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BATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1910,

CORRESPONDENCE.

INTERPORT CRICKET-SING '. PORE MATCH OFF.

THE ORIGIN OF MAN.

HIGH APE, LOW ARE, OR NO

APE AT ALL.

There is a well-worn story of an To the Falior of the China Mai Anglo Indian Editor, who, fading ore day that his ideas had melted away from the Times, and used it in his in the summer heat, cut an editoria!! leader column, prefaced by the query,

Dear Sir, regret to inform you that the Secretary of the Singapore Cricket Club has notified me that he exceedingly regrets they are unable to get together an eleven to proceed to this Colony and that the proposed match will have to be abandoned.

Hongkong, 11th October, 1919.

POLICE CHARGE AT SINN

FEIN MEETING

THE CHINA MAIL.

geological epoch there were human types so distinct that they must be regarded as belonging to different genera," it gets dangerously near nonsense. there were creatures that could be called human but which FIRE were of different genera, all hut, one genus has long since died, out, and the relics are certainly neither so plentiful nor so positive as to allow being called man have ever existed us to affirm any creatures worthy of except the species to which we all That other branches of

What does. the Times mean by belong. this?" The story is quite credible the stock from which apes and been known to fill up in this manner intelligence is possible, but they because newspapers in Asia have men descended attained 2 high f without even such an original line as emphatically would not be man 1 am. dear Sir,

this. Were the tale of the Indian and they have not survived. What Yours faithfully. not one "with whiskers on it," as they the Times is trying to say is that re- PM. HODGSON,ay, we should have been tempted to cent discoveries show that man has

believe that the following editorial, an ancestry, so Hon. Secretary.

remote that it is which appeared in the Times on dificult to define his relationship to Peace Day, was the original one the apes. But, it says, these dis- which elicited the query as to its coveries are of creatures of different meaning-

genera. It is obvious that man "Darwin and Huxley accustomed could have come from only one a reluctant world to the general pro-genus. Therefore the rest were not position that man, instead of being a men. For that matter none of them separate creation, was a descendant may have been men or ancestors of and collateral of the animals. Partman, and that would bring us back of their argument was based on a to the comparatively recent cousin- comparison between the structure ship believed in by Darwin, Huxley, and embryology of man and those of and Haeckel-Japan Chronicle. An Acridheacht (open air fete) the highest apes, the gorilla, the in Kilbeggan was not proclaimed, rang, and the chimpanzee. The but at the hour announced District subject was so novel that people Inspector Carlyle arrived with awere surprised to be told that the contingent of the North Devon Horse, great apes, like maan, had lost their and informed the organisers that tails. Neither author maintained only the concert could be allowed that man had arisen from any of and that Mrs. Sheehy Skehngton the existing apes. To the would not be permitted to speak. popular mind, however, it seemed The military then took possession of an inevitable inference that man the field. At the appointed hour roust have come from the highest of It was an October 10 last year, Mr. McGuinness. secretary of the the apes, if he came from any kind that the new Chinese YMCA. Kilbeggan Sinn Fein Club, and Mrs. ap. The schematic degmatism buildings at Bridges Street, were

the

MRS. SHEEHY-SKEYTINGTON

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YESTERDAY'S FUNCTION,

Sheehy Skeffington addressed af llaeckel confirmed the popular opened by the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn

the

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No. 21 OF 1919

(ULY 10TH)

La dietate some regalations relating to the issue of Naturalization Papere to foreignora.

THE FIRST DESIGNATE IN CHARGE OF THE EXECUTIVE POWER,

CONSIDERING:

That Naturalization Papers granted signed both by the Secretary to certain Chinamen. Syrians and of Foreign Affairs and the owner. time when it was legal to naturalize Turks in years previous to 1919, at a

Article Once the identification is individuals belonging to those races, bound to icseribe those Papers in the made, the owners of the Papers shall be are not provided with photographs of Civil Register in accordance with article

That, in a general way, it is conven ient, for the purpose of identification, that Naturalization Papers should have attached thereon the photograph of the person to whom the Papers are issued.

