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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1932.

TWO INJURED IN.

ACCIDENTS.

Car Vanishes After Woman Struck.

ards.

Palestine Before Biblical Times

People

Of Ages Remote From Abraham

"THE KINGS OF THE SEA”

are only names

of

L

THE

CHINA MAIL.

JEWEL ROBBER SENTENCED.

Three Years For Shop Worker.

ALL LOOT RECOVERED,

JAPAN PRESENTS

ULTIMATUM. .

GIRL DISCHARGED ON

بھیجو

THEFT COUNT.

"Mistaken Identity" Of Umbrella.

counter.

Court.

of

An Identical umbrella,

She was discharged.

WEEK-END FUNCTIONS AT PENINSULA.

Famous Dancers To Entertain.

M

A Chinese woman. Lau Kam 51, was kruxked down by a motor

A burglary at 1, Lyndhurst Ter-! In view of the many cases car near the Tung Wah Eastern

race, occupied by a jade and jewel- petty thievery that go undetected in lery shop, on the morning of Septem- The Sincere Co.'s stores, Tong Kin, Hospital yesterday at about 4.60;

ber 8, had a sequel in the Criminala girl aged 21, who is a visitor p.m. It is alleged that the care

Sessions this morning, when Kwok from the country, was arrested and believed to be No. 3598, failed to;

Chan, a former employee, pleaded her case heard before Mr. Wynne- stop after the accident: The

guilty before Mr. Justice Wood and Jones at the Central Magistracy this woman. though not seriously.

as sentenced to three years hard morning,

The prosecution was done at the labour. hurt, was removed to the Govern-

The property stolen included suggestion of the manager.

She was accused of stealing an ment Civil Hospital for treat-

"The reader of the heroic history so that by 2400 B.C. a fresh wave jewellery to the value of $4,826, und ment. The accident' was report of Joshua finds in the brutal vio-of people from the Caspian region $1,185 in money, all of which was umbrella." Her excuse was that her faunt, who was shopping with her, ed to the Police by Chan Yee, lence of that age that he is amid broke in, without anything like the recovered.

ability of the earlier Caucasians For the Crown, Mr.. Whyte-Smith, had one that was identical and she private watchman at the Mee On many strange peoples, half a dozen They were merely horse-riding said that prisoner got the key to thought her aunt had left it on the Building Contractors' matshed, of whom

to him, shepherds, and to the immense dis the safe by breaking into a wooden Tung Wah Hospital" Rond. without any background. He comes gust of the decadent Egyptians, cupboard in the room in which he owned by the aunt, was produced in

they attacked the Delta, in Knocked down

He did not have a Centre into a hall of strange faces, and does

and was sleeping. soon after claimed lordship key specially made for the purpose, 'Street, near Queen's Road West not know who is who of the com-over the whole of Egypt. He had been employed for about 20| by a private motor car. Wong pany," writes Sir Flinders Petrie in These Hyksos, or Princes days and was arrested on board a Ling Fuk. 49, a male, 15 Chung the Daily Telegraph.

of the Desert, brought

no arts launch bound for Cheung Chau Hing Street, sustained, înjuries] That there were many different with them, but-like the Turke Another foki had, previously heard which necessitated his removal tribes and races in Palestine over they simply ruled by fighting force the accused say that he wanted to go They had a wide dominion, touching to Cheung Chau and in consequence to the Government Civil Hospi- three thousand years ago is evident; Crete and Baghdad. but the foreign watch was kept on the launches.

land, indeed, such, was the condition trade. faded away.

Mr.Whyte-Smith added that after for our own and most other lands Their weapons were from Cyprus committing the theft, the prisoner Chan Lam, a licensed lorry driver, reported to the Water in all ages. Each invasion that or Crete, their pottery was the old broke out of the premises by draw-

Enjoyable week-end functions residue of the Syrian. They built a third palace in the bolt which led to the com-were featured at the Peninsula Police Station last evening ceurs leaves some

Hotel. that his foki, Chan So. lost con- previous occupants, and we find at Gaza, partly by pulling down the mon stairway.

On Saturday a dinner tral of his lorry in Haiphong)

where fragments forgotten previous Egyptian building for

dance took place in the Rose Room. ¡material, It had few rooms, but

and "Hugo" and "Josephine," the Road and collided with a train Peoples dwelt."

popular cabaret dancers, entertained i pipe causing damage to the Such is the problem of confusion, massive walls.

which we can only solve by piercing| lorry. The foki has run away, he together the remains, and gradually vassals to the Hittite kings. Those Though so powerful, they became

at intervals during the evening. Each of their turns

was well re- ceived.

