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When the earth
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
| MOSCOW
and the
up
opens waters dry
Until lait week only bare details were known of the devas tating carthquake which rocked Assam, province of castern India, for 28 days late in August and Sep. tember. Here
SIR PERCIVAL
GRIFFITHS
authority on Assam and adviser to the Indian Tea Associa- tion, presents the first dramatic picture of what actually happen. ed.
-T is a great thing to be able to sleep at
night, free from fear.
The people of Eastern Tibet do not enjoy this blessing, for earthquakes bring the threat of death with terrible frequency-bút we hear little of their troubles.
Next to Tibet is the populous and prosperous province of Assam, where the mighty Brahmaputra emerges from the Hima- Layas and where most of our best tea is grown. The 10,000,000 people of Assam do not normally share the Tibetan terror, but on August 15, in the midst of Independence Day celebrations, they suffered one of the worst earthquakes over experienced in Indin.
For ncurly four weeks shocks, too numerous to record, kept them in nightly fear.
Hundreds of thousands slept in the open. but could not feel safe, for in an earthquake great chasms appear suddenly, and the very earth seems to open and swallow up whatever is on it.
will believe It.
Trelated rall tracks between Talap and Saikawa Ghat-a stent testimony to the potter
of the earthquake.
It is the most frightening and When these men tell the story demoralising of all natural to their grandchildren nobody phenomena.
The mun thock lasted just Stranger adventures came to over two minutes, It was so the Bralamustra and its violent that in Calcutta, 500] tributaries. miles away, the pen of the re- Immediately after the Bret cording seismograph was thrown shock: the Subansiri river, off the machine,
famous for its sh, disappeared. Scientists, therefore, did not Four days later it reappeared know how bad it
Tut ill its fury and was.
swept over many urdinary folk knew only the countryside, Granaries were too well.
destroyed, homesteads were submerged, and people fled into the trees,
One British planter ran up- stairs to carry a baby safely. The houre was swaying so violently that he could hardly real the
bedroom. Electric fans were almost swinging to the celling,
He got outside with the child,
At Blbumarh, a big town, a hore, or wave, raced down the 1 alumaquetra, to the accompani- The sent of thunderous noises.
fell eight feet and gave river off fames.
to safety as he thought, when Two days later it came on in
the earth opened up, closed again, and held him, up to the waist, in a vice.
He passed
the baby to s British assistant-and then he, too, was half swallowed up.
Again the childt was rescued, and after a few minutes the men
Gaping Assurea socop through pricate houses
in Jorhat.
hotres, where the green leaf is! withered, and the factories whero it is rolled and fired, are ulinast
important. as the buthes,
D
WHEN?
THE NEXT MOVE
WASHINGTON
WHERE?
(Morris In
the Rochester Democrat and Chronicla)
BEVERLEY BAXTER takes a seat
in
the gallery at the Margate Follies
Beau Bevan is putting
On some gardens lent houses have callapsed but somehow or other
doing the planters are without them: and where factories or machinery have been damaged inakeshifts have been Jevised.
But It in on the morale of the people that the disturbance bas had most elect,
Turror stricken labourers have
black market,
Dr Edith in the shade
MARGATE.
Bevan not only because he seat.
PARIS
-with
R. M. MacCOLL telling the news
PARIS.
HAD. YOU over thought of the moon E celestial 'Gold-
Greent Alexandre Annaoft. president of the French Astronomical Congress and organiser of the Inter-
tional Astronomical Congress
which has just ended in Pario; Bays off-handedly: "The moon nowadays la only a suburb of the heavens.”
Anunoff, 40 years old, resembles nothing so much as o youthful American banker And looks as though he was probably voted "Man mast likely to succeed" by his college contemporaries.
I lunched with him
the other day. Ho refused
cocktail, starod rather severely through horn-rimmed glasses. Hin. prematurely grey hair fled backwards in luscious wayes, His pearl teplo was enviable.
"This voyage to the moon," he said with a hint of im- patience, is no longer a Utopian dream. It is nothing but u question of balistics. Onec
You
have gone the first 10
miles or so from the earth, the rest is simplicity itself."
