LLOYD'S of London are to have a new £2 millions "home."
soon as
LONDON DIARY
in Italy and North Africa. Ho scribbled in exercize books, went them to a frlent at home da earh book was Blied,
TOME is the Chief Rabbi of
The new building will be apposite the present building Chiof Rabbi roturns Building will begin os
licences the necessary
front an to It will granted. Lime Street and will cover o Ground area of 1% neres,
The news will surprise the It is only 25 years since City. the present building was erected in Leadenhall Street.
NE
Three-months talk JEGOTIATIONS for the new site have taken about threo months. Mr Edmund Howard, chairman of the City of London Real Property Company who own it, tells me Lloyd's have taken a long lease on the site, but he refuses to disclose the prize.
An official of Lloyd's says:
Home British Commonwealth, Hobbi Iarnel Brodie. 1c has been on a four months' good- will mission Central and to South Africa, accompanied by his wife.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY. 9. 1950.
You can't feel it, but the seismographs say the earth is trembling
THE
from him that.
I tourid out But in Australia, cartli rem- HE other afternoon!
org occur more frequently in this seemingly soild earth op at Bondi in Aus- the old centre and west than ours is really a trembling
world--no for an we know 15. a minor earth-in the new east. tralia
has been trembling second by quake rattled teacups The experts are still trying second through untold centurica
over every square yard in kitchens and gave
|of la surface. communities from more timid residents
few uneasy moments..
He addressed more than a 100 Jewish Nairobi to Cape Town.
to find out why.
and
a
They are hampered by lack of crismographs and other ex- instru- pensive and delicate ments.
earth-
next pastoral Nabbi Brodie's
It was the first tour will be to Australia, where for many years he was senter quake in Australia for just
1 Melbourne, minister
lends leaving towards the end of 1951.
"Our business has to expanded A Smith, late
the nccom
Ho on a year,
MP for Tory
Omcials of
the observatory
Sydney,
You cannot feel it trembling
the
on which the
ACCUT
FATHER O'CONNELL shock analyst
They also know that
many
The s.s. Independence ⠀ was launched last month and
SHE'S THE PRIDE OF U.S. MARINE
THE S.S. Independence soon will be the new
pride of the American merchant marine. The 1,000 passenger ship, which was launched at Quincy, Mass., on June 3, will be the largest merchant ship built in America since 1939.
It will be capable, with its 22,000-mile cruising radius, of transporting in time of emergency 5,000 troops on a continuous voyage to any port in the world.
Geroa
CX-
Two separato
meter, with broad windows
n you hit at dinner or walk along a streel But the sels- Į the earth's crust As
engine rooms, The Independence will be The last earthquakes ot anymographs can, nud this con- thousands of faults, not all of be the fastest American with water-light bulkheads bo
occurred instant shaking is shown In which are properly understood. passenger vessel, since she nate in Australlu
tween, havo been built in so nearby areaя In Dilbily uneven Ilne on Dalton and
that either is incapacitated, But scientists do know that will be capable of kniting the other will be able to provide south-eastern New South Wales (sensitised paper At Riverview Observa-In March last year.
reismographs record their end-the vast upheavals in this belt through the Atlantic at 25 emergency service, Each of the tess vigil.
propellers at great depiles-up to knots top speed, roughly twin
will operato tory the cloistered seismo-
Dalton and nearby towna
100 miles below the warface.
from the power Ex-MP sells homographs which keep tab on
chook intermittently for about Scientists are not sure why They know these depths with equivalent to 29 land miles separately the geared tur. this unstable earth of ours ave days. The
provided by shocks cracked the surface of the earth con- exactness,
per hour.
bines in and of the engine 25 years, Mr E. P. noiselessly recorded the the walls of housea and on-standly trembles. But they
500mg. Al-have observed
deal. a great
They Upon completion in January The atmosphere of a fine armed residents prepared to For instance, during storms of occur in areas of vast pressure 1951, the Independence will American home is evidenced in in recent years that the present Ashford (Kent), in leaving his tremor by a few jerky lines dangered other buildings.
the Australian const the con-and great heat.
enler American evacuate the towns.
