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PETER GRAVES· JOYCE HOWARD

LESLIE BANKS MARGARETTA SCOTT

Mrs.

Fitzherbert

HARY CLARE • TREDERICK VALK · RALPH TRUMAN

JOHN STUART HELEN HAYE · WANDA ROTHA

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"THE STORY of BIRTH"

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"THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS”

記仇恩山凉大

A Tale of the

Lolo Tribes in

China's Remote

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THE FIGHTING EPIC OF AMERICA'S FIRST GUERRILLA FIGHTERS!

MANILA CALLING

FLLOYD NOLAN ARCAROLE`LANDIS ~CORNEL WILDE"-IRMES: GLEASON ;

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“NIGHT BEAT”

Starring

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Ronald Howard

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COLMAN in "LOST HORIZON”

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1949.

HORSE SWIMS CHANNEL

DOVER-TODAY

Old TUC set out this morning, accompanied by Trainer Isaacs and home comforts. Early reports say the intrepid quadruped is going wall, using a multilateral crawl against stiff competitiva winds. LATEST: Horse complaining he was not sufficiently greased beforehand and threatens to swim-To-rule if extra wet-money is not forthcoming, immediately.

wured Cappight. We arrangement with Eventino Standard

An avalanche of lava

wiping out homes

The inferno of the

La Palma volcano

Volcanic eruptions lasting more than

month' have

wrought havoc on the island of La Palma, in the Canaries. Thousands of acres of fertile land—including the famous Malvoisie vineyards--have been ruined by the engulfing lava. Here is an eye-witness report of the catastrophe.

By Fornando

Mendez Ponte

HAVE just come back from La Palma.

It is fascinating to watch the slow, almost

majestic, sweep of the boil- ing lava streams across this beautiful island, crumbling houses and trees and rub- bing out farmlands.

The slow-motion destruc- Lion is terrifying as well as fascinating.

Round the corner of the hill I saw the red-and-black avalanche of lava coming toward me. I wanted run from it.

Smell of sulphur

to

Then I realised that its. movement was a ponderous, alow affair. I stayed to watch.

THERE WAS the hot smell of the sulphur and the rain of grey ash as the lava · burned its way for: ward. I walked

The slow stream of destruction' crowes the road.

CANARY

[2* Petras ISLANDS

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сапр.

The

CHAPMAN.

PINCHER Column

TOOK my two-year-

Now who

left the

SECRET

PLANS OD view...?

based on a

This action 'is discovery made ten years ago

old daughter for ቢ by DR MICHAEL GOOD, an-

holiday plenic

on a olher London specialist, that the lonely Hampshire heath pain of many forms of rheuma- fand stumbled on plans of tiam especially brositis and two of tho Government's lumbaro, comes from specially sensitive spots in the muscicr most secret defence research projects.

No. they were not hidden under a stone. It was easier than that

While the baby plcked bell- heather I chanced to look through the window of a de- serted Works Ministry hut. Pinned on a table was an

out

caslly readable blueprint of now defence building with precise" name.

Once a doctor or physio- therapist has found the spots which are often far from where the pain appears to be a rub with adrenalin seems to clear up the trouble.

TROUT MENACE

WORST nalural, enemy of the British salmon anglers' sport, doing for more damage than the hungry ofter and pike,

Jus is the muchi-pampered

n

trout

Government fishery expert On the wall in front was a WV. J. M. MENZIES claims, In detailed plan of a huge area few hours hunting over nearby, on which until the gravelly spawning beds an. Boz. whistlo blew on. Saturday trout may cut up to 200 salmon bulldozers were fattening out eggs. the foundations of roads" and Iaboratories.

"Looked nt dispassionately

There · were 110 keep-off trout may be the worst of all signs, no wire, and no watch vermin," Menzies writes, in The only sounds, as I his carefully documented book, stood there long enough to take "The Stock of Salmon" (Arnold, camera records of the plans, 5s.),

men.

had been so minded, were of My own emotional reaction a slight breeze and the child's

suggests that the atitude of chatter.

