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very much to persuade a certain walking talking, breathing, per- fect example of a Cromagnon- type skull, to allow them to make a plaster cast of his head. The gentleman takes his stand firm- ly, however, against any ad- a direction. Who knows, per- vancement of knowledge in such

haps the so-called "missing link" will eventually turn up alive, likewise a respected member of society, perhaps in the Dark Continent.

Hong Kong, Friday, September 9, 1938. The Case of

Sherlock Holmes

THE NEW BALKANS

A correspondent to the London One said "Balkans” with a press has discovered that the shudder before the World War.[public library of a certain pro- It was in the Balkans, most peo-[vincial town in Britain has filed ple feared, that trouble would ("The Memoirs of Sherlock start if it came. One says "Bal- Holmes" among the biographies. kans" with anything but a shud- When one considers the letters der to-day, noting the agreement that have been addressed to Mr. between the Balkan Entente and Holmes at 221B Baker Street, Bulgaria. With war in Spain, and the research into his life car- in China, and threatening in ried out by authors of repute, one Central Europe, out of the once cannot deny that there is a body unruly Balkans come not rum-of opinion that would apparently blings of possibly illimitable favour the library's decision. It storms but indications of a bet-might appear dogmatic, there ter atmosphere.

fore, to assert roundly that that

An understanding has been decision is a mistake. It is more reached whereby the Balkan. En-courteous merely to point out tente-Turkey, Greece, Yugosla-that the weight of evidence in- via and Rumania-recognise Bal-clines in that direction. garian equality in matters per- In spite of this, however, there taining to defence. A fact of may be others who prefer to keep non-aggression also has been an open mind, and to toy with concluded. Reports from the the possibility of a witness, ár- capitals concerned indicate that riving as unexpectedly as Ham- the agreement has been purely let, to declare: "Alas, poor Sher- voluntary among all participants, lock! I knew him well";" and

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sures one upon the other or of Mr. Holmes's dictum that: “It is intervention by any great power.a capital mistake to theorise be- The atmosphere is described as fore you have all the evidence." better than in twenty-five years. Nevertheless, one cannot but In pre-World War days one feel, the situation they are pre- would not have dared to hope pared to contemplate is one that quieting news could come which, in those typically vivid out of the Balkans. Or, if there and lucid words of Dr. Watson, had been reason so to hope, one "the more one thinks of it the would have felt the world was more mysterious it grows.” safe. In 1938 the world does not

seem too safe even So. Yet it Official "Hits" discovers with every advance

*

Missing Link?

toward understanding such as Opening recently in London this recorded for the Balkans, the new retail shop of His Maj- and such as that which was re-esty's Stationary Office, Lord ported recently from South Southwood pointed out that it America when the Chaco dispute was a mistake to, imagine that was ended by arbitration that Government publications were even while it has been giving necessarily dull, and that some of fearful attention to the destruc- the Office's Blue Books and White tiveness of the war method in in- papers had achieved a circula- ternational politics, the will to tion of 200,000 copies. It is an agree has been growing and excellent thing to find these edi- sometimes in unexpected places. tions-appropriately red, white and blue, if one may include: a little red tape-among Britain's best-sellers. It reflects a new News from South Africa tells seriousness in the taste of the of finding the long-sought "miss-public, and also, without a doubt, ing link" which in accord with an improvement in the literary anthropological theory is half style of the Government. man and half ape, a fossil crea- Perhaps the term "best-sellers" ture with shaggy hair, progna- is a trifle invidious; for it is apt thous jaw and primitive eye sqc- to denote the ephemeral, and kets. This creature is believed time may well select a classic to have lived approximately 250,- from among these official com- 000 years ago in mid-Pleistocene pilations-was it not the same times.

firm, doing business under an- However, there is room for other name, that gave us Domes- doubt whenever it comes to day Book and Magna Charta? labelling any creature the "miss. They survive for their matter ing link." Much stress, of course, and not their manner, and it is is placed upon bone structure by too much to expect, even with an comparative anatomists, and in improvement in style, a literary fact the theory of evolution is merit that will render a dialogue almost wholly dependent upon the of Hansard's as enduring at one wide range

of dissimilarities of Platos, or a 'Hinks to among animals prehistoric and era" comparable modern, as exhibited by skeletal gics." But it is differences, particularly with re-importanti contem ference to the skull.

But that there are many queer animals inhabiting the,

[day qualifying as “living fossils”.

no one can, question. An

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