“FOWLER” CUP FINAL, CHINA'S PROBLEM.
SURREYS PLATOON TEAMS DRAW.
[BY "WANDERER".
A jossy goal ten minutes from the and saved Eleven Platoon from defeat by Two Platoon in the final of the Fowler" Inter-Pla toon Cup at the Murray Parade Ground last evening.
Two Flutoon were better to- gether and scored through Cheese- man midway through the opening? half, but countless opportunities were subsequently allowed to go begging and ten minutes from the close an erratic, bounao sent the ball to the feet of Hicks, the El- even contre-forward, who little difficulty in going through and defeating the Two custodian.
had
We wero most struck by thel absence of knowledge of rule change. The throw-in for ex- ample was treated in a manner] suggestive of neither the old rule nor the revised version..
The game was keenly contest- ed throughout; and old-stagers, C. Q. M. S: Stripp, for example,
came through a gruelling tussle
with credit.
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HELPING THE PAPER TRADE.
Simla. Sept. 3. Detroit, Sept. 3. Mr, Kellogg, in a speech last The Assembly hay unanimous- evening, intimated that Mr. Silasly passed the Coal Grading Bill, Strawn had been appointed designed to enable India to re-]
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WEEK-END MATCHES.
and other special privilege ques- lons, for which the date had not yet been fixed. Reuter's American Service,
The Government has formulate ad provisional conclusions on the Tarift Board's report on the sub- joet of the paper industries, which the Legislative Assembly will be sked to approve on the 10th linet. The resolution proposes to assist the bamboo paper and paper pulp industry by the. imposition, until March, 1932, of a specific protective duty of one anna por pound on printing paper, oxcluding certain varieties which contain less than 65 per cent, of mechanical pulp and all writ- Tho resolution ing paper. does not mention the twenty lakhe loan or the guarantee debentures which the Tariff Board. recom. imended to enable the two com- panies to experiment with bam- boo paper-Reuter.
FIRST MAN FROM APES?
Exploration in Cradle of `· Human Race.
Poking, Aug. 19.- Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the Mr. Silas Hardy Strawn is Third Asiatic Expedition, who is Chicago-lawyer,prominently-back-in -Peking from the Gobi interesting himself in the First desert, talked to a gathering of National Bank, and being the newspaper men this morning chairman of many other about the Expedition's latest dis- American companies. He was coveries.
Mr. Andrews said that the There will be two double-head- admitted to the Bar at Ottawa in
and has practised in expedition confined its explore--| era in the Hongkong Baseball 1889 League during the week-end at Chicago since 1891. He is,&tions to a district south and west member of the State Bar of Uliautai, the farthest point. Happy Valley.
was being at the base of the Altai! The Hongkong Volunteers wil Associaton, of which he
fountains, 1,200 miles west of meet the Filipinos to-morrow at president in 1921-22).
Kalgan. From there they cuti 2.30 p.m. in the first game, while
through the mountains and went! the Chinese will play the Ameri-
south into Inner Mongolia, Inter returning to the Sharamuren The nine Powers signatory to river, 300 miles north-west" of the first match at 2 p.m., followed the Washington Conference Chi-Kalgans At this spot, the expedi by the Filipino and Japanese nese Treaty have notified the tion is still busily engaged in Peking Government in identical developing finds of fossils and "South China's line-up and bat-Notes of their readiness to appoint dinosaur eggs. Mr. Andrews e- ting urder for both games will commissioners to consider what timated that the expedition cover be-Pung, 1st base; Chan right-steps, if any, may be taken with ed some 4,000 miles. field: June, shortstop: Pan, 2nd view to the relinquishment
of extra-territorial privileges base; Shim, pitcher or right-field;
Reuter S. L. Lee, 3rd base or pitcher;| Loung, left-field; S. S. Leo, cut- cher; Choy, centre-field.
cans in the second at 4.30 p.m.“-
On Sunday, South China and
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A good deal of time was lost owing to the camel trains being held up on the Mongólian border through the officiousness of minor officials, but the expedition' went as fast as possible to the site; where dinosaur eggs were pre- viously found. En route, thoy POLICY AGAIN EXPLAINED. made survey maps over 1,800 miles of territory, thus establish. ing a line through the centre of Sydney, Sept. 3. Speeches at a dinner, given by that it could well be used for a Mongolia so accurately defined the State Government in honour The following orders are issued of the visiting pressmen, develop-railway-survey basis. They dis Armoured Car Co. ed into a discussion of the White covered that heavy rains had ox. ones were found, several being of H.K.V.D.C., by 2nd Lidut. R. LAustralia policy. The Governor posed a lot more eggs and 40 new different type from previous! Moncrieff, the Officer Command-presided.
Minister Loughlan opened the finds. These eggs are of the ing :--
Monday, 7th September at 5.30 subject by explaining that the genus Protocerators, which is the p.m.-Vickers Gun Class for policy, on which Australia was ancestor of the great species found
unanimous, was not based on any in America. N.C.O'B.
HALF WAY MAMMALS. Monday, 7th September at 5.30 idea of racial superiority of “the p.m.-Mobile Column for Signal-white, but on the well-known dis Mr. Andrews claims also to similarity of white and coloured have found six true mammal ling.
The next muskotry class will people in feeling, sentiment and skulls which were in formation from two to three million years start in a few days under Lance other respects. Corporal Mathieson. Those in- Australia recognised, the need before the age of mammals and torasted should communicate with for more people, but did not want he believes that they represent the Officer Commanding,
wholesale immigration to the forerunner of the mammal.
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A full parade of the" Mobile introduce slumdom and poverty The skulls, which are of two types, into the country. She wanted to one being marsupial and the other protect her standard of living, multivertebrate, are still embed- which at least was not excelled by ded in the rock, being in the form any other nation is the world. of nodules. These discoveries (Cheers)-Reuter.
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The keel was laid three years ago. The estimated cost is eight millions.-Reuter.
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Rubber shoe strings, which are said to stretch so that one can remove low shoes without un lacing them, have been put on the market. by a British manu facturor.
Wife: "Aren't you going to
to $296,595.77, but as under pro- help me with the work?" sent circumstances the prospects| Husband: "No, I feel queer. of sales are very uncertain it has My hands are shaking?" has been doolded by the Board of Wife: "Very well, catch hold Directors that it is inadvisable to of them mats and shake them!"- pay an interim dividend."
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Mr. Andrews considors to be even more important than the ogge, in viow of the bearing upon the period of evolution from roptilo to mammal.
A third discovery, made in a basin containing sand dunes, con-| sisted of stone age implements. Spear and arrow hoada as well an drills made of fint and jaspor were found in a rock formation, this represontingatypeof develop- ment never before found in Asia! It is believed that the expedition has discovered the earliest types of man developing out of the ape, as well as indications of a civiliz- otion that wont from Europe into Asia. Thore had been a lake in the basin and here were found! traces of a people who had lived! on the shore. Thoro were evid-
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human skeletons, belonging to a period later than that of the dune- dwellers and showing traces of burial, were also discovered. A few Mousterian implements were found.
In addition to these antedilu- vian discoveries, the members. of the expedition had the unique oxperience of seeing a herd of
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