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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY BOMBING OVER THE

NORTH-WEST FRONTIER

TYPHOON WARNINGS

By ROLAND WILD

The Very Idea!

PYJAMA PARADES By Eddió Kelly, Pi Squared

THILE 'we were munch- ing a spot of afternoon shortTWO mechanics, almost obscured resort to bombing. They follow-

by their gronsy topees, are ed the usual preliminary proceduro tea yesterday with “Abi- sitting on tho tail-skid of thein attempting to clean up a mass

There seems, at first sight, some Justification for the complaint re- gistered yesterday by a corres- pondent concerning the warning given by the Observatory

W

There is, we understand,

of Monday's typhoon. Tho aug Wapiti bomber, bonding forward movement towards bolligerence, gail,” she told us about the old have been upon us, causing against the gale of hot-air and They dropped their warning mess-M.C.L. gala at Repulse Bay would sand driven by the whirring pro-lages, and wore fired at ineffective havoc among local shipping had pollor as the pilot warms up. The ly for their paine. This probably next week. fortune so directed its course, bo- temperature le nearing 110 in the does not menn very much, for the fore preparations to meet it could shade, and though, a few moments tribesman at this time of year is

before, we were longing for a quite liable to take a gesture of to be a beauty parade in have been completed. The con- breath of air, now, that we have defiance at any visitor. tontion fails to the ground, how-got it we find it rather worse than At the approach of an aeroplane, pyjamas. Sort of beauty ever, in the face of the plain facts the calm sultriness of the morning. the moving tribesmen perform and the beach..

We are dressed in shorts, shirts, their celebrated act of making: that it did not come close until at

But there Personally we don't know 5 p.m. and that the disturbance and pith helmet-cum-bullet-proof themselves invisible.

tin-hats, and carry parachutes. It are no secrets from the camera, was of comparatively alight inten-one hour after dawn, and al- and as soon as the negatives are what Hongkong's coming to. alty. These small affairs cause ready the faint mist has cleared back at the base the authorities In our days the only time you the greatest trouble. Had it been from the surrounding hills. The are in a position to know exactly wore pyjamas was when it was wear your woollen a sevars typhoon, its presence pilot yells, and we are off, circling what proportion of the tribes ro- would have been detected at least over the brown landing ground, main deflant and how many have too hot to nightgown. twenty-four hours earlier. and the heading towards the hills of the moved for their own safety.

Khyber.

That knowledge decides the dea-

You've just got to visit our tination of the bombs. The object signals would probably have been

CEASELESS VIGILANCE. of the Air Force is not to tako beaches nowadays to see that the My pilot, when I had the pri-life but to teach a teason and to idea of the modern miss is to

combatants. If tho vilege as a special correspondent separate

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1938.

•

THE SALIENT POINT

NEVER YET FAILED.

miss..

Brevity is the soul of the kit of the bathing girl. They're Jantzen with tears in their eyes. Not that they're an eyesore. Far be it from us to criticise bathing costumes and pyjama

summer

up on Sunday. But as late as Sun- day evening, the Pratas, in the best position to form conclusions, could only say that a small low of The Daily Mail of flying all over tribes ahow themselves stubborn give us much clothing as possible

a frightening de- contre over the western part of the the tribal territory which is now after the first warning they are a Balintang Channel appeared to be the scene of extensive operations subjected to forming as a typhoon somewhere in the North-West Frontier Pro-monstration of accuracy from the vince, was engaged on a recon-air, but are seldom injured in their to the south-east. On Monday noltre. His duty was to observe the caves, This first attack usually morning at six am, the depression movements of the tribes, the dig-hne the required effect of getting had passed over the Pratas and position of their cattle, and to dis-them on the move. the station's earlier suspicions had cover if the caves were once more

towards higher ground.

If, however, they are still de-parades. taken showed that the depression The same procedure is being fiant, power can be shown by Give our girls their due, they though more spectacular demolition of some live up to their Tan Command- had not seriously developed and carried out now, Hongkong's own experience indi-serious business is afoot. Where-nearby tribal stronghold which ments.

