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FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1926.

STRIKING DOCKERS.

PILES OF FREIGHT DUMPED INTO HARBOUR.

Dunkirk, France. July 1. A mobe off. 11,000 striking dock workers. attacked the police and set fire to warehouser on the piers during several hours of victing to-day. Piles of freight which had just been unloaded or were waiting to be put aboard ships, were dump ed late the water.

Each appearance of an otheer or} member of the crow of ships tied ap«to the wharf was the signal for

CHOLERA OUTBREAK.

SHIP TWICE DISINFECTED AT

SINGAPORE,

ENGINEER OF ERINEURA

ILL

A third case of cholera occurred on board the British India ateamer "Erinpura" on Wednesday night, when Mr. Dunlop, chief engineer. developed symptoms of the discuse, says the "Straits Times" of July 8. The vessel was lying at the quar. antine anchorage at the time. and a doctor was hurriedly summoned a. hail of rocks and brickbats. and Mr. Dunlop rushed to hospital When the police appeared and batwo o'clock in the morning. His tempted to restore order the mob condition to-day is stated to be turned against them and showered serious, but he is making un- them with stones.-United Press. expectedly good progress,

"Mr. Hamilton, wife of Mr. A. W. B. Humiltah, ef Singapore, War 1 passenger the

·PHILIPPINE FUTURE. Brinpurn" and who was taken in the Middleton Hospital suffering from cholera yesterday, is stated to be very weak, but the report, this morning, is a more favourable one.

INSTITUTE OF POLITICS TO DISCUSS IT.

who:

on

PREHISTORIC ENGINEERS,

MAYA RUINS, LIKE THOSE

• OF PERU.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MAN APE AND TIGER.

EVOLUTION THEORY ÎN. REGARD TO MAN.

ity. Yet we seem quite unable to realise that it is even more incum- bent on us to prevent "looting" where these Hving bodies are con cerned. The more rare an animal is.the better price it will fetch in the market. the last of an interesting species Or it may be that

will be wiped out to provide divi- dends.

or in-

Thus

F.. A. Mitchell-Hedges, the ex-f Mr. W. P. Pycraft, F.Z.S., con- plorer, who with Mr. T. A. Joyce, tributes a very interesting article of the Ethnological Department of the British Museum. and Lady to the "Illustrated London News," (Richmond) Brown has recom. There is nothing. perhaps, menced excavationa, at the ruined that affords the average "civilia that in this twentieth century we We are obsessed with the idea, Maya city of Lubaantun, in British ed" man ao much pleasure as the must above all things be "prac- Honduras. He is describing the work as it proceeds in speelal des. Contemplation of himself-a por be allowed to "cumber" the| tical." Nothing that lives must patches to "The Daily Mail" truit of the artist, by himself.ground." Unless it can be shown

Lubaantun, May 8-The most Such a one is incapable of intro- to be "useful" directly stupendous discoveries we have yet pection. You could not shock directly, commercially, we per- made at Lubaastun have taken him by the presentation of himself suade ourselves that we are place within the last two or three as he really is. It would be too justified in wiping it out. daya. They may eclipse in interest incredible to his dull imagination. it comes about that our only hope the great citadel.

He is smugly satisfied with his, of prolonging the existence of Three and a half miles due west. own conception-and there's an types threatened with extinction Lady (Richmond) Brown and end to it. But what manner of fa to show that they can be put to with Indian guides, climbed a hillman, then, is the real man? There some use.

A case in point has which roae steeply from the side of are many ways of demonstrating just been furnished me by one of the river to a height of some this, and one is as good as an- the readers of this page, who 1.500ft.

other. Let me venture to pre-asks me to plead here for some of A quarter of the way up we came sent.one of many possible aspects, those vanishing types. upon a terrace; this was followed The world has lately been enter- by eight others, continuing to the tained by a lively discussion on Gale, of Melbourne, who sends me My correspondent is Mr. Walter Salls for Penang.

top of the bill. On the summit the Evolution Theory in regard to a short essay by Professor Colin Washington. July 11.

