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THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION. DID. PRIMITIVE MAN HAVE

LONDON PREPARES FOR NEXT

YEAR'S VISITS.

A TAIL?

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THE BOXER INDEMNITY AND EDUCATION.

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THE CONSCIENCE CLAUSE." Hotel and bouling-house accommoda-

The Spectatur in an article on the pro tion for overseas and provincial visitors According to an article under the head. to London next year is already engaging ing Changing Man in the Hongkong to devote the Boxer Indemnity to Educational purpows refers at considers the attention of the British Empire Ex-Delly Press of 25th August, 1923, Sirable length to the interest' shown in the hibition authorities.

Arthur. Keith, the well-known Scientist subject of education by the British Cham- The Exhibition officials are in "negotiaanal Surgeon, and one of the formost ber of Commerce and after giving a re- don with the Incorporated Association of champions of the Germ Plasma theory of gume of what was done in the matter Hotels and Restaurants and the Ro

Human Ryokutigu, attempts to convince last year at the annual confvecnée of these sidential Hotel-keepers and Caterers Association. With ine help of these tw] us that all the different racy of the World Chambers" says bodies and others interested in providing havelsprung from a raw of monkey-men temporary accommodation for the millens

One of the first duties of such a cour mittee will be to compile an official

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The Conference concluded ita tusk witle of visitors who will undoubtedly be arriv() with tails, no that all were the enunciation of a prineiple upon waica! ing in Londen next summer, a com, evolved from the Germ Phism" (Life) ultimate success or tailure of the proposa's undoubtedly arpents. Weicuun mitter is to be set up "immediately.

ing the fact that to carry the scheme into Sir Arthur Keith says: In wan's effect wertain machinery must be set attriteture is an heirloom dating from as, for instance, a central Comunission at

Peking, Jocal of hotels, restaurants, boarding-houses

Education Committees. and private houses at which visitors may reap stage of Evalution.” obtain good accomodation and servies Every member of the great order of bodies of management for institutions, the Conference decirred that the inclusion of 4. reasonable and approved seal of animals to which man bring is a Chinese members throughout this machiTO BE LET, Furnished, from the lat Nur charges. Only such boarding-bots and a hairy covering. We may safely presumeery was indispensable for its sugereptul hotels as are prepared to adhere to their that early man wore the ape's livers."

working.

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usual scale of charges for the summer That reinate ancestor of a w These resolutions cover the ground and

senson will be included in this list:

was provided with a tail there can be deal with the facts; they also meet evadit. no tuner of doubt,"

on the liberal spirit which animates The tail aras Jest long before man countrymen Un botle counts the pre It isappeared when posals deserve favourable consideration int the hands of any advisory bly that the Government may get an và investigate thei matter,

the anthropol vype of man's ancestry gained a place in the work."

It is proposed to collate and index a list of available accommodation for visiters within a ten miles radius of the west end, and in conjunction with them on the scene. transport authorities to see that travel fucilities are available until after mit night. All Middlesex and parts of Bucks, Herts and Surrey will be included, and as it has been suggested that many the industrial towns in the North shail arrange të spend their "wakes' day weeks in London, instead of at Black yool of Douglas, it may be necessary to provide pecial holiday camps or hostels on the ouskirta ni Londoa.

All the questions, however, will be! fully considered and dealt with by the cominittes appointed for the purpose. Of course, it will be wise for visitors to make early arrangements London will be

full all through the summerno doubt fuller than it has ever been but with the co-operation of organi sations of such integrity as those a'rendy mentioned there need no fear of in efficiency or unduly high tariffs.

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Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice

Steamer's arrival.

has been given prior to

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods

ات

Indeed there have been meu who, im pressed by the manifestation of humanlike It is permissible to paint out, however, traits in developing apes have inferred that before the ship can reach safe an The that man has not sprung from ape, but chorage the old dangers of Scyll and

Our grological record is Charybdis have to be overcome, or holi ape from than.

vessel hus, to avoid the rock of Chinese! to Rave us inno complete "ennygli doubt us regards, this matter; the apeish rouservatism and to escape the whirlpool in the Chinese, be induced effectively to type preceded the human form: the human of religicus sentiment. On the one hand, dema in the later prošlice."

Tu my humile-opinics there is nothing co-operate to take their full share in management; to pull their weight in the more impossible and aboned that the theory out? Young China has to be reckoned that our primitive ancestors were monkey with, and a widespread misinterpretation If Sir Arthur of hatioanl sovereignty. Again, can the men (apis), with tails. Keith's theory of Evalution is correct. then there ought to have existed as dif.issionary bodies which have founded and now run the secondary schools and ferent periods of the World's history colleges be induced to take grants impress different races of monkey with tails, as these must be with a conscinace of varying lengths in parious stages of i clause requirement? In England this re- Evolution; and the race preceding that quirement presents. no diffienty. The tailles men must have been a race of religious belies. Protestant and Cathalie

tump-tailed monkey-men!

alike, accept grants from the Board of But, isn't it strange that thuring the Education, all of which hear this con i past 3,000 yers of our history no signs dition. The religious aim of a kehool is

or relics of such races of monkeyamen in up wise interfered with by such are to be left in the Clodowns, where they will be examined on any Tusadays and Fridays have been found by explorers and proviso: founded for incnleating the princetween the hours of 10,45 am and Noon

storage period. The political correspondent of the Eeen-cologists. If they had existed, how ciples of one faith and staffed accord ween the h

did they vanish si completely 7

ingly, the school agrees to admit scholars No claims will be admitted after the Goods. 's Godown, and all Goods ing Standard says that Imperin! prefer-

There is no positive proof that our professing another faith or none at all. have left the Steamer's ence is the coming big issue in the

wire With primitive ancestors monkey-men allowing, them en request to stay away remaining undelivered after the 31st August, domestic polities of the Empire. defence prohteins it will be the chief with tai's and that they had hairy ap. from religious observances and religious will be subject

All Claime against the Steamer must be question of the Imperial Economic Con-like is, but there is ample proof in teaching. It is probable that in China.

