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What a pity that the POGROM Poles have lost Kiri
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To-dsy' rerum of actifiable dieare recrds one fatal case of plague in Hongkong. The victim was a Cain.se.
MESOPOTAMIA
ORIGINS OF INHABITANTI,
PRE-HISTORIC DWELLERS,
MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1×28,
RADIO ACTIVITY.
EARTH'S FIERY FUTURE.
SPECULATIONS ON THE PAST.
DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL.
PİCTURESQUE SPECTACLE.
ENORMOUS CROWDS ATTEND.
At the Royal Institution, London. Is the earth gradually becoming recently Mr. R. Campbell Thompson hotter? This astounding possibility It is estimated that the dragon ectured on the origins of the has been hinted at in recent years in Goat rates on Saturday and Sunday Mesopotamian Inhabitants. The
Convicted by Mr. N. L. Smith, lecturer began with a brief des connection with researches into were witnessed by over 30,000 peo- at the Magistracy this morning, ofcription of the geological events radio-activity. It has long been ple. On Saturday trans laua and the newspapers having had unlawful possession on which had led to the formations in known, writes George Findlay in ches, and every available means of hardly worth reading Weight board the ss.Sulan of two the Near East of the present day the Daily Express, that the che transportation to North Point were have had another pogrom to liven automatic revolvers, a Chinese was and continued with à discussion things up.
fined 8250 The arms were com of Sergi's Mediterranean race,mical element, radium, is continual crowded, and on Sunday literally fiscated.
OIK
THOSE
MOON.
to the
ornament.
Stanley."
The weather was glorious and
The
Notwithstanding the large number
"Policeman," in the
of which the Hamites formed ly giv ́ng off, heat" in the course packed. On Sunday, H.E. the Gover- letter published to-
Physically part,
and Hinguisti- HAWKERS, day, accuses the Ad- An elderly Chinese woman was cally, it would seem that a Proto- of spontaneous disruption into sim- nor was, present aboard the yacht
versarian of drivel removed to the Government Civil Hamite section of this Mediter, pier-elements-that is, elements of ling on Saturday. Drivel is the Hospital suffering from injuries remanean race was the forerunner of less atomic weight. In fact radium outpur of a child or a fool or an ceived as the result of being knocked the Semitic peoples, who must have each hour - gives off an amount Hongkong sever looked prettier. idiotit is altogether contemptible. I down by motor car No. 252 opposite; migrated at a very early time into of heat sufficient to raise its own The course was lined "with junks, So why the apparent heat? The the Taikoo Club on Saturday after Arabia: the Arab is as near akin to
Her condition is very serious, the pre-dynastic Egyptian in physique to boiling point. Other substances crowded with spectators. Toe races weight of water from freezing point sampans, barges, and mocor launches Adversarian surmises that this off-
as his language is to ancient Egyptian. besides radium are known to be cer has often been moved and touched by cases such as affected given by Captain Ricou at Repulse Semites were to bubble over period that this property is common, in and exciting. Silken streamers of Another exhibition of flying was Here from the cauldron of Arabia the radio-active; indeed, it is suspected themselves were both picturesque us saw no remedy for them, con- Bay yesterday, but the patronage cally, spreading northwards, and grad- ditions being what they arede was not large, possibly owing to nally splitting into the five main greater or less degree, to all kinds of many colours Buttered from short matter. The rate at which the earth masts placed at intervals in the cided to get peace of mind by shat-counter attractions. Four machines, Semitic divisions.
radiates its internal heat into space ting his eyes to them and now including the large two-passenger Approximately coeval with the resents the recent reminder of un-firing beat came over from Macao, Eastern movement, came a Western is so slow that a very small percent- long. low halls of the dragon pleasant facts he desired to forget. but the largest machine only was migration from Central Asia. Pam-age of radioactive material in the boats. The toiling paddlers, each crew That's one way of analysing his used. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Herb pelly's explorations at Anau. 300 interior would be capable of counter dressed in clothes of uniform colour,
balancing the loss of heal letter. On the other hand, he may made two flights, and Mrs. W. A miles east of the Caspian, show that
were spurred to prodigious efforts As a matter of fact from certain by the beating of tom toms and The absolutely and perfectly right Hannibal and Mr. Hermon White a very primitive people dwelt there calculations of the total quantity of drums, with the result that surpris-
He knows these people longer and one each.
several thousands of years B.Cradio-active matter present in the ing speeds were attained. better than we do. But does he
who were capable of producing earth, it appears that, far from launches of the Clerk of Course (Mr. ask us believe that all juvenile
A boatman reports that between a remarkable pottery
cooling down, our world is slowly F.H. Dillon) and the Starter (Mr. Ah hawkers are thieves and liars? 11.45 am, and 9 pm on June 10 ed with geometric designs. This but surely gaining in temperature, King), which followed the competi All? Every one?
