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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1950.

When the earth

opens

waters

Until last week only bare details were known of the devar tating earthquake which rocked Assam, province of castern India, for 28 days late in August and Sep- tember. Here

SIR PERCIVAL

GRIFFITHS

authority on

Assam

and adviser to

the

Indian Tea Associa-

tion, presents the first

dramatic picture of

what actually happen. ed.

N

-T is a great thing to be able to sleep at

night, free from fear.

The people of Eastern Tibet do not onjoy this blessing, for earthquakes bring the thrent of death with terrible frequency-but we hear littlo of their troubles,

Next to Tibet

prosperous province

and

the

is the populous of Assam, where mighty Brahmaputra emerges from the Hima- layas and where most of our best ten is grown. The 10,000,000 people of Assam do not normally share the Tibetan terror, lut August 16, in the midst of Independence Day celebrations, they suffered one of the worst earthquakes ever experienced in India,

For nearly four weeks shock,

kept them in numerous to record. fear.

on

too

nightly

Hundreds of thousands slept in the open, 'but could not feel safe, for in an earthquake great chasms appear suddenly, and the very earth seems to open and swallow up whatever is on it.

It is the most frightening and demoralising

phenomena,

and

the

dry

up

Twisted ratt trucks betwren Talap and Salkara Ghatal silent testimony.to the power

of the earthquake.

When there men tell the story nobody

Its

Gaping Assures sweep through private houses

In Jorhat.

houses, where the green leaf is

and the withered,

factories where it is rulled and fired, re almost

important as the

bushes.

On some gardens leaf houses" have callapsed but somehow or doing other the planters are without them; and where factories or machinery have been Jamaged makeshifts have been devised

But it is on the morale of the people that the disturbance has had most effect,

Terror stricken labourers have hau to be reassured and hela has bren Action together. taken against local dealers, who would not mis an excuse for a black market.

Mr D. C. Hodson, a trading planter in Assam and chairman

He says

A TALE

OF

MOSCOW

TWO

WHEN?

CITIES

THE NEXT

MOVE

WASHINGTON

WHERE?

PARIS

-with

R. M. MacCOLL

telling the news

ста

PARIS.

HAD του ever thought of Ulie moon as A celestial Gold- Green? Alexandre Ananoff, president of the French Astronomical Congress and organicor of the Interna- tional Astronomical Congress which han just ended in Paris, Gays off-handedly: "The moon nowadays la asly a suburb of the heavena,”

Ananol, 40 years old, resembles nothing so much as youthful American baulier. And looks as though he was

"Мал probably voted

most Likely to succeed" by his college contemporaries.

(Morris in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

the

BEVERLEY BAXTER takes

a

seat

in

the gallery at the Margate Follies

Beau Bevan is putting

Dr Edith

T

for

MARGATE.

in the shade

I lunched with him

other day. He refused д cockinů,

rather starod

horn-rimmed severely through glassos i prematurely grey hair fled backwards in' Juscious WAVES, His pearl lepin was enviable.

.

*This voyage to the moci," he cald with a bint of im patience, "i na longer a Utopian dream. It is nothing but a

ballistica. question of

have on the Art miles or to from the earth, the rest is simplicity itself"

you

Once .ROD

Next year's International Astronomical Congress will be held in London. Theme: "Arti-

ficial natellites."

PARIS sauce

at the last election, Bevan not only because he seat

Rome sort of took over an chairman of! E tide was out as I is a man of

conference standing walked from my hotel destiny but for his unusual the

He had been orders. His job was to cut, to the Labour Party inppearance.

the inumerable But, says debunker Anasoll, conference. Two steamers to the hairdresser and his down

on the agenda "I profoundly doubt that theso were anchored at sea, the tailor. Nor did his sartorial resolutions

the achievements end there. Ile so that the conference would Hitle man-made moons spinning gands were deserted,

allent and wore a white shirt with a be able to break up before round the earth will have any fun-fairs were

and two the next election.

military value. The trouble 15 many of the hotels were stift white collar

the As

Ar a condenser cuffs showing

from that height you would be cloacd. It was a perfect white

length for a man Haworth is good, but he able to sen precisely nothing ef seaside exact 20 setting

about town. His tie was was interrupted from time the earth's surface. Too much funeral.

reserved indefinite to time as delegates went mil and cloud. Rather frustrat- In the Winter Garden of

to the microphone and de-In for the military observers,

or deplored some don't you think........?” For reasons of his own fended

Lau- are huge gaps, while in between of the local tea nasociation, has however, there was a great shade.

the particular ilem. A the road as buen compressed just completed a tour of mupee-hustle for the delegates had

had left behind nf all natural to their grandchildren

gathered in such numbers he into strips too narrow even for tion. wil believe it.

