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THE RISING TIDE OF

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found Many days were spent Tide of Crime, and some amazing the young hours of day. And men cruising in the neighbourhood, and facts and Ayures are set forth the Gormma scientists are satisfiedThe number of persons killed in they have proved the discrimes of violenca has risen and appearance, or the non-existence of continues to rise In 1922 there the island.

were 9,500 in 1925, 10,000; last year, 11,000;

The writer compares these por tentous figures with the recorde of other nations were 68 murders

Most of the islands of the South Atlantic are of volcanic origin, and there is a possibility of submarine volcanic activity being the cause of the disappearance of Thompson In 1923, there Ialand.. Islands that have appear-ard 98 homicides, a total of 151 ed and disappeared due to this con- committed in the whole of England son are not unknown. On the and Wales, with a population of 88 consta at Walfish Bay auch a phono-millions. menon was observed in recent "years"

"During the same year Chicago, with a population of less than three allions, counted 389 homicides and New York 262. The writer

here as in all parts of the tropics. have learned to follow her example

For in lands where the sun is high and hot at midday, where even the very air is quiet and at rest then, the early hours are the vital ones for the comings and goings of all living things, that later on one may or day grows cool again and the Frost in tranquillity until the wan-

breeze from the sen heralds the fall of evening

A Mud Islazid. "On June 1, 1900, wrote the late Mr. Frank W. Waldron in the South sums up thus African Philosophical Society The homicide rate of the United magazine, Miss Cleverley, the Staten in double that of Italy. daughter of the Resident Magist is four times that of Aud-morning duties. And along the trate of Walfish Bay territory,tralia and South Africa whilst scanning the horizon with

"It is sight times that of New Zealand, Ireland, or Spain,” th

"Nine times that of England and Wales or of Norway

Now the golden light breaks forth and the tropical day has be gun. Ita as cool and sweet along the palm-lined beuch as a summer's morning h a northern clime, Snatches of new chanteys sound. across the placid harbour as the allora on the anchored ships from manga for land go about their

near-by wharves is such activity, now under way as fil beita one's a field-glass from the settlement a the head of the bay saw a duck.

previous conceptions of the leisure of the tropics. The coolfes are object resembling the hult of

already at work piling the bege of vessel lying inaide the bay, just "18 times that of Scotland.

Bugar aboard a San Francisco. of Pelican Point, a distance of six "94 times the rate in Holland.

bound ship. They trot to and fro and a half miles from the Bettle- "56 times as great as in Switzerin never-ending line, tireless, in ment.. To ascertain what this land.

düstrious; for "their trivial wage object; was, steam was immediate- The rising tide of crime is not depends upon achievement alone, } = ly got up in the launch, and Mr.conaned to murder. Robbery is 36 As they pass into the go-down each Cleverley, with a small party, pro- times as prevalent in New York as grasps a Httle stick handed him by reeded to the spot. As Pelicant is in London. In 1928 more than the dark-fared ind sitting there, as Point was neared it was found that 12 times as many people were roba manifest of one more ty succu a mud island had appeared on the bed in Chiengo as in the whole of fent pounds taken upon ship-board. inner side at about 100 yards from Canada, The main causes men-At the next go-down great masses" the shore.

bloned are

of hemp, soft and airy light, are being spread forth to dry in the already glowing tropical Wonder of wonders; that out of this fleecy stuff shall be woven tho hawsers that can swing twenty?. thousand ton ships

Careful soundings taken close to, and around the island gave depths of seven to eight fathoms. The dimensions were approximately 150 ft. long, 80 ft. wide, and the height 15 ft. aboye the surface of the seat the sides under water appeared to he nearly ventical, but above waton pieces. had been washed off by the sen, glving a jagged appearance. Whilst we were there several large pieces felloff into the sea.

A very strong odour of suf phuretted hydrogeni pervaded the lapot, and steam appeared to issue from the northern end of the mass.. wag afterwards told that the small from the island was noticed at. Swakopmund, a distance of 25 imties from Walsh Bay.

The next day (June 2), we vikk-| ed the island to make a more- minute examination. Soundings were taken again with similar re sults. Lieutenant Gutsche, of the Cape Garrison Artillery, swam - off (from a boat, it not being possible. to land otherwise, and procured a specimen of the mud

Dead Fish.

Since the previous day a large quantity of the material had fallen off into the sen. Steam was still seen issuing from the same spot.