Where we're concerned, we cated that it was an extremely as my pilot, in one of the intervals has been verified as uninhabited. between inter-tribal warfare, was That last warning has never yet mild affair, so mild in fact that it armed only with a camera, he is failed on the North-West Frontier. never go tanning unless we're in falled to produce a gale here now weighed down with ten 2016. It has nover yet been found neces- the nude for it. We never were BETTER TRADE

though it passed very close. bombs. But only the ceaseless sary to take human life deliberate-keen on giving life-like imita-

watch over the no-man's-land to ly in order to discourage dis-tions of liver-sausage. either side of the Khyber Pass, obedience.

This is the good old Board of Trade figures issued

undertaken by the Royal Air Force It must be remembered, how-

in a tub at to-day make very satisfactory

during the last few years, enables over, that at certain periods the time, when the best place to do our flyers in these times of trouble tribosman is in a peculiar state of your sun-bathing is reading. Exports in August

The salient point is that the disto interpret the signs from the air. mind. Towards the end of the hot home, surrounded by empty beer

weather, when all these dis- bottles. were more than £3,000,000 turbance when in the vicinity of

TELL-TALE PHOTOGRAPHS.

turbances occur, his bands are idle But we go to the beaches on better than in August, 1932, the Colony scarcely, warranted' the

As we soared over the hills my after the crops have beon garnered, Sunday's, along with all our girl and more than a million sterling description of a typhoon. It was better than during July. Im-of recent formation and of very pilot passed back notes describing and he looks forward to leisure friends. ports of raw materials also show small area, still in the incipient the villages over which we were and relaxation. His fingers itch As Mr. Jefferies, the passing. He swooped down on an when he handles his rifle, for ha a substantial rise, reflecting the stage.

pencilled note read:.."See tracks that the only real love for a strong increasing activity in manufac-Director of the Royal Observatory Irregular hill formation, and his has been brought up in the bollet says, there wore faint indications outside caves." He was flattering man (himself) is warfare. Ex- turing centres. The brightest of its presence about 400 miles mu, for I could see no caves and uses come easily. His religion ean provide half a dozen reasons feature of the report is that the way on Sunday afternoon, but we spot, and the evidence provided by why he should attack his neigh

photographa after being improvement is not confined to may be certain that if shipping in the a few trades but le well spread the Colony had been disorganised analysed by the ground staff, were bours, oven if his love of loot is

on the strength of the data then enough to tell him exactly what for the moment aubdued. over industry generally. The

FANATICAL TRIBESMEN. movements were going on among figures themselves may suggest avaliable, the shipping companies the somad tribes.

The unskilled eye can detect Not so long ago, Boon after 1 at first sight that the improve-would have been vigorous in com- ment is small, but the most plaint. As it was, the disturbance nothing. Very often even the prac-hurried back from Kabul after wit significant fact is that they behaved peculiarly, getting off the tised eye misses the finer points nessing the beginning of the end after numerous experiments the cided that Habibullab, one of the follow upon a period of seven mark to a fast pace and then slow-of this now-style tracking. But of Amanullah, the tribesmen de- months during which both iming down to unusually slow proground staff of the North-West most bloodthirsty rascals who ever ports and exports were consider-grese. Normal calculations were Frontler Air Force is able to de- walked in a bloodthirsty country,

med. That depraved and cruel air, ably down as compared with the insufficient to govern the situation, cipher any changes from the pic was more or less a second Mahom

hence there is plenty of scope for tures taken in the air.

They can tell whether the caves tyrant was credited with most of trade in the corresponding period guesswork on what might have

vious 24 hours. They can tell the Mohmand, or the Halimzal of last year. Moreover, the im- happened had the typhoon con- have been used within the pre- the virtues known to the Afghan, provement concerns some, at ducted a different performance whether cattle have been moved. The tribes rushed to his support. least, of the trades where un- Clearly, however, an incursion into and whether the Inhabitants of And not until he was put to death caves have removed all in Kabul were they persuaded that employment has been heaviest what might have been is a vain those

their possessions or have just de perhaps, after all, he was not and where a recovery is most pursuit.

camped for the night. They can immortal. read from the signs whether there welcome and most promising for

has been a jirga (tribal council) the future. Iron and steel

in the vicinity and can form a fair manufacture, engineering, and

catimate of the number of tribes shipbuilding and ship repair- ing are all industrial groups agreement concluded at the World which show signs of recover- Economic Conference finds in it ing, and in which Д recovery much that is highly unsatisfac-

means much to

the

SILVER OUTLOOK

Considered opinion on the silver men who were there.

