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An event of some international

A COMPARISON IN CLIMATES

TEMPERATURE VARIANCE OF 130° IN 12 HOURS

importance, which has hitherto es. WHEN A 400 M.P.H. WIND BLEW

caped notice, is the visit of Colonel Prystar to Kovno.

Colonel Prystor is an ex-Prime Minister of Poland and the closest collaborator of Marshal Pilsudaki. He ie the man who engineered the Pilsudski coup which resulted in the seizure of Vilna in 1902. Since that date there have been no diplo- matic relations between Poland and Lithuania,

(By Basil Murray.).

London.

¡But it never does, and bodies of

THY do Britona always blame Spaniards have been found, there--

the weather?

In perfect preservation after hun- This year it is the drought that dreds of years, embalmed by the

dry heat.

is the chief object of attack.

We have one of the most ganer-] South-West Africa, Upper Egypt, ous, equable climates in the world. and Central Australia are the other

Our legislators are at fault for great dry spots on the map. failing to realise that a proper At Wadi Halfa, in the Sudan, the distribution of the available water rain gauge measured nothing from.

Colonel Prystor's visit to the Lithuanian capital is a prelude to a Polish-Lithuanian agreement. It means that Lithuania, frightened supply is an essential duty of tho 1891 to 1900.

Drops of moisture were felt on by the recent Putsch which was Government of a civilised country.

Real drought, in the sense in twenty-two days, but not on one organised by the German Nazis.

which some parts of the world in either 1895 or 1898. has chosen the lesser evil and is seeking an

The hot places of the earth are understanding, with know it, is impossible in these Poland.

islands.

not necessarily the sama as the dry. Herr Hitler, whose boast is that Look how green the trees are in There are two ways of recording he has unified Germany, has also the parts and squares! Watch the temperature with the dry thermo- unified his opponents. He has in-streets being washed down in the meter or the wet.

The wet thermometer is a plece spired's reconciliation as surpris-early morning! ing to Eastern Europe as a Franco Think of the vast quantity of of damp cloth fastened over the top German, alliance would be in the water that passes out through the of a taba of mercury,

sewers of London every twenty. four hours!

West.

We Are Lucky

The moisture of the cloth evapor ntes and lowers the temperature in the tube.

Your Daily Smile!

136 In The Shade And it is not only in regard to

The sams process is always going · "Speaking of animals remember rainfall that these islands are ing," said the tall, elderly

man, climatically blessed. In tempera on in the human body, and in con "when I was a boy I once gave, alture and wind velocity, the two sequence the wet thermometer is circus elephant a stick of striped other chief factors in, determining the best criterion of how a given candy."

"Well?"

the amenity of a place for human climate will affect men. "After that, whenever that circus habitation, we are closer to the There are only two places in the was to parade in the town, the bar "golden mean" than

almost any world where wet thermometer thou could quite divest his mind bars had to take in their striped other country in the world. temperatures of 100deg. F. have

poles,' of all recollection of the fact that the last-named country, by Attractive declining to endorse its own Pre-

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Hong Kong, Friday, July 26, 1934.sident Wilson's policy as ex-cently driven through the streets A huge traction engine was re-

ag an advertisement. There

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Kamaran Next time you feel like cursing been recorded. One is the English climate go to South Island, in the Red Sea, the other Kensington and have a talk with on the coast of Sierra Leone. the experts in the Meteorological If you had been at either of those places on the days in ques- Office.

After half an hour's conversation you would have had a fever tion you will thank heaven that however much you perspired,

The highest shade temperature you live where you do.

pressed in the creation of the League, was in reality the first Disarmament Hopes. to bring into being that sense of should be no doubt about its pull-

ing power. insecurity which has been ever The Disarmament Conference since the bane of every nation, Hopeless Ideat

I went there recently, and here ever recorded was at Azizia in and of France in particular, It appears to have endowed istelf

"Kangaroos are with a new lease of life. The may be doubted whether any dient, mild-tempered and self-ef-

willing, obe- are some of the things I learned: Tripoli on September 13, 1922, The average rainfall in London when the mercury rose to 136der. Death Valley, California, has subsequent withdrawal did more hope at least is there, if not yet to weaken the influence of the

facing," states a 200logist. Still, amounts to about twenty-two inches F. the sure reality. How great League than the action of that woman would look a fool mar- year, and perceptible rain falls come within 2deg. of this. had been the tension caustd by Power, virtually

ried to a kangaroo.

