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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,

ENTERTAINING THE ORIGIN OF MAN.

SERVICE MEN.

CONCERT AT THE “BETTER 'OLE."

AN EXCELLENT PROGRAMME

ARRANGED.

Reference was made yesterday ta the two special entertainments ar ranged for to morrow evening at the Theatre loyal and the "Better Ole" Y.M.C.A., Peking Road, Kowloon, for Servicemen only.

The 'Ote"

at the Better

concert is being given under the

SCIENTISTS "TOY" WITH

MILLIONS OF YEARS.

MAN NO MORE THAN 10,000 YEARS OLD.

[DY THE THAN TAL]

I am greatly pleased to read in the China Press of Shanghai. dated June 5th, 1927, that Dr. Henry F. Osborn, President of the American Mugun of Natural History agrees with me in condemn ning the theory that man has been

scended, from Apes (see my article No. 1: Di Primitive Mau have a tail." published by the auspices of the Naval and Military Hong Kong Daily Press of August Y.M.C.A. Entertainment Sub-Com-28th, 1823), and that he has, at mittec, and commences at 7 pm The programme which Miss Capell and her talented associates (the

GLORIA SWANSON.

"STAGE STRUCK" AT THE QUEEN'S.

BY OUR FILM CRITIC.)

Gloria Swanson is one of the must charming personaltion on the screen to day. She has beauty und vitality, a talent for wearing gor geous dresses, and great personal charm. Beyond all this she is an actress of very considerable skill. No film which stars Oloria Swan son can be dull, but all who ad mire her Latent will be interested to see how sho eucceeds in a pro- duetion of her own: Working on

the contract basis sho has unfortu

TRAINING OF NAVAL

OFFICERS.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

EXPENSES.

THE DIRECT ENTRY METHOD.

JUNE 17th, 1927.

STATE INSURANCE AGAINST WAR

RISKS AT SEA.

SIR NORMAN HILL'S MASTERLY EXPOSITION.

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. AND MARINE WAR DANGERS.

#tco

IMPORTANT LESSONS OF THE WAR.

of

SIGNALLING PRACTICES.

B.I.S.N. CO. REGAINS FIRST PLACE.

SPECIAL MENTION OF "KAYING" "AND “SUNNING."

Further progress in signalling practices between warships and

The outstanding impression creat that which is provided by the main merchant vessels is indicated by the extracts from the reports on this ed by the perusal of "War Insur tenance a powerful Navy"

the quarter ended is that Sir Norman Hill hins Some of the evidence produced subject for

Fleet ordera. Although the total given of his best in his, masterly before this. Committee is very in December 31st, 1928, now issued in was fairly well maintained, there contribution to the subject. The teresting, because it shows, to our viewpoint

being 1,168 successful exercises book te one of the series dealing thinking, the faulty with the economic and social his which many people have regarding tory of the world war, and is issued the national nature of the work carried out, as against 1,342 for the September quarter and 1,115 for that ended June 30th, 1920, the under the auspices of the Car carried out by the British shipping negie Endowment for International industry. For example, it

communication was smaller than Peace, the publishers being Ilum- argued that the system was useless number of failures to establish phrey Milford, London, and the because the payment by the State

last cut himself adrift from that school of Evolutionary anthro. pologists, represesit by Darwin, fluxley, Hans Virchow and Ernest J-Pana" have arranged is a most | Hacckei, who mished the scientitie and would stand alone under some years of age and started & apecl- Price of the volume 108. d.

and thinking world by preaching attractive one ahil, it is being superrones theory that making ported by the Band of the 1st has descended from Apes. Cameronians. There should

cer-

Lainly be a "full house" at the popular Better Ole Admission which is for Service men only, isnt free!

..

The following is the complete programune:

SON

it

and

}

was

in order of merit, with 140 success-

ful exercises, a good total, although below those of the Hawkina (184), and indictive (185) which topped the two previous lists,

In the Ifoues of Lords recently the Duke of Montrose enlled atten tion to the different methods adopt ed by the Admiralty in eutering naval endota; and moved for papers Darmouth College, he said, was as good as money could make it, but it cost a great deal of money. He had seen the figure roturied at £155,000, which was more than the cost of any other public school of icly been cast occasionally as in the same size. But that figure did Stage Struck," in plays which do not include the cost of the ships One wonders attached to the college, the addition to her justice. why Gloria was selected as the of which gave a total of some heroine of "Stage. Struck." It is £200,000 Of that sum the parents apart which almost any competant contributed about £68,000, but the actress could have played, if one already groaning taxpayer had to excepts the introduction, which has bear a burden of about £100,000 nothing really to do with the play Boys went to Dartmouth at 12

of the value of the ship or cargo for some time, being only 16, as ed training. A little boy's brain · In addition to the section already lost would do nothing towards compared with 25, 22, 25 and 19 such title as "Glorifying Gloria."

