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No. 21 501 號壹零百伍仟索萬弍第 日拾伍年卯丁 HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 9th,

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

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AUSTRALIA'S ABORIGINES. THE MISSING LINK?

PLANS FOR A RIG RESERVATION.

BLACKS BETTER SEGREGATED FROM WHITES.

Controversy has arisen regarding the advisability of creating aboriginal State in the Northern Territory of Australia.

costly

ALEXANDER, THE MAN- MONKEY.

FREAK CAUSES PANIC IN A VILLAGE.

19 YEARS CHAINED.

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1927.

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To-day.

Annual ordinary general meeting of Peak Tramway's Co., Ltd., Hong Kong H, 11am..

Europe Y.M.C.A. Bathing Picnic at Hang lau

Tea Dantes: H.K. Hotel, Hotel and Cain Parisien, 4.30 Savoy P.21.

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Open-Air Whist. Drive for M.C.L. Fands (Police Branch) Police Chub reen, Happy Valley, 8.30 p.m. (If wet inside Club). Dinner Dansant Restaurant Parisien.

St. John Ambulance Brigade Chinese Theatrical Performance by Yun Shan Lin Company at Lee Theatre, 9.30 p.r.

Queen's Theatre: "Lights of Old Broadway."

World Theatre: "Abduction of Helen."

Star Theatre: "Contraband." Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe rid Negapatan (Palma).

Friday. Half-Yearly Meeting of long Jockey Club, Club Room (Hong Kong Club Annex), 12.30 p.m.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel

Savoy, King Edward Hotel and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.

Extraordinary General Meeting 11.K. Cricket Club, 5.30 p.m.

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VIENNA, May 12th. The greatest interest has been Opponents of the project, who in-aroused among the general public, cule experienced travellers in the

as well as in the scientific world, by interior and resident rattlemen, the discovery in Abony, an Hun insist that the aborigines are better

garian village, of ammo-monkey." left severely alone and the mission- Scientists cannot understand this aries excluded. Also it is contend-extraordinary freak " of imture. ed that the blacks are irretrievably which apparently is an atavistic primitive and deteriorate, physical throwback to primitive man ly and morally, when their inde-

Alexander, the monkey man, is jendence is destroyed and any

He is the supervision is exercised. On the twenty-four years of age. other hand, the petitioners in

son of two healthy peasants who Favour of the creation of an aburi have five absolutely normal child

When he was a child Alexan- sal State urge that the well-ren.

but

experiments der grew a nukey-like coat, and meaul hitherto have failed because they did not learn to speak, walk, or sit, were on the wrong line, and that it but grunted. and progressed hy is Que moral duty of Australians leaping on all fours. He climbed

trees with monkey agility. to make a twelfth-hour effort.

Petitious in favour of an abori- ginal reserve have now been din tributed throughout Australia, and sunrise is expressed at the large number of signatures secured. The suggested site of the reserve is Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, and if the first State proves sue cessful another will be proposed in the Kimberley area, Western Aus- tralia. The petitioners hope that a Native Tribunal, with a Native Administrator, will ultimately escaped from his stall suddenly and unge the reserve, with reprehe caused a panic among the pen leaped into the market place, where the Commonwealth in

sants, who took him for a gorilla,

The incident came to the notice.

St. Barnabus Day. 10th Day of Zulhijjah (Hari- of a wealthy showman, who offered John Azsay, the father large am fudit). (Sundays

of money for the right to exhibit

Dedication of Sing Kwong them are nomads and make no

man-monkey. cultivation or settled the

The father Church, Sookumpoo, 2 p.m. attempt

Lawn Bowls League-Division industry. Sir James Connally, in agreed, but the greatest difficulty his letter to The Times, wrote that was experienced in bringing him to I.: C.S.C.O. t. C.C.C.; P.R.C. v. Budapest. It was necessary to when Colonial Secretary of Western

sion II C.C.C. *. Australia he made a special study clothe Alexander for the first time.C.C.; K.B.G.C. v. T.R.C. Divi- of the aburigines, and was forced in his life, and the operation was T.R.C.. Recreio; K.C.C.. to the conclusion that they could only accomplished by tying his R.H.K.Y.C.; K.B.G.C. 4. C.S.C.C

Lawn Tennis League:-"A" not live and thrive under white hands and feet. lle succeeded in men's conditions. He also describ-tearing off most of his clothes dur-Division: K.C.C.. University;; ed the creation, in Western Austra ing the journey and smashed a car.B.K. . CRIC. IR.C.

model aboriginal Stato

The stupid peasant parents de cided that he actually was a mon key, turned him out of the house, and chained him in a cowstall be Hermes and presentation of prizes, will not be available until tween cows and goats. teen years this man-monkey was treated absolutely as an animal. and was fed on household leavings.

