M.
CHAPMAN ANDREWS ON THE
PEKING MAN.
WELL-KNOWN EXPLORER'S ENTHUSÏÄSM OVER THE DISCOVERY.
A COMPLETE PRIMITIVE CRANIUM.
Peping, January 1.-The follow- ing statement regarding the recent or discovery of the "Peking man," Sinanthropus Pekinensis, near Peking has been handed to Reuter
The Apo-like Jaw.
"Not only will this discovery furnish much new information as to the progress of human evolu- Lion, but it will settle many disput- by the well-known scientist and ex-
ed points. For instance the sa plorer, Mr. Roy Chapman Ansociation of the ape-like jaw of the drews:-
Piltdown man with the skull frag ments gave rise to a scientific con- troversy that raged for years. It is rather satisfying to find that the Peking man has a similar jaw,
The Peking Man is without question the most important known link in the whole broken chain of human ancestry. The discoverers are to be congratulated. science
deserved.
World
It tends to confirm several theor-
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1930.
COMMUNICATION BY AIR.
FRANCE AND BRITAIN CONFER.
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"WEB" OF LINES.
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TO OVERTHROW THE SOVIET.
STRANGE DISCLOSURES IN BERLIN.
A DEEP-LAID PLOT.
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LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE,
BRITISH DELEGATES
APPOINTED.
FRANCE AND ITALY.
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Rowe, Jan. 9.
SPECULATION TO STOP.
NANKING GOVERNMENT'S
DECISION.
CURRENCY QUESTIONS.
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AUSTRALIAN COAL DISPUTE.
MINERS TAKE DRASTIC MEASURES.
POLICE SENT OUT.
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SYDNEY, Jan. 10.
Resenting the
Government's
NANKING, Jan. 10. RUGBY, Jan. 10.
BERLIN, Jan. 10.
A Note by the French Govern-
Proceedings at the emergency Remarkable evidence alleging an mont to the Italian Government The Air Minister, Lord Thomson, who last year had 'discussions in attempt to secure British support rejects Italy's proposal for Franco-eeting called to discuss the silver action in moving two trains of codi London with M. Eynac, the French in a plot to overthrow the Soviet Italiaa naval parity and insistiumy, have not been made pubue, from Rothbury, 10,000 miners maes
Germans charged with forging
notes.
Air Minister, upon methods of by flooding Russia with millions Anglo-French co-operation in aviacf spurious Soviet banknotes was tion, last night made reference to given by one of the defendants in the trial of two Russians,and seven this subject in a speech to the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris. He said that he and M. Eynac. had together examined the air situation in Africa, Arabia and the Far East, and everywhere found that their activities could be profit- ably combined.
In aviation, it was always neces sary to look five years ahead, and in examining the future they had between them planned a web of air communications covering more than half the surface of the globe, the
will forever owe them aies which are important. During debt of gratitude. The work has the last decade there has been a been well done. It is the result of strong tendency to push man's ́an- intelligent and friendly interna- cestry farther and farther back tional co-operation of careful into the remote past. Some scien- planning and of scientific executists now believe that the human tion. The brilliant success is well-stem is rooted in the early part of the age of mammals. The Fe king man lived in the very begin- The layman can hardly waxing of the ice age. Already at enthusiastic about that shell of that remote period he had advanced
far along the road of human deve-civilising influence of which could brown bone. It does not seem. 50.
lopment. That means that the an cestral stock from which he sprang only serve to stimulate the growth had started long ago, certainly in of Franco-British trade. the early Pliocene, possibly in the Miocene. No geologist likes to as sign a definite term of years to these remote periods, Estimates of time are too uncertain. One me thod which has recently found wide acceptance would put the beginment. Britain and France ning of the Miocene period at bound to play leading parts. 19,000,000 years ago,
different to untrained eyes from any other skull. But it is difficult for a seientist to discuss it without using superlatives. Scienco has now for the first time a very pri- mitive human cranium which is complete: one in which the bones are in their original positions, un- crushed, not even distorted.
"When one thinks of the almost Another theory which the Peking pitiful fragments of other primi-man tends to support is the Cen
tive human skulls which have been studied for so many weary hours, this superb specimen seems like an embarrassment of riches.
Brain Capacity Measurable. "It may be the most ancient type. It is the first of which the geological age and position are positively known. It is the only one which was studied from the moment of its discovery and re- moved by trained observers.
"There has been much guesswork about all the other very primitive finds. Of the Java ape man, for instance, we have only the skull nh. Of the Piltdown man consi- derably more of the skull but all of it badly broken. Different scien- tists have restored these specimens according to their own ideas. In every case bitter controversies have One man said the brain Arisen..
