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THE CHINA

MAIL.

ISLE OF HANDSOME DISCOVERY ON THE FEEDING THE UNBORN MATTERS OF MUSLIM FATE OF THE RASH

GIANTS.

SEVERN.

Quite Unspoiled by Civilisation.

CAPTAIN'S SOUTH SEA FIND.

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CHICKEN.

INTEREST.

Norman Remains of One Egg Contents Modified Removal May Become

Period.

LYDNEY CASTLE.

This freakish little speck of land located exactly on the equator, No mention of this castle has been in the heart of the Pacific South found in any historical document, Seas, and is so small that map-and, as the remains of the walls akers have not even dignified it were completely covered by the by so much as a dot.

grass-grown banks of their own debris, its existence was not sus peeted. The site was regarded locally as that of a small camp, associated with the extensive re- mains of a prehistoric camp and Roman buildings on the adjoining hill.

For lentißration purposes on the mariner's chart it has been named Tarawa, and is one of the group known as the Gilbert Islands. Captain Olsen reported the eir cumstances that caused him to steam 100 miles off course and give the members of his crew the thrill of discovering" a new land.

by Needle.

YOLK TRANSFERENCE.

Necessary.

ROKO MALAYS.

PLATYBELODONS.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1930.

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Reports of a strange, unfrequent A small castle which dates from

London, July 27.

Behind the Firestone Rubber ed island which partially sinks about the end of the twelfth century Turkey eggs that produce white factory at Kallang there are hun-

Peking, July 25, from view every 24 hours, and has recently been discovered and ex- Leghorn hens, and Rhode Island dreds of attap houses, a

A nuture trap. 3,000,000 years old, great and containing the skeletons of whose physically superb inhabit-cavated by the Society of Anti- Red eggs that hatch a "duck-portion of which Ans

are occupied by great shovel-jawed elephants, has fire

exclusively gunries at. Lydney, on the borders of children may be possible, as. almost on a diet of fish and coconuts, the Forest of Dean, in Gloucester- process of transferring yolks from living there for many years. Some dried-up lake in the Gobi Desert, the Malays. These people have been been discovered in the bed of a were made to Matson Line officials shire. It stands in the deer park of one egg to another develops. years ago there was a proposal to 400 miles north of Peking.. by Captain C. N. Olsen, of the Lord Bledisloe, Governor-General of Poultry experts who deal with lemolish the huts Golden Eagle, when his ship ar New Zealand, and occupies the sum- nutrition believe that experiments parently for-factories and gotdowns leader of the American Museum make room ap- Dr. Roy Chapraun Andrews, rived at San Francisco recently mit of a small but steep-sided hill, which have been going on for some but owing to the difficulty of finding of Natural History's expedition, from Australia.

known as

Little Camp Hill, over time will make this possible. Mile, accommodation elsewhere for the which made the discovery, has re- : looking the Severn estuary. L. Bouges, a French representative people the proposal was not carried turned to Peking.

to the World's Poultry Congress, through. has made a survey of such experi-

He said that the expedition found. 5, Now there 19 A rumour ments.

that, embedded in the green clay of the owing to the proposed Kallang Basin lake, a complete jaw and parts of She says that it is well known improvement, the people of Kallang the skeletons that foodstuffs affect organs of the Roko, Kallang Pasir, Kallang Batin, belodon and a number of baby platy of a mother platy body, both by their amount and by etc., will have to demolish their huts belodons. These monsters their composition. The effect is and remove from the district sooner sembled the present-day elephants. re- said to be more noticeable in young or later. Most of the people who except for the jaw, which was like than in adults. Little has been live there are fishermen, boatmen, a great coal scoop.. known in the past, according to the etc., and they will find it very dim- French nutrition expert. of the in-cult to find accommodation elsewhere upon a deposit filled with the bones A, Wyndham Street, Tel. 20022

The expedition afterwards came fluence of diet on embryonie de- where they will have to pay high of baby platybelodons of varying Although much robbed by stone-velopment.

rents. There is no question of their ages. There were seckers, the walls of the structure

at least ten . "Our business there," he explain on Little Camp Hill are almost com- fluence the embryonic diet of the if and when it comes because the

Experiments conducted to in- complying with the order of removal į complete skeletons. ed was to unload five white ad-plete on plan and survive to a maxi- chicken by modifying the contents place is required for public pur-enly a section of a jaw of the Leather Sale Canvas Shoes... 4.60

Hitherto scientists have venturers whom we took uboard at mum height of 10ft. The ashlar of the egg have been done by means poses. This is, however, the oppor-platybeledon. Sydney. Weaving our way through shows the characteristic Norman of a hypodermic needle during the tune time to consider where these the coral reefs to Tarawa was more diagonal" tooling, but otherwise incubation stage of the egg.

