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A Four Legged, Flat Traces of a prehistoric four- lagged fish, a missing link between fish and amphibians, have been dia- covered by the Danish East Green- land expedition which returned re- cently under leadership of Dr. Lauge Koch.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1932.

JAPANESE MANDATE

TOKYO'S RULE IN SOUTH SEAS

MORALS OF ISLANDS WORRY MISSIONS

(By A. Correspondent).

The latter announced sensational Jaluit-Away ahead, on the voyages are limited to the neigh- revelations in connection with the horizon, a long dark line of palm-bouring atolls in search of copra, discovery, which was made near trees with here and there a gap constitutes not only the sole pro for the fruit of the coconut palmi Francis Joseph Fford, insisting marks the low islands that, duet and export of the lelands, but they will contribute materially to man's knowledge of evolution from fish to mammal..

Your Daily Smile.

NECESSARY HE: I'm afraid I must get a wife with some money.

SHE (candidly): 'You'll hardly get her with anything else.

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stretching along the reef of the serves also as its principal, and at great lagoon of Jaluit, form the times Its only, article of fond and |most important group of the Mar-drink.

shall Archipelago. Three weeks No Wheeled Trafic. have passed since the 8.8. Yawatan Jaluit the much-sung natural The traveller, who hopes to find Maru left Yokohama, now 3,500 beauties of other islands in the miles away, and with the exception South. Sena is doomed to disap- of a few visits, each of one or two pointment. The islands rise only days' duration, to islands of the the sea, and much of the scanty a very few feet above the level of Mariana (Ladrone) and East Caro soil of Jebwar has been brought line. Archipelagoes, the time has by ship from Ponape, 700 miles been apont în traversing the long away. Flowering trees and shrubs distances that separate these re- there are in profusion, but limited

in variety. mote isles of Micronesia.

The Poinciana regla reaches a great size, as do some True, a typhoon delayed us and overgreen varieties of ficus, the held the ship stormbound for near- casuarina, and the breadfruit, with ly, three days, haveto in the open its huge leaves, while the hibiscus sea...The visits sahore were is aglow, with blossom, and the "Luck! When my horse pass pleasant interludes in A voyage plumiora fills the air of the little. ed me I leaned over the fence, point- otherwise devoid of incident and gardens with the fragrance of its ed and yelled out to the jockey. furnished opportunity to witness yellow flowers. The streets-nar- "They went up that way!".

THE MAN'S RIGHT "A lot of trouble can be saved by the expression I'm sorry!!".

"What makes you say that?" "My wife."

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GIVING DIRECTIONS. -

Didn't you have any luck at the Iraces ?!

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the efficient and meritorious man- row lanes overhung with, foliage, ner with which the Japanese Gov- for there, is no wheeled traffic ex- ernment carries out its Mandate cept a bicycle or two are laid out. "You mustn't kiss me in sight from the League of Nations over at right. angles, and 迅 of my parents,"

these -ex-German possessions. little compounds stand the modest "Why-er-ah-I have never kissed Under the guidance of the local houses of the Japanese and, less you,"

authorities-and often on my spli- attractive homes of the natives. The China Mail almost any other community,

1 know, but just in case you tury excursions-I was able to ap- may, if they wish, enjoy special do."

There are perhaps 800 people in representation for.

preciate the a longer

many admirable Jebwar, though the whole exten- Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 28, 1932. period. In their case, as in that

measures introduced in the in-sive archipelago, with its 32 inhabit of other minorities, the Govern clock in the hall strike two just as charge and for the furtherance of numbore nearly 10,000 natives and WIFE: Henry, didn't. I hear the terests of the people under their ed, but widely distributed islands, ment has endeavoured to strike you came home last night?'. a just balance between conflic

elvilization and prosperity. 400 Japanese. Of this total native HUBBY: Yes, but wait a minute. ting claims. Their solution of Just as I returned last night the the mountainous falande, with its about one half are. Protestants, Having left Kusaio, the last of population of the Marshall Islands The "Communal Decision" of should at least satisfy most of but stopped it so that, it would noted anchorage-the crater of an professing the Christian faith, can this peculiarly difficulty problem clock was about to strike eleven, forest-clad peaks and its landlock- and the rest, though not openly His Majesty's Government the Untouchables, though it falls wake you. marks a definite and necessary short of the desires of some of

extinct volcano-and steaming albe said to have at least abandoned their leaders. At the same time

ways eastward we reached, Jalult their former very step in the progress of self-it involves no attempt, such as

indefinite NOTHING WOULD

-a remote spot a little over 300 animistic religion and to have government. It fixes the number Mr. Gandhi.

