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The announcement that for the first time in history two senior officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are to undergo a special course at Scotland Yard le slightly misleading.

For some years now a repre- sentative of the "Mounties" has come regularly to London to con-

CREATION OF MANKIND

REPLY TO DARWINIAN THEORISTS

ET

NATURAL SELECTION NOT COMPLETELY PROVED

(By Sir Ambrose Fleming)

me say in the first place human progeny of an original that an address of the kind single couple, whereas the num- sult with Scotland Yard on the I delivered naturally suffers in efbers are, in fact, a bare 2,000,000)- drug traffic. t.

fect when paragraphs are taken 000. This shows incontestably The decision, however, does out here and there and reproduced that If human origin extends no- 1,000,000 years, the mark a new departure, in that the as a newspaper report, because far back as two officers will come here to learn much is then of necessity omitted rate of increase of numbers on the and and not merely to consult, which qualifies or guarda hp-average must have been

slower than at present, They will specialise in finger-parently sweeping statements. prints.

HORSEMAN AND FIGHTER":

Darwinian dyn

It formed no part of my inten- tion to make a violent or ignorant

The implies that what is called attack on the doctrine of evolution generally, whatever be the sense the crude death rate must have Of the two officers, who started attaching to that magnical word. been nearly equal to the crude their duties on January 28, Com Nevertheless, it is undeniable birth rate in the far past, because missioner Dunn is no stranger to that in the light of modern-know-it is on the difference that the ledge or genetics, or animal repro-population increase depends. If, England.

He was born in the Midlands duction, many naturalists of great then, it has taken thousanda or, tens- and went to Canada as a young competence have expressed their of thousands of years for the man. He has been back officially doubts whether Darwin's theory population, human or semi-human, of natural selection, as propound to double its numbers in prehis.... on at least two occasions.

In 1910 he was a sergeant-majored by him nearly 70 years ago, can toric time, the important question. In the "Mountica" detachment now be taken as a complete. solu-to consider is whether this fact which attended the King's Corona-tion of the problem of animal does not limit the extent to which. Darwinlan natural selection can. tion. Four years ago he headed species. the "Mounties" team which per- formed so brilliantly at the Inter-settled by, zoologists with technical pational Horse Show at Olympla. knowledge.

Apart from being Canada's crack

Penelope: "What was? Percival: "I showed her one of my

That question must be left to be have operated to produce the great.

differences in bodily structure or psychical endowment between mo- dern man and some ancient mam- mai.

Man And The Apes horseman in both English style My object was to give expression The Dawinian theory, if I under- and "broncho busting," the Com-no doubt imperfectly, to the missioner is or was a handy man strong feeling in the minds of an stand it rightly, is that there are immense number of thoughtful and small accidental differences in the DEATH

da has its two white families, with his fists.

In his early days out West he highly educated men and women serm-cells of any class of living with one or two other groups of

handed.

sion of this theory to assert that dividuals which happen to possess. race had its qualities or powers in concordance CHAUN-Dr. Moon Hung Chaun European origin which are only cleaned up many a saloon single- at the present day, that the exten-organisms, and that these in-

the present human locality;

Darwinian natural with their environment have a bet passed away peacefully at his noticeable because some of them

have gathered in one

Your Daily Smile! sole origin in residence at No. 9 Belfran Road but there is no "native" problem.

selection from a purely animal ter chance of survival than those- which do not. They then have a on Monday, February 18, at India has a handful practically

stock has not been proved so.com- a vast 2.50 p.m., after a brief illness. of British only, amid

Percival: "That was the unkindest pletely as to make it a scientific better chance in the struggle for existence to live and procreate, The funeral will take place to ocean of dark-skinned tribes. cut of all, as the poet says."

truth it is necessary to accept morrow morning, the cortege Australia is British throughout,

In their opinion, if it were so de-and pass on these useful modifica tions to a succeeding generation. To the leaving the residence at 10 am and New Zealand also.

To do this they must have a fair- arriving at about 11 am, at latter the Maoris are neither by boyhood pictures with my father hold-monstrated "as incontestably true, ing me on his knee, and she said, "My, it would be entirely subversive of, a the Vehicular, Ferry Wharf, numbers nor by inclination

who is the ventriloquist ?"

and inconsistent with, another re-expectation of reaching adult life, because, neither humans nor an Hong Kong side. A service will source of trouble. South Africa be held at the Church at the differs, then, from all her sisters

nature which they hold to be of fancy. If, however, the death rate- Chinese-Christian Cemetery at in the make-up of her people.

unspeakable importance.

is nearly equal to the birth rate, One result of these complications

It, therefore, becomes necessary it must surely limit very greatly Pokfulum at 12 noon.

has been that she has known

to examine critically the nature of the opportunity or chance to pass warfare more bitter and more

While in the midst of a lecture, the of the profits that are put forward

advantageous qualities frequent than has been perienced by any other dominion, speaker noticed a number of people in for this animal origin of the bu

man race from a source common to powers, both between British and Dutch, the audience smiling. He looked down

and there between his feet, was

I venture to think that this ques-- and between whites and kaffira black cat. He picked up the cat and it and the anthropoid apes. Whilst the utmost respect and attention. Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 1955 One might have thought that the addressed him in this way:

always latent menace of the "Kitty, I'm so sorry but you can't must be paid to the opinions of ation of the present and past rate of This is a 'monologue great scientific leader and au-growth of population, having re swarming blacks would have per-stay in here.

thority on this subject, such as Sir gard to definite terminal limita

very tions, has not been sufficiently con- Arthur Keith, who in his kindly and most courteous criti.sidered in making, the large de ciam of my remarks for which 1 mands on time for human age by tender to him my thanks has ex-modern anthropologists,

The China Mail

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Young Man: “Will you marry mer »/gion of truth with regard to humanthropoid mammals procreate in in

Heire: "No, l'am afraid not.” "Oh, come on, be a support."

