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a cautious manner that interfer- ence by an outside Power was out-manoeuvred. The cunning
FALSE ALARM
Brigades Trying To Find
A Fire
Great excitement prevailed out- side the Hong Kong Hotel this after- noon, just at a few minutes past two o'clock, when four fire engines Fire Brigade. came dashing up from the Central
People who were on their way to
office ran to find out what it was all about, and the firemen were
hurrying hither and thither to find out why they had been summoned.
brain in the Kremlin perceived that the most deadly form of aggression is that of wearing down the enemy by degrees. Apparently this form of warfare had maliciously pulled the alarm at which, after all, can have been Des Voeux Road Central.
the junction of Pedder Street, and nothing but a game to Russia,
her internal affairs torn by civil
It was later found that someone
has been more than China, with STILL A RAY OF HOPE strife, can stand. Whether she Coal Owners Willing To
Give Assistance
adhering to
their views
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1929,
HOW WOMEN COOKED 5,000 YEARS AGO
our
BY AN ARCHAEOLOGIST AT UR. No Workman
TOTHING pleased our Arab the best vessels for holding
more than when, water, and one always atands by after weeks of digging down the door of the expedition house. through 30 feet and more of earth, we bring to light some object which they can recognise on familiar to themselves.
One thing would not be done in the kitchen, and that was the bread- making; for this hot and smoky Gold vessels and strange works of business a special aven was needed art mean more bakskeesh for them, and would be placed apart, generally but a copper cooking pot such as in the open air. For the thin they att use themselves. or an "flap-jack," which is the normal. oven like their own primitive ones, bread of to-day, there might be out is greeted with shouts of joy.
In the courtyard a wide-mouthed Just outside a little temple, jar of very thick clay set in the whose ruins lie some four milos ground; in this is lit a fire of brush- from Ur, we found a kitchen which wood and dung cakes, and, as it dies must have been run to serve the down, the flat rounds of dough are needs of pilgrims visiting
the plastered against the glowing inner shrine.
sides of the pot, to be cooked in the spate of a few minutes.
There were two fireplaces, ex- actly of the type which one can see any day if one passes through the bazaars of Bagdad or Aleppo and looks into the native cookshops. An oblong block of bricks and mud in the flat top of which are long deep channels is the simple cook- ing-range. In each trough the cook lights a little heap of charcoal and across the top of it balances his chopper Вапн twirls his skewer on which are threaded lumps of stringy mut-, ton interpersed with other lumps of yellow fat from the tall of the long-tailed sheep, roasting it slowly above the glowing embers.
Gr
Just as to-day, so five thousand years ago the cook must have plied his trade, and the pans which he
uses
now, straight-sided copper things with outturned rims and open apouts, are almost identical, with those which we find set beside the
dead in the early tombs.
Another type of oven for making regular loaves of bread was found in the domestic quarter of the great Moon-goddess's temple: it is a brick-bufit, beshive-shaped structure about six feet across and as much high, and it is obviously more ault- ed to a professional bakery than to a private house.
In the Moon-goddess's kitchen there was a proper range built of bricks and fireclay with a double furnace, circular flues and rings of small holes in its flat top where the cauldrons might be put with the heat coming Into direct contact with them; and here, too, we found, what we find in private houses also, that the wood fires for balling water were outside in the open court, not in the roofed kitchen.
So to-day the Arab woman cooks her broad outside the shelter of reed mabs and mud which is her "house" and bolls her water over a fire lit In a hole which she scoops out in front of the door. The continuity in the essentials of Ife is unbroken; we know that as she cooks now, so did her forbears cook three thou- Band and five thousand years ago, brickwork is always placed at one
and in all likelihood when this side of the room and on the face of autumn we come to dig the pre- the wall above it we have found in Flood levels we shall and that the
Fifteen hundred years later, in Abraham's time, the same sort of range
was still being used in private houses. The square of
almost every case the soot from the smoky fire-and to see with one's
ovn eyes and to brush off with a
anger a substance à ephemeral na Boot four thousand years old is a very strange experience, proving again the permanence of unsub. stantial things.
