THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1936.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER
WARMER: NOW THAT WE'VE
BROKEN RECORDS
A look at the world's weather yesterday:-
HONGKONG: Cold-almost, but not quite, as cold as
the two previous days, and the dull, gloomy kind of day that made us wish that summer was here again, when we'd wish that winter was back. Which only goes to prove that Hongkong people Most popular pastime of the are never satisfied.
day: Sitting At Home By the Fire. NORTH CHINA: Worst ice blockade in years at
Tientsin, where 150 junks, launches and ocean' going liners are ice-bound. Many Hongkong wives have not heard from their sea-going husbands, whose ships are ice-bound in the north, for a month. Rickshaws are plying for hire on frozen northern rivers..
AUSTRALIA:
Heat wave in North Queensland threatens to end with approaching cyclone, which has been reported by lonely meteorological outpost in the Pacific, Willis Island, as approaching Card-
well. Sydney beaches are crowd-
with thousands of swimmers,
30,870
IN THESE
HONGKONG LIKE
THIS YEAR
Scene in one of, Hongkong's. Street Sleepers Shelters, where, so far this year, 34,870 destitute Chinese have been given refuge, as compared with a total of 33,425 for the whole of last winter. This week's nevere cold snap saw an appreciable increase in the number of poor Chinese sering shelter from ley blasts, and 172 were admitted last Tuesday, as compared with 158 usually taken in each night from the streets. Despite this, any have been turned away through lack of accommodation.
edwing the sweltering hou THERE'S NO DEPRESSION ||CHARCOAL FIRE:
MERICA: Rain-which every one called Million-Dollar rain because it saved the city a mil- lion dollars in show clearing.
Spring has come, people hope permanently this year, but wea- ther forecasts still predict snow in Iowa and Nebraska, which have already lost hundreds of lives through the intense cold. KWANGTUNG: Canton is in
*
the grip of the most merci- less winter it has experienced
WHO
IN H.K. NOW
AT LEAST, NO WEATHER ONE HO said anything about a Depression in Hongkong. As a matter of fact, just une opposite is visiting China at present.
We can blame an anti-depression, or area of high pressure, for the record cold spell we've experienced this week.
The anti-Cyclone situated over North Chins during the past week or so. has been responsible for the freezing northeasterly winds that brought the temperature on Thursday down to 43.2
HOSPITAL
Two Chinese employed at No. 557 the Peak, Kwong Cheung and Tin Fo, were re- moved to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday.
They were suffering from the effects of charcoal fumes. The men had apparently lit a charenal fire in their room and retired with the windows shut.
for years, and many beggars degrees, the coldest March weather ever registered at the local ICE TRAPS
have died from exposure.
Snow
is falling in Shaokwan and Nam- hung.
MANILA: Warm sunshine is greeting passengers from Hongkong. In fact, the weather experienced presaged the earth- quake shocks, of mild intensity, felt in Marinduque Province a last week. No damage was done. MAN stood on beach at Repulse Bay yesterday afternoon wondering where the rest of Hongkong was.
First nine hours without rain for many a day but who was enjoying open air.
Lido deserted-a wilderness of empty matabeds; a depopulated waste of beach
Royal Observatory.
The anti-Cyclone is gradually get- BRITISH SHIPS
But here is good news. ting weaker and, unless a new area of high pressure comes along, we can expect much milder weather for next week and this week-end.
The March minimum temperature record was broken on two sur- On Wednesday the temperature fell to 444, cessive days this week. at ten minutes before midnight.
On Thursday it fall still lower to 43.2. Previous record low tem- perature was 45.4 degress, registered on March 4 fifteen years ago, The average minimum for the month, however, is 55.9 degrees, much higher than the temperature recorded this March..
Hongkong has experienced much colder weather than that record. ed this month. For instance, on January 18, 1893 the temperaturs in Kowloon fell to freezing point-32 degrees Fahr., while impera- tures below 40 degrees have been registered in January and February The official forecast, lasued this morning, is: "N. E. winds. fresh; cloudy generally."
on several occasions.
When It
around him. Was Freezing
Bare half a dozen people on
verandah of Repulse Bay Hotel. Point In H.K.
Cold weather seemed as popular
in sun-starved Hongkong as iced champagne at a party of freezing! guests.
So Man got in his car again and
started back towards the city.
Ho stopped car en route to gaze
1893 COLD SNAP
RECALLED
E severe cold nap in 1893. when icicles & foot long
pensively at deserted Race Course, were found on the Peak, is re chilly-looking ground, also deserted.
Football Club
A year ago thousands of people were basking in sunshine at Annual Races, poilt by rain this year. A month ago they packed to watch Football Club grounds Interport, gamen agalust New Zealandera.
called by the cold spell suffered by the Colony this week.
The cold, snap lasted several days, though only on one day was 32 degrees registered at the Observatory at Kowloon (103 feet).
of the In the evening of one early days of the frost, a house- Then Man continued into town, boy brought in with pride an icicle and a foot parked car in Statue Square between six inches where only people to watch him long. were Icy cold bronze statues of Queen Victoria and King Edward dis- seemed gaze VII. Their approving,
Man waved anus about to keep warm as continued afoot to centre
Women were doing same thing, hurrying somewhere.