Prehistoric (Antediluvian)

as in England, little call on such freedom presented to the undersigned on or before the ference in London in October. The stern and unbending Free Trailers-Conserva-ments and records which have been ex would he made; but no sympathetic of 14th Sept, or they will not be recognised:

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, tive, Liberal, and Labour-are already cavated in Crete, Egypt, Asia Minor, server can doubt that the withdrawal of No Fire Insurance will be effected.

Mesopotamia, China, America, and Poly the shadow or the reality of religious com-

Agents. beginning to organise themselves

nesia, that they had no tails, and that no pulsion would in the long run streng-

Hongkong, 5th August, 1923. watch the question, and are holding necting at the House, Lord Purmoor is such animals as monkey-men ever existed. then the cause of Christianity in China. Sir Arthur must be cheating himself. The 3fissionary bodies concerned are thas one the lenders of the Conservative Free and perhaps this is why scientists are fact with a clear issus Shall the free- Traders. The Lancashire Conservative M.PA. will also atoutly oppose anything till vainly seeking for the missing dom that in matters of education ali

link."

religious partis in turn have claimed and woy in England be withheld from, their in the nature of a general tariff, as their

Is it not a fret that man ns depicted on election addresses lead us to expect. But

zcholars in Ching? If so, what interpre- it is quite possible that many Conserva- the earliest Prehistoric stone records and tation will these scholars place on Lise tives, while Free Trailers in principle, monumente yet discovered, is a tailless inspired words which declare that, where will, on-good reasons being shown that smooth-skinned animal, similar in every the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty it is essential for the development of the respect to the naked man of to-day! In fine, if the pupil is to be taught, as. Dominions and our own trade with them. Indeed modeem ·MIN is physically another Apostle enjoins, to look into the he won over to an extension of the pre-inferior to his prehistoric ancestors, and perfect law of fiberty and to continue BANKING-SHIPPING-TRAVEL sont preferences we give to the Dominions this is proof that the human race is therein, it is example, not precept, that for certain things they send to us. Out" degenerating. And-out, believers in Imperial Preference say that it is a costly business to settle | men and women in the Dominions

much as £1,000 á head-and, that the money cannot be secured for these settle ments unless a market for the produce of the settlers can be secured in this country, and that such a market can only

The Empire Cotton Growing Corpora- tion has recently been considering th be secured by giving Dominion produce

I am positively certain that Scientists necessity for organised research at the In substantial preference. Members in

favour of Imperial Preference are likely will never seed in finding the miss universities and colleges of Great Britain to organise themselves for a equtterilasting link," and that the World-will never and has dreided to offer retaining grants

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to the Free Traders. This may be the leading issue in Parliament next year.

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Dr. Inge, that warthy Dean, has said: He would ho a bold man who should ! claim that we are intellectually equal to the Athenians or superior to the Romans. and "There has been no physical progress in our species for many thousands of years The ancient Greeks were hand- somer and better formed thin we were!?

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witness the evolution of a new race of to certain universities where highly spe

Supermen." Some day a Scientist any cialised research is ready going on. The come along with the theory that the tails Cotton Gorporation has offered to the of our ancestors suddenly dropped off Imperial College of Science and Tech. like the tail of that peculiar newt, whichnology, South Kensington, the sum of is found climbing about the walls of Hong- £1,000 a year for a period of five years! CABLE AND POSTAL REMITTANCES kong licuses, or he may advance the theory from October lat, the money to be devoted that we lost our tails through evolutionary to plant physiology and plant pathology changes in the human Embryo!

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A meeting of representatives of the British and American Cotton Industry was held at Washington on July 17th in th

Regarding the absence of hair from our rous offer has, we understand, en e- effort to compose the final technical differ-bodies. Sir Arthur Keith believes that it cepted by the governing body, and the Travel Transaction. ences of a universal.cotton standard.

is due to arrested grineth, sometime research work will be undertaken in the The chief question was one of the colour before birth" Another of his queer and now botany building which was recently of certain grades, the British representa ingenious explanations is as follows: opened by the Duke of Devonshire, and tives advocating dead white grades with When a useless structure such as a hairy to which the Rubber Growers' Association, n view to eliminating all suggestion of covering is to be got rid of nature dees of the City of London subscribed approxi colour, which the representatives of certain not pursue the extravagant method of mately £30,000 about two years ago. This Southern States contend would anwar allowing it to grow up and then sweeping donation is tangible evidence of the value rantably discriminate against their slightly it away, but aims it at once in the bud which tropical agriculturists attach to the

stage"!

important research work which is being The delegates from, the Liverpool Cotton

andertaken at the Imperial College, Association on July 19th won a concrasion

I am afraid such theories are not very pecially in connection with plant physio- when the International. Cotton Consulate illuminating or convincing, Of course, logy and pathology under the direction voted in favour of accepting slight Scientists can imagine anything to sup of Professor J. B. Farmer, F.R.S., and changes in four grades of the United part their "erroneous theories.

Professor V. H. Blackman, F.R.S. Sintes official cotton standards in order Sir Arthur also believes that human to conform to the Liverpool proposals. beings of the future will be different from | == The Liverpool proposals were not fully these now on earth. accepted, but the conference has agreed on partial acceptance. The changes will he promulgated immediately and will he come effective on August 1st, 1924. a

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Therefore, Sir Arthur's fears

I am firmly convinced that there is more

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