THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH MONDAY (OCTOBER
1985:
AUTHOR DIRECTOR WELLS
Upheaval That Led To Appearance Of
The Human Race
FORCED OFF TREES IN ASIA 60,000,000 YEARS AGO
Another Scientist Calls "Natural Selection" a Fraud
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Norwich, Oct. PPARENTLY Man is merely the result of an accident.
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"If a number of apes in Central Asia had not been compelled by chance to spend their time on the ground instead of in trees, we might not have
The renowned author, H. G. Wells, been here at all.
i occuppiede co-director of the production of "Things to come", a film version of one of his works.
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That, at any rate, seems to be the opinion of Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, theeminent The picture shows the author direc anthropologist, who spoke at the British tor discussing a pase with ons of the
Association to-day on "Recent Progress in the Study of Early Man.'
actress in the play.
King Zog's Magna Carta For Women
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THE VEIL TO GO
Tirana, Oct. 1. ING ZOG of Albania is to present the women of his country with a social "Magna Carta" to bring them into line with the rest of their European sisters.
First steps in this emancipa tion will be their freedom to:
Discard the veil (or yash mak);
Go to special schools; Enter departments of the Government service now bar- red to them; and
Marry the
choice.
man
of their
As more than 70 per cent. of the Albanian women are Moslems, liv-
ing under social conditions un-
According to him, the accident that led to the appear- ance of the human race was the upheaval of the Hima» layan Mountains about 60,000,000 years ago.
when
Chance did not enter into it.
The east to west ridge of these ❘lopment was in response to the mountains, he explained, was demand of environment. raised up at the time Northern India was covered with a grent forest which swarmed with apes of many kinds.
The formation of the ridge cut off a northern portion of the forest, which then became sub- ject to comparatively inclement conditions.
The apes stranded in this northern portion were disturbed by the extensive destruction of the trees, and the survivors were compelled to be ground apes and change their habits of feeding.
"They would thus be modified," declared Sir Arthur, "in the direc- tion of man."
How It All Came About Presumably he meant that the necessity of changing their mode of life caused them to think pretty
changed since the Turkish domina-hard and so develop their brain.
tion and subject to strict purdah, the boldness of King Zog's plan is sensational.
He is backed by all the younger Albanians who have been abroad, but he will have opposed to him all the fanaticism of the old- fashioned, elements in this tiny Balkan kingdom."
Secluded Lives
most At present,
Albauian women live a life of almost.com- plete seclusion. They are never seen sitting in the cafes of Tirana. even when accompanied-by-men.
When they travel they must hire their own cars, as only the poorest women travel by motor-omnibus, and then in,a sent to themselves at the back. At the cinemas they aro railed off from the men in a special enclosure.
Albanian marriages are all ar ranged, beforehand by the parents, and even the young men are seldom consulted. The idea of an Alban- fan woman choosing her own hus-. band is unheard of, even in upper class families.
In a striking speech to the United Youth Organisations, which is believed to mark the beginning of a now era for Albania, King Zog stated:
"Some of our Albanian customs are a heritage of the various for- olga occupations that our country Ins undergone, and it is not right that we should keep them any longer.
"We must adopt the latest methods to reach with giant strides that degree of civilisation shown in other countries of the world to- day.
"Radical Changes"
"But at the same time we should not fall to develop our own proper national culture.
"Our real national customs are to be found more truly, in the vil lages, whereas In the towns there exist still Oriental customs such as covering up the faces of women and their being kept in Ignorance.
"We should not mention these things," added King Zog significantly, "had we not the intention to make in the or- ganisation of the State such radical changes as will fulfil in this direction our most urgent needs."
This speech has made a deop impression in the country, but has been overshadowed somewhat by the consequences of the Fiori revolt.
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The young men, needless to say, oro enthusiastic about the King'a intentions, but among the women there are many who declare they do not want the new freedom prom- ised.*
They profer to have their hus-. bands chosen for them instead of having to compete for them with others.
King Zog's sisters, all of whom are Moslems like the King him-" solf, have already set an example of progress by wearing European dress, including riding breeches, and by playing tennis.
Deing unable to climb a tree to escape from an enemy, they natur- ally had to think out other means of defence.
Being deprived of the shelter of trees, they had to produce some other form of shelter..
Anyhow, Sir Arthur seemed to be satisfied that, we were the re sult of the disturbance of apes by the eccentric behaviour of the Himalayas.
Professor E. W. MacBride was still more insistent on the impor- tant part played by surroundinga In evolution:
Speaking during a discussion on "The Species Problem"
he throw over the Darwinian theory of evolution through natural selection and argued that environment was the vital factor.
Natural selection assumed, he said, that small inheritable varia- tions were constantly occurring and the chance correspondence of one of these random variations with the needs of the environment determ- ined the survival of the Individual. This, so far as modern research went, was simply not true. Deve-
The Darwinian theory of a
tural selection was a complete fraud.