absorb "Stage Struck" which is show could only

certain mentioned, fre insurance during maintaining our supplies; white respectively in the four preceding II you ing to-day and Saturday at the amount of knowledge,

the, war, the effect of the struggle another witness had the effroutery quarters,

R.M.S. Castor, of the Second The following are some excerpts Queen's is by no means a poor film, crammed his brain with a mass from Dr. Osborn's latest pronouner-

not on British life assurance, national to argue that to give shipowners ment made at the Convention of but as a film starring Gloria Swan of technicalities he could

It absorb the same ancunt of general health insurance is a disappointing one.

friendly the certainty of being compensated Cruiser Squadron, headed the Fleet the Ameriem Philosophical Society tolls the story of Jenny Hagen, knowledge as other boys. General

Philadelphia :- "The just welcome gift that overworked waitress in a slum ently speaking these boys left the societies and unemployment insur- if their ships were captured must ance during the war and after are stimulate them in the pursuit of Anthropology could hand down tong house in Araerica. Jenny loves college with their general know humanity would be the banish the cook Orme, who is well played ledge a good deal behind that of also treated by authoritative pans, cuptors for the ship and of the con-

The shipping industry, however, is sequent indemnity. ment of the myth and bogie of by. Lawrence Gray, but Orme has other public schools boys. At no a romantic passion for actresses. time had it been so important that

"The Unknown Expense." ape-man ancestry."

good mainly concerned with Sir Norman

On the mercantile side, the Not any particular actress, but aval officers should enjoy

Hill's able casay, which, in our With regard to the contention. actresses in general. So Jenny in general education. vests all her small savings in a Half-timers midshipmen who correspondence course, and is given had to spend their mornings under opinion, will always possess his that the system was unnecessary, it British India Steam Navigation a chance by the manager of a tour-instruction-were not regarded with torical importance to those interest was maintained that the underwrit. Company has regained first place;" in company who sees an advertise- favour on board ship. If they were ed in the story of how reasonable ing market had in the past been with 111, which it lost in the ment in putting on a local "star." to get over the disadvantage of the

cover was provided during the long willing to asaane war risks on rea- previous quarter to But she does not make a success of half-timer and of an imperfect

third with 103. Second place is it and Orme realises that the good education on leaving Dartmouth period when floating properties-sonable terme, and they might be Tanker Company, which is hearted waitress is worth all the they must take boys to sea when were ceaselessly hunted down and relied upon to do so in case of a taken by the P. & O. Co., with 110 their education had been completed destroyed wherever possible by a future emergency. The Treasury exercises. Results deemed worthy actresses on the stage.

There is nothing much there for at school. f 1913, the Admiralty Gloria, she has to be skinny ill was short of cadets and started, is relentless enemy. One point which Committee too were afraid of the of special mention include those Tobtained by the steamships Aaying dressed and clumsy, all of which a temporary measure, a sheen of emerges and which appeals to us unknown expense which might be and Sunning, in China, which she achieves excellently, but Zasu taking boys from public schools t very strongly is that private eator-incurred and the possibilities of engaged in continuous signalling Pitta would

approximately oren better probably have done 17 or 18 years of age. That tou

fraud, another and very serious by semaphore for

three hours with the sloop Bluebell. reflection upon the bona fides of the steamship falaje is also com- mended for exceptionally good those engaged in shipping.

Sir Norman remarks trenchantly flashing signals with the Castor at Shipowners had long realized that that it was because the losses. could distances of from six to eight miles. serious outbreak of hostilities not be estimated that the scheme might in certain Circumstances was undesirable:*If the State,}- drive every British ship to harbour with all its resources, shrank froin and so cut off the flow of imports the unknown, how could it expect It the shipowner, the merchant, the

It is our, recent studies of behaviourism of the anthropoid apes, as contrasted with the be haviourism of the progenitors of minn, which compel us to separate the cutire ape-stock very widely from the human stock."