We had to means of making; tem- perature observations of the muss. or of the water; But Lieuteriant Gutsche said he felt no heat on the island, and the water was very cold. 1

The water around the island was,

■ dirty, and the surface covered with bubbles. A few dead fish were found upon Pelican Point.

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On the 4th of June, another visit was made. The size of the island above, water appeared somewhat d'minished and levelled, down to not more than half the height

■ Fobserved on the 1st, but under water was about the same. The soundings had not altered, nor had the amell, disappeared

No further visits were made un til the 7th of June, when it was found that the island had entirely disappeared. Careful soundings were again taken over the spot. The bottom had assumed its original depth, and, no sign of the island was to be found The water was dirty and covered with bubbles on the surface as before, and the smell of sulphuratted hydrogen was. still perceptible in the alr

The rise in the scale of luxury owing to America's huge wealth and the discontent of young men who cannot share it by honest work.

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The fallace of the police to tackle the job which confronta them, and the sale of revolvers without a licence to anybody who wanita to buy one?”

The motion of Leonard Kip Rhinelander, New York society, man, for a new trial of the annulment suit in which his mulatto wife, Mrs. Alice Jones. Rhinelander, won the verdict, was dismitgedr

sun.

There is the smell of copra. of sugar, of dried fish of who may say what? along the river wharves Up to the go-downs back the motor trucks of the Occident side by side, (with the bull-drawn carts of the East, while along the quayside.. little gonga clanging importantly dash pony-drawn chaises. with grave-looking elderly Chinese or their way to their shops or ware- "houses. Filipino women, young and old, Viscayans, Negritos. Täga logs Moros, each differently attired in garb strange to Occiden tal eyea, land colour to the active picture. Curious sailing canoes go down the stream with the tide, wide outriggers on either side, darting and pirouetting about ke sea birds. Across the river from the native quarter, where the houses stand on stilts along the water's edge, comes a sort of catamaran: ferry, sculled by a single vociferous terryman, laden with young and ok until it seems ready to sink) beneath the surface. There is a horde of dumb things about. Pigs nuzzle complainingly In corners and along the narrow alleyways!| dogs lie curled up in the sun in the most impossible pinces, unconcerns edly placing themselves Avin imminent jeopardy from the fast- growing traffic: fowl strut indiffe rently about as if the whole place' were one gigantic barnyard A throng of brown children appears with magical suddenness, gather- ing covetously About the tiny sweet stands and fruit-vendors' baskets in the shadows of the great go-downs. A medley of whistles from tugs and launches in the river signals the arrival of the hightora from the great, ships in the har- bour, lighters, piled high with goodh. from America and from Europe, Intely arrived via Panama or Suez,

Aturn of the way and we are in the main street, the Calle-some- thing-or-other. It is vivid, with the colour of a forennon's activity of twenty peoples. American, English, Spanish, Asiatic are the shops along the way; and even more various are, the peoples which throng them? The bull-cart, the

Nothing happened on the coast time be collected in the still water chaise and the motor clamorously about the time of the upheaval of of the Bay from the myriads of demand right of t

thoroughfare

the island to indicate that anything seabirds there, and from the The sun blazes down, upon dark unusual was taking place. A fair flamingoes, pelicans, and other hued 18001 and immaculate white ly high tide occurred a night or birds that exist in the lagoons at attire. Before one can turn from two previous to the appearance of the head of the Bay The Bay also the fascinating picture the island, and a report came from abounds with fish of various kinds, your is at hand; and, with stat Swakopmund that a very heavy sea and remains of large numbers of suddenness, all this activity dis had swept away 30 metres of a whales are strewed along the coast solved and quiet reigns until the break-water in, course of construc for many miles.

cooler Afternoon Then, in the

tropical sunset, another and oven rapturous glory of the faming more vivid picture reveals itself.

tion thare by the German Govern- As a matter pointing to aub ment; but as similar heavy seas are marine disturbance near the frequent at this time of the year locality, there was a breakage in on this coast, so exposed to the full the telegraph-cable to German tor- force of the South Atlantic, no

no ritory, which reaches the shore at great, Importance can be attached Walsh Bayle breakage took to the occurrence

place a few weeks previons to the Our credit-kas upheaval of the island, and I wa

ed by the munager of the waspon at regener

From the Arat appearance of the island on the 1st of June, a con stant lookout was kept, but there wad fto reappearance of it up to the time of my departure Walfiah Bay

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