1935-10-19 — Page 9

“THE CHINA MAHL, SATURDAY, OCTO

CHIANG'S DOWNFALL WHAT IS THE AGE

CONTEMPLATED?

JAPANESE MILITARIST

ACTIVITIES

CHANGED ATTITUDE TOWARD SOUTH-WEST NOTED

From Our Own Correspandent)

Canton, To-day.

OF MAN?

Professor Places It At 50,000 Years

EASTER ISLAND DECLARED TO FURNISH CLUJE

Los Angeles.

"I have made some translations which push back the history of Man from 5,000 or 6,000 years to 50,000 years,” declared Professor Edinoad Szekely, of the University of Clui. Roumania, in an address i

what would seem to be the first!

Agitation by Japanese military commanders made in Esperanto here, in China and Tokyo aimed at the overthrow of The professor said he had made General Chiang Kai-shek, strong man of the translation of mysterions hierogly- Nanking Government, are believed in well-phics inscribed on pieces of wood informed circles here to be the reason fcfound on Faster Island.

Pacific. Chiang's compromising attitude towards South-west.

in the

the The piece of wood from which he made the translation. the 'pro- ofessor added, is about two feet

long and is shaped like » canoe.]

General Chiang Kai-shek, it

Island and which are now in the hands of

is said. has instructed Ambas- It is one of about 11 specimens į CORRESPONDENCE Sador Chiang Too-pin at Tokyo found about 15 years ago during

to find out whether the Japan-research on Easter ese militarists are out to over-i throw him. These reports have scientists various pat of the damped General Chiang's en-l

world. thusiasm in attempting an ear-

A TRAVELLER'S COMPLAINT

To The Editor, China Mail**]

Sir.-The determinazion

rise of or "Sun

The scrawl m the professor's ly unification of the country by estimate. tells of the force. which is complete with Heliolithic civilisation. of the exception of Kwangtung (and Stone civilisation. The story

wasting these ink-drops on the and Kwangsi.. first day of my first visit to this

ately come across

****

voyage

into the harbour.

The natural beauty of the Colony alone is worth of a trip.

of the Sunmen or Nomads, and their struggles with the Stone

the scientists there.”

Central

tion dates back 25,000 years, ac icording to Professor Szekely's

estimate, references in the hiero-!

Shirley Temple. America's dar ling, fills one with the joys of liv- ing with her songs and dances in "Curly Top", the Fox Film pro- duction is now being shown at the King's Theatre.

The Horrible God

By Thomas Burke

RAINWATER wasn't The idol had been worrying

Colony as an unexpected miserable Kweichow and Szechuen. Men or Stone-workers. is recount To-day's Short Story thing that I have most unfortar-which were heretofore enjoying led in the hieroglyphics.

a semi-independent status. are

Heliolithic Culture Fascinated by the numerous now under General Chiang's

"From this civilisation came talks on the beauty of the Island authority.

Yunnan is taking that of Babylon, Ancient Egypt. I counted hours as days all along orders from General Chiang and indeed all subsequent ones."

whose military power is grow-added the professor. until the morning ing. In view of Japanese at-!

. It also. scenery presented to meet my eyetempts to unseat him, the Nan-

gave rise to the religion of Persian on the President boat steaming king leader is said to be adopt-anism of the Hiadus.

Zoroastrianism and the Brah- ing a more friendly attitude to-Heloolithic age began to

This Measily scared, but for the Rainwater for some time even wards Canton.

Asia 25,000 years ago. The lea-ast three or four days he had before the following had begun. But I am still adamant in airing Japanese propaganda states ders came by boat to Easter strong feeling that he was it was an idol of a kind he had my grieveance against too many that the removal of General island, which accounts for the ex-eing followed, and it was up-never before seen; an idol which searched of my baggage upon my Chiang is for the good of the traordinary stone gods raised in setting him. He knew that the cave him the shudders every time arrival

Chinese people, who are, how-rows which have mystified modern eeling of being followed is he looked at it. As a collector of Searching baggage is to

often a symptom of a neurotic native bric-a-brac, he was accus- curo ever, not impressed by smuggling and I do not there-"Good Samaritan" gesture

Although Heliolithic civilisa-r morbid state, but that wasn't tomed, even hardened, to the many

his state. He Was føre, expect to be made ал RT-

ealthy and free of melodrama-which the black mind, in its more quite variations upon certain themes of ception as a traveller. Yesterday i

ic or nervous imaginings. He exalted fervours, is capable morning at the Kowloon Wharfl

He could was being followed. glyphics to the Pleistocene floods feel it through his skin.