Another capacity was so much. contended that he was all wrong. The literature on the subject is
enormous.
tral Asian origin of the human family, This is particularly satisfying to me because the Cen- tral Asiatic Expedition was or-. ganized to test that theory.
A Long Way From the Missing
Link.
The Peking man is a long way from being the Missing Link, if one must use that unsatisfactory term. He is a missing link but the remote progenitors of man will be found in much older strata. The extet place is uncertain but I am convinced it will be somey here on the Asiatic Plateau.
Dr. Black, and Dr. Crabau be lieve that Chinese Turkestan is the most probable spot. I favour Mongolia. It is only by intensive exploration that the question can
settled. Meanwhile science has received a tremendous incentive for further research. The world will await with eagerness the result of Dr. Black's study of this priceless material.
The outstanding future of our Western civilisation had been, and would be the development of means of transportation. In that develop
werd
Commenting on the speech the Morning Post Temarks that the closing of an air transport agreement between France and Britain would be of immense value, because it would constitute a step towards the abolition of national frontiers, which are at present a most serious obstacle to air intercourse.
"TALKIE" PICTURE
PRODUCTION.
AN ANGLO-AMERICAN SCHEME.
AGREEMENT SIGNED
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Reos, Jan, 10.
By an agreement which has been signed between one of the lending English companies engaged in the production of talking pictures and
gave evidence to the effect that actual for not participate in the actual forging of the notes, he and his friends co-operated in an at tempt to overthrow the Soviet Gov- ernment.
but an official bulletin atates that that limitation should be based on
statement by cach Power ont- the meeting, decided upon concrete lining its construction programmes
measures to deal with the situation for the period covered by any agree- nent which may be reached in Lon- don.
reas in London.
Americans Sall.
New York, Jan, 0.
He declared that as a result of The American delegation to the discussions of this project with London Naval Conference headed General Hoffman, the German Comby Mr. H. L. Stimson, sailed for mander-in-Chief on the Russian England aboard the ss. George Front during the War, a plan was Washington to-day, drawn up requiring for its execu tion nothing more than the signa- tures of 'Official England and her economic leaders."
Mr. Stimson, before sailing, de- clared that the delegation have high hopes of a successful result-
LATER.
ed in various centres for the pur pose of marching in to the town, A detachment of 70 police was at once despatched there from Sydney. Mr. Hoare, Fresident of the Minces' Federation, burried to the scene, hoping to avert a collision.
A crowd of 4,000 miners also sur- rounded the "Astonfolds colliery, and stripped two non-Unionists who recently gave evidence against Labour official. The crowd burn-
ed their clothing.
Declaring that the slump in Italy holds that the French pro- silver, and a sensational jump in Doctor Weber, a Frankfort book- seller, and an extreme Nationalist,posal will inevitably lead to an in-gold bare has seriously affected the crease, not a decrease in naval armaments, but hopes that her sug-country's inances, and the liveli- gestions will meet with great suc-hood of the people, the State Coun- eil has resolved to prohibit all speculation n gold bars. It has also instructed the Ministry of Finance to prepare adequate mea- sures for dealing with the situation. THE C.E.R. CONFERENCE. DELEGATES GO BEYOND INSTRUCTIONS!
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, Jan. 10. Speaking to Pressmen to-day Dr. C. T. Wang declared that com- munications regarding the Sino-excitement, and there are panics in Soviet preliminary conference at
LATEN. Nikolsk had just been received. In
Ten thousand miners have return- examining them the Government
ed to their homes. The situation is officials had been surprised to find
now quiet. that the delegates had discussed numerous issues in addition to the controversy over the C.E.R. Dr. Wang stated that such discursions were entirely outside the scope of the preliminary conference, and Mo Teh Hwci. China's chief delegate to the formal conference at Moscow, had been ordered to Nanking before leaving for Moscow.
General Hoffman and his col leagues, said the witness, had re- Iations with economic and finan- cial circles connected with a well- known oil magnate, and they pro- posed to interest this group in the Caucasian oil-field in order to get the money necessary to sever Geor- gin from Soviet Russin. The plan, however, failed owing to "indis cretion" and "lenkage of informa tion."
ALL QUIET IN SAMOA,
MORE TROUBLE TO COME?
[TAROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
WELLINGTON, Jan. 9.
The quay and the liner were crowded with frienda and repre sentatives of various peace organi aationa.
Senater Reed, one of the prin- cipal delegates, expressed the view that he was sure of the ultimate success of the conference because there had been less "diplomacy" exhibited than in any other inter- national meeting.
