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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 1, 1935.

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Five birthdays in one! When tapers were lighted on the Dionne quintuplets' birthday cakes on Tuesday, May 28, the world shared the wonderment reflected in five pairs of shining eyes. For the world-no less-its heart touched, has watched, mar velled and applauded as the tiny mites born in a humble Ontario farmhouse in your ago have been brought with tendar, export care to healthy, happy childhood. Happy birthday, and many of them!

The Duke and Duchess of Kent are shown here at the Empire kall held in Grosvenor House, London, on their first public ap pearance at such a function. It will probably be their last for some time since it is whispered that the Duchess is soon to present King George and Queen Mary with their fifth grandchild.

HILLSIDE BLOWN AWAY

20 TONS OF POWDER USED IN BLAST

BIG QUARRY PROJECT

London, May 30.

filling in of the tunnel which had been bored under Ben Duirinsh.

'clock there were more than 1,690 i people on the island.

At 5.30 the final stage started. A steam whistle blew mournfully and continued to blow for a quar- ter of an hour. It was the last Warning to the neighbourhood that it would be extremely unhealthy near the quarries for the next half hour.

HUCE CLOUDS OF DUST

At one minute before six Major Struthers waved a white ng as preliminary signal. Cinema cam- oras started to turn, entnera mel levelled their instruments, and everybody else held their breath.

At six o'clock precisely the white flag waved again in a signal to the Aring points to explode the charge.

This was done by workmen un the mainland by means of a detona-

for.

The scenes which followed were remarkable. There WIES AL lov: rumble from the quarry face. increased in intensity. The ground shook slightly. The waters of the eh rippled, sending the gulls screaming, and then the whole cli fell outwards in tremendous slabs.

A shower of small fragments shut across the rund which runs. past the quarry, and a moment later the whole scene was swallow- ed up in huge clouds of white dut and fumes.

They billowed outwards in fau- tastic shapes, and with amazing speed the wind caught them and twisted them upwards in enlumns. and out in long streamers over tite loch,

From the heart of the white pall there came' a sustained low roar. Three-quarters of a million tons of Kranite shaken loose by the tre mendous force of the explosion were avalunchting from the place whence they had looked impassive- At five o'clock the men werely across Loch Etive. withdrawn from the two quarries. From the mouth of the shaft a long line of cable was run down to the road, and round a shoulder of the hill for some hundreds of yards. There, it was connected up to the ring apparatus, and Mr. Cullen, the manager, and Mr. Peel the fare man, mounted guard over it.

As the clouds began to settle. spectators got their breath back and burst into cheers.

A minute later and the air had cleared sufficiently to show that the blast had been a complete success.

Eighteen months work had been

tion in 30 seconds.

to the quarry later to see the face which had been opened up.....

LORD REVELSTOKE

The young lady on the Left, known Angela Joyen, but chris tened Ivy Dawkins was, according to letters read in a London court and alleged to have been written by the young Lord Revelstoke, "the supremast, superhost, sub- limost girl in the wark".

But

the young scion of the famous English banking house of Baring Brothers, Landon, is not of the same opinion since Miss Joyce hailed him into court to defend breach of pro- mike action. Min Joyce, a fow years ago, won the title of "Miss England" in a beauty contest, went to Hollywood, but linan't starred yet.

AIR FORCE DISPLAY

The quarries presented an aston-THOUSANDS FLOCK TO HEN- ishing sight. In the morning they DON FOR AERIAL PAGEANT had been grey empty gaps in the green hillside. Now they were half full with a tumbled mass of rock, some pieces of which were as big as houses.

London, June 30. Magnificent summer weather brought thousands of spectatora to Hendon for the Royal Air Fores display on Saturday.

It was a brilliant prelude to the Roynt Review scheduled for next

It is estimated that the blast had brought down 750,000 tons. It had been hoped that the mine would yield 1,000,000 tons, but a shortSaturday, buttress on the face of the quarry A feature of the aerial demon- had resisted the force of the explostrations was the magnificent dia- |sion and still remains upright. It

is; however, badly sinken, and wilt. Play by bombers and fighting ma- chines, and exhibitions of stunt it is thought, ret fall,

lying.

brought to a prosperous termina-self as delighted with the results Grosvenor House," in which Scott

Major Struthers expressed him.

The famous De Havilland Comet of the explosion. The mine, he and Black won the Centenary Air would keep the quarry busy for at also gave an exhibition of speedy said, bad provided material which Race to Melbourne last October, least five years.

fying, while a wirelessly controll ed and unoccupied robot machine. was shown on the ground.

By five o'clock the 800 inhabit-

For more than an hour after ants of Bonawe had completed their own preparations. Pictures wards, however, the air was rent had been taken off walls, crockeryat intervals by pealing crashes as had been removed from shelves, piles of rock, which had been dis-

been dismantled, lodged, worked loose and of granite, lifted by the force of Everything breakable had been re-tumbling down, *. the explosion of 20 tons of gunmoved powder, crashed to the floor of Houses Bonawe Quarry, near Taymuilt, evacuated.

Three-quarters of a million tons mirrors had

10 place of safety.

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near the quarry were

JUBILANT VILLAGERS

The villagers

The blast was part of the quarry- cameing operations of J. & A. Gardner & Co. (Ltd.), owners of the fumous Bonawe granite quarries.

Jubilant. were

An R.A.F. pilot, who, was giving an example of how not to fly, crash- ed. Fortunately he was unhurt and his machine was only slightly damaged.

For over a week squads of men. Practically all of them depend on working day and night, had been Argyllshire. The cloud of white The villagers then went to u amoke sent up by the explosion was large island on Loch Etive, imme-hood, and the success of the great at the end of a tunnel a hundred from the crowds at the daring

the granite quarry for their liveliengaged in packing twenty tons of powder into three powder chambera visible for twelve miles. The pro-diately opposite the quarry face. venture means stendy work for

Gasps of amazement went up ject is the biggest of its kind ever They were accompanied by many them for several years to come. feet long which had been driven parachute displays, sixteen pilots undertaken in Great Britain.

visitors, pressmen, and photogṛn-

into the hill, which is 1,800 feet being discharged from two Vir- All day yesterday the men of the phers who came to witness the There was a pilgrimage of off-high. The shaft was sealed up ginia bomber in less than five quarry laboured to complete the spectacle. Shortly before six cials, quarry workers, and visitors with boulders and concrete, minutes.--Renier Speciat

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