Works Ministry buildings the average trout angler to this chief

BIR CHARLES MOLE remark will be anything confirmed that the blueprints dispassionate.

QUARRY MYSTERY

were secret. "Two important

defence projects are involved,"

he told me. "I will take action ★

on this immediately."

but

A NEW selenuse klant on these gigantic stone heads scattered over tiny, treeless mid-Pacifc.

I am allowed to say no more Easter Island in than that the projects entail the 'comes from US archaeologist building of very forgo machines PROFESSOR WERNER WOLFF. for novel experiments which, if

successful, will greatly streng- How the natives moved the then

Britain's defence,

50-ton statues from a quarry When advertising for ca- siled in a volcanic crater with- gineers lo man the place the out the help of wooden scaffold- Government has carefully con- ing or rollers has long been a cialed its exact location by mystery. narning no more than "on es- Tablishment in Hampshire."

To prevent

Now Wolff claims an answer

leakages from the natives rough-howed the the fringe of the projects the heads in the crater and waited polities of these engineers will for an eruption to throw them out. The blocks were then set be carefully scrutinised by

M.1:5 under the terms of the up where they fell Government's Communist purge, This theory explains:

It seems slightly ridiculous Why the quarry was sited in when other security is so slack. the crater, (2) now some of the

- PAIN FADE-OUT

(1)

statues got into places Inacces- sible even with modern equip-

Wolf says it also explains

A VANIDILINE cream which, its inventor claim, ment, (3) their disorder, will "rub out" rheumatic pains why there are 157 half-anished within ten minutes is being given full-scale trials at ជ London hospital.

heads on tho island-the volcano erupted more violently than the sculptors, bargained The specialist in charge tells for, so they left in a hurry, and me that results to date are so for good. Food-"80 percent of the cases

quite

Tho Spanksh Government

the Minister of the the relief from pain being often

show definite Improvements, SWEET, SWEETER dense black smoke poured out has sent

WITH a sweetening power of the peak near an old voi Interior to the island. He dis-

dramatic-that he al-400 times stronger than tributed three million pesetas ready hails it as a great step, sugar, saccharine has long been (£30,000)

cash on the forward in the treatment of When the lave first poured spot and arranged for recon-rheumatic ailments.

the sweetest commercial chemi- cal

Now known.

Dutch down, the mountains cracked struction

scientists have produced

fon times

and sent out a shower of to begin. ashes and smoke.

· AFRICA"

communication between the capital and the luxuriant valley of Aridane.

Poured into sea

THE GROUND, trees, and vegetation became powder- ed with gritty grey dust.

Then Incandescent rocks were thrown out of the vol- cano in a great frework lis- piny,

ת!

and rehabilitation

Inventor of the

cream Harley-street surgeon DK LOUIS

The river of inva which MOSS, who has already used synthetic swortener

stronger. ran down into the tea is so It-in-more-than-1,000 cases. wide and doep-1,500

Moss has freely published the ft. X

One stopoonful of the new 1,500 ft--that there is a pos- formula of his cream. It con- sluff, which is called propoxy- siblity of its being utilised taing adrenalina liquid which mitraniline will replace dib, of for the

over-tight purposes of a har-relaxes

muscles sugar in the manufacture of when bour, it is reliably reported.

absorbed through -London Express Service) skin.

It filled-up-a-small-valley These exploded in the cool- back-

and poured over a clift hun-

wards, slowly giving way dreds of feet high, hissing in- er air, and fragments rained C. V. R. Thompson Reports:

to the flood.

to the sea beneath.

across the island.

It threatened at one time to 8-mile crator wipe out the flahing village of Puerto Naos.

It was about four yards high, with a red-and-black

I went through the orchard centre formed of a semi-

A fow doys later

more zone of the island, through Buid substance, on top of eruptions took place and a banana plantations which which travelled a mass of half-mile stream of lava be- never rise above 500 ft., and rocks and stones, part slate gan to pour to the sea in two saw the biggest of all the

craters, eight miles in diamo colour, part red."