The Band under the baton of Mr. Horace E. Dowell, L.R.A.M., will play the following selections:- March, "Militaire Francaise (Saint Saens); Suite de Ballet, Coppelia (Delibes); Selection, The

The ape human ancestry Bobernians (Puccini); Overture, theory is, in my opinion, greatly Raymond (Thomas); Bell-Gavottu-weakened by recent evidences."

ape-haman Ye Olden Chymes, Holly Band _______ regard

theory as totally false and is man A. Lovick (Batten); Selection,

leading."

should be banished from "Yeomen of the Guard" (Sulli-

our speculations and from our van); The Canicronion Raut.

laterature, not on sentimental grounds, but on purely scientific grounds."

"The J.Paus" with Miss Vaughan as accompanist.

1. The J-Paus owe you an Apology

The Company.

th

But, although Dr. Osborn his condemned the ape-human ancestry The Misses V. Capell, P. theory, he is evidently still a Capell, E. Rose B Walker, staunch and confirmed “Evolu Schierhorst, D. Capell, M. Git tionist," and believes in the theory tias, Wong, A. Steel, M. af a pro-human

missing liak.. Glendinning, Messrs. .C. P Lake, A. W. Ramsey T. V. Harmon, F. P. Leniesty, U. Aruold and G. Bond.

After apologising the "Prin- epals wift introduce selves.

thim

2.. Our Mascot will now become

the Spirit of the Waterlily.

3. Mr. Harmon will try to sing to you there's no harm in ry- ing.

4. The Girls will crowd the board to the accompaniment of mieli noise."

5. Rather than allow Mr. Lake to

burst with eagerness, we ́ens, courage him to burst inte kong.

alenc in

:

6. Miss Jeffries

anisery.

her

7. Mise Capell out of hand--Run- ning wild Boys, Beware!

8. We have Mr. Bond's promise

He says:-

The autiquity of man is now to be reckoned not in thousands. but in hundreds of thousands of years, and we foresee the soon Approaching period when it will be risckoned in millions of years.

I am inclined to advocate an independent line of dawn-man ancestors, springing from oligocene neutral stock, which also gave rise independently to the anthropoid apes.

an

"DROWNED.

"The prologue and the opening❘ ST. STEPHEN'S STUDENT acts of the human drama occurred. away back 16,000.000 years ago, in the upper oligocene period.”

I fear Dr Osborn has hopelessly entangled himself in the Web of the fnise Evolutionary Missing Link?' theory. If, however, he will allow himself to be convinced of the truth of my discoveries and findings re- garding the origin and age of the

SAD END TO BATHING

EXCURSION.

mate

prise manifested greater prevision in the matter/providing indemn ty against marine war risk than did the State.

was recognized also that shipown- banker and the underwriter 10 ers of themselves could not ensure regard the war risks us a mere our merchant fleets keeping the matter of business at other than seas, the magnitude of such a task famine prices." being one which obviously came

WAS

the British

now

WHIPPING DISLIKED.

ACCUSED PREFERS LONGER

PERIOD IN GAOL

Two Chinese, Teo Hong and Ong Chek, were produced in the District Court, Singapore, boforo Mr. N. D. Mudie, charged with being in pos- session of two daggers

Chief Court Inspector R. W. Meredith, who prosecuted, said that eix men were arrested by detectives in Jalnu. Beaur on May 27th and

were found in possession of weapons. Only the two accused were charged in that court.

His Honour sentenced the first accused who had a previous con- to viction

against him to twelve

she had not porary measure had been continued been forced to be ridiculous. There ever since, and under the Special fore the introduction, Jenny's day- Entry system something like 800 dreams of her success as an actress, boys had entered the Navy. In the This is really beautifully staged in last half-year the Admiralty took fifty-three boya from Dartmouth colour, and here Gloria i play and thirty-six under Sprial En a familiar role in which she is. supreme. Now we know, as disstry, which went to show that publie Swanson knows herself, that she is school boys were a suceces.

Earl Stanhope (Civil Lard of the capable of playing rôles which need real characterisation; you will re Admiralty), replying on behalf of member how good she was in "The the Government, mentioned that Coast of Folly for example, and there were two schemes of pro- indispensable to the nation. one cannot bút regret that she motion from the lower deck. It should be wasted on films of the was possible for a man in the ex- type of Stage Struck." The in-ecutive branch to become a lieuten- troduction ia intereating mainly on ant at little over 23 years of age, its decorative appeal, and, the play which was the average for a special

