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THE PHILIPPINE PYGMIES.
SHY NOMADS OF THE FORESTS.
Interesting light is thrown on the habite and custome of one of the least-known races in the world, the Philippine pygmies, by report made by Mr. John M. Garvan, in Irish graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, who, for twenty years; has been investigating the native races of the archipelago, in his capacity of Government ethnologist, in the service of the American Administra tion
FAR EAST IN PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS QUESTIONS.
CHINESE EGGS CARGO.
FARMER GOODMAN WEDDING.
FAMILY AND PUBLIC GIFTS,
Among the presents received by Mr. and Mrs. Goodman for their
Dec. 13th.Mr. Hannon (C., | wedding" colebratod at St. John's Moseley) asked the Minister of Cathedral on Saturday were the Agriculture whether bis attention following - had been called to presence of the Franch steamer Gladiere in British waters with a cargo of 10,000,000 Chinese eggs; whether these egg were being offered for sale in Britain; whether they were being their origin; and what measures be marked in any way to indicate proposed to adopt to safeguard British poultry farmers against competition of this nature.
Bride to bridegroom, "silver cigar- esa case; bridegroom to bride, pistinium watch; bride's parents, bed and table linen; bridegroom' mother, gold pendant and signet ring; bridegroom's father, silver tea service; Mr. and Ms Relard Farmer, cheque; Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mr. F. Goodman, black- Victor Farmer, inen luncheon set; wood tespoys; Douglas, Lapraik & Go, cheque; Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Dyer, crystal and jade, liquer of Foochow lacquer trays; The decanter: The Godown Staff, sot
Office Boys, silver cake stand; Hai Officers and Engineers, 1.5. Ching, silver and cut glass tantalus: Officers and Engineëri, ta Hai Yang, silver entree dish Officers and Engineers, 8.a. Hai Ning, silver eruet; Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland, ease of nutcrackers and picks: The Ladies of "The Helena May" Library Committee, blackwood opium. stool.
About one-tenth of the population consists of members of some fifty said: The Minister of Agriculture Captain Bowyer (who raped)
triles differing in important rea- has seen a reference in the Press to pects from the main body of the this cargo, but he has na informa- people. Mr. Garvan speaks four-tion as to ife destinations The im- portation of this ́shipment would teen of the native languages, includ- not be a new feature in the trade, ing two of the pygmy dialects. since large quantities of eggs are Each has a complex grammatical regularly imported from China Structure of its own, and a con- Imported eggs are not at present required to bear an indication of siderable vocabulary peculiar to origin at the time of importation, itself, in addition to a number of but a requirement to this effect is embodied in a draft Order in Coun- words resembling or identical with ell now before Parliament. In those of other tribes. The Philip addition, home producers are tak pine pygmies have certain traitsing steps to meet the competition of imported supplies by reorganising in common with the pygmies of their marketing arrangements on Afrien, South America, and New the basis of the Agricultural Pro- Guinea. They are shy; gentle little duce (Grading and Marketing) Act GENE TUNNEY WITH PORTS-
of last session. people with a strong aversion from strangers, whom, however, they wish merely to avoid, not to destroy They lurk in remote parts of the forests, on mountain slopes well away from the beaten track of normal native travel when possible prevent the importation of Chinese markable spectacle it produced of
Idyllic Conditions"
Chinese Eggs Hot Wanted.
Mr. Hannon But this is a seri ous question. (Ironical Socialist laughter). Will the Minister make representations to the Minister of Agriculture to take early steps to eggs of any quality 1
NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS.
MOUTH MARINES.
The Royal Marines at Portsmouth will long remember the visit to them on December, 15th of Genè Tunney- Capt. Tunney-because of the re-
the world's heavyweight champion leading a corps of which the King is Colonel-in-Chief in a prayer for. His Majesty's recovery.
of a football trophy as a gift from his Corps, a silver cup standing 26 in. high. Capt. Tunney said the gift was a token of the friendship founded between the two corps in China twenty-eight years ago, when they fought side by side in sup pressing the Boxer rebellion.
