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MISSING LINK HUNTERS ARRIVE IN COLONY

Plan To Live In Jungle With Apes AUSTRALIA

73 FOR 2

WICKETS FALL AFTER LUNCH

FARNES PLAYING FOR ENGLAND

Adelaide. To-day.

After being 72 for 1 at lunch,

Australia lost two quick wickets

for the addition of only a single!

against England, which opened?

TRACING MAN'S EVOLUTION

BY GIBBERING GIBBON

(By A Staff Reporter)

Seven American scientists who plan to live!

The Princess Royal, who

a visit to the Duke of Windsor in Austria shortly.

in the fourth Test cricket match among the anthropoid apes in the jungles of indicate her intention has here this morning in fine weather. Siam, Borneo and Sumatra for the next nine months, are now in Hong Kong, having arrived present in sunny and warm wear this morning in the Empress of Japan.

There was a crowd of 25,000!

ther when Allen and Bradman! went out to toss, the Australian skipper not hesitating to take first! use of a wicket that is expected. to play easily throughout the day.

THE TEAMS

The Missing Link" furnishes the clue to their ambition. They hope, by close observation of the life, habits and behaviour of the sub-human species in their natural environment to trace more of the missing links to man.

PRINCESS ROYAL TO VISIT THE EX-KING

Although an unkind suggestion was made to-day that hey Cabinet And Edward's

The following are the tearns: Australia: D. G. Bradman į ing arrived in Hong Kong, further exploration was barely neces- (Captain), W. A. Brown. J. H. Fir- sary, Dr. Harald J. Coolidge, leader of the expedition, told a staff gleton, S. J. McCabe, E. L. Mc- reporter of the "China Mail" that their chief research will be Cormick, W. J. O'Reilly, W. A. centred upon the gibbon, which is, to say the least, rare here, Oldfield, L. Fleetwood Smith, K. though it lives in clans in North Siam, which will probably be Rigg. 4 G. Chipperfield and R. come the expedition's principal base. Gregory, relith man-¤ Bac cock.

England: G 0. Allen (Cap. tain), Ames. Barnett, E Farnes, Hammond, Hardstaff. Leyland, P. W. V. Robins, Vèrity, Voce and E E. S. Wyatt.

Kenneth Farnes has secured re- cognition for the first time on the present tour and bis inclusion

was prompted by the fact that Voce, although included, is sufer- ing from a sore back near the waist Allen has thus wisely brought in his spare fast bowler

as an emergency measure.

Brothers DISAPPROVAL OF MEETINGS

Vienna, To-day. Both the Duke of Kent and

VISHINSKY the important gaps in the jig- the Duke of Gloucester, young-

CLOSE OF MOSCOW

· PROSECUTION

LENIENCY ASKED FOR TWO

FIRST WICKET DOWN Ames and Hammond are both

Moscow, To-day. suffering from minor

Tumultous applause rang which are not expected to inter-through the courtroom as!

AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

BUTTER

GALE FURY LASHES PORTUGAL

TASTE

Huge Seas And 120 m.p.h. Wind SWATOW'S LINER IN GRAVE

PERIL: S.O.S. SIGNALS REACH HELPLESS MEN

OF THE STORM

TOWN PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS

LIGHTNING HITS POWER CABLE

THE LIVES OF 100 PASSENGERS ON BOARD THE

BRAZILIAN LINER “SANTOS” ARE IMPERILLED AS THE

LINER IS DRIFTING HELPLESSLY IN RAGING SEAS OFF THE COASTĜOF PORTUGAL.

Swatow, To-day. « Swalow's power station was put out of action when lightning struck the distribution system at a vital point during a terri- fic thunderstorm last night. The town was plunged into, darkness, apart from the al-

Frantic SOS. signals were sent out yesterday but all at most incessant play of light-tempts to proceed to the liner's assistance from Lisbon have met ning, for nearly an hour, the with complete failure, the mountainous seas and a wind which current being cut off at 9.30 reached a velocity of 120 miles an hour, forcing all rescue ships. p.m. and being resumed at back into barbour. 10.25 p.m.

The liner ran into a hurricane yesterday and was battered by the singa, said to be the most severe in sixty years, into a condition of helples

Many small houses weze

Dess..

Shipping has been paralysed!

wrecked by torrential rain and along the entire Portuguese

lightning.

coast.

Two torpedo-boat des SHENSI PEACE A large area of Eastern troyers out 03 manoeuvres? Kwangtung was affected by were caught when some the APPARENTLY

Union News. tance from harbour and only

managed to limp into port after SECURE FREAKISH LOCAL hours of heartbreaking

battling against the elements. STORM

the storm

last niit

this morning.

districts.

at this

The

TROOPS WITHDRAW FROM CHIESUI

Shanghai, To-day

Members of the expedition, which seeks to fill in some of

PORTUGAL SWEPT saw reconstruction of human er brothers of ex-King Edward, Nearly an inch of rain fell in The full effect of the storm) evolution, incinde Dr. W. H. now Duke of Windsor, have the "trugicalTM thunderstorm was felt all over Portugal, says DEMANDS

Osgood. of Chicago, Dr. C.. R. been advised by the. British which broke -over-Hong Kong Trans-Ocean, but no accurate The withdrawal of the w Carpenter, of Bard College, Cabinet that it would be un-

estimate of the damage done guard of the Shensi rebels Vivid lightning and the violence and the toll in human life can from Chinsui, a town on the DEATH and Dr. A. H. Schultz, of desirable for them to visit him

Baltimore.

at Enzesfeld Castle.

of the thunder cracks were prin- be made until reports have railway to the east of Sixufu, This is according to a Vienna cipal features of the weather phe- been received from outlying is considered an indication that Living evidence of man in the paper, which says that the Duke of nomena process of evolution among the Kent had intended to visit his bro Practically unknown

the agreement reached on apes is the avowed objective. They ther in Austria from the Hague time of the year in Hong Kong, districts are completely cut off ed.