The "Erinpur" sailed last night stood a, building once Resident Commissiones Guevara for Penang. Rangoon and Calcutta, Many of the stones employed in ously assured that it is

a Lemple. Man, and we have been sententi-Mackenzie on "The Medical Im- received a communication from the after having been thoroughly die the construction of this edifice are insidiously poisonous

a most portance of the Native Animals of Williamstown Institute of Politics infected at St. John's Island twice. of great weight. We found that Such as hold this view scorn the tells us, "are fast disappearing, doctrine.Australia." These animals, he informing him that August 2 and The Argt necasion. was after she other immense ruins adjoined and suggestion that the ape and tiger and in less than twenty years, it. had been set aside exclusively for arrived on Wednesday morning and extended over a distance of several can have any part in our moral! the discussion of the Philippine Mr. C. H. Kiser, in American square miles.

is computed, will, in the absence problem. He and that he was pre-aloon passenger. died of cholera s

and spiritual fibre. Yet all day, o rigid protective measures, he Mr. Joyce, who later inspected it, and every day. It is manifest that all extinct. Thanks to poison and Jaring a series of articles dealing he was being taken ashore for treat is almost certain that the popala-we are deceiving ourselves. with the fiternational napeta of ment.

tion was so vast that, like the an- are. as a matter of fact, very muching the fate of the Tasmanians, We, the gun, they are rapidly follow- the question for presentation at that The 300 deck passengers were vient civilisation in Peru, Lime.

quarantined on St. John's Island, people constructed cultivation ter that perish'; for we are able to a period of about forty years, con- these worse than the despised "beasts who were completely destroyed in and the whole interior of the ship races so that they might use every distinguish right from wrong.stituting the most colossal crime washed down in strong disinfect-available foot of ground to grow But the lust of life overmasters our ant; while all fresh food and cold the food necessary to feed the mus. In our blind fear that this people, it may be remembered, earth has known. These celorage supplies were destroyed in mense population, Commissioner Guevara said that the ship's furnaces.

The following day proved a remit atrocities all day long

life may be endangered we com-were shot at sight, by the earlier it was not get certain whether Re Tveryone on board was also in-velation. On the other side of the have in mind, as I have just hint-plained, to the "instinct of self- I Bettlers, in obedience, it is ex- presentative Bacon would be able oculated.

river, immediately opposite the new ed, our attitude towards these preservation." We, who are more to attend the session to present the

Second Disinfection.

discovery, we scaled a precipitoua "beasts that perish." We make a civilised," adopt more subtle case against independence. Repre The ship was then given pratique hill, the top of which had been mental reservation that we must methods to the same end. wentative Wainright. author and proceeded to the wharf at artificially levelled. of the measure providing for hier, Tanjong Pagar, but in the mean-summit these extraordinary people there is slightest fear that our realises

Round the see to it that they do parish if But Professor" Mackenzie alal inspections of the Philippines Mrs. Hanlon was taker had performed an engineering feat interests are in any way likely to achieving this preservation unless the hopelessness of which failed to pass Congress, with The put authorities at Singapore which excelled any we had pre-suffer by their continued exist. he can show that in these crea- probably be a speaker on the sILITIE were informed. and the ship was viously seen. They had built a programmé as Guevara.

met she arrived by the port terrace of gigantic stones, many of

tures we may find most important This year's institute is generally doctor, who gent she patient to hos-which weighed fully 20 tons.

Look at our attitude towards clues as to the sources of most of. held to be the most important sea-pital, and pilered the ship back to

them, and you will see exactly our the bodily ills which flesh is heir sion since ita organisation. It will the quarantine anchorage Im-these stones for a thousand feet or The other day I discussed, on this echidna, the thylacine, kangaroo, How any human agency raised attitude towards our neighbours to. The duck-bill platypus, the seek facts on the big international mediately. No one boarded the more up the side of a hill so steep page, the sad case of the cormor bandicoot, koala, marsupial mole, problema of 1926, including national ship at the wharf except the doctor. that in many places it is almost ant. monopolies in rubber, coffee and The ship was thoroughly dis-perpendicular, is beyond compre- animal, and he eats Ash. So does served at all costs, not because it. Man is an omnivorous and many others, must be pre- other prodecta. Disarmament. infected a second time, and was not hensjon security and the fature importance allowed to enter the port again be we know of primitive engineering. manners, and defiantly brings his same zealous care for these as we It is obvious how little, the cormorant; he has no table is our bounden duty to show the of chemistry in the development of fore she sailed. the world also are given important

Degenerate Mayas. Saloon Passengers. places on the programme.-United

On the side of this hill is a flat The ten xaloon passengers Presa.

were platform. allowed to land, in accordance with family. Many of the Indiana to Living here is a Maya the usual quarantine procedure. but day have acquired a smattering of they will report for examination for Spanish, but this isolated family

speak the Maya language only,

The sixth annual session of the institute will be held between July 29 and August 28 in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

BOMBAY BANK FRAUD CASE

THE POLICE AND PRISONERS,

A

six days.

ence."

