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RETURN OF THE TANGO.
DANGES FOR THE AUTUMN.
THE CHINA MATL.
TALE OF A TORNADO.
APPALLING PILENOMENOR.
MANCHESTER WEEKLYŠ
MÄRKET REPORT.
Messrs. James F. Hutton & Co.
THUNDERSTORMS AND THEIR Ltd., Manchester in their report
CAUSE.
The ballroom dances for the coming aufen are to be the tae-step, the fox-trot, modernised tango, and the waltz Italienne, according to Mr. Excepting volcanic explosion of Cecil H. Taylor, president of the Im-magnitude, the tornado is the most appalling of batural phenomena. No perial Society of Dance Teachers.
Middle-aged dancers will be able structure erected by human hands can to go with enjoyment and case through resist it, and the only safeguard a programme of 20 or so of these against it is a mountain range. dances. The dances have none of those stationary or retrogressive movements which interfere with the dancing of others.
A tornado presents to the eye the appearance of a mass of vapour from which is extended towards the ground
whirling appendage like an enor "The new tango has only five mously magnified elephant's trunk, movements, is in no way involved and The latter, perhaps 1,000 feet in dis- intricate, and is a graceful, refined meter, rotates with a motion contrary dance. The waltz Italienne is a com-to the hands of a clerk, traveling bination of modern dance movement to waitz tempo, introducing variety into the waltz. Its movements are not sequent. They can be in any order the dancers picaso.!!
"Chikuma" meantime guarding Trin comalee. In the forenoon of 25th September, twenty five miles south of Galle, she met the "King Lud" and sank her and then held on for Colombo. Then says Sir Julian
along at a rate of abour thirty miles hour, with a roaring noise that dealens, and sucking up everything in its path:
dated August & statečn
This benef
Cotton prices bave been unsettled ad fluctuating, but, with continued favourable weather and crop news the tendency has been generally downward as the belief has been spreading that the early setbacks of the crop had been overcome and rapid progress had been male nearly all the states. led to the expectation of x com- paratively high Bureau estimate of the condition as on July 24. The actual figures however issued on the 2nd inst, proved to be lower than anticipated and temporarily relieved the weakness, giving a steadier- and firmer tone to the markets. The report shows that the average condi tion has improved 3.4 on the month to 741 and compared with the same month in previous years as follows 1919 1918 1917 10 yearù average. 67.1 73.6. 20.3
75.6
The noise it makes is a combined ** *00-00-00 ** and ** whir-rrer," and has been compared to that of 1,000,
The indicated yield per sere ÷ is! express trains passing over a bridge. with a lifting, sucking movement the returned at 170.4 lbs, making a total estimated crop of 12,519,000 Bales. cloud draws things upward: its whirl Crop news has been in fact practically ing motion tears them to linie bits the only factor to infidence valnes and grinds them as if in mill Houses and it would appear that a revival of are lifted bodily off their foundations, activity in the goods market is needed and while In'the air are torn to pieces. † to impart any strength as this feature "Arrising off the port at nightfall,
The track devastated by a tornado is at present entirely lacking. In the the Captain (von Muller) saw a large may be a few hundred feet to a mile yarn, and cloth markets the im ship coming out, all lights barning wide. It is 1.6 necessarily coozing provement there was in the last two dogged her till she was fifty miles ourous, for the funnel clond may lift weeks has relapsed into quietness far as actual business in
OFFICIAL WAR HISTORY both were sunk. None of these ships made any attempt to get away, says Sir Julian. All were on the direct run and all steamed quietly to meet the "Emden" assuming she was a British cruiser." Then she met the "Loredano," an Italian vessel, which was spared and was able to awaken India to the fact that a raider was An event of considerable interessreying on commerce almost at the and about midnight overhauled her itself clear of the ground at intervals, 60
mouth of the Hooghly.