Trapped in the Mud. of a job than I had bargained for the principal evidence for the period

poor people are to be housed when Dr. Andrews gave a graphic de There are many treacherous reefs of the building is that provided by

Result of Experiments. they are told To perform such experiments the Government has established here a historic monsters must have gone to remove. Happily scription of how that herd of pre- a few feet under water, but by the plan itself. This consists of shell is pierced and good materials Malay Settlement, for which a very to their doom. careful watching from the bridge (1) a small rectangular keep, mea- are added, removed, or exchanged. large area of land has been acquired I could spot the deep water by suring internally 30ft, by 23ft., and After the egg has been pierced, the in the Changi district. the way the light struck it and thus with walls 13ft. thick at the base; shell is repaired with plaster of makes the question of finding accom- and this we were able to crawl along, feel (2) an inner court, surrounded by Paris. The small amount of air and modation for the thousands of the ing our way as we went.

a thick curtain-wall, springing from light which enter the egg seema to Kallang Malays now easier. It is A Malayan Type.

the sides of the keep and incorporat- de little damage, Mlle. Bouges first therefore necessary that work on the "We were forced to drop anchoring a gate-tower and a small angle recorded success with two eggs of Settlement should be expedited and ther and further into the lake until The quest for food took them fur- a half mile off shore and proceed tower, together with a solid projec. the Leghorn breed. in small bouts.

The chickens that preference should be given to finally they were trapped in the mud Then it became tion-perhaps the base of a former produced had quite normal appear the Kallang people in the reservation and disappeared. 100 shallow even for the boats, and stairturret or garderobe-tower; and ance, and developed into normal, of plots of land there first. To the last 200 yards we had to wade. (3) an outer court, defended partly healthy fowls.

At least twenty-five of these But the experience was well worth by the natural escarpment and part-

make things easier both for the aureat mastodons

trap- Mlle. Bouges says, "The process thorities and the people concerned, ed in this way. ly by an earthen bank and rock-cut has been applied to about 600 eggs, the

Their bones ditch. The whole arco

Kesatuan Malayu (Malay were found intermixed, which small, the total extent of the two changes of yolk between eggs of thin the total number of people who them extremely difficult,

is quite and the operations include the ex- Union) might take steps to ascer-made the work of excavating courts being less than an acre. the same breed and those of differ-will require land in the Malay

Nevertheless, Dr. Andrews is con. ent breeds, and also between hen Settlement,

fident that he has secured every

while.

A

"To our amazement we found the little island densely populated with a race of people as handsome as any I have ever seen. They np. peared to be a mixture of Malay-

mile

Castle Planning.

The masonry is mostly of one

!

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He pictured there approaching the water, dredging up tubers in their lake and wallowing in the shallow,

scooped jaws and stuffing them into their mouths with their trunks.

were

sian and Polynesian. The men are date, but there are small additions Birds resulting from these experiment is exclusively reserved for ster, and that it will now be possible eggs, turkey eggs and duck eggs. It is said that the Malay Settle-principal bone of this age-old mon- glants in stature, clean-limbed and

which include an annexe or forements have been interesting," muscular, and the women tall and building against the inmost wall of

those who are 100 per cent. Malays, for the first time to reconstruct it. slender with a regal bearing.

Characteristics of colouring are By this it is probably meant that the keep, and an oven adjoining it. believed to be modified by the in- the 100 per cent, Malays should be length..

