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NEW MISSING LINK QUEST.
Explorers to Search Eastern Turkestan.
EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL ASIA.
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme will the be broadcast to-day from
1ong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. DB A wavelength of 850
The Sunday Times learns that metres. a new quest for the "Missing Link"
to
5-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. is to be made in Central Asia,
6-6.30 p.m.-Chinese Children's which many scientists believe
Programme, have been man's earliest home.
7-10.30
Pro- p.m. European Professor G. Elliot Smith, who!
gramme of Columbia Records kind- was in China last Autumn, atatesly supplied by the Anderson Music, that an expedition is now going Co. from Peking to the valley of the Tarim.
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7-7.36 p.m.--A Concert,
Rose in the Bud.
in Eastern Turkestan, Song- there to seek traces of the most primitive farms of human life, or of the apes from which man—re- cording to the theories of modern science-was evolved.
The expedition will be led by from the Colony, Mr. H. C. GRAY|Pere Teilhard de Chardin and a is appointed Acting General Man-Chinese palaeontologist, Dr. C. C.. ager of the Society.
Young, both of whom were in the expedition which discovered the "Peking Man" in 1929.
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(Barrow & Foster), The Rooks (Waterford),
Danie Clara Dutt, Contralto (PBJ).
Pinto Solo
Gnomenreigen (Liszt), Waldesrauschen (Liszt),
Song-
Leff Poulshot (2053-D),
Der Wanderer (Schubert),
Alexander Kipnis, Bass (L2134).
larp Solo-
Andaluza (Granados-Zighera), Vers La Source Dans Le Bois
(Marcel Tournier),
Song-
Bernard Zighera (2394-D).
O Lovely Night
(Sir Landon Ronald),
Eva Turner, Səprano (L1827).
Cello Sol-
The Broken Melody (Von Biene),
W. H. Squire (L2127),
8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Report.
7.36-8.23 p.m.—
When Opening the Tyne Side Bridgew
The Rose-English Selections
(Myddleton).
The Regimental Band of HM. Grenadier Guards. (9221). Thistle (Selection of Scottish Melodies) (Myddleton),
People of Good Taste Drink -
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Beer
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The Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards (9102).
Ancient Breeding-Ground, There is a theory that myriads of ages ago-it may be a million years, or millions--the climate of that part of the world was highly The favourable to mammalian life, and that it became a breeding-ground where originated great groups of animals now spread over the world. The Leek-Selection (Welsh Airs)
Extraordinary hauls of Tonsila TN Accordance with Government:
(Arr. Myddleton),
The Regimental Band of Ordinance, the EXCHANGE have been made. Dr. Sven Hedin's
II.M. Grenadier Guards BANKS will be CLOSED for the expedition, in 1927-28, found thirty
(0272). Transnation of Public Business an dinosaurs. Mr. Roy Chapman An- The Shamrock-Irish Selection WEDNESDAY, the 3rd June (The drews, the American explorer, dis- (arr. Myddleton).
His Majesty
traces of Birthday of
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a' Stone Ágo culture in the Central Asian THE SEVENTH EXTRA RACE King).
wastes, and evidence of a popula-Britannia-Overture (Mackenzie), Hong Kong, 29th May, 1931.
tion of millions of human beings. That, he thinks, was about 20,000) test|years ago.
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New Queen's Hall Light &
Orchestra (9338). 8.23-9 p.m.-Musical Comedy. There are high hopes of the Show Boat-Selection, Tarim Valley Expedition. At first
Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra (9430).
it will be a sort of reconnaissance The Girl Friend-Vocal Gems, -a search for sites suitable for Pergy Ann-Vocal Gems, excavation.
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Sunrise and Sunset In Bar told the Sunday Times; and no one This Year of Grace-Selection, admitted to the Members' Enclos-
London Pavilion Orchestra Badges, admitting
Stan-speaks with higher authority. ure.
