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WHEN HE LOOKS AT YOU Like That

You

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never

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by

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Avalanche Terror

TRAVEL AT 200 MILES AN HOUR

LITTLE WARNING

BY M. D. M'LEOD.

THE number of avalanches which have occurred recently in the Alps, involving loss of life, la un- doubtedly due to climatic condi tions, for they are almost invari ably started by changes in the weather. The Austrian and other meteorological bureau issue warn inge when conditions favour. the movement of ice and snow; ex-| perienced guldes and skiers usually refuse to venture into avalanchic areas after such warnings, and the number of fatalities which have oc- curred in recent years must be put down to the vast increase in the popularity of winter sports and the consequent numbers of inexperl- enced or semi-inexperienced en- thusiasts who unwittingly run into danger.

No-one who has never witnessed the fall of an avalanche can truly picture the magnificence of the sight, or the terror it can inspiro when viewed from too close quar- ters. It may

warning give no whatever before it begins to slide; at the best a strange pistol-ke crack from far overhead may be heard. Slowly the mass of snow and ice begins to move, and if con- ditions are right for it, it may achieve a terrific speed. One of the major avalanches of 1890 was esti- mated to have reached a speed of over 200 miles an hour.

During the descent the snow becomes kneaded into balls, which may be three feet in diameter, and it is accompanied by a spray com- posed of flying, shrapnel-like pieces of ice. The noise is like the rush of an express train magnified twenty-fold, and a blast of air usually advances before the front wall of the avalanche. The blast can do almost as much damago as the snow and ice, and on one seen sion, in the Gletsch Valley, it hurl- ed an iron bridge weighing several tona 150 feet into the air, although the tip of the avalaného stopped some distance away.

IN DEADLY DANGER

Many serious disasters have been caused by avalanches. The year 1922 was a particularly bad one, a scries of falls killing several people and demolishing un hotel at Davos. In 1925 Mr. Edgar Wills, of tobacco fame, was killed in the Tyrol by being buried.

One of the most remarkable In- cidents that ever occurred was the experience of a well-known Alpin- ist, Mr. Tuckett. Whilst climbing

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WEDNESDAY

SHORT CAPES

Popular For Afternoon and Evening wear.

COOKERY NOTES

Short copes are on popular as ever both for afternoon and evening frocks. The original of this model wena-lied with printed natin to match the Veslette net into the slate blue crepe frock.

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TANGERINE, APPLES

TANGERINE apples are equally tempting hot or cold. Cook. half a pint of water and six ounces of sugar to a syrup, and add the grated rind of a tangerine. Peel and core six cooking apples, nr. range them in a tin and pour the tangerine syrup over

Stand this tin in another tin half full of water and bake the apples until they are soft, basting them frequently.

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MARCH 18,

AUSTRIA ENJOYS TOBACCO

GOLD MINE FOR THE STATE

ONE THRIVING

INDUSTRY

Vienna, Feb. 13. Austrians will rather have their socks darned half a dozen times than give up thair beloved cigarette,

This is shown by official statis- tica revealing that although prac- tically all other retail.trades sus- tained heavy losses during the last five years, the tobacco industry, which le a state monopoly in Aus- trin, was able, to increase its pro- Ats by Afty-four million schillinga.

Retall salce in general declined not less than 40 per cent. from January 1929 to January 1934. During the same period gross re:

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ALL MORRISON PIANOS ARE FULLY GUARANTEED FOR TEN YEARS,

ceipts of the Tobacco Monopoly TSANG FOOK PIANO CO.

diminished only by 13.5 per cont but its net profits were 54,000,000 schillings higher in 1933 than In 1920.

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consumed cheaper cigarette dur ing these years of economic crisis. In 1933 they spont 298,000,000 schillings on tobacco. Of this aum the Tobacco Monopoly book- ed 198,000,000 as net gain.

tobacco.

Around 215,000,000 schillings were spent for 5,101,000,000 ciga- rettes, 31,000,000 for cigarette

25,000,000 for pipe tobacco, 23,000,000 for cigars and Nearly a quarter of a million pounds of enuff were sold for 2,000,000 schillings, snuff being still popular among the older generation in rural districts.

