THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1936.
BRITAIN TRAINS NEW-TYPE SEA-DOG'
Life On (And Above) The Ocean Wave His Majesty's Gallant
Settlement of the marital dispute between Mrs. Roxana Brown Spreckels and her multi-millionaire husband, John Detrick Spreckels III. loomed as a possibility in Los Angeles, where Mrs. Spreckels was reported to have spoken in favor of reconciliation. This picture of Mrs. Spreckels is the first taken with, her G-month-old daughter.
PROF. SHELLSHEAR AND THE
PEKING MAN
LONDON SHOWS INTEREST
The recent announcement in Hongkong by Professor Shellshear that further remains of Peking man have been discovered in China coincided with the receipt in England of the first complete report on all the remains which have been hitherto found of this million- year-old race of men.
In place of the two skulls and odd bones and teeth with which anthropologists have previously had to be content, a classified description is given of the recovered remains of 24 individuals, ranging in age from five years to over fifty.
The theory is advanced that the cave-dwellers of early China were cannibals with a "weakness" for children, the remains discovered representing head-hunters' trophies.
The conclusion is reached that Peking -man may have been the direct fore-runner of the "low- brow" Neanderthal race, which lived in Europe between 50,000 and 20,000 BC.
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Sailor-and Airman Too
-To Paraphrase Kipling
Britain is training a new type of “sca-dog” to com- and her ships on their journeys across the Seven Seas.
She needs or will need within the next four years—at least 180 of them: captains whose ships can race across the sen at 60 m.p.h. and then rise on wings until they are speeding 5,000 feet above the wavelops at 180 m.p.h.
The training-place for these men is Hamble, on the Solent. Flying boats are the craft they are learning to command.
Britain is putting practically all
her Empire air traffe inte flying Laughed At A Film:
bonts. With flying boats we shall start the Atlantic air service.
When It was decided to change from land to water planes Im- perial Airways had scarcely a dozen pilots trained In the handling of air boats.
Now senior captains of Imperial Airways are to quality for their "sea legs" wide by side with the newest probationary flying officers. They have to learn an entirely new kind of dying.
All pupils have to put in up to Afteen hours in the small "Cutty Sark" type flying boat and twenty- five hours in the big "Calcutta" boat, City of Swanage, that was recently withdrawn from Imperial Airways' Mediterranean services.
Sailor Lore
Most of their "fying" hours will be spent on the water. Pilots will put in many hours taxi-ing their new craft' up and down the Solent. They must learn all about tides and nea currente.
Also they must learn to row, anll a boat, the right (and many wrong) ways of being towed, of mooring. even seamen's knots,
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They must be able to nautical maps and know the kind of sea bottom that lies beneath their ship's keel, for if an sirboat skipper drops anchor on the wrong kind of sea bottom his craft may bo dragged on to rocks or course by currents and waves,
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Another thing they must know- all the signals used by ships; all the things which are the written and unwritten law of the sea.
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HE COINED WORD ANZAC
MAJOR A. T. WHITE, an English member of General Birdwood's staff in Egypt, who coined the word “Anzac” as an official code word, has died in England.
Early in the war, Major Wagstaff, of Birdwood's staff, called several of his clerks together and said, "We have to supply a codo word for our cable address.”
Near the door of the office was stacked a number of stationery boxes, bearing the initials "A. and N.Z.A.C.”—Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
The initials caught Major White's eye. "How about Anzac 7" he successfully suggested.
