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THE OUTLOOK

World Copyright. Dy arrangement with Evening Standard.

inance Ministers

Yesterday's rainy weather was the only black spot in Hongkong's welcome for the Amethyst men. But it could have been worse, for:-

WEATHER MURDERER

THE A

FURDER is perhaps

M

too tame a word to describe the ferocity with which the weather can kill. Storms and floods, heat waves and blizzards— all are killers on the grand scale.

And their toll of human life is one that science is still powerless to prevent.

Perhaps the greatest of all weather disasters took place in the 13th century,

army

of the eyen

IS

Johnstown. Miles of railway track woro

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torn up, engines

The

MY SIDE OF LIFE

CHAPMAN PINCHER Column

| APONS—those, tender, Now, after dissecting 114 elo- turkey-sized chickens phants, Bristol University 200-

logist DR J. 6. FERLY which

offers appeased the

an anwser: The female elephant. more robust appetitos of has a breeding life of about, 00 our Tudor-time ancestors-years-time to raise a family of will be back on the house- 20 or more. wife's shopping list if the scientists have their way.

BOREDOM KILLS BOREDOM is bad for health at any age, but after For by means of a single co it becomes a killing disease. injection a cockerel which would That is the conclusion of US. atherwise toughen its muscles paychiatrist DR EDRITA FRIED, by strutting round the run, can who has tried now be induced to relax while deop-down feelings of 75old to fathom the Its weight doubles up to 14lb. people. and more.

She found that few Iooked The "magic-bullet" which in forward to the leisure of rotire- this way replaces the trouble ment, and still fewer actually como surgical operation that enjoyed it.

Those who fared

worst-li

the

mado caponising unprofitable is a match-head-sized peilet of the synthetle drug sulbocstrol Pain both mental and physical health. lessly pushed under the skin of were the men who had not a young fowl's neck by a metal settled the conflict between the injector. It gradually dissolves natural urge to let up in during the next 12 to 18 months. ute fifties and the fear of

losing their self-respect through fall- Almost before the plunger ing to pull their weight. The ten which positions it has been men and women who most en- withdrawn, the drug begins its Joyed their late-life leisure had work of sobering the cockerel's consciously prepared for it by naturally aggressive tempera- taking up a new interest--often job which suited their tem- perament,

ment.

Oddly, the

folk who most wanted to work during retire- ment were thosa

who had al- ready saved enough to ensure

were wrecked and bridges buckled. Trees were stripped their bark, human beings and animals werd drowned Houses rocked, sagged, crum-want-to-fight strut.

are fades from the comb. The tome payment is essential before pied, and floated away,

Reaching a stone bridge wast of the town, the water plied up against it a dam of debris some 60 feet high. This obstruction prevented it from draining off into the Conemaugh valley.

On the morning of June 1, the dam broke and the flood was virtually ended. The water

First to wane is the anybody their security. It seems that for Then the most people in this civilisation

daybreak crow degenerates into work can engender self-respect. a hen-like cluck like to quote one of the scientists-"a choir- boy's volee breaking in reverse."- The glossy tall feathers disap-SUPPORT for the alur that

pear at the first moult,

LAZY BIRDS

only mad dogs and English- And all the time the bird puts men expend more energy than

absolutely necessary on extra pounds of flesh.

In hot 'climates comes from the latest Trials have proved that a study of tropical birds,

claim.

shortage

Costa Rican ornithologist

was gradually absorbed by the River Conemaugh, which enr- ried it into the Allegheny, from capon lays on appreciably moro whence it reached the Ohio, the meat per pound of grain caton

than a normal cockerel So with ALEXANDER SKUTCH reporta Mizriasiput and the sea.

big that in spite of a lush supply of .During its 24-hour reign of poultry foods restricted terror, the Johnstown flood re-scale capenising by injection can food the gay-feathered birds of consistently fewer young than their duced a city of 30,000 popula- make a quick contributions to Central America

scientists redr tion to ruins and claimed 2,200 the micat

dowdier, temperate relatives. victims.

