1933-10-26 — Page 16

Charity Ball & Concert To-night. Organised by the Yellow Dragon Dancing Academy

In Aid of

The Society for the Protection of Children

Admission: $1.00.

There will be selected Chinese and

舞

European Songs and Musical Pieces by L

famous artists and musicians in ad-

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SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

Love sick at sea and seasick ashore

SAILOR'S LUCK

with

James DUNN Sally EILERS

FOX PICTUREĘ FROM SUNDAY

A DOUBLE ATTRACTION

ON THE SCREEN

I Loved You Wednesday

WARNER BAXTER ELISSA LANDI

VICTOR JORY

MIRIAM JORDAN

ON THE STAGE

A Henry King

? Production

Presented by Fox Film

THE MIDNIGHT FOLLIES of 1933 - 34.

ALL

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DALLT

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1.31. 4.00

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TAKUART Jake on Harm VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

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SENSATIONAL POLICE MYSTERY THRILLER !

Co-starring LEO CAR- RILLO and MARY BRIAN, south Noah Beary, Russell Gleason.

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A

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DANCING REVUE

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The

China Mail.

EIGHTY - NINTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION.

HONG KONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1933.

Evolution Link In Chimpanzee

Apes Have "Sign Of Babinski.”

CONSIDERED EXCLUSIVELY

HUMAN

ARMS BUREAU ADJOURNS

"Babinsk!" after head injuries. It Further Postponement

the Klumbling is symptom of trouble called Little's disease.

Now come the Yale experiments in which the sign emphasizes how brains probably developed in evo- lution. The studies were made by John P. Fulton, M.D., professor of physiology, Yale School of Medi- cine, and Allen D. Keller, profes

of phisiology, University

Alabama.

New Haven, Connecticut. The "sign of Babinski," a big toe reflex once considered exclusive ly human, has been found in chim- panzees at Yale University Insti-wor tute of Human Relations. The discovery giver scientists a bit of information potential value in studying human nervous disorders. It also bridges another gap in evolution.

#n

the

Probable.

London. To-day.

The Bureau of the Disarma- ment Conference met yester- day afternoon ut Geneva.

The Chairman. Mr. Arthur Hen- of derson, proposed that the meeting of the General Commission of the medical Beginning with the lower forms Disarmament Conference should, at of of monkeys. they watched for the its meeting to-day adjourn until 4. and recommended "sign of Babins to appear as a December

that the Drafting Committee result of brain injuries. But noth- ing like the sign was detected from should prepare a mudel conven-

ad- the injuries until they had

tron, embodying Sir John Simon's- Tickle a baby's instep and

upward, vanced up the evolutionary intel- latest proposals, before the work big toe will try to turn

ladder to chimpanzees, of the Conference is resumed. instead of curling downward like ligence

which, with gorillas, occupy to reaction. That

the Mr. Renderson Indicated adult's upturning is the "sign of Babinskl." rung just below man.

Speculative scientific writing possibility that a further adjourn The name is from Joseph Babinski,

a still later date mighi has attributed the ment to French physician, who discovered heretofore

"Babinak!" 111 man to an slavistic prove necessary.-British Wireless the reflex about 30 years ago.

In babies it is a healthy sign of reversion to the dim past when he Service, the stage of still incomplete develop lived in trees. Then he was thought to have had an opposable big toe. ment of the higher nervous 1res. But later in life the "sign" one which could be used like

grasping. Dr. Fulton disappeara. except furing deep thumb in

of the says the Yale studies show that Reappearance "Babinsk!" in adult waking hours this belief is a fallacy.-Reuter is an important symptom of vous disorders.

sleep.

cen-

ber-

A reception

was held yesterday

a

NEW GOVERNOR FOR SEYCHELLES

(Continued from Page ta

Sir De Symons Honey KL C.M.G..] points directly The sign

afternoon at the Church of Our was appointed Governor and Comman-- trouble in the brain, in the nervour Saviour in Canton in honour of the der-in-Chief of Seychelles in 1928. He

s veteran “ Right is 41 years of age and centres which transmit control of first visit to Canton of the bodily movements, in the

the Boer War, since when he has been

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