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A STORY FROM CAMBRIDGE.
A Brazilian' Civilisation
Dating to 50,000 B.C..
LEAST KNOWN TERRITORY.
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FIFTY YEARS WITH PRESS ASSOCIATION,
VIEWS ON MODERN BOY.
To-day that "little boy," is still at the Press Association and in that
The Matto Grosso district of: Brazil, where Colonel H. P. Fawcett, Allegations concerning the con- the British explorer, was lost inA allm, shy little boy walked into duct of Cambridge undergraduates 1925, is the world's least-known the offices of the Press Association at a dance hall in the riverside territory, says Professor Richard O. 60 years ago, and was given the ex- village of Fon Ditton were made Marsh, the explorer and scientist. at Bottisham (Camba.).
citing task of dashing with red-hot! Mrs.
Traces of civilisations im-"news" messages to the newspaper Elleen Alloa thirty-nine, of River Cottage, Fen Phoenician might be found when the
Woolfe, measurably more anclent than the offices of London. Ditton, whose dance hall, former-Matto Grosso region was fully ex- ly a barn, adjoing her residence.plored, he said: The region has been and was charged with having permit untouched by ginciers, never covered 10 EASTER MONDAY, April ted the premises to be used for by the sea, and has never been the
clos-an improper parpage.
Peter Woolfe, nineteen, was could have despoiled its ruins.
seat of secondary civilisation which On These Days,
charged with aiding and abetting. Professor Marsh belleves, reports The Hong Kong Dispensary, Both pleaded not guilty. Dispensing Department, will be Police Sergeant Martin Bald of a civilisation dating back to 50, the British United Press, that traces
ed Broadwood Road, Happy Valley. tions from 10a.m. to I p.m. and Proctor of the University visited | Grosso, region. Some scientists be- much about the life and romance of] TO LET-roomed Bungalow situat-opened for dispensing prescrip- that on February 2 the Chief000 B.c. may be found in the Matto bost out of boya, and he knows as
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the premises.
When he entered the hall lieve that the white race originated It in Brazil, being driven out, possibly was in darkness, but by the light over a land bridge to Europe, by the of an electric torch he saw four Mongoloid types which became out men, who said they were under-
present-day-Indians. graduates, and seven girls. He ordered the undergraduates back Phoenician Inscriptions to their colleges.
I am convinced," he explained, "that discoveries of the greatest
time more than 1,000 other boys have passed through his hands, and many of them risen to high editorial and other positions.
In fact, Mr. Walter Joseph Cattor- mole has been called the school-
lifelong study of how to get the master of Flect-street. He has made
Fleet-street as did Dr. Johnson (whom he strongly resembles, with- out the Doctor's "scowl").
A Fascinating Subject. As superintendent of the Press -Association messengers, he has been responsible for the dispatch of somie- thing like 1,400,000,000 words of "news" to, the papers.
"Boys, and how to teach them to
Mrs. Woolfe told him he had AM LEAVING for HOME on no right to enter as the people importance to humanity will be the 26th instant and I shall present were friends there at her made in the Matto Grosso because it make the best of themselves, are the be glad if all bills are sent in to invitation.
has given so many evidences of most fascinating subjects in the The Gay Life.
what it contains. There are the world," Sergeant Martin continued that Phoenician
said Mr. Cattermole. inscriptions recently "I am proud to say that the first he had made observation on Sun- found, the Phoenician ship carved on two boys I engaged when I became day evenings from November. a rock at the confluence of the superintendent are still with the He saw undergraduates, drive up Solimao and Negro rivers. in cars with girls. Sometimes
of his department, Press Association, and each is head Peter Woolfe took the girla away in his car.
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WANTED-Immediately, an experi-THE FOURTH EXTRA RACE enced and qualifled teacher of mathe-
will be held inaties. cesan. Girls' School.
"The legends of the Indians about the ancient cities with their per petually flashing lights, and more particularly the legends about their white ancestry, are additional evid- ence.
