.
Worst Quakes
Selentists at Kew Observatory near London say there is almost certainly a connection between THE greatest earthquake on re- these earthquakes, as a disturb-1 cord is believed to have og ance in one area сел trigger eurred in China ir 1923. t ex- off another nearby.
tended over 40,000 square miles. But there is no truth En the
burying whole towns
Around
rumour that atomic Explosions landslides,
cause earthquakes. A
carth.
the earth's crust into mountain. rangos and occan deeps. Usually along the folds there are weak lines called faults. It is here: that the strains are greatest and, when the crust periodically andiles along the faults, the is En earthquake.
Still Trembles
THE earth is still actively form-
THE
Ing itself, although not so violently as millions of years
Lago. It still trembles, almost
in
on it.
Greatest Noise
EVELYN IRONS goes home to a surprise
because
The
A
Puzzle From /
Holiday Isle
Did her host hope to marry · Mrs
Maclean?
By RENE MacCOLL
HAD not been back in runs a business in Paris, and London from my sum- that we have mutual friends days as Parls chief
mer holiday in Minorca from my
reporter.
more than a few days when We talk of this and that, The. the Mrs Maclean story Maclean cose comes up. I tell broke, and almost before him I've just been in Majorca you could say Melinda there on it. Where was Mrs Maclean "At the I was in the air headed back staying down there?
house of a chap called Douglas for the Balearic Islands MacKillop," I say.
again.
Whereupon Elliott chokes on This time I was off to the peach which he is in process Majorca, where Mrs Mac. of eating as dessert to the air-
line
lunch, gives out a Joud lean, her mother and her strangled cry, and proceeds as three small children had follows: "Douglas MacKillop!
apent August and the first But he is one of my oldest part of September.
friends. Known him for years. come from San Francisco too.
Actual spot where the
Maclean, family stayed was New Romance?
about 18 for from the
there are
"But this is extraordinary. noisy, over-full capital of About the last things Douglan Palma as you could get said to my wife and me before he left Paris for Majorca Inst Cala Ratjada, 60 miles dis- summer was hope to get tant on the mountainous, married while I am in Majorca. lovely eastern coast,
"We couldn't figure that out. This place C.R. is a favourite Douglas lost his first wife about with moneyed Americans of the a year ago and he was lonely. type who usually go to Florida But Cala Ratjada in
about the in their retirement. The U.S. 1st place in the world you dollar goes a whole lot further would you wanted to meet In Majorca (servants cost three a possible new wife casually." pesetas--just over sevenpence. (I can confirm that. Eligible an hour) and you can live the single women down good life
In the sunshine for as rare ns portraits of Malenkov. like mighty
by American The U.S. "colony" is almost standards.
100 percent married couples.)
"Douglas So good to the life, indeed,
me wrote
many that one local U.S, resident has letters, but the funny thing in improved on nature by building that when I wrote in August a charming swimming pool a asking if my wife and I could few yards from the edge of the go and slay with him, he wrote back saying he was sorry but that "a lady, her mother, and Golden
her three children" would be In that pool the Macican slaying. The villa would be children, Fergus, Donald, and full. baby Melinda, splashed happily "Douglas is very fond of in the golden August days. children. It was
sea..
Days
ono of his The family, including Mrs regrets that his first marriage Dunbar, Mrs Macicon's mother, was childless, But that stayed at the villa of widower 'marriage' remark certainly has Douglas MacKillop. Mackillop, a us guessing..... stocky fellow In his late thirties,
So there we are. It has been
who sports a brown moustache, stated that Mrs Macican aimed and likes to wear rust-coloured at short
shorts, comes from
Francisco.
divorcing her husband, San Donald, next spring, when he
would have been away from her In the war he was on expert three years, Was there a new In studying photo-reconnaissance romance in the wind?
Very Treacly
pictures taken by the US. Air only be
Force. Afterwards he was gun- ༣
MacKillop toting chief security officer for
himself told me: the Marshall plan prople in "We are just good friends and Paris, making sure that officials I wanted to give them all a nice locked up their desks at night, summer holiday." and so on.
Ho first got to know Mrs He was left shocked, hurt, Maclean, he added, because her and bewildered" by Mrs mother was a friend of his first Maclean's disappearance so soon wife.. memory of Majoren.
LONDON-HOW THE OLD
PLACE HAS CHANGED
London. British stomachs ate doing a every minute of the day. Some OMING back to London lot better than they did a year
its
of clothes, now. They're a lot cheaper to what they've been." True enough. I have just a travel cont for 18 bought gulacas that would have been 20 guineas last year. An almost
continents. such as India, are after nearly a year in ago, and John Bull's outline is still moving slightly. Malaya New York, I find that the more comfortable physically as has risen and fallen
weli ne moralewise. foundation within the span or old place has changed.
