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BETTER TRADE
SEPTEMBER 13, 1933.
NOTES OF THE DAY BOMBING OVER THE
NORTH-WEST FRONTIER
TYPHOON WARNINGS
There seems, at first sight, some justification for the complaint re- gistered yesterday by a corros-
By ROLAND WILD
CEASELESS VIGILANCE.
The Very Idea!
PYJAMA PARADES
Personally we don't know.
By Eddie Kelly, Pl. Squared
THILE we were munch- pondent concerning the short TWO mechanics, almost obscured resort to bombing. They follow-
ing a spot of afternoon warning given by the Observatory by their greasy topees, are led the usual preliminary procedure tea yesterday with “Abi- sitting on the tall-akid of the in attempting to clean up a mass of Monday's typhoon. The aux Wapiti bomber, bending forward movement towards belligerence, gail," she told us about the ostion was that the typhoon against the gale of hot air and They dropped their warning mess M.C.L. gala at Repulse Bay would have been upon us, causing sand driven by the whirring pro-ages, and were fired at ineffective- havoc among local shipping had poller as the pilot warms up. The ly for their pains. This probably next week. fortune so directed its course, do- temperaturo la nearing 110 in the does not mean very much, for the
There is, we understand, fore preparations to meet it could shade, and though, a few moments tribesman at this time of year is have been completed. The con- before, we were longing for a quite liable to take a gesture of to be a beauty parade in
breath of air, now that wo have|dossance at any visitor, tention falls to the, ground. how got it we find it rather worse than At the approach of an aeroplane, pyjamas. Sort of beauty ever, in the face of the plain facts the calm sultriness of the morning. the moving tribesmen perform and the beach. that it did not come close until at We are dressed in shorts, shirts, their celebrated act of making 5. p.m. and that the disturbance and pith helmet-cum-bullet-proof themselves Invisible. But thero was of comparatively alight inten-tin-hats, and carry parachutes. It are no secrets from the camera,
is one hour after dawn, and al- and as soon as the negatives are what Hongkong's coming to. sity. These small affairs cause ready the Taint mist has cleared back at the base the authorities In our days the only time you the greatest trouble. Had it boon from the surrounding hills. The are in a position to know exactly a severe typhoon, its presence pilot yelis, and we are off, circling what proportion of the tribes re-wore pyjamas was when it was would have been detected at least over the brown landing ground, main defiant and how many have too hot to wear your woollen twenty-four hours.carlier and the heading towards the hills of the moved for their own safety. nightgown.
That knowledge decides the des- signals would probably have been Khyber.
fination of the bombs. The object You've just got to visit our up on Sunday. But as lato as Sun-
of the Air Force is not to take beaches nowadays to see that the day ovoning, the, Pratas, in tho
My pilot, whon I had the pri-life but to teach a lesson and to idea of the modern miss is to best position to form conclusione,vilege as a special correspondent aparato combatants. If the could only say that a small low of The Daily Mail of flying all over tribes show themselves stubborn give as much clothing as possible centre ever the western part of the the tribal territory which is now after the first warning they are a miss.
a frightening de Balintang, Channel appeared to be the scene of extensive operations subjected to forming as a typhoon somewhere in the North-West Frontier Pro- monstration of accuracy from tho air, but are seldom injured in their vinco, was engaged on a recon to the south-east. On Monday noitre. His duty was to observe the caves. This first attacic usually morning at six a.m., the depression movements of the tribes, the dis- has the required effect of getting had passed over the Pratas and position of their cattle, and to dis- them on the move. the station's earlier suspicions had cover if the caves were once more! NEVER YET. FAILED. been confirmed. The observations inhabited after a general exodus
towards higher ground,
If, however, they are still deparades. : taken showed that the depression
The same procedure la boing fant, power can be shown by a Give our girls their due, they had not seriously developed and carried out now, though more spectacular demolition of some live up to their Tan Command- Hongkong's own experience Indi-serious business is afoot. Where- nearby tribal stronghold which ments. cated that it was an extremely as my pilot, in one of the intervale has been verified as uninhabited.