Next year's International at the last clection. Astronomical Congress will be chairman of field in London. Theme: "Arll- conference standing
THE tide was out as i is a man of some sort of took over as
walked from my hotel destiny but for his unusual the
to the Labour Party lappearance. Ife had been orders. His job was to cut
Two steamers to the hairdresser and his down
the
lelal satellites."
innumerable) But, saya debunker Ananoff,
on the agenda" profoundly doubt that these
military value, The trouble is
had to be reassured and held conference. jogether. Action
been were anchored at sen, the tailor. Nor did his sartorial resolutions โรง isken against local denters, whoands were deserted, the achievements and there, le so that the conference would title man-made moons spinning would not miss an excuse for a fun-fairs were silent and wore a white shirt with a be able to break up before round the earth will have any
many of the hotels were stiff white collar und two the next election.
thu As 1 condenser Mrom that height you would be closed. It was a perfect white cuffs showing setting for
man Haworth is good, but he able to see precisely nothing of seaside exact length for
about town, funeral.
His tie was was interrupted from time the earth's surface. Too much reserved indefinite to time as delegates went mist and cloud, Rather frustral- to the microphone and de-ing for the military observers,
or deplored some don't you think....1"
Mr D. C. Hodson, a leading planter in Assam and chairman
are huge gaps, while in between of the local tea association, has the road has been comprened just completed a tour of inspec- into strips too narrow even for tion abulek enrt, and set at any ungle from horizontal to per pendleskar.
It will be weeks before this sume without famous rond, which carried so carrying on
Indian, and sleep and many British,
possible." American troups to Imphal or in the war, can be Kohing
water
2
It
PARIS sauce
•
HOW
ARE things
down at Montgomery' Western Union headquarters at Fontainebleau?
I was curious
to and out what
In the Winter Garden of however, there was a great shade,
For reasons of his own fended hustle for the delegates hatl gathered in such numbers he had left behind the particular item. A Lan- He says: "On some gardens that one section of the hall homely clothes with which cashire delegate protestedi
graced against our supporting the day they are living in acute where nothing could be seen he has for so long discomfort-bungalows damaged, had to be set naitle for no the Palace and formal re- Americans in Korea and South "The or light,
audience. I had ceptions. No longer was he shouted: overflow with very little
officials the Man of the People but Koreans are now over the the in-no ticket but the achieving
Parallel. Who were exceedingly courteous the seaside Beau Bevan, the 38th
are
A and the the aggressors
now?" We do know churches, schools, and put me in the gallery, mould of fashion
our chaps at glass of form.
good hearty British laugħ stored.
public offices and houses have I hope that been destroyed in great numbers. Blackpool will be equally No wonder that La Belle was his only reward. The tallway line parallel with l the town of Jorhat alone,
cuckoo Summerskill, sitting next
was Uke fur the several it, was distorted in many places 5,000 people are homeless today: kind if a Socialist
to him, looked less than her
hundred Anonymou British and bridges were damaged; but while in Dibrugarlı, nearer Karnall Singh, a Sikh engineer the centre of the disturbance, Mr Sam Watsoni, the usual spectacular self. Even
affeers and men who have lived WOMAN said that we there for the past with a reputation for actueving hardly
brick
two years, house party chairman was deliver- her hat drooped as if the has the lapossible,
been at mains undamaged.
letting down helping to thrash out on in- if somewhat struggle was too much for ing a sound are running
in favour of the national military Europe Normal life has been com- work and trains
plan with again.
pletely disrupted and the people lengthy speech and I had an it.
Empire. "Have we become the French, the to gaze upon
Dutch, the Assan is a land of tea and have been seized by paule, opportunity
Cockatoo style
a Government of Empire many lea gardens te in the Assam has Indeed suffered a the great men on the plat-
flag-wavers? I believe the Belgians, and the Luxemburgers, tricken aten.
inajor disaster.
form. One's eye was at
Labour movement is with So I went down there and the, Besides being grown, tea hus
once caught by Mr Aneurin THE only one to challenge
the sartorial champion me!**
The Labour move-answer is that they like it very' was Dr Dalton, whose le ment did not say, and Mr much indeed. Saya an RAF. was so red that it gave a
aro "There
extra Haworth cut the throats officer: whole gory flush to the
of half a dozen more resolu-allowances. We are still broke tions.
at the end of the month, just be back home,
high Rood-just as suddenly as to be manufactured and the lenf
it had fallen-bringing with it millions of dying fish,"
No one knew whether the Ash were safe to cat or not, but food was scarce, and the local fisher- men were missing no chaters,
In Golaghal, in the centre of
extricated thuntelves-without Ausam, the prison walls fell their slippers.
and prisoners
walked
Great jets of water began to out-only to return tater, in purt out of the ground, and in need of fond. one of these the slippers were The main road through Assam ejected.
ry a nughtmare. Here and there
A WEIGHT OFF YOUR MIND ?