On the floor of the kitchens we find other relics of the cook's busi nes, the stone grinders for milling corn, the oblong stone, hollow in the querns, middle, which we call "saddle and the smaller, thicker lumps well worn by use which "the woman grinding at the mill" work. ed backwards and forwards as she -squatted at her task.
same customs and the same devices go back even farther into the past. TEN YEARS AGO
[From the "China-Mall," November 29, 1919.)
has humbly bent the knee to Moscow, or whether she has other plans up her aleeve, is a
London, Yesterday. matter for the theorist to decide.
There is still a ray of hope in the The appeal she is alleged to
coal situation, it is learned. There
To-day's dollar is worth 4/- 11. have made to
were further discussions to-day be- ! the League of tween representatives of the coal,
Correspondence:The snobbish at Nations, but which has been do-owners and the Board of Trade. It
titude adapted by the "White lady" nied in official circles, can hardly is understood that the owners, while
in a British Colony (see yesterday's be hoped to result in an early prepared to discuss questions with are stiil
"China Mail") is unfortunately 'only too commonly assumed by the whites settlement of the dispute in her the Government and give what
in the Far East. She considered it favour.
groas insult in being' spoken to by Since Russia is not a assistance they can.-Reuter.
3 member of the League, it would.
Chinese policenian in matters apper- Negotiations Resumed
taining to his duties, disregarding the be somewhat unwise at this!
London, Later.
fact that the British Government of Following further explanations In a house of the better class the
Hong Kong has not thought it dero- young and insecure stage of from the Board of Trade regard-
actual cooking pots were generallygatory to commission the Kame that body's life to undertake &ing the Government's marketing of copper, and only poorer folk were Chinaman with the maintenance of CHINA BENDS THE task so beset with dangers and plan, coal owners and the Cabinet content with saucepans of fireclay, order in this British Colony. More
Coal Committee held a joint meet- but for other purposes clay was over, was it not some other yellows that embarrassments. China's plain- Ing at which negotiations were re-commonly employed.
this white lady was trying to protect KNEE
tive plea for protection to all the sumed. As a whole the position The water carried in from the when she set at deflance the orders of Emperors, Kings, and statesmenon of the marketing scheme. of porous clay, whose sweating aides lady would think it an insult if she depends on the successful opera- public well was stored in great jars It would appear from the of Europe, however, is a different The situation is regarded distinct would by evaporation keep the were spoken to, say, by Sir Robert Ho latest return of despatches on the matter. The United States, ly 08 easier. The Government contents cool; and jars just like Tung. Would she not put on a flatter- Chinese and Soviet imbroglio which is always keen to hopes to have the Bills ready for these are used by all Arabaing mile and think it a great honour? that the bullying tactics of the be the "Big Brother" in introduction in ten days.-Reuter. to-day. We ourselves find them - John Kestrel. latter have forced the weaker international affairs, in spite party to yield. Such an outcome of ita avowed wish not to be
mixed up in of the position has long been
other people'a forecast by those who have "meses," (to quote Mr. Ramsay atudied the full issues of the con-
MacDonald, who should know), flict. The motive behind the has suddenly remembered that Soviet's "playful" operations 'on
both China and Soviet Russia are the Manchurian border must have signatories to the Kellogg Pact. been obvious to all men of mili-So that, at long last, it would A Charles Peace Play tary experience. Even the Chin- appear that Fate has given the THE production at the Ambassa- ese themselves must admit that Powers a handle with which to
mirably
an officer of the low.
I would like to know whether this
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MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
Blood and Thunder Drama: New London Theatre: Underground River: Knightsbridge Barracks
dors Theatre, London, of a
of the famous (and Infamous)
a theatre manager at Barnsley ́ to
a small section of the Soviet produce peace in the Far East, play dealing with the adventures Unfortunately, any kindly In Charles Peace recalls the carious army, powerfully equipped as it is with first-class fighting 'planes, tervention which the Powers may fact that just on half a century tanks, strong artillery, and ad- have had in mind has come too ago an action, was brought against disciplined soldiers, late, for it seems that the Soviet Festraint him from giving perform could, had that been its policy, has had its way and achieved the ances of a piece entitled "The Six have achieved a devastating de objects of the so-called "war" Stages of Crime; or Wine, Women, feat of the Chinese troops and
Without undue optimism," we
Gambling, Theft, Murder, and the Gallows." invaded not only Manchuria but would ask China not to be un- China itself within a few weeks. grateful, nor to forget that she the play with this engaging title Apparently strong objections to Even had the impossible occur- did appeal to Western Powers in were raised on the ground that it red and the various factions now her hour of need, and that, when had provoked unhealthy excite- waging civil wars pledged them the time comes for the fate ofment, and was, therefore, contra selves to a temporary peace in extrality to hang in the balance, order to combine against the he shall not be harsh or unkind Russian aggressor, the likelihoodly to her would have been protec of China gaming the upper band tors.
in such a struggle is extremely
remote. This view is fully in ac
bonos mares..