These artists are performing for la period under contract with the Peninsula Hotel and are appearing nightly, Sundays excepted, during the dinner dance in the Rose Room. ! Tokyo, Yesterday. Mukden messages declare that

It is learned that a special pro- About ten thousand years ago

the Japanese military headquar-gramme is in preparation for next men had settled along the south of Palestine, and carried on

ters has sent an ultimatum to the Sunday's Symphonic Concert dur- their later aus people had come bandit chief, Su agriculture with fint hoes of a

ing the visit of the Shanghai Lawn Ping-wen, forward at 2100 B.C., and were threatening strong action if he

Tennis Interporters. triangular shape. Little by little more linked with the West, calling does not release the Japanese his Ah Kwong "leather factory, which the fint working improved, until themselves. "Kings of the Sea." band has captured. was next door but one to the No. they formed fine straight-sided hoes. They rebuilt the Hyksos palace at Meanwhile they were improving Gaza, and held a horse sacrifice at 40. Tung Lo Wan. where the de-; censed lived with his family.

their pottery, and making jars, but the foundation. Under these people Accused went to the house, to all by hand. Then "the turntable more Semitic migration took place, see by the history of steal and gained access to the came into use, turned by the right as we can

Abraham. When the Egyptians] hand, while the left shaped the pot. house by climbing over the verani;

off the Hyksos yoke, they dah. The alarm was given by ni Another tribe came from the threw parrot, and after stabbing a num-

Jordan for a time, and lived peace-chased the intruders out of Syria, and in 1480 E.C. Thothmes III. took ber of the inmates of the house, ably. bringing much thinner pottery defendant cacaped by dropping and the use of basalt. The best art over the country as a region for down into the road from the of striking large fint tools was pillage year by year, wearing down

after attained. All this has been worked the civilisation which was Mr. Fraser, describing the layout of the house, out by Mr. E. Macdonald, and pub-there, in which the crime occurred, ex-lished in our latest volume (Beth- At this time the last rebuilding Ip Shing, who has served nearly tracy yesterday afternoon when the of the palace of old Gaza took place, seven years in gaol, during which trial of the detective, Lueng Høi- plained where the various members pelet 11).

and henceforward only new Gaza, time he received 44 strokes of the shing, was begun before Mr. Wynne- of the household

Copper's Conquest. Decensed, he said was sleeping on

Jon the presunt site, was considered birch, and against whom three Jones. Suddenly, about 5000 B.C., a wari

Phabitable. The v.revolt

under banishment orders, each for a period The detective is charged with be jeloud blots out all this skill, by the Akhenaten was crushed in the con-of ten years, have been made, was found in possession of contra- coming of the copper users, who quest by Seti 1., who about 1310 BC, sentenced to the maximum penalty band opium and with misconduct as Mr. Faser continued that he pro- ept away all the old civilisation, secured all Palestine, both plain of three years' hard labour by Mr. an, officer of the force.

Their things link up with the pre- and hills, and the lands over into Justice

A plea of posed outline what each member

historie Egyptian work, and they Alcab."

Wood in the Criminal "not guilty" was returned to both of the household spw. Mr. Leung,

Sessions this morning.

charges throught the defendant's futher of the devased was aroused appear to have held the

The Hittites had gained such a Prisoner was banished on June 6 solicitor, Mr. F. C. E. Rendall. by the parrot's cries, and then heard about 3200 B.C. They made large hold on Syria that Egypt could not this year for ten years and did not

The case was adjourned, daggers of copper, probably from

secure again

firmly, and head the warning..

TROTZKI WATCHED.

CHINESE ON TRIAL FOR HOMICIDE.

(Continued from Page 1.).

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Opening the case for the Crown Mr. A. Fraser, Assistant At torney-General, said the accused was a leather" worker at the Pik

verandah.

were sleeping.

a seltee in the front parlour.

The Parrol's. Warning,

his wife call out to the amah. He

verandah.

seeing the perspective of the past, intrusive, people had come over from lage after age. My last season's Thrace to Asia Minor, and estab- excavation of Gaza has added lished a powerful kingdom there, jenough to enable a connected view From that rocky mass they poured }to be taken, and the outline so far into Syria, and by 1930 B.C. they as it is continuous, may be now swept down on the plunder of įsummarised.