WIFE: I'm afraid the moun-miles north of the Equator and adopted a vague semblance of and the Hindu tain air would disagree with me." of Parliamentary seats to be Mahasabha had feared, to lop! HUBBY: My dear, it wouldn't of Greenwich.

10,000 miles cast of the Meridian Christianity. There are, too, be- allotted under the new Con-off these humble and despised dare!.

tween 50 and 60 Catholics. Their stitution to religious and racial offshoots from the banyan-tree

religious Instruction is under the majorities and minorities, and to of Hinduism. Similarly the pro-

By a narrow opening in the vast charge of a Spanish priest and com other special interests. It will blem presented by the Moslem

reef, scarcely half a cable in width, adjutor, who maintain a small certainly not please all, and may demand for

statutory

with the surf breaking on either mission and a still smaller church please none of the communities majority" in Bengal and in the

hand, we passed through the imat Jehwar. The Japan Mission of whom it affects. Some of the Punjab has been provisionally With the United Kingdom and mense wall of coral, that rises the American Board (Congrega-› 'more extreme communal

or-solved in a manner which should France as the principal consumera from a depth of over two miles tionalists) keeps two American ganizations may even threaten, commend itself to

of the use of esparto grass in paper straight to the surface of the (Continued on Page 5.) as they have done before, to boy-moderate, opinions. In each of making is rapidly increasing ex- ocean art entered the calm lagoon cott the Reforms. But mani- these provinces the Moslems are ports of the grass from Algeria within. On all 310-except to the festations of this kind need not to have a majority, but not so baving trebled since 1920.

west, where, there is an eight-mile be taken too tragically-least of large a majority as to dispense all if they come, as they are like them from the practical necessity

} Apparatus that measures the tend the islands, forming a chain ly to do, from all quarters alike. and the political duty, of obtain length of sound waves and move- £5 miles in extent, that encircles They will really mean no more ing the Parliamentary good will ments of the organs of speech has the lagoon. They vary much in than this--the simple truth, that and support. of other elements been installed in the University of angth, these islands, but few have no scheme of representation car It will, no dout, be easy for critics Southern California for studying a breadth of more than two or hope to satisfy all the Indian of the scheme to find fault with stuttering and it its treatment. three hundred yards and they ara parties, and that no Indian party such details, as the "weightage"

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Over The Reef.

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SCOTTISH COMPANY

CHURCH PARADE.

St. Andrew's Day Suitably Marked.

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The Union Church, Hong Kong,

has obtained the complete satis given to the Sikh minority in The first of a projected series of a shallow open channel, now by a was filled yesterday morning for the faction of its, political claims the Punjab or to the Europeans sample fairs will be held at Sao line of surf where the waves break annual Church Parade of the The more reasonable critics of in Bengal. But criticisms of Paulo, Brazil, from November to over the submerged rocks.. The Scottish Company of the Hong Kong the award may be reminded that this character overlook two im January to show Brazilians the vegetation is limited; trees and Volunteer Defence Corps, at which His Majesty's Government only portant features of the award

products of the world at large and shrubs, and even soil, have been, undertook this difficult and in which cannot be emphasizce to foreigners what Brazil, can produce. Introduced at Jebwar, where the inspiring address was given by the Rev. E. G. Fowell. The Com- vidious task because the com- often the first

TO MAKE NA settlement; stands, but elsewhere pany, about 60 strong, under, Capt. its provisional munities concerned were frank- nature, and the second, the indu

A semicircular motal reflector. to little is found save the coconut H. R. Forsyth, and Liauts, A. W., ly unable to reach agreement cement it offers to religious or an enlarged collar has been invented thrive on sand and coral and SUD- from Volunteer Headquarters head- be worn around a person's neck like Palm and such verdureas Brown and T.P. Sanderson marched among themselves, Neither at racial majorities to gain the an enlace collat has bath, viving port sea water, the first nor at the second of the political support of other rays from the sun and direct them seeds carried by the erring Sun Pipe-Major: Mackie...

Here and thered by the Pipes and Drums, under Round-Table Conferences could interests. The more rapid and to the face without annoyance, rents and cast up uppn some beach The service was attended by H.E. their representatives solve the the closer the political contacts, problem. The door is still open between the responsible Parlin-

anakes or crocodiles, and even but-itish Troops in China, Commodore no terflies, are rare.

