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Ping-Pong In Paris
The American ping-pong tornado has hit Paris. In many of the smaller cafes those miniature bil- liard-tables are now used for the game, and it has ousted the pin- tables in those saloons in the "Passages" where peep-show films at a franc a time are the only riyal attraction.
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1994,
THE REAL CAUSES FOR
EARTHQUAKES
INDIA'S DISASTER DUE TO HIMALAYA
ROCKS ADVANCE IN JERKS
(By Sir Edwin Pascoe.)
The Lord Mayor of London hast forwarded a cheque for £40,000 as} And a "M. Ping-Pong" features the first contribution from his fundi
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immense reversed fault, known as "the Great Boundary Fault." Must probably it consists, not of
In one of the revues-no nelation for the relief of sufferers by the a single fault, but of a number of to Ping Pong, and Pang, whom Indian earthquake, which killed over faults, more or less parallel to each Puccini put in "Turandot."
6,000 persoNS. The Viceroy, the other, and all sloping inwards to- Earl of Willlingdon, recently made awards the heart of the mountains.. Vulcan: Or The Future Of Music visit by aeroplane to the devastated The lateral earth movement, or Signor Marinetti, the father of area, and geologists have been in-compression, which produced the Futurism, has started another vestigating its causes.
Himalaya began at the end of the crusade, in the course of which hel
earthquake Cretaceous. period, a period which refers to the "inspired work" of shocks in the Balkans recently and was characterised by severe distur Malipiera, whose opera Signor many were injured in Roumania. ance all over the region we now
theatres
Music for music's sake, which leads to virtuosity.
the
In their place there must
be of
great economic, erotic,
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His Owls Dance
There
tere severe
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Mussolini has just banned.
The following article on the causes know as India. After a colossal After trying to reform poetry.of the Indian disaster has been outpouring of lava through fissures
and cookery, Marinetti eritten by Sir Edwin Pascoe, scho¦in
the earth's crust, the new attacks, classical and contem-served with the Geological Survey of Gondwana continent, of which the great |porary, music.
India from 1905, and was its Direc-Indian region formed a part, brake "Futurist" poets and musicians for from 1921-82.
up. condemn:
Large masses of it aank beneath The expression "terra firma" the advancing sea, and India became seems a sarcasm in the face of aseparated from South Africa and Imitation of classical music.
catastrophe such as that which de-Madagascar, with which areas Variations on folk-songs after
vastated the North of India
It so had previously been continuous. recently. Yet. from the manner of Stravinsky (sic).
1 scientific Relies of the sunken portion of this Imitations of jazz and negro an almost negligible readjustment in found beneath the Arabian Sea by point of view, this was the result of ancient continent have recently been music.
a very small section of the other the "John Murray" Expedition. futurist music, "A synthesis crust of the earth.
The compressional There is a prevalent idea that which initiated
movement the Himalaya in heroic. aeronautical, and mechani-earthquakes are directly connected these troublous times persisted. cal dynamism" of the twentieth in some way with
volcanic pheno-throughout the subsequent Tertiary DEATH
the trade of only three years ago.
[mena, bút this is
not usually the period, and there is good reason to It appears that the "Federation |
case. The only active volcano with-believe is still in operation to-day, COSTA DA ROSA :—Ab St. Francis of British Industries" is in favour
in the Indian Empire is that of By this time the rocks of the range Barren Island, in the Bay of Bengal. have been folded and coutorted in Hospital, Wanchai, on May 4, of adopting for the whole Em- But Malipiero is a revolutionary to the east of the Andaman Islands, the most complicated way, and have Maria Costa da Rosa (daughter pire the French method, and the only in a musical sense. His com-land many hundreds of miles from become hard and rigid with age and of Pompe da Costa). Funeral Colonial Secretary is at least in-poitions
are a continual protest the earthquake zones of India. will pass the Monument at 4.30ial administrations feel about it. une day he may write an Italian statement that the tranquil sleep is probably largely limited
clined to enquire how the Colon-Jagainst operatic conventions, and It would be safe to hazard the continued pressure from the north pressure. The present effect of this p.m. to-day.