P

tand till

Babylon,

Solomon's Rule.

it

found

Bandits Warned Of Drastic Action.

The captives comprise 200, most-i ly civilians reported to have been seized on September 29,

Su Ping-wen has replied that he is prepared to negotiate.-Reuter.

OLD OFFENDER SENT BACK. TO PRISON.

Three Year Sentence For Banishee.

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CHINESE DETECTIVE 'FACING CHARGE.

Wounded Wrestling For

Hold On Gun.

A recent shooting on the Praya, in which a Chinese Revenue officer and a Chinese detective struggled for possession of the detective's gun and the detective was wounded, had a sequel at the Central Magis-

Copenhagen

the Sindi mines, and bulky fare for the flood of Israelite invasion got up slowly and made his way food and water, of pottery insuffi-

Mr. Whyte-Smith, Assistant from the rear cubicle, where he was

finished the remaining auto-Crown Solicitor, said that prisoner sleeping, in the direction of the clently fired, and frail.

nomy of the country. Here was arrested on the morning of According to Я Again a sudden break, and a new we now touch on well-known times, September 28 coming out of some message, Trotzki has agreed to at- He saw a man dressed in white shorts and singlet and tried people swept away all the past and we leave Palestine in the most bushes at the polo field, Causeway tend

E conférence with Soviet to seize him, and was immediately They appear to have come from the glorious period under a half- Bay. He was carrying a sack, leaders thorn in November. struck a severe blow, which almost Caspian. region, as the spiral orna Hittite king, Solomon, who ruled a which contained a sewing machine. A Danish passport visa severed the car from his head, al-¡mented toggle-pins which they used people of whom the fathers were For the theft of the machine he assured him, but it is not known though he did not know this at the were made along the River Kur into Amorites and the mothers Hittites, was sentenced to four months, whether he will be allowed to pass time. He saw his assailant climb the Caucasus. They brought great as the prophet declared. over the partition into the stureroom ideas of building, cutting stone on which formed part of the front a large scale, for a palace 150, feet parlour. He went through the, wide, at Gaza.

French window on to the verandah, Trade went on with northern where he was just in time to see the lands, and they pushed further to man in white dropping from the the conquest of wealthy Egypt, ⚫ verandah into the street.

which they held for a couple of cen-

on

A hawker, who lived the turies, forming the VIIth and ground floor of the same house, No. VIth dynasties. Their kings ruled 40, also saw the man drop. An both Syria and Egypt, but not for alarm was raised but the man es long. Their palace was burnt, and caped. When Mr. Leung returned some centuries of desolation follow- to the house he went to the front ed. parlour where he discovered his son! The art of making large jars of lying dead.

hand pottery was begun, and lasted for some 2,000 years in Palestinë, through slowly changing forms.

Amah Struck.

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Mr. Frazer then went on to de- The large scale of building and scribe what was seen by the amahs fortifying were entire novelties in of the household. Chan Tsol-ping, the land, and show a real and vital an, amah, who was awakened by the civilisation.

mother of the deceased, went to The revived Egyptian power soothe the screaming parrot, and about 2500 B.C.took possession of while bending over the cage receive the south of Palestine, and a second ed two flerce blows on the head from palace was built at Gaza, on the

sharp instrument. The assailant

earth that had covered the ashes of ran to the front, cubicle where he the earlier work. The style of this attacked two other amans, Kung Sul- accorded with the good work of that hing and her friend Kung Kwan, age, being the finest construction of who was staying there for the night any period in the country.

At this time, about 5 a.m., a Chin- Throughout this and the preced- ese constable, C550 was attracted ing age there had been an active by the sound of whistles and after trade with many lands to the north going to the house, obtained assis-and east. This is seen by the tance from Bay View Police Station. variety of decorated pottery which Later, while making a search, the was imported, the sources of which same constable found leather are yet unknown to us. These have worker's knife in the gutter outside now been collected from the ruins the house

of Gaza, and form a sample of the The discovery of the accused high civilisations before 2000 B.C hiding in No. 88, Tung Le Wan, was which awalt dacovery. then described, and the statements Shepherd Kinga, kee The muzda, ta the Po

Unfortunately this Syrian civil isation from "Beypt rapidly" decayed,

which term he is now serving.

"Going Up".

through Germany.

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