One great jaw is 5 ft. 3 ins, in "The natives were awed by our This oven is remarkable in that it approach, but, after assuring them is entirely paved with Roman hypo-ments have led poultry breeders to Malays, Indian Muslims and Arabs Gobi desert to search for the an fluence of diet and some experi- British subjects, out there are Dutch Dr. Andrewe is returning to the selves that our mission was friend-caust-bricks and tesserac, brought believe that diet may also play a who have married into British Cestor of the "Peking man," who, he ly they received us warmly doubtless from the Roman settle- part as one of the factors deter- Malay families and have Bronze-skinned children, like

made thinks may have been trapped in scared rabbits, peeked at us from

ment on the adjacent hil.

mining sex-British United Press. Singapore their home. In plan the castle belongs esssen-

Such people,

mud, as were the platybelodons. behind palm trees and bushes.

although their number is not very she was about six months' old. The "Tarawa is a curved coral atoll which consisted of an inner strong- tially to the ordinary Norman type;

large, also live in the kampong re- Kathi was told that her age was 22 miles long and only a hold (keep, mound or ring-work) a trivial kind, and the debris re- their wives and children, families ant to put down the age as seven- ferred to. How these people with fourteen years but he told his assist across at its widest point. It is and an outer court or hailey in which suiting daly four feet above sea level and, most, of the residential buildings throughout consistent in character interesting problem.

from occupation was and relations will be treated is an teen. The writer, who was present, at high tide, approximately half its were placed. From the latter part and moderate in quantity. This im-law and mothers-in-law and wives, sent to let the Kathi bare his way,

Fathers-in- surface becomes submerged.

objected but was told by others pre "Its year

round temperature there was an increasing tendency to the floors of the castle can be dated in the Malay Settlement but sone wrong in giving a different age to of the twelfth century onwards plies that the relics found in or on it is said, will be permitted to live though the Kathi was andoubtedly averages :between 93 and 95 distribute the defensive elements within reasonably narrow limits. In-law, who are not 100 per cent. the girl, degrees. In spite of the small and to diminish the importance of The relics include keys, a pikehead, Malays, will not aren that remains above ocean level the solitary keep-a tendency which and much pottery. Very little is at If this is the intention of the au divorces many malpractices. It when the tide is in, Tarawa main calminated in the great Edwardian present known of the history of thorities, then the question arises: would be sorry reading to detali be so permitted. There have been as regards tains about 4,000 population. castles with their towers liberally medieval pottery, although great "Is that equitable?"

Fish and Coconuts,

distributed around their curtain quantities of it are found on the "What impressed us most was walls. Of the earlier stages of this sites of our older.towns. The pat-

them here. Many Muslim know The Kathis. the apparent rugged health of the process the Lydney castle offers an

about them." In order to make the tery from Lydney Castle, dated to natives, who probably live on the interesting illustration. In it the the end of the twelfth and the begin- form of the, Kathi System" cor- and wife with the view to divorce the Kathia very careful about hearing most restricted diet of any people keep of the older Norman scheme is ning of the

"Re-domestic worries between husband on earth. Because of the absence retained, but instead of being therefore provides a new and wel rectly stated the case for the mer otherwise, à Board, call it what]

of soil on the at

are no tropical fruits or vegetables; nothing but coconuts. Fortunate

men."

stances,

thirteenth century,

A leading

article In paper under the caption

of

on this

mediate alteration of the law per- moved from attack it is here placed subject.

taining to the registration upon the curtain wall at a spot

Muslim marriages and divorces, Muslims, Kathis and non-Katbis, is and assisted by a number of learned ly plenty of fish are available and where it can best command the ap-ference to a castle at Lydney, Its Be it stated' at the outset that the not be open to the public. The In the absence of any definite re- especially the latter, in Singapore. required. The proceedings should these, with the coconuts, sustain proaches to the site. Moreover, the owner and purpose must remain a law of Islam as regards marriages Mufti's decision should be final and the populace. *

newer principle of the distribution mystery. The Newburgh Earls of and divorces needs, from a Muslim should be endorsed by the Registrar The national beverage, we of the defence along the curtain wall Warwick held the manor in which it point of view, no amendment at all of Mohammedan Marriages for pur- learned, is coconut milk, which itself is manifest in the somewhat stands at least as early as 1201, but but he persons authorised by the poses of enforcing the law under the often substitutes for water during hesitant use of email subsidiary before that date its history is not Government to carry out the duties Mohammedan Ordinance. It will be periods of prolonged drought.". towera..