"Against All Biological Opinion" Professor E. D. Poulton protest
THEY STOPPED HIM THEN,
Even Il Duce je not unstoppable. He has been held up before now. Here he is being held up by Italian police in 1015. Cause of future Dicta. tor's arrest was his advocacy of revolutionary action at public meeting- not probable at present day,
Doorn Lover Tells
His Story In London
HERR GEORG WUNDERLICH, nine years secretary to the ex-Kaiser's wife, Princess Hermine, with whose daughter, Princess "Carmo," he fell in love, has arrived in London.
DIPLOMATS ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES WHO ARE FLYING KITES
When Autumn broozes begin at Home, the kiddies coma into their own. The photograph will bring memories to many
Hongkong people, long past real kite-flying days.
éd that Professor MacBride stood
against the opinion of practically Criminals
the whole biological
admired his courage, but could not. follow him in his opinions.
THE "RESURRECTED" SPY
Says Firing Squad Used Blanks
Capetown, Oct. SOUTH AFRICANS are trying to solve the riddle of a man who says he is. Commandant Gideon Scheepers, notorious Boer spy executed by British troops at Graaff Reinet.
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The claimant says he was led out at dawn to be executed, but
Are Made Before Birth
WHY DILLINGER DIED AT HANDS OF U.S. POLICE
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Chicago, Oct. 8, CRIMINALS can be appre- bended before they are
Last November he left the castle at Doorn on an indefinite "holiday" because he had pro- posed to the princess.
For months he has been liv ing in Berlin, still drawing his full salary about £800 a year- hoping that Princess Hermine would relent and allow him to marry her daughter.
He wrote to Princess Carmo continually; in response to his appeals she left Doorn and flew to Berlin, taking apartments there.
But the Princess followed her, and from her room in the old palace in the Unter den Linden called the daughter to her. Carmo came.
Since then she has been locked up in a castle in Silesia-the castle Sabor. Thence Wunderlich follow- ed her, but, unable to see her, un- nble to get a reply to his messages, he returned to Berlin.
Princess Hermine, finding that her daughter had been pursued to Silesia, took her back to Dobrn. Herr Wunderlich again followed -her-
One day he tried to see her at the castle there, but. the gates were shut in his face.
He tried to telephone: he was told that no communications be- tween himself and the princess Inyould be permitted.
"She is as much in love, as she was when I first knew her nine years ago," he said. "Her mother knows this, and, if I can get a good | job, a job that will give me salary enough to support her As sho should be supported, I am certain she would give her consent,
"That is why I have come to England.
"The ex-Kaiser is opposed to the marriage, and though I put it to him last time I saw him as an appeal from a man who really loves the girl, he shook his head. Well, after all, he is Kaiser, and one must bow to his wishes.
“While I was in Berlin I spoke to born, Dr. L. E. Bracken told the ex-Crown Prince. He listened members of the American As-to me very sympathetically at first, sociation of orificial surgeons.but I could see after a while that he did not like the idea of my Improved prenatal care of ex-marrying 'Carmo, a friendly sergeant distributed pectant mothers is the best re- "The position now is that I have blank cartridges and allowed medy for crime, he said.
been put on one side. But I love im to escape after he had In the lives of nearly, all crim-Carmo, and I know that she loves imulated death.
jinals can be found some
abnormality which can be traced face, despite the conditions laid "Despite the gates closed in my It is known that Scheepers' back to the prenatal period, he down by her mother, I am young "grave" was opened by a com-added.
and so is she, and I am determined mission of inquiry after the If an expectant mother is tem-not to give her up."
Boer war. empty.
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me.
It was found to be peramental and given to fits of anger, the unborn child "goes through the period of gestation in KICK IN PANTS. - Samó Handwriting
n devil's hotbed," he said.
Every Irritable baby, and es- Mr. Wilfred Harrison, former-pecially one in which tantrums are
ly of the Coldstream Guards, frequent, he said, can be suspected now swears that he saw Schee of incorrigibility and criminal ten-
dencies, pers shot through the heart, "The criminal's attitude that he saw the doctor certify him to be can do as he pleases is reflected. In the child who regards the regimen- dead, and then assisted at the tation of school as an invasion of burial.
his right," Dr. Bracken' said. “It is because of their attitude that Harrison explains. Scheeperscriminais fect no remorse for their body was not found because the victims. searchers did not dig deep enough."
But many people who have examined the man's story say ho bears a strong resemblance to Scheepers, His handwriting is identical with that of the spy.
"John Dillinger wanted to be aristocratic and a leader of men. To achieve these ends hepoeded money. This led
· him into»« life of crime. Dil- linger apparently was devoid of fear and conscious of a sex appeal.”—United Press..
SAVED HIS LIFE
Hollywood, Got, 15.
Ted Healy, the comedian, was naved from the claws of a giant bald eagle recently at the ex- pense of being kicked in the pants.--
The hero was Charige (Chuck), Reisner, doughty director, who took direct action to save his ing man when the cagle, a bird with an 8-foot wing spread, brake loose in a balloon gondola, being used for a motion ploture scene; Reisner kicked Healy out of the gondola reived several then, turned- to
save himself, scratchee about the face and arma; Healy got a skinned noso and
his 5-foot sprawl to the floor. "I couldn't afford to lose Healy, now," the director explained. “You see, we haven't finished the pic» ture yet."--United Press.
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