The females' disinclination to docile birds lay more than two eggs-com- about he can easily bring back pared with the five usually laid the cockerel's musle to the by British birds-well, ·sülts barnyard. Removing what re- their mates, who seem to be too. malus of the stilboestrol pellet lazy to forage for big families, from its site in the neck miracu-

chemically But after 20 years of jungle tously restores been

caponised bird to full masculine bird-watching Skutch

protective precaution behind vigour,

this inertia, The less the parents fly in and out of the nest the lower the chance that it will be

Should the farmer get sick of Pelted To Death

con-

sealng so

many

In the Spring of the year. 1280, the Japanese Emperor The loss of life in the city and of hay on top of him. A people on shore. life when the wind blew a load executed опе of Kublai

neighbourhood was estimated Gloucester child of three was Khan's ambassadors. To at 40,000.

struck by a falling chimney the Another avenge this affront,

typhoon, necom- slack. A Welsh plate-layer lost а 50-called lidal his life because the powerful Mongol Emperor panied by

1938, Johnstown ex- dispatched

of wave, passed over Swatow on drowned the round of a train's

perienced another flood which approach. Three fisherman were 100,000 men in 3,500 ships the night of August 2, 1922.

A wall of water about 20 feet drowned when their boat killed 22 people and did to undertake the invasion high swept over the

foundered off

of siderable damage to properly coastal

line coust and conquest of Japan. land. Near Amoy a steamer of Northumberland. A young man Since then the unruly rivere in

A typhoon annihilated 4,000 tons disappeared without in Birmingham wan killed by the neighbourhood have

widened to an trace. 4

Another the fall of a roof. A Dorset deepened, and this great armada while it leaving

extent which will enable them was working on П steamer was lifted bodily on to builder Of the an island lay at anchor.

at the entrance to ladder when the wind blew it to carry off any normal excess

JUMBO, AT HOME 100,000 men on board the Amoy Harbour. All along the down. A workhouse inmate of of water.

There are many other ways

AS THE ships, only three returned to coast the sea carried a ghastly Newport Pagnell was killed by in

female elephant ได which the weather ** China.

murder,

takes about 21 months mates of the death-roll vary Rain сва causo serious commits

- twins of produce one youngster of unique instance a number and Bloods

heavy loss

aro Fore Here again the largest Chinese were pelted to death by In a tropical storm in India life.

scientists have had passed and a blizzard which T the other end of the sale, during, 1737, the death-roll death-rolls

over a sandy desert. Snow and been hard put An the Far East. and more recently, a heat was estimated at 300,000.

sand had fused into hard pellets to explain why, wave killed-124 people in New reckoned to have killed 100,-

Indian Cyclone in 1870 was American Floods

Uganda and to great was the force of in the wi

nearly wind that clothing was no alone, 000 people. A West Indian

1,000 elephants against the missiles. The heat struck the city on

hurricane 翅 1780

MERICA, too, suffers peco- protection ravaged

have to be shot successive days hur June 26. On

When the weather is in kill- A sionally from great floods. sank ficets of the temperatures reached 90, 92, even islarly,

American ing nood, it can be so savage each year

that the word murder no longer keep the wild 97, 08, 99, and 94. On July 2 ships, and killed 15,000 persons. Perhaps the worst

The great Japanese disaster flood was the one in 1889 at

herds within controllable limits. alone, -553 poopla died..

These famous heat waves hit ton of carthquake and

hit, of 1823, which was a combine Johnstown In the Conemaugh applies: If a sheer massacre.

typhoon,

alley.

Situated where two New York every year—not al-

for 300,000 rivers join to form the ways with such disastrous was responsible

deaths. It

considered emaugh,

Johnstown

553 Die In A Day

York in 1901.

freight of dead bodies.

between 30,000 and 80,000,

was

Esta failing, tros.

are

in India

Con-

was-1

results, but usually with come that the wind, by its action in thriving industrial town with a fatalities among the very young'

spreading the flames which ro- largo iron foundry, two sleei or the very old.

suited from the earthquake, works, and many other plants. claimed two-thirds of the vic- It was the centre of ten closely- tima

related boroughs and the nine iron bridges spanning the rivers always crowded traße.

Cold weather is less deadly Ita direct effects, but during very cold spells there are always A number of deaths from ex- pozute. Indirect deaths more numerous. Cold weather

are

In-

of lives lost ne a result of storm

Danger To Ships were HIPS are caught quite fre-

Dm

with

In опе

Ladybirds

to

get

to

spotted by ez-eating snakes.

sity's

DANGER ACCORDING to DI E. M JELLINEK, of Yale Univer- School of Alcoholic Studies, those Lost Week-ends. aro-not-far-off-it-you?.....1...Gulp. your drinks. 2. Worry about: your liquor consumption. 3.. Stop talking about your drink- ing.

.

---(London Express. Service),

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ticket to dollar paradise

HAMILTON (Bermuda).

WILLIAM

EVANS, .ex- farmer's boy from the hills

by James Cooper

when he reires in Ave years.

time.