Friends will accept, rather written history and, in many!·· countries, mauntala building is The people who live in it grudgingly, a tin of butter, but identient coat, imported from ↑ England, is 12 dollars (plus tax, cans of cooked meats have changed, too, They bought stay unpacked because that would be about £25) in
not finished,
Each little tremble of the go about their streets with there are plenty of canned New York,
the shift of the crtast being from
earth is known as a microselsm, smiles instead of frowns. meats at the grocer's across the loss than 0513 to about four Something has happened to road.
microns.
This is equal to lift that drab and worried movement of up to one inch in look which was the general ten miles.
oaused sumclently microseisms,
SO CLEAN, TOO
I brought back plenty of Eylons, but I need not have brought them. When I tried to get them last October I scouted Blx stores in vain. Today the the chops are full of them. But
There were even changes at clean the surgery of the dentist where I went for the annual check-
I was a pity to miss Alterations in air pressub wear last, autumn.
I After ten months of condi-
Coronation decorations. used by weather systems are tigning to such assumptions as how
gay, bright and powerful to cause
"The Empire... is on the skidz," London lçak, even today! and approaching weather can be seen in the quiver and "the British going hat in The streets are swept and over. He has taken to wearing of needles
in the seismograph hand to Red China for trade" garnished. (After New York, the surgeon's mask, and his stations throughout the world,(vide the Hearst and McCor- world's dirijest city. According devilish works is further assisted Microsciams happen every-mick Press), it was nice to see to novelist Edna Ferber and by a brand-now battery of elec- where but earthquakes are the accountant who deals with Mrs Wendell Willkle on their Trical gadgets an American- usually centred on faults. my Income-tax lean easily back return from Europe, this strikes desianca contraption made, I
One of the earth's main faults in his chair and to hear him say, me with special force.)
regel to my,,fed here but in runs from
the Alps through "All we have to do to improve London gardens and window Germany. south Europe and Asia Minor Anglo-American relations is to boxes are ablate with zinnias, Biggest surprise of all came right across north India to bring more Americans over dahlias, chrysanthemums. Lon- at the showroom where, before
here.
don housefronts sparkle white, loaving for. New York, 'I had my ***Then they would realise that washed of smoke and grime, name down for four years for a our way of life is better than Doors and window frames small car. Anyone, they said, theirs."
gloom with fresh paint.
could get that make in, threa As I wille a whistling paint- months after ordering. er is slapping a yellow primer
BUT, ALAS m the exterior woodwork of
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THAT was another parump my eighth-floor flat. "Three LAB, there is just one thing tion that might be argued, good costs this time," he shouts A in London which shows no but to me il sounded healthy, cheerfully through the open sign of rejuvenation. That is It was not an isolated state window. "Last time they could the taxl. The driver of the jolt- mont, either, but a sign of the only afford one." ding tumbrel that took me for [hearly Deltliti confidence that The painter agrees that every- the world's most uncomfortablo seems to have "returned to dhing 1 looking up.. He feels rice admitted that it had boo give a wallop to those American good, he says, because be is eat- 17 years on the road. In this cartoonists: currently depicting ing better. "And... · prices may part year," "London's taxla ap- John Bull with a battered top--seem hich to you, but they'ro' peared to baye ngod even, mOKU per"add" asretnu stomachi
coming downs,” he says, "Prices perceptibly than I have
after
sho
hnd
his enjoyed
A last hospitality, he told me.
I'm sitting on the terrace of my Now from this little "away- hotel toying with coffee and from-it-all" bathing beach, brandy, and enjoying the balmy drowsing happily in the sun, and air, when in troops an orchestra, awakened only occasionally by tunes up, and prepares to let the rear- -of luxury speedboats, 1-fy
What are we switch the scene to the interior
to hear in this of the crowded plane in which I romantic Spanish resort, with am again flying back to London, the
moonlight dappling tho
by way of Barcelona and Paris. gently tumbling waves for Our old friend the Long Arm below? A tempestuous gipay of Coincidence, rarely taps me flamenco? A sombre, throbbing on the shoulder, but this is what work by the famous Spanish
I am filling in one of composer do Falla? happened. those official cards that one is What they kicked off with was always aliing in tis one Alles "Pale Hands I
I Loved Beside the about Europe, when the snappily Shalimar," very treacly, and dressed young man sitting sounding just the way beside me squints.down; at it„maiden aunt used to render it and says: "itene MacColl My in the dear dead days. Paris friends. often talk about you. How do you do?"
Turns out he là on American
named
Harrison Elilott,
who
one's
1 nearly cried into my brandy -but checked myself just la
time, as I did not wish to dilute it any more.
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