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KARACHI SWEPT BY

CYCLONE

CITY LIKE AN INLAND SEA.

MUCH DAMAGE DONEAT

Karachi has just experienced the worst cyclonic rain storm known in this part of India for

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH

MIXED GRILL

Coy

A Merry Miscellany Ashley Sterne

I have so often had reason to re-any of my profession to perspire pine the singular lack of initia. It is all against the best traditions tive taken in mens attire that the of plumbing. Perspiration can news that ornamental braces are only imply "excessive energy and coming into fashion has so inspir-speed two objectional qualities ited me that I feel I want to rush which no self-respecting plumber some decades, says a Simla mes-cut into the streets and present would deign to cultivate.

age of the 7th instant. Over all the policemen with apricots. leisurely, Spigot T. Gooseneck. twelve inches of rain fall within

six hours, more than twice the average annual rainfall of Kara- chi!

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Yours

Sir-My emphatic answer to this question, based on a lifelong experience of plumbers, plumbage, and plum pudding, is YES; or, on second thoughts, No. Yours vase antly, Barmion Crumpett, F.Z.S.

At night torrential rain and hurricane-like winda converted the whole city into an inland sea, ren-

Sir-I cannot agree with Mr. dering transport impossible, Tro

Astragal Ballcock's contention that mendous currents of surplus water.

all men, including plumbers, are swept almost everything that came

at liberty to perspiro as and when in their way including a number

they deem it necessary. It is all of bullocks and cows' and camels. Braces are now being made, I un-but who the blazes is he? I cun- very well for him to quote Pliny, The wind in its merciless fury deratand, with pretty pictares wo not find his name in either Burke, uprooted some of the largest and ven into the shoulder-straps, and Debrett, or the Army lat. My oldest trees, tore off the roofs of henceforth we beaux of Battersea personal opinion is that the prac -several houses, threw down fifty and dandjes of Dylwich will ex-tice of perspiring should be con- telegraph poles, and actually ble perience hitherto unknown acs-fined solely to the customers in. down three large houses, where thetic emotions when we daily gird Turkish baths. Yours indignantly, several people were injured by theup our loins. The only fly in the Swettenham Knott (Lt. Col.). falling debris, and a child of three lute is that unless we become ost- was killed outright..

lers, or take to rowing a boat on; Last summer I Outside the city limits also the the Serpenting, we shan't be able clearly to understand

Was given storm wrought considerable havo.to show, our braces in public. It the straw boater" The road leading to the R.A.F.won't be much satisfaction that its very last legs and would Depot was so badly breached that our braces are ornamented with not ro-appear this season. Con it was not passable.

humming-birds and water-lillies trary to all expectation, however, if we have to conceal tham be- this dear old. form of headgear neath our waistcoats. Of course, is reported to have been seen we should abandon the wearing of in considerable numbers at nearly Waistcoats, and have a little loop-all our seaside holiday-resorts. side of our jackets so as to reveal holo of cloth romoved from each It is well. Let us sing.

Telegraphic communications with Karachi from outlying dis- tricts were of No trains were able to leave Karachi for the Pun jub owing to serious breaches on the N.W.R. between Landhi and

Karachi.

"The train services were however, later slowly resumed.

The McLeod Road and sever feading thoroughfares were several feet under water, and the maidans and parks were so many lakes..

"THE BLACK PIRATE.”

BIG FILM AT THE QUEEN'S

There were crowded audiences at the Queen's Theatre yesterday, when the big film, "The Black Pirate," was screened for the first time.

This film can be described as one of the most remarkable ever seen in Hongkong. One of its chief attractions is that it is in

action are in natural colours.

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the embellishment underneath; How very apt our proverbs. bel but I think it would be a better which cannot brock a number three

We all know two is company, plan if some arbiter of fashion (Who's always in the way). were to set the example of wearing And similarly is it sooth. braces outside the jacket. There To say that any timid youth, would be nothing indecorous in Who, Aights in wrath and run in this. For many, many, years it Must fight another day,

zuth,

has been the fashion for navies to wear their garters outside their trousers.

While we can likewise testify. That that most cautions policy Of leaving sleeping dogs to Ilo Is also very trie;

And that the exception proves the

rule-

At a Dutch auction-sale held in connection with an alfresco church bazaar a quantity of honey was sold at twopence per comb. Is clear to e'en the verlest fool Clearly a case of honey sweet qui Its application, we must own,

Who only thinks at random. | mal two pense.

