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Hong Kong, Saturday, August 25, 1934

If ever

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

OLD WORCESTER CUSTOM

Lord and Lady Leverhulme re- cently watched a ceremony which cannot be seen elsewhere in the world.

The boys of the training ship Worcester "manning the yards" on prize day.

THE MAN WHO KNOWS EARTHQUAKES

A SEISMOLOGIST AND

HIS APPARATUS

·COMFORTING IDEA DISPELLED

This is almost the last relic of a "➡ECENTLY,

London. movement of the pendulum 50 bell shrilled times, and so frail that they will

conservatism, now eradicated by "Rintermittently in the ball crush at the lightest touch swing

pleasant one.

Commander D. Steale, V.C., which house in West Bromwich. Down lightly across the blackened cylin- if it "made a man" of the trainee in the basement a fine aluminium der. Ten thousand deaths regis- probably made a reasonably unpointer swung lazily to and fro, ter themselves as the electric bell

tracing a zig-zag pattern on aljangles in the hall. If you missed a call to the boats, slowly revolving smoked metal "I use the two penduluma to ja venial sin known as "drifting," cylinder," writes an Evening Stan-jjudge the direction as an air-liner

you received a smack from the dard Correspondent.

wireless operator uses two "frame "bimater" or rope's end, a weapon A man hurried down the stairs, aerials,"" Mr. Shaw. told me.. which hurt far more time the glanced at the cylinder, started, and "Each pendulum moves moat when began to scribble hastily in a note-the waves reach it at right angles, book. The aluminum pointer swung so that they are varyingly affected gently to rest again

according to the angle of the shock, Somewhere,

miles and by taking the two readings it away from this Staffordshire town. is easy to calculate the direction

from which it came.

cane.

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BIMMING THE BOYS

over

the World had shaken.

8,000

Indeed, the verb to "bim" and its derivatives wore an integral part of life on board the Worcester.

Half a country may be in ruina| "The distance can be worked out At half-term new boys had to run the gauntlet by crawling up a or in lonely mid-ocean a tidal wave by the time-lag between the ap- mast between decks on all fours; may have heaved upright and pearance of the different types of on arrival at the other end they spent its force unknown. Which, vibration. First comes the pri- the little metal pointer does not tell. mary or 'compression' wave, doing

had to sing a song.

The ceremony was known 38 "bimming." One can hardly con- ceive a sillier or more appropriate |

term.

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likely to grow in importance and mention it. There was for in- however, he was much troubled by surface of the world are of light his morning tea

of the -health.

Your Daily Smile!

the

"Exactly the same thing hap- The comforting idea that the pens on land. Rain, wind, heat world is gradually becoming more and cold erode huge parts of ex-stable appears to be no more than posed mountains. Like the fee-an idea. For, says Mr. Shaw, an bergs, they are continually losing long as the world exists so long If they'd put this country on a brass weight, and thus tending to rise will it continue to be wrecked with standard, we know a lot of people who Continually increasing stress is upheavals. Its five continents are would be well fixed,

set up, which finally ends within continual motion.... moving

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If the song were satisfactory it It only records a minute movement eight miles a second, then the was passed, with a cry of "Chance-perhaps of no more than one-transverse wave,' which is a back- thousandth of an inch-which is wards-and-forwards vibration of (Oh,” if not with a pleased shout of

all that this country feels of a the earth and travels at five miles "Flay-Oh."

cataclysm that may have equalled a second, and, finally, a third wave, the Indian, disaster of a few which flashes round the surface of weeks ago.

the world with a speed of two and The man who looks after this a half miles a second. Knowing apparatus is Mr. J. J. Shaw, of their speeds, it is fairly simple to West Bromwich, whose name estimate the distance." engineers and the seizure of the HOME OF A PHILOSOPHER

every newspaper reader knows.