Wyndham Lawrie, Major H, B. L. Dowbiggin, second. In cótumund," The passage into the lagoon is

and committee members of the St.

in HK.V.D.C., and the following officers

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have, in the heat, and rains of this Equatorial region sprouted and and Lady Peel, H.E. Major General the Governor (Sir William Feel) to an agreed settlement. The mentary representatives of rival method of consultation. There grown. Of animal and bird life. W. Sandilands, G.O.C., the Bri- Government have prudently re- communities, the greater will be is no longer any reason, for de- there is almost none; nor are there fused to be parties to any fur- the prospect of the healthy lay on the score of con ther intercommunal negotiations growth, of parties based upon difficulties; equally ther that may be initiated for a re- common political and economic justification left for the vision of their scheme. But until interests, and the more remote that the National Lovernment only a few hundred yards the Bill which will embody it the danger of their petrifaction have the slightest wish to pro- length, for the reef is narrow. Andrew's Society Mr. K. E. Grele becomes law they express them in their present form. There are crastinate in their, furtherance mediately within lies the anchor- selves ready to consider and to other matters connected with the of Indian self-government. The age off Jebwar, with half a dozen (President), Messrs. A. L. Shields recommend, to... Parliament any numerous minorities of India Prime Minister's statement in little, white, native schooners, lying Vice-President), J. W. C. Bonnar alternative scheme, which has the with which the Government's explanation of the decision makes motionless on the clear, still water, E. M. Bryden and D. S. Robb plat and A. Stevenson (Past Presidents), support in one or more provinces award does not profess to deal it; abundantly clear that their a few rowing boats, and strange Hon. Secretaries). D. Gow, A S of all the communities which it Nor does it make any allocation sole motive in undertaking the outrigged canoes. On the shore Mackichan and J. B. Rosa. Also affects. In other words, their of the British Indian seats in the settlement of a whole series of only the landing-place and some

present scheme is conditional on the Federal Legislature, for the most difficult and controversial Iron-roofed sheds and a few laplat

were about 60 re continued failure of the Indian practical reason that this would questions was their carrest de- od houses are visible, for the trees presentatives of HM. Ships, under communities to agree. The involve the question of the represire to expedite the march of Re- and the palms congeal all else. A Shipwright Gorman, and a detech- |leaders of these communities sentation of the Indian States, form: Another result of their noisy small tug comes out to meet ment of South Wales Bordorers.

may perhaps be encouraged by which still requires further dis award may not be so clearly and the steamer, towing lighters full of Flowing the service, an at the award to make a fresh at- cussion. It may be taken for immediately visible. Communal sacks of copra, and a Government Home" was held at the Volunteer tempt to reach an understand, granted that these seats will be protests and brawls may tem- launch brings the official world on Roadquarters, at which Mr. and ing they may, on the other allotted as far as possible in the porarily obscure it. But the poard dapper Japanese in smart Mrs. K. E. Greig, the Chieftain of hand, prefer to hold the post- same proportions and by the fact that this basic decision has white uniforms, punctilious, lite, the St. Andrew's Society and his tlons which it assures them, same methods as those adopted been taken should encourage all and Important. Along the shore wife, noted, as hosts.^>^ But in either case there is no in the provincial scheme. Mean- the leaders of moderate opinion the islanders stand watching, the question of tying their hands for while the most obvious and im- in India to turn with renewed steamer come to anchor-men, good and all. “ Provision is to be portant political consequence of hope to the settlement by nego, women, and children-crowding in made in the Constitution for athe Government's decision is tiation of their differences. At the scanty ahade o revision after ten years, and that it removes an otherwise in- least it will promote the apl with the consent of the parties surmountable obstacle to the in a calmer and affected, of the electoral arrange complation of the task begun at phere of the critical ments set forth in the award. Bound Table Conference, federal, military and financ The Depressed Classes, who ob-

the Committees that istill; confront they viously need a larger measure of that have arisen from it, and now and Indian Governments constitutional protection tha be resumed by the same: Rulers of the Indian States.

seeking the deepar

DESTROYERS LEAVE.

or The Eighth Destroyer

Comprising H.M.3. Koppel, group of great banyan trees. It is

der, H.M.S. Veri wonder that the arrival of the Whitchall, Whitshed, steamer from Japan is a buay-holl- Wishart, Witch and day, for only 11 times in the year leaving for exercises dons Jaluft receive a mail or

small inter falana framp whose exported bag