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THE CHINA MÁIL, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1947.

Looking For The

Ugliest

Fish

over

Half the scientific world is. Researchers the world impatiently awaiting results of | bewalled the loss of the soft South Africa expedition | parts of the fish, which rotted which is experted to comb the before Dr. Smith could study Mozambique Choppel this sea them. He consoled them as son for the wožūs most valu- | bent he could; able and ugliest fah.

This creature was probably the first true fish to ever rock the organic clerices to their evolutionary foundation. It in the rurest fish on record and, na a matter of fact, was supposed to have been dead for 70,000,- 000 years.

It was found in 1998, qulte by accident. For nearly a des cade scientists have dreamed of the day when they could catch and study another speelmen. They plan to do it this year.

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First Amphibian When Nature developed this family of fishes, it took the mightiest step from amoeba to mun, for

from this erenture the amphibians, which me allther about on land. first dared leave the water and

From the amphibians came reptiles, and from them developed birds and animals.

"Since the fish was unques- tlonably alive when caught," he said, "there is at least the pos- ability that this zoological tragedy may be ameliorated by the capture of another speci- niem" He told of another find.

"A responsible citizen-angler said five years ago fie bad found preciadly such a fish, only considerably larger, partially decomponed, cast up by the waves on a lonely shore east of East London. When he return- ed with assistance 'the monster batt vanished with the risen tide."

the

The fish which the museum seceived was four feet eleven inches long and weighed 127 Pounds. Fortunately, by cime Prof. Smith puffed breath- lessly into the muscum, 10 days after the find, some of the bones were still available.

Cartilaginous

The skull was almost intact. Most of the backbone of the creature was, intact. The bones were cartilaginous. Fish of the sea were only beginning to develop good solid bone to re-

The flash,

The key to the whole process place the cartilage' which hid" was crossopterygians, the lung-] framed them until then. fish. - Paleontologists' had trad- - shark, most primitive of ed the line of evolution through | still has a structural basin of that group of fishes. But the cartilage. Inst fossil of that typé ever

Ancient Ancestors

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Two From Sydney

Sydney, June 20. The Dragon Festival Ball at the Trocadero attracted 1,600 dancers and established a record attendance, for winter dancing, Mr. P. Yan, secretary of the Young Chineas Relief Movement, Buld that the organisation hoped 'to make A41,000 from the Ball to add to A£1,000 already in hand for Madame Chiang Kai-. shuk's war orphans.

A

made

Halifax bomber which over 60 bombing raids over Germany and which won flown out here by a young Englishman and his wife han been sold to an Australian combine, who have christened it the "Flying Kennel" as their first job was to take 89 dogs to Singapore. The importer in Mr. H. de Souza and the cost in A£50 per dog. All arrived in good condition though the crow had samo excitement when an Alsatian broke loose on the trip and attacked them. On her. re- turn here the bomber will tako a load of dogs to Hong Kong.

Andrea, better known to Hong Kong folk as Mrs. Gordon Jenner, in now in America tralling Australian war-brides for the "Sydney Sun".

When the liner Asturias arrived in Sydney she carried rigns over her side calling her "AIF and Merchant Navy prinon ship" and "Ex-99 Belsen". These had been placed there by merchant navy men and sollers of the AIF, who sal that the food was bad and the ship dirty, while the Ser vicemen were not wanted,

Melbourne Lord Mayor Con- nelly has suggested that Aus tralian cities should Introduce "round-the-clock" shopping so

shops in their leisure hours in-

their meal moments during hours. Sydney is not in favour of this suggestion, the general opinion being that prices would be raised at least 20 per cent, to meet the extra workers re-

quired to run day and night shifts....An ex-Naval man and

NEW PARTNERS There is certainly com in tile existing design of comiat de.

The fish is a species of cros- lopment for the Drw

sopterygians, which means it poration amounced by the British was an aboriginal "lung-fish." Cabernment. The welcome ne- It developed lungs. Instead of cordel

30 Mr. Vreech Jones's glllis, so it could breathe air statenant will be all the warmer instead of drawing oxygen It because both its tone and substance | næeded from water.

the preserve

mon-party spicit. {which has consistently governed | Coloniat policy. A beginning in this form of assistance was made to the grant of £1,000,000 a year in 1920. By successive steps this commitinent was raised to £5.50 100 a year for 19 years by an Act of 1910 and to £12,000,000 a year for 19 years by an Act of 1945 It is worth noting that the former Act was passed when the war looked like bring lost and the laster some time before it was won. There was indeed a "Dun-

The South American Council kirk spirit” in those days.