$

is responsible for sharp Increases quently in typhoons. Some

At 11 am on May 31 there In the mortality rates from

It is a costly bualness. As escape, almost by a miracle: were five feet of water in the

40. £10-a-week pneumonia and other chest com- others go down, leaving only main street of Johnstown. This i plaints.

not considered alarming overlooking Aberystwyth, has the shade of weathered tele- many their names to be adopted by

was

labourers are employed shaking But the death-rolls from heat

were begun a fight to save Bermuda graph posts. the inhabitants the typhoons

because

out ladybird bottles at the foot .and

responsible. cold

into Pale

well-accustomed to their unruly from a bug which could in time Three memorable

resort of American It was first thought to be of cedar trees and pulling up marine dis rivers. They merely rolled up turn this algnificance beside the numbers

Ja asters any thus commemorated

rate their carpals and moved their millionaires into a leafless, coral blight, but all forms of spray- dend trunks. Another £21,500,

ing had no effect. By the end of will be spent this year replant- and flood. The great Galveston names of the Cantabria, furniture up to second storeys rock.

the war half of the island's mil- ing young cedaré. street disaster of 1000 is still fresh in De Witte, and Iltis typhoons

2

every By The Iltis was a German gun-

The future of 40,000 people, Lions of cedars were dead. in the town was flooded, somo the memory of the American boat. She

The plague has its compén- WOS caught in a

man for man the best dollar- people. A West Indian hurri-

the night of to a depth of ten foot,

Experts were sent from Lon-sations. The attacked cedar is earners in the Commonwealth In cano which reached a velocity typhoon during

catering for tourists, may de don to try to diagnose the trouble. still perfect for use, 60 reserves of 135 miles an hour and blew July 23, 1800 and ran ashore for 18 on th

the Shantung promontory,

The Dam Broke

pend on how this 00-year-old From all parts of the world are piling up of millions of one- more or less steadily.

Agriculture com- they brought two kinds of bugs inch planks worth 25. a square. hours, piled up enormous waves where she was speedily broken TN the hills around Johnstown Director of

IN which swept across this low up by the storm. Only twelva an artificial lake was held bats the juniper scale bug which which might kill or consune foot.

*bugs members

The has already kliled half of the the Juniper scale. Some ber crow escaped back by an earth' dam." lying city.

Mr Evans says: "It has, piso liked the scale but not the cll- In Galveran along the death- with their lives.

Jake covered some 70 acres to island's famous red cedars. How do people lose their lives an average depth of 60 roll was 5,000 and the property

feet.

The island's fear of ruin is mate. Others liked the climate enabled us to plan realforesty-

tion better." loss £3,400,000. When the in a storm? Here is a record. On this May morning in 1889 based on the belief that trees but not the scale.

But it has broken one Finally, it was found that the waves receded they left large of the deaths caused by a gale the water in the lake was ris bring rain; that if all the trees chips several miles inland.

in the British Isles:

ing at the rate of ten luches an died there would be nothing to

a brown ladybird, muda rule. The only conditions In Dublin the wind blow hour. By

By early afternoon It provent the hot air rising from Indorus, Far East Toll man's cigaretto from his mouth: was

Just before 3 pm. This would leave Bermuda as juniper scale but also thrives in. Income-tax paradise is that by a lorry. A heavy tell to the tal-fung cyclist was blomst motor- the dam broke with a roar like just a huge clinker in the Atlan- Bermuda.

against a dynamite and millions of tons tic instead of the pink-oleander or "big wind."

wall while travelling In 1802 a typhoon hit the A baby was suffocated at speed of water poured through a gap sub-tropical island it is today.

her 430 feet wide. when

* waterfront of Canton and so perambulator blew overs Four Rushing down from an ele- devastated it that hardly a school-children, sheltering under vation of 400 feet, this arti0- Suddenly, during the war, thà building escaped damage. Thou- a hoarding, were killed when cial Niagara was split in two tall cedars, which are actually sands of Cantonese boat-dwel- the hoarding crashed. A farm. by a mountain in lis path and Junipers, began shedding their scale is under

rushed into noodle-like leaves, and turning hopes it will be nearly extinct Iers were drowned before the labourer in Lancashire lost, his the main torrent

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Since it is a slow process bring- ing in a handful at a time. Evans has opened a new fabora- tory to breed them himself,

He estimates that already the control. Ho

they must have a return ticket cut before, they are allowed in. An exception has been made for the ladybirds. They came its from California on a single tie- ket only. Bays Evans: "This is the one ladybird we don't want to 'fly away home","

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