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THE KUOMINCHUN THE SKULL OF THE
Revolt Aimed Against An Individual
Peking, Saturday. It is learned from Taiyuanfu that as soon as Yen Hsi-shan has com-i plated his conferences with Wu Tze- bui and Ho Cheng-chun (the former of whom
is at present at, Tai-
PEKING MAN
OBSCURE DETAIL CLEARED BY DISCOVERY
MAN IN 807,000 BC.
Peking. Yesterday. Before an audience including British, American, Chinese, and
MAIL.
SEDITIOUS PAPER Witness Accused Of
Telling Lies
CONSTABLE'S IMPERTINENCE
Chinese Police Constable C-626 was reproved for impertinence to the Court, by Mr. T. S. Whyte- Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy
yuanfu), Yen is expected to go to French scientists, at the National on Saturday, during the course of i
At
terday bidding farewell to Yen Hal-
Anatomy nt
Chengchow to direct operations again Tang Seng-chi.
Geographical survey yesterday, Dr.
his evidence against a Rconsed meeting in Taiyuanfu yes- Davidson Black,
Chinese motor driver of the China Professor of
Motor Bus Co., Chatham Road, the Peking Union shan, his personal representative, Medical College, and others dos- Hunghom, who was charged with Koo Jen-fa, made a speech in the cribed the And made at Choukou- the unlawful possession of sedi- course of which he said that Yentien, 40 miles from Peking .the
tious pamphlets and papers. Hsi-shan in accordance with his skull of the Sinanthropus, the Mr. Horace Lo, the defence was Through the indisposition of policy, had not used force in con-owner of which is stated to have conducted by Mr. M. K. Lo, who nection with the recent Kusminehun reamed the western hills one revolt, as it was aimed a tinst an million years ago, with the sabre-entered a plea of not guilty of individual. Hence his advice was toothed tiger.
possession, that it shoukl be settled by political,
Dr. Black said that the find was
Detective Sergeant J. O'Dono- means.
unique. A good deal of the skull van, prosecuting, said that at 8.30 Now, however, Tang Song-chi's was still imbedded in rock, but pm. on December 11 two Chinese revolt threatened to overthrow the some of the matrix had been re-detectives were on duty outside Kuomintang Government and des-moved, showing the brain-case al- the Tin Hua Temple, In Temple troy the purpose of the revolution, most completely preserved, though Street, when they noticed a ser- and so Shanel was bound to send most of the facial region was lack-vice car come up and stop half an expedition utterly to crush the ing
way belon them. revolt.
steppe
He informed the meeting that Shansi troops had already reached Hauchang, on the Kinhan Railway, while Government forces were a proaching Chumatien, Meantime, the movements of the Kuominchun are causing some uneasiness. It is confirmed that they have occupied Loyang, while westbound trains on the Lunghai Railway cannot pro- ceed further than Tzeshui, eastward of Kunghsien. It is also reported that Sun Cheh-yuan's forces at; Tungkuan, have started moving eastward-Reuter,
THE CE.R. DISPUTE
Evacuation Begun Of Manchuria
The driver from the left hand 8 alleged that in zo pped some papers, de way to the re-
Greater Brain Capacity Like the Java Ape Man he has side massive brow ridges, but differa doing from the Java type, having well and rapis well-developed frontal eminences, assistant. After ten minutes they localised parietal eminences and creation gros together with his
besides greater height skull, which returned, to be accosted by the point relatively to a greater brain detectives, and were capacity.
The pamphlets were) from the gutter next to vice car.
The good preservation of the lower jaw sockets will make eagler the restoration of the lower jaw fragmenta discovered in 1928.
The perfection of the preservation
stad.
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What He Meant When Constable C-626 entend
of the skull will enable much to be the witness box. he was very learned which is now obscure con- closely cross-examined by Mr. cerning the evolution of the head Lo. Witness was asked by the de in the region of early, man. fence to explain what he meant ex M. Chardin, another expert, actly by the words " rapidly went thought that the Singnthropus was away"....
earlier than the Neanderthal man The witness claimed that he saw Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, the two men enter the car on their whose Central Asian expeditions return; the engines were still run- Tokyo, Saturday.
set out primarily to search for the ning, The restoration of peace-time condi- remains of early man, declares he ENTER-tions in Manchuria is proceeding would have given ten years of his
steadily with the withdrawal of the life to have made this discovery Commercial Soviet forces from Chinese territory, Reuter.
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INTER-TRIBAL CLASH
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between
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LOST IN ANTARCTIC
Whaler's Fruitless Search For Airman
Mr. M. K. Lo at the close of wit ness's evidence, submitted that he was "a liar," because the service car had no self-starter at all, and was worked by the hand crank.
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vice of the China Mator Bus Co.,sion was not strong enough to con- on the ground that if they did not
viet, since, as the place was not catch well-lighted, there possibility of some one else having dropped the papers in the crowd
then
It would be very hard on the man Oslo, Yesterday. if he were accused of possession. Sixteen whalers have been search. He submitted that ing for three days for Lei! Lier, the merely went to Temple Street to his client Norwegian airman, with the whaler have his food and missing. "Kosmos" in the Antarctic, who is back to the garage.
rush After scouring a vast Detective C-76 then area several times, amid drifting evidence, ice resultlessly, most whalers have given up
The Magistrate, in summing up. the search, but the said that the evidence of posses- "Kosmos" and her whalebonta con- tinue. The "Kosmos" has been in communication with Commander Byrd continually, but it is felt that Byrd'a participation in the search not adapted to alighting on the sen has too great risk, as his 'plane is and landing on Ice floes, is too dan
Matabeles and Mashonas. There was gerous. no disposition to Interfero with the whites.
The police promptly got control of the situation, thas averting most seri- aus consequences.
A company of the second battalion of the Defence Force has been mobilie ed, and will march fully armed through the locations. The police anticipate that small outbreaks of fighting ara likely to occur in the next week or two-Reuter.
LINKING THE WORLD
Scheme To Join Africa
And Europe
Gibraltar, Saturday.
A Soviet Search The Soviet authorities announce that a second expedition, headed by Chuknovaky, and other fliers who participated in the "Italia" searches, will leave. Krasnoyarsk on January to search for Elelson.-Reuter.
Are You Looking Old Too Soon?
Too many men and women look old before they should. Their faces become wrinkled, pallid. drawn, their eyes lose brightness, The construction of the tunnd con- feelings of wretchedness and necting Europe and Africa will begin weakness, sometimes accompanied in January. Colonel Jovenois, author by headaches, digestive troubles. of the scheme for the tunnel under the backaches, or the shooting pains Straits of Gibraltar, has arrived at of rheumatism-unknown former Tarifa, from Madrid, with a party ofly-now make them feel that, al engineers. He has announced that the though they should still be in the Spanish Governments approved a fresh grant to defray the cost of fak-prime of life and vigour, Ing soundings, and sinking shafts, with its infirmities, is getting a Router.
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POLISH CABINET Pilsudski As Minister
Of War
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The defendant was discharged.-
The Car Produced During the hearing of the case the Court adjourned for ten minutes for both the prosecution and the de fence to prove that the service car did not have a self-starter. this purpose the car was specially driven to the rear of the Couri
Communist Rising Detective Sergeant O'Donovan point but that the two detectives put on special duty there, that day being the second anniversary of the Communist Rising.
Mr. Lo submitted that the datec- tives merely arrested the defendant house, In Battery Street.
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