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THE HONGKONG
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1936.
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Every post brings its quots of threats to famous people of the screen, and every safeguard that human ingenuity can invent is being brought into operation to protect those threatened.
The Intast move of the hidden criminals is directed against the child actors.
Bright and world-popular. littlo Shirley Temple, the six-years-old favourite, is the latest "victim." Now she is never loft alone by her | special "trusty." He poses as the chauffeur of her car, and is a big and formidable person.
Her guard not only goes with her everywhere, but actually stands close by when she is on the set acting for her films.
At night he alcopa with an open door between him and his charge, and with the extra protection of complete burglar alarms.
Other guards take their places outside the home."
The most dangerous threats are from those who declaro that, unless big sums of money aro paid, the "atars" will be attacked
in such a way that thoir facial appearance, on which their very fortune depends, will be "spoiled." In other cases, even death has beon threatened.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE.
TRANS-PACIFIC TRIP
IN JUNK: FRENCHMEN TO SET OUT AGAIN
Honolulu, Mar. 25.
In a primitive sailing craft of the kind man first used to span the globe's biggest ocean, two French scientists will set out from here in an effort to settle once and for all whether the Polynesian races came from the Americas or whether they were a Caucasian offshoot from India or some part of Asia.
The two men are Captain Eric; ethnologist at Bishop Museum of de Biachop and Joseph Tatibouct this city. Dr. Buck and most of They have just ended here a two his contemporarles trace the year voynge from China in a junk Polynesians to a Caucasian off- which unfortunately was wrecked shoot which reached the Malay in Hawaiian waters before the archipelago from the Himalayas. object of their voyage could be From there they are believed to cstablished,
have pushed eastward into the
Now they aro constructing a Pacific so for as the Society double outrigger canoe of the islands where the grand disper type that is known to have been sion of the Polynesians to Hawall used by ancient Polynesians for and the other islands of the Paci- prolonged voyages to all of the fic took place. islands of the Pacific.
But it is here that the two Their primitive voyage, using French scientists intend to de only the primitive means that are monatrate whother Buch a voyage known to have existed nt the with the navigation facilities epoch which they wish to re- then at the disposal of even the construct, will come at the pre- hardlest nengoera could have been, CI80 moment when the vast made. If it was impossible, they stretches of the Pacifle are being Insist the only other logical con- spanned by fast Clipper planes as clusion is that the Polynesians. man's latest type of transporta- came from the Americas, tion.
The two scientists will endea- Over Old Trail
your to subsist on the same As soon as their now double amount of food which the ancient outrigger сапос is completed Polynesians could have carried in they will endeavour to reverse the their craft. They will employ
"navigation the same
science" course by which they came from China, touching at many of the which was available at that time which the and which consisted largely of a islands en route at original Polynesians must have knowledge of winds and currents, stopped, provided they came from
The west.
The two Frenchmen will seal
and first for the Marquesas thence to Tahiti, thereby revers ing a course charted by the ances- tors of the Huwalians centurica
ago.
Tahitians?
calendar based on the stages, of the moon, an annual cycle_that_ counted from various positions of the Piclades, and especially the flight of bords.
The flights of the Golden in particular, which Plover, makes its winter home in the mid- Pacific islands, will tell them
According to most students of whether it could possibly have led the Polynesians to Hawall, and 3f Pacific migration, the first Hawaiians must have come to the so, whether it led them from cast falands over a 2,400 mile voyage or the West.-United Press, northward from Tahiti, While
the two Frenchmen cling to their Australia Now
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The Senior Prize in "Uncle Eddie's" "Hongkong Telegraph" Competition this week is "Popity,” fascinating table gaino;
hope to demonstrate by this Grows All
voyage, whether such a trip, in
such a primitive sailing craft, Its Rice
with only the stars to guide, and
the influence of ocean
currents
Figures just issued
in
and winds to be counted upon, would have been possible at that Canberra show that Australia .time.
has become almost self support- that ing in rico.
According to the charts
àtil! exist In the Hawaiian It was first grown there in 1924. islands, and in which a sort of Now there is sufficient crop to sup legendary history of the migra-'ply internal needs and a net export tion of the Polynesians is pre- of 200,000 cwt. states Austral served, this is what really took News...
place. But the two French Australians consume 9 lb. of rice, scientists wish to demonstrate a head, annually.
whether such a migration was
humanly possible, in the face, of
nature and with the primitive MADMAN'S SHOTS AT means of navigation then at the disposition of mankind.
First Arrivals
QUEEN VICTORIA RECALLED
It is generally conceded by all John Middleton, aged 87, atudents of Pacific migration formerly a member of the that the centre of dispersion from Windsor Borough Police, died in which the Hawaiians originally, England last month. came was Tahiti... That voyages Ho
was on duty at Windsor wore later made by Howalian railway station in 1882 when navigators between Hawail and Queen Victoria arrived from Lon- Tahiti and oven to New Zealand don and entered a closed carriage there is no question, but what the drawn by two greys. The carriage two French scientists want to had just begun to move and the know is whether the first arrivals crowd were cheering enthusiasti at the centre of dispersion in cally when the report of a pistol Tahiti came the Asiatic or the was heard, and a man was scen American mainlands.
standing with his back to the bar- Winds and ocean currents, they rier between the passenger and. Inafat, will demonstrate this. They the carriage gatoways, also attach the greatest Import He was holding a pistol which ance to the fact that the sweet was pointed straight at the car potato, which is known to have ori-riage, but by great good fortune ginated in America, was a com- his shot went wide. With Super- mon food in the Pacific islands intendent Hayes, Middleton rushed long before Columbus discovered forward and secured him. The America, N
iman. Roderick Maclean, was after-
A leading authority who, dis wards found to be Insano and was agrees with the two Frenchmen la sent to Broadmoor where he lived Dr. Peter H: Buck, part-Maori, for many years.
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