TUESDAY JANUARY 28, 1930.
THE PEKING MAN
Fossils of Our Early Ancestors
"EPOCH-MAKING ”
Did Man Originate From the Orient?
ANOTHER VIEW
THE CHINA MAIL,
MRS. THOMPSON
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and I shall direct the Registrar to send them to the Attorney Gen- eral for him to take such action as may be necessary.”
Plaintiff's Case
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THE PRESS AS BASIS
OF FILM DRAMA
THE LAST EDITION" AT THE MAJESTIC THEATRE
A FOREMAN'S TRAGEDY
Mr. F. C. E. Rendall appeared far
A vivid melodrama, enacted in the plaintiff and the defendant's case was conducted by Mr. H. the atmosphere of the newspaper Armstrong.
game, and showing the most In- According to the plaintiff intimate details of newspaperdom evidence
with all their glamour, yesterday ke Fot
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romance
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in touch with the defendant through and tragedy, "The Last Edition," ary, In this article from the London Daily Telegraph, Dr. Elliot an advertisement which we hud In-Emery Johnson's latest production, will be shown - to-day at the serted for employment. He Was Smith, F.R.S., one of the leading British anthropologists, discusses placed on a month's trial as a clerk Majestic Theatre, Kowloon. Ralph
at $30 a month. 31rs. Thompson Lewis, who made his roles in "The Dispensing Department, will be the bearings upon the history of a remote ancestor of Man. Re-was satisfied with him and took him Shield of Honour." "The Sunset OPEN for dispensing Prescrip- mains of no fewer than ten skeletons lay huddled together in a small on at $100 a month. A contract for Derby" and "In the Name of the tions from 10 am to 1 pm, and limestone cave near Peking, among them being the complete skull of two years' aorvies was then entered Law," historic pieces of dramatic from G p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
upon. Plaintiff was required to put acting. is starred by the produc-A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
is confident- a primitive human being who walked erect.
up a deposit of $500, but as he dider-director in what
Hong Kong, 27th January, 1980. not have the money to do so, it wasly predicted will be the most popu-. agreed that $50 a month was to be lor part he has ever played. deducted from his monthly salary until the required amount was reached.
Dr. Elliot Smith disputes the theory that the fact of primitive remains having been found in the Far East presupposes that man was evolved in Asia. The existence of Piltdown man in the Far West and the Taungs "man" in Bechuanaland, leaves open the issue whether man's ancestors sprang from China or the South of England.
A UNIQUE EVENT
The discovery of the fassilised remains of ten representatives of "The Peking Man" (Sinanthropus
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of these jaws to the The likeness Piltdown jaw verdict suggested by the crushed
corrobarates the
skulls, that the Peking Man is more nearly akin to Piltdown Man than to his nearer Japanese relative Pilthecanthropus,
Ten Human Skeletons
Mrs. Emilie Johnson, mother of the brilliant young director, wrote: the story, and the Johnsons in con- On December 3, 1929, plaintif junction with their former ator went with the defendant to Kwong have returned to the old combina- Chow Wan. She subsequently left!tion which provided the 'public' plaintiff there, giving him $105 for with all of the thrilling success, the purpose of getting advertising mentioned above, as well as sev sites and also for his expenses. Sheern) others. was alleged to have said to the
One of the Cogs plaintiff that she did not have As Tom Macdonald, the humble enough money with her and asked assistant foreman in the press room plaintiff if he could get any. It sojof a great daily metropolitan paper,
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Frances Teague plays the part of the daughter, and with Rox Lease carries the romance of the story splendidly. Liia Lestic, Ray Hallor David Kirby, Russell Simpson, Wade Botheler, compose the remainder of the cast.
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FOTOR CARS containing to attend,
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happened that plaintiff met a friend he is one of the cogs in the gigantle Queen's Pior will proceed by way there who entrusted $700 to machine which strows the streets of Murray Road and Connaught of this, with live-wire newa in flaring Road Central to the Hong Kong pekinensis) was described as
plaintif alleged, he had lent extras.
Club where the occupants will 3600 to the defendant. Defendant most remarkable and important con-
How his beloved presses, play him alight and walk to the Pier. gave a receipt for the money which falac, and how he wrecks the buge Cars will be parked tribution to the history of human
in Con- bore Indo-China atamp. On machine as it is churning out the naught Road Central between development. The event is unique.
The thinness of the crania of their return to Hong Kong, defen- story of his son's arrest, makes one Jackson Road and Murray Road. For once the much-abused term
E. D. C. WOLFE, epoch making is the just and ap- Sinanthropus and the less obtrusive- dant gave another receipt for the of the most powerful situations ever
ly simian features of the jaw justify $600 and requested the return of registered on the screen.