while his eampan was lying of distinctive pottery is found at The Advenarian is Jardine's wharf, it was bearded by many sites in the Near East, According to Professor Joly of tors, had to go fast to keep up Record a person of harden-four men, armed with knives, who notably at Sasa (about 4,000 B.C.), Dublin, it is possible that within time was made by an Aberdeen bat
may become a red-hot mass through minutes and fifty seconds. CAREFUL rd effrontery, thick held him and his facis up, while they and as far west as Anatolia, and as a hundred million years the world which covered a good mile in two
Money and far south as Palestine and as the ex out on account of the accumulation CALCULA skinned, tough. The ransacked the boat.
value of $81 cavations conducted by the lecturer of beat from radio-active sources. Homeric. laughter of property the police experts at was stolen. The robbers forced their at Frida, in Mesopotamia, show. Not only so, but this globe may have his driveiling suggestions does not victims to row them to the China even in Southern Babylonia before witnessed similar catastrophes not alter his heart beat, or cause-bim Merchants", wharf. The sampan Sumerian occupation. That is to once, but many times in its previous the faintest emotion, except, per- master attempted to follow the rob- say, a prehistoric people from or haps, a faint pratification at the bers ashore, but was prevented by ria Anau spread over Western Asia suggestion that he has given some the people on board the sampan used about the good fellows & treat. But he does by the robbers. He then jumped happen to know about those care overboard and was later rescued by Ful caleniations by which experi- another sampan. In the meantime enced police officers know how the robbers all made good their
the Pamirs These. Armenoids met Of the Sora and fauna of those many hawkers would be too many!
the Semites in Palestine of North far-off times we could never hope to in each district. Whenever be.
Arabia and by fusion gave the find a trace. All must have perished, thinks of these calculations, and the Passengers on the ss. "Nile," Northern Semites their bushy beards, ideas on which they are based, he which left on Saturday, included Sir in place of the smail Hamitic beards, burned up or blown to atoms in some
races, two from Aberdeen, two from terrific series of cataclysms. yarns to drivel sonie more. How. Raymond Dennis K.BE. and Mr.
Again came another migration.
Perhaps, untold ons ago, long Tai Kok Tsui, two from Shaukiwan, for instance, was the wise maxi-W. E. Hobbs, O.BE. WHO
are from the East, Sumerians, who appear before the present geological strata one from Mir's Bay, and five from munn of newspapers selle enm-making a tour of the world together to have been linguistically allied to came into being anether race of in. Wanchai. The owners of the dragon
During bis
visit Sir Raymond the Ugurs and Turks: and after telligent creatures flourished upon boats were Messrs. Mak Shu Po, Lai Putel?
Dennis appointed as Sole Agents their advent the prehistoric people this self-same globe. Perhaps it was Cheung Kwai, Ip San Fatt (2), Chau On the whole, we fear for the Dennis 3-1/2 and 2 ton (Armenoids?) begin to die out their fate as it may be that of the Fuk Yao, Lai Hang Shing, Chang ON THE that our correspondent motor lorries and Chara-banes for But although this prehistoric folk human race to be cut off at the Yee Pu, and Tai Kee. The last men- WHOLE. is not eligible for nem Hongkong and South China Messrs was ousted by the Sumerians summit of their civilisation by some tioned entered the five boats from
bership in our Square Alex Ross & Co, 25, Des Voeux (whose pottery, by the way is quite titanic outburst of radio-active energy Wanchai. Deal Club We blackball him on Road, Central, Hongkong and this distinct from the
geometric
A wide assortment of prizes was the strength of the paragraph in firm will shortly receive a vehicle class), the latter were only to hold accumulated in the "slow procession
of the years.
made available for competition by. which he says that the greater num❘ of each model for demonstration pur-way for a limited period, they
the generosity of Chinese donors, land. Every Englishman will read-ber of our by Hawkers are accom- poses. Sir Raymond informed our themselves going down before the
including wine, silver medals, roast -- ily admit that the natives shouldplished thieves and liars, whose representative that he was greatly Akkadian Semites in the third].
pig, silk fags, quantities of cigarettes, not have been so heavily taxed for fathers loaf in apiam divans, while impressed by the possibilities of motor millennium, who probably invaded.
cakes and cash prizes. the benefit of the home-staying their mothers run sly brothels. We transport in Canton which city he Babylonia down, the rivers after
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mr. B. M. C. da Cunha of No. 1, Gordon Terrace, Kowloon, begs 10 acknowlege with grateful thanks the invaluable assistance and services rep dered by Capt. H. E. Murray, I.M.S.. and Mr. John Mukerji. Assistant to Government Medical Officer. Kow- boom, on the occasion of the sad incident to the late Mrs. das Dores
on the 16th instant.