Captain Bowyer: I will do that Mr. Garro-Tones (L. Hackney, "They are the gentless people that I met among all the tribes I South): Are these eggs in shells r visited." reparts the ethnologiin barrels 1-(laughter) and if in "If they are offended they simply harrels how can the provision of the Merchandise Marks Act apply? go away and never come back.
Tunhey, who is a captain in the Their family life is exemplary (Laughter.)
United States Marine Corps, made There is practically no polygamy, Jones will have to put that ques
Captain Bowyer: Mr. Garroa presentation to the Royal Marines monogamy being the rule among them, and few divorces. There is tion on the paper. also po celibacy after they reach'a marriageable age, for they live an essentially natural life, and their great desire is to raise a family. The sexes are kept apart up to the time of marriage, and there is no intermarriage among people of the same tribe. The men choose wives from neighbouring tribes, and the women busbands. Their manner of ble is essentially patriarchal. The Pygmies live in family groups con sisting of all the relatives, from grandparents down to grandchild- ren, the head of the family being the oldest living male relative. Each family occupies a separate shelter, but they move about to- gether, hunt in common, and live as a great happy family."
Still In The Hunting Stage O! Development.
· Piracy In Chinese Waters, Sir Robert Thomas has suggested to the First Lord of the Admiralty that armed naval ratings might be drafted into British merchant ships, ae members of the crew, while navi gating the pirate-infested Chinn General · Halliday, who accepted Seas. Mr. Bridgeman was expected the trophy said that the U.S. to express an opinion on the matte: Marine Corps was in a way a in reply to a question on December younger brother of the Royal 19th as to the measures of protec- Marines, upon whom it was origin- tion which the Admiralty are pro-alty modelled. In a reference to riding for shipping in those waters
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.
WORK OF PRESERVATION ENTERS ON ITS FINAL STAGE.
the two corps' service together dur- ing the Boxer rebellion, General Halliday said there now hung in the Royal Marine officers' mess, a Chinese ang which was captured by Captain Mars, U.S. Marine Corps, who, whilst lying wounded, gave it to him (General Halliday) to bring. home to England as a gift to the Royal Marines
Far
As described by Mr. Garvan, the Canon 8. A. Alexander, Trea-
B.A.F. Far East Flight. Pygmies are a homeless, farmless, Burer of St. Paul's Cathedral,
A brochure of the R.A.F. and dressless race of people, rang-preaching in St. Margaret's, West East Flight by four Supermarine- ing from four and a half to five minster, said that the preservation Napier flying boats, which left Eng- feet in height, with crinkly hair work at St. Paul's, which would land for Singapore on October 14th, like the negro, broad noses, and have taken nearly twenty years to 1927, and afterwards flew to Aus- skin of a deeper brown than that accomplish, was just entering on tralia, round Australia, and back of the Filipino, but never black. its final stage. It was expected to Singapore, has been issued by the It is not possible yet to determine that the Cathedral would be re- Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd, how many there are
scattered opened in the summer of 1930.
and fearrs, D. Napier and Son, about the densely jungled and The principal part of the work Ltd. The record of the fight is mountainous isles of the "archi-of preservation has been to remedy pelago, but the figure is believed the defect in the construction of given in the form of extracts from to be in excess of 15,000. Essen- the Dome, which resulted in dan- The names of the officers," with the log issued by the Air Ministry. tially a forest people who live on gerous sagging and the appearance group photographs in colour of the and by the products of the forest, of cracks. It was the intention of officers and personnel of the boats, they have no huts nor houses, being Sir Christopher Wren that the and of the four Southampton nomadic by nature. They wander weight of the dome (23,000 tons) at the Singapore Air Base, are in from one region to another in should be divided equally between search of new areas where wild the eight main piers, but never Fame and other tuberous plante theless, these were filled only with grow and game abounds. None of rubbish. This has now been re- them have progressed out of the moved and concrete substituted. hunting stage of human develop- In addition to Wren's original iron chain which receives the thrust The only weapon of most of them of the upper dome, and which still is the bow and arrows, though acts efficiently, a second chain has some tribes have blow-pipes been placed just below the Whie- through which darts are blown. pering Gallery..
ment.