She was the "Tymeric" with £60,000 then dip, and again rebound. Its concerned but enquiry is again is the appearance of the first of, the
- TAS *EMDEN * COALS. worth of sugar on board. She was arrival is accompanied by frightful considerably better and the out volumes of the "British Oficial His
King Lud" and the On September 16, Admiral Jeram sunk, like the tory of the War." This consists of an
Prices remain very "Emden" carried on for the south of crashes of thunder and lighting that look is regarded very hopefully on account of the Naval operations to beard of the raid. He arranged to the battle of the Falklands and is watch points in his vicinity where Cape Comorin, where the tracks from set the whole sky aflame. Its depar all sides. accompanied by a separare case of the "Emden" might coal and Bombay and Aden to Colombo con- ture is mediately followed by airregular and what business is put Here, the following afer- deluge of rain. There is co salo re- through is going principally to fage to be found in the strongest makers who have looms standing idle maps and charts. The History is despatched the "Hampshire" (Capt verge.
On the or about to stop for want of orders, based upon oficial documents, and is H. W. Grant) and the "Chikuma," noon, she captured the "Gryfevale
direction of the the latter of which was sent to those master was doing his best to building of brick or stone.
Such lots may appearing by Historical Section of the Committee Colombo, while Captain Grant made keep off the converging tracks, and entrary, such a structure, sasily and are consequently willing to take
destroyed by the swoop of the for very low prices.
certainly be regarded as safe as pro- of Imperial Defence. It is being for Rangoon to search the Nicobar this ship Captain von Muller kept.". produced by Sir Julian S. Corbett, and Andaman Islands. The Yar which island run the usual tracks for its ruins.
She then steamed for Minikoi, pastrado, is liable to bury people beneath ducers margins are at a minimum in these cases and the goods are for also attached, developed
The funnel dood is no longer quick delivery. The prices in many who points out in a preface tha: "the mouth," work is only official in so far as he engine room defects and put into the Red Sea, and took three vessels
"all on or near the usual track." [mystery, though its terrors have best instances are in fact so low that Perang. has had access to British documents
Emden "left the The Burrsk," an Admiralty collier, no whit diminished by knowledge of makers will only take small lots. political, and that for the form and main trade route for False Bay to was taken in the dead of night and its significance as a phenomenon, Trade for Chinx continues quiet but not only naval bur military and
gave herself away by steaming on It is nothing in the world but an exag, character of the narrative as well as coal and in so moving ran into the for opinions expressed the auther" Trabbach," from Ngapatam to Cal- the direct track with all lights bright-gerated thunderstorm, engendered von Maller ly burning" In this phase of her under like conditions, but owing in cutta. Her. Captain alone is respons.ble"
was in no development to at least one feature sark and as his wireless told him the operations.the "Emden "Loredano" was spreading the alarm danger as she was being searched for that is happily exceptional.
CURIOUS FORMATION OF CLOUD. he sent the "Kabinga" back to Calcut in the Bay of Bengal." When the "Chic ta with his prisoners. He then cruised kuma" was sent off after her
Meanwhile, the
THE EMDEN'S” RAID. Readers in India and Malaya will
Mini- -On I warm day the air near the turn naturally to the even's in which they are chiefly interested and in about the Sandheads and except for hol, she was lost in the trackle depths surface of the ground has a relatively this first volume at least they are sinking the "Clan Matheson" he en- of the Indian Ocean. However, the high temperature. A food of cold much catered for. For here is the oved no further activities Wireless hant continued. On October 12 story of the "Emden told in a new had put a stop to his operations. He the "Pantophores" and the "Marko air, let us say, flows in above, occupy, and aften in a fresh light, while then coaled and set off for Rangoon mannia" were captured at Simaluring a higher level. This is an un- there are various criticisms of the in ignor nce of the fact that Captain and so reduced the "Emden's" stable arrangement, because the warm authorities which have more than Grant was approaching that point incal supplies to what she had in a being lighter, would naturally be
Emden"
an academic interest. The
when the war broke out was lying!
ITALIAN HELP.
a search for him.
AT PENANG.
above.
the demand from India shews some sign of developing, some purchases having been made and offers are better and more numerous. Some miscellaneous lots have also been Looked for South America and the home trade..-
TOLD BY THE PARISH PRIEST.