Jon one day in two. its parent, successíve disappointments is

which withdrew, as Sir Boyle

That

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course It

a

These figures compare with a Compare this with the plateau of maximum in England of 100.6deg- Cherrapunji, in the hills of Assam, at Tunbridge Wells and 100deg, at

Greenwich on August 9, 1911. This is Rain

The coldest place is Verkholansk, The average rainfall there, as in Siberia, where a spirit thermo-

measured on the official gauge, meter mercury freezes at 38dex.

clearly shown by the marked re- Roche might have put it, before Except Nudists lief which has followed on even it joined at all. And what weak- "Nothing looks worse a slight easing of the strain. ns the League weakens also the modern bathing costumes," For in actual fact, little or cause of disarmament:

clares a writer. Of nothing has been accomplished much is clear, even to the gen- does, but very few people go that But a change of atmosphere is eral public, which cannot always no light thing, and such 2 differentiate between the var change has undeniably been tous shapes of delegated author- Facts You Did Not Knowciples of 2,000 feet on each side. sledge journey between Cape Evans brought about by the ac- ity. It will simplify matters if ceptance of & resolution

It mentions with prehensive, approval the statements submit- ted between January and April by France, Italy, Great Britain, and Germany in succession, and recommends as an essential step

ment.

far.

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which is not in the wettest part of F.-recorded-94deg. F. on Janu- the district, is 424 Inches a year. Jary 3, 1885.

It is 4,000 feet high, with pre In the Antarctic, explorers on a

The south-west wind sweeping and Cape Crozier found' a tempera- designed to offer a new point can ensure

a permanent Peace Conference Italy had A total registration of over the wet river plain below is ture of 76deg. F. in July 1911.

permanent peace. 294,243 motor vehicles at the begin-

Chinese Turkestan of departure. The

resolu Even the remote prospect of it ning of this year, a one per cent gain turned abruptly upwarda by the tion is certainly sufficiently com must be hailed as some improve in a year.

cliffe and discharges Its moisture: Almost more unpleasant are the on the hill-top.

conditions at Lap Nor, in Chinese An Atlanta high school student has. In one month at Cherrapunji, in Turkestan. built a small automobile that gets its the year 1841, 264 inches of rain Travellers

the have 'found power from a discarded cream separa fell, there being more than thirty tor motor.

temperature there very by, as inches on five successivo daya.

much as 130deg. between mid- The reclamation of about 610 acres There are other spots almost as night and midday. to further progress that means at work, can now have its mater of land along the water front of wet. Mount Wallcale, in the

In England the lowest thermo- be found to facilitate the return ials tested and investigated by Yokohama for industrial sites is near- Hawaiian Islands, is known in the meter reading ever recorded was of Germany to the conference. X-rays. This is the last exami-ing completion.

United States as "Uncle Sam's-11 dege. F. at Buxton on February Assuming, apparently, that this ple offered by the National Phy-

11, 1895. Three days earlier Ink is fed automatically to the face dampest cornèr." hope is realised, the resolution sical Laboratory of the applica of a new doplicating device that uses In both 1914 and 1916 it has been Greenwich had registered its mini- lays down three major subjects tion of science to the problems stencils and is operated like a rubber calculated that over 600 inches of mum of -7 dega, F. -security, air forces, and the of the manufacturer.

X-Rays In Industry.

Any industry, wherever it is

Twenty stamp.

The

Personal Pars

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Europe Dry Area

rain fell on the windward slopes of Having escaped drowning and trade in arms-for investigation years ago it was discovered that

this mountain,

freezing there is always the chance by special committees co-ordin-X-rays could reveal the struc-

The wettest place in Africa is of being blown away. ated by the central bureau; and ture of crystals. Now we know

Debundecha. In the Cameroons, a We do not know what wind is in coneludes by proposing that the that almost every solid sub-

Mr. John B. Dixon, regional plantation at the foot of the this country. conference be made a permanent stance is crystalline. The indus-manager of the Frigidaire Cor Cameroon peak, where there is an

(Continued on Page 3) institution under the title of trial importance of this is that poration, Ltd., arrived in Hong annual fall of nearly 970 inches. The Peace Conference. Admit-X-rays can show the condition Kong on Business by the tedly, auch a title carries with it, and arrangement of particles in President van Buren to-day. through long association, some materials which will produce the

Europe compared with these SMUGGLER RETURNS suggestion of a war closing or best utilitarian results.

