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-Sir John Bowring's Praya
Scheme Falls
It has been repeatedly suggested to us by several whose support and | advice we place great value upon. that we should be magnanimous and allow the Bowring Praya to sleep in peace. We quite disagree with the doctrine thus laid down -we denounce it as absurd--the attempt to force the Praya upon this community, was most preme- ditated, determined, and dishonest, The object, in view was simply to gratify an inordinate and insati- able thirst for vanity, and if its defeat be not a subject for sar- casm and ridicule, we should like to know what it is. If our stale- tures or our caricatures touched on private matters, we should lay ourselves open to censure, but they do not, and we intend to have our ding, and indulge our fancy and inclinations in celebrating the vic- tory of "our side." Had matters been reversed and the Praya Bill passed, how much consideration would have been shown to vested rights, to the feelings or the con- venience of private feelings, to the pressing wants of this Colony or to the reiterated wishes of the public? They would have all been disregarded with disdain, the giddy height of vanity would have been attained and God knows the lengths the empty headed outcast would have gone to.
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is a warning to us, to be look out. If our readers suppose that the wound inflicted upon Bir John's vanity by the defeat of the Praya question, be mortal to it, they are "much", mistaken--the irritation will give more venom to the sting if the wound be nursed by those who inflicted it.
As well might the debaters in the Houses of Parliament desert their cause and cease their labours be- cause their leading opponent was sick, as that we should be expect ed at this particular juncture to stop giving-vent, to fur feelings, and descanting on the fruits of the victory. We want to see the sur plus revenue appropriated to the utilitarian requirements of the Co- it diverted lony. We have seen from this detestable Prays" but still the money les idle or bear- ing interest at most.
have
In the same manner we seen high crimes and misdemean ours brought home to officers of the local government, but is that any reason that we should cease to denounce them, until justice obtains some satisfaition? ly not--we should be sadly want- ing in our duty if we did and we can assure our readers that noth- ing is farther from Hons.
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ouz inten-
We repeat once for all that we' have nothing to do with Sir John Bowring's sickness. We have no hesitation in stating that we feel more sympathy for him than he ever did. or ever would, for we have heard of people living for
To a fallen foe we would never! advocate the refusal of mercy or quarter, but when a vain vindic- tive man like Sir John Bowring is defeated, is that any proof that he has fallen? The cry of "adaix months in a trance, others of misericodiam" has been so current an incredible time without food, an article wherever It would pass.
but we never heard of a iving that we look upon it as paper creature who could exist "in ex- Cash-re will have nothing to do tremis" for such B lengthened with it. We will not deal in it period as Sir John Bowring, with It does not concern the question out something specific being the at all the attempt to pass it off, matter.
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- MAN'S ORIGIN IN ASIA
Theories Of Eden Expounded By
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Dr. A. W. Grabau
The suggestion that the story of Adam and Eve turned out of the Garden of Eden might be based on the emergence of our remote anthropoid ancestors from the thinning forests of ancient days was made by Dr. A. W. Grabau chief paleontologist to the National University of Feking, in lantern lecture on "Central Asia, cradle of the human race, to the Royal Asiatic Society (North China Branch), yesterday evening, before leaving for the north on his return from the International Geological Congress in Washington.
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Dr. Grabau remarked that apeculations as to the site of the cradle of the human race had been made ever since man had thought about his origin. Assuming man to be the derivative of a more primitive type of creature serving ae ancestor both of man thropoids, there had been several theories as to the place where there tirat emerged un activity of haman character. Supporters of the African theory pointed to the existence in that continent of many of the great apes but that gave no clue as to why man should have arisen there. He was a
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NOT DANGEROUS DRIVING
Summons Against
Mrs. Roffey Dismissed
Mr. Schofield yesterday dis- missed a case in which Mrs. G. K. Roffey, wife of Mr. M. H. Roffey of the Hong Kong University, was summoned for dangerous driving.
The Magistrate said:-- After considering the evidence, I cannot help feeling that there a not enough to justify a conviction for dangerous driving."
"It is agreed on both sides," added "Mr. Schofield "that the right hand wheels of defendant's car were four feet away from the parapet. At the speed it was going I feel satisfied that collision could easily have been avoided, and the dangerous driving is so slight as not to justify a convic- tion. At the same time I cannot help feeling that the defendant, could have kept a little more to
the left of the road."