T103S.
escape.
history.
of junks, sampans, and launches present at North Point, the course. was kept free from obstruction, thanks to the untiring efforts of twa police Other geological epochs, other launches and the Clerk of Course. fifth millennium BC stupendous systems of evolution, "ay Consequently the judges, Commander Many points seem to indicate that have run their colossal courses in the Hodgson, R.N., Sergt. Major Wolford, these were the Armenold race so distant past under a sun not much R. and Sergt. Smith; RE, perform long admitted to have existed in these different from that which we see ed their onerous duties under the
most favourable conditions. parts, which had come probably from to-day.
icto the
Tigris-
BRITISH IMPERIAL
Mr. J. Lachian Cope, B.A. (Cantab), F.R.GS., who accompanied the last Shackleton Expedition as surgeon
Germans. Big as the sum was, it can understand that a policeman's visited on Wednesday last. The new having left their Arabian home, ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. was, of course, a flea-bite to the fe here is not a happy one, and roads made on the site of the old going via Palestine or Syria, rather (ieman Chancellor, with his
that the ways of the Chinese crook city walls are broad and well made that directly läbilities running into many thou tend to enhitter: bit on cain: re-and there are many evidences of ex Euphrates delta from Arabia. sands of millions. Every English-Section, say on a Sunday in church. tensive development. His stay in excuse for remitting such as mind is attuned to love, we show the Island came to be known as man will admit that there was no while the organ is pealing, and the Hongkong has been most agreeable 2nd he could easily realize, he added, seeing that it involved a per gest that untrarrespondent would the "Pearl of the East," her title to cent, increase in the cost of fond modify the sweeping suggestive which none could dispute. ffor the natives—thragliyat-that- i piess of that paragraph
large Colony..
Where was the Colony? Natur-
The China Mail.ally, you want to know that, and
Honerose, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1990.
WHAT THE GERMANS DID IN A GERMAN COLONY.
The Germans were not good colonisers. They were selfish. The nights of the domiciled or indigen- ous communities meant little or nothing to them. They made loud professions. Talked of the blessings gof civilization they brought. Here! and there, and at certain times, appearances indicated that without them things could have been much worse. They did not fail to point
this out...
ADVERSARIA.
SIBERIA.
THE ERROR
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GODOWN BURGLED,
DARING DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
AN ALERT CONSTABLE.
SIGNS OF MORAL COLLAPSE.
The course extended from opposite the Asiatic Petroleum Co.'s premises to North Point and covered a mile. Twelve boats participated in the
In addition to the names of the gentlemen whose zeal and energy, IS already mentioned, contributed large-, ly towards the success of the races, reference should also be make to the. others members of the general com- mittee, Messy's. Mee Cheung, Koon
THE RESULTS...
나
Fourth Race-Aberdeen 1; Taš Kok Tsui 2; Aberdeen 3.
Fifth RaceWanchai, 1, 2 and 3. Sixth Race-Shaukiwan, 1 and 2:5 Aberdeen 3. ・・
Seventh Race-Wanchai, 1, 2 and 3.
Eight Race. Shaukiwan, 1 and 2; Tai Kok Tsui, 3.
Ninth Race-Wahchai, 1, 2 and 3. Tenth Race Shaukiwan, 1 and 2; Tai Kok Tsui 3
Eleventh and Twelvth Races.- Wanchai, 1, 2, and 3.
41
AWOKE IN A CELL.
RESULT OF A FARTY. ·
MIND A BLANK,
| and biologist EO the Ross Tai, and Tam shin-po.
Sea party, proposes to lead an expedí. tion to the Antarctic this year for the First and Second Races-Tai Kok purpose of further geographical and | Tsui, 1 and 2; Wanchai 3. scientific exploration 171 these Third Race-Shaukiwan 1 and 2. Somehow the Ad-
"All about us lie the signs of regions, add the Mercantile Marine Mirs Bzy 3. versarian cannot
moral collapse," says the Common Service Association is particularly OF JESUS. bring himself to
wealth "There can be no doubt interested by reason of the fact that) having made your blood boil at
feel ashamed of
about it. We have sunk. And the an "Old Conway" and lale member TRUTA, JUSNICE, PUBLIC SERVICE German infamy, we have now to
When Jesus said
most disastrous aspect of the whole of the association, Lieut. Patrick confess to a little trick, intended that drive.
