THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1936,
BRITAIN TRAINS NEW-TYPE
NEW-TYPE SEA-DOG’ Life On (And Above) The Ocean Wave His Majesty's Gallant
Bettlement of the maritat dispute between Mrs. Roxana Brown Spreckels and her multi-millionaire. husband, John Delrick Spreckel- III, loomed as a possibility in Los Angeles, where Mra Spreckels was reported to have opoken in favor of reconciliation. This picture of Mrs. Spreckels is the first taken with her 8-month-old daughter.
PROF. SHELLSHEAR AND THE.
PEKING MAN
LONDON SHOWS INTEREST
The recent announcement in Hongkong by Professor Shellsbear that further remains of Pelting 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- brew" Neanderthal race, which Ilved in Europe between 60,000 and 20,000 BC.
Sailor-and Airman Too
-To Paraphrase Kipling
Britain is training a new type of "sea-dog" to com-. mand 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 sea at 60 m.p.h. and then risc on wings until they are speeding 5,000 feet above the wavetops 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 traffle into Bring Laughed At A Film:
bonis. With flying boats we shall start the Atlantic air' service.
When it was decided to change from land to water planes Im-i perial Airways had scarcely a dozen piluts trained in the handling of air Louts.
Now senior captains of Imperial| Airways are to quality for their "sea lega" side by side with the ; newest probationary dying officers. They have to learn an entirely new kind of, flying.
All pupils have la put in up to Afteen hours in the small "Cutty Sark" type flying boat and twenty- five hours in the big "Calcutta" bont, City of Swanage, that was recently withdrawn from Imperial! Airways Mediterranean services.
Sailor Lore
Most of their "ying" hours will Plots will be spent on the water. put in many hours taxl-ing their new craft up and down the Solent. They must learn all about tides and sca currents.
Also they must learn to row, salt, a boat, the right (and many wrong) ways of being towed, of mooring, even seamen's knots.
They must able to read nautical maps and,know the kind of Hen bottom that lies beneath their kilp's keel, for 'If an airboa skipper drops anchor on the wrong kind of sea bottom his craft may he dragged on to rocks or ou course by currents and waves,"
Another thing they must know all the signals used by ships; all the things which are the written and unwritten law of the sea.
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 cods word for our cable address.”
Near the door of the office was stacked a number of stationery boxes, bearing the initiala “A, and NZA.C”—Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
The initials caught Major White's eye. "How about Anzac ?" he successfully suggested/
In spite of his bloodthirsty babits, in n 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 Weidenreich, the new.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 clellised enough t have the use of fire, was also cap nicssage.
Remains of Peking man have all able of preying on members of his come from the limestone caves of own race.
Chou Kou Tien, south-east of Pok-i
ing, where a tooth, the first proof
of human occupation, was found in
Extraordinary Value
"There is nothing comparable 1927. It is remarkable that from anywhere to this numerous collec- this single find Professor Davidaontion of individuals of such an early Black, Dr. Weidenreich's predeces race," Sir Grafton Elliot-Smith representative of sor at Peking, was able to draw commented to
Morning Post last night the correct conclusion that he wns the
dealing with a, hitherto unknown "Piltdown man in England, and
raco of man.
Evory Stage of Childhood The catalogue, as now completed by Dr. Weidenrelch, comprises ten
children, two adolescents,
jalso dava man, are represented by the remains of only single indivi- duals.
problem is always
"It is of extraordinary value to and have a group of people to study twelve adults, the sexes baing even- instead of only one. The great to determine ly represented in each case,
Practically every stage of how far the characteristics of any childhood growth seems to have one individual enn be taken me those 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 Black postulat- of 9-10, one of 11, one of 13-14,cd a new race. His conclusion was. supported by the finding of the and two adolescents of 14-18.
Free Pass For Life
Herbert Ohrenberger laughed at alm in Boston, Massachusetts, until the entire audience roared and rocked with amusement.
An usher approached himi, not to eject him, but to inform him that the manager said he had the most infectious laugh he had ever heard. Ile therefore tendered him a life- time paas good for two persons.
SKATING CHAMP
Etsuko Innda,, a twelve year-old skater, who will be Japan's youngest ut representative
the Winter- Olympics in Germany,
She Tears Away The Veil That Hides Beauty
MISS
FISS 'HENEINA B. KHOURY, who has campaigned in sixteen Oriental countries against purdah (wearing of the veil), is in London arranging for publication of her book, "Eastern Peeps from Behind the Veil."
"God created beautiful faces," she said. "Why should we hide {5¢- them?
"Purduh is a custom. It has no part in religion.
"How did the custom begin' Some say that the prophet loved his youngest wife Fatima most, and
"Dead" Man
Lives For
that one day he told her to hle 1.1/2 Days
when a certain man visited
the
house. She put on a veil. The other wives copied her.