Sergeant Yous said at 12.20 p.m. on September 20 he was driving along Pokfulam Road on is motor cycle combination. About 100 yards East of Mt. Davis Road was a left hand bend with a bridge in the centre. He was about 20 feet from the West end of the bridge when he saw Mrs. Roffey's car coming towards hl. It was on the wrong side of the road and left him about four feet in which to drive his cycle combination through. He applied his brakes and stopped, while de- fendant swerved to the other side of the road. The car missed his front wheel by about four feet.
Witnesa, in reply to Mrs. Roffey, said that he saw her car about twenty feet away as it was round- ing the bend. It was possible to see cars coming round the bend across the ravine. He stopped de- fendant at the Dairy Farm hill, which was about one and a half miles away from the bridge, be- cause when he turned round and followed he thought she had taken the Mt. Davis Road and so he took the wrong. turning.
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Mrs. Roffey's Evidence. Mrs. "Roffey, said that she had been driving for the past twenty years and bad never had a con- viction On this occasion her hus- band was with her. The particular corner was wide at the beginning. and narrowed to 20 feet in the middle and was then wide aga on the other side. She usually took it at about 17 to 18 miles an hour. Neither she nor her hus- band saw Sergeant Youe, which was rather extraordinary, and which led her to surmise that he must have been behind some bushes. She was driving in the The first implements possibly de- middle of the road and not on the veloped from the accidental lodging right, and pulled off to the left on of stone fragments in the splinter-seeing Sergeant Youe. Sergeant ed ends of sticks used for support Your applied his. brakes, but at no perhaps had its origin during the in walking, while the use of "fire | time was there the slightest dan- ger. Sergeant. Youe did not sound period of the glacial sheets, when his horn. She slowed down and Pre-humans may have been attract looked round, and then proceed- lightning, and carried off burning ed towards forest blares caused by ed.
Man's First Implements
boughs.
When these ancestors at man crossed the Kuen. Lum into a
basin where there were no sharp stone fragments ready to hand, all having been rounded by water action, they had to take the further step of learning to shape stones by chipping. It was Southern Siberia that they must look along the fringe of the desert towards for traces of later primitive man, the absence of paleolithic remains in China itself being due to the cold and
In reply to Bergeant Youe, wit- ness said that she slowed down
and looked round because she saw that he was startled.
Mr. Roffey said he had never seen two vehicles attempt to pass
one another on the bridge itself. He had seen other cars taking the It was a narrow and short bridge.
bridge, and all were on the wrong side of the road, which meant the
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To which as a personal impression I
and the living an dust storms caused by the great centre of the bridge with the right i would add that he already appears to band wheels; over the middle. have a very close appreciation of the glacial regior to the north rendering Every car had to take the bridge special questions which, as Minister, the country uninhabitable.
great believer in the impelling force of envirominent. If there was no need for a change, none would take place There must be something to force s creature into new lines of evolution, otherwise the force of environment would amp any new tendency.
A Great World Change
In southern Central Asis, certain physical phenomena: took place at a time when the stock from which man sprang was ripe to be forced into con- formity with altered conditions. The Peking man way not the aidest type. He lived about one million year age, at the beginning of the "quaternary period, whereas the great world dis- turbance which produced the Alps and Himalayas took place perhaps 20 million years ago. Asis was then quite separate from Europe. Remains of the giant rhinoceros, found as far and dating bachistan rad Mongolia and dating back to before the great chadge, suggested that the interren- ing regions then were uniform, with ample food supplies, and there was no reason why they should not have been inhabited by some anthropoids.
Development towards the human type was not, as the African theorists held, because some highly developed creatures voluntarily left the forest, but beastise they were compelled to do
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skulls unearthed from the fissure in
Mentioning that one of the two in this way. the ancient limestone near Peking was nearly twice as thick as the other, Dr. Gribau humorously suggested that The Peking man did his wooing with this was possibly that of a female.
skulls survived. a elib, and those with the thickest
Indian A. S. P. Retiring
MR. MOHINDER SINGH LEAVES NEXT WEEK
On October 14, Sirdar Sahib Mohin der Singh, Assistant Superintenden of Police will be returning to his homeland on a well earned retirement. Ho first joined the Force as con-
He
NEW MINISTER TO CHINA
he will have to meet in China.