The arrows generally are dipped
in a poison which bas a paralytic effect on the animal, killing it
cluded in the folder, to which is attached a map of the route follow- ed in the flight and a table of the distances in nautical miles
Major-General Straubenzes, The appointment is announced by the War Office of Major-General H. L. Pritchard, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., to be General Officer Commanding Malaya, in siccession to Major. General C. C. Van Straubenter, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G. (February,
from five to thirty minutes later, JAPANESE EXHIBITION IN 1929). without, however, rendering
The
flesh inedible. Though a peaceful, shy, and friendly poople, they have been known to wage war most per- tinaciously against an enemy tak- ing the offensive against them. For many years they Warred against the early. Spanish settlers, who sought to force them to come out of their junglès and do un- congenial work in the European zettlements.
Shadowy Religion, The men hunt and the women.
PARIS.
FRENCH · AMBASSADOR ASSISTS ARTISTS.
cluded.
-Major-General C. C. Van Straub-- enzee, is retiring from the Army. General Yan. Straubenzee is anti- cipating the age limit rule by eight months, and will be gazetted out on February 25tha
2,
Lt.-Comdr. Langton-Jones, D.8.0. Preparations for the Japanese Fine Art Exhibition to be held in who has retired at his own request, L-Cdr. R. Langton Jones, D.S.O., Paris in the spring, under the.ats with the rank of Commander, com- pices of the French Government,manded the river gunboat Cicala, in are well in hand. A good entry of China, from December, 1925, to exhibits is expected. The works of January, 1998. He began his sea more than 50 painters will repre- career in the Merchant Navy, and dig yams and prepare food They works of applied fine arts by more lieutenant in the Royal Navy Re- sent the Japanese school, while when the War broke out was a sub sleep in crude lean-tos and shelters than 50 masters will also be in-serve. He joined the battleship made of intertwined leafy boughs, which are abandoned without com-
Triumph at Hong Kong, and on The French Ambassador in punction on moving on to another hunting-ground. They have no
Tokyo, Mr. de Billy, was instru- her being sent to the Dardanelles he
was commended for service in ac possessions, apart
mental in making arrangements from.cook pota and bows and arrows, and no dewith various artists for the exhibition there. After the Triumph was torpedoed, he served as Assistant sire for any.
A few simple rites tion of their work, and a commit Beachmaster at Helles, where. ho of commemoration of the dead, mei Yuki Mr. Naohiko Masaki, out and was appointed D.8.0. tes of five members, comprising Mr. get a magnificent example through whose spirits they revere but fear, constitute, in most cases, their re-director of the Tokyo Academy of Later in the War he was trans- ligion. Few of the pygmy groups Fine Arts; Mr. Nobuo Tsuda, Mr. fered to the Royal Navy as a have evolved the idea of a Seiko Takeuchi and Mr. Rokabel lieutenant, with seniority of August Siipreme Being, which Mr. Gar- Shimizu, and the committee's two 11th, 1914. van ascribes to their lack of chief- secretaries, have held frequent tains and lenders. He adds that, meetings at the French Embassy to despite their shyness, the pygmies push the necessary preparations.. prove to be warm-hearted and hos According to present arrange pitable when their confidence has ments, all exhibits must be com been won by tactful approach and pieted and shipped to France by
the end of February
kindliness"
Commander Evan H. Martin, whose promotion to captain on the retired list is gazetted, was a mid- shipman of the Aurora during the Boxes War of 1000, and received the medal for that 'campaign.'
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