P -
A Story of Caba
At Canasi, in the island of Cab itere lives the Reverend Father Villan- era, a priest who, like so many others of his cloth, is a "father in dead as well as in name to the members of his fock. Hence it arons th t he became in- terested in the sfidirs of the family Siers, with what resalt he has since Bitrated as follows
:.
one seemed
her bunkers and in the Buresk. Later on top. An atmospheric fuss results, Captain Grant made for Diego Garcia and we have what is called a thunder. INDIAN AUTHORITIES CRITICISED.
in the Chagos Islands, once a coaling storm, the warm air and cold air at Tsingtau and she was summoned to Admiral von Spes at his base at On the evening of September 18 place for Orient boats on the frozen gradually commingling
But occasionally it happens that the P2420 Island in the Ladrones the Emden" made over her "Clan meat trade Captain von Muller had After leaving Tsingtau the "Edmen" Matheson" prisoners to the "Dovre," an old chart which showed him this cold flood above finds a weak spot. was on the lookout for the Russian a Norwegian ship with which she abandoned trade route as still exist where the upward pressure of warm At the same time the ing and he looked for a rich harvest, air from beneath is less than else cruiser "Askold." but missed her and had fallen in captured instead the "Ryasan," a ship Hampshire" was coming up north But while he saw no ship he met with where. This offers & bole through of the Volunteer Fleet. She narrow. on the east of the Nicobars. The 2 splendid reception from the British which the cold air can descend, and ly, escaped being taken by Admiral next day the "Dovre" was in Ran Colony which did not know a war it pours through exactly as the con.
Some time ago when I was Pari h ferrara who was operating in the goon with her news and about noon I ad begun and was given help in tents of an unstoppered basin of water print in the rilage of Carlos Bujas waters about the Yap wireless and on Captain Grant had it. Thus Sir healing his ship and cleaning her escaping through the vem hole. You there fred in the village a family
bottom and in coaling. On 10th have noticed the violent whirling whom I was an intimate frised. The August crossed her track but could Julian:
He had unfortunately been com October he left only to be again motion of water escaping in this way of AES whose health was in a dais
aldest daughter, a bosntiful child treba -not place her. She joined von Spee
Dota 2 and was immediately polled to proceed to Port Blair in missed by hours by the "Hampshire the same thing happens to the cold care condition, looked as if her is were detached with her tender the "Marko- the Andamans, for to his despair which then started back to Ceylon fond of streaming down from fading away. She was SO FAR Weck
and so depressed mannia" on a special mission to the the Indian authorities kept sending
pirit that she felt
but solitude. southward. By the end of August him message en clair and be had to get
Meanwhile, the. "Emden" had made The cold, descending condenses no desire for anything
"I loved still love this family she was approaching the Indian to a cable in order to despatch an
a bag of six more vessels near the moisture in the lower stratum, Ocean on her famous raid.
Ergent request that they should Minikoi, one of which was an Ad- and thus is formed a mass of vaporous with all my soul and therefore soon desist from thus revealing his remiralty collier, with 8,000 tons for air which essures the shape of a more so when I learned that the doctors took upon myself their misery, the sence. His chance of getting hold The first news of the appearance of the chase was already seriously Hongkong. At this stage precau- monstrous balcon with long neck ruld not ascertain the nature of the of the "Erden" reached Calcutta o compromised, but he held away again and orders were observed, and while the fume! cloud, which the vapour of all my confidence, but s
tions were being taken and routes extending towards the earth. This is child's malady. I went into consulta tion with several physicians deserving September 14, when the "City of Ranon a different course-keeping on to goon" put back into the Hooghly on
the northward instead of going to SIX vessels were captured, 19 passed makes visible. The sudden condensa- to know what to do in so strange a oase, į hearing from the "Loredano" that a the danger area safely. this German cruiser was operating in the "Emden" of il. Unfortunately exploit, the "Emden" again missed charges of appalling violeros, hence not having proved anevsiling.
"At shout this time a few booklets Bay and had already four prizes in Captain von Muller had taken in the being rounded up south of Colombo the thunder and lightning.
