THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 18, 1934.
ASSYRIAN TRIBESMEN
HUNT
FOR NEW HOMELAND
LEAGUE BURDENED WITH UNUSUAL TASK
RESULTING FROM GREAT WAR
STINGING AND LIVING
DOUBTFUL THEORY
UPSET
Bees can sting and yet live. The contrary belief, which for untold generations has consoled the ro- cipients of bee stings, has now been shattered by Dr. J. G. Myers, of the Imperial College of Tropical
DANGEROUS RELATIONS OF IRAQ Agriculture. Trinidad,
A report of the League Com-and in October, 1933, the mitteo which was set up to find mittee already referred
a country for the Assyrians to appointed.
settle in will be presented to the!
Council at its coming session.
Following the abandonment of
to
was
"My scepticism regarding the com frequent statement that worker bees cannot withdraw their, barbed sting," Dr. Myera states, "wis firat aroused by observing a raid by waaps on a hive in Essex.
a scheme to establish the exiles in FRESH SHOCK AT
Brazil, the Committee addressed an appeal to over a dozen other suitable countries. Most of the replies have now been received, and although no Information as to their naturo la yet availablo, not abandon official circles do hope of a solution.
The settlement of the Assyrians is one of the most charneteristic of the many problems of race and religion bequeathed by the inst war. The members of this sect of Nestorian Christians are the unwanted children of Asia. For morly scattered about Kurdistan and the border of Turker and Perain, they lost their home by siding with Russia against their Turkish rulers, and they have
another boon looking for since.
ever
FAILED BY RUSSIA.. When their Russian allies failed them for the second and last time in 1917, those of them who had not beon scattered retreated through Persin into Iraq with the help of the British, and were given temporary refuge at Bakuba
As a result of this action, and although no pledges of hulp were given them, the Assyrians have always tended to look to Britain.
LOCH NESS
EARTHQUAKE FELT IN INVERNESS
London, Aug. 27. Alarm was caused in Inverness and the surrounding upland die tricts, and especially in the Loch Mess area, by an earth-quake shock early yesterday morning.
It was felt in Inverness by many people. The movement was from West to East and lasted fully ten
seconds.
One resident sald his house trembled and the doors rattled.
The shock was severe at Foyers, overlooking Loch Ness, where the British Aluminium Company have blg works.
Some men were on the night shift and they were startled by the large building shaking, A Joud noise like thunder was heard and then there was a crash,
"In one case a weap made a bold ontrance by the doorway, was met by a bee, and vigorously repulsed. It entered again and emerged at once, struggling with a bee, which eventually succeeded in throwing it to the ground. The bee acomed somewhat exhausted, but quickly recovered. The wasp fell helpless and died a few minutes later."
TEST ON HANDKERCHIEF.
Ha curiosity aroused by the Burvival of the bee, Dr. Myers pro- ceeded to experiment for himself. Ife found that on one out of every three decisions when a bee was in- duced to ating a handkerchief would the bee get its sting into a position from which it could not
extriente it.
Dr. Myers has also seen both a frog and several varieties of insect
bee without any
Denmark's and Norway's Queens of Beauty on their way through Parli to England for the contest where Europe's, ruler of Beauty's realm was to be chosen. They seem to like policeman.
WOMEN & FASHION
No Cost Barriers And No.
Age Limits
怨
past few years During the growing demand for sports gar. ments, evening dresses, and so on, has arisen from a class of people to, whom only a few years these were unknown, or at least were not used..
ngo
of
"Another great change is the Grandmothers are by no means damage to the ung more than once by the same latter; and only on one occnalon, behind the times with regard to
to-day. This has been when he was himself stung in the dress, according to Mr. Frank acute fashion consciousness
Chitham, chairman of the Sum-women thumb, was the sting left behind.
mer School Committee of the fostored to a very large extent and well-informed Ross-shire, on the other side of The earthquake was also felt in
"There thus seems little ground,"
who spoke of fashion articles which appear in "for the bellof that the increasing fashion conscious- Inverness Firth, and in many other he sums up in a recent faste of United Kingdoer of Trade of the developed by the parts of the Black Isle people were Nature, awakened by the tremor and nolec.worker bees sacrifice themselves, or ness of women. Addressing mom the national Press, and which are. Two distinct tremors were felt that they are more handicapped bers of the Summer School at their by hundreds of thousand of people. In defending their opening luncheon in Oxford. he People of all ages and classes rend
anid -
them. The time is past' when as their natural protector. The at Pitlochry (Perthshire), where than WASDA auggestion that Britain brought houses were shaken.
fashion was merely the interest of the few. It is now of universal interest, and we find the customer who wishes to pay only a modest price for a dress is keenly senal- tive and well informed as to fashion.
them into the war, and thereby assumed responsibility for their fututre, is, fowever, a complete misrepresentation.
They were induced by Russia to throw in their lot with the Allies owing to the affinity of their religion with the Orthodox Church. The part played by Britain was to rescue them from complete.. an nihilation and to help them for humanitarian motives over a con- i siderable period and at some ex- penac.
TEMPORARY ASYLUM.