On a pleasure trip round the places is a dry area, Ita "dampeat

TO COLONY, closed. But its real aim is rather field of application extends over world, Mr. George I. Finlay, Pro- corner" is the unpronounceable a war averted. In addition to practically every kind of professor of Geology at New York town of Crkvice, on the Gulf of

Gaoled For Year. the still persisting economic war-duct.

University, arrived in Hong Kong Cattaro, which averages 188 inches. {fare, which lies outside the Not only metals and minerals,

But the places where the rain is scope of the present assembly, but wood and wool, and cotton the s.9, President van Buren

to-day.

heaviest are not necessarily those "You made continuous applica- the nations have been increasing and rubber can effectively be

where it rains most often.

tions to return to the Colony to ly busled over threatening pre- analysed. X-rays can help In Mr. George Howard, United States

The world's worst spot for pic-continue your smuggling," said Mr. parations. Unless that can be the exact colouring and blending Trade Commissioner in Calcutta, ar-nics is Jaluit, in the Marshall E. W. Hamilton at the Central in some measure checked, it is of paint; in the manufacture of almost useless to talk of peace. soap and of ice cream. The arrived in Hong Kong to-day on board lelands, which Japan administers Magistracy this morning, In im- the sa. President van Buren, re-under a League of Nations man posing a sentence of 12 months" The resolution then, aims at rangement by which officers of

date.

hard labour on Leung Wah-po, 52 the best form of cure, preven- the National Laboratory will be turning from home leave.

There are only twenty-nine fino years, who was charged with re

turning to the Colony from banish- The Islet of the Evangelista, to ment

$50 FINE FOR DOG TRANSFER.

care about and those who caretion. And perhaps its most enabled to go anywhere to con- ir A. Small, who is in charge of days there in the year.

hopeful feature lies in the fact duct such analyses and discuss that it was moved by the French the results, is a useful step for the construction and production on

the oil wells of the Socany Vacuum the west of the Straits of Magellan, Accused, who was expelled froms Foreign Minister. Not many ward towards the closer Co days before that, M. Barthou had operation of industry and Oil Company in Sumatra, arrived in is runner-up for this booby prize. Hong Kong on smuggling charges the Colony to-day on the a.. Frest-It rains there on 817 days out of in 1923, made several applications, reduced the hopes of the confer science.

through local solicitors," for his dent van Buren, returning from the 365. ence almost to zero by dissociat

home leave.

The transition from the very wet return to the Colony since his ing himself, in a tone of unusual

to the very dry comes naturally in banishment, but his applications. warmth, from the British and

were fused each time. all other policies which did not

Beturning to New York by the Chili,

Accused said this morning, that appear to him to give France

as. President van Buren, Mrs. H. In the south of that country, any reasonable assurance of her For bringing a white and brown L McCauley, the wife of the Naval near Cape Horn, it is so wet that he thought he had permission in fixed ideal, security. He now mongrel dog from Kowloon to Hong Attache of the American Legation the natives are unable to light fres. 1928 to return to the Colony after professes to be sufficiently satis Kong, without permission, LJ Sal-in Peking, arrived in the Colony In the north on the borders of 10 years. Sergeant Moran pro-

Peru, it never raing at all.a secuted. fied by the terms, of the new re-ngal was fined $50, in default one to-day..

Therelle the great nitrate solution to act as its sponsor. month's hard labour, by Mr. E. W. Bago The occasion, indeed, was made Hamilton at the Central Magistracy Major B. R. Legge, of the 15th deposits which supply the raw Infantry of the United States Army, materials for most of our fer one of mutual congratulation in this morning. a triangular form by the repre- Mr, Hamilton romarked that it en route from Tientsin to Manila tilisers and explosives. Bentatives of Britain, France, was most dangerous to bring dogs to take up a new appointment, ar and the United States; though to Hong Kong at this time when rived in the Colony to-day by the one wonders whether M. Har rabies are prevalent in the Colony, sa. President van Buren.

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