In spite of his bloodthirsty habits, in certain peculiarities of his jaw, Peking man shows definite resemblances to the modern. Mongolian race-group, and particularly to the Eskimo. The report represents the first work in this field of Dr. Franz Weldenreich, the now, director of Peking man investigations for the Geological Survey of China. The making of further finds is announc- 'covered, and, therefore, that Peking ed in an Exchange Telegraph, man, although civilised enough to have the use of fire, was also cap- Remains of Peking man have allļable of preying on members of his come from the limestone caves of own race.
message,
Chou Kou Tien, south-east of Pek-i Extraordinary, Value
ing, where a tooth, the first proof:
of human occupation, was found in
"There is nothing comparable 1927. It is remarkable that from anywhere to this numeroua collec this single find Professor Davidson tion of individuals of such an early Sir Grafton Elliot-Smith Black, Dr. Weidenreich's predeces race," sor at Peking, was able to draw commented to a representative of Post Inst night the correct conclusion that he was the Morning dealing with a hitherto unknown "Piltdown man In England, and also Java man, are represented by the remains of only single indivi- duals.
race of man,
Every Stage of Childhood The catalogue, as now completed by Dr. Weidenreich, comprises ten
"It is of extraordinary value to children, two adolescents, and have a group of people to study twelve ndulis, the sexes being even instead of only one. The great problem is always to determine ly represented in each case.
Practically every stage of how far the characteristics of any | one individual can be taken as those' childhood growth seems to have of the race. One man, for all we fallen victim to these prehis can tell, might have been abnormal, toric cannibals. According to "This report should also help to Dr. Weidenreich's classification, restore confidence in the work of there is one child of five, one of anthropologists. From one, tooth. 5-6, one of 7-8, four of 8-9, one Professor Davidson Binck postulat», of 9-10, one of 11, one of 13-14, ed a now race. His conclusion was and two adolescents of 14-18.
In addition to a man of over fifty, two others, both women, are described as "surely old". Dr. Weldenreich's most serious doubt is as to whether his method of "sex determination" may not have led, him to overestimate the number of females.
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Free Pass For Life
Herbert Ohrenberger laughed at film in Boston, Massachusetts. until the entiro audience roared and rocked with amusement.
An usher approached him, not to oject him, but to inform him that the manager said he had the most Infectious laugh he had ever heard, He therefore tendered him a fe time pass-good for two persons.
SKATING CHAMP
Etsuko Inada, a twelve-year-old akater, who will be Japan's youngest representative nt the Winter- Olymples in Germany,
She Tears Away The Veil That Hides Beauty
MISS
TISS HENEINA B. KHOURY, who has campaigned in sixteen Oriental countries against purdah (wearing of the vell), is in London arranging for publication of her book, "Eastern Peeps from Behind the Veil."
"God crented beautiful faces,"
she anid. "Why should we hide "Dead" Man
them?
"Purdah is a custom. It has no
part in religion.
"How did the custom begin? Lives For
Some say that the prophet loved
his youngest wife Fatima most, and
that one day ho told her to hido 1.1/2 Days
when a certain man visited the house. She put on a vell. The other wives copled her.
"So the fashion spread."
Miss Khoury began her travels in
1928. Thod returning educated
from, Europe, she exerted the
greatest influence in favour of abolishing purdah
Love Won
"Aisha, a friend, of mine, was one, of seven girl students at the university of Damascus. All seven were under purdah.
"One day Aisha called on mo unveiled. I was very surprised:
"She explained that her cousin, a clever doctor, who had just returned from Europe,” had”såld” he would marry a European girl.
"Ho told his mother that he would not marry a timid creature who hid herself behind a vell.
So I left off my veil, Aisha aald, and we marry next week.'
"In a week's time," Miss Khoury added, "all seven girls had thrown away their veils.""
Atlantic Air Service Plans
TRIAL FLIGHTS
Respiration Work
by Relays of Nurses
DELAYS. of nurses working to revive a "dead" man, and his recovery and collapse 36 hours were described at a afterwards, Paddington Inquest recently on George Arthur Thorn, aged 69, a labourer, of First-avenue Luton, Chatham.
Dr. Theodoro Green, of the Radium Institute, Ridinghouse- street, W., stated that In September Thorn was treated there, and was, readmitted for the insertion of radium needles.
Ho
anethetic was given an but collapsed before the operation started. His heart and breathing stopped. After artificial respiration Thorn was given an in- jection of camphor in front of the heart, but there was no response.