"captures, to the surface and osten-show for ancient cathedrals, pic- tatiously swallows them whole, tures, statuary, and the like, but This singular piece of impudence of their bodies will throw on in- and raw, before our very eyes for the sake of the light the study seta man thinking. many cormorants about that if broken legs, premature birth, There are so 'fantile paralysis, appendicitis,

this goes on much longer man will cancer, and so on. We are to be stages of degeneracy the descen- there will be none left. And so, apparition of the Bogey-man if we It was sad to see in the last have to give up eating fish, for frightened into being good by the dauts of the mighty people who at once, he sets the brand of Cain are not.

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it is thought that the outbreak was caused by infected fruit or other food purchased at Rangoon, No message has been received from built cities and structures which upon the wretched birds and en- How much longer shall we be the "Erinpura" this morning, and to-day, are Bombay, June 30-The High trying time experienced by the ofed to be an idiot.

it is hoped that the anxicus and world. One half-naked boy appear- there be no more cormorants to of natural history for its own revelation to the courages all who will to kill, till before we realise that the study Court held that the accused Mr.

Another child threaten not merely his hold on sake, the study of science for its cers and passengers is low over Evans in the Hongkong and Shang-

was almost totally biind during the life, but also his "sport." It is own sake, will furnish a more The Mall. hai Banking Corporation embezzle.

day, though at night he could see, not, however, only a ment case was entitled to the pri-weekly mail for Europe.

The "Erinpura" is carrying the

perfectly.

blurred rapid and more thorough insight The

For food they rely on a small image of famine and death which into the mysteries of life and, its vilege of consulting his legal ad- postal authorities state, however. visers even when the police en-

excites him. The same spirit ills, as well as ita pleasures, than patch of land which the indian governs him in regard to his can That the vessel is making up time cultivates on the extreme summit worldly prospects, which are to study of these things for the sake quiry was in progress. The court and at present they have no reasof the hill ringed round with these, him the breath of life.

ever be derived from the room was crowded and the Governo fear the connection will not rolossal stone terraces and actually he will exploit the animal king-we realise the importance of the ment pleader who vehemently op.

Hence, of "practical ends"? The sooner posed the appileation yesterday ia-stilt in quarantine, and will con plants seed in the interstices of the dom without the slightest com-study of life in all its manifesta-

stonework.

punction to advance his material tions, the sooner shall we come to Mr. Joyce finds that in

many welfare. If that advance entails understand what we respects the ruins of Lubnantan, the extermination of beast or bird, "the Balance of Nature," and the mean by facilities to interview his counsel AMERican traffic contROL. bear a resemblance to the ancient he cares not the mean justifles motives which lie behind" our

Peruvian ruins: the construction the end.

actions. Not till then shall we of the plain, unornamented ter racing is an example,, as are the

Man, we are told, is a "reason-emerge as full-fledged human gigantic stones employed.

ing animal." It may be so, but beings; thereafter we shall be as Mr. Joyce also finds that the he is uncommonly dull-witted. ods, knowing good from evil.

allowed to carry him far, lest it Labaantun culture, though funda Some mistake this for mere call. Life is a Sacred Fire. Let us be

ousness. His reasoning is rarely careful how we quench it.

formed Mr. Justice Fawcett and Mr. Justice Madgoakar, that the police were 'willing to give Mr. Evans

made at India. The "Erinpura" is

tinae to be during the whole of the voyage to India,

THE EMPLOYMENT OF ELECTRICAL DEVICES.

It ta generally known that in the.

largest number of electrical traffic United States in to be found the signaling and controlling inatalla

provided the interview took place in the presence of the palice though the police would not listen to the interview. Mr. Justive Fuweett observed that the police had no soper from reasonable access to his art to debar an under-trial pri- legal adviser. In days gone by the police were accustomed to put ob- tions., stacles in the way of an accused cities lend themselves particularly phase of Maya culture. person but the principle could not well to auch system of vehicle re- be maintained to-day.

and right-angle construction adopt- ticular culture represented by

PASSENGER "LIST."

ARRIVALS.

mentally Maya. exhibits certain Peculiar features which differ

should lead to some disagreeable

Streets in the American markedly from the present known truth. And thus it is; again' and i

It is all more interesting because again, that he over-reaches him

self, and finds, when it is too late,

Shadows Before.

gulation, by reason of the parallel by now it is obvious that this parthat he has slain a friend where | COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

ed almost invariably. Interest in Lubaantun exists over a very large he saw only an enemy! It is the this subject has been actively ares of the southern portion of death of Gelert again and yet aroused in England also, as witness. British Honduras. He is certain again. In his unreasoning fear ed by the projected introduction of that the exploration of this region that he may be hurt either in traffic lighthouses in the Piccadilly will reveal a new and specialise purse or in stomach, he signs

without branch of Maya culture hitherto death-warrants

any formality of trial. The study of Some of the devices are extremely unknown.