MOST
(BY A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT)
doctors gel asked, But one must
make a diet
asinutte
~(London Express Service)
to turns up.
BABY-SITTERS: You have been warned
AST night, in the mood for conversation and kartoffelklase, I went a-calling on my Aunt Frieda and my Uncle Charlie.
"Your uncle, he ain't home," said Frieda as I walked inio their Allen Street flat,
"He 15 having a nervous break-up, and Dr Gittleson is sending him to Mr Feltlchaun's place Lakewood-Cathedral Pincz
almost every week, "How palatable. I doubt if you will asked
can I lose weight?"
Why
reduce?
Obesity is bad, medically.
be able to stick for long
dict
J
The
brought it
this."
ON?"
I
sald
by Billy
in like "Well,
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dellar this televiton if he called Wilbur.
It
It predisposes to all sorts of regime. But the appetite can their Itle six-year-old
Is a tendency to arthritis, the n low calorie intake to be
ROSE
"Later when we are
the latine from
coming
proceedings.
11:3
Flag-wavers?
were
Herbert Morrison wearing his cockatoo hair- Then the Schuman Plan 5 wo should
better in the meanwhile."
Ho does not
do but, like Edith, seemed raised its bloody head, and but wo have lived a whole lot unnaturally subdued. Some. with a roar Dr Dalton was
He pays £18 a month for a where between Herbert and on his feet. Booming like the chairman there was a Jove cuiling for his chariot, furnished villa. theatre the space where Mr Attlee was he defended the document like the big heating bill-about impression is changing, because hiding as if to establish an his committee had issued in £8 a month for gas fires.
wives are not quite as Behind him, among the middle of the Schuman Wilbur is playing on me and alibi.
"For days,"
he enthusiastic as the men. They your uncle a trick
100 the supporting cast was his crisis.
newspapers seem homesick. years ago,
unbridled
from
Lerner and me are going our,
"A trick like this: When Mes very charming wife (whom shouted, "the
For treated us with we all like) knitting.
for I sterical abuse?" reading French Revolu-
The
Inter Allied Ilaison
goes
the little boy is telling your uncle the moment I felt a slight misrepresentation and hy well, but there is ous stu
ing block-food. They tried having his mother wants he should take tremor of agitation
international mczca, balk right away, but he ain't have just finished
but the British other rubks because Hopalong Curlyle's got time
scowled blackly at the slender So tion. Camidy is in 20 minutes.
NEAU Bevan ran hls hand French breakfast of coffee and your uncle is telling him a man
Som Watson is a good over his brilliantined head a roll. don't need 20 minules for a
zu 15.
Monstrous !
"Starting from a full tub,' is before 1939 the Socialists acurat, in a wave of laughter, the remarks.
Dalton nods
"Who
Was the
PARIS gallantry
ONE OF France's most famous mannequins, Janine
bath, and he could do it easy fellow, blunt, straightfor- without displacing hair. An "And then," the catering So the little boy award and not lacking in 4 other delegats Jomed in the de-omcer at Air Force head quar- Eetting hun 35 he can't take sence of fun. Yet he found nunciation of the Schuman plan,ters told me. "wre Gave the off his clothes, buthe himself and his audience somewhat unre and said: "It would have been men Sole Mornay (sole served e answer is simple. "Don't that allows less than 4 ounces Feudal day is coming home of carbohydrates and 14 ounces your uncle and announcing he
buby-sitter. he says, is catching
up in 15 minutes.
Even where he monstrous to place the British with a thick cheese sauce) as tecoming
on very tend fuil Proteus can be is
steel Industry under a super-a special treat for dinner one But not everyone can obey of fat a day.
But Every Monday night, he says, quick, is remembering all the
"Starting from a full tub?sponsive.
declared that in the years
He was day. quantity.
control"
You should have heard this. Even when they are pro- taken in any
and 24the Lerners on Rivington Sleeet cards, fulds
by 10 o'clock is a saying your uncle, vided with a diet they find it
should not excred
rlight in the hard to keep to it.
pinta a day and no sweet wines, is gong to the theatre uptown, trumping him
him
answering Wilbur
never opposed rearrnament and chairman laworth, rushing ground.
pul this blinking should anyone want to beer, stout, spirits or acrated and Mrs Lerner is offering
hour und free
"Well, all summer it goes like
but voted against them be.. through another page of resolu waters are permitted,
will sit with this. Every Monday Charlie is
cause the Tories would not tons, declared: "And that dis- sauce on the fish-and where
poses of sewage
the and utility are You will get hungry.on
chipsTMTM boy, baby sitting and every Monday
bowdlerised complaint.". pool them with the other furniture " And he is losing to the baby. where be lessened by a drug
"Well,
knows, member States of dinense,
By everybody particularly
tho There is sanity in the laughter
conforence, quinciquantly he is not eating Charlie is a fast bather and is
and the hoart trouble and high blood "dexidrine." is used now by
Socialist Party needs all the so good and is hollering and doing the job complete in nine League of Nations, the re of the pressure is concerned. If ther most dietician and allows of
This minutes, banging with the doors.