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In 1925 it was estimated that Western Australia contained 22,500 full-blooded aborigines. Most of

lia, of a

in which aborigines live in natural surroundings.

Escape,

For nines .

Neighbours were unaware of his existence, but three weeks ago he

riage window with his 5st.

Dinner Dansant at Cafe Restaurant Parisien.

Squeakeltes give performance at Peak Club, 0.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Lights of Old Broadway."

World Theatre: "Abduction of Helen."

Star Theatre: "Contraband."

Saturday.

E. P.R.C.;

U.S.R.C."B" Division: I.K.C.C.

ft was decided at Budapest to Recreio; Nippon Club e. K.C.C.; bring Alexander to a medical clinic | C.R.C. for observation ami study. in re sponse to the request of Budapest scientista, who are greatly interest

NEW LIGHT ON NAPOLEON. ed in the case.

PERSON OF WAVERING CHARACTER.

QUEEN HORTENSE'S MEMOIRS.

PARIS, May 12th. Sensational revelations of the many sided character of Napoleon ! Bonaparte are made by the pub lication of two volumes of the mentis or Hortense, later Queen!

Alexander yesterday was comfort ably housed in commodious cage awaiting the decision of the doctors whether he is a man or a monkey, a family history does not afford any explanation of the remarkable relapse to prehistoric man.

MONTE CARLO WINS £1,450,000.

of Holand. She was the daughter NEW ULUB TO COST £500,000. of the Empress Josephine by Count Alexander de Beauharnais, ber Grat husband.

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Nippon Club,

H.K. Baseball League: H.K. Baseball Club . Japanese B.C.; Happy Valley, 4 p.m.

St. Peter's Y.M.C. Launch Picnic. Launch leaves Queen's Pier, 3.30

P.JI.

Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.. Dinner Dansant at Cafe Restaurant Parisien.

Queen's Theatre: "Lights of Ol Broadway."

World Theatre: "Abduction of Helen."

Star Theatre: "Contraband." Principal Mails:--Inward: Europe Pi Siberia (Kashmir); Aus- tralia, etc. (Change).

19.30 ..

Outward:

Sunday. Trinity Sunday. H.K. Baseball League: Dragons (S.C.A.A.) v. Filipinos, Happy Valley, 4 p.m.

Mouda,.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savey, King Edward Hotel, and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p..

A meeting of shareholders reveal- Hortense, who was her mother's ed that for the year ending March constant companion during her life 31st Monte Carlo Casino netunily won £1,450,000 from the public, with Napoleou, recalled even the day when, as a young artillery off-chiefly in roulette, trente-et-quar! Europe via Marseilles (Kashmir),

ante, and chemin de for. be proposed to Josephine. She depicts the great man as a person of wavering character, vari. alle in mood, tyrannical and domi- neering, feared, but at the same time loved, and capable of good humour.

Horteuse, who married Louis Napoleon the Emperor's brother, who becatue later King of Holland was the mother of Napoleon III. She relates in these memoirs that Napoleon's manner towards herself at times engendered positive Prince of Monaco. hatred, as, for example, when he poked fun at her piety at her first ment for the right of circulations Communion, or when, in 1807, head the quotation of the shares on

the Paris Bourse. forbade her to weep for the death

The Casino is now constructing a of her son.

• Stop

country club, with twenty-one ten- bathing pool, cost- is courts and a ing £500,000.

that childishness," he said to her. "You have cried quite enough about your son; it is get- ting to be ridiculous. Be merry

another tear.

The shareholders will receive £532,000 in dividenda of 176 per cent. The £5 shares are quoted to day at about £120.

Other payments include:- £100,000 annual royalty to the £80,000 to the French Govern-

It is understood that the vast and amuse yourself, as you should majority of Casino stock is now at your age, and do not let me seeld by the Blane family, which includes the Radziwills and Bona partes, as Sir Basil Zaharoff sold out his intareste last year. A few shares are held by the Monaco re kigious authorities, to whom they have been willed.

A Puritanical Courtl Napolean, according to Hortense, disliked any kind of sadness at big court, but, on the other hand, be frowned at execasive mirth, and would not tolerate easy virtue. If

he discovered any illicit love intri folk of what was happening in the

he usually put an end to it by world of politics. packing off the hero to the army.

The Emperor had his emotional Hortense depicte Napoleon's

aide, however, and Hortense relatos court as serious, pure, and boring how she saw the tears roll down his Women played no role whatever in cheeks when the divorce of Jose affairs of State, and the Emperor never breathed a word to his women phine, her mother, was pronounced, and she adds that she felt his tears (Continued at foot of next tolumn), were sincero.

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Hong Kong Football League annual meeting, Volunteer Head- quartera, 5.30 p.m.

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