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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1931.
RECENT WANCHAI | COLONEL'S SUDDEN | ATHEIST WORK IN MYSTERY DYNASTY
FRACAS,
INDIAN VICTIM, MAY DIE FROM STAB WOUNDS.
TWO MEN CHARGED.
The recent fracas in Wanchal between two Indian motor-drivera
DEATH.
COLLAPSES DURING CHAT AFTER BATHE.
TRAGEDY IN F.M.S.
Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 26. Kuala Lumpur has been shocked by the tragically sudden death while in apparently normal health of Lieut.-Col. R. R. Taylor. Com mandant of the F.ML.S. Voluntoer Forces,
WILM
WAM
to
but
due WIR
GERMANY.
OF UR.
SINO-RUSSIAN OUTLOOK.
COMMUNISM AS THE DRIVING DISCOVERY OF THE TOMBS SOVIET WANTS TO RESUME
FORCE.
SCHOOL PROPAGANDA.
The International
of
OF KINGS.
RELATIONS.
to
before returning to Russia, where the final conferences with the Rus sinn authorities will be held some time in March,
STRANGE RELICS. PROPAGANDA POINT.
The proposed establishment of Light on one of the most baffling
Tientsin. Feb. 2. the Athelst International in Berlin, mysteries of human development That the Soviet Government is and four other Indluns, had
reported some days ago, would not will be shed, it is hoped, by the most desirous of resuming political sequel before Mr. Lindsell, at the
mark the beginning of Communist discovery of the tombs of the meat and commercial relations with the Central Police Court this morning,
atheist propaganda in Germany, important kings of Ur, in Mese-Nanking regime was the remark. when Sohbat Khan and Abdul
but rather show that it has already potamin.
made by General Mo Teh-bul. Khanan were brought before the
achieved considerabl: súccess.
This discovery has been made by Chinese delegate to the Sino-Soviet Magistrate on charges of wound-
Col. Taylor bathed in the swim-
There are already about 120,000 the joint expedition of the British Conference at Moscow, who ar- ing and causing grievious bodilyning pool at the Lake Club yester-members of the Proletarian Fred- Museum and the Museum of the rived here yesterday after a series. harm to the other four men, who day morning and afterwards was thinkers' Unions, which correspond University of Pennsylvania, under of conferences with the high Man- are still detained in hospital na a sitting on the edge of the pool roughly to the Union of the God- the leadership of Mr. C. L, Woolley, churian officials, including General result of the fight.
chatting to Mrs. C. F. Constant less in the Soviet Union. To the
The tombs of the Third Dynasty Chang Hsueh-liang, at Mukden. Mr. F. C. E. Rendall appeared when suddenly he groaned and efforts of these nalons at least half are the largest which have yet been General Mo is on his way on behalf of the two defendants.
feel back dend. immediately the 37,000 resignations from church found in Mesopotamia Nanking to submit a report of his Detective Sub-Inspector
Medical ald
membership between November, date is about 2400-2300 B.C. Ur-work at Moscow to Mr. C. T. Wang M.
summoned Murphy told his Worship that four
useless. 1929, and May, 1930, are attribut Nammu, the firet King of this Death of the men, now the complainants,
cerebral
ed. Since German churches large-dynasty, built the Ziggurat, the hemorrhage. were still in hospital, certificates
ly subsist on a tax collected for grent temple which sought, like the Lieut. Col. Taylor took over the them by the State from their re to this effect being produced. It command of the FM.S.V.. from gistered members, this act is one to the Heavens,
Tower of Badel, to reach upwards appeared that the complainants Lieut.-Col. Meredith in June, 1929 of much greater formal importance went to the residence of the twa and by his energy, organising than would be the case in England.covery," Sir Frederie Kenyon, late
"The importance of the dis defendants and called the stability and keenness had done a down into the street. it was alleg great deat for the volunteer movi
Free Director of the British Museum ed that the first defendant. who ment in the F.M.S. and won
says "is enhanced by the fact that was later joined by the second, strong liklug and respect from the
survive, and that what we know of no literary texts of the dynasty stabbed the complainants. There volunteers under his command, had apparently been some trouble He is survived by a widow and
their history has to be pieced to- between the two parties, whom lived together some time September.
all of two children who went home last
gether from the ruins of the build
ago. The complainants, however, would not admit that they had one to the defendants' house. They claimed that they were pass ing along the street when the trouble occurred.,
His Worship pointed out to Mr. Rendall that according to the medical certificate, two of the men were Buffering from stab wounds in the stomach and would not be fil for discharge, for another three weeks, while the third iso had a Atal wound in the stomach but would probably 1x discharged from hospital one week earlier. the fourth requiring but one week. for treatment of sealp wannds. If would be necessary, therefore, to adjourn the ease formally for one work, pending the discluirge of the four men.
