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decide; it was evidently constructed by fac Ainu as a hiding place in case of ar attack by the Japanese. When we learn that the term "earth-spiders" may also, and perbape more correctly, be rendere
earth-hiders," there seems no remain- ing reason to doubt that under this term were included those Ainu who had re- course to these subterranean hiding- places in the fave of attack, From Dr. MUNRO's description of the hiding-place.
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after 7 am, on Sunday theipe was at anchor in the bay under t Kellett, and immediately oppositen Tree 1s land, when both Mrs. Po and ho as well as the No. 1 boatmatsay a large animal about 300 yards coming down the hillside between thmojor road. and the sen
A letter has been received in the Colony atating that F.-c. Coutts, of the Hongkong Police, hans heen killed in action in France, and that F-c. Swann has been wounded.
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it would not appear that it would helax up some contests here, and is very many people. He speaks of only one keen on meeting Sapper Richards, RE, small chamber of six feet or so, while the
the light-weight champion. burrows, though long, could hardly be taken as other than entrances to the place of conecaliment, since their extreme uarrowness would preclude the admission of air if occupied by people. It may be, of course, that ventilation holes origi- AMMONIA,nally existed, but became filled up in
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HongKoka, br‹ SWTEMBER 196.
THE ABORIGINES OF JAPAN. Who wore the aborigines of Japan Dr. GORDON MUNRO, who pay be regarded as the leading authority on Japanese anthropology and archeology, decides
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course of time. The discoverer himsel found the air so unhealthy after a few minutes breathing that he was forced to cut ventilation holes, so it is almost certain that such holes existed originally. Even then, however, such a labyrinth- and Dr. MUNRO has since discovered nu other of such a size and complexity- would hardly accommodate a very large number of people. We may take it, therefore, that it was constructed as a inst effort to withstand the Japanese in- vasion. This gives eloquent and piteous testimony as to the ruthlessness of the struggle. The earth-apiders" or "earth- biders," as a distinct race. are thus dis posed of. They were undoubtedly those last remnants of the Ainu race whose retreat northward had been cus of and who were making a desperate effort to avoid extinction. The Ainu would thus zeem to have the distinction of being the aborigines of Japan. There is no doubt that they entered Japan from the north, and that they had undisputed possession of the country for a long period of time a pericd long enough for them to spread all over the country and to, pero rate to the extreme south of Kyushu. Aimu place unames are to be found. throughout Japan, although corrupted to sound like Japanese names and duly supplied with Chinese characters. In some cases there would appear to have
busi
The animal isted under
some trees for a while and hen moved off in a parallel direction a result of which a good view was oblined of it.
he animal passed across au pen space ashing its tail, and those of the boat distinctly saw white markiga on s' The public will be glad to learn tɔąt subsidiary coin in reasonable amounts identity of the animal beyond dubt. The Lawny background, thus estabshing the may be obtained at par at the Hongkong action of the animal also poiard 10 the and Shanghai Bank,
At the present fact that it was a tiger. The last Mr. moment money-changers are charging and Mrs Polluck saw of the liger was one-half per cent. premium.
when he disappeared with a bound among Some trees below the Dairy Farm shed, outside which some cattle were grazing.
A hunting party has been in search "stripes" for several nights, but up To the present they have been anable to
During the week ending September 2ad,
reported. In the same period there were one fatal Chinese case of cholera was
six cases of enteric fever (one British and the rest Chinese), five of which proved intal.
There was also a fatal Chinese-pproach near enough for a shot. How- case of small-pox,
ver, certain elaborate plans have been and are confident that they will succeed aid, and the hunters are quite sanguine,
bagging" the tiger-if he decides io remain on the island a few days .onger.
O Progressa has published a telegram from Lisbon in which it is stated that Mr. Borjona Freitas, the late Portuguesz Consul at Shanghai, has been diamisse à from the Diplomatie: Service as a consc-
end of his arbitrary conduct towards certain of his co-nationals in that Settle- aient.
Apparently the Chinese have not yet learned how to alight from a tramear. A Chinese wuman of about 23 years ci sge has been sent to the Governm Civil Hospital suffering from injuries sustained by falling while attempting slight from a tramcar when in matio.. in Des Voeux Road Central. The acciden
ccurred on Sunday.
Mr. R. P. McGregor, second engineer of the Chinese Customs cruiser Pinching
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CORRESPONDENCE.
A REPUDIATION,
[to THE HITOR OF THE "HONGKONU DAILY PRESS."]
Si,
a surprised to learn from you loose of the 2nd instant, under th Leading Chinese News," that I wa
ported to have." consigned a lurg juantity of Bank of Communication actes to some of my followers in the capital with instructions to put these jotes into circulation, and that I wa nedallion awarded to him by the Chinesinistration of the Republic Needles has been presented with a handsoment upon wrecking the financial d overnment for his bravery in savingo say, I repudiate the statement, whirl life in the Huangpu River on May 13, f this year. The presentation was made by Mr. F. 3. Unwin (Commissioney: un Justoms) at Shanghai.