.Economic Zoology is yet in its in- A Vist Enterprise. interesting. Among them are flash-

The wet season is meer and we

Before it attains to fancy.

rea.

IN THE MAIL."

Entertula.meats.

July

16—Queen's The Pony Express."

Theatre;

July 16-Star Theatre; "Come On Over."

List of passengers arrived per ing beacons, actuated automatically 8.5. "Talping" from Australia via

and in addition to sneh beacons of have finished our work for the year/maturity there will be no animale Chaplin in "The Gold Rush." Ports, on July 15

the intermittently lighted type are on these immense ruina. We know to economise-unless we mend

July 18-World Theatre; Charlief July 17--Carnival night, Cafe Restaurant Parizien.

California Collegians, the World's

appear at the City Hallge

July 19 and 26-Preliminary vocal rehearsals of "The Pirates of

Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Quick, Mr. others which burn continuously to-day they are far too vast for our ways. When we contempiate | M. Manuk. Mr. and Mrs. Jennings Both designs are labelled usually private enterprise to undertake the something more than usually in- S. R. Smith, M. G. P. Miller, July 19, 21-Brick Morse's

Mrs. T. Maloney, Miss G. M. Langdon, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.

tended for installation at points tific investigation. It must be ter óf animals for our profit, we Greatest College Entertainers will Snaith, Mr. and Mrs. W. L.

which demand special care. The after Mr. Joyce's report to the gloss over our proposals by the sententious announcement that Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. Guillet. Mr. majority are of the one-way or four-trustees of the British Museum a

way types: that is to say, they are question for the nation.

the "March of Civilisation" leaves capable of alignalling in either one Already there are suggestions of us no choice or four directions. Red, yellow, building a hundred odd miles of railroad from Belize to the great ruined city for the purpose" of attracting tourists from the States and elsewhere, who would thus bei

and Mrs. S. W. Edmonson and two children, Mrs. N. F. Gray, Mrs. S Shenhun, Mr. and Mrs P. H. Bryte, and family, Mr. J. Harrett and Mrs. and green signals are provided, in- Amy Webber.

dicating "Stop." "Caution," and "Go," respectively.

"I weep for you," the Walrusenza" at Cathedral Ha, 5.30

Dam said;

August Band night at Volun- teer Headquarters, 0 p.m...

Sport.

"I deeply sympathise." With sobs, and tears he sorted

Qut

Those of the largest size.

July 17-St. John Ambulance Brigade will give a life-saving, de-

But we are not yet past pray-monstration at Stonecutter's bath-

List of passengers arrived in

An important feature of Amerf Hongkong from Manila per s... can traffle regulators is that, in able to travel in comfort and see "President Taft" on Jaly 16: many instances they operate auto- "one of the sights of the world.

Mr. A. Von Engelbrechten. Mramatically. Thus the "Stop" algnat

This would automatically mean Liong Wong-shl. Mr. B. H. Lydon, may shine in the direction of north the opening up of a British Colony for This much is shown by Misa R. E. Burer, Mrs. R. B. Clark, and gouth traffic for a period of 45. which has hitherto been neglected the beauties and amenities of the our awakening desire to preserve Miss M. C. Clark, Prof B. H. seconda, and for 15 seconds against The Colony Crocheron, Mr. and Mrs. F. P. east and west-bound vehicles, square miles of some

open country here in our England, of the and in our care for ancient build Nutting, Master F. P. Nutting, Jr. with an intermediate period of 16 richest agricultural land in the ings and monuments the relics Miss RT. Nutting, Mr. D. Tillia, asconds to allow for starting or world, but no roads ar moans of of a past stage in our aesthetic Mr. A. Lewis, Jr. Mr. S. E. atooping, and sa forth.. Macaraig, Mr. E. Aldecoa, Mr. A

transport except by water.

Among other types of signale

T. Burt, Mike E. Irwin, Mr. W may he mentioned a design which Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. C. Houser, consists of a control tower, mounted Miss L Kircher, Mr. F. Labove street level, with a cabin Hammond, Mr. L. G. Morae. Mrs. having accommodation for one or

A. M. Peterson, Mr. R. E. Peterson more operatora, why are enabled, by

Miss M. Renwick, Lieut. R. Snavely and Miss B. Withais

means of coloured signal lights, to direct traffic at crossings.

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