Export Lines' the public rooms premises are quite inadequaio,
that occupy tremble Estant
récorded at Father O'Connell believes New York-Mediterranean The new building will provide home at Stone-in-Oxney, Kent. O sensitised paper.
the entire promenade deck. in Experts
stuff of nearly three times
Mr Smith writes plays under
Mel-Riverview is slightly more in that the
which the press service and make the 4,000 Forward is a circulat ubser- at the records withbourne, and Brisbane checked tense than at other times,
world in made Is probably milo modation. Future of the present
Creasing to Peres. He looked
in vation
05 the nome Edward
Jounge, feet in dia- building has not been deckled nied the house Hysings after a mild interest und calculated
plastic at these depths and in less than eight days. One
1 that It is likely to continue as part house in his play, If Four that
theory
sea this heat.
out Juoking
to sca Designed to be the latest in thirds of its circumference. Aft for two- Wall Told.
took it caused by
storms and ocean pressures in
He speaks of earthquakes trans-Atlantle Juxury same way cause the earth
liners of this room is a lounge with over as a week-end cottage, and or upheaval
trimble.
with the caution and delibera- the Independence will incor- restored it Into. a permanent deep in the earth's crust.
tion of a scientist; warns that porate new features representa special niche in which will Australian It caused them le concern,
earthquakes
Frent arcin
deal of knowledge ing the Intent Ideas in Ameri- Declaration R CHURCHILL, will BOOR A local resident bought the
and found Australia Generally. their seisomagraphs
piffling things
She will compared with about them is still hidden from can living.
ba tre Mr. Smith is because have noother ancdal: On house privately.
was local par- that the disturbance
the huge disturbances in the us
first large tinn-Alanile ship shokow-only about 20 July 4 he receives the Chesneynt prrent holidaying in Dorset and eastern Australia in
world's earthquake ticular, is less likely than most und
belts, one the earth's aur-
Parenthetically, he comment to have her passenger necom- of the greatest at which runs
modations entirely alt-condi- other parts of the world to emiles below.
ed that au unstable New Zentioned. Crew quarters also will face. devastated by an earthquake.
from Japan, through New
land possibly made for a stable be air-conditioned. New Zealand to The fun force of one of the Guinea and
ever re- South America. country. Kreatest earthquakes
It might be that the Domi- was not Scientists believe that thenlon was at the "shock" end its rock strata are well settled corited in Australja down, and the
through New of the settlement of strata link- portion of this known, felt by any man.
two countries earth's crust it occupies serms This is because its centre was belt which runs
Now Zealand Guinen and
ising the Lomewhere in the desolation of to be fairly stable,
and gibber plains not so much one great fault in the Tasman Sea. ied sund
in of the Finko River, west Central Australia.
of Lloyds.
Medal for Churchill
Mtt
home.
He first
THE LONDON STORY TOLD IN NAMES
Last of the inner suburbs to fall to the land developer. Thus was Isimutan in 1780.
♫
and fool-
profitable Talington wg
THE derivation of the name resort; highwaymen
found Islington has puzzled his pads torians. Some belleve it to hunting-ground. For centuries word the Saxon come from
for its dairies. So isen (iron), because springs in famous
clotted cream, butter,
und the like cream, cheeses to came into the elty from the (a farms there that it was EUS-
the neighbourhood
in iron.
Others
thio
trave
Saxon
were rich much
the name word clyct
hostage). But there is nothing gested in fun that the arms of
in Islington's past to suggest Islington should be: connection with hostages.
now
"Three milk tankards proper, thickly on a feld Although
of clouted cream, built-up area, Islington appears three green cheeses upon a to have been one of the last shelf of cake brend, a turmenty
of the inner suburbs of Lon- Low!, stuck with hom spoons, den to fall to the land develop and, for supporters, a grey
er.
Less
half
than
London ngo. treated Islington
century and citizens A holiday
more (used to carry the milk tankards) and her foal."
-(London Express Service}
Gold Medal, awarded by the after illness; he bus Royal United Services Inslituseltled on a new home.
not yet
tion for outstanding contribu Ball with a fair
Que MORE than
In
tions to Servica terature. Mr Churchill's case work has been singled out; so many of his books quality.
The medal was presented by the late General Sir George Chesney. First award was in
Captain 1900 to
Mahan, the naval historian. Aboul a dozen people have received it.
The presentation will be at an evening ceremony in the old Banqueting hall of Whitehall Palace, which now houses the United Servlees Museum,
Prize won on battlefield
ATEST literary
the W.
of
prizes Heinemann
thousand
the Com- fair
Iwo guests attended
Artillery Honourable pany's open-air ball and on June 23, at their Armoury House, Finsbury
In the grounds were a for- ground, with dodgems, round- abouts, chairplanes and side- shuws. A ballroom Boor Was enormous inar- lid under an
teats questa quee. In smaller were served with buffet supper and early breakfast.