Dancing in the hall was to the music of a gramophone, except on one occasion when there was a dunce by invitation of membera "The of the University. Then there was a dance band and he saw no thing wrong.
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The gramophone, like the lights Apply Headmistress, Dio (weather permitting) at Happy in the hall, was switched on and Valley on SATURDAY, 19th and off at intervals as some of the
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master, and another is a detective at "One old boy of mine is a station- Scotland Yard. Most of the others hold excellent posts:
"As Easy to be Civil as Saucy."
"Is the modern boy better than Fawcett was lost is a high plateau than his father was when he was a Colonel his predecessor-a brighter fellow 1,000 miles wide and 1,500 miles boy? No. I don't think he is, in long? The terrain is composed of spite of the millions spent on educa- igneous rock without any overlay of ticn. sedimentary deposits, and is believ fed to have remained above sea-level
Because of this and of its central at. He alleged that he had seen location and healthful climate, it girls and men in motor cars out-gives indication of being the cradle side the premises in compromis-of the human race. ing positions and stated that he
on MONDAY, 21st April, 1930, couples preferred to sit out since glacial times. commencing at 2 p..
darkness.
The first bell will be rung 1.30 p.m. on both days..
sure.
a plano,
"One mistake made in our schools"
is that they don't give ten minutes boys from the elementary schools a day to teaching manners. When come for a job, they keep their hats on their heads, and often think 'yua' is a good enough answer to thing. So we have to start by teach- any-
ing them to be polite-it's as easy to be civil as saucy..
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
"Another reason for this belief is Member are notified that they and their ladies must wear their saw a girl dance on the top of the Indian tradition that the Batto badges prominently displayed.
Grosso contains the lost city of No one without a badge will be with five men and three girls in civilisation of Peru and the Mayan On January 19 Mrs. Woolfe sat Atlantida, from which the Incan admitted to the Members' Englo- the hall in darkness and after culture of Central America traced out until he is 16-that's a most "You can't tell how a boy will turn they had told ghost stories Mrs. their origin. It was this city that critical age, and many of them then YOUNG, ENGLISHMAN, (employed)
Badges admitting non-members Woolfe said: "Let us have a Colonel Fawcett was seeking when make a wonderful change for the sacks other employment. Willing to to the Members' Enclosure and accept any kind of Position. Excel-
Club Rooms at $5 per day
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better. The most unpromising boys Reply Box No. 643, c/ "China for Gentlemen and $2 per
The Mayas, the Amautans, or pre-at the beginning often go farthest Mail"
day for Ladies, are obtainable Mra. Woolfe, said to the witness the Phoniclans, and the Aztecs of
Itcan rulers of Peru, the Egyptians, in the end, through the Secretary upon in "How am I expected to know who Mexico all had a similar calendar. troduction by a member, such the girls are that come here? I and the conventional signs of the member to be responsible for pay-did on one occasion turn a girl Zodiac just as we know them to-
TUITION
CANTONESE AND MANDARIN
ment of all chits, Ke.
Badges admitting to Members'
seance.".
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Awkward! When the summons was carved
away.
that these figures the fish, the
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BRIDE LATE.
Waiting.
LANGUAGE and characters TAUGHT Enclosure will not be on sale up and I thought I would not let twins, the bull, etc.-have no moan-
"She was most frightfully made day. Professor Marsh pointed out Bridegroom Sued for Not
her in. Later I found she was the daughter of one of the Uning. In themselves, and must have been carried from one continent to versity Dons.
another by persons on a high level of culture.
by Mr. SHIU. Special notes and books. the Race Course. Twenty-three years' experience. Rapid Members can obtain, upon ap- progress ensured. Special explana- tions in English given to beginners. plication to the Secretary, badges Farticular coaching in pronunciation. (limited to two) for the free ad- Terms moderate, First class refer mission to the Members' Enclosure onces. Numerous BUCCCARES at of wives, Indy relatives And examinations.