A the stream advanced Tocks and stones the top fell. Plant life withered and crumpled yards in front of

almond trees The beautiful seemed to fall without visible application of force.

any

AS I ROUNDED a raving I saw the lava speed up to 30 yards a minute and ot one point fall in a soft cas- cado like an angry red water- fall.

It led the ravine like the waves of a heavy sea piling up alowly and forever rolling for ward.

**

As the wind changed I had to move to avoid the suffocat- ing heat

I saw, the lava cross the only road in the part of the island, cutting of all land

different rivers..

Hundreds of acres of. fer ter tile land are devastated, but so for the little fishing village has escaped.

THE ERUPTION that be- gon the catastrophe was arst reported by children col- lecting pine cones on the side of the volcano,

12

From

rock towering above 1

back could look tpon the dying valley,

with pockmarked

craters and dominated by a 20,000- ft. high column of amoke,

the fam

and confectionery, relentists threaten.

The American Scene.

NERVOUS ?

the

ta in- WHEN a monkey Jeeled with a shred of its

Fown nerve, tissue, it rapidly

develops TERVOUS

scientists from

New

disorders

York's Neurological Institute excitedly report.

Question the doctors are now asking is: Are some human NEW YORK. In the wintre the sun's heat brain diseases really "allergica"

by people THE aspidistras in the is stored in bins with a sodium caused

compound.

their strange-looking house in cools it gives off beat, and this vous systems?

An the chemical || sensitised to the suburbs of Dover. is distributed by fans through- Massachusetts, have grown out the house. 15ias. alnce Christmas.

But in summer the fans are turned off, and then the oblig-

becoming own ner-

1

O.K. FOR SHYNESS

DR WHEN whhe-haired, Welsh ROBERT HUGHES

And

tho some time ing chemical sucks up the beat FARBY. medical professor at. Andrew, the four-year-old boy inside the house.

Bristol University, speaks on who lives with his parents in

THAT NIGHT we felt the the house, has shot up seven ĮJOME: Bread saics have among the progressive psy❤ most Devero earthquake They heard a great rum- the Inland had known, and bling under the ground, follow-fames_00ft high leaped from ed by a terrifle explosion. the volcano. They lit up the

2010

Then they enormous volume of amok- ing rocks and stone break

entire island.

427%

Over 1,500 been evacuated

the mountainside and viac spirally.

propio

tx there are more red, faces

then among slumped

his inches.

much GO

Inchologists These facts have led Dr Maria America lately that one baker co-ed students. For the founda-- Telkes, designer of the house, la, trying to win new customers tion of his advice to all adoles– to cinim that she has bullt by including

balloons for the cents, including his own four the world's healthiest home.

"Don't be children within the wrapper of children is simply The main reason It is so every font ho sells.

afraid to be shy."" have healthy is that its temperature as a result of is constant all the year. In the COPHIE TUCKER is holding a the eruptions, and some 1,200 winter the average was 74 de- series of lectures for stage of these have been totally grees.

beginners. Subject-How to ruined, according to rellable re-

And last month, although the Get Ahead in Show Business ports.

thermometer outside was at Professor Tucker's basic recipe It is stated

that the indoor, thermometer

100 degrees day after day, the is KEEP TRYING."

Rveraged It was big, terial' damage is estimated to

Á MERICA', ngwest artillery 15 million and looked Dantesque with Its exceed

pesetas 75. sulphur plumes of smoke... (£150,000), and that more

It is all done with mirrors has begun operations, The sruption was preceded than 1,000 hectares (2,470 house-wide long mirrors under is the air force's 'Arst gulded

unit. It

using "very ferillo land" the eaves to trap sunshine and missiles by 11 days of earthquakes, acres),. of

German V2s. a cheap chemical during which A column of has been rulised.

Smoke plumes

I climbed the mountain and saw the crater.

.

By Ernie Bushmiller

NANCY

Con-FUSE-ing

WE'RE ABOUT TO LIGHT THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FIRECRACKER

BOOM

SORRY IF THAT. EXPLOSION DAMAGED YOUR

607-

WOW--- WHAT.

A DREAM

BANG

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