THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1936.
DO WE Scott's "Discovery" to Sail
SURVIVE
AFTER DEATH?
MEMORY IS DISSOLVED, SAYS EARL RUSSELL
Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birming- ham, and Eart Russell express op- posing views on the subject of man's immortality in a book entitled "Mysteries of Life and Death."
Dr. Barnes, contributing the book's first chapter, "Is There an After- Life?" writes of the human race as the culminating achievement millions of years of evolution.
of
"Why," he asks, "was man made?
His mind is a for finer instrument than anything that had happened carlier. He knows right and wrong. He can bulld Westminster Abbey, He can make an acroplane. What ever his origin he is no mere ape, just as a bit of primitive matter," is no speck of mud."
Dr. Barnes then oska whether at donth man must perish utterly.
"Does that incomparable instru- ment, his mind, vanish when life ceases? Our present selence cannot help, us when we inquire whether raan's mind, or, if you prefer other terms, his spirit or personality, sur- vives death.
The Bishop finds an answer else-
where.
"I believe that the universe and all that is within it were fashioned by God, and I am convinced that God's ways must appear reasonable to us for these reasons I think that man's personality survives the death of his body. Thus there is for man an after-life where the hero has his reward and where life'n loose ends are knitted up."
Bishop Barnes does not agree that every human person is destined for immortality.
Again
EXCLUSIVE
to the Farthest South GOWNS and ENSEMBLES
30 EXPLORERS
IN QUEST
FAMOUS SHIP'S "SWAN SONG"
By ALAN JOHNSON
Captain Scott's "Discovery," veteran vessel of the Antarctic, is once again to nose through frozen seas in search of uncharted regions.
The "Discovery" has been lying almost forgotten in a London dock throughout the last five years, but now the British Empire Photographic Expedition, soon to sail to the Antarctic, is completing negotiations for its purchase.
Scott's gallant ship will this autumn start on a 70,000-mile voyage around the world to the islands of Papua, where the ex- pedition wishes to photograph a black tribe hostile to white men, and then on to the Antarctic, "Land of the Blizzards."
Yesterday Mr. Ernest Walker. organiser of the expedition, told me
that the party will explore unknown FORGOTTEN
parts of the const between Princess Elizabeth Land and Banzare Land.
So far no ship has approached nearer than a few miles of these Jeebound shores.
"We shall be away for two years," said Mr. Walker.
AIR BASES SEARCH
on
the
"We shall put parties ashore on The Land of Blizzards' with radio equipment, sleighs, stores and dogs. Then we shall sail away to explore "Is there an
another unmapped arca immortal spirit innom seme wretched mental deficient with coast. no conselence, no human traits? I
"Our shore parties will work think not. But I may be wrong.. "WORTH KEEPING"
"I and myself holding fast to the belief that God preserves what is worth keeping. He has not minde
man for a whim to throw him in the end like a discarded toy on to some dust-heap of forgotten things. There ls in man's
in's spirit that which is worth keeping, and shall never die.
Earl Russell, in the succeeding chapter argues against the Bishop's conclusions, In his view the brain as a structure is dissolved at death, and memory, the principal factory in personality, may be expected to bo also dissolved.
Ho does not agrée with Dr. Barnes that the universe is governed by an intelligent purpose.
from
eath side of this unknown land, and all being well will meet in the centre. Then we shall pick them up on our way back.
"Altogether there will be 30 mem- bers of the expedition.
our An- sball Wo
"Qulle apart from tarcile exploration carry out an aerial survey of certain islands in the Pacific, so that they may be used as air bases by future Empire al ser- vices.
"The Discovery may be cap tained by Commander F. A. Wors- ley, who was skipper of Shackleton's Endurance' and 'Quest."
TRIBUTE TO SHACKLETON
EXILE OF LONDON
By A CORRESPONDENT
HAILE SELASSIE, de-
throned Emperor of has become Abyssinia, Europe's Forgotten Man.
He is still in London, but daily the prospects of return to his country have become more re- mote.
mo
L
Hi told
his home! in Princes Gole, S.W., of the completel failure of his appeal to the world to help him in the recovery of his empire, says a London correspondent.
When the League refused him thel loan he asked tor, he decided
to
make a pubile appeal to the world.
He had hoped to realise aufcient; money to re-equip his army and be
in a new campaign against the Italians. It was necessary to-obtain
En route to the Far South thent least £200,000. "Discovery" will call at Tristan da Cunha, world's loneliest Island, party will
It has been found," he says, "in where members of the that so far as we can discover Install a wireless plant for the Nature is indifferent to our values islanders and also present them and can only be understood by with a small organ for their church. Ignoring our notions of good and
bad. The universe may have a pur- pose, but nothing that we know sug- gests that if so this purpose has any similarity to ours,"
at
Another pause will be made
But the total subscriptions re- ceived Blace the appeal WIN faunched noven weeks ago amount to less than £3,000.