The experience convinced us

known, except for the name of its have, in certain cases, to say the interesting, and perhaps bring about that there is stili romance and ad-

Pottery Relics.

holder at the time of Domesday. It least, failed in their duties. Among the appointment of a Mufti for venture in the lives of modern'sen-period, and not,

The whole scheme is of one is tempting, to associate the castle the many Kathis appointed by the Singapore, if Muslims will express

as in other in- with the iron mines in the forest, as Government under the Mohammedan their views and opinion the result of gradual it is situated alongside the rich iron. Ordinarce there are, however, men important matter, growth. The excavations revealed bearing area. The metal was mined who are both learned and honourable no trace of any medieval occupation here in Roman. times, and perhaps who conscientiously and to the best of the site before the erection of the before that, and in the Middle Ages of their ability carry out the duties is situated in Jalan Sultan and

Alsagoff Arab School. buildings in question. This adds a there were many forges in operation entrusted to them, in accordance where Muslim boys receive Arabic The Alangoff Arab School, which special interest to the excavation. as early as the reign of Henry with Islamic law. But the same and English education free of Although a great number of castles These forges, were supposed to be thing cannot be said of all of them charge, has obtained the services of were, of course, built in the twelfth held only by licence from the Crown, for, there are Muslims who can, Mr. Syed Abdur Rahman Al-Kudcy An aluminium tank burst with century, hardly shy, nave those but in the twelfth and thirteenth without any feeling of personal tragic results-recently at the Bil-which have been extensively re-century this regulation seems to animosity against any of the Kathis, lingham Chemical factory of. Syn. modelled in later periods, have been have been very often evaded. It is say that some of the Kathia have Kudey has had much experience na

as head master. thetic Ammonia and Nitrates, Ltd., scientifically excavated. The small at least possible that, la the un-not carried out their duties "fearing a school master. He was for four Mr. Syed Abdur Rahman Al- a branch of Imperial Chemical In-size and relativa unimportance of settled days of Richard and John; Godr dustrice.

Lydney Castle evidently led to its whoever bullt Lydney Castle did 60 One man, Archibald Thoms, of early abandonment; for the struc to ensure the control of forges which Paradise Row, Stockton, was killed,tural additions referred to were of he had set up in the forest Ex..

TANK TRAGEDY.

ONE MAN KILLED AND TWENTY INJURED.

and twenty were injured. Resid enta in the vicinity said that two terrific explosions were beard, one almost immediately after the other. Acid was thrown in all directions, much of it falling on the men work- Ing near the tank...

Gilbert Stewart Turner, 23, of Blingham, made an heroic effort to rescue Thomse When the explosion occurred he led a rescue party Into the danger Zone, and himself dashed into the flames and ashes, regardless of his own life, to pull out Thoms. While he was pulling him out another tank of acid burst and poured over himself.

With Thema dragged to safety, Turner, with great presence of mind, tore of all his own clothing and ran naked to a water hydrant, which his colleagues turned on him to wash-ons the pleric acid which was burning into his skin.

NORMA SHEARER'S GREATEST.

Norma Shearer and Chester Morris In the year sensational picture, "The Divorcee" the Queen's from Friday.

yoars head-master of the Almenoar

The present practice as regards Arabic English School in Palem- marriages is that the Kathis is call- bang. From 1917-1920 he was act ed to perform the ceremony. He ing head master of the Batu Pahat attends and asks certain questions English School and acted as first of both the bridegroom's and bride's senior assistant master from 1921- people, which he writes down-in the 1926. He was principal of the register. The register is algned by Malay Training College and head of the bridegroom, the bride's guardian the Malay Education Department, and two other witnesses. He then Johore, from 1926-1928. He retired recites the marriage sermon, offrom the Johore Government ser course after obtaining the consent vice, on pension, on January 1, of the bridegroom and the bride to 1929. the marriage. His duty is finished q and he later, sende a copy of his register to the registrar of Moham-west of America tells of a conversi

A Methodist bishop in the north- medan Marriages to be posted up in tion he once had with a Wyoming the general register. There is young man touching certatu difficul nothing to be said against this sya-ties of the latter's religious, tenets ton of registering marriages but in Bishop, and this naive West one instance, the present writer was erner, "I do not refuse to believe astounded at the action of a certain the story of the ark. I can accept Kathi. He might have acted so the ark's great alze, Its odd shape, many times, probably others might and the vast number of animals it have done,so also.

contained; but when I am asked to Ballove that the children of Israel tried this unwieldy thing for

that my fafth breaks down." rty gears. In the wilderness I must.

At a marriage ceremony the Kathi asked for the age of the bride. She was the daughter of a Chinese but adopted by an Arab woman when

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