THRIFTY PEASANTS

felt the rushing wall of snow bruch past his foot as he lay. "It was as if a man lying by the side of a On an average every Austrian, rallway-track felt the wheels of an including women and children, express train rubbing the soles of spent forty-four achillings for his boots as they passed

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tobacco in 1933. The amount Mr. Tuckett took close observa-varied in the different districte, tions of this avalanche when all while the Viennese expended danger had passed, and the dimen- sions he gives are of great interest. sixty-three schillings for 1,088 Its breadth was 1,000 feet. Its cigarettes yearly, the thrifty length 3,300 fcet, and its height peasant of the Burgenland was between 6 and 10 feet. Ita total satisfied with an expense of nine. weight was estimated at about teen schillings. 460,000 tons.

EASILY STARTED

Whilst it may be true that an disturbance

Tobacco exports from Austria were 20 per cent, higher in quanti-

in the neighbourhood of the Eiger avalancho can be started by the afrty and 40 pèr cont. higher in valyo |

Glacier, he and his companions witnessed the start of an avalanche from a point high up the glacier, At first they did not think it would come their way, but after a fow momenta they saw that they were directly in its path. "As if magic it tripled its width," and bit. Tuckett, "and then the Idea of danger flashed upon us.”

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across

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1 Suitable bonds for estates. “O Sad to say and write.”

0 The common sense that kecра

the lawyers going.

11 Five, ten, fiity set wrongly as

simple little Bowers.

waterway.

caused by a sharp in 1933 than in 1929. Ninety-six noise, such as a shout or a gunshot, per cent. of the total tobacco ex-12 This is very simple, too. it is quite possible in certain con- port went to Germany.

10 The Rind of young women who ditions for a skier to start a "slab"

takes us in. avalanche. A snow slope with a At the end of 1933, 6,919 work-14 I Imagine fow dogs at Cruft's small margin of stability can be cut era, mostly women, were employed 17 American form of motor-car.

last week were no called. across by the grooves made by the by the Tobacco Monopoly. Their 19 One who is. skis, and a layer of snow, sliding average weekly pay was 45 schill-20 There's great desire to be in this over a hard layer blow, can thus be released and will slide down-ings. Sixteen hundred and eighty- 21 Public Schoolboy. wards. On such occasions the akler nine women were engaged in the is not in any great peril as long as actual manufacturing of cigar a slab on the slope above him, no attes; and their individual annual longer supported, does not begin to move and follow the lower slab. If it does, it will quickly overturn the skier and he, may be buried under a pile of small but well- kneaded snowballs.

output Was about 8,000,000 cigarettes.

The size and speed of the avalanche were greater than they thought, and as one man the party turned and ran for their lives

"Nearer and nearer it camo, its front like a mighty wave about to break; now it had traversed the whole width of the glacier above; us, and now-run, oh ́run, if ever

Several people have survived you did, for here it comes straight such experiences, for there is a at us, still outflanking us, swift,, certain amount of air imprisoned deadly, Implacable”.

in the snow, and if rescuers can find the spot and dig the prisoner out within, say, a couple of hours, he may be 1tle the worse for his adventure. But, in wet-snow aval anches of this type the tip freezes solid the moment the mass becomes stationary, and then there is little Presa." chance of survival.

The next instant the party saw no more: They were flung down by a spray by snow, whilst with a, terrific rear the avalanche swept pust them. None expected to live, but when the avalanche had stop ped, they saw that they had escaped death by inches. One man actually

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24 Form address for the one girl

among thousanda,

20 This will give you something to

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games.

32 Concern.

Simultaneously the Monopoly 29 There's always friction with such paid pensions to about 7,000 for-30 Bigoted partisan as he is, he mer workers. The disproportion never sels out without the means bitween the actual staff and the of keeping cool.

81 Drink, number of dismissed workers re- ceiving pensions chiefly arose from the fact that about 4,000 workers were dismissed in the course of suveral rationising campaigns. They are entitled to pensions un- der the Austrian Law.-United

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2 The man who thinks that facts

are facts.

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4 Why look for this word? 'It's

nover seen.

5 Small change that may be useful

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when money is short.

& What you are doing for this.

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7 Stoppage.

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10 New animal, so we hear-sco

him at the Zoo.

16 Bobtails?

10 More often associated with grass

than weeds nowadays.

18 A preliminary canter in which

wo hear Sarah again.

20 Requires skill at football. 22 Wroto,

26 Little Alfred? Not half!

27 Settles down in the county---for

rost. 28 One result of a tie.

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