At present many of these January 27 will be duly execute believe that apes are man's im-following the wedding of Princess the storm began in the early even from the outside world, the Moreover the Lunghai Railway mediate ancestors and that by ob-Juliana.

ing, broke off and resumed in its hurricane having interrupted jis reported to have sent engineers serving them in their normal ha- The Duke abandoned the project fullest fury in the early hours of all communications. bitats, the missing links will be when told by Mr. Stanley Baldwin,

from Tungkwas to found in both the physical and the British Premier, that the Gor-

The hills in and around echoed cultural aspects of man's developernment did not favour visits to to the reverberations of loud and ment from ape to ape-man and on the former King.

ear-splitting rolls of thunder, ito man.

were accompanied by Meanwhile, the Princess Royal, which fere with their play and Wyatt, Vishinsky, the Public Prosecu

SOCIABLE AND MONOGAMOUS sister of the Duke of Windsor, is heavy downpour. the Warwickshire skipper, has dis- tor, concluded an impassioned The gibbons, on which attention to pay a visit, says the paper.

placed Worthington as England's appeal with the demand that will be concentrated, are the most

Since her visit is of a purely Enquiries from the Director of opening bat after a long period of all the seventeen accused in the manlike of all the apes, and chief private patare, says the report, the Royal Observatory elicited the inactivity owing to an injured mass trial be shot.

importance is attached to them be the British Cabinet is unable to information that

it was no thing recent fossil discoveries interfere.

more or less than Vishinsky alleged that the tend to single out gibbonoid stock

The Princess Royal, who is ex-unseasonable happening." Fingleton and Brown opened the aim of the accused was to par-as the possible ancestor of other pested at Enzesfeld Castle on Feb. Australian innings against

This morning's weather forecast bowling of Voce, who was cel the Soviet Union into eto anthropoids and of man himself. 7, will take part in winter sports and report states that the anti-the gale moderating. The P. and charging its cargo,

Credit is given to the gibbons, with her brother Trans-Ocean.

cyclone over North China is in- perialistic and Fascist coun-for instance, as being like man be-

creasing in intensity, and the de- tries.

Icause he is both sociable and mo-

pression is crossing Japan. A small depression was situated near Playing themselves in cautious-States freedom of action in the

This, he stated, would offer such (nogamouz! ly, the pair added 26 runs before Danube Basin, the Balkans Fingleton had his wicket thrown down by Voce. He had just reach- ed double figures.

hand

injuries

the

notnomic concessions to the im

sending them down as fast usual, and Allen, who could not get a "kick out of the wicket

as

Chine.

cause

In him, it is suggested, are t and be found traces of man's most 1ärmly established social institu- tions, including his family Ed

Arguing that the exiled Leon

BROWN DELIGHTFUL Trotsky was chiefly responsible for group life.

the crimes of the accused, counsel

Joined by Bigg, Brown continu- for the defence pleaded that the

FIRST PROBLEM,

First problem of the seven

cure acceptance by the gibbons'

ed to score steadily, the 50 being lives of Knyazet, a director of the scientists, it is gathered, is to se hoisted after 66 minutes and the Soviet Railways, and Arnold, the pair adding 46 before lunch was former Hollywood actor, be spar clans as fit society with which to taken with the score at 72 for Led.

{associate. Brown was then 42 as the result

Trotsky was behind Knyazeff's

of delightful shots on the leg side, crimes, he claimed, while Arnold, customed to the presence of the As soon as they do become ac- while Rigy, who was batting con- though ordered to carry out cer expedition in their midst, the in- fidently, had scored 20..

tain acts, failed to do so because vestigators will settle down with The felding of the English team his nerve failed him-Reuter.

was excellent throughout

morning.

Scores

AUSTRALIA

J. H. Fingleteri, ran out W. A. Brown, not out

Rigg, not out

the

TRAMWAYS DIVIDEND

notebooks to record their habits.

Every phase of the gibbon's daily life wil be studied in thị light of modern psychology, socio-j logy, morphology, physical an-

At the forthcoming. Annual thropology and anatomy is az e- General Meeting shortly to be en-ffort to determine for the first nounced the Directors of Hongtime with scientific scenary to Kong Tramways Limited having]what extent these primates have provided for Depreciation, Items followed the same written-off, all other charges and hition, sa mankind” and the oth transferring a sum of $300,000 to anthropoids, General Reserve Account - will routes have diver recommend a Final Dividend of]^«Bata"

Forty 1936

ris per share for the year lidge

“UNSEASONABLE”

STOP PRESS South Formosa

Pau Kau, an office boy of Mr. Eldon Potter, K. C., wAS „admitted to-day to the G. C. EL He was suffering from injur ies caused when, he stated; he was held up and stabbed at

· 11.30 am and robbed of $350,- Inspector A. E. Carey is mak ng enquiries.

TEST LATEST -TEA — 163 for 4:

an

2

Moderate to fresh weather, yen- erally, with North-east winds, was the forecast for to-day.

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Famous Bayreuth ∙Festival

Berlin, To-day. For the first time since the be- gimming of the Great War the famous Wagnerian Festival at Bayreuth has been recorded for the gramophone, the exclusive rights being granted to the Tele fanker Company by Fran Wai- fred Wagner

Twenty-two records have been made, "ten of which have already been placed on sale, these being designed to form a unified sez and for reproduce the outst mnsical moments of the Festi

The records were made by orchestes of 1,270 performers a chorus of 270.4 Imembers of opera compa

over, Germany, Trans Oce

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