found was from the Menozoic | for Scientific and Industrial Re- The present addition to the resources available for colonial period, which ended 79,000,000 search has appointed a commit-

London, June .28. that comes to town again means years ago. It was supposed the tee to plan organization of n When the American showinan a new one must keep touring the (FARE)

development is alsethe contep cronopterygians became extinct marine expedition "on consider-Billy Rose tion of all parties and not the at that time...

visited London last provinces ant there is room for able scale," The expedition season he dioted the Inng queue in--or disband in despair is going of light idea

It was On Déc. 22, 1938, fishermen Would rake the African coast of front, of even op shows and re-

bayo done. „K$180.-

jadumbrated by Mr. Harold Mac- trawling a few miles east of the Indlan Ocean and the marked that the formula 10: One natural result of the wider 250.- millan when Under-Secretary East London, South Africa, | Mozambique Channel for more to be limply "ând a theatre and popularity of the musical and as to allow workers to patronise

success in the West End seemed theatregoing audience 350,- the Colonies in 1942, and by pulled up the weirdest fish they cipssopterygian (sh which,

Cal: Oliver Stanley when Co. had ever seen. It was so ugly scientifically, are closely related pen the doors. Tas many PC- probably there has never been stead of having to use precious 180.-

nial Secretary in 1945. It was only a scientist could appreciate to the genus macropona ngas-vice have been taking his ad- time when so many

second

year of

dance affairs were on the boards it. They brought it ashore, Aiz, of the family coelacanthe 300.- advocated in the recent Conser-till alive, and gave it to the thidae, of the order actinistia. theatrical history but outside of prospering nightly at

biggest bon In British in Landon, Most of them 35.- vative "ustrial Charter." The locat museum where the cura- United Press.

this writ the inflated grasses at the box Ing new Corporation is designed to tor, Miss Courtenay-Latimer,

office there is little that producers

"That is a galleryito's view of shoulder such burdens as indivi- immediately recognized it for a

can look back upon with pride. the theatre today. What's to dun! pioneers 'could not then new species.

The producers have studied comat The Duke of York's, one selves bear in the initial stages of

their newly won public well. The of the more desirable theatrus, big new enterprises, and which

with Ly

will recolvo a revival-the 80 higher incomes

by his young bride spent the night unsist in finding not merely the soft parts of the fish, but

brought to the theatres many whis year-old melodrama "Caste" had never seen the living stage in the United States arranging *s

Robertson. Firth Shepard is on the rocks at Bondi Beach for money hut skilled direction and she had the local taxidermist

want of a roof over their heads. hafore and the public's ability to bring the Inhour. It is the absence of the mount It, saying ns many of

discriminate plummeted

all-time long run Both had severe colds the fol-' latter owing to the absorption the bones as.possible, and sew-

pondingly. The Arst step was to recordholder, "Life With Father" lowing day, and the man looked

back to England. of manpower

and materials by ing up the scratchos where the

feed these theatregoers the pure font reports he is studying the ever," "Brought them countles Bernard. Bol really ill The experience, how- the war and

fishermen's not had damaged it. The Paris police are closing fire revivals such as "The Merry books of two native musicals its aftermath--!

She called Dr. J. L. B. Smith on a "secret Moslem organise this plague of revivals still con- which has so far prevented much of Rhodes Univeraity and he tion

Widow" and "Line Domino,

for

offers of a home and employ- possible production. Jack Waller mure being done. The demands broadcast a description of the Europe, leaders of the

for repatriating, from tinues, Recently turning to the

fins acquired "He Saw Virginia," ment....Following a State Full of pioneering work are far greater fish to

Court declaion that Arab wider scope of the screen on about the barter of

a light opera by Fred Thompson

National the gaping scientific independence movements", than is commonly supposed. The world.

ne of the brightest of Britain's then-

brides for

Security Regulations da. not cording to the

compel landlords to give pro trient. hopes, scheme for the cultivation of

tobacco in Colonial America. Peter Ustinov. He said it was so similar to "L'Intransigeant" tonight.

maura that the stage was en-

ference to Servicemen, ex- Broundnuss

in East Africa re-ta ancient fasull ancestors that Prominent Moalem

trenching "behind

The Maginot

Irish Play

Servicemen, or their dependents cently announced by the Minister "I am satisfied it can be includ.alists were secretly transferred

Line of established names,"

when changing the tenancy of of Food (which will be finanerded in that family." He said: to

the headquarters

Embazy and another a house or flat has brought-a and run independently of the new "It has been notel that certain organisation in Brussels,