200-year-old Rooing in the Armoury
with House, lined muzzle-Loading guns, trophies, und forn colours of the reşti- ment, were turned Into bars.
Crimean uniforms
Foundation go to John Guest, MST of the men from the
regiment wore scarlet mess A few had uniform
38-year-olf author of a war Jackets, time Journal (Broken Images) that was in fashion during the and Feter Quennell, 45, for his Crimean War. Only HAC blography of Ruskin.
rergeants are allowed to wear it.
The prizes are worth £100 As one dies or grows out of his cach. First awards were made uniform, it is handed back to the in 1845, but are now made storeman and a newcomer can annually.
buy it. Previous winners Includo Tickets for the ball are re- Bertrand Russell, V. Sackvillo productions of those used by the West, Frances Cornford, and company
for a ball in 1700. John Betjeman.
with pikes. They are decorated John Guest wrole hia book muzzle loaders, breastplates, while serving with the Army cannons and regimental colours,
K. O. CANNON
SORRY! NO TIME
FOR EXPLANATIONS!
tremor was the Bondi
a minor subsidence mkes about 20
This probably is because Aus-
old tralla is a very
But there in one feature of
minor Australia's
And In- frequent 'quakes that puzzles Ecologists and
It is this:
seismologists.
By
ERIC BELL-SMITH
The main shock occurred on 4. 1941, a time when May Australia wat beginning to
Western and Central Aus-pour troops across the desert tralia are the oldest parts tend through the Northern Ter- the continent and include sem ritory to Darwin.' Bui ng troops
were in the area at the time.
Seismologists describe It as # "fairly severe shock."
Father O'Connell,
of the oldest dry lond on earth.
Grologists put the age of some of the western and central rock formations in the
of a neighbourhood
thousand million years.
The eastern part of the con- tinent is much newer, though is newest parts have been
for millions above water years.
of
of the
director
of tho Biverview Observa- "End tory. put it this way: the full force of the shigek occurred in a larre town It could have caused siderable damage."
to
Australie.
FROM THE WOMEN TO THE MEN
H
under
Please, no braces
or waistcoats!
سما
of the of Independ:uce. Still farther aft are cocktail lounges for frst and cabin class passengers.
ADDED ATTRACTIONS
enshrined a copy
A large theatre sunken-foor dining room, gymnasium, elec- tric
devators, baths shops, children's playrooms, Intm-ship and ship-to-shore telephones are among the additional thetractions.
Since the
UP TO U.S. STANDARDS
All interiors used by passen gera bave been designed to tit the requirements of American standard of living, the highest in the world.
Decorations will be conceived
at-
American Export Lines route to Europe follows across the southerly course
outdoor swim- Iming pools are provided for the in (first and cabin class passengerD,
simply without Rewraws and Atlantic, large complications.
train in colour,
Pleasing
the intest
cun-
salt-water
lighting to suffuse the rooms upplemented by with a soft glow without glare, cascade for the tourist passen- One hand-loomed fabrics and Ece Arst class pool of Holly- paintings by some of the best- known American artists of the wood day will feature
TJERE is the women's angle on men's clothes, and public rooms.
Please read and learn from it!
should
of zoot suits.
staterooms
design,
with tapered,
under- corners and rounded water lumination for night- the centre of in- lime use, la
of the two-level Sun Club sports area, which covers:
A sister abip, the S.5. Con- lerest stitution, is also on the ways
New chief
We have just as definite short, tight trousers like those at Quincy and will be ready a more than 9,000 square feet. con-ideas
on how you look as you have
on how Recently I discussed earth- The whole history
we should dress, Atudy of earthquakes shows qunkcs with Father O'Connell,
who A married woman and Centle priest-reientist that they occur much more ja
knows 445 much business girl really go to town frequently and more severely probably In "new" land asses than in about them
man in on your clothes here. The two dislike are Australia.,
things they really "old,"
braces and waistcoats. And what else? Read on, brother!
as any
Wet Welcome
Officers of the new Argentine luxury liner, Rio
de la Plata, wave as a New York Breboat sprays up torrents of water in the traditional salute to a malden voyage. The trip from Buenos Aires took 17 days.
THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS
THANK YOU GRAZIE..YOU ARE SO QUICK
QUICK! TELL ME! WHO ELSE IS IN THE CASTLE AFART FROM YOUR DAUGHTER 7 WE MUST WITTED! YOU ACHECK EVERYONE..