But this...The most cloistered! and cataclysms which separated could feel it in the air

Henan, knowing nothing of the the peoples of the past induge him moment he left his home. He baseness of man, would have the images by which men express the to double his estimate of the pro- could feel pursuit and bable history of man.

the known at a glance that this thing prickings of danger. The carven images on Easter Towards midnight that evening The most experienced Madame of was in forma and spirit horrible.{ Island are known 23 "speaking his suspicion became certainty. timbers" the professor continued. He was walking down Shaftesbury-not have confused it with the a Buenos Aires sailors' hotel would and many of them tell of the avenue towards Piccadilly and was struggle between the Sun Men and in the thick of the crowd: coming realistic emblems of native reli- ~~However, when the small-boat

the Stone Men and also, curiously from the theatres when, clearly gions which her customers brought carrying all my baggage, touched

enough, the origin of leprosy and and with electrical argency, a from their voyages and with the wharf of the opposite harbour,j

its cure.

voice reached his ear. It was a which they improved her know- the unloading was subject to an-

The professor is on his way to keen mutter, an other search a very long search crease revenue and reduce conges Mexico City, accompanied by Mr. as a friend. The vengeance of the just a masterpiece of unrelated it said: "I speak ledge of anthropology. It was The fact that one basket with tion in the downtown streets.

Purcell Weaver, of London, and god Imbrolu is a Two hundred meters have been. F. Marchal, of Tahit, where geance. He seeks his own place." terrible. ven- for 10 minutes with beastly hand-installed and the city is in an upthe trio will make further efforts ling of the parcels was sufficient roar for and against them.

to unravel the history of remote past-Beuter.

my haggage was stopped for carry- PARKING BY SLOT

ing out the perfunctory duty of the Revenue Department. As a mat ter of fact the European Officer caused me less inconvenience than I expected: Azd, for his smiling† expression aby stranger would inwardly lavish praise. I should say I thank this greeting from Hong Kong.

eatable contents was looked into

MACHINE

Oklahoma Tries -Out

New Idea

AN HOUR FOR A NICKEL

Oklahoma City. "Slot machine" parking is the latest effort by this city to in-

to arouse your readers' sympathy The way they work is this:

A motorist wishing to park his on the patience of an nufortunate

car pulls it traveller

into

a marked-of

*!

Rainwater turned swiftly. Hej man's collided with two girls just behind him who were giggling and talk- ing of Ronald Cólman. On one side of him

a policeman Was

The reasonable protest that same space against the kerb He then LABOUR SHORTAGE riding. On the other side was

40 minutes

ago,

up

baggage was,

deposits, a nickel in the meter, set searched at the Kowloon Wharf by the edge of the kerbing, and was not only ignored but

a flag flies-

indicating the ostensibly taken as a provocation, meter has been "paid."

turned

were

WHA

Then

IN RUSSIA -

Curious New Problem

Moscow.

With the growth of its indus-

Hence, more bags were

hand starts moving inside out. The look and the do-slowly across a graduated scale! minating voice of this plain-clothed When it indicates that the hour is. Chinese revenue-officer en-up, the flag drops, Policemen may tirely different from that of the "tag" the car for being in the has first European searcher. Such space without its rent paid. was my experience and partly my

Mr. Carl Magee, a newspaper publisher here, invented the impression of Hong Kong.

I learn that the wish to attract vice while studying traffic more travellers into the Colony is blems. The City Council has running very high recently. If so, proved a contract with him. let the Authority be not blinded to such happening.

Thanking you. Sir, for allowing

me space.

MOLESTED.