Shanghai papers and what detailed proposals they equivalent of "Wozzeck". At the enjoyed for some time past by this pushing of the Himalaya and ite have to make. It behoves us to same time, he has reverence for the Island rent has been untroubled by rocks up the inclined planes of the note at least what the Federa-masters of the past, has edited on the disturbance which reduced tion's proposal is, and how it edition of Monteverdi and admires many towns and villages in Bengal
No Great Boundary Fault. would affect our own Colony-Scarlatti, The scheme has four parts:
and Nepal to ruins. He lives in dignified seclusion at: (a) Each administration should Asolo, a tiny village near Venice,
In places this movement no doubt Weather To Blame take power to impose
goes on, Imperceptibly, a small frac 1 He hates travel and strangers and
Any sudden movement in the tion of an inch at a time. Such a quota on the import of any loves animals, composing with a earth's crust, such as an explosive gradual advance we article from any all salamander asleep on his desk and eruption of a volcano, will produce imagine to take place where one of foreign countries. The quota two old owls who live on short tremor in that crust. But most the rocks along the should be based either
fault is 窳 on poles and
of the great 'quakes of India and lubricant clay. dance when Malipiere other countries would seem to have, the imports of the previous sings to them.
Unfortunately, the impulsion of year or on a figure decided i by the Colonial office.
nothing the Himalaya up the faults does not more abnormal than the everyday always take place so smoothly, but wear and tear of the rocka, to regulate foreign exchange
is In some places effected in jerks. If our scientifle deductions when necessary to protect The house of a popular song correct we may throw most of the conceive to be the
are It is thee jerks which geologists home interests, and
writer in America was burnt down blame on the weather. In a country earthquakes which from time im- cause of the to impose special duties and several manuscripts of new like India earthquakes are, against the imports from melodies
were destroyed. Appar-present geological conditions, as in-Gangetic plain of India and
under memorial have devastated the Indo- any countries that (1) seilently a favourable wind sprang up evitable as landsildes, floods, and all southern slopes of the Himalaya. their goods at a price lower at the right moment. than that usual in the coun-
please copy.
The China Mail
Hong Kong, Saturday, May 5, 1934.
Quotas And Retaliation.
The Annual Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, and the very comprehensive survey of work done given by the Chair(b)
Iman serve to remind us of the very close connection of Hong! Kong trade with a network of distant events so multifarious (c) that we may be excused if wel fare content as a rule to live from hand to mouth without trying to guess what the morrow will bring forth, and to deal with; those minor difficulties only:
which can be settled locally. It is an old saying that happy are those nations that have no his tory; and in the making of bar- Igains and contracts we should
congratulate ourselves if the ex- (d) change news from day to day were reduced to the single word "unchanged." Contrariwise Hong Kong reminds us of the recent congress of experts on "seismic
or
There should also be power
Jas their ultimate cause,
Your Daily Smile!
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Movement By Jerks
to a
may well
the
the other phenomena which accom-] How is the compressional force pany
the ordinary attrition of a allowed to continue? No doubt it mountain chain by natural agenclea. is partly dissipated by the move-
try of origin; or (2) enjoy Your Wife Will Like This the bounty on export con- A wife may be bought in Africa As is well known, the earth's ment of the rocks on which it acts ferred by depreciation of on the instalment plan, but it crust has suffered many changes in and is opposed and checked by the their exchange, or (3) grant usually takes a native the rest of the past, and is still being altered weight of the mountain chain which direct or indirect export sub- his life to pay for her. Things are to an extent which, though in most it has itself piled up.
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that there should be power La cancel most favoured na-Restaurant Remark tion privileges as a retalia- "Would you like to hear the tion against any unfavour other side, sir?" asked the waiter, able treatment of our own
as he turned over the gorgonzola. trade.
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sidies. The fourth proposal pretty much the same all the world places too slow to be perceptible, is If no other factors came into tho
uver, aren'i they.
In some localities unmistakably question one might reasonably con- visible and measurable. Through-ceive that the time would come when out the history of the globe, what the weight of the mountain chain in one geological period was land would have increased to such an often became sea in the next, and extent as to stop the lateral move- vice versa. The layered sediments ment altogether. In other words, of ancient occans have become the the weight of the mountains having neaks of lofty mountain chains. Old attained a magnitude sufficient to- the invading waters of new sens.
Folds Like A Napkin One of the accomplishments of the these changes is a lateral compres- aita sfon by which the rocky strata In the certain places become folded, just as a dinner napkin does when laid flat on a table and two opposite edges! are pushed towards each other.
