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DIARY OF LOCAL THE VOLCANIC ANDES

EVENTS.

TO-DAY,

(June 11.).

St. Barnabas.

Pentecost, 2nd day.

Lammerts Auction Sale of Piece

"Goods arid Raincoats, Sales Room,

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Lawn Bowls.

First Division:

Kowicon Docks . Taikoo R.C..

WONDERS OF 5,000-MILE RANGE: CAUSE OF ERUPTIONS.

DEATH AND RUIN AMID SCENES OF UNFORGETTABLE BEAUTY..

There have been frequent tumb- of population, human, animal, and Craigengowor ". Civil Servicelings, from the voleure of Descabeplant. Kowloon B.G.C.. Police; Kowloon zado (which means the "Behead In Venezuela the Andes awaken C.C. v. Roerein; Second Division: ed") in Chile, but nothing like memories of the days of the Spanish Recreio . Hong Kong Electrio; the recent violent eruption has been Main. The tracks used the Drake Taikoo R.C., Kowloon.C.C.; Qivil known, there in historical times, still zig-zag aerose the scrub-cover- Service v. Kowloon B.Q.C.; Yacht though in 1920 and 1928 this peak, ed sierra. Where the heights enter Club Craigengower.

like the volcano of Azul (the Blue! Colombia, taquin forests cloths their Lawn Tennis :---" A "* Division: Peak), was fiercely active, writes flanks and reach high towards their Kowloon C.C. Chinese R.Cs correspondent of The Times. peaks.. Here the characteristics Hong Kong C.C. Indian P.C.;

Descabezado, made up of two that distinguish them from most "B" Division Army T.C. v. Craigongower; University v. South cones, Grunde and Chios, emplaced other mountain ranges. begin to China; Hong Kong C.C. v. Civil upon an enormous older cone just show, and in Pera there is a vast. as Vesuvius stands within the crater expanse of upland plateau, 18,000ft. Servies; Recreio v. Kowloon C.C.; Chinese R.C. 2. Indian R.C.; "C" of the older and greater Monte above sea level. On this roof of Division: South China. Army Somma-is about 12,500ft. above the the world is the great lakes of T.C. Hong Kong CC. ». Indian sex. From this area southwards to Titicaca and Junin, and in their

R.C. Filipine Club Kowloon Patagonia there are abundant vol vicinity are some of the rickest Indians: Recreio . Craigengower;

University Radio Sports: Kow-canoes, many of which, "are how-silver mines that have ever been loon C.C. v. Chiness R.C.: Police aver, extinet.

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All along the Andes, which run In this region the Angea separate from sew to sea, the bulwark of a the rain-foresta of the Amazon continent there has been tremend- basin (over which the wet south- ous volcanic activity. From the cast trade winds blow) from the rocks which make up the Andes it arid west coasts of Peru and Chlie, Queen's Theatre: The Flying Foot.'

is clear that two types of eruption where the lack of rain has enabled World, Theatre : "The Easiest are common. There are those ac- unique deposits of Way.

Star Theatre "The Last of "ompanied by great outpourings of caliche, or nitrate, to be preserved. Mrs. Cheyney"

lavns, and those in which the mate. Farther south, where the south-west rin is blown out into the air and winds blow from the Pacific, the then settles as bed of ash. In some temperature rain forest clothes the mountain sides on the west, while to the east blizzard-swept pompad extend to the Atlantic seaboard.

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SUNDAY.

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Third Sunday After Trinity. Concert at Ropulse Bay Hotel, J a.m. till 2 p.m.

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Tea Dances at China Light and Power Recreation Club, 430 p.m.; King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner Dances at Repulse parts of Central Amerien old beds Bay Hotel, Hong Kong, Hotel, Pen-of such ash lie as deep as 2,000ft., sula Hotel and King's Restaur- with practically no lava inter Tides:-High "at 3.40 and 13.95; mingled with them. Such a thick-

Occur only close to

For ages transport in the Andes volcanic venta themselves, but in many parts of the world" beds of, was of the most primitive kind. In ash have been laid down as thick spite of the fact that man was the as 50ft. aver hundreds of square principal beast of burden until the miles.

sixteenth century, wonderfully good roads had been built by the Incas along the highlands of the Andes. The Andes run west from Trini. The coming of the Conquistadores dad through Venezuela, to Colom- did little to improve communien- bis, and then turn sharply south to tions, as their lust for gold allowed Queen's Theatro: ""Possessed."

form the ramparts skirting the the highly specialized Inca civiliza- Control Theatre: "Miss Ya Pacific along the entire length of tion to fall into tuin, and with that Lan."

South America. They stretch for the highways ceased to be main-

About the middle of last. World Theatre: "Iron Marks."more than 5,000 miles, varying intained Tea Dances at King's Restaurant altitude from son level at cääh end century European enterprise cruscû and Repulse Bay Hotel: Dinner to over 22,000ft. above the sea, and the series of track-the “Camino Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel and King's Rosey extend over 65 deg. of latitude. Real" of South America-to he

They therefore pass through a wide supplemented by railways." range of climates, on which depend the varied industries developed along their course, and the vagaries

Symphonic Concert at Peninsula Hotal, 8.43 p.m.

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