The refuge camp at Bakuba was only Intended, of course, us a temporary asylum, but owing to the long delay in negotiating peace with Turkey, the problem of the Assyrians could not be tackled un- til 1924. At the Conference of Constantinople Britain endeavour- "ed to get their former-territory of Hakkinri, to which some of them had meanwhile tried to return, Included within the boundary, of Iraq. This solution-undoubtedly the wisest was rejected, and it was turned down finally by the League of Nations in 1925.
Subsequent attempts to settle the Assyrians in the north of Iraq met with a certain success, the settlers being aasured protection, thanks to the British occupation." As the term of the British man- date in Iraq drew to an end, how- ever, they felt increasing anxiety as to their possible fate when the British withdrew.
With a view to allaying these anxieties the Iraq Government in
of
nests."
The 70,000-ton French liner Normandle in nearing completion and will be put into commission shortly on the Atlantic run. The frame work of giant liner's funnels has just been erected.
NUDIST CADDIES
"Even as fashion knows no cost barriers, so it knows no age limita. Mother and daughter are often indistinguishable from the Tashion point of view, and one is as taste. fully dressed as the other."
WOMAN MAYOR'S WELCOME. Mr. E. W. Busby, chairman of the Executive Council, welcomed the students, the largest and most representative number which has over attended the School. More than 70 towns were represented.
Alderman Lily S. Tawney, Mayor of Oxford, extending a civic wel- come to the students in the even- ing, sadd she believed that men thought a great deal more about clothes than women.
With regard to fashions, alie Bald:"There is a tendency to go back to the time when no clothes were worn, and a little blue paint was the fullest full dress. I don't
taking place they went nudiat,up her stance, prepared to swing, think you will encourage that. It
the
romped over the fairways and bun- kers, and splashed about in water hazards, much to the amaze ment and embarrassment of the women golfers who were playing. Twenty golf caddies adopted au Earlier in the day, 160 caddles unusual method of airing their had gone on strike as the result grievances at the Exmoor Golf Club of their demand for higher wages at Highland Park, Chicago, re-boing refused. The golfers then cantly. In spite of the fact that a decided to carry their own mixed foursomes tournament was around with them,
May, 1932, mado a general de SEQUEL TO REFUSAL atlon guaranteeing, protection
Including the all minorities,
OF HIGHER PAY" Assyrians. But the latter de- manded autonomy, and in June of the same year the Assyrian lovics, which had been raised in the service of Britain, threatened to "sirike", unless this and other demands were acceded to.
MARCH OVER FRONTIER. There was thus already con- aiderablo friction when, on Octo ber 3, 1932, Britain relinquished her mandata and Iraq entered the League as a Sovereign State. One of its first steps was to appoint a commissioner to arrange the act- tlement of the Assyrians, and a British officer, Major Thomson, was appointed to the post.
The Assyrian patriarch. Mar Shimum, refused to co-operate, and before the settlement officer wns able to formulate a plan, 1,500 Assyrians, abandoning their wives and children, crossed the frontier Into Syria, presumably in search of
a new home. They were pre- vented from proceeding further by the French, and on August 4, 1933, the story is still
recrossed into Iraq.. The rest frosh in memory. The migratory hand either attacked or were. a- tacked by the Iraq troops; they wore defeated in any case
and their villages looted. A truo ac- count of the subsequent massacro is d'eult to obtain, but there la no doubt the Iraqi got out of hand and committed excesses.
Their Government, Indeed, ad- mitted as much and expressed sincord regret, while offering to assist Anancially to settle the Andyrking-OfWROTE ANC
of the League decided that this was now the only possible solution,
"But, on the other hand, I don't
a nude will be so bad for trade. but stopped suddenly as figure appeared in the distance, followed by another and another. She immediately left the course, want to go back to the days of my the other women accompanying her, youth, when we had so many yarda of stuff In our frocks. I could not Police, being haatlly summoned, forced the Inds to get back into take to crinolines again." their clothes and then-chased them from the course.
The caddles had demanded 48.. cluha for eighteen holes and about 2s. 6d. A woman took for nine holes.
alrandy hoonlows. Here is the mid-otean landing station, “Schwabenlar
Tiom
mail Carrier
has just been catapulted.
"ADVERTISING WAR".
Mr. Sinclair Wood. London, deni- with tho effects of social ing changes on the retail distributive trades, said that nowadays the re- taller was not only in competition with every other retailer, but also with the cinema, the motor-car, the "hikers'" hostel, and so on...
Do time and Money Count?
Dealing with advertising," he said they were in dangers of seeing the most ridiculous war the world had ever seen, a ward in which the retailer would fight against the manufacturer, with...advertising
na the munition, and with public goodwill and confidence the prize. It was one in which no one would benefit, and the public would lose because of higher-priced goods.
The population was divided into four shades of opinion, each dorived from a penny paper, he said They were building up a race of people with standardised Ideas. People were losing the habit of thinking for themselves. He wondered whether they wore breeding a standardised race of mentally lazy whose minds' ticked over people, once in twenty-four hours. Women had the tube train and bus to take
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