between inter-tribal warfare, was That last wärning has never yot Where we're concerned, we mild affair, so mild in fact that it rmed only with a camera, he is failed on the North-West Frontier, never go tanning unless we're in failed to produce a gale here now weighed down with ten 201b. It has rover yet been found neces- the nude for it. We never were though it passed very close, bombs. But only the ceaseless sary to take human life deliberate-keen on giving life-like imita-
watch over the no-man's-land to ly in order to discourage dis- tions of liver-sausage. either side of the Khyber Pass, obedience. undertaken by the Royal Air Force.
It must be remembered, how- This is the good old during the last few years, enables ever, that at certain periode the time, when the best place to do The salicat point is that the dis-our flyers in these times of trouble tribesman is in a peculiar state of your sun-bathing, is in a tub et to interpret the signs from the air. mind. Towards the end of the hot home, surrounded by empty beer
weather, when all these dis- bottles.
turbanco when in the vicinity of the Colony scarcely warranted the
| description of a typhoon. It was
As Mr.
Brevity is the soul of the kit -òf the bathing girl. They're Jantzen with tears in their eyes.
Not that they're an eyesore. Far be it from us to criticise bathing costumes, and pyjama
summer
While the Church bells are pealing in Hongkong and Kow- loon, the belles are peeilag at Repulse Bay and Castle Peak. Anyway, we will be along to the M.C.L. Fote on Wednesday next. week.
Board of Trade figures issued to-day make 'very satisfactory | THE SALIENT POINT reading. Exports in August wero more than £3,000,000 better than in August, 1982,
TELL-TALE PHOTOGRAPHS. turbances occur, his hands are Idle But we go to the beaches on and more than a million sterling
As we soared over the hills my after the crops have been garnered, Sunday's, along with all our girl better than during July. Im- of recent formation and of very pilot passed back notes describing and he looks forward to leisure friends. ports of raw materials also show small area, still in the incipient the villages over which we were and relaxation. His fingers itch a substantial risc, reflecting the stage.
Jefferies, the passing. He swooped down on an when he handles his rifle, for he increasing activity in manufac- Director of the Royal Observatory Irregular hill formation, and his has been brought up in the belief turing centres. The brightest anys, there were faint indications pencilled note road: "See tracks that the only real love for a strong outside caves." He was flattering man (himself) is warfare, Ex- feature of the report is that the of its presence about. 400 miles me, for I could see no caves and cuses como pasily. His religion away on Sunday afternoon, but we spot, and the evidence provided by can provide half a dozen reasona Improvement is not confined to
may be certain that if shipping In the photographs after being why he should attack his neigh a few trades but is well spread the Colony had been disorganised analysed by the ground staff, were bours, even if his love of loot Is over industry generally. The on the strength of the data then enough to tell him exactly what for the moment subdued.
FANATICAL TRIBEŠMEN. Agures themselves may suggest available, the shipping companies movements were going on among
the nomad tribes. at first sight that the improve- I would have been vigorous in com- The unskilled eye can detect Not so long ago, soon after 1 ment is small, but the most plaint. As it was, the disturbance nothing. Very often even the prac-hurried back from Kabul after wit significant fact is that they behaved peculiarly, getting off the tised eye misses the finer points nessing the beginning of the end follow upon a period of seven
mark to a fast pace and then slow-of this new-style tracking. But of Amanullah, the tribesmen de- months during which both, Im-Ing down to unusually slow pro-after numerous experiments the cided that Habibullah, one of the ground staff of the North-West most bloodthirsty rascals who ever ports and exports were consider gress. Normal calculations were Frontier Air Force is able to de- walked in a bloodthirsty country, ably down as compared with the insufficient to govern the situation, cipher any changes-from-the-pic-was more or less a second Mahom
hence there is plenty of scope for tures taken in the air.