Monologue

Empire Press Union force driven the two European and not a 'catalogue." "

stocks into close fellowship. LOCAL NEWS

But this consideration has often

BREVITIES

on

น

Stery In Genesis

From all parts of the British carried no weight at all, and only Empire, delegates are now con- very recently has anything like

A free Lecture (illustrated) will pressly differed from them, I yet Sir Arthur Keith holds that gregated at South Africa for the political cohesion been attained.

Making due allowance for die be given in the Concert Hall at the felt compelled to put on record have neglected to consider the- plements. It is quite possible that purpose of holding there the or

hard pessimism and for too en-Sailors' and Soldiers' Home to-mor-reasons for not agreeing with the proof of antiquity in stone im- in making his very kindly worded" dinary quinquennial meeting ofthusiastic idealism, it does ap-row evening, commencing at 8,30 current opinion.

World's Population

criticism he had before him only The Lec- Even those who are not able to the abbreviated report in the news-- the Empire Press Union. These pear that in South Africa this p.m., by Professor Brown of the

has something of Hong Kong University, Press gatherings, businesslike cohesion

pro-reality in it, guaranteed as it is ture is entitled "Helen Keller the decide technical questions may yet papers, and not the full printed. ad- though they are at the per time, are a great deal more by the attitude of such a man as Deaf and Blind Authoress." A be considered competent to express dress. In the latter I have expressly. than merely exchange-houses for General Smute. This is the very hearty Invitation is extended an opinion whether a particular stated that even those who adhere issue has been sufficiently estab-to belief in the separate creation journalistic technicalities. They spectacle, an almost unanimous to all who are interested.

lished by evidence.

of Man must yet bring their views fulfil one of the most important political agreement, which should

In this particular matter I ven Into agreement with the certainly aima conceivable, in that they most deserve the study of the For allowing his dog to wander afford at stated intervals an op-oversea visitors. It will seem to in Humphreys Avenue et, 2.85 p.m. tured to suggest that the assum-ascertained facts of anthropology, portunity for the selected repre- them only a natural thing when on February 2, Mr. L. B. Gomes, of tion of the immense span of time but not necessarily with the in- sentatives of Empire journalism they notice the easy way in No. 8 Humphreys Avenue, was fend such as the half-million, or per completely confirmed hypothese to acquire a certain measure of which Boers and Britons mix, $3 by Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham at haps million, years which it is] first-band knowledge of the Em-notwithstanding all their past the Kowloon Magistracy this morn necessary to assume for the evolu

tion of modern man from a BUDAPEST MEANS TO pire which they would otherwise disputes. It is certainly a closer ing.

animal origin, carries with it cer in all probability never gain social contact than can be obser-

Mr. B. D. Evans, of the Royal tain implications which have not This is of service both to the ved as a rule between French and

Generally Observatory, Kowloon, was fined $5 been adequately considered. newspapers themselves and to English in Canada. the widespread British

Com speaking, the two white races of by Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham at the We knew for certain that the munities which they serve. It is South Africa get on together re- Kowloon Magistracy this morning present human population on this perhaps especially so when one markably well, and wise leader for allowing his dog to wander unearth is about 2,000,000,000 per of the dominions is the meeting-ship has now brought them into muzzled in Nathan Road at 10.45, sons, or, let us say, 1,000,000,000 place. Press leaders in the main a joint national party, from am on February 2.

If the have at least some acquaintance which but few dissent. with London and Great Britain. journalists from other lands, Three cases of diphtheria But they know comparatively impressed as they must be by one of scarlet fever were reported little, by actual observation, of the spectacle of such compara- in the Colony yesterday..

tive harmony among races of the Britains overzea.

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couples. We know from certain evidence (ree article on Popula and tion in the "Encyclopaedia Bri- tannica") that in 1914 it was esti- mated at 1,900,000,000 and in 1845

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For some time past South Different origin, can enforce the Two cases of small-pox, both fatal, evidence to show that since the be going Danube, steamer will soon be Africa has been reported as be- moral on those who know noth-four cases of diphtheria, all fatal, ginning of the Christian era it has ready.

ing on a peak of prosperity ing of a dividing line of that sort three cases of typhoid fever, two doubled in number many times she is under construction at the That has been mainly due to gold, it will prove to be the most valu-case of cerebrospinal fever and one over, Sir George Knipha; a great Ganz worke, will be loaded at a factor of perhaps less certain able boon forthcoming from the case of hydrophobia were reported authority, has shown that the pro- Budapest and reach her destination

Details of

In the Colony during the week end-geny of a single human couple, without any trans-shipment at the durability than the principal as congress. sets which other dominions en communication in the way of ing February 16. Fifty-one deaths multiplying at the rate of 1 per mouth of the Danube.

their from tuberculosis were notified dar cent. per annum, would amount to The experiment, whereby cargoes

joy. For the present, however. news, interesting the same period.

the visitors will see a good deal results may be to

to admire and to envy, But the public, do not appeal in them- subject which will most of all at- selves to the layman. The same tract their attention will be the is to be said of many other mat social conditions. These in some ters of newspaper administra particulara are, literally unique. tion. But a major question like South Africa has two white the welding of kindred races alm equal numerically, for the common food les

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