In reply to his Worship, Defer- tive Sab-la-pector Murphy sniel that there was a possibility of our of the men dying.
in
Tetschen, in Northern Bohemia, in thinkers held o conference at November, at which the majority of delegates followed Communist leadership and the organisation broke into two halves.
-
Ings.
"From the chambers which have been explored passages lead down
Interviewed by Chinese corres- denied all rumours that the Rus- pondente on the train, General Mo atan Government intended to bring pressure on the Moscow confer garrison forces on the ence by Increasing the Russian Russian- frontier. He Manchurian marked that, on the contrary, the Soviet Government had recently changed its attitude of aggression,
re-
Lieut-Cal Taylor was formerly
Copying Soviet Model. the King's Own Scottish Borderers and before and during
to other and deeper chambers which capressing a wish to effect an early The Communist cultural organi-it is hoped will prove to be unrifled, settlement of all outstanding din the War served under the Colonial tions, of which the most important and to contain material of Ofee with the West African is the Ifa (Association for Workers' Frontier Foren.
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TO the ARTIST and CRAFTSMAN a people is the history of their Art and Craft-the record and the measure of their culture.
the history of the Putes. In view of the deadlock on During opera-Culture), have united with German greatest value illustrating the his-the C. E. R. question, the Mukden Government was desirous that tians in the German Cameroons he Communist freethinking organisatory and origin of the dynasty.
Ur-Namma, Dungi. and Bur- Nanking and Moscaw should reach was taken prisoner and held in tions for anti-religious propaganda. Sin are the names of the Kings. amicable agreement as early as captivity for nearly two years. At a Berlin congress in November Last season a wail was discovered possible. He was relensed when the German it was resolved "to carry out inde with bricks bearing the name of Commenting on the possibility of resistance in the Cameroons whependent politicut cultural work on a
Bur-Sin, and it quelled. For subsequent
was from this the Russian Government continuing nass scale in close connexion with point that the
present investiga-the dissemination of Communist the political and economic issues of ions were started. The wall proy-propaganda
in North-Western the day."
service
in Gerinan East Africa he mentioned in dispatches.
LOCAL RADIO,
KO SHING THEATRE RELAY,
was
As an instance of what menis, The Vossische Zeiting
| calls a procenaton of 150 unemploy
"Below
the
ed to be an annexe bailt by Bur-Sin China after the resumption of commercial and this to a much larger temple crected by Russian-Chinese
his father, Dungi
|political relations, General Mo said floors of both struc- that Nanking could adopt the policy ed which appeared before the lures are tombs, large and lofty used by the Turkish Government by Neukolln town hall last spring in chambers with erbal vaultings. It enforcing rigid mensures
within order to register officially their reis in the exploration of Dang's China and by laying down condi. signulinus from the chuch.
Lomb that the greatest hopes are tions in the new Treaty with Russia, The various organisations have a entertained, but further work will
High officials of the Nanking programme to begramme of work similar to that be held up until the passages tend- Ministry of Foreign Affairs wel
in Rusala. wave of the Goilless
They ing out of it have been securely comed General Bo Teh-hui hops to secure one hundred thou- | shored up.”
Tientsin and accompanied him to sand resignations from the church
Nanking, leaving here last evening by April. 1931, and to win 50,000
by special train. The Nanking of these for the Proletarian Free-
oiltefuls and General Mo were thinkers' Union.
entertained by the Tientsin
To-day's broadcast by Z. B. W, on n length of 366 metres:
5.00-8,00 1521 European Pros Mr. Rendalf jimated that he grumme of Columbin records kindly would make an application for louned by Mesure. Anderson Music
bail if the man who might die got out of danger.
The defendants were remanded
for one week, bail being refused.
WOMEN CAN'T BE IDLE.
(Continued from Page 6.) men of fifty is not hard to discover.
Mon have a genius for detachment. They can work when they want, And not work when they know they ought to. They can com veniently appear absent-minded to the intruder when absorbed in some problem of concentration.
-
They et even, and frequently. do make themselves out to be per- fect fools, when occasion demands; but they never make the mistake: of wasting their wits. X. knows well that that letter to Uncle Fred should be written, his accounts balanced, the winter coal ordered. and a dozen other matters attend- ed. Thrusting accounts, coal and uncle firmly behind him, he reaches for his golf clubs and sets out for a careless, carefree afternoon.
says
join you at the tenth, when I've seen to a few things," Mrs. X.; but at teatime she is still at home. bowed beneath a load of trifles, lightened only by the loss of her temper.
|
Ce.
6.00-6.40 p.m. Variety. tagtime Memories. Orchestral.
