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FRIDAY,
TREES AND HOUSES BLOWN AWAY.
CYCLONE'S TRAIL OF DEATH.
JULY
1927.
PEER'S CHATEAU
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RAID ON LORD ABERCON- WAY'S RIVIERA HOUŠE.
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As a sequel to the remarkable Originating Iri Holland, a Lord Aberconway's house, the The Palace of Engineering, which report of the British Guiana Com-cyclone, whose calamitous results Chateau de la Garoupe at Antibes, was the largest building in the Fri mission regarding the administra are almost without precedent in was broken into recently by tish Empire Exhibition at Wem- tion of that Colony-the only Bri-Europe, last month swept across thieves, who stole various objects bley, his been required by British tish possession on the mainland the Dutch-German frontier. of art, including pictures and Incorporated Pictures, Limited, of South America-tho Colonial From Holland a death-roll of tapestries. Secretary, Mr. L. S. Amery, has requested the Governor, Sir C. H. Rodwell, to appoint a local commission with the following terms of reference:
25 is reported. Hundreds of people were injured. Damage to property is assessed at 25 million florins,
"Lord Aberconway was absent from the chateau, but is returning to-day, when it will be possible to say what exactly has been stolen.
The robbers seem to have work- ed undisturbed in some time.
who are to convert it into what, it is claimed, will be the largest film studio in the world.
In addition, the company have purchased half the ornamental lake, the colormatie and adjoining gar the salon forcens, the north entrance building, the old Exhibition Bank building, and half the main drive known, as Kingsway, which are to be used for outdoor fim scenos.
They cut out of its frame the painting "Vlow of Bodnant," by Robert Fowler, and took two can- ases by primitives bolleved to be of great value.
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Though the whirling free was "To advise upon the steps which partly expended ere it crossed the frontier, at least one German should be taken to confer power town, Lingos, was devastated and upon the Governor to carry into effect measures which he and the two residents killed.
Hundreds of trees were uproot
Evory prudent mother will keep Secretary of State consider essened and fruit crops ruined.
constantly at hund the means of tial for the well-being of the
Waters of the River Ims rose
This new British film-producing rendering prompt aid to her chil- Colony, whether by an alteration in a column as the cyclone passed,
centre covers an area of 35 acres dren when need may arise. Most in the relative powers and in the and flooded a wide countryside.
and was bought from the original of the troubles of infancy and composition of the Court of Policy At one point the tornado lifted
purchasers of the Exhibition for children arise in the stomach and and the Combined Court or by a train of goods wagons from the
1147,500.
bowels, and in all such cases the substitution of a new Lagis-railway lines; in one town a motor
Behind this great entorprise, Baby's Own Tablets are mother's lative Council in which the Crown was carried 100 yards and Dung would possess powers of effective through a shop window,
Lord Aberconway, who is 77, which will provide film producers ever-rendy help and the little with much-needed accommodation, child's friend Their action is control over financial as well as
Breaking frst over the Dutch and the first baron, owns large as-is Mr. Rupert Mason, Lanca- thorough yet gentle. They quick- other matters; and generally upon town of Almelo, the cyclone tates in North Wales, and has a any other improvements such as travelled due enst, on a front of country house at Bodnant, the sub-shire cotton manufacturer, who has ly reduce fever, correct indiges- those suggested by the British 500 or 600 yards, at a terrific ject of the stolen picture. He is given the principal finanein! RUP: Ition, cure colic, prevent or dispel port. It is expected that film pro- constipation, clreck diarrhoea, Gulani Commission. which might
a well-known steel, shipping and duction will begin within six allay the pains of teething, expel be effected in the Constitution." In his despatch Mr. Amory states:
The first and most pressing of the grounds on which the "Com- mission recommend this change in the Constitution is the Anan- elal situation.
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They also secured a fire píoce of tapestry measuring 10ft. by 6ft.- Central News.
First it swept through the "in-colliery magnate. dustrial town of Neede.
A textile factory collapsed, and several workers were buried alive amidst the ruins.
As the cyclone approached the Lown the people who saw it com- Further eastwards, in the open. countryside, scores of farmhousesing fied in panic through the were devastated.
strdets.
One hamlet, Esche, composed of! Those who could not get under 18 small honesteads, is described over in time were pressed against the houses by the force of the as having "practically disappear-wind, and many of them injured from the face of the earth"
by the slates that hurtled through
the air.
months.
