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A CHINESE PUZZLE?
There is a fairly wide impres- slon among people in this country- wut to think of learning Chinese would be a task that is equivalent to looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack, but a recent report on the work of the Chinese branch of the School of Oriental Studies in London puts a much better face on a task which few Europeans ake the trouble to tackle, The report quotes as an example of ignorance on this subject the re- cent statement, in the course of a letter to a London, newspaper, "The people of Chins speak many hundred different dialects, and those that speak the common
Cannibal Tribe Adopts British Explorer As Son
Woman Chief Who Speaks Fluent
English
Dr. Donald Thomson, brilliant young British anthropologist and explorer, has solved a puzzle that for 13 years has intrigued the world-be has found a mystery English-speaking woman whom legend described as leader of a nomad killer-aborigine tribe in the. Australian bush. wiltes a Home correspondent. ·
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It was believed that the woman, •. He was adopted as a "son" of sole survivor of the ill-fated Com-Old Man Wongo, a native omcially THURSDAY, DEC. 23, 1937 monwealth survey ship, Douglas regarded by the Commonwealth Mawson, lived somewhere in grim, uncharted Arnhem Land on the north-east coast of northern ter-
language of Mandarin form an; ritory. 1937nnitesimally small poporition of
the total population." Actually, It appears that it "is quite pos- sible for a foreigner whose know- ledge of Chinese is confined to „northern ‘Mandarin' or Pekingese Ma. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA, Auctioneer to travel through, the whole length
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of China, from Manchuria in the extreme north to Yunnan on the borders of Burma in the extreme south-west, with Anding It necessary in any of the provinces through which he passes (each of them as large as a European State) to invoke the aid of " an inter- preter."
COMMERCE AND THE COAST The legend about the altogether unmanageable multiplicity of Chinese dialecta arose, It seems. from the earlier commercial con- tacts of Europeans with China.
Nearly all the ports with which trade was permitted lay in the coastal regions of the South-west, which is precisely where the tangle- of tongues and dialects is most marked and where even the natives of one district are unable to make themselves understood by the natives of another.
Had the establishers of the first commercial contacts with China been able to penetrate inland they would have found that the Ilnguis-
The Douglas Mawson had aboard an English woman and her 11- year-old daughter. When the ship foundered in Caledon Bay, Arnhem Land; in 1923, mother and daugh- ter were held to have got ashore. The mother. It was stated, was murdered, but the daughter allow- rd to live.
AN AMAZON Pearlers told of hearing of a wo- man who spoke English, and who was a leader of the spearmen on the coast.
Dr. Thomson has
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woman after a 15-month solitary trek in Arnhem Land. She does speak English Quently; she was blamed for most of the trouble on the coast.
But she is not English. She is called Clara, and of her Dr. Thom- sun says:
"She showed extraordinary „cour- age and intelligence. She was ab- ducted from her own tribe and brought to Caledon Bay, where she has been ever since."
Government as the worst of Am-. hem Land's "bad-men" and killers.
I saw Dr. Thomson's father at his Firchley home. He said to
me:
"There had been a number of
killings at Caledon Bay. Donald offered to go there to see if he could pacify the natives and learn something of their country and habits.
"Donald approached Caledon Bay from the hinterland, and by persuasion convinced Old Man Wongo that he meant ho harm.
"Old Man Wongo kept his posl- tion as leader through his fight- ing ability and that of his many warrior sons. But he became
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Donald's best friend. Through the Seaters, Saloon. centuries-old 'grape
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"Donald walked and canced about 1,500 miles during his trek. Some of the tribes he met became tree dwellers in the wet seasons; some of them were very dangerous.
"He learned the language and That is all that is known of her had no trouble with any of them.
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wherein the same tongue, with armed, except for a shot-gun to slight variations, was spoken and ¦ provide food, as special patrol off- understood over whole provinces, cer for the Commonwealth Govern- And the report from the School of ment. Oriental Studies not unnaturally "He is the only white man to begs the business men of to-day | have penetrated Arnhem (and others) to cease regarding the Chinese tongue as a hopeless puzle and to consider it rather as something that can be studied and mastered with interest and profit, -Manchester Guardían.”
AMERICA TAKES STOCK
Panay Incident Causes Foreign Policy Examination
Washington, Dec. 20. Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secre- tary for State, sald to-day that the Government had long expected to withdraw American. ships
and citizens from the Far East "when their appropriate functions are no longer called for," but "the present does not seem an opportune mo- ment."
In fact, the only trouble he did have Wis with the food. He found it quite eatable, but it affected his teeth and digestion. At times he was forced to eat snakes,"
Dr. Thomson is married and has two children, boy twins. He won the Harbinger-Higginbotham scho- larship at the University of Mel- Land.bourne for the "best work on the sociology of the Australian abori- gine ever written." He is to con- tinue his anthropological research studies at Cambridge University under the Rockefeller Founda- tion.
The natives, killers and haters of intruders, made him their blood brother, showed him the secret quarry where they still chip fiints for speadheads, allowed him to photograph sacred ceremonies.
TSINGTAO DAMAGE ENRAGES JAPAN
Retaliative Measures Demanded
Tokyo, Dec. 21. Drastic punishment of the Chin- ese who set fire to Japanese cotton mills in Tsingtao is demanded by Mr. Shojiro Otaka, Consul-General at Tsingtao, who evacuated the port with 300 Japanese residents and officials on August 30.