The neck of the cloud is a bollow regarding Dr. Williams' pink pills for company. Until that moment the unlucky signals, and they assured by the lucky accident of her colliers
rending in them testimonials of similar was thought to be with von Spee him that several British cruisers were nine and a half knots.. The "Hamtube, inside of which is a high / Pale people came into my hands, and) in the Southern Pacific. And here working to the south of him. Kowshire" and the "Empress of Asia" were частит Thus it sucks up whatever | cases I sent for a few bottles of pills and comes the first breath of criting, therefore, that the mouth of just abead of her. Subsequent to this it comes across, emptying wells and took them to my friend Mr. Jalic cism. It was not considered possible the Bay was dangerous ground, came the raid upon. Penang and the Ponds, and picking up houses and Sfere father of the child 1 cau truth. fully say that the improvement was 20 that the “ Emden,” could have eluded, he coaled under way from the Mar. the net Admira! Jerram had set inkmannia" in the Gulf of Martaban, sinking of the "Zemchug,” and it was į People. Revolving at a speed of atrapid that în about 15 days we had the the Far East and no part of Eastern and then held away to the westward in picking up survivors of the French least 500 miles an hour, its destruc-pesure of noticing the child chcerful waters was regarded as more secure just in time to cross ahead of the destroyer "Mousquet," also sunk, that ive force is irresistible. More likely and happy, fall of colour and life. undergons & change; instead of being than the Bay of Bengal. So come!"Hampshire" and thus he escaped the Emden" learned of the loss of the its speed of rotation is four times Everything in her seemed to have "Pontophores." Her next public ap that, as may be judged from the fact pale as before she now had a rosy.com plete indeed," says Sr Julian Corbett, her for the second time.
pearance was at Cocos Island where that it will drive straw through into plexion, and has mind, before clouded was the sense of cecurity expressed
ALL LIGHTS SHOWING.","
she was sunk.
planks, which would require the velo by malady was now cleac. by the Indian authorities that.
Io consideration of those facts 1 Then came the Emden's" Madras Sir Juliau Corbett adds that the city of a rife ballet. masters. in spite of Admiralty in
* Disastrous tornadoes are much have not hesitated to recommend Dr. structions, were in this section e-capade. After her appearance off "Emden" had no system of obtaining
Williams' piok pilla in ss many cases keeping to the usual track and Rangoon all trace of her had been intelligence. The stories that premore frequent then they used to be,"
of siments ramling from impoverished steaming with undined lights lost and in 22-d September the valled at the time of ingenious wire says an American report, not be irade route less calls and the like had little or cause the phenomenon occurs oftener. Had the most ordiony precaution Colombo -Calcutta been taken there must have been a was upened apain. Yet that same no foundation: the Captain (von but for the reason that there are many and in the different towns where i have ministered as parish priest since thea I much milder story to tell, but as it evening she was off Madras, bom. Muller) had not even a direction more towns to be struck. To excape are seen many proofs of the, excellent was the Emden" had an easy task." burding the oil tanks on the meter to locate the calls he heard one, the proper thing to do is to run enits obtained with this, renowned
and also the town His method had simply been to take north or south, never east or north-remedy. On September 5, she left her secret sea-front
that time sbe Was in up a position in a fertile area and coaling place in Sumatra and again At
which the funnel cloud is travelling.". ad feeling that I have thus falalled my narrowly mis-ed capture, by the grave danger. The "Hampshire" hant smoke which from a crow's east, because that is the direction in Testifying to the trash of the shore. duty for the good of my fellow-beings, "Hampshire She then made for the was 300 miles" to the north and the nest on his foreinast he could see at
1 in
TEODORO VIL Colombo-Calcutta track and there "Chikuma" little more to the south. a distance of thirty five miles"
LANUEVA, F owever, it seems fairly clear that early on September 10, took the Greek The "Emden" after being seen at collier Pontophores with 6,000 Cuddalore and Pondicherry," sailed he was helped at the beginning by
being unable to steam more than
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