suffer little children. He did not
matter is the patient attitude of Stanton Campbell, R.N., has been to bring it home to you. It wasn't
public opinion towards vice in its appointed to the command of the a Geruan colony at all. It was specify little Europeans, or even
various manifestations.
expedition ship "Terra Nova" Lieut. British Malaya and it was the good little children with respect- Jesus may have
"Everywhere there is evident, a Campbell is a recruit from the Mer able parents.
temper that frankly accepts things chant Service, and his apprenticeship. Singapore officials who did it..hel figures are approximately correct. overlooked the fact, recognized by
as they are. Of indignation, of pas- which was completed in 1914, was For Berlin read London. For Ger- experts, that little children can lie.
A daring robbery "occurred in sionate and prophetic revolt, of holy served in sail. On the outbreak of Forest British
and that they may have unworthy Wanchai on Friday, when four-mes wrath, there is nowhere any trace, the war he joined up for active parents. That is an inference an broke into a godown, and coolly We are back again upan the dismal service as midshipman, RNR. He you think of it?
expert might draw, a hard-headed,
The Adversarian removed several cases of tin-plates fallacy that these moral shames are was among the first RN.R. midship practical man.'
in broad daylight.
inherent in, and natural to, human men to transfer to the RN. and confesses that he overlooked it, and
Placing the property on a waiting being. Man is man as he is, as we subsequently saw much service iz that he will probably go on over-
and was promoted looking it. We have children of truck, the thieves carted it. to one see him, and the only sane method destroyers,
him accord. lieutenant. He joined the Mer. In the House of tender years doing long sentences of the wharves in Praya Central and is to deal with
Human there transferred it to a junk which ingly
nature remains cantile Service Association în 1911 JAFAN AND Commons on May here for opinm smuggling, and little had been engaged to take it to an the
same through the chang on leaving the Conway, but re. 6 Mr. B. Law said boys fogged and fined and impri- unknown destination. Having met ing years; therefore wisdom lies in signed when he was transferred that in the opinion soned for selling peanuts witbout with no interference, the thieves sparing that nature the avoidable from the Reserve to the Royal Navy. The expedition will leave of the Government the action of the licence. That is all we can see. believing themselves secure from consequences of its grosser deeds.
"That is the popular mind. That in June of the present year in Japanese in Siberia was not of such Their mothers may run sly brothels. detection, did not hurry over their In one of their colonies there was a nature as to require the approval their fathers loll in opium dens, work However, a constable passing is the tone of nearly all public dis- Captain Scott's old ship, the Terra
What delicacy:
we cannot deny it. But we cannot at the time, noticed a suspicious cussions upon venereal disease, or Nova," and will proceed to Welling
Before Mr., N. L. Smith at the a rice crisis, and the Germans took of the Allies. control. They raised the price of What an extremely nice way of forget that the Friend of children movement on the part of the man unmarried mothers, or the vast ton, which will be the last base in
the young of civilisation. After a brief stay there, Magistracy this morning, A. J. Ablong, the rice considerably, in issuing it putting it. The next time a burglar said: "Whoso shall offend one of directing operations and walked to spread amongst
... it were bet-wards the truck with the intention of knowledge about the means for the with the total complement of the in answer to a charge of having been to the people, and this enormously comes to our house and steals all these little ones
Even expedition she will proceed south, drunk and incapable on Saturday, and we have we shall remark that hister for him that a millstone were questioning the men: The thieves, prevention of conception. und in quite a short time raised the behaviour is not of such a nature banged about his neck, and that asxious to avoid an interview at such good and thoughtful and clean calling first at Macquarie Island for with having assaulted an Indian Police Erust of living all round. Higher
wages had to be paid, and prices as to require our approval. It beats he were drowned in the depth of an inopportune moment, made good living men are caught up in this the purpose of carrying out a geo- Sergeant, said he did not remember
geological survey the alleged offences.. Drivel, perhaps, but their escape in a dinghy, leaving most pessimistic and profoundly un- graphical and
island. >From there some of the booty on the wharf, The Christian outlook. It is the temper of this
The Indian said he was on his beat alt round were raised. They au- the famous case of the Curate the sea."
will proceed to stolen property was removed to the that would make the best of a situa she
Scott in Haiphong Road at 1.15 pm on nounced, however, that the in- Betrayed, or the Vicar's Broken strong drivel.
where PoFce Station.
tion that exists; rather than rc-Island,
will Saturday, when he saw the defendast Eighty per cent.
