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DISCOVERIES IN JAVA..

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Two fossilized human skulls from Java, recently described to the Royal Society of Amsterdam by Dr. Eugene Dubois, their discoverer, have thrown fresh light on the history of the human race. Perhaps we should say of the human races, for several ex- tinct human types are now known, as LONDON, February 15. --

different from existing black, yellow, Fine weather favoured the pre-war pageantry which marked the or white man as the chimpanzee is opening of Parliament on the lines indicated yesterday. The ceremony from the gorilla. Dr. Dubois him- attracted crowds eager to catch a glimpse of the King and Queen driving in self discovered the most notable of these, also, in the rocks of Java, « a gorgeous Georgian coach drawn by eight black horses and escorted by low browed creature, definitely hu Beefeaters and Blues, the latter with brilliant cuirasses and helmets. The man, and yet so apelike that the de Royal procession, in which the Duke of York drove, included six carriages.signating Pithecanthropus erectus," the erect apeman." was coined for The Prince of Wales was in a sizhorse carriage with Horse Guards as it. He found the portions of the skull escort. The carriages proceeded to Parliament separately. The scene in and thighbone, on which all our know the House of Lords was most interesting and very imposing, a great con- ledge is based., in the early nineties, trast to the war days when everybody was in khaki and the peeressed wore but had also brought back two larger morning dress. The House to-day was a flood of colour with the scarlet and more complete skulls found some ermined robes of the Peers, the brilliant uniforius of the Court officials Fears before. la 1918 Dr. S. A. Smith, of the University of Sydney, and the splendid attire of the Ambassadors, only the Armerican and German published an account of a fossil ha Ambassadors wearing evening dress.

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PREMIER REVIEWS EUROPEAN SITUATION.

LONDON, February 15. In reply to criticisms of the Speech from the Throne, Mr. Lloyd George welcomed the intimation that Germany was submitting counter proposals with a real desire to Equidate her Treaty liabilities, but the conference would in no way take the form of a revision or recasting of the Peace Treaty. Undoubtedly the Treaty of Sevres would come for discussion at the Near East conference, the British representatives at which would be animated by a supreme desire to establish world-wide peace, subject to the paramount obligation to secure the rights of the long-suffering Christian populations of Turkey. Seeing that the Egyptian question was vital to the whole of the Empire and to the peace of the Middle East, and perhaps to our future relations with India, the Government would have liked to consult representatives of the Dominions as well as the Egyptian Minister before committing themselves regarding Lord Milner's report.

The

Queensland, showing that man was present in Australia in the remote The peeresses vied with each other in the display of diamonds in the age when Great Britain was covered tiaras of their respective ranks and the other ornaments of their attire, ice. This skull had anatomical Features akin to those of existing Aus- After the procession of the Officers of State, wlib passed before the Thronetralian natives, but it was more bowing to the Prince of Wales who, in his royal Duke's robes, occupied robust, with a larger brain-cavity and Dr. Dubois, a chair to the right of the Throne, the King entered leading the Queen by a very, massive jaw. the band. The King was robed in royal purple, wearing a large crown reading this description, remembered which glowed and sparkled with the fire of the imperial jewels. The his Javan skulls, mok them from their cabinet, and examined them carefully. Queen also wore a lovely crown. front of ber rich court dress she looked truly regal and astonishingly robust, isrge-brained, and with mas- young. When Their Majesties had seated themselves on their Thrones, the sive jays. A correspondent asso- ciates them with a fossil skall from House of Commons summoned the King to read his speech.

the Transvaal and with a famous skull found at Piltsdown in Sussex seven years ago. These too had unexpect- edly large brain cases and massive jaws. The brain of the former might have been larger than that of Bis- marck, and the jaw of the latter was 50 remarkable that an American English anatomist "jumped the claim," and named from it a new species of fossil chimpanzee. skulls from Australia, Java, and South Africa have now supplied evidence on which we can dismiss the strange notion that a Sussex gravel-pit should. have contained a unique Human skull without a lower jaw, and a unique chimpanzee's lower jaw without skull. But they seem to establish the existence of a widespread primitive human type possessing an epe-like lower jaw and a brain at least as large Adverting to Ireland, the Premier emphasised the difficulties con as that of modern man. Metchnikoff fronting the executive on account of the continued reticence of the people.once suggested that man had arisen Outlining the conversations with Archbishop Clane, who was imbued with from the apes as a sudden large brain- ed "sport." There are other quali the most loyal sentiments towards the Empire, Mr. Lloyd George agreed ties in brains than those dependent to the necessity of negotiating for a truce because once the murder merely on size, but mental ability campaign was stopped, it would never be renewed. Nevertheless these must have been a leading factor in the differentiation of man from who were responsible for order and who ran great personal risks, strongly animals. The Pleistocene large- urged against a truce without the express condition at the surrender of brained men may also remind us of arms. This Sinn Fein bad refused to do, thus accepting responsibility for many other discoveries establishing the existence of civilizations long continuance of hostilities. Although he admitted that murders and out antecedent to those of which we have rages made the casualty list still heavy, it was noteworthy, he said, that historical remains-Times. casualties now occurred because the police were pursuing the rebels into the wild places, whereas six months ago they were shot down in the streets

IRISH PROBLEM.

of Dublin. The Premier counselled patience. Then he was confident that DUNLOP TYRE INVENTOR. order would be restored in Ireland and with it Irish liberty.

BURNINGS IN CORK.

LONDON, February 15.

In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Asquith's demands for { information about General Strickland's report as regards the burnings in Cork, Mr. Lloyd George explained that the report showed that auxiliaries had committed acts of indiscipline whereupon the lower class of civilians had joined in the looting. The Government had taken the sternest measures against auxiliaries, dismissing seven suspected and suspending the officer in command.

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Replying to Mr. Thomas, the Premier undertook, to make the closest ber Co. in Ireland... investigation into the incident at Mallow on January 29 when railwaymen were shot after an attack on Inspector King and the murder of his wife.

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LONDON, February, 16.

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not apply to Asia. The various dew European countries the boundaries of Company appealed the House of which had now practically been settled were busily occupied in-building up | Lords against this order.

a national existence. He expressed the opinion that there should be no difficulty in reaching a trade agreement with the Soviets,

The Dunlop Company had a portrait bust and signature of the aged inven- tor as a trademark, and Mr. Dunlop's SALONDON, February 16.

complaint is that :--- Lord Curzon in the House of Lords said that Franco-British co-opera-Without my permission they pub- tion which was at present, the main factor in the peace of Europe had nothish pictures of me on the body of a been impaired. The manful efforts of new Staten, notwithstanding their very tallman, dressed-in loppish manner with a tall white bat and-an lack of resources and experience, evoked our keen sympathy. Finland, eyegia. I do not wear a tall hat, Lanyia, Esthonis, Lithuania, Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo-Stavia, and Rümania had nor af eyeglass, nor do I dress like * all practically composed their difficulties with their neighbours and were dude. I never carry a one, or POSC" settling down to useful lives. Austria alone was presenting anxiety. As as shown." regards Russia the real chance of recovery lay in the economic arrange ments which tended to preclude the possibility of wir, Beltain's only con- cern in the course of negotiations had been to ensure that the trade rela tions were made with people who would act in a friendly manner and not engage in hostile action in distant parts of the wor

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