Inspector General of Police. In this
Hong Kong, January 27, 1980. propriate description.
the inferences made by Professor the original receipt. Davidson Black that the Pekinese
Alleged Warning article I shall attempt to explain my
Cross-examined by Mr. Arm- a genus different from reasons for using the terms unique belong to
their contemporaries in Java and strong, plaintiff said that he was and epoch-making in reference to a Discovery which I regard as the Britain-one, moreover, more near- at one time employed at the Repulse ly akin to modern man. But as Bay Hotel. He left because he did yet it is premature to claim "The not like the job. He was not dis- in business Man of Sin" as our remote ancestor. missed. He was also
The recovery
of parts of ten for himself with an ice cream shop skeletons gives Dr. Black the oppor-In Wanchal. He had to close up tunity to study the structure and because business was bad. At the variations of these early fore time he joined the defendant, he runners, and to obtain a much fuller had about $600 with him, but he did and surer knowledge of their dis- not put up the security asked be tinctive features than is possible in cause he had been warned against the case of either Pithecanthropus Mrs. Thompson. or Eoanthropus.
most momentous in the whole his tory of the study of fossil man.
When in 1891 Dr. Eugene Dubois found part of the fossilised brain. case of Pithecanthropus on the bank of the Solo River in Java, con- troversies arose as to whether this Early Pleistocene fossil-Professor Dubois believed it to belong to the still earlier Pliocene period-13 part of a primitive man gigantic ape, and whether thigh bone found short distance from the skull fragment was a part of the same Individual. These questions aro
The Chinese discovery differs
Defendant's Version
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The defendant's case was that the
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"HIGH STEPPERS"
Farewell Performance at Majestic
"The High. Steppers," the bright party of vaudeville, artistes, gave: their last performance, in the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon, last
or of a profoundly from those made in plaintiff was unsatisfactory as a night... There was a good crowd
Java and In Sussex. The remains clerk. Defendant was never offered
the
Д in the gravel
New Genus of Mankind When in 1912 the Pilldown skull and jaw were discovered in Sussex by the late Mr. Charles Dawson and Sir Arthur Smith-Woodward,
water.
served under
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of the Apo Man of Java and of Put A contract: of scrvice. She and and the show was thoroughly ap down Man were found in gravels, never borrowed the $600, from, preciated. Unfortunataly, the COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED and had been naturally deposited in plaintiff and she had never been eccentric comedian and sketch. the beds of streams by running short of money. She alleged that artiste Bert-Beal, did not appear The ancient Pekiness left the purported receipt was made out but nevertheless Speedy Pete
Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, their remains in a limestone cave, by the plaintiff over a signature covered all the laughing ground Today Tea Dances, at Hong still being discussed to-day, and they were swept into a fasure which she had put on contract form. very well.
Jazz and classical dancing was 4.30pm. though thirty-eight years have in the floor. Hence the remains She remembered plaintiff asking her elapsed since the discovery.
were not scattered, but were pre- to sign four formos. in. lley of the ably executed by the Misses To-day-Dinner Dances at Hong conditions which official contract form as supplied by Webber and Dawn, while Pete Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, To-day--Dinner Dancs at Rè- enable us to be certain of the as the Post Office at Kwong Chow plecsed all with his comical de 8.80 p.m. sociation of the different fragments have made use of one of those to
Wan. In her opinion plaintiff must monstrations.
Şid Clarko, the Addling funster, pulse Bay Hotel; 8.30 p.m.,
Tomorrow-Chinese New Year's as parts of definite Individuals. All in the wording of the alleged ably rendered on, his violin, "The Eve Garnivals at Hong Kong Hotel
and two receipt. The contract of service Pagan's Love Song,"
and Peninsula Hotel, 8 p.m.. The chief significance of the new must have been written on a signed other airs...
Entertainmento Some snappy songs, were, given several anthropologists refused to discoveries depends upon the con-advertising form.
Today Queen's who next by Misa Alice Benne, Experiments In Chambers a specimen so closely sideration that they provide Dr admit that
"Hollywood Revue." Davidson Black jaw
with enough His Lordship was not clear whe appeared in a comedy skit with
Today Star Theatre, resembling a 'chimpanzee's
material to determine, once for all, ther the signature was written over Cass and Pete. The latter paiRomance of the Underworld."" could possibly have formed part of the same individual as the obviously the characters of one of the Early the stamp or whether the stamp was gava 4. clever acrobatic exhibition,
Mahomet Cassin diatingalahed The Flaming Forest."
To-day World Theatre, human skull. Leading palaeonto- Pleistocene general of the human over the signature. The case was
To-day Majestic Theatze; Jogists in Gemany, France, and family, and by comparison with the thorefore adjourned until this morn- himself in his final appearance
less complete remains of Pithe ing to enable his Lordship and the and sang "Your Mother and The Last Edition."," America still harbour anch doubts,
canthropus and Eoanthropus to solicitors interested to conduct an Mine". "Someone." and
Vagaband Lover," all, three being give greater confidence in the inter-experiment in chambers.
well received.. ma pretation of their meaning. Thus
Relation to the Apes
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The discovery in China of a primitive member of the human family roughly contemporaneous with the Ape Man of Java (Pithe they promise to establish, once for NAVAL CONFERENCE canthropus) and the Dawn Man of all, the nature and mutual relation Piltdown (Eoanthropus), but dif-ship of these divergent human types ferent in type from both of them, is which are vastly more ancient than an event of special significance, not any other known members of the
human family. merely by reason of the intrinsic interest of enabling us to make the acquaintance of a hitherto unknown and unsuspected relative, but also because the new evidence helps to resolve the doubts concerning the other two Early Pleistocene mep, and most primitive phase, of the history of the human family.