"So the fashion spread."
Miss Khoury began her travels In 1928. Then, returning educated from
the
Europe, she exerted
Respiration Work
greatest influence in favour of by Relays of Nurses
abolishing purdah.
Love Won
4
"Ajaha, a friend of mine, was one of seven giri students at the university of Damascus. All seven were under purdah.
"One day Aisha called on me unvelled: I was very surprised.
"She explained that her cousin, a clever doctor, who had just returned from Europe, had said he would marry a European" girl."
"He told his mother that he would not marry a timid creature who hid herself behind a veil
"So I left off my veil, Aisha
said. 'and we marry next week.'
"In a week's time," Miss Khoury added, “all seven girls had thrown away their vells,""
Atlantic Air Service Plans
TRIAL FLIGHTS IN MARCH
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 a week of State, announced to-day that four round trips will be run in 1937.,
The statement was made after conferences between officials of the British, Irish, Canadian, and United States Governments. Trjal llghts will, it is expected, begin on March 15' 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 as the
In addition to a man of over original Peking skull and subse-southern port for
quent remains. Now this fuller
Afty, two others, both women, are report on a larger number of in- described as "aurdly old". Dr. Weidenreich's most serious doubt dividuals comes to bear out our
is ns to whether his method of "sex main picture of Peking man." determination" may not have led
him to overestimate the number of femalca,
+
- TATTERED GERMAN
RED CROSS FLAG
Wellington, N.Z. Jan. 1.
severe weather.
specially
Americans are pleased with the. agreement because they can now obtain landing rights in Bermuda, thus enabling them to operate a service between there and New York, besides the Transatlantic
ong,
Australian Apples For German Farm Implements.
RELAYS of nurses working to
on
revive a "dead", man, and his hours collapse 3G recovery, and afterwards, were described at a Paddington inquest recently George Arthur Thorn, nged 69, a Iabourer, of First-avenue Luton, Chatham.
Dr. Thicodore Green, of the Radium Institute Ridinghouse- street, W., stated that in September Thorn was treated there, and was readmitted for the Insertion of radlum needles.
He was given an anathetic but collapsed before the operation started. His heart and breathing stonned. After artificial raspiration 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 massaged the heart for three minutes before it started to bent.
"During this time ortificial res- piration; was carried out by nurses, on injection of adrenalin being given.
"The heart-beat became stronger, and a train of nurses continued re- spiration for 35 minutes.
"Thorn's pulse became almost normal and he was returned to the for ward, remaining unconscious
three days, when he died.”
A
verdict of Death by Mis adventure was recorded.
-DISCOVERED. DEBT AFTER 250 YEARS
Recently, by chance, the Dean of an item in the Chapter minute Wells, Canon R. H. Maiden, found books which revealed that the Dean and Chapter had lent the Duke of Somerset £100 to recruit forces to
SUGGESTIONS are being made in Somerset that a 260-year-old debt to Wells Cathedral should--bo A trade barter agreement be-repaid to cover the cost of repairs. His conclusion that the remains
tween a Sydney firm of produce ara cannibalistic is based on the
Colonel Sir Donald Banks, fact that they consist almost ex
A badly tattered German Red clusively of jaws, teeth, and frag-
Director-General of the British exporters and German firms has ments of brain canes, and were in Cross Flag, in the possession of n
It involves the exchange of 50,- most cases crushed or broken be resident will ultimately be placed Post Office, who called on President just been completed.
In the Dominion War Memorial Roosevelt yesterday, anid: "We have foro fossilisation began.
"It is impossible," he comments, luscum. The fing was taken from every hope that before long we 000 cases of Australian apples for that the bodies of at least 24 in- the German Hospital at Grevelli- shall see a Transatlantic flight | German spraying materials, agri-quell the rebellion of the Duke of dividuals could have been so com- lers, which was the township im-started, with the United States, the cultural machinery and general pletely smashed that nothing else, mediately before Bapaume, on the Irish Free State, Canada, and the route of the New Zealand DivisUnited Kingdom all represented in remaina."
the enterprise". Dr. Weldenreich also concludes "ion's advance. The 'Hospital was that there is no evidence 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 bandares were taken for the posed to have preyed on the race first time and wore Immediately whose remains have now been dia put into use.
There will be no merging of com- panies, because this would deprive the Pan-American line of any mall contracts it might ohtain from the United States Post Once.
orchard
Austral News,
requirements, ваув Exchange difficulties have re- sulted in Goranny reducing her im port of Australian apples, by about 900,000 cases, and the agreement
and facilitate transactione, is an attempt to revive the demand
Monmouth in 1685.
At 21⁄2 per cent. compound in- terest, says the Dean, it would amcunt now to a sum that would save the Cathedral financial anxiety, and he drops the broad hint that count for half the sum duc. the Cathedral would settle the jac-.
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