Bright Spots

small thoatre, the Arts, are prae- storm of protest from Servies- of these fishes underwent little from there to Cairo,

tically alone in trying to rani men's associations......Criticis- possibly! Then change from the |quire 1,200 Europeans and 50,000 (300,000,000 years ago) to the consul in Brussels, the paper dramas few of which were any dif- Steeds hy of "The Whilo Devonian with the help of the Egyptian musicals,

a fond of Bu-so the present London standard. The ing conditions in moderately

Australia's Embassy will give the first Eng- amusing Africans. It is obvious that Cretaceous (which preceded the alleged.

comedles and somewhat stodgy

tivo main cities, the Lord Mayor lish labour forces of this size are Mesozole). It is therefore not

"the brilliant Irish bourne was more like a village of Melbourne said that Mel- not waiting round every corner.

It added that a great many than hundreds of profitable pru. Arts will produce in full George of 100 years ago than a city,

ferent outside of surprising that this species, North Africana

costuming author, Paul Vincent Carroll. The Nevertheless, the Act of 1945 which presumably has survived home as a result of intensive creasingly hard to drive the

were going decursors. But t became in Bernard Shaw's monumental

twhile, the president of the Syd- has not been a dead letter. The from the Mesozoic, should still Nationalist propaganda carried lle away from a bad show and Back To

the pub- "metablological Pentateuch"ney Organizing Committee Bald Colonial Office has actually ap

retain most of the features out by several hundred

Methuselah" which that lack of amenities and many Arnb proved schemes under it covering which characterize that family." agents.

can hardly blame prod

four producers will run

nights restrictions had turned Sydnby One of these allegedly for complacency when the period up to 1957 and costing

127 Pounds

declared at a meeting of North moth musical brutally mangled by

a mam- United Prees,

into an "overaize gaol"....The £154,000,000. About two-thirds

He named the fish "latimer!n Africans:

owner of a Perth taxi company "In two. months every critic in town plays to of this expenditure will

chalumnae, "as my tribute" to time, there

plans to introduce a helicopter will be no more packed houses week after week.

ixi service in Australia...... from the resources of the Colonic Mias Latimer, for saying the Frenchmen in North Africa."

There are a few bright spots in themselves resources which piled specimen for science.

Router.

the dark panorama, however, up during the war and can now

some of the plays and some in-

of as the successor to Mr. T. dividual

Malcolm Ritchie There performancos.

Rome, July 6.

as the noxt rightly be expended for the good

Allied Forces headquarters Federal President of the Liber are one or two protalaing events announced the departure from al Party. The latter is retiring of their owners or from loans

In the wear and middle distancos raised by the Colonies on their

which may restore some of Lon-Italy of Lieutenant General Sir due to pressure of private own credit. But the contribution

don's traditional leadership in the G.O.C., Southern Command in at last been acknowledged, as a Harding, to become business......Jitterbugging han fresn the Mother Country is more

And are alwayx

there than enough to dispel any linger

the courageous amall theatres in England.

dance and as an Australian in- the fringe of the West End which Harding is being succeeded vention, and is to be known all ing traces of the foul insinuation

have broken ground on some of by Major General Terence Airey over the world on "Australion that Britain explaits the Colonies

the season's, few provocative plays an Commander of British Cen- Rhythm". for her benefit. The stream of

for the more cautious magnates tral by

...Bricks are likely Mediterranean finance is all the other way, and

Forces, to cost A46 per 1,000 from the who control the big houses. Airey also in to command Bri-kin within the next six months. most of the trade of the Colonies, Immortal telegraph, report on

tish forces in the Trieste free Present Musical Shows

territory after ratification of 1,000......Following

price la 2578-por Popular other people. No Colonial Power turesque

Field- the peace treaty by Italy, Lefty Gomez whit

Marshal Lord Montgomery's more strictly ob scouting the anderbush for

Succeeding Airey as Chief of broadcast in which he said he th subsequent bid of 8-Spades-ex-or-desirable depending

Revivals are either deplorable Staff AFHQ is Major General hoped to be able to get some served both in the letter Yankees some years ago.. But and in the

.plutnost by him as due to later lay and players and always re spirit the prin- could be well, paraphrased thought that he should have bidmembering that

Lawrence C. Jaynes, United timber in Australia for the sent spurt in

some of the things that occur Alix instead of five on his previous theatrical" space Colonial develop the bridge table. The bridge ver

Army. Associated building of his new home with limited States ment will be for reciprocal, notion might be obd, bid, no play

every old play Press. turn, South's redouble was one of

(Continued on Page 7) unilateral, benefit.

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