HEART MASSAGED
"I made a rapid incision in the abdomen on the left side," con- tinued Dr. Green, "and maggroed the heart for three minutes before
IN MARCHIt started to bent.
New York, Jan. 1. Following the agreement between Imperial Airways and Pan-American Airways to establish a regular mail and passenger service between Great Britain and the United States, Mr. R. Walton Moore, Assistant-Secretary of State, announced to-day that four round trips a week
will be run in 1937.
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The statement was made after conferences between officials of the British, Irish, Canadian, and United States Governments. Trial flights will, it is expected, begin on March 16 next. The Newfoundland-Ireland route will be tested in the summer, and later that by way of the Azores and Bermuda,
New York is mentioned us the port for specially
supported by the Anding of the original Peking skull and subse-southern quent remains. Now this fullor report on a larger number of In-
severe weather. main picture of Peking man.” dividuals contes-to-bear-out-our-
TATTERED GERMAN *RED CROSS FLAG
Wellington, N.Z. Jan. 1.
Averican Ward, dienged with the i agreement because, they can now obtain landing rights in Bermuda, thus canbling them to operate a service between there and Now York, besides the Transatlantic.
one.
His conclusion that the remains are, cannibalistic is based on the fact that they consist almost ex-
A bailly tattered Gorman Red clusively of jaws, tooth, and frag ments of brain cases, and wore in Cross Fing, in the possession of a most cases crushed or broken beresident will ultimately be placed In the Dominion War Memorial fore, fosallisation began, commute Museum. The flag was taken from
"It is Impossible,” he that the bodies of at least 24 In-the German Hospital at. Greveill shall see dividuals could have been so comfers, which was the township Im- pletely smashed that nothing else mediately before Bapaume, on the Temuina."
route of the New Zealand Divis Dr. Weidenreich also concludes ton's advance. The Hospital was that thero la no oviderico of the one of the first to be taken during simultaneous existence of any mere the advance. It was there. that developed race, who might be sup- paper bandages were taken for the posed to have preyed on the race first time and were "Immediately whone remains have now been di put into use.
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"During this time artificial res- piration was carried out by nurses,. an injection of adrenalin boing
given.
"The heart-bent became stronger, and a train of nurses continued re-
piration for 85 minutes. normal and he was returned to the
"Thorn's pulse became almost
ward, remaining unconscious for three days, when he died,"
A verdict of Death by Mis- adventure was recorded.
DISCOVERED DEBT AFTER 250 YEARS
SUGGESTIONS are being made In
Somerset that a 250-year-old debt to Wells Cathedral should be repaid to cover, the cost of repairs.
Recently, by chance, the Dean of an item in the Chapter minute Wells, Canon R H Baldon, found... Looks which revealed that the Dean and Chapter had lent the Duke of Somerset £100 to recruit forces to
Monmouth in 1685. - quell the rebellion of the Duke of
A trade barter agreement be tween a Sydney firm of produce Donald Colonel Sir
Banks, Director-General of the British exporters and German firms has Post Office, who called on President just been completed.
It involves the exchange of 60,- Roosevelt yesterday, said: "We have every hope that before long wo
000 cases of Australian apples for Transatlantic fight | German spraying materials, agri- started, with the United Staton, the cultural machinery and general Irish Free State, Canada, and the orchard requirements,
At 2 per cent. Compound In- United Kingdom all represented in Austral News. the enterprise", fu
Exchange difficulties have ro- terest, says the Dean; It would sulted in Gemany reducing her imamount now to a sum that would nort of Australian apples by about save the Cathedral financial anxiety, 900,000 cases, and the agreement and he drops the broad hint that the Cathedral would settle the as- is an attempt to revive the demand and facilitate transactione-
count for half the aum duo
There will be no merging of com- panies, because this would deprive the Pan-American line, of any mall contracts It might obtain from the
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