Monlege Our Lizzie Goes Shipping. are to be issued for this purpose; | “Kine was
BL
The Royal House,
The royal house founded by Ur- Special attention is concentrated ammu in the "mystery dynasty Municipal offeinks at Government
of Ur. Its realms stretched un-House last evening. matheist missions among women broken from the Persian Gulf to The Jolly Old Fellows,
New 13. and children.
periodicals the Mediterranean, and the title of the Four Quarters of the Helena Millais, $201, and--interesting evidenc of the Chorus-After The Ball is Ovor.
used by successive importance the Komintern Atiri- Churus-Two Little Girls In Blue.
Gerald Adams and The Variety butes to the religious question rulers. Yet the origin of the dy- nasty is an unsolved problem, and Communist publishing activities in Singers. 57.
little is known of the great wara: Humorous Duel-Quarter Day.
Germany will concentrate on atheist Charles Penrose und Blilypropaganda during the next few by which its empire must have been
Whitlock, 0291. months, Song-A Little Bungalow,
Grey Mare.
Songforging Atung Behind The Old
Bobby Grey and Whispering
Chorus-Daisy Hell. Chorus-Break The News To Mather.
Singers. 143. Descriptive Sketch-Cisney's Band
Rehearsal.
Michael Casey and Co. 8318. 5.10-6.40 p.m. Orchestral, Orpheus In The Underworld-
established.
into
A GRETNA WEDDING `BY LAMPLIGHT.
HUNGARIAN COUPLE.
on
Ur-Nummu leaps suddenly The Ifn's work in schools is to history as a rebel against Utu-
London, Jan. 5. be expanded. The official establish hegal, the last king of the preceed violinist, who will broadcast from Frantisek Roth, the Hungarian tout of purents' committees in con- ing dynasty, whom he had pre London on Wednesday and after-
xion with Prusalan schools makes viously served as the local governar Chorus. 9113.it easier to bring together Com: of Ur. From the moment of his wards is to tour Canada and the munist school teachers, parents, and accession he laboured to make the United States, was married over Gerald Alanis and The Variety children who have been brought up city worthy of the position to which the anvil at Gretna Green
Saturday to Elizabeth Acht, a as Communist Atheists.
his ambition destined it, and to Reliable members of the Com- make its Moongod Nannar the most.
painter, of Budapest. munist Party are asked to sendi
Before dawa Mr. R. Bennison, their children to denominational respected deity in Mesopotamin. ..the blacksmith, was awakened by justice "He made
reign," to schools so as to start propagande Wickedness tarried
shouts of "Marry, marry, marry,” nol before work among children from Chris-him," and "The righteousness of with the aid of an oil lamp.
and the ceremony was performed The tian homes and form Athelst ells. Ur-Nammu, a treasure" are phrase bride travelled 1,000 miles to Aber. deen a short time ago to meet her fiance, and the couple had travel- led over night from Aberdeen, where the bridegroom has been fulfilling an engagement.
Overture (Offenbuch).
Lucerne Kurano: Orch. 9646. Arabian Night (Arbos).
Summer Ungn Suite-In A Country
Madrid Symphony Orch. 9683.
Lane-On The Edge of A Lake. New Queen's Hall Light Oreh, 9270. Wood Nympha (Eric Contes). New Queen's Hall Light Orch, 9370, Semiramide (Rossini).
Milan Symphony Orchestra. 9603. 6.60-7.00 p.m. Operatie. Cavalleria Rusticana (Marcagni).
Milan Symphony Orchestra. 9664, The Barber of Seville-Overture
(Rossini).
B. B. C. Wireless Symphony. Orch. 9166. Carmen-Flower Song (Biazor),
Arthur Jordan (Tenor). 9204. 7.00 pm. Stock Quotations. 7.05-8.88 p.m. Concert Items.
American business magnates who have visited this country of late have commented favourably on our so-called slipshod office methoda- two hours for lunch, golf on Satur-Song-Parted (Weatherly and Tost!).
a days, Stock Exchange Holidays and the ke. Americans, with all their breathless high-speed effici-
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS,
The following cable at the close of the sugar markets yesterday been reerived by Messrs.
has
Pentreath and Co.
London Terminala.
March 5/8 up 34d.
May 67-9% up 11⁄2d.
August 6/33; up d.
December 6/74 up d.
9283.
283.
Doris Vane (Soprano). Song-O Lovely Night (Teschemachor
and Landon Ronald),
4
Doris Vane (Soprano).
(de Falla arr. Kochansky).
Kene Benedetti. 9584. Song-I Hear You Culling Me
ency, are a little like our women. Violin Solo Suite Populnire Espagnole But they have come to recognize, unlike our women, that a little idleness pays; that a reasonable detachment from work strengthens and refreshens the brain tissues.
EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris Geneva.
Berlin.
Oslo
Friday. .123.02 25.11
20.43% .18.10
which suggest that his vast empire was ably administered. Round his capital the irrigation system was in urgent need of repair, and it was probably by his great net-work of canals as much as by foreign con- quest that he earned his other title of "the Merciful Lord who brought prosperity to Ur."