"On some gardens that one section of the hall homely clothes with which cashire delegate protested: lasted just The main check

Stranger adventures came to a bullock cart, and set at any It wyna 50 the Brahmaputra arct over two minutes

angle from horizontal to per- today they are living in ncute where nothing could be seen he has for so long graced against our supporting the pendicular,

"The South discomfort-bungalows damaged, had to be set aside for an the Palace and formal re- Americans in Korea and violent that Calcutta, 509 tibutaries,

In

water or light

audience. I had ceptions. No longer was he shouted: overflow Immediately after the first miles away, the pen of the res

with the Subansiri

It will be weeks before this some without

very little shock:

no ticket but the officials the Man of the People but Koreans are now over cording seismograph was thrown

Parallel. Who achieving off the machine,

famous for its fish, disappeared. famous road, which carried an carrying on

Indian, and sleep and

were exceedingly courteous the seaside Beau Bevan, the 38th

and the the aggressors now?” Four days later it reappeared many British,

good hearty British laugh We do know churches, schools, and put me in the gallery, rould of fashion

our chaps at glass of form. public offices and nouses have I hope that

No wonder that La Belle was his only reward. been destroyed in great numbers. Blackpool will be equally.

sitting next cuckoo Summerskill, the town of Jorhat alone, The railway line parallel with

to him, looked less than her it, was distorted in many places 5,000 people are homeless today kind if a Socialist

to turns up. and bridges were damaged; but while in Dibrugarh,

Mr Sam Watson. the usual spectacular self. Even Karnail Singh, Sikh engineer the centre of the disturbance,

a single with a reputation for achieving hardly

brick house party chairman was deliver- her hat drooped as if the has been at

ing a sound if somewhat struggle was too much for remains undamaged. A Dibrugach, a big town, a the impossible,

are running

Normal life has been coin- ture, or wave, raced down the work and trains

pletely disrupted and the people lengthy speech and I had an it.

to gaze upon Cockatoo style Thatanut, to the accompani- again.

and have been

by punte, opportunity, seized is a land of tea Assam ment of thunderous noises. The

gardens lie in the Assam has

the great men on the plat- indeed suffered u river fell eight feel and fave many lea

forni. One's eye was at stricken area,

major disaster. off fumes.

(London' Express Service}

Scientists, therefore, did not know how bad it Wan But many ordinary folk new only too well.

One British planter ran up

• stairs to carry his baby to safety. The house was waying so violently that he could hardly

bedroom. reach the

Electric swinging to fans were almost

警

the celling.

He got outside with the child,

to safety s he thought, when

river,

in the

ba war, can

in all its fury and swept over American troops to imphal or possible." the countryside. Granaries were Kohima destroyed, homesteads were slured, submerged, and people fled into the ins

In

nearer

once caught by Mr Aneurin

BABY-SITTERS: You

Two days later it came on in Besides being grown, tea has the earth opened up, closed high fan-just as suddenly as to be manufactured and the leaf again, and held him, up to the It had fallen-bringing with it waist, no in vice.

of dying fish. millions He passed the baby to No one knew whether the fish British assistant-and then he, were safe to eat or not, but foud too, was half swallowed up. was scarce, and the fecal isher- Again the child was rescued, den were missing no chances. -arid after a few minutes the men In Colarhat, in the centre

411 extricated themselves-without Assam, the prison walls fell

NOWAL 24.1

walked Their slippers.

prisoners Great jets of water began 15 out-only. return later in spurt out of the ground, and in need of fout. one of these the slippers were The main road through Assam

ejected.

Lo

of

A nightmare. Here and there

A WEIGHT OFF

YOUR MIND?

ATOST

(BY A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT)`

doctors

ret

But one askeit

have been warned

AST night, in the mood for conversation and kartoffelklase, I went a-calling on my Aunt Frieda and my Uncle Charlie,

into

"Your untic, he ain't home," said Frieda as I walked their Allen Street flat, "He 15 having a nervous break-up, and Dr Gittleson le sending him to In Feltlebaum's place Lakewood-Cathedral

What brought on?"

this," "Well, like

Air

Pines,"

in the

must make a diet

arked.

Bald

rtlet

I almost every week, "How palatable. I doubt if you will can I lose weight?"

be able to stick for long at Frieda. "One day is coming home The answer is simple. "Don't that allows less than 4 nces your uncle and announcing he carbohydrates and 11⁄2 ounces

д becoming

nat,"

reduce?