Neon lights in front of pleture houses glittered invitingly, but Man shivered, passed on.
HE HAS COLDEST_ JOBS IN H.K.
IN TIENTSIN
NORTH CHINA PORTS
BLOCKED ·.
Tientsin, Mar. 6.
RADIO BROADCAST
Daventry-Commentary On Rugby Football Match
THE WAIKIKI · TRIO From Z B W on a wavelength of 365 metres (846 kilocycles):
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 6.30-7 p.m. Chinese Dance Music. 7-7.30. p.m. Light Orchestral Music.
Hassan Serenado (Delius); Nono but the Weary Heart (Tachalkovsky); Symphony Rhapsody on "I Pitch my lonely Caravan (Coates); Symphonic Rhapsody on "I hoard you singing" and "Bird Songs at Eventide" (Eric Vienna (arr. Contes); Gounod, In
Walter) Valectio from Wood Nympha (Eric Contes); Sleeping Waltz (Tschaikovsky).
Be-7.50 p.m. Vocal Items.
a
Once there lived Lady Fair ("Blossom Time") (Clutham); Unge duid (Schubert) and a way (Waltz Tauber Richard (Tenor); Love will Song) (The Maid of the Moun tains") (Fraser-Simson) ..Holeno Easorman (Soprano); Ahi Sweep Mystery of life ("Naughty Mariot-
Herbert) Nelson Eddy (Baritome); The Fairy Tales of Ire- land (Coates)....Essia Ackland (Contralto); The Swing Song ("Vern- nique") (Messager)...." Winnie Mel- ville and Derek Oldham.
7.50-8
and
"When Day is dans" a selection from Walt Disney's "Silly Symphonies.”
8 p.m.
Time and Weather Report. 8.03-8.25 pan. From the Studlo, Selections by "The Waikiki Trio."
Programme,
1. For you a lei; 2. On the shores of Honolulu; 3. Moana Chimes; 4. My dear Hawell; G. Kalakaua; 0. Honolulu Huin Hula Heigh.
8.25-8.30 p.m. "Accordeon Nights" Medley,
8.30-9.15 p.m. A Variety Pro-
gramme.
Plano SalosBroadway Melody of 1934 Selection: Please Teacher Selection.... Patricia Romborough; Song-Hand across the Table Lucienna Royer (Soprano); Violin Solo-Song of Paradise....Alber Sandler; Songs-Star Gazing Conver- sation for Two....Elsie Carlisle; Or gan Solos Musical Comedy Medley ...Sydney Gustard; Vocal Duet
Sam Gee, Oh Gosh I'm grateful. So Browne and Girl Friend: Xylophone Solo-Dancing Butterfly...Rudy Starita: Song-Leave me with a lova song. Turner Layton; Orchestra- Selection of Bing Crosby's numbers.
9.15-9.30 p.m.
Military Band
TEN British steamers and
over 130 smaller Chi-Music nese launches, junks and steamers are trapped in an icefield extending 50 miles seaward from Tientsin.
They are unable to break the blockade, as the ice-is as high as the deck. A wireless message from one steamer says the use of the engines is merely a waste of coal, and steam is being kept up only for four hours daily.
Other ports of North China are also blocked by the Arctic condi- tions, which have become worso In the last fortnight. They have caused the disorganisation of constal shipping yet known,
'Planos to Drop Food
It is reported that the Chinese authorities nt Tientsin have accepted the offer of Japanese- aeroplanes to explore the ice- bound aren outside the port to morrow to locate the stricken vessels and drop food on their decks.
While the British ships are amply provisioned, scores of small Chinese vessels are seeking help,
•
The. (Austin) The Jolly Coppersmith (Peter) (Sousa).
Beggar's Opera-Selection
Washington Past March
9.30-9.45 p.m. Daventry News Bulletins.
10 p.m. Big Ben: 9.45-11.45 p.m. Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra,
11.45 p.m.-12.30 am. A Relay from Daventry.
Royal Navy v. Army. A running commentary on the Rugby Union Football Match by Captain H. B. T. (Continued on Page 5.)
Queensland Expects Big Cyclone
SWELTERING HEAT "DOWN SOUTH"
W
VILLIS ISLAND, lonely meteorological outpost
as their provisions and coal are in the Pacific Ocean where exhausted and they are unable to two Australians are volun- continue. The ice is piling up tarily marooned for twelve
higher around them every day.
Cardwell,
The Mount Kellet road was not then concreted and its surface
A special effort is to be made months in order to study the to aid three of the trapped British gave the crunch' to the feet so well known in frosty weather in A staff photographer braved Thurs-
day's icy harbour winds to take this ships off the Taku Bar, near weather, has warned the the Old Country.