When two years ago Dr. Davidson Black proposed the creation of a new genus of mankind, on the basis
January 80-Fanling Hunt and Bace Club Hounds Meet, Fanling Station, 3. p. The Naval circles is particular hint took part.
A grand finale, in which all the February 1-Fanling Hunt and very broadly that they consider Mr. Rameny MacDonald in his ardent de-artistes. appeared, brought their Race Club Hounds Meet, Hung sire to prevent futile armament com-last entertainment to a
close Ling, & p.m. In addition to restoring competition between Britain and America, amid prolonged applause. fidence in the teaching of human acted top hastily in tentatively agTIR: palaeontology, the work of the Chling, to fewer eight-inch cruisers than nese Geological Survay promines Amerles, and overlooked what affect it, EXTRALITY TEST? to shed welcome light upon many would have on Japan. other doubtful issues.
of a fossilised tooth found in a
fissure of the rocky fipor of the Chou
Genuine Fear
For example, by settling de Thore appears to be genuine fear that Anitely the contention that primitive this will lead to British-Japanese fric men had jaws so closely resembling tien as Japar considers 70 per cent. of
America's eight-inch cruiser quota is
Detention
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Wachow, Yesterday.
the chimpanzee's as to deceive many essential for her defensiva regaine Me agreement as yet been reached
Meeting
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of the leading palaeontologists into ments; but this means: eighty-six, per in regard to the British, steam launch 'HOLLYWOOD REVUE® believing them to be aimlan, the cent. of England's quote, if America Tong On, which has been detained by Chinese researches add important has eighteen 10,000 tonners, and one the Cantonese military at Wachaw for All Stardom Seen and Kou Tien cave, msat anthropo- corroboration to the view that man hundred per cent. if America has some time, folowing collision and the
Heard in Big Show logists were doubtful of the validity is very intimately related to the twenty-one; therefore Britain is bound sinking at Shiuhing of the Chinese to oppose the Japanese claim. This is launch Tien Hol, which WA being used bound to cause intense aggravation......then as a military transport.201
of the genus, he called Sinanthropus apes, apon such slender evidence.
Jaw Like Chimpanzee
A year ago Dr.Birger Bohlin,
continuing the excavation in the Assure with the help of the Chinesa geologists, Dr. C. G. Yang and Mr. W. C. Pel, provided evidence com- pletely to justify Dr. Davidson Black's bold adventure. For they found the romains of two skulls,
First Home of Man
Renter.
Ikis reportal that the owners of the John Gilbert, Marinn Dayles *****|- Craisers Order Cancelled Tung On offered $3,000 in settlement and Norma Shearer are included The fact that two of these primi The Admiralty announces that it or alternatively, to pay for the salvage in the pageant of stars and near- tive genera have been found In the has been decided defnitely to cancer of the Tien Hot. This was refused and stars who appear In The Holly Far East has been claimed as sup the order for the two 10,000 $7,600 compensation demanded. wood Revue" Metro-Goldwyn- porting the view that man was erqisers, Surrey and Northumber
[This matter formed the subject Mayer'a hugò singing and dancing, evolved in Asia, But the existence land, whose construction was- tema-
of aiquery in the House of Cornmons motion picture spectacle which is of Pidown man in the Far West porarily suspended last July-Reu-port.csalawhere in today's lasue now playing at the Queen's
of Chin. Afall,jean and of the apes most nearly akin to ter
Theatre:
Almost everybody at the Metre Goldwyn-Mayer studio, except.pós- sibly the gateman, seems to be
·Mr. J. Is Hirst, Assistant Super- remembered that the ships were visgn of the Botanical and Forestry, part of the personnel of this must cancelled by the present Govern loon, Magistracy, this morning, be
Department, appeared at the Kawical extravaganza, which is said toba patterned after the more ment shortly after the general election as a gesture of friendship Fore: Mr. T,S., Whyter Smlin, as the ambitious of the New York revues.
man in Africa (as well as the These cruisers were provided extinct manlike Taungs spy, dis for in the 1929 estimates, one to be built at Plymouth and the other at Portsmouth. It will be
a child's and an adult's, embedded covered in Bechuanaland" "by: Pro-
In a matrix of stone. Along with
the crashed skull of the child, was
fessor Raymond Dart; and the ape
called Dryopithecus in the Miocens
found part of a jaw of correspon and liocene of Europe) restores ding.ags, and with the adult brain- the balance, and leaves open the apa found part of a jaw of issue whether man's immediate appropriate. ago. No one doubts aimian ancestor in his wanderings that the Jaws belonged to the skulls from the cradle of the great goed in with which they were associated the Sivalik Hills of India A both jaws present curiously east towards, Java and ape-like features such as aroused
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