Japanese See Premier.
LONDON, Jan, §. · The Japanese delegation at the London Naval Conference had first interview with Mr. MacDonald in Downing Street on the latter's return from his holidays in Scot- land. The present intention is that nothing will be said about the con- versations
A message from Apin sates that the fifty-eight Samoans belonging 10 the Mau, who were called upon" to meet the Administrator at Mutish lina, have sent a letter giving cer tain reasons for not obeying the
order.
The Mau adherents have, catire- ly abandoned the Fagata and Taimauga districts, as required, but are assembling at Leavivia and Solo-Solo.
No Mau uniforms were to be seen in Apia to-day, and the situation is all quiet.
A KING'S MYSTERY
ILLNESS.
The British Delegates.
LONDON, Jan. 8. The final constitution of the Bri- delegation to the London Naval Conference was officially announced at _Whitehall to-day.
The principal delegates will be: Ramsay MacDonald, the prime Minister.
Mr.
COUP D'ETAT IN FOOCHOW.
COMMUNISTS ABSOLVED.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.}
NANKING, Jan. 8.
It transpires that the Foochow affair was a coup d'etat, not the work of Communists, General Lu Mr. Arthur Henderson, the For-Hsin Fan, commander of the newly- sign Secretary.
organised 2nd Fukien Division, and a Nanking nominee, was responsible for it.
Mr. Wedgwood Benn, the Sec- retary of State for India..
Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty.
Acting as foreign expert advisera will be.
Sir Robert Vansittart, Perman cit Lader-Seeretary for Foreign Affairs.
Mr. R. L. Craigie, head of the American Department of the For- eign Office.
Hon. A.M.G. Cadogan. Adviser on League of Nations Affairs.
Mr. H. B. Malkin, Legal Ad- LIFE OF TERROR OF MAN WHO riser to the Foreign Office. "I, for one, confidently expect
WON A THRONE. "In a short time Dr. Davidson
that continued explorations of the "Black, will tell us exactly what Chou Kon Tien deposit will reveal
Vienna-King Zogu of Albania, was the brain capacity of the Po-
skeletal parts. There is every rea- king man. He will make a cast
son for hope. The specimens from
who has been suffering for a num the Radio Keith Orpheum Corpora-ber of monthe from a poisoned of the interior of the skull. From
the cave are so beautifully prescrv-
Admiralty Experts. studying this perfect reproductioned that it will be strange if other tion of America, the two concerns throat, has been lying dangerously of the brein he will know just how bones are not brought to light.
will be jointly responsible for all in his palace at Tirana.
The Admiralty, expert advisers series of British talking pictures, During the past few days his con-
will be: far on the road to human intelli-
"Again I most heartily congratus be produced in this country, and dition has suddenly become woree,
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles gence the Peking man had gone.
late the discovers of the Peking distributed throughout America and and it is now so bad that tMadden, First Sen. Lord and The swelling in the forehend pro-
the world generally.
famous throat specialists received mias interesting results. Already an upon their well-merited sur
orders to charter a special airplane Chief of the Naval Staff. the Peking man had begun to think.
to fly to Tirana,
COMPENSATION FOR ENEMY ACTION.
FINAL DATE FOR LODGING OF CLAIMS.
The Government of Hong Kong announce that es gratia awards in respect of claims by British nationals belonging to Hong Kong are now being made.
Attention is particularly directed to the fact that all claims not already lodged must be received by March 31, 1931, at the Colonial Secretary's Office Hong Kong, cr, failing this, by the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office, London, S.W.1, and that no. claim not received by that date will be considered.
Application for further informa iton should be made to the Colonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong, or failing this, to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Claims by surviving dependants in respect of loss of life of men serving with the armed forces of the Crown claims are ineligible to rank as against reparation moneys.,,
Each company will bear half the rost of every production, and share, equally in the profits. The pictures It is now scported from Belgrade will be known as Associated Radio that the illness is the result of a EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IN Pictures and they will have a guar- tinister attempt made to murder anteed release throughout the the King last summer by means of MAURITIUS.
a poisoned drink.
ENORMOUS DAMAGE.
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Rucay, Jan. 9. Telegrams received by the Col. nial Office from Mauritius report that, owing to heavy and unpre Ledented rainfall, severe floods have taken place in Port Louis and country districts since the end of December. The damage to bridges and roads is estimated at Rs. 200,000.
The principal water supply of Port Louis is broken, and repairs to mains are reported to be im- possible at present.
world.
Mr. Basil Deun, Chairman of the English company, Associated Talk ing Pictures, Ltd., said yesterday that in accordance with this agree ment the pictures would be by British authors, and would be made in England by British artists, with the assistance from time to time, if jointly seen it, of American's.