PICNIC FOR THE BLIND

The Kowloon Tong Group of

the V.D.M.A. acknowledge with

3 wall. Two paces ahead was a newsboy, and walking away from him were a couple of nondescript youths who had evidently been drinking

horror.

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story" will "Uncharted "Creek," Andrew D. Pears.

The artist who made it bad

withdrawn from

the unfenced

As the crowd swirled round him fields of religious ardour and had trial programme. Soviet Russia he looked here and there for the immured himself within the nar- see row dogmas of art-just to show, run upon a new problem possible speaker, but could

nobody to w? 'm that queer rant apparently, that art, with all its labour shortage.

and technique, This is especially felt in the ter could ha belonged. It was fetters of form

not an English mutter de-more or less undeveloped regions

could outsoar anything achieved pro-where new industrial enterprises street was a large negro in a bril-which the darker religions distin- On the opposite side of the under the license and tolerance by apare being started

liant bine suit; in a bus coming (guish themselves from art. Special commissions are now from Ficcadilly circus sat a man Those in favour of free park combing the country districts of muddy colour, and Oriental Never had Rainwater, under that Certainly he had succeeded. ing have been trying to persuade recruits labour from among the

features; and outside the Monico, cloak of respectability which hides policemen to arrest violators in or-peasants. der that a test case may be made.

some 30-yards away, was an Alge-so many anomalies, even imagined The shortage is particularly So far the police have refused to acute in the case of skilled workers of these men from him made it body else whom he knew. Of all rian rug-seller. But the distance anything like it. Nor had any- do this on the ground that the with a trade such as carpenters, impossible for any of them to have his acquaintance among curators public must become acclimatised to plasterers, bricklayers and plum-spoken those words in his ear two of museums, not one could put a the meters first. Beuter.

bers Reuter

name to it or even conjecture, the He stood and considered. It country or island of its origin. was odd; very odd. The voice had When he showed it to them they jbeen so sharp and so close that #stared and whistled. “

must have been addressing him. And that was all he could get

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The appointment of Miss Hilda Volunteer Defence Corps by Cap It had come right into his ear, as from them. They could tell him

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grateful thanks the following fur-

picnic

Previously acknowledged

Anonymous No. 9

Anonymous No. 10.1

Henry

John

Cars: Previously ack

with effect from October 2, is First Battalion. Straits Settle ing his ab der. Yet nobody ton't Java, that it wasn't Easter gazetted:

ments Volunteer Force, with ef- whom he sold trace its He Kland, or Haiti, or libería; but $347.01 Mr. David Kelvin-Start has fect from October 18, on his per-7 knew, of course, the trick of self-they couldn't tell him what it was. 5.00 been appointed Deputy Estate manent transfer from the Colony, effacement; that sleek movement They could only tell him that he'd Duty Commissioner and Assistant The appointment of Wong Kam-by which a cat will pass round you better put it away or throw it 500 Colonial Treasurer, with effect ying a Third Forester in the Bo before your

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from October 215

tanical and Forestry Department seeing

$363.01|-- During the absence from the on the resignation of Li Chi-fat, ple can

[Colony of “Monsieur Soulange has been gazetted with... effect

Teissier, Consul for France in from October 11

14, Anonymous No. 91. Mr. Bitzer Hong Kong, Monsieur C. Ben His Honour Sir Atholl Mac-

{ner. Vice-Consal for France, will Gregor, Chief - Justice, has

1, Sir Wm. Shenton 1, Rev L

Nash 1 and Mr. Sauerbeck

This picnic is being held

Saturday, 19th October

from the Blinds Home at 1 at 2.30 p.m. Anyone who is ested and would like to will be very welcome.

be, in charge of the French Con-pointed David Kelvin Stark

His Excellency the Officer.

puty Estate Duty Commissione Hong Kong, to be a Commission

"the

the

fishment

com

Captain in

clarations and affirmations the purpo Ordinance,

without your sway a

certain peo He put it away at the bottom cessation of of one of his curio cabinets. He tributed the couldn't give it away, because no- to that, body he knew would have accepted ving it: "All his friends were married.

And as a collector he couldn't bring |

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