RVLAVONE), SEE THEIR
TACTICS, SIGNORZĄ
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д
To a married woman you look something like this:
who For the one man tastefully and suitably dressed there are hundreds who
life
content
wearing
10 go
through
the same
few months after the Indepen- will have similar dence. She To a woman line is very im-
or not characteristics throughout. portent and, whether we know good tailoring. We Hated at about 20,000 gross always know when a man has tons, the Independence ja 083 n coat and trousers in the right feet in
length. 80 feel proportion of length.
breadth and will draw 30 feet There's only one thing I still when loaded. At the time of tope
for that they will out her launching on June 3, she law
braces and Waistcoats.
was about 00 percent The fancy knitted waistcoat pleted. Such distinctive
be fun: but those gruntures BS her streamlined twin can superfluous waistcoats to Cofunnels and mainmast were not with
are horrible being stepped until after the colourful handknitted or finely launching, since they are too woven pullover is the shot. tall to clear the shipway.
zuits
.
A lot of men have on Kys
nre
for line-but no eye for colout. When I see a ginger-headed
old three- picce sult for every occasion.
SAFETY PROVIDED
Com
of groundnuts
5!r
#
IR ERIC COATES, the new groundnuts boss in place of
Leslie Plummer, is Anancial expert who for two years won financlat head of that organisation, the
other costly
Control Commission for Ger
many.
He is credited with substantial economics there.
Sir Erle, unobtrusive in ap- often Coors sub- pearance.
with д penetrating man in a gingery-brown sult, Provisions have been made ordinates
daren't say
question or two. But despite to him, as I'd to give the Independence the
is well a woman I'm putting all my faith
say to
"With your greatest degree of safety pha-isconcerting habit he
ilked wear should
by his staff. colouring, you
sible at all times. The hull is the new drape-cut suits to gel
15 eys, dark blues, and a lot of divided
He is a good mixer, though Into rid of two of my pet horror { grey; „,"
water-tight not chullient, smokes cigarettes But
compartments, Any two braces and waistcoats. men are 50 Conservative it'il
But it happens to be true. them could be flooded and the and Ukes a drink.
He is 62, has been married to them years probably take
Men indeed might take a tip stip sill remain afloat. In ad-
and has a son 21 years, double bottom extends line. In case from women. The fat man who dition. wear this new
from the harp daughter. .you don't know. drape-cut gets into a hairy tween sports full Jength
Sir Eric is often confused suits are worn without waist-Jacket with the largest possible rakish bow to the stern. Fire-
mat-with tlie other Eric Coates, the
Don't coats and the trousers have an plaid is like the portly matron proof and fire resistant
expect a inner belt to hold them up.
who tugs herself Into a tight crials have been used through composer.
from him. including all Partitions, Groundnuts March rayon frock with gigantic roses out,
Sir Eric's pastime is lawn tennis. idraperies and floor coverings. all over it.
15
Another aversion of mine
suit. the navy-blue business Why not a grey flannel two- white piece for town, with shirt and yellow fle? Or a belge.
with a gaberdine
white shirt
and cherry-red
tie? I must admit I still prefer the all-white" shirt and one-colour Bes
Even dowdier
And soon men will look even dowdler because
will come those
belted
with winler
atrocious
Why
twerd overcoats.
must they wear them? Why not a loose-fitting gaberdine or
a similar material
Igreatcoat slylo?
I men
realiced
tailored In
that nat
can do as much for them
0.5
or a woman they might dis card those high-crowned. nat. row brimmed styles. Squashed- 'n crowns and larger brims,
please,
gentlemen!
And I'm afraid I like cordu- roy slacks and suede shoes-
sweaters yellow
ond gay truly scarvec-to most men a feminine outlook. But why should voivat, suede, and col- feminina our bo any mpre
than masculino?
To a business girl you look like this:
From a woman's point of vlew, the present men's fashions to look nt are more agreeable
han
the horrible sinco uny "lounge sult" came in.
I have always detested those short coats, which ruln a man. of Food Aguro,, and bring out the worst faults of a tubby
type.
approve thoroughly, of the new, long-draped suits, partic ularly when they are worn, ax. they should be, with those new broad ties in a Windsor knot, with and with snowy shirts broad attached collars.
The ties, and the pastel shirts, and also those summer safari jackets give me hope for men's future that this bint of
will cont imagination in dress
tinue.
But I hope that the new. trousers won't
Uzater
mean
Please
Let Me Out.
Although the pupils of this school in Pittsburgh, Pa., are out for the summer, Cricket, a cocker spaniel puppy, was temporarily delayed. It was feared the dog had rables and until a diagnosis showed that Cricket was merely suffering from worms, she pined for her mistress who's on the other alde
the window.
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