Some people have strange ideas vi
s absolutely false. It has been the ruld of the Bank of Communication to submit à statement to the Board of Finance ones overy ten days showing the quantity of uotes in reserve and also the quantity in always verified by the Board. circulation, which, 1
may say, opinion, the management of the Bank is In my
Are
perfect and not open to such abuse. It is candalous to say that I was "bent upon" rocking the financial administration of the Chinese Republic and that I had consigned a large quantity of notes to Peking, as I have done nothing of the
il combination of Ainu ∙and Japanese, Taus the first two syllables of eaven. A Korean Bible Society colpor Wakayama," the capital of the proteur, who had never seen a train befor vice where the first Japanese Emperor travelled last autumn from his village to is supposed to have landed and founded Seoul, to attend a gathering of colpor ais capital, are undoubtedly from theteurs. When he stepped out of the trai Ainu word akka, meaning water, the pre- at Seoul station, and saw the hurrying sent site of the city having certainly crowds, the tramways, the motor cars, seen under water some fifteen hundred the electric lights, and the high buildinga, years ago. Tamit means "mountain," iiae thought that he must have died an it be taken as Japanese, but here again that this was heaven, and when a passer-kind, nor had I the least intention of by told him he was only in Seoul, he said ho could not think how heaven could be more beautiful and atrange. One of th
Seoul used to be its aroma, remarks the least heavenly of the characteristics m
London & China Express.
in favour of the Ainu, a few descendants is doubtful whether it is not a corrup of whom still exist in the northumamostion of an Ainu word. This is but one part of Japan, bat Japanese archeol example of how complete was the Ainu probably, because Japanese tradition countless others. Even the name of the gists do not favour this view, partly, survey of the country, and there are describes the land and the people as of peerless Fuji" has been traced by some supernatural origin, and to give the Japanese the second place would be to acceptance of these place names by the throw overboard all the accepted records, Japanese would seem to show that there belief in which alinost amounts to was some intercourse between the two religion in Japan. According to the races that the more cractable among the Japanese view, the Ainu were the bar-Ainu came within the pale of Japanese barians who had somehow come into the civilisation, and that there was inter-
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Ainu language seems to have loft as little trace on Japanese as Keltic on modern English, but this does not preclude the idea of a mixture of the two races. The Japanese conquerers would capture the Ainu women, since, as invaders, it 18 probable that the males would predomi-
wise no connection. A third view is that neither the Japanese nor the Aim were the original inhabitants of Japan, but a mysterious race, which is dimly referred to in ancient Japanese recorda as earth spiders," and to whom are attributed some objects which are suppoed to be otherwise unaccountable Earthnate in number, and thus force their spiders would naturally suggest people language upon them, receiving in return who lived in underground dwellings, but only the names for objects which were
Even as modern naval gunnery was born on the China Station, se modern machine gun fire was born in Japan. It was the Japanese army in the war with capabilities of the machine gun by Russia which first demonstrated the
brigading it into self-contained units in usually attached in the proportion of oue to each battalion of infantry. It is generally accepted that one well-served machine gun is equal to at least 30 rifle armed infantrymen, whilst it presenta a very much smaller mark than 30 in fantrymen, and requires only a tenth or sometimes less of that number to work it.
The Lewis gun's tremendous rate of fire, and its extreme handiness in
valuable than ever. It is notorious that recently a handful of desperate Germans held up a whole division of Allies by shots per minute. their use of a machine gun vomiting 600
English Barbe, and Klichst Rangon, Hot there is evidence that both the Japanese new to them. If this be the case Ainuction have made machine guns more
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THE SS. "WISLEY."
SUCCESSFUL SALVAGE.
The steamer Wisley, which was beached
on fire, arrived in port on Sunday after- at Vulgro Bay over two months ago while
noon in tow of the David Gillies. It is now eight weeks since the salvage party of the sunken steamer, and during that with the requisite geur left for the scene period Capt. Jag Watson and his agafit- ants have been assiduously engaged in the task of
salvage job ting the vessel As 2.
undertaking has proved
plished in the Für East, the vessel being one of the most successful ever ·uecom¬
14 feet under water and embedded in
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FOUR-ROOMED FLATS in May Road ith every modern conveniense, including Water and Water Carriage System. A few and the Ainu were in the habit of so blood is stronger in the Japanese than is Flats specially designed to seemmoisie ihre constructing their dwellings, so that the generally supposed, but, on the other bachelors of reasonable rentals, Immo Jate poression.
term must have had some special sign hand, there must be placed the aversion fication. Did it refer to a distinct race, that still exists among the Japanese from strange to both the Japanese and the intermarriage with another race. Dr. Ainu; or did it refer to some portion MUNRO is of the opinion that the people of one of the two races? Sections of a in the extreme south of Japan show even race have been known to acquire peculiar more marked traces of Ainu admixture The following telegrams were received habits, whether under stress of circuin-han those in the more central parts, his
by the American Consulate General, stances or through influence of the on-theory being that the Ainu there were cut
Hongkong, from the Manila Observal into port as stated. tury:-- vironment, and it is therefore possible off from the north by Japanese settle-
September 2nd, 4 p.. that the earth spiders" were Aina, nents and thus had to submit to the in
Cyclone or typhoon E. of southern who, under pressure from the Japanese vaders. As to the mixed origin of the Luzon, direction unknown.
Japanese race anthropologists have no
September 3rd, a.m. invaders, had been forced to become loubt, but recent discoveries would seem Cyclone or typhoon E. of northern something more than mere pit-dwellers. show that the aborigines played a Luzon, less than 300 miles distant, moving
larger part in the production of the race || NW. This view is strengthened, if not con- of modern Japan than was at one time firined, by some discoveries, made by Dr. believed.
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Capt Watson, who has long held the reputation of being an experienced salvor is to be rommended for the expeditions anger and the skilful method of re covering the Wisley, which vill go into lock for the necessarily extensive repairs September 4th, 10.15 am. Typhoon in about 129 degrees Long. E. to be undertaken, by the Hongkong and and 19 degrees Lat N, moving W.N.W. Whampoa Dock Company.
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