THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
27, 1934.
CIVIC PLANNING 5,000 YEARS AGO
AMAZING DISCOVERIES IN INDUS VALLEY
BY DR. J. M. MacFIC
PAVED BATHROOM.
STUDYING BRITISH
GRID SYSTEM
FOREIGN EXPERTS COME TO LEARN
London, Sept. 25.
Experta from abroad recently or rived in England to study the big British "electricity grid" which is to harness and drive, as a team of uine, all the generating stations in England, Scotland and Wales.
Thia £27,000,000 "grid" was begun in 1926 and has just boen completed, though.the nine districts Royal tomis, palaces and temples belonging to the 4th millenium .C.,
Ono medium-sized house has beer will not be physically harnessed have been unearthed in Egypt and
described. The upper Ur of the Chaidees, We have carefully Krown accustomed to all that. At storey has disappeared. It and together until 1936 when, it is been constructed at least partly of anticipated, all the generating sta- remains are best such gorgeous
wood, the charred remains of which tions and consumers will be con- remote from common life. But woo
deudar from the Himalaya-areverted to the same "standerd of nobody expected to read of a pupul till visible. But the ground floor frequency," and every corner of ous town, carefully built and care-
had a central courtyard with kit the United Kingdom will be able to fully planned, with straight streets
chen annoxe, a row of small rooms tap abundant and cheap electric running true in the points of the
presumably for servants, a well, and еотрина. with an elaborate drain-
a bathroom carefully paved to avoid current, ge system, substantial houses made of bricks that are practically leaking, and possessed of a service window through which soiled gar- Indestructible, provided with baths,
ments could be passed. Drainage and in some cases with central heat-pipes lead from this bathroom and ing; with great public bath also, to which final luxury no parallel can be found till the period of the Romana is reached.
And yet all these wonders have been brought to light during the inst twelve years in Northern India, stuwing that 5,000 years ago the people of the Indus valley enjoyed a civilisation that in certain rea pects was superior to anything that Mesopotamin and Egypt possessed. na Sir In those other countries, John Marshall, head of the Indian Archeological Department has guld. money and thought were lavished. on temples, palaces, and tombe. while the rest of the people had to built of 1: eontent with housCK mud. On the banks of the Indus it was all the other way; there is no of either trace, so far at least, Temples or palaces. The solic! build-
Japanese school gicle must learn how to bendega wounded soldiare~~ just in case.
ings that have defied the ravages of time are the dwellings of the citizens.
DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT.
The ancient remains to which we refer were discovered only by ne- cident ut a place called Mohen- jodure, or Mound of the Dend, on the banks of the River Indus about 200 miles forth of Karachi. The late Mr. Banerji, one of Sir John Marshall's colleagues in the year 1922, had started to dig around the the ruins of a Buddhist monastery and atupa. As the work progressed he discovered several seals with in- scriptions in a script not yet de cipheral, similar to others that had been found only the year before at Harappa in the Punjab. These scale it was conclusively proved belonged to the Chalcolithic Age, when implements of stone were still
in
use. This discovery led to systematic excavations, which are still going on under the auspices of Government, and they reveal in the areas that have been dealt with so far, two long streeta 30 foet broad, carefully planned at right angles to one another, with narrower streets and lunes between, also constructed in straight lines.
also from the upper storey to the bigger and covered drains which Hine both sides of avery atroct.
The houses that line these streets are built in terrace fashion, but they are selfcontained, so selfcon- tained that they are not content with party walls. Indeed, the solidity of these dwellings would amaze the owner of one of our present-day bungalows, for the outer walls are frequently four or five feet thick. The smallest houses that have been unearthed contain two rooms, and not un- naturally have been built of more the other flimsy material. On
It takes us beyond the purpose of this article, but it was not only in town planning and home building that the Indus valley civiliantion excelled. One cannot forbear quot- ing Sir John Marshall's tribute to human two small statues of the form that they are work of which a Greek of the 4th. century 8-c. might well have been proud.
people, slaves,
It is manifest from these dix- coveries that the early history of Indus will have to be re-written. We were taught to believe that when the Aryans invaded India from the North-West they found the country in the possession of a black-skinned barbarinn whom they spoke of as Such aborigines there no doubt They are in India still. But it is very remarkable that a people so intelligent and cultured as the race which could produce the Hymns of the Rig Veda should have remained Ignorant of, or perhaps chosen to ignore, this much earlier civilisation, a civilisation which can-
confined not have been banks of the Indus.
were.
to the
SLOBBERY KISSES
Those "Bright Young Things"
The conduct of "bright young things" at a fashionable dance is criticised by Lady Beatrix Dunal- loy In a letter to the London Morn- ing Post
She writes:-
I go to few dances nowadays, but when I do. I have been shocked at the many drunken people one. secs. Not so long ago I went to a fashionable ball in England, where a great many "bright young things" had all "done themselves too well", as the saying goes,
One party in particular attract ed my notice-two very pretty, very young girls with several young men cat-calling and lurching at supper, where they sat togther. A champagne bottle was flung over one girl who was dripping wet. The rest of the party allowed no concern. surprise, or even merri- ment. They gazed at her with half-closed eyes and duli expres-
sions.
The investigators arrive at an opportune moment, for the "grid" as a transmission system is now, complete, has solved all its numer- ous legal problems, and to general surprise, has had its first big breakdown.--United Press.
the
New
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frontier from air attacks.
STRUCK FIRST MATCH.
PLAN FOR STATUE OF INVENTOR.
The tradesmen of Budapest are Tuige starting a movement to funds for a statue of the man who struck the first match.
The Hungarians say that the was invented by Janos mulch Irinyi:
That was in 1836 when he was carrying out experiments at the Vienna Technical High School.