After the wedding the couple left for London and on January 9 they will proceed to the United States for a three months' tour. One scene depicted on a limestone The only words of English the stela shows the king in an attitude bride can speak are "Very good." of worship and an angel flying Asked why they chose Gretna for down to him from Heaven holding the wedding the bridegroom re:
of a vase from which the water
fertility is pouring out upon the
ground.
Another scene shows cattle, and
plied "For the sake of romance."
men milking them, and the whole home of their native goda. As the tone of the monument was describ-name by which it was known Mc
Buyers at the love prices; ed by Mr. Woolley as being in Woolley has suggested "The Moun
sellers d. more.
New York Terminals. March 125 down 2 pits. May 132 down 2 pis, July 140 down 1 pts. September 147 down 2 pts, December 155 down 2 pts. San Domingo 96%.-C.L.F. U.K. 0612, Refiners have bought one cargo,
February shipment 67-.
(Harford and Marshall),
Richard Neller (Tenor), 0231. Duet-Come, Silver Moon (Dowden
arr. Besly).
Dorn Labette and Hubert Eisdell,
Quartet-Quartet In A Major
(Beethoven), Yesterday.
The Cathedral Quartet. 9141, 123.884 Song-My Ain Wee Hoose (Wilsun
26.134
und Munro), 20.43 Song-Flame O' Mine (Murdoch). 18,164
Nina Rao (Contralto). 7674, 102% Duct-Donny Brook Fair.
375
Talbot O'Farrell & Charles. Penrose. 344
8408. 1/3 Sung-In Deepest Cellar. (Fischer).
owing to sale of Russian crystals to Indin.
Trust have made further small sales: White f8.25, Browns f7.25.
"The H of
which
have
mono-
striking contrast to the correspond-tain of God" or
Heaven." ing Assyrian monuments, which
Superb works of art were dis- testify to success in conquest rather
covered in earlier royal tomba an- than to skill in administration.
Dung, Ur-Nammu's son, fought covered by previous expeditions. These included the magnificent head many wars in his 58 years' reign of Shub-ad in her funeral finery and more completely reduced the and with an elaborate head-dreea outlying provinces of the empire and neck ornamenta The period must have been one of
there great prosperity for
was probably never been surpassed by Other Important continuous peace within the home inter cruftsmen.
finds were a complete toilet-box lands of Sumer and Akkad.
Tablets from Lagash show how with the paint used by the ladies: Samarang (/2/31).—There is un unsettled feeling in the market Brent must have-been the Wealth of the Court, and an almost per-
of even
provincial shrine. These fect Agure of "the lamb caught in
a thicket." tablets
numerate vast possession
These
strange relics of early man of sheep, cattle and
and other stock, and give impressive detalia were uncovered beneath a of the administration of the temple tonous plain which few could have property. Like his Bür-Sin belloved until the middle of last Dungi was an active builder, and, century had ever been habitable by | AUSTRALIAN BASIC WAGE. Mr. Woolley has expressed it: human beings.
"If they left fewer monuments than Only a series of low mounds half- their predecessor, it was probably way between Baghdad and the because there was less left for them Porsian Gulf indicated the site of. succession of great cities whole to build."
once populous and prosperous. Each successive layer of sand has revealed a fresh age and a fresh The gods of the Sumerians are elvilisation, until the earliest limit often represented as standing on of habitation was reached last mountains, and it was probably for season in the all-parvading mud this reason that the temple of the that once covered the land of the
4.11/82
The forthcoming wedding is as Ziggurat was built to such a vast two rivers. Having thus probed A whist drivo is being hold at the 1/6% Kowloon branch of the Holena May Causeway Hill, Causeway Bay, Hong-
nounced of Mr. John Barnes, Na, 10, height.
literally to the bottom of the his- 22/0.7/10 Institute this
In the opinion of archaeologists, tory of Mesopotamin, Mr. Woolley evening, commencing 18 at 8.45 p.m. Admission tickets 11 cach kong, to Miss Gertrude Lavinia Row-it represents an attempt on the part has been free this sonson to return. 18% including refreshments can be obtainworth, Manchealer, England,
botham, No. 896, Oldham Road, Falls. of an invading hill people to repro to the great problem of the "my- ød at the door,
duce in Mesopotamia the traditional story dynasty,
New York. .4.86.19/32 4.86.19/32 | Song-Armourer's Song from Robin
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Brussels.
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Wilfred Glean (Hiosa). 'D24h, I Orchestral-Four Indian Love Lyrics
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Canberra, Feb, 2, The Cabinet has decided to sak the Arbitration Court to reconsider ita decision to reduce the basic wage rates by ten per cent, as announced on January 22.-Reuter,
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