AIR FORCE'S FUNCTION.

Tho

Air Force, during the national tory. The Financial News, for present disturbance, have had to economy and the improve instance, remarks that India is left ment has persisted in spite free to unload rather more silver of the continuance of very than usual, adding that since the heavy taxation, in spite of the passing of the India Currency Act absence of any improvement the Government of India has sold in world trule, or of any decline (up to March 31) 161,158,612 fine

one year

ment may sell in any over twice that quantity, and on the average of the four years may Ball 35,000,000 ounces per annum." The volume of permitted sale is rather larger than any actual sell- ing that expert opinion would have expected, in the absence of an agreement, so long as prices ro- main low; and in these circum- stances It is quito cortain that, os in the past, the first hint of appro- ciablo Government sales will still suffice to frighten all but the most- hardened "bulis" of silver,

in the obstacles which have ounces, or an annual averago of little more than 25,000,000 and last caused such trade to dwindle so

year sold only 28,500,000. Under rapidly, and at a moment when the new agreement, the Govern money, has become so difficult to lend that the Government recently succeeded in borrowing on short term at a quarter per cent. Two deductions should be made from the fact that so many features survive from the time when the depression was deep ening. The first is that the causes of the improvement lie beneath the surface. There can bo little doubt that among them must be numbered, on the one hand, a general conviction that the policy of the present Gov- ernment, though far from im- mune to criticism, has construct-private persons. The second ed a basis of improvement, may deduction is that no effort must develop into a real stimulation be relaxed to remove those of improvement, and, at the causes which might bring tho very worst, will not impede im- mprovement to a stop. The im- nt must be an en provement by wild extravagance provement must In theory or in practice. To couragement to further efforts; not an excuse for stagnation up- minar the vet of the in

hat things will no

thema

.:

This time, it is said to be a 12- years-old "Pretender," dupe of the Mad Fakir," who has inspired them to defiance of British aero- planes. They aro no doubt con- vinced in their hearts that true virtue lies in a foolhardy courage and sacrifice for the sake of this (Continued on Page 5.)

cute th

While the Church bells are pealing in Hongkong and Kow- loon, the belles are peeling at Repulse Bay and Castle Peak, Anyway, we will be along to the M.C.L. Fote on Wednesday next week.

You never can tell how we'll get on. Maybe, some of the girls in the pyjama parade will fall for us. Maybe, we'll fall for them. It's Fete, just fete!

*

THE ANSWER

The answer to a negro's prayer ("We needs rain, Lawd"). Came down in torrents through the

{"Not

a sizzle-sozzle ner a drizzle-drizzio") And every true Barometer

"Open up de flood gates, Lawd") Changed rapidly from fair.

So if a prayer will work the charm ("We needs rain Lawd

an' wo needs h'it bad") The menace drought we could dis-

Arm

"Wash us Lawd") With prayers by the P.W.D. "Wash us, wash us in de blood o'

de Lanib, Lawd,")

If they could reach, through droughty skies, such heights of piety.

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SLIPS.THAT PASS

BIRTH.--At tho Wyoming General Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Bruce, a son.

Our Want Ads.. Bring Rorults). (Wyoming Paper):

Detective Inspector Maloney is a well-known and popular member of the Auckland Detective Farce.

(New Zealand paper).

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Yesterday we inadvertedly said that Det. Inspr. Maloney was a member of the Auckland detective farce. This, of course, should have been Auckland Defective Force. (Samo paper, next day),

WANTED.-Experienced girl or woman, coolng and housework

(Homo paper.);

Mr. Charles A. Lindbergh has given birth to son,(Hongkong) paper).

MATRIMONIAL-Young man wishes correspond with young lady; widow proferred, view.mator nity (Queensland newspaper),

Miss. Elsie Kramer wa Injured early yesterday afternoon when a truck in which she was riding

bya? was struck from the car driven by Haras wat bald that the truck starbed and