And when we are ception was tepid.
Eanity it can get. The truth is "Well, when Charlie is com-
from the theatre
that
the party is deeply divided. added weight of the body makes continued with less strain on ing heme the first Monday night, le boy is making him plain coming home
The published agenda, before the joint pains worse.
the will power. And, if you are a naturally asking him for crazy, and your uncle is swear he is smiling like Steeplechase.
the items were sliced, contained FATS? NO
grossly overweight you can lose the fire dollars, but he is telling ing he will get even-no small want you should be prezent
He and fryer, he says, is making him
Marcay, Got it. So one of the main treatments as much as a pound a day for a me le ain't
monkey.
NOR was it much better more crackpot resolutions anna while.
Wilber, he says is watching
when he spoke of the any similar document in political
professionally for both cardiac trouble And
k n own arthritis is concerned with get-
the wrestling on the television who will
common people "that we all history. Me Morrison's polles of moderation is going to have a
Praline, got in- ting the weight back, to as near Physical exercise is to be and betting a dollar
although rough passage. from," boy is
spring "Last Monday I am figuring
to trouble the normal as possible,
encouraged. But weight cannot will, and the little
other day. At the Belgian be reduced by this alone. You winning five times consecutive. I will see myself what is going, am thinking the celling is filing admittedly the ex-Etonian Dr Dalton nodded his head Then, for reasona of ap- will get hot,
"Next Monday,
border officials spotted a crude. Charlies and so I keep Charlie company and sloking the pearance, few people want to be subsequent thirst replaces water egole losing the છૅ, This time to the Lerners.
"I don't follow you" I said to in vigorous assent. There I am
But WELL, that was the opening alteration in her passport. Five Clothes cease to lost in perspiration. uvor weight,
He is betting on is baseball.
who is my Aunt Frieda. "Why weren't when he finished his speech W day and the Big Guns have years had been knocked off her Mrs Lerner,
Charlie finally nt; the slim hip line disappears: If you really keep to a the Brooklyns, and the dumbing
giving me a big howdy-doodle, you happy?
the crowd gave him a warm yet to come into action, When EC. won."* generally it is unattractive. balanced reducing diet you will head, he is not knowing what and explaining her husband is
to the hotel reception. I got back
Charges "Is simple. Frieda explained and deserved
of falsifying the Willour is knowing that Jakle huy in the shop, and Tɔ inviting What diet will get down your lose weicht, Many have proved Robson is now playing on ac, me I should so with her to the sadly. While I am getting There isn't much Wrong Socialist Parliamentarian who weight?
murmured: this to their satisfaction.
Sam Watson acquainted with Wilbur and his with
something of a stylist smiled a passport were dropped, when a except
gallant magistrato Meals should be as tros as But it requires self control count of because he has a busted theatre,
greeting and remarked, “Where "Such feminine vanity ta "She hand,
J also making mo mother is putting on the hat, he
in, from starchy car. That is why a spa or nursing he third
tho vultures possible
trait" He also very human Monday, your acquainted
and I belting mo ten dollars he can his interpretation of bis the carcass hohydrates and fats. Car- home, li so, often advised. Thero
with Wilbur,
gather."
pointed out to Praline that she increase the chance
to the Lerners whilo sho is putting on
the make your uncle lake oft all history. bohydrates tend to
of adding to the uncle is going
Then Mr Haworth, the
Pár did not need a passport any- walght: the smaller intake of minimal allowance is very small, with a deck of pinochle cards hat I am talking with him, and clothes"
makes the body use the -and no one comes away as in his pocket--and
again he is making on me a very good (World Copyright Reserved-London chief of the Railway Clerks, simistio, or at any rate, prema
who lost his Parliamentary | losing tho Ave bücksen. Wilbur, impression. heavy as they arrived.
Tats
excess it posselies,
EXERCISE? YES
at the paying-off ceremony, ays. For taking a story
I am winning five dollars cash from Wilbur "When I
am hearing this,
down on me."
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