June, 1931,
(9487). members to the Membera' Enclos-dard time of the 120th Meridian
"Some people suggest," he con-
9-9.45 pm. From the Studio- area where as fol.tinued, that the and Club Rooms at $5 for East of Greenwich)
the Pianoforte & Violin Recital by cave containing the fossils of the Miss Gentlemen and $3 for Ladies (both lowe:-
Luber Pecker and Mins Sunrise Sumet "Peking Man" was found in De- Norah Flint. including tax) are obtainable
Accompanist: Mr.: cember, 1929, is the home of the 3. Baldwin. human family.
Pianoforte Solos-Sonata Op. 26
(Beethoven).
"The objection to that theory is that the "Peking Man" is only one {of three contemporaries, the others being the 'Ape-Man' of Java, found
a. Andante.
b. Variations.
c. Scherzo.
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in 1891, and the 'Filtdown Man' Violin found in Sussex in 1912.
"Early fossils of apes of the a. Andante.
b. Allegro.
Miacene period were found in the Pinncforte Solos Sivalik Hills, in India, and scien-
tists engaged in excavating the
Valse (Liszt).
Vallade Op. 52 (Chopin).
"Peking Man" have put forward Violin Solos-
Czardas (Sitt).
Arab Song (Krefaler), 9.45-9.55 p.m
was the raising of the Himalayas Tom Jones-Selection,
through the Secretary upon intro. June duction by a member, such member to be responsible for payment of all chits, &c.
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Separation of the Apes,
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Ašia-0 Patria Mia (Verdi),
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"The ralaing of the Himalayas Song cut off one group of these apes from India, and north of these rangea they would be subjected to entirely new climatic conditions; so they had to adapt themselves to the new circumstances or become wiped out. The scientists, favour- ing this theory regard an north of the Sinklang province of China as the likeliest locality in which to find the link,
area
Evi Turner, Soprano (L2156),
Maritano-Scenes that are Brightest |
(Wallace art. Sea), The Bohemian Girl-Thon You'll Ro- member Me (Balfe arr. Sear),
The J. H. Squire Celeste Octet (0107). 10.30 p.m.-Close Down.
in A WEEK'S DISEASES.
"Man, or a very closely related anthropoid, actually did exist Eastern Asia at the close of Tertiary, or the beginning Quaternary, time.
of
"The history of the search for SMALLPOX, TUBERCULOSIS AND
the missing link is of speculiar laterest.
In 1891 Dr. Eugene.
Dubois examined a series of likely
TYPHOID FEVER.
The official return of diseases
deposits of gravel in Jova, until by and deaths during the week end-
a marvellous chance he found the ed May 30 is as follows:- "Ape-Man.'
"Then, in 1912, the late Mr. Charles Dawson, after mary months of observation in a particu
Small-pox
Enteric fever Diphtheria
Tuberculosis ..
Cases. Deaths.
I
1
1
1
1
1
2
0
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One enteric fever case and two
lar patch of gravel at Piltdown, Cerebrospinal fever 3 Sussex, was rewarded by finding Puerperal fever the fossil remains of man there while the "Peking Man" has been madé known to us as the outcome of a comprehensive search, extend | ing over several years, by a team of investigators of different nation- Datiled at Revez, (HyGaronne) fractalities. One after another men of
by GET Frires since 1796.
LAMMERT BROS.
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cerebro-spinal fever cases were im- ported.
Summary to May 30.
The returns from January i
Insight and imagination, stimulated to May 30 give the following
figures:— by slight clues, pushed on with the]
search until bit by bit there was Typhoid
recovered the impressive series of
Small-pox
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relics which establish upon Scarlet fever secure foundation our knowledge Diphtheria of the earliest men.
Cerebrospinal fever. 11 "But the scientists are still per- Puerperal fever severing in their search for more Tuberculosis evidence. They are determined to trace the homes of man's earliest Fourteen of the typhoid cases ancestors and to find the missing were non-Chingue, ás· were; two link. Before long that link may be scarlet fever canes, one small-por found in the Tarim Valley, north case, *ONL Cerebrospinal fever of the Himalayas.”
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