It predisposes discase,

216

*

by Billy ROSE

him

the

home from

the

Flag-wavors?

the

are

A

HOW

things

ARE down at Montgomery's Western Union headquarters Fontainebleaut

at

I was curious to find out what

several

British

was like for the hundred nnonymous officers and men who have lived tiere for the part letting were

down helping to thrash out A WOMAN said that we Europe in favour of the ternational military Empire. "Have we become the From,

a Government of Empire

the

two years, an in- plan with Dutch, the

So I went down there and the Labour movement is with the sartorial champion me!" THE only one to challenge flag-wavers? I believe the Belgians, and the Luxenburgers, The Labour move answer is that they like it very was Dr Dalton, whose tie ment did not say, und Mr much Indeed. Says an RAF "Thera are extra was so red that it gave a faworth cut the throats officer:

We are still broke flush to the whole gory proceedings.

of half a dozen more resola- allowances, tions. WAS

Herbert Morrison wearing his cockatoo hair-

Then the Schuman Plan

at the end of the month, Just as we should be back home.

better in the meanwhile."

He pays £18 month for a

do but, like Edith, seemed raised its bloody hend, and but we have lived a whole lot unnaturally subdued. Some with a roar Dr Dalton was where between Herbert and on his feet. Booming like

He does not "Later when we are coming the chairman there was a Jove calling for his chariot, furnished villa.

theatre the space where Mr Attice was he defended the document like the big heating bill-about The wives am not quite as impression is changing, because hiding as if to establish an his committeo had issued in £8 a month for gas fires.

"For days," he enthusiastic as the men, They Wilbur is playing on me and alibi. Behind him, among the middle of the Schuman your uncle n trick from 100 the supporting cast was his crisis.

newspapers seem homesick. very charming wife (whom shouted, "the

For treated us with unbridled! Inter Allied liaison "A trick like this: When Mrs we all like) knitting. the little boy is telling your uncle the moment I felt a slight misrepresentation and hy-well, but there in one stumbl- lis mother wants he should take tremor of agitation for I sterical abuse!"

bath right away, but he ain't have just finished reading

because Hopalone | Carlyle's time Cassidy is in 20 minutes.

years ago.

Lerner and me are going out,

1:01

French Revolu-

-

Monstrous !

Watson is a good B. Be britmined head a roll. Sam

poses

They tried

international messes,

the

catering

-WDS

PARIS gallantry.

of

and utility | are sewage furniture."

There is sanity is the laughter the and conference,

all the Socialist Party needs of the canity it can get. The truth is that the party is deeply divided. agenda, befare The published the items were alleed, contained

5.3

the

ing block-food having but the British other ranks scowled blackly at the slender

Bevan Sotion.

DEAU

ran his hand French breakfast of coffee and your uncle is telling him a man minutes for a

hair, An- don't need 20

straightfor- without displacing

"And then," bath, and he could do il cosy fellow, blunt,

So the little boy is ward and not lacking in a other delegate joined in the de-officer at Air Force head quar-

the Schuman plan, ters told me. 21 15.

"Wo gave the belling him $5 he can't take sence of fun. Yet he found nunciation off his clothes, bathe himself and his audience somewhat unre. and said: "It would have been men Solo Mornay (sole served

monstrous to place the British with a thick chase sauce) Starting from a fuil tub sponsive. Even where he steel Industry under a super-a special treat for dinner one huby-sitter. he says, is catching on very dress full up in 15 minutes.

control." He was day.

You should have heard declared that in the years natural But not everyone can obey of fat a day. Proteins can be is

But Every Monday night, be says, quick, is remembering all

is is caying your uncle,

the Socialists engulfed in a wave of laughter, the remarks. quantity. this. Even when they are pro- taken in any

the Lemers on Rivington Street cards, and by 10 o'clock

"Starting froin a full tub, is before 1939 the right in

- Wire put this blinking never opposed rearmament and chairman Haworth, rushing answering Wilbur vided with a diet they find fluids should not exceed

through another page of resolu hard to keep to it.

but voted against them be- uns, declared: "And that dis- sauce on the fish and where phits a day and no sweet wines, is going to the theatre uptown, trumping

hour and free

chipat "Well, all summer it goes like

the 1 dollar 8

cause the Tories would not Why should anyone want to heer, stout, spirits or nerated and Mrs Lerner is offering him cround.

waters are permitted,

will sit with this. Every Monday Charlie 1

bowderined complaint." sitting and every Monday

pool them with the other it Obesity is bad, medically. You will gel hungry on this television if he

But the appetite can their little six-year-old boy, brby init to the baby. And

uf the as everybody knows, member States to all sorts of

he in

"Well, regime.

called Wilbur where be lessened by a drug particularly

quinciquant he is not eating Charite is a fast bather and is It is used now by

so good end heart trouble and high blood "dexidrine."

is hollering and doing the job complete in nine League of Nations, the re- allows of

banging with the doors, This minutes.

