THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
1936. OCTOBER 1,
EXCLUSIVE
DO WE Scott's "Discovery" to Sail
SURVIVE
AFTER Again to the Farthest South GOWNS and ENSEMBLES
DEATH?
MEMORY IS DISSOLVED, SAYS EARL RUSSELL
Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birming ham, and Earl 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- Lifet" writes of the human race as the culminating achieveinent milions of years of evolution.
of
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 His mind is a far fner instrument search of uncharted regions.
"Why," he aske, "was man mode?
than anything that had happened earlier. He knows right and wrong. He can bulld Westminster Abbey,
He can make un acroplane. What aver his origin he is no mere ape,
Just as a bit of primitive matter, is no speck of mud.".
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
Dr. Barnes then ask whether at purchase. death man must perish utterly.
"Docs that incomparable instru- ment, his mind, vanish when life censes? Our present science connot help us when we inquire whether man's mind, or, if you prefer other terms, bla 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 denih
Scolt'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 parts of the coast between Princess Elizabeth Land and Banzare Land.
So far no ship has approached
nearer than a few miles of these icebound abores.
FORGOTTEN EXILE OF
"We shall be away for two years" LONDON
of his body. Thus there is for man said Mr. Walker.
an after-life where. the hero has his reward and where life's loose ends are knitted up."
Blahop Barnes does not agree that every human person is destined for immortality.
"Is there an immortal spirit in some wretched mental deficient with no conscience, no human trails? I think not. But I may be wrong.
"WORTH KEEPING”
"I find myself holding fast to the belief that God preserves what is worth keeping. He has not made man for a whim to throw him in the end like a discarded toy on to some dust-heap of forgotten things. There In man's spirit that which is worth keeping, and it 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 be stso dissolved.
He does not agree
with Dr. Barnes that the universe is governed by an intelligent purpose.
AIR BASES SEARCH
"We shall put parties ashore on The Lund of Blizzards with radlo equipment, aleighs, stores and doga, Then we shall call away to explore
arca on another unmapped coast.
the "Our #hore parties will work
unknown trom
each side of this 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.
"Quite apart from our An- ahall wo exploration Larctio carry out an aerial survey of certain islands in the Pacific, so that they may be used as atr bases by future Empire air ser- vices.
cap "The Discovery' may be tained by Commander F. A. Wors ley, who was skipper of Shackleton's Endurance" and "Quest.'"
TRIBUTE TO SHACKLETON
South the
· En route to the Far "Discovery" will call at Tristan da island. loneliest world's Cunha, "It has been found," he says, "in where members of the party will that
Bo far as we
discover install Con
wireless plant for Nature is indifferent to our values istanders and also present und can
only be understood by with a small organ for their church. ignoring our notions of good and Another pause will be made
bad-The universe may have a pur- pose, but nothing that we know Bug- gests that it so this purpose has any similarity to ours."
HA
By A CORRESPONDENT [AILE 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.
me
He told
at his home in Princes Gate, S.W., of the complete 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 the loan he asked for, he decided to make a publle appeal to the world.
He had hoped to realise sufcient money to re-equip his army and be-
against gin a new campaign
the Italians. It was necessary to-obtain at least £200,000.
But the total subscriptions re- velved since the
appeal WILS launched seven weeks ago amount
the
to less than £3,000.
them
-at-Grytvlken, — South Georgia, where wreaths will be laid on the grave and a memorial cairn of Ernest erected in memory Shackleton. Before the "Discovery" starts on
Lord Russell does not accept the Bishop's estimate of man. "It is only," he writes, "when we think what may be its last journey to the abstractedly that we have such Antarctic, the vessel will be moored high opinion of man. Of man in the in the Thames, near Tower Bridge, concrete most of us think the vast so that members of the public may majority very bad."
see this famous ship,
JUST LIKE A MOTHER TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Mrs. Ellen Long, of Limerick, saw
a child drowning in the River Shannon. She jumped into the water, rescued the child-and then found that it was her own son, Christopher, aged three.
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STAFF OFFICERS CONFER IN CHAPEI
Taken In Chapel, photos show (top) naval landing party staff Gardens on defence and officers conferring in the Rokusan patrol assignments, and (below) a Japanese outpost at the inter- section of Wanpan and Suletien Roads in Chapel. Picture shown A bandbanked machine-gun emplacement, while in the back- Company headquarters ground are ruins of the 1932 hostilites were established in Bokusan Gardena.
Prehistoric He-Men'
Were Dandies
(By A Correspondent)
Dorchester, Sept. 20.
a response sufficient even for my DREHISTORIC warriors generally imagined as
"own" personal "needs,"*" the Emperor
sald.
he-men with clubs and axes-actually wore brightTM red brooches and rings and buckles for their own adorn-
£2,978 RAISED lic summoned Dr. Martin, his ment.
So that the Minister in London.
The personal jewellery of the he-men of 2,500 years ago exact amount could be given. "The exact amount, is £2,078," Dr. Mar- and their wives is among the latest finds at Maiden Castle, the
great hilltop stronghold near
by men and women to fasten tin said.
The Emperor continued: "I shall here on which man lived for as
their cloaks. never return to Abyssinin without many years before Christ as the means to continue the fight there have been since. against the Italians."
I asked him whether his situation The brooches, which still bear. traces of the enamel with which
was now absolutely hopeless..
LIKED A LITTLE DISPLAY The rings too were worn by both sexes.
The men were none-the-less he
"No, no," he protested. "I must they were decorated, were used men for indulging in such finery. I always hope. I will not believe
that truth and justice will not pre- vait in the world."
Haile Selassie told me that he is forced to consider setting 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 sald.
"When I do and one the Empress
Join me.
will
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I have always received the greatest sympathy."
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