If further personal impressions may be allowed without impertinence, there is no doubt that Mr. and Lady Theodosia Cadogan will be well liked
in China both by Chinese and
foreigners. Mr. Cadogan is a little above, middle height an athletic figure, who looks a good deal younger than his
quite forty-nine) age (not His manner is quite but very pleasant
ST FRANCIS HOTEL
AN IDEAL FAMILY HOTLE
PORTUGAL'S NATIONAL
DAY
To-morrow, 5th instant, is the 23rd' year of the Proclamation of Republic
Impressions Of The and sincere, and one might venture to of Fortugal.
Hon. A. G. M. Cadogan
London, Sept. 2.
The appointment of the Hon. A. G. M. Cadogan sa British Minister to China, which has for several weeks been an open secret, was officially con- firmed to-day writes, Mr. O; M1⁄2 Green in the NO. Daily News
say that he has a 'mind of his own. I The Portuguese Community, as in have reason to believe that he has for previous years, will enthusiastically some time been specially "saved up”
celebrate the occasion. for his fitness for China, when he might have been promoted elsewhere. Heis a keen golfer, shot and rider, and was delighted to hear that there will be good scope for all these pursuits in China in his leisure hours.
Will Leave Next Year
I visited Mr. Cadogan to-day at his Mr. Cadogan has to go abroad again house at Chalfont St. Peters, not far and will then have to put in some time from Gerrard's Cross, and had a long at the Foreign Office. It is unlikely conversation with him and Lary that he and Lady Theodosia will be Theodosis Cadogan. Although he has able to start for China before January.
China Mr. Cadogan's never been in this British dogs daughter, who has lately come out of Inspector. Promotion to commistion in Geneva has brought him into and their youngest who is 11 years okl soned rank as Assistant Superinten close touch with men of all nationali. Lady Theodosis was rather anxious dent of Police in charge of the Sikhties, some of whom he will meet again about education for the latter daughter. Contingent came at the end of 1928 in China. He got to know well Dr. I assured her that as with most other as a result of the growing numbers of WW. Yen, now Chinese Ambasador things China was able to provide of the Force, but more partionisely in in Moscow and Dr. Alfred Sre, the best in this respect also. recognition of
merit
As President of Khalsa Diwan, the the chief Sikh religions and social organisation in Hongkong, he had been the means of regulating many
so by the aridity of Tibet following the dificult matters. great change: Propanthropus was stili
vert much a brate, but, was adapting A glowing tribute was paid to Mr. itself to walking erect, probably with Mohinder Singh, when at a gathering
formerly Minister in London, now in Washington
Much of the conversation was, of
course, about the human side of life in China which is always of the special in- terest to those going to the Far East.
Naturally' Mr. Cadogan could i not make any statement of policy" the phrase goes (the idea of such a thing, considered calmly, it alightly
To-night, at the Lige Portuguesa, 41, Peking Road, Kowloon, there will be concert at which the most talen ted members of the community, will present programme
Cong at*
The President of the Liga, Mr. J. A. de Almeida, its the premuce of Portu- guess Consul General, will toast the future prosperity of their Mother County, after which a dance will be held
On Thursday the 5th October, their eldest 11 reception
the Club Lusitano, promoted by the four Portuguese Associations, which will be open to their friends.
At night, there will be a Ball at the same Instituition.
CHIENTAO TRIALS
Two Hundred And Forty-Six Arraigned In Seoul
Presiding Judge Yamashita.
Besides sixteen counsel, the audience- was limited to only fifty persons "specially permitted to attend the trial. “After formal evidence, which took over- three hours, ever: thesa fifty were org
dered to leave court.
the aid of branches from the forest": ŝto congratulate him on hu important "absurdy but when" anked him if and police surveillance the initiates in the varientao #res
He thought they must consider Appointment, compatriot, Mr. Bishen might send any message to the British
Jara speman a descendant of thi panthropus, having crossed the land - sory brage hichi joined the Eur
Inilta to the Asiatic mainland.
Dewis your outmunity in China he replied laugh
luuble that, ingly Bay that in all hopefulness
and humility I mean to do my best
(Continued on nezt Cola)
The cass dates from the round-up of over a thousand Korean outlawriwoś years ago who, according to the Tokyo-Under strict gendarmerie oficial vuriga, änderthe Jesc
Commnya minta, had been i public hearing of the Chiantao in border area between Kores, and Man for churia) Communist case was held at inc the Seoul, District Court: EN STAY DE? 418; socused being brought before,
Let be instigation
the loca