A proverb which we learnt at school-

Is hore; bocase "straws" have not

shown

Quod erat demonstrandum! The way which Fashion's wind has

blown!

started a scheme to encourage the The Italian Government, I see.

composition of new Italian operas by offering prizes to native com- "A new commercial use for aero- posers who have not yet made their planes has been found by despatch- caused that neglected but talented the purpose of spotting schools of Rame. This announcement has ing them over sealing grounds for English compesor Mr. Orville Bun-seals and reporting their position i new colour process, so that from combe, to travel post-haste to Italy by wireless to the sealing fleets. I start to finish all the scenes and with the object of naturalising don't thing it is generally known himself as an Italian before the that the idea was originated some There is nothing vivid or garish competition closes." He tells me he years ago by that eminent natur-- In these colourings they are de- has a whole pantechnicon full of alist, Sir Batts Innes-Belfry. With operas which only require their the object of assisting the Green- lightful tints, subdued and natural, and they mark a new era inn in order to become serious in a balloon to look for schools of librettes to be translated into Ita-wich whitebait fleet, he went up in cinema production, It must have cost a tremendous sum to rivals to the works of Verdi and these delicious little fish, which produce such a picture, for there Puccini. He went on to say that are easily discernible from above are some most spectacular scenes, a few years ago he approached the owing to their habit of awimming whilst as far as excitement and British Government with the sus with the dorsal fini out of water.. thrills are concerned, these are gestion that it should give him almost without number. Indeed, prize for them, but with that

The wind, however, suddenly veer-.

the story is of a very imaginative marked apathy to native talented with the result that Sir Batte was rapidly blown away from order, some of the feats bordering which our Government habitually Greenwich over the City. In the on the impossiblo. This, to our displays, he merely received a curt mind, is the chief drawback to the letter from the Ministry of Health course of its transit the balloon picture, for in many respects the for Public Nuisances threatening knocked the weathercock off the picture is overdrawn especially him with a Civil List" pension; the seizing of a huge merchant coupled with the award of the ship by the Black Pirate single- M.V.O., if he did not remove his handed. However, the tale is pro. MSS. within seven days otherwise fessedly an extravagant fantasy, they would be destroyed to defray mainly intended for children.

Douglas Fairbanks, in the title role, has a huge purt, and his acting is wonderful, whilst he receives able support from the other members of the cast. The film comes well within the "big picture" class, and, as we say, the colourings and general, settings are most attractive.

ROSARY SUNDAY.

TO-MORROW'S CELEBRATION.

To-morrow is the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, and, as customary, it will be observed at

the Rosary Church, Kowloon.

expenses.

After that, we may as well ex pect the long awaited State sub-1 sidy for establishing British grand opera as a Government grant, for the founding of a Home of Twi light Sleep for Ostend rabbita.

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spire of St. Jemima's-in-the-Pan- try, made a huge dent in the dome of St. Paul's, and finally crashed CORRESPONDENCE.

into the Law Courts' clock. It nosedived on to the lid of a 361⁄2A Should Plumbers Perspire!

omnibus, the conductor of which Sir-As a plumber of many peremptorily ordered Sir Batts off years' standing (chiefly standing the vehicle for carrying bulky lug- looking at burst pipes), I strongly gage without having first obtained feel that there is no occasion for his permission.

INJUSTICE TO AUTHORS.

KAREL CAPEK.

mutilated it greatly, and then pass- ed it off as an original Russian playa

Capek's experience has been →RUSSIAN PLUNDERING OF similar with many of his later works. And now comes, the news that his novel, "Krakatit” In the morning, Mage will be. Prague, August 18.-As an ox-(which appeared in English o said at 6,80 7.80 and 8.30, with ample of the way in which foreign short while ago), has just been Solemn Pontifical Mass at 9.30 authors are treated under the So-published in Russia under a false viet regime, the newspapers hero name. The translation was made.

4.M

The evening service will start are drawing attention to the treat-not from the original Czech ver at 4.30 p.m. and will include the ment of Karel Capek, the well-sion, but from Mr. Laurence Recitation of the Rosary, Proces-known Czech author and play-Hyde's English translation. Nel- sion, Sermon and Benediction. dar in Russia, and ranny traslations Dabydova, der Zuchan, the editor, wright. His works are very popu- ther the translators, Demi and There will be no fewer than of them have appeared there dur nors yet the official critic, who twenty-two groups in the proces sion, including various Catholicing the last five years. But these dealt with "Krakatit in a recent translations do not recognise the number of the "Izvestija," speak prganisations, whilst Bishop Val original work. For example, his of it as a Czech novel, and Capek torta will also take part in this famous play, T.U.R." was first finds himself, quite unexpectedly, portion of the solemn proceedings. exploited by Alexej Tolstoy, who ranked as an English author.

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