"My appeal to the world for my distressed country has falled to bring
STAFF OFFICERS CONFER IN CHAPEI
Taken in Chapei, photos show(top) naval landing party staff defence and officers conferring in the Rokusan Gardens on patrol assignments, and (below) Japanese ouipost at the Inter-
section of Waupan and Sulellen Roads in Chapel. Picture showa a sandbanked machine-run emplacement, while in the back- ground are ruins of the 1032 horillitles · Company headquarters
were established in Rokusan Gardens.
Prehistoric "He-Men'
Were Dandies
(By A Correspondent)
a response sufficient even for my DREHISTORIC warriors Grytviken. South Georgia,
where wreaths will be laid on the grave and a memorial cairn. erected In memory of Ernest Shackleton.
own personal needs," the Emperor' snl.
£2,078 RAISED
Dr. He summoned
Dorchester, Sept. 20. generally imagined as he-men with clubs and axes-actually wore bright red brooches and rings and buckles for their own adorn- Lord Russell does not accept the
Martin. hls ment. Bishop's estimate of man. "It is
Before the "Discovery" starts on
So that the only," he writes, "when we think what may be its last journey to the Minister in London,
The personal jewellery of the he-men of 2,500 years ago abstractedly that we have such Antarctic, the vessel will be moored exact amount could be given. "The high opinion of man. Of man in the in the Thames, near Tower Bridge, exact amount is £2,978, Dr. Mar and their wives is among the latest finds at Maiden Castle, the
great hilltop stronghold near concrete most of us think the vast so that members of the publle may majority very, bad."
vee this famous ship.
JUST LIKE A MOTHER TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Mrs. Ellen Long, of Limerick, saw
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The Emperor continued: "1 shall hero on which man lived for as by men and women to fasten
their cloaks. never return to Abyssinia without many years before Christ a the means to conlinuc the fight there have been since. agninst the Italians."
I asked him whether his situation; was now absolutely hopeless.
The brooches, which still bear traces of the enamel with which "No. no." he protested. "I must they were decorated, were used
always hope. I will not believe that truth and Justice will not pre- vail in the world."
Haile Selassie told me that he is] forced to consider settling in England for the present.
"I am looking for a house within half an hour's, train journey of London, so that I can keep in touch with the work of the Legation," he
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A descendant of the famous mutineers of the "Bounty," who swhen I do find one the Empress now live on Pitcairn Island in
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The rings too were worn by both sexes.
Tie men were none-the-less he- men for indulging in such finery. I Was assured by Dr. Mortimer Wheeler, Keeper cf the London Museum, who is in charge of the work of excavation at the Castle. "They were he-men all right, though they did like a little display that to-day might seem feminine,” he said.
"But then the Wotsen something of 'he-men' too. They led an amazingly hard life and did much of the work of the city that existed here.”
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To reach Melbourne from. Pit- As if to confrm Dr. Wheeler's de-
tence of prehistoric manhood, cairn Island, Mr. Fred Christian, student excavating at Malden Castle the delegate, will have to call up almost immediately after our talk dug up a bronze spearhead near the
a. steamer on the island's transjewellery. "It was probably lost by mitting set and persuade the come prehistorie traveller or hunter,"
Dr. Wheeler told me. master to call at Pitcairn, `saya Austral NewS, .
He will then be rowed out in a small boat to meet the vessel which ARCHESE MARCONI, the great will drop him at Auckland to tran- radio Inventor, has been asked ship for Sydney and then Melbourne, by Mussolini to investigate an Italian Officers of the conference have scientist's claim to have tapped, by financed Mr. Christian's transport. means of a "radio, diviner," vast mineral resources, in and around "Most of the Pitcairn Islanders are Florence.
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The scientist, Professor Raffaelic Stiatessi, head of the Quarto Geo- physical Observatory,, used the new instrument successfully when, a year ago, he located the Italiant steamer Genoa, sunk off the Ligurian coast during the great war.
The apparatus, an electric eye,”. highly sensitive and of simple con- struction, is said to detect the differ-
the earth's substances:
"Bag" of 15 Lions
L Johannesburg. Sept. 21 FIFTEEN lions in 12 months-
eight of them during the Inst
ence in magnetic waves given or by ex weeks and three in a single night Final report is eagerly awaited in is the astonishing "bag", of a young Italian scientific and industrial circles, stock inspector, F, B. van Oudtshoorn, Success would enable engineers to
locale native deposits of coal, iron, of Komatipoort, near Kruger National and oil (long believed to exist in Park. Italy), and now badly needed to
| supplý Mussolini's military machine.
He now ranks among the great
It would also hasten a rich return hunters of native legend, and has
for the conquest of ‘Abyssinia.
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