Irinyi soli his invention for £5. Stamps showing Irinyi striking a match will be issued and stuck on all matchboxes and it is hoped that the small extra charge will provide more than enough money to erect a statue and memorial tablet on the alte of Irinyi's First Later on I saw a very pretty Match Factory in Budapest. girl, with hair the paint rubbed All relies bearing on his life hit her face and untidy hair, being and work are to be collected and pushed about between two young
the to doorway. presented men propped up in Finally she flang herself on to one and started a slobbery klasing all over his face. There were ser vants standing about looking on. These were all children of well- who bear known people-some historic names. {DEGENERACY AND ROTTENNESS,
hand, there are houses, with more than 60 rooms, which, it has been suggested, were intended na re- sidences for their gods and atton- dants. But nothing has been found. in any of them that would suggest a pacred character. They contain three central courtyards open to the sky, and are more lely to have been family holthed with necom- 1 modation for several generations of clone kindred, such as sometimes occurs, with Hindu households at the present day.
young married woman I knew alightly staggered up to us and talked nonsense. My party told me they were necustomed to Huch scenes, but I can only say 'It horrified and distressed mic. The else odd thing is that no one seemed to mind or pay any atten- tlun. The example set is deplor- able-und the poorer classes are only too ready to apo their so- called "superiors"1
What sort of parents will theso be in the future, and what will Sodden their progeny be like? with drink, smoke, and no self-
The restraint!
"amart act" fathers, and mother of the pro- sent day seem too busy to pay hood to their offspring many of them engaged in the pursuit of other husbands and wives.
Was it not au in the days of the decline of Rome; is "the writing on the wall"? Will our Empire not also totter and fall?
Are thoro no people left with vision and courage to protest and fight against all the degeneracy.
Museum
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Hungarian
Senator Huey Long of Loutilana, boliavos in asking for what he wants, and shouting if he doesn't get it. He's the man who
* started private "war" in New Orleans.
PAINLESS BIRTHS
Reported Success Of New Gas Method
1
NO DANGER ·
DEAD' SOLDIER RETURNS
UNRECOGNISED BY WIFE.
Twenty years gao, Fedor Tufol went to the war as a soldier in the Rumanian Army. Oficially isted
It has been said that until reas dead, he returned home this attained in month, according to a message cently the progress
the relief of pain during child-from Bukharest, says Reuter from birth cane to a standstill with the Paris. word of Simpson. The chloroform capsules and the sup
use of
It
Trembling with excitement he
front door. port provided by the National approached his
was opened by his wife, who had Birthday Trust Fand have cer- tainly altered this state of affairs, remark d. Instead of being wel writes a London Morning Post cor-comed with open arms, the dusty.
tearful
himself Fedor Found respondent.
ideal The
which roundly acensed of being an im could be used by midwives or by Lostor.
amesthebic
doctors engaged in a busy general Broken-hearted he turned away.
not been
ге
practice has, however. altogether provided by the chloro and in despair visited some old
friends, hoping they would form capsules, and some experts cognise trees of the boy of 20 have definitely criticised their in the haggard, weather-beaten use on the grounds of danger and man he had become through in- 10 a fesser extent. of expense.
have
were
During the past few months excredible hardships. They traced
faini resemblances, tensive trials of
ደሃ simple demonstrated The authorities and the police apparatus another possible solution of the were able to produce several men who had been his fellow-prisoners problem.
Gas is delivered from cylinder in Russian camps. These in the ordinary way through a able to corroborate parts of his, prisoner by the | reduced pressure valve which ory. Taken
Russians, Fedor had been sent far enables a small rubber bag en- closed in a metal drum to be slow into the Caucasus. He excuped in ly filled. When this bag is full 1917, and ever siner, he had led a wandering existence, 'enduring the flow of gas in sutomatically shut off. The gas is administered Preat hardships and being con- in a mixture with air (about ono tantly harriel, as he had no civil part of gas to two of air) through identity papers and no money.
Always he worked his way n closely fitting rubber mask.
the direction of Rumania. Finally U.S.S.R. ho escaj.cd over the
the fire of the frontier, under Soviet guards.
INGENIOUS SYSTEM.
This mask is fitted with a spring finger-release which is pressed down during inspiration. Should
in
His home is in Prienile, Tran- sylvania, and there is to be what the pressure be released then, the is regarded as a happy ending 10 gas supply is cut off and the his odyssey. The authorities have patient breathes air, only.
overcome the difficulty of his being A portable machine, weighing officially dead, and have restored As for his wife, about 15 h. without the gas to him his name. cylinders, will allow of the he hus renounced all claim to her,. machine being carried Into, the and handed her over to her present home. Once the mask has been husband." Ile la now seeking for adjusted the patient can control another, the gas supply herself by the finger-spring device already des erited. The object is to secure while not a few doctors have relief of pain without loss of con-airendy learned the value of the sciousness, and should the degree apparatus in their own practice. Dr. R. J. Minnitt Is-largely res of depression become too grent. the pressure of the patient's ponsible for the details of the fingers automatically releases and method, which is fully described In the current issue of the "Pro- reduces the depth of anaesthesis.
Scientific work has shown that, ceedings of the Royal Society of
this self-administered in
way, Medicine." The amount of gas there is no danger to mother or used is about 36 gallons per hour, child. The method has been tried and obviously both the initial cost at the Liverpool Maternity Ilospi- of the apparatus and the cost of tal, at Queen Charlotte's Mater the gas will materially affect the nity Hospital, and at University popularity of the method.
The success so far reported, College Hospital.
It is stated that the education of however, well justifies further nurses in the sac of the method trials, and the economic aspects is to be begun at the Liverpool can shortly be reviewed by the Maternity Hospital, and mean- experts.
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