EARTHQUAKE IN FRANCE.
SIZZLINGS IN THE SEA.
[TRRONGO REUTER'S AGENCY. Į
PARIS, Jan. 9. A severe earthquake shock, an exceedingly rare experience in this steps have been taken for obtain-part of the world, was felt through ing an increased supply from Mare Aux Vacoas. This in conjunction with water from other should prove sufficient.
Immediate
sources,
The anger estates report losses to tramway lines and damages to cane. Weather conditions are now. normal.
out the West of France to-day. First information of the occurrence came from Nantes, a message stat- ing that the shocks were felt for several seconds in Nantes and over
Vice-Admiral Sir Willian Fisher,
Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff.
Vice-Admiral Roger R. C. Back- house. Third Sea Lord.
A striking fact in connection with the rumour is that ever since the beginning of his illness the King has refused to cat anything unless ition of the Admiralty. has been cooked specially by his mother and brought to him by her personally,
When King Zogu seized the throne his death was vowed by more than one hundred relatives of the notabilities whom he ordered to be hanged at the time.
He has hardly ever left the palace since then, and never goes near the window for fear of being shot. The palace and grounds have always been closely guarded by loyal members of the King's hovechold.
WIFE FROM PALESTINE. SOLDIER HUSBAND "ALWAYS CROSS."
a minute in the neighbouring town A soldier's marriage in Egypt of Vannes, where chimneys were had a sequel at Highgate Police dislodged.
Court when the wife, a woman of Egyptian extraction, summoned her hushand.
From L'Orient it is learned that two distinct tremors occurred in the vicinity. The first shock occur. red at about 7.45 p.m. and appar- ently came from the North East and from the Atlantic.
Anderson
"Admiral Yang Shu Chupa, who was carried off, has wired to the Government stating that he has escaped to Nantai, ten miles from Foschow, but L is still holding four members of the Provincial Government prisoners. The Nation- al Government has despatched a warship to Foochow
wired Chiang Kai Shek has urging Lu Hsin Pan to release his prisoners immediately.
LATER.
Lu Hain Pan controls the upper reaches of the Min River. It is. reported that he is coming to govern Foochow with the assistance of the Defence Commissioner and Admiral Chen Shao Kwan.
CHINA'S "HOME-MADE
'PLANE."
CONSTRUCTED IN FUKIEN,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
SHANGHAI, Jan. 10. "Haichow," China's Arst
The
Two detachments of miners in- ncluding 000 ex-soldiers marched to Rothbury and assembled near the mine to hold a meeting.
The coalfields are seething with
sema centres..
ITALY'S EXTERRITORIAL
ין
RIGHTS.
Rome, Jan. 4.--An instruction was cabled to-day to the Italian Minister in Peking, ordering him to send a note to Nanking reaffirm-
Italy's ing
extraterritoriality rights as recognized in the Sino- Italian treaty of 1929,
JUDGE'S FIGHTING ADVICE.
USE YOUR HANDS.".
----
Mr. Justice Hawke, who in his university days was a heavy-weight Toxer, gave some advice at Leeds. Assizes to a pit boy, William Wil- lintas, of Kilhurst, Rotherham, when he was accused of shooting at another youth with intent to de grievous bodily harm.
"Look here, Williams," said Mr. Justice Hawke in discharging him, "I don't want you to go and tell anybody that I said you were to hit him on the nose, but, if you want to fight anybody, fight with" your hands. Don't use guns-they are dangerous.”
"NORMAL MARRIED LIFE."
HUSBAND'S DEFINITION IN
THE DIVORCE COURT..
A husband stated in the Divorce Court, in London, that he and his Vice-Admiral D. M. who was R.AY. from 1923 to 1925
wife lived a normal married life " up to the time of their separation. temporarily in command
Mr. Justice Hill: Now we shall nd China Station in 1925), "Liaison
learn what a normal married life iz Officer.
Some people, when they are Four officers of the Plaas Divi-home-made hydropiane, construct
ed at the Makiang naval aeroplane married, are intensely happy," said
sistant Secretary at the Admiralty.
Mr. Alex. Flint, Principal As. factory in Fukien, arrived yester the husband."others are intensely
cay by gunboat. The 'plane took | miserable. We were neither." five months to build, and coet Mr. Justice Hill: That means The Dominions Office will be re
9-10,000. It has four motors deve that you jogged along with occa
sional quarrels. presented by Sir Harry Batterbee,
The husband. Yes, my lord. Assistant Secretary. There will be loping 260 h.p.
presentatives of the Treasury De- partment, the experts numbering thirty altogether, while Sir Mau rice Hankey will be Chief of the Delegation Secretarint.