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In addition to the film studios Worms, quiet the nerves and pro- part of the building will be used te health-giving sleep and re- for workshops for the film carpen- Pose. Are guaranteed free from ters, secne-makers, plasterers, and plates or narcotics, and absolute- other requirements of a film-mak-safe and good even for the youngest and most delicate infant ing industry.
There are also to be dressing in arms.
club rooms, rooms, rest rooms, libraries, and private restaurants, and everything that is nessary for the film-making community.
in Critain.
"The financial position la as-
Mr. Ralph J. Pugh, the manag- cribed by the Commission largely "Violet Curtain”—Then Ruin. to a financial system which they
One eye-witness of the cyclone's An eye-witness at Lingen thus ing director of British Incorpor- describe and condemn as funda-opening phase in Holland thus described the cyclone and the con- ated Pictures, Limited, told a news- montally unsound. They state described it:
paper reporter yesterday that after fusion it brought that "hand-to-mouth finance and "The catastrophe began "Away.in the S.W. I saw what expert survey the company had haphazard
ill-considered o'clock. Very quickly & curtain tooked like a column of cloud. It come to the conclusion that the the taxation are the inevitable out of deep violet,, Bashed with had a craterlike, formation. ant Palace of Engineering was
system under which yellow, seemed as if drawn over was travelling towards the town at building for Alm production the responsibility for the finance the heavens. Then almost instan- with a noise like thunder, rests with Government who tareously a mighty wind arose. 1 "In the first moments I thought. cannot enforce their policy and found myself in the midst of al it was a thunderstorm or a fire, but
One-two- the financial power with the elect tornado. The noise was terrifying. then I was terrified by the reali- One two-three-dip. ed members who have no real res "Through the roar of thesation that it was a cyclone.
three-kick, Right Toot forward, ponsibility.
cyclone I could hear screams for From the shelter of a doorway turn on the balls of both feat and help. Roofs were lifted from I saw three small houses on the start again. These, or the most houses
and tossed about like roadside leading from the town intricate of dance steps, may be leaves, Large trees were uproot tossed upwards as if they were read like a music score from the ed and thrown into the air."
toys." In the German town of Lingen
battlefield.
In regard to political conditions and their effect upon the deve lopment and reputation of the Colony, Mr. Amery states:
Miles of roads on both sides of atom of dansographie." a sys- "writes" his ing master. He "Their leading features, ae-iundreds of houses collapsed, or the German-Dutch frontier weretem invented by a Parisian danc were unroofed, and the whole dis-blocked with the felled or uproctances in strange, markings, and cording to the Commission, are
ed trees that mark the cyclone's believes the plan will become a uni- extensive malpractices at electrict is described as resembling
destructive pathway.
versal language of the dance. tions, numerous and well-founded petitions against the elected can- didates, the virtual exclusion from public life of a large proportion of those best qualified to enter it, and relations between the Execu- tive and the clected members "not tending to inspire respect or promote efficiency and highly detrimental to morald."
"In my deliberate judgment, in that of the Commission, and of financial and of business circles, a sustained and successful policy of development is impossible an der the present system."
INDIA'S MUDDLED
'ELECTORS.
CREDULITY AND IGNORANCE.
The elections in India have brought so many parties into the field that the unsophisticated In- dian elector may well be puzzled how to vote.
A description given in 1924 by. the Government of Bihar and Oris- ધી of
the the perplexity of voter in that province when confronted with the task of select- ing legislators throws a flood of Political light on the, question.. meetings, it was stated, were almost. dnknown, some candidates maively expressing a fear that such gather- ing would be attended only by their opponents and not by their own party.
The presiding officers in every district reported that large sections of the voters did not know the hame of the candidate for whom they voted, but had only been told the colour of his box. Many of the "Irbe an independent," after en tering the polling booth, incontin ently threw away their voting papers, declaring that they had come through fear of a fine, and now would not vote for anybody.
The fact that in some rural areas the poll exceeded 80 per cent. of the unmes on the roll was due to the belief that.a.Government order had been given that electors must vote. Villagers. accordingly, marched to the poll escorted by chaukidars (village watchmen).
The amazing credity and ignor. ance of the, unfortunate, people, ex- ploited as it was by the anti- Government party, led to grotesque 1esults. The members of this party had conjured with Mr, Gandhi's name in Bihar and Orissa to such an extent that voters were convinc- ed that the Mahatma was a can- didate for their constituency and left the poll in disgust when' thoy found out their mistake..
The Swarajlate, moreover, an- nounced that if they were returned they would inaugurate a millen- nium, in which there would be no rent to pay and no tuxes.-J. E. Woolacott.
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