And when wo are Ception was tepid. pressure is concerned. If there most dieticians and

low caloric intake

“Well, when Charlie is com little boy to be

making him plain coming home from the theatre Dalton nods is a tendency to arthritis, the a added weight of the body makes continued with lesy strain on ing home the Arst Monday night,

Ing he will get even-ne small I want you should be present the will power. And, if you are am naturally asking him for frazy, and your uncle is swear he is smiling like Steeplechase. the joint pains worse.

grossly overweight you can use the five dollars, but he is telling fryer, he says, is making him a at the paying-off ceremony FATS? NO.

cot il.

He and monkey.

says. For taking a simon bath, NOR was it much better more crackpot resolutions than when he spoke of the any similar document in political So one of the main treatments as much as a pound a day for a me he ain't

while,

Wilbur, he says is watching

I am winning five dollars cash

common people "that we all history. Mr Morrison's policy of television

moderation is going to have a troubin for both cardiac

and

EXERCISE? YES

from Wilbur," the wrestling on the

from," although

rough passage.

trouble arthritis is concerned with get

other day.

the Belgian Physical exercise is to be and bolting a dollar who will

"When I am hearing this, I spring the little boy is "Last Monday I am Aguring ting the weight back to as near tormal as powlbie.

border officials spotted a crude encouraged. But weight cannot win, and

down on me,"

Dr Dalton nodded his head be reduced by this alone. You winning five times consecutive. I will ace myself what is going, am thinking the relling is falling admittedly the ex-Etonian

"Next Monday, Charlie is and so I keep Charlio company

"I don't follow you," I said to in vigorous assent.

WELL, that was the opening alturations in her passport, Five Then, for reasons

will get hot, and slaking the

am zziere

who is my Aunt Frieda, "Why weren't when he finished his speech

day and the Big Guns have years had been knocked off her poorance, few people want to tn zubsequent thirst replaces water again losing the $5. This time to the Lerners.

is baseball He is belting ou meeting Mrs Lerner,

Charlie happy?

When age. Clothes cease 10 lost in perspiration. over weight,

the crowd gave him a warm yet to come into action.

to the hotel to the Brooklyns, and tite dumb giving me a big howdy-doodle, you

Charges of at; the slim hip line disappears:

falsifying the really

deserved reception. I cot back You binnced reducing diet you will bead, he is not knowing what and explaining her husband is won.""

"Ia simple," Frieda explained and generally it is unattractive.

Wrong Socialist Parliamentarian who la passport were dropped, when a isn't much is knowing that Jaklo husy in the shop, and in inviting Whour

murmured: "While I am getting There

gallant magistrato What diet will get down your lose weight. Many have proved Robinson is not playing on at me I should go with her to the sadly.

Sam Watson except something of a slyllet smiled a acquainted with Wilbur and his with

feminine greeting and remarked, "Where Such

Vanity is a this to their spisfaction. weight!

trait." vultures very human

He also me mother is putting on the hat, he his interpretation of his the carcans, is, the "She But it requires self control. count of because he has a busted theatre. Meals should be as free as

gather,"

pointed out to Praline that sho starchy from

cat- That is why a spa

and is betting me ten dollars he can possible

or nursing hand,

The third Monday, your acquaintedi with Wibur,

I think he is a triffo pes-ld not need a passport any- ohydrates and

Car home is so often advised. There uncle is going Kats

to the Lerners while she is putting on the make your uncle take off all history.

Then Mr Haworth, the ... increase the chance of adding to the bohydrates tend well: the mallor intake at minimal allowance is very small, with a deck, of pinochle cards hat I and talking with him, and clothes."

-!--{London Express Acryler) ---(Ligadon - Express Service) who lost his Parliamentary again he is making on me a very good (World Copyright Reserved-London chief of the Railway Clerks, simistic, or at any rate prema-way to get into, Belgions. comes away as in his pocket and makes the body use the and no one

losing the avo buckses. Wilbur, impression. excess it possÖSSCA.

heavy as they arrived.

fals

to

of

If

Ксер

18

also making

Express Fervice),

ho

finally

ONE OF France's

most

famous

Marsay,

mannequins, Janine

professionally know n Praline, got in

to

At

the