med. That depraved and cruel trade in the corresponding period guesswork on what might have. They can tell whether the caves tyrant was credited with most of of last year. Moreover, the im- happened had the typhoon con- have been used within the pre- the virtues known to the Afghan, vious 24 hours. Thoy can tell the Mohmand, or the Halimzal provement concerns some, at ducted a different performance. whether cattle have been moved, The tribes rushed to his support, least, of the trades where un-Clearly, however, an incursion into and whether the inhabitants of And not until he was put to death employment has been heaviest what might have been is a váin those caves have removed in Kabul were they persuaded that and where a recovery is most pursuit. welcome and most promising for
the future. Iron and steel
manufacture, engineering, and SILVER OUTLOOK
shipbuilding and ship repair-
all
their possessions or have just de camped for the night. They can read from the signs, whether there has been a jirga (tribal council) in the vicinity and can form a fair estimate of the number of tribes men who were there,
The
Considered opinion on the silver ing are all industrial groups agreement concluded at the World which show signs of recover- Economic Conference finda in it
AIR FORCE'S FUNCTION.
ing, and in which, a
Air Force, during the recovery much that is highly unsatisfac- means' much to the
national tory. The Financial News, for present disturbance, have had to economy and the improve instance, remarks that India is left ment has persisted In spite free to unload rather more silver of the continuance of very than usual, adding that since the heavy taxation, in spite of the passing of the Indis Currency Act absence of any improvement the Government of India has sold in world trule, or of any decline (up to March 31) 161,168,012 fino in the obstacles which have ounces, or an annual average of
little more than 25,000,000 and lost
year sold only 23,500,000. Under
the new agreement, the Govern- ment may sell in any one year over twice that quantity, and on
caused such trade to dwindle so rapidly, and at a moment when money has become so difficult to land that the Government recently succeeded in borrowing the average of the four years may on short term at a quarter per sell 36,000,000 ounces per annum.” cent. Two deductions should be The volume of permitted sale is mado from the fact that so many rather larger than any actual sell- features, survive from the time ing that expert opinion would have when the depression was deep expected, in the absence of an oning. The first is that the agreement, so long as prices re- causes of the improvement lie main low; and in these circum- beneath the surface. There can
stancos it is quito certain that, as be little doubt that among them in the past, the first hint of appre- clable Government sales will still must be numbered, on the ono suffice to frighten all but the meat- hand, a general conviction that hardened "bulls" of allver. the policy of the present Gov-
ernment, though 'far from Im-
mune to criticism, has construct-private persons. The second ed a basis of improvement, may deduction is that no effort must develop into a real stimulation be relaxed to remove those of improvement, and, at the causes which might bring tho! very worst, will not impede im- [ ̈mprovement to a stop. The im- stop an en- provement by wild extravagance provement must bo
In theory or In practice. Tocouragement to further efforts;- this must be added, on the other not an excuse for stagnation up- hand, the effect of the unattrac on the dangerous assumption
iragoment of spending by jselves.
perhaps, after all, he was not Immortal.
This time, it is anld to be a 12. years-old "Pretender," dupe of the Med Fakir," who has inspired them to defiance of British aero- planes. They are no doubt con- vinced in their hearts that trus virtue los in a foolhardy courage and sacrifice for the sake of this (Continued on Page 6.)
was that čuto thing
You never can tell how we'll get on. Maybe, some of the girls in the pyjama parade will fall for us. Maybe we'll fall for them.
It's Fete, just. fetel
THE ANSWER
Tho answer to a negro's prayer ("Wo neods rain; Lawd")
Came down in torrents through the
air,
arm
("Not a sizzle-sozzle-
nor a drizzle-driralo") And every true Baromoter
("Open up de flood gates, Lawd") Changed rapidly from fair.
So if a prayer will work the charm ("We need rain Lawd
an' we needs hit bad")
The menace drought we could dis-
("Wash us Lawd")
With prayers by the P.W.D. "Wash us, wash us in de blood o"
do Lamb, Lawd,")
If they could reach, through droughty sklos such helghts.of piety.
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