In the evening, the same constable pudiate the entire and false necessi-be landed, and a small, specially-con-lying dead drunk in the drain, He PABLIAMENT. of our Members
met -two men, one of whom was tarian philosophy upon which the structed but erected. These men picked him up, and without any pro- of Parliament are
carrying a box. Suspecting them in situation actually bases itself. It is will remain for one year, and will vocation, the defendant hit him on the connection.. with the morning's a temper, too, full of attractiveness carry out meteorological research. mouth. When he blew his police body agreed that that could not profiteers, and it is a perfectly
episode, he shadowed them to a for us because it is apparently so From Scott Island the vessel, entering whistle the defendant snatched it from possibly go on, and acquiesced in splendid example of British prin-
tinsmith's shop where the box was intensely practical and worldly wise, the Ross Sea, proceeds to New Hat him, broke the chain; and threw the the new conditions as something ciple and altruism that they should that could not be helped.
have brought in two anti-profiteer>
When defendant again to those removed to the station that whilst men are men, and women of the Western Mountains, between struck him on the mouth, he drew opened, revealing tin-plates similar Yet at root it is an acknowledgment bour, which is situated in the foothills whistle away. Imagine the public sensation ng acts. It is, of course, anus- The Humphrey Bishop Company earlier in the day. When a bargain are women, lust must needs arise. Ferrar and Taylor Glaciers. Here the nis truncheon to defend himself, The caused when it leaked out that the fortunate circumstance that neither
announce that their season at the had been struck the constable showed and when and where it arises should main but will be erected. This havirg local government had sent borne to happens to ucr; bui we cannot ex-
Theatre Royal will open on Thursday himself, and arrested the two men, be so ordered and regulated and been accomplished, six men will be defendant snatched this also and threw
it away. Bertin, from the revenue or ac-pect, everything all at once,
The defendant struggled cumulated funds of the Colony, the
Rather disappointed text, not Friday as previously ad-one of whom at once volunteered the protected from itself that its more taken from the shore part en board the normous sum of 25,000,000 marks WINSTON E' at the results of the vertised, owing to their ship arriving statement that he was a coolie who dangerous infections shall be at a ship to Cape Crozier on Ross Island violently, and it was not until the br
had been employed by the other to minimum-
The other three men, with a portable rival of a Chinese constable that he LATEST. recruiting for the earlier than was expected. The carry the box Both men were "And indeed there is much to be but will praceed as far south, as was removed to the Police Station.
Territorials, our one booking plan has already been opened charged at the Magistracy on Sater- said on its behalf,. The regalation, practicable over the Great Ice Barrier, The defendant said he went to a party, professing inability to continue its and only Winston had an idea. at Moutries and the public are advised day with having received stolen pro the confinement of vice, is something where they will spend a winter study and gor drunk. He did not know what happened.". All he could-remem- rice eobsidy, and so help to keep Let Lemployers offer an extra down the cost of living, it was weeks's holiday on full pay to all to book early as this popular Com-perty. The man who declared that after all. Prevention Better than ing the meteorological conditions
he had only been egged to. carry cuce but cure is not actually to be Os board the ship an aeroplane willber was that he awoke in a cell vis transmitting twenty-five millions of employees joining up. He did not pay will be certain to play to the property proved his claim to the despised. But, his modern témper be carried, and during the month of morning. marks to Berlin, as a patriolicy plumply and plainly what he crowded houses as on their previous satisfaction of the Magistrate and about lust, when analysed, will be December if the weather permits, an camsbaw from the Colony in ques expected in happen to those, emelvisit. tion The colony, being German, ployees who rejected this offer, i badenaturalty, practically zu rege--because that would hay lunked sol zentative institutions no popular like Camouflaged Conscription. Take race in this offering to the Father-The treatment of soldiers since the
Fcrease was absolutely necessary, 35
they (the German colonial govern- ment) were losing something like £7,500,000 marks a month. Every-
for the relief of the tax-payer in Germany! At the very time it was
Umbrella.
"
HUMPHREY BISHOP CO.
ARRIVING IN, HONGKONG SOONER THAN EXPECTED.
three men
was discharged. The other man,ofund to rest upon frank acquiescence attempt will be made to fly to the utable to give a satisfactory explana upon the tacit acceptance of the peed Pole I however, weather cond tion for possession of the tin, was of licence. And it has largely come tions do not allow an attempt to be WALLA-WALLA"-BOAT seritenced to four weeks imprison about through our prejudice against made at that time, the flight will be
postponed until the following year,' Phone No. 3518,ment with hard labour.
dormes.
Sergeant Srimson said that the whistle and the truncheon had not been recovered. A fine of $5 was imposed on each charge, and defendant was ordered to pay $1.50 to the Indian as compensation for damaged clothing.
A