In the neighbourhood of the photograph of the Man With Hong-Tientsin. The British steamer North Queensland coast of of city. Everywhere other Men, Government Villas there was a 's Coldest Job. Ile is the diver Shengking (3,000 tons, owned by the approach of a cyclone of
employed on the trans-harbour water the China Navigation Co.), which
is leaving Shanghal to-day, le great intensity. length of concrete road surface. pipe line. Despite the bitterly cold Here two inembers of the legal weather experienced during the week,
and he kept on with is work. "I expected to load coal at Tsingtao
colder up on duck than down below," and make an effort to deliver a sugar centre, is threaten-
ed. profession, H. E. Pollock C. D. Wilkinson were found one morning engaged in the legal he said cheerfully, when interviewed to them.
Fears for Passenger ̧· Terrificly hot weather has pastime of making a slide on the
Fears for the safety of hundreds been reported from all northern of passengers and the ships on centres during the past week, which they were trapped by ice and everywhere the beaches are Jams In the Gulf of Chihli were crowded with people seeking to felt as a north-west gale brose, escape the heat.
Sydney, the capital of New blowing the ice field out to sea. The ships were carried away South Wales, also reports crowd- amidst the grinding, ice as ited beaches where life-savers moved seaward. Some of the ico bergs in the field were 25 feet have been kept busy saving too- venturesome swimmera caught in the undertow. at Bondi or Manly beaches.
Decided that overybody must be ice-coated roadway. in Kowloon, so wandered down to It was raining at the Peak on
Many Die In
one of the worst mornings. The Canton Cold
Star Ferry.
Even this was deserted, except rain froze as it fell.
The hills wore white with hoar for two cold Military Policemen with nothing to do except blow on frost. To the Chinese in the City fingera. :
this was a novelty. They went up Half a dozen buses, with blue- onto the hills and gathered pine handed conductors, awaited to branches to take home as curios. take lone passenger to destination. Probably with disappointing, re- Conductors looked disappointed suite. when Man decided to walk.
Nathan Road'as deserted as Desi Voeux Road in Hongkong. Man walked briskly, to Club, hoping to find soul-mate for convivial hot rum. Club was deserted.
Man Who Wondered Where
RICKSHAWS. PLY OUT TO SEA
Shanghai, Mar. 4. ICKSHAWS are plying for hire on the frozen sen on Every One Was suddenly thought, the North China coast. Tho that they might be at home before worst ice blockade for nineteen their fires. Stamped his feet, years in seriously hampering encored, regretted lack of racial shipping.
The ico is 14 inches thick in hardihood, retraced steps to Star Forry.
Chefoo harbour. Tientsin is Then back to office to write frozen up. Many vessels aro story of the Port of Missing Mon, arriving at Shanghal with hulis wishing he was one of them.
damaged by foolloos Reuter.""
Canton, Mar. 6. The abnormal cold wave in Canton has caused two deaths and scores of frost-bite cases. One of the victims died yesterday at now reclamation, off the Bund, and the other as he was conveyed fron tao northern outskirus of the city to the Fong Bin Hospital. high, gree
This hospital is treating many
Soon after the gale set in the cases caused by the cold. The tempera-shipa could not be sighted from ture at 6 am. to-day, was 42 degroes Fahrenholt but rosa'to 45 degrees at noon, Street sloopers and rickshaw coolles are the principal sufferers. Charitable organisation, are da vaat do much as they have no money at
skoro...
The ships were trapped in the ice early in February, at least 25 boats being gripped in the tangled An waste of ice bergs and fices which extended ten miles out to sea. their late season.
Several beggars wore killed by the breaker rescued 100- pasion- cold in Fatehan, 26 miles west of gors from one boat but was itself. Canton. Farmers fear that the trapped.
-
unusually cold weather will have a On February 21 shipping bad ertook on the crops, and the ran fleh trade han suffered or the net in officials, warned of a food shortage on the bonts, employed evolles to ponda have died in large numbers. Frices for fish and vegetable are going carry supplies on their backs
across the ice. Vart UpSpecial;
QUAKE FELT IN PHILIPPINES
Boac, Marinduque, Mar. 3. An earthquake of Intensity I which lasted for two soconds was felt here at 10:30 Inst night.
Do you
know:-
THAT THE CHEVROLET COMMANDS THE HIGHEST RESALE PRICE.
After years of faithful service and delightful drives enjoyed by the owner, the splendid condition of the Chevrolet is still maintained, due to its reliable engine and strong, well-built chassis. This point reflects on the value of the car and assures the owner of the highest resale price obtainable on a used car,
INVEST IN A CHEVROLET FOR VALUE.
Far East Motors?
26 Nathan Rd., Kowloon. Telephone 59101,
ARTS & CRAFTS
DINING ROOM FURNITURE is unequalled in
QUALITY, CONSTRUCTION, DESIGN and PRICE
Showroom and Factory
330, Shaukiwan Road, Tel. No. 24173
"King George IV
Old Scotch Whisky
Scotch-
at its best
“1 said STOP-and he stoppit!"
Sote Agents:
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
Gloucester Bullding.
.TO-DAY
ONLY
No damage war reported. The direction of the tremors waa undermined, according to the local To-morrov
weather observer.
Telephone. 30986.-
MAJESTIC
JAMES
At: 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
CAGNEY
PICTURE SNATCHER
“HOORAY FOR LOVE" with ANN SOTHERN-GENE RAYMOND.