DECREES:

Article 3. The Civil Registrar shall not register any Naturalization Papers issued to any individual of Chinose, bycian or Turkish origin, unless they are accompanied by a photograph of the owner of the Papers attached in the manner prescribed by the preceeding article, as well as by their fuger prints. Article 4. Henceforward all Natura lization Papers which may be issued, must have attached therean the

crowd from the road, but the gatheredgment. He invented theoretical CM.G. That day was a day for ing was later dispersed by

creatures to take the place of the double rejoicing, as it was alsd the military and police..

links supposed to Le missing, anniversary day of the Chinese Re

held in the Market Square agical research has, on the whole. Yesterday being the occasion of the to be used to contravene the leght wise they shall be considered as illegal. | Later in the evening, a meeting was / The tendency of modern physiolo-public and there was a holiday, their owners and are liable, therefor 321 of the present Civil Code,, cther- Kilbeggan. As Mrs. Sheehy Skeming supported the supposition of a closer eighth anniversary of the Republic, regulations on Chinese, Syria and ton was speaking the police arrived affinity between man and the great the Y.M. C. A. buildings were Turkish immigration: and attempted to break up the meetapes than between him and any other decorated, with bunting, and indoor ing. As the speakers disregarded animals. This has seemed parti- sports were held in the Gymnasium. the interruption and the crowd cularly clear in investigations of the His Excellency Sir Edward Stubbs remained intact, the police properties of the blood, and in the accompanied by his Private Secretary rushed to the platform, which fact that it has been found possible paid a visit to the buildings at 3.30 they overthrew, Binging the

to communicate some characteris. p.m. He was received at the entrance speakers on the ground. A chargetically buman diseases to great apes by Dr. T.P. Woo the President of the Institution and Mr. J. L. MacPherson, with fixed bayonets followed. Mt. and to no other animals. McGuinness was arested, but effected Anatomical and paleontological the General Secretary. Others pre- his escape with the help of the work has tended to oppose the earlier sent were the Rev. Dr. T. W. Pearce crowd.

view. Comparative anatomists have LL.D., Mr. H. A. Allen, Mr. F.M. Mrs. Sheehy-Skeffington was struck failed to recognise the existence of a Mohler, Mr. Ho Leison, (Associate on the head with the butt end of a linear chain stretching from femurs, Secretaries) and Mr. B. W. Zape. rifle, and was taken to a neighbour Old World monkers, and the great the buildings, and after visiting the through South American monkeys, His Excellency was conducted round ing house. where the wound was dressed by Dr. Mooney, who attended apes to man. It is now doubted if Swimming Pool, entered the Gym- several other victims, including a

[the lemuss have any place in humannasium where a good gathering was local volunteer, whose wounds were ancestry. The great apes, in many present. An Exhibition of gymnastic so serious that the last sacraments respects, are more closely allied to exercises was then given by the were administered.

South American monkeys than to boys. any Old World forms. Many features. in human anatomy and embryology suggest that man is an extremely primitive creature and arose as a separate branch of the mammals, close to the monkey stem; Bu! distinct from it. There have been many startling discoveries of Eu man remains, such, for example, as

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The 5.3. "Ariake Maru" (Capt. Sasanuki) is leaving at 3 p.m. to-day for Java and Port Moresby via Sourabaya.

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the Piltdown skull from Sussex, 50WANTED.-By British Brm in different from the modern type that "Shameen, EUROPEAN ASSIS. American paleontologists bave de TANT, Export experience necessary clared the jaw to be that of a chim- State past experience, Vilury, &c, to Fanzee, although the assumption in Box No. 1155, co this paper. acidence of a single fragment of a volves the almost miraculous coin-

chimpanzee and of a human being occurring together in a locality and a geological horizon where neither

Commander F. J B. Gibson, R.N., who was well known here for his cricket, abilities has been awarded the C. B. E. This decoration was

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had ever been found before. Two TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that, on facts, however, are certain. Man is and after MONDAY, the 13th much more ancient than has hitherto instant, the naw Coastal Road tram

given the Commander for his services been supposed, and the early remains Taun Wan to Castle Peak Buy will be as Chart Officer and Officer in charge show that in a very remote geological open for traffic.

of Hongkong War Signal Station, epoch there were human types so

and later in the war for his services as Commander of a flotilla.

distinct that they must be regarded

as belonging to different genera."