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hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood, SCHOOL for GIRLS
On no pretext will children be permitted in either Enclosure dur
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PUBLIC ENCLOSURE The price of admission to the and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders Public Enclosure Is $1 received in the House of the Principal. for all persons including ladies, Individqal care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTE CULLEY
(Camb, Higher Local).
per day
The case was adjourned.
Britain's latest, submarine depot ship, H.M.S. Medway, is the largest fleet auxiliary ship and the largest vessel in the Navy propelled by oll
engines.
Mr. Alan S. Butler left Heston
aerodrome in a machine designed solely for survey work. He is to survey-63,000 square miles of Northern Rhodesia.
The human race has been practi- cally unchanged for the last million years; as far as mental and physical development is concerned. Evolution was confined largely to the Eocene. or first geological period, the Pro fessor thinks.
The Cro-Magnon man, who is ho- lieved by Professor Marsh to have existed in a high state of develop ment a million and a-half years ago.
£175 AWARDED.
'The Under Sheriff of Belfast heard a strange story of a broken- off marriage. The plaintiff was
Robert Miskimmon, who sued Wil- am Hogg for damages for the betrayal of his daughter, and the jury awarded the plaintiff £175.
The plaintiff, giving evidence, marriage should take place in the sald It woa arranged that the fecal church at 9.30, and he want with his daughter to the church The defendant was
about 10.30. Forund is payable at the Gate.
Camb, Teachers' Diploma).
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succeeded in exterminating the Neanderthal man just before the dawn of written history. "This
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church at 9.30, but she waited ex-
Miss Miskimon said she was all ready in the house to go to the geological deposits," he said. "If present-day pecting that the defendant would civilisation should collapse, arch send a motor car for her. He did eologists of a future age would be not do so, with the result that she puzzled to explain the change within had to get another car, and was 200 years, from the crude stone late arriving at the church. implements, of the Indians to the skyscrapers and railways of to-day, father, said he accompanied his William J. Hogg, the defendant's and the appearance of Indian skulis son to the church, and they ar THE Undersigned have received and Caucasian bones in the same rived at 9.30. The clergyman came Tinstructions to sell by Public deposits.""
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Not Found by Archaeologists.about twenty minutes, and there Should any modern metropolis, he being no sign of the arrival of the abandoned to-day, it would be a bride, they left. crumbling ruin within 150 years, A motor-our driver deposed that while 600 years hence one would he went with his car to the plain- haye to dig deep to discover It. tiff's house, but had to wait about Professor Marsh made this state twenty minutes before Miss Mis- ment to back up his belief that great kimmon was ready to go to the civilisations may have existed 50,000 church.
to 100,000 years ago without a trace. The defendant, giving evidence, of them having been found by sorroborated his father's state- LAMMENT BROS.. archeologists.
ment, and showed a wedding-ring Auctioneers.""The massive stone ruins of the which he said his father bought Hong Kong, April 17, 1930. Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs," he said, for the bride. He added that he "were built only about 600 years was willing to marry the girl at the ago. They are mere heaps in the time, but she did not turn up. He Jungle to-day Things what would would not marry her now. The happen to our skeleton-like steel and clergyman had a motor car and concrete building in that time. As offered to fetch the girl, but the civilisation progresses, the more witness objected, saying: "You lightly it will butid, due to the came to marry us, not to go for the recessity for continued improvement bride."
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There are other factors which A verdict for the defendant was tend to erase all traces of man's given. In the King's Bench Divi handiwork within a few thousand ston action in which negligence years, he added. These includo the was alleged against a London Bur glaciers which, time after time, have geon, ecoured the two-hemispheres under
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of mountain ranges, and the van hordes left to overrun culture, dalism of man himself said "Even the Chinese and the hope that, in spite of its many weak to have taken the place of the Professor Marsh expressed the Russians, who might be considered nesses, present-day civilisation Huma, and the Gauls, have a high would not meet the fate of Rome, culture."
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