A New Artist THE work of a new artist, unknown except to a small circle of bla in- timate friends, will be soen for the Arst time in the new London theatre which is being built by Mr. Bertie
Meyer.
work The club' had hoped to trans- fer from 8, Chesterfield Gardens October or November,, but this work of decoration and reconstruction fi so extenalva that the move is hardly likely to take place before the New
Tear,
Future of Knightsbridge Barracks
for a long time have been vir-
clude some, thirty large figures and The interior decoration will in- bas reliefs, and the drawings for Grinling have been accepted in open tually darelict so far as military o there submitted by Mr. Anthony RIGHTSBRIDGE Barracks, which competition with the work of profes-cupation is concerned, are now one
sional artists.
Sculpture has been Mr. Grinling's
of London's most valuable sites.
altuation in many respecte, ideal-
The frontage is enormous and the
But there are many difficulties to be overcome, resulting from the number of authorities that have to be ap proached, including more than one Government Department.
principal interest for many years, al- A movement to erect an hotal or though the bulk of his work has had block of flats there has been discus
pied in the family business-o-land- to be done at home in the evenings,ed for some time. for, throughout the day, he is occu ing firm of wine merchants.
Not a tow people, by the way, re- 870s the decision to change the name of this theatre from," "The Seven Dials" which was firit selected-to the more prosaic "Cambridge,” for Seven Dials has associations at least mors interesting than Cambridge circus,
the reductions in the House-- hold
vay not one-quarter of the vast building has been occupied. A. detachment, fram ens of the Foot. guards battalions is quartered there, Secret Stream.
and a few officers are in residence. LONDON is continually springing contingent of the Army Pay: Cop
There also socommodation for a surprises upon her devoted in. Otherwise the space is used largely habitants, and the latest is the Ending for the storage of Army waggons, Iveagh' palatial house (or, rather river below the site of the late Lord a purpoke.363) Malay
But an even stronger objection was based on the circumstance that the manager held out as an additional attraction the appear ance of a son of Charles Peace, who, narodible as it may sound, was engaged to play the concer Reuter announces the death in tins and answer any questions Sutton, who had sealeted mater Benjamin F. Yoakum, the RailwayOne wonders, in view of suc fally to build up the Northern magnate."
cessful revivals lately of auch old two houses in one) at 4 and 5, Gros Since economy in the Services ir time specimens of blood and The mansion was acquired some in the area denable stop it. Knights Mr. Ll King-hong, head master thunder drams as "Sweeney Todd' time as the new home of a of the Governm Vernacular and Maria Martin or The Mure Ladies Charlton Club, and the water. School, gave an
cture dar at, the Red Barn “ whether discovered during/ digging, vongrALON the enormous price it would undoubt. of the Soviet, last night at the
and 1944 Chinese Pictor
traced the history
cordance with that of General New Yorkyeuterday. ColgMr. put to him by the audience by workmen of a quite Uvely. little and it is much too valuable for such
who.
Army and
strength
and morale
knows, the the
The tacti
from the 10
vendr-Fince.
bridge Barracks are really not wante
ed, would bp to sell the fullding for
an YMCA there would be publis Bow for in connection with the alterations edly fetch
He
The Six
the
appear some notor
| necessary side, tha hosan gar for its But the regalatidia that hedge Crime" plus now occupantais aid to have been round any building connected even
relative deze one time the source of the water vaguely with Hyde Park are temirki:
sito barn upply for the city of Westminster ablo, Asfamous hotel abutting
The Immediate effect of its da the Park has to clean all its windows covary under 4 and 5, Grosvenor from the inside, as it is not allow place was a temporary suspension of ed to place ladders on the Park furt.