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GIFT TO BRITISH MUSEUM
London, Dec. 20: Lord Baldwin, former Prime Minister of Britain, has presented - Kipling's “Reces- slonal" to the British Museum. The manuscripts of the late Sir James Barrie's "Leaves from Peter Pan and Wendie” were auctioned in London to-day-
Beuter's Bulletin Service.
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Moscow, Dec. 20: The Soviet secret polico, "OGPU" celebrated
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SUPPORT FOR LOYALISTS
London, Dec, 20. A demonstration in support of the Spanish Government was held in the Albert Hall to-day where £3,000 was collected for the Re- lief Fund.
Mr. Clement Attlee, Labour Opposition Leader in the House of Commons, who recently paid a visit to Spain, attacked those who
In the House of Commons criticis- ed his visit, and said there was a stream of propaganda in Britain directed against the Spanish Gov-~~ ernment.
He accused the Government of devotion to class warfare.-
Reuter.
PRESIDENT HOOVER WEATHERS GALE
San Francisco. Dec. 20. Dollar Line officials have te- celved a cablegram stating that the President Hoover weathered a a severe gaie.
The Captain and a crew of 20 are standing by. Salvage equip- ment has arrived and operations with begin as soon as the weather becomics favourable. Reuter.
The Consul declared: "The news is that such a situation has been brought about by Chinese, and there is no alternative for Japan Mr. Hull added that the degree but to resort to decisive measures. of protection a
According to latest reports received its 21st anniversary to-day. Greet HITLER WILL ATTEND should afford its citizens abroad by me, constables who had beenings were sent from Chief Com- presented many difficulties, and engaged to protect the Japanese missariats throughout the country | FUNERAL OF GENERAL resulted in many conflicts in mill areas were replaced by salt to the "OGPU" which is described opinion.
Government
revenue guards who prepared ex- Pointing out that during a cen-plosions after looting the mills of which were tury certain rights and Interests valuable spindles, had developed in the Far East, transported to the interior on the Mr. Hull said the American Gov- Tsingtao-Tsinan airway”-
Itruter. ernment could not suddenly dis- avow its obligations and respon- sibilities.
The State Secretary declared that the altuation arising from the Panay incident could not be settled for some days as the United States Naval Board of Enquiry was making a fully detalled report which probably would handed to the Washington thorities for several days.
Authoritative circles are of the
not
be
opinion that Japan will not reply to the American Note until the Naval Board has completed's ita enquiry as the American Govern- ment. on the basis of the 'Board's report, might wish to implement the representations already made.
—Reuter.
BLOODSHED IN THE TERUEL FRONT
Berlin, Dec. 20. as the punishing hand for the so-
General Erich Ludendorfr let people. Ten thousand prison era were released as a reward for famous German war-time" com- their work in laying a double track mander, who died to-day, is being of the Trans-Siberian Railway interred at Munich Herr Adolf from east of Lake Baikal to the Hitler will attend the funeral CLOSE WATCH KEPT
Amur River. The newly elected Reuter. Tokyo. Dec. 21.
Soviet Parlament will have its Concerned over the destruction, Arst sitting on January 12, 1937- of Japanese cotton mills in Tsing-Reuter's Bulletin Service. tao and the resultant unrest there, the Japanese Government is keep- ing close watch on the situation according to press reports, which add that if the fire were caused by Chinese acting on the instructions of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, this wanton action apparently re- ects the realisation of a policy of co-operation between the Comin tern and the Chinese Government. --Reuter.
NEW BRITISH CRUISERS
9 SUMMONSES AFTER CAT'S DEATH
Unusual proceedings in regard to a woman's pet cat came before Mr. Grimith-Jones at Marylebone police court and were adjourned.
There
were ning summonses
alleging that the cat had been stolen and "received." that a pol- sonous drug or substance had
London, Dec. 20. It was announced in Commons that an order for one 8,000-tcai cruiser le being placed with each of the following firms: Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wall- send-on-Tyne; John Brown, Clyde- bank; A. Stephen and Sons and Vickers Armstrong who will build the vessel at their High Walker
The summonsse were against yard. The Minister for Defence two oficials of Our Dumb Friend's explained that the ships represent-League-Miss Cook, the superin ed the conclusion of the 1937 pretendent, and Mrs Munday, official gramme, and he assured Mr.
collector, of the Animal Shelter, Churchill they were certainly equal
Paddington, Harrow-road,
The
been wilfully administered to it; and that it had been maliciously
ti killed.
FORMER JAPANESE MINISTER DIES
Tokyo, Dec. 21: Eight days after resigning his post as Home Minis- ter owing to reasons of Ill health, of contemporary vessels being built complainant is Adeline Bourne, of Dr. Elichi Baba died to-day at thà, in other countries-- age of 58. Dr. Baba was promin- | British Wireless. St. Jean de Luz, Dec. 21.ent as Finance Minister in the Teruel is still holding out against Hirota Cabinet, when he instituted the Government attacks, but fighting with great bloodshed is in progress in the towns on the outskirts of the city..
reforms in the system of taxation and brought into being a "cheap money" policy, thereby falling in Eine with the policies of European A blinding snowstorm is impeding countries. He was succeeded as the work of the Government art Home Minister by Admiral No lery.
busamin Bustsugu
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ROYALTY AT
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London, Dec, 20:
Blomfeld-road, Maida Vale, Miss Cook was accused of being con- cerned in all the offences except the one of stealing the cat
produced each year by the school, The King and Queen to-night and the record of Royal attend attended the performance of a dances goes back to Queen Elsa- Latin play by scholars of West- | beth- Al minister School. A Latin, play is British Wireless.