Incredibly Sensitive Lena Goldfields Railway by the

The London County Council have This is what he has told me of The seismograph is incredibly · Soviets. A few years ago the

sensitive. Merely by moving to Japanese official account of the decided to place a tablet on the his work:

"The old idea used to be that the side of the room, and thus in Maitland Park-road, incident would have been ac-house cepted at its face value; to-day Hampstead, where Karl Marx lived water had percolated down to the causing one wall to "bend" a few Japan And The Powers. it passes merely as a move in from 1873 to the time of his death hot regions below the crust, turn-millionths of an inch inwards un- ed into ateam, and created a sort der my weight, I was able to re- the negotiations for the pur-jin 1888,

Marx's life at this address was of super boiler explosion," said produce a miniature earthquake ou There can be no doubt at all chase of the Railway. that the Manchurian question,there was a question that would more or less free of the poverty Mr. Shaw, "but we don't believe the cylinder. Mr. Shaw told me we be that even the expansion of the to revert to the old name under more naturally be settled by ar- which dogged him at Dean-street, that now. This is what

house in warm weather and the which it first engaged the atten-bitration than the acquisition of Soho, and at Grafton-street, Totten-lieve really happens:

"The mountains and the upper movements of the maid bringing in tion of the world.is much more a Railway, it would be difficult to ham Court-road. In later years,

are faithfully er material than that which]

recorded. as a subject of controversy stance the purchase

Nevertheless, he managed to com- forms the majority of the globe. Fourteen years ago, when 200,- rather than to simmer down. All Grand Trunk by the Canadian the reports and trade statistics Government, by a Board of Ar-plete here the drafts of Vols. II. They are, as it were, floating on 000 people were killed in the great ex- and III. of "Capital," which were it, with a large part of their bulk Kansu earthquake in China-one indicate that the restoration of bitration presided over by order and the opening up of President Taft. The price can be afterwards published by his friend below the surface just as of the four worst earthquakes in main part of an iceberg is below history-the pointer of Mr. Shaw'a communications by new roads estimated either by cost of con- and benefactor, Engels.

It is one of the ironles of history the sea. You know what happens instruments and efficient running of the Rail-struction, by actual revenue, or

swung Beven feet ways is leading, as it does every-by potential revenue. The var- that while in the land of his birth when the upper portion of an ice- across the cylinder, and half the where, to a growth of trade with ious offers for the C. E. R., vary-all trace of his existence is being berg melts or in chipped off. The delicate apparatus was thrown out the outside world as well as to ing by hundreds of millions of eradicated, London, the town of his whole berg rises or turns over. of gear... although no trenior more successful production of yen, show the absurdity of bar-adoption, is to inscribe on his The Accepted Theory. was felt by the man in the street. food and minerals. There can gaining without a basis of valua plaque "Karl Marx, Socialist philo-

It is not unnatural that sopher, lived here." be no comparison between the tion. present regime and that of the observers should infer that the Old and the Young Marshal. At object is to depreciate the pro- the Great Wall there has been perty until it can be bought for such an increase of trade and an old song. Jay Gould would traffic that the usual result un- have admired; but it not a me der present conditions has fol-thod that will advance, the re- lowed, in the creation of half a pute of a first-class Power. dozen new

If men were paid to play golf, they'd the mountain dragging its moorinfinitely slowly towards or away customs stations. It may be remembered that the There is such an anxiety in the Japanese newspapers rejected soon be striking. for 18 holes or some-inga and rising into a position of from one another, perhaps only a Hew Inches a year, to form some minds of contemporary states the Lytton Report before they thing.

"It heaves up perhaps a frac-strange new world whose birth men leat anybody should become had had time to receive copies; Jollylng the Passenger rich by selling goods that some- and it is depressing to turn back Lady (on her first ocean voyage):tion of an inch. But that minute pangs will still be spreading death body else wants to buy, that the to it and re-read it. The Report "And, captain, what would you do movement of millions of tons of and ruin a million years hence..

rock is enough to set a country possibilities of successful com-was many months belated; but if your crew suddenly mutinied?" merce can be detected by the Im-that was largely due to the de- Captain (smilingly); "Simply write swaying." position of new financial barriers flection of the Commission to help wanted ad and hand it in to

the wireless operator." In itself it was a that kill the growing business Shanghai. to collect a diminishing revenue. very sane and moderate state- The next step is to spend the ment of the grievances of Japan, revenue on armaments that and contained recommedations would not have been required in that could have been carried out this

know, the reason why." So far Awith general goodwill. an atmosphere of goodwill." traveller in Japan is impressed from debarring Japan from the with the undercurrent of suspl-work of development that she Facts You Did Not Know continents floating on the

After 29 years in the Colony. cion that vitiates any discussion has carried out it would have! of foreign affairs. Intricate in- hastened it and extended it; and, Germany has approximately 350 ually moving. Perhaps each of Mr Walter A. Dowley, a well- producing gricultural these theories is partially correct known Hong Kong figure, leaves trigues are imputed to Machia-Japan would have retained the factories

machinery, employing 35,000 workers. At any rate, the well-defined for England on retirement to-day vellian policies of Powers that advantage of being able to carry

"earthquake belt" follows a line of by the P. and O. liner Ranpura. have on many occasions shown public opinion with her by ex- An electric coffee roaster that is re-high mountains.