"INTRIGUES AGAINST U.S. SEA POWER."
MR. SHEARER'S ANGER,
SINO-BRITISH ISSUES.
"A COMPLETE AGREEMENT." (TBROCON REUTER'S AGENCE.]
Telegrams in Brief.
Mr. Thomas Martin Chalmers
NANKING, Jan. 10. Dr. C. T. Wang told Pressmen today that he was having daily Steuart, director of several rubber conversations with Sir Miles Lamp companies, has been found shot son regarding all outstanding Sino-dead at his home in Purley, Suz British issues, including extrality, the Sino-British Treaty and Wei- haiwei. A complete agreement and been reached, be added.
BRITAIN'S SLUMS TO CO.
MEASURES IN HAND. [URITIBH WIRELESS BERVICE)
NEW YORK, Jan. 7. Speaking at the Carnegie Hall, Mr. Shearer, who gained extensive notoriety in connection with the re- cent investigation into lobbying ac tivities in Washington, conducted by a committee of the Senato, took as his subjeet: "The inside story of ten years' international intrigue against, the United States' sen po The court was informed that thewer, and what may happen at the woman was managing a tea-house London Conference." in Palestine when they met. She married her husband because he The shocks were accompanied by was a British soldier and there subterranean rumblings, and the fore the soul of honour. first lasted for about three seconds. The wife said: "He is cruel to People rushed out of their houses me. Me speak to him nice. He al into the streets, fearing a collaps, xays rough, no patience with me The second shock, which lasted any way. He always cross, never
Ho hit me, for two seconds only, was felt soon gentle to me.
scream, me ery very much. afterwards..
The quake was felt throughout swear, swear, swear. Mo not like the whole of Brittany, and there swear."
The wife told the court that she little doubt that it was centred the de Atarrif gala acutely had intact £50 she brought red during the evening and sailors with her from Palestine, the Britkin which hur dominux cousas Alma orang fat State Department for the last an approximated cost of about and coastguards sneak of strange granted a separation order and 20%.
£9,000,000. twenty-five years." week alimony. sizzling noises in the sea.
GERMANY AND THE YOUNG PLAN. INDIAN RAILWAY SMASH.
HAGUE DISCUSSIONS,
TRAINS IN COLLISION..
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Tux HAGUE, Jan. 8. {THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.}
M. Tardieu, M.. Briand, Dr. NEW DELHI, Jan, 10. Curtius and Dr. Wirth discussed Six people were killed and 14 the eventuality of the German Gov. injured at Chatterbuckanj in a col-ernment tearing up the Young lision between the Peshawar ex- Plan, which the French regard as press and a goods train. The expossible, whilst the Germans acorn Tress-egging, mounted the goods the idea. It was decided that their train front brake van
both should ut covered so Passenger coaches were telescop change of notes, the result of which ed, the goods train overturned and will be embodied in a final protocol the lines blocked.
at the Hague Conference.
After having lampooned Bena tor Borah, assailed the large Ameri
Ruany, Jan. 10. can newspapers and attacked both Mr. C. E. Hughes and Mr.. Dani The Health Ministry's new Slum cls, as well as others, Mr. Shearer Clearance Bill, which is to be intro- baid: "Do not think that the Em-duced in Parliament after the recess pire that held the high seas for will, it is believed, atimulate the three hundred years is going to process of improving the meaner me give it up just because you ask it. parts of the leading cities. Already, Ho The only reward I have receiv however, large schemes
hand. 'cd from my government was the importation of mud and Althy squm which they have plastered averme in order to appease Great
aro
rey.
President Hoover's Law Enforce ment Commission has abruptly ad- journed until February 2 It is understood that the members came to a deadlock on the Prohibition question..
Mrs. Eva Paris, a New York so- ciety woman, has been killed.ow- ing to her aeroplane crashing in the marshes at Safilla River, Georgia, while she was flying alone to at- tend an air meet at Miami. Sho was the divorced wife of Rex Lee
millionaire banker.
Paris, son of John W. Paris, the
President Hoover has appointed Mr. Gilchrist Baker Stockton as Minister to Austria, and Mr. Abra- inham Ratahesky as Minister to Czecho-Slovakia, Mr. Stockton served under Mr. Hoover in the American Relief Administration in Europe after the war, whilst Mr. Ratchesky is a Bastonuolat va a prominent member of the Jewish community.
In London, a programme has been drawn up for the clearance of over 200 acres of slums, involving the re-