The trouble with this is not, per haps, in its lack of meaning so much as in its peculiarity of expression, there being, as Lady Britomart in Mr. Shaw's play satd." a certain amount of tosh about the Times."

The s.s. "Nile" left the Naval Dockyard Basin yesterday afternoon and went alongside the North wall. Her repairs are due to be completed tomorrow after which she will be banded back to the China Mail s.s.The writer seems to contradict in the Company, The "Nile" leaves for San Francisco on October 14.

second paragraph what he said in the first, but what he really means by "the earlier view" is not Darwin's

Article 1. A term of six months, from and on the date of the promulga- tion of this Decree, is giver, in which photograph of the owner in the all Chinamen, Syrians and Turks, who prescribed manner,

and a picture were granted Naturalization Paper, will also be kept in the files of the when eald grant was not prohibited by Ofice of the Secretary of Foreign law, shall appear as the Office of the Affairs attached to the respective copy. Secretary of Foreign Affairs with a view to proceed to their identification.. and published, profusely, in the Spanish, Article 5 This Decreeaball be attack to their Papers their finger English and prints and a copy of their photograph, through the Republic of Panama, as. Chinese Languages. leaving another picture in the files of well as through foreign countries. the Bee of the Sacretary, attached to

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Mr. Brand, of the raw silk dapart or Huxley's but Haeckel's. Perhaps NOTICE IS HEREBY ment of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & he does not regard Darwin's and SING BOARD will be held in the

that a meeting of the LICEN-" Co., has severed his connection with Huxley's as views at all but only as Counel Chamber on FRIDAY, the 7th Shanghai after a residence of nearly open questions, though we believe day of November, 1919, at 12.15 p.m., 23 years. Mr. Brand, who is a native that,

both English evolutionists for the purpose of consilering applica of Basle, Switzerland, has taken "an were quite positive on the subtions for Publicans Licences, Restau active part in the doings of the com- ject of man being descended rast Adj net Licences and Hote! munity, and willlong be remembered as from some older form than Keepers' Adjunct Licences for the year a crack rifle shot, having on several the modern higher ape, and that 1919-1920, under the Liquors Consoli occasions carried off the champion-Haeckel certainly did not depart from dation Ordinance, 1911. ship and represented Shanghai in this view. What really happened is interport matches. For many years that Darwin, Huxley, and Haeckel he was a member of "A" Co., S.V.C., were all so far affected by traditions. uldmately attaining commissioned concerning the comparatively recent rank. He left by the M.M.S. "Paul appearance of man on the globe that to the Magistracy on or before WED. Lecat," bearing with him the best they did not hypothetise so ancient NESDAY, the 22nd day of October, wishes of many friends. In future a separation of man from the ape-like 1910, and must be accompanied by a he will reside at Basle.

stock as further research has shown deposit of Eight Dollars.

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G. A. WOODCOCK, Secretary to the Licensing Board. Hongkong, October 10, 1939.

to be probable. What the Times Applicants for transfers means, however, by saying that licences, and persons objecting to auch We have received the fourth physiological research confirms our applications, must appear in person. number of Vol. 1 of the "New China near cousinship with the higher Spes Review," edited by Mr. Samuel Coul and anatomical research demons ing M.A. and have noticed at length trates the great remoteness of that the article on the First League of cousinship it is certainly not easy Nations. The number contains a to understand. And what does the dozen excellent articles, mostly in Times mean by Many features in teresting to the student sinologue. human anatomy and embryology Mr. W. A. Cornaby contributes an suggest that man is an extremely

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the Red Chamber," a famous work well say, on the strength of discover. in Chinese fiction, and Dr. Herberting traces of a forest grove in its he taught by the wall-known boxer, Chatley continues his "Studies in structure, that a Gethic cathedral is "KID" Marriott, at the BEAMEN'S Chinese Psychology," his theme for an extremely primitive building. The INSTITUTE 1, Praga East, Wanchai, the fourth articles to the series be meaning perhaps, is that the division twice a week, on TUESDAYS and ing the idea that the Chinese practice in the common stock from which FRIDAYS, from 5.45-7.16. and belief on the subject of heredity man and the higher apes are de- Special jossops by arrangement. Will and ancestor worship can be expressed scended took place among a remote any who wish to have lessons please in terms of a continuous "family and primitive ancestry.

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