Mr. Dowley came to Hong Kong goodwill and given very solid plaining her policy at Geneva volved by a small motor has been in The "mountain Iceberg" theory is from Singapore in 1905 as Gener

There was no attempt to do that. vented for breakfast tables. support. Japan is pictured as al

also borne out by the fact that l Manager of the Vacuum Oll lone knight maintaining the Her case was so badly presented

The number of automotive vehicles earthquakes do not occur in flat or Company and left them eleven of independence and that until some European writ

years later to establish his own Oriental progress against an un-ers took a hand the general im-in Mexico and Central Amerita has desert countries.

The shock of a bad earthquake business as an Exchange Broker. sympathetic and menacing Occi-pression was that she had no more than doubled in six years.

may appear to be local, but actual He had been in the employ of the All that was said] A new washing machine has so, in- dent. It is true enough that case at all. Japan has dissipated most of the was that suggestions could not per receptacle for fragile garments it shakes the whole world, and Vacuum Oil Company in Singapore sympathy that she had accumu be accepted. Under present con- that also can be used as a dry cleaner, the world continues to shake like and Hong Kong for a quarter of

a struck jelly for many hours... a century, lated by fifty years of a combin-ditions that is an attitude that

and, with it, the delicate apparatus He has been prominently identi cannot he adopted by even y ation of prudence with enter-

in the cellar of Mr. Shaw's house. fed with St George's Society of prise that won general admira strongest Government. Under

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· Cumbersome. Apparatus. which he is a past President, and tion. What would really be use the surface of European, disor SHAMROCK ful would be for her leaders to ganisation there is deep feeling

In the cellar are two 5ft long with the Navy League. He is also I have a moment of visionen needed as a focus of popular sen- that the League of Nations is

Belgrade horizontal pendulums, set at right| a member of the General Commit- which they could grasp the fact

From early morning until late angles to one another, each weight tee of the Hong Kong Club that a return to the old methods timent and opinion; it is quite at night tears were streaminged at the end with 8001b, metal He will spend his retirement.at would be more to her interests realised that Japan was the down the cheeks of everyone blocks. A few minutes after an than the sie volo ale jubeo style long view the probability is town of Banja Luka, Bosnia.

cause of the League's eclipse. On man, woman, and child-in the

carthquake in, say, India, the first which makes the other nations that Europe, will tire of chaos A swarm of small flies which vibrations in the form of a "com suspect that she is intending to and return to reason, and willliterally darkened the sky Was Pression" wave travelling at eight} take action that is not capable not forget the disservice. --

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"equilibrium.

That is one earthquake theory the generally accepted one. MR. W. A. DOWLEY Missed

Another is that the continually

RETIRING. "Did you hear about the holocaust?" cooling and contracting surface “No, but I'm going back to the fair of the world is periodically forced

summer and see everything or into vast "wrinkles," and yet an-Well-Known Hong Kong

other that the great land surfaces Figure Leaves To-day.

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heavy material beneath are grad-

responsible for this outbreak of miles a second, reaches England.

The foundations pf the weeping

use "skid":

inch, the

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adth of

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vlet employes of the C. E. R. There will be a Dinner Dance at They got into everybody's

for example, has only raised an the Rep amused smile. Memories are and not so short that they cannot p.m.

recall such incidenta as the car wil rest of the Metropolitan Vickera caalons,

ht, eyes and caused an extreme form

of irritation in the tear duela. andAbout midnight the files ch-oe- appeared as mysteriously as they

had come

Reute

Burton-on-Sea, Hampshire.

WILL ROGERS NOW

ON WORLD CRUISE

Mr. Will Rogers, cowboy humour-

accompanied by his

iled from: San Pedro

Shangh

the cow en route to Europe