This folding is very frequently
phenomena" at which it was The object of these devices is At the Hotel stated that the modern record-obviously to get ing instruments were so sensi- counter. But the experience of
a bargaining Everything comes to him who continents have foundered beneath balance exactly the force tending to
ftive that not a day passed with-much negotiation in the past tips the waiters.
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Have You Noticed?
The chap who used to read
now
Jout the needle being agitated by twelve months is that for that Bome carthquake at some point purpose threats are quite inef- or other of the compass. In fact fective. Our enormous invest the seismic records rather have ments in shippping and other movie sub-titles aloud an advantage, for it is now pos- forms of transport so clearly back at the talkies and helps sible to mark on a chart the make an active trade our inter-here sing the theme song. exact spot at which the distur-jest that a bluff is called. Exact-
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push them up the plane of the Great Boundary Fault, the system would remain in a state of equilibrium.
(Continued on Page 13.)
NO MODESTY IN YOUTH.
bance began. We are still of ly the same thing happens in the The Stately Domes of England course within the orbit of the lease of retaliation, which is A phrenologist declares that the big shock of the divorce of sterl-promptly met by counter-retalia-British have the most impressive localised along certain linca or belts, Bishop Criticises New ing from gold, which has created tion. And the policy of ex-heads in the world.
a worldwide suspicion or impres-change regulation by a Currency
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sion that a low exchange value Board has already been rejected, Mystery Story Writer's Epitaph for a national currency means on the ground that it pays bet- prosperity. It is impossible to ter to keep on a par with Shang- rebuke other Powers for doing hai and the other Chinese stand- what one has recently done one-ards rather than to adopt any self, and if it is said that the Bri- other scheme that might be more tish Treasury has aimed at keep-convenient for any other purpose
FREE SHOW About 200 people in Scotland
where the rocks become piled up in
Generation.
ser-.
ing sterling as high as possible, than trade with the mainland. claim to have seen the Loch Ness and in a fixed ratio to gold cur-Nothing could more clearly de monster. This is probably be rencies, it has to be confessed monstrate that the interests of cause it does not cost anything, that neither in the United States peal industry frequently diverge
nor in Japan nor in Paris is the from those of trade and finance. Motoring Mem. statement belleved. The attitude Perhaps we shall have to wait
the form of a mountain range. Rocks, however, even when wet and
The Bishop of St. Albana (Dr. plastic, are, not so yielding as a Furze), speaking at an induction dinner napkin, and as compression ceremony at Graveley, near Stea- continues there comes a stage when venage, Herts, sharply criticised rupture takes place along planes of the younger generation. fracture. These planes slope to- "To-day wards the quarter from which the iously," the Bishop said, "things
we discuss quite compressional force comes, and any that to push the rocks of the mountain years ago.
were definitely wrong 30- We may have permit- continuation of the pressure tends ted them,, but we knew they were chain up the inclined planes. wrong.
Such a plane of fracture "Girl pillion riders may ruin the geological parlance a reversed fault left at all to-day, and people say "There is apparently no modesty of the rest of the world is in for the resumption of the Inter-machine." fact that that, story would have national Economic Conference,
-may extend for many miles along this is a good thing. I'd think it a better chance of acceptance if for which President Roosevelt matter.
And the owner, too,
that a mountain range, and is especially is a good thing. If you speak that confided to the Horse Marines. hopes soon to be ready, but even
characteristic of its foot."
way you get lower down than the- The gold dollar has accordingly that would require some wary Answered
farmyard. been devalued by forty per cent walking if it be true that his
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No, "Lover of Pets,
by the "Brains Trust," the yen first demand would be that ster-an't a mother dog. has been pushed logically downing should be put back on gold
dogma
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as low as it will go; while the at its old ratio. The old ratio Slight Mistake French have imposed discrimina-would be equal to an enormous Some men's idea of a health cure 'tory duties that have cut in half fine and a heavy handicap. continually to drink their own.
Himalaya Piled Up The Himalaya is made up of a At the present time the devil In belt of, rocks which have been busy in every sort of way poison-" buckled and folded and plled into ing the minds of men and women. the loftiest mountain range of Am I pessimistic? I think Enge- the world by a compressional land can become as rotten, an' any." force from the north. Along its other country, but I believe the southern foot there extends an heart of England is sound.”.
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