Bitter Experience. itself is light and amusing, but not entry cadet. Already one of the

boys, under the good enough for Miss Swansoù... » -

system,

Shipowners had been taught By had reached the rank of comman within the province of Government, der. Dartmouth was an expensive and yet it was not until the mid-bitter experience that although institution, but it cost, not £100,000, night of Sunday preceding the fatal they might have been paying war but £90,000 to the taxpayers, his nable friend having included in the Wednesday- when war was declared risk premiums voyage after voyage, figure he gave the cost of the that the official scheme was pro- the moment there was any serious Brebus. But after all, if the coun; uulgated.

ground for anticipating an outbreak try was spending vast sums of

The Admiralty's Views.

of war the rates advanced and the

It money on the Navy, with ships cost-

The Admiralty had long held de-market contracted. A student of St. Stephen'a ing up to £7,000,000, it was advis

able to see that the officers were cided views concerning the ques remedy this that they generally months rigorous imprisonment and College, Yue Kwa Kau, who was

on the line twelve strokes of the rotan. The missed when his companions re- trained up to the highest degree of

a struggle with a big maritime that had been adopted by the second necured was sentenced to six turned to their launch after a bath efficiency. Bearing that in mind, tion, realizing that in the event of organized themselves

excursion off Stonecutter a then the money was well spent.

Power concentration of naval force North of England Protecting and months' rigorous imprisonment. At the present time 150 boys on-

was essential, and hence it would Indemnity Association 1899, and Taland un Wednesday, is presumed

tered the Navy through Dartmouth, be impossible to disperse its units associations were formed in 1912 Though there were some sixty aid 60 to 70 by special entry, and

to the extent of affording proteation in both London and Liverpool, in it will be an easy matter for him students in the party, no one he saw no great prospect of varia to all our wide-flung trading yes which, together with the North of 10. Mr. Glover will now make you to free himself from the false noticed the disappearance of the tion in that number for a large sela, The general public, too, had England Association, there was in

Evolutionary wel in which head. He was a non-swimmer and was number of years to come.

a gimmering of the problems which cluded by 1014 nearly three-quarters from being antagonistic to special 11. The Agony Trio-C. D. Lake, has been entangled; and he will last seen playing upon the shore.

W. Ramsey and G. Bond-find that his theory of the Miss

In accordance with the special entry, the Board seat a special might have to be faced, and the of the British steamship tonnage present the Wild Susie ofing link is wrong, and that man

regulations of the school there was officer round last year to talk to subject had been widely discussed employed in our overseas trade.

to for many years.

These associations insured ships MOTHER AND HER BABY. Kowloon-. Wong,

and his prehistoric (Antediluvian)

a master and another strong swim the headmasters of public schools

The various suggestions which on the mutual principle against war boys, and try to get more boys to

both were put forward we may sum-perils,

when 12. M. Glendinning will show you ancestors are not millions of years mor on shure at the time.

two foreign CHILD LOST AFTER IT WAS how easily cartwheels

The students have been given compete for special entry, but he are old, as preached and believed by strict instructions that those who was sorry to say that for the next arize as falling under two divinations were concerned or when donc.

hin and other scientists.

Man is undoubtedly a distinct have not passed certain swimming examination in June that experi- sions, according as they advocated Great Britain was one of the bel

national indemnity or national in-ligerents. Necessarily, such ment had not been so successful as Brigade-Don't you think and separate Creation of Almighty Lesta must not swim out from the

surance against maritime war risks. scheme was limited in regard to the that troupe work is more in God, as abundantly manifested by

shore.

was hoped for.. So far from there their line 7

his

The lad was missed half an hour being an increase, there was actual. In the former case only actual scope of its operations by. Snancial

losses would have to he made good, restrictions. intelligence, memory, aspira

when Great

LONDON, May 19th. tions, and inventive genius, and after the arrival of the party and ly a decrease in the numbers com- cannot be more than 10,000 years an hour's search of the waters nearing forward for examination. I while it was evident that under an Britain was at war the cover was

scheme

the premiums confined to vessels actually at sea A nystery of an unusual kind No entirely disagreed with the noble insurance old, as proved by the latest the shore was carried out.

or in an enemy port when hostili has arisen through loss of memory. Upon this phase of the evolutionties were declared, and only lasted by Mrs. Mildred E. Proctor, 23, archaeological excavations and dis signs of the missing student were Duke in many of his criticisms of charged might exceed those lotion

inade in the Diturian." found, but owing to the discoloura Dartmouth, and he would like their Locas deposits of Mesopotamin tion, it was impossible to see far lordships to know that the experi- of the plan which was ultimately until such time as they reached a of Park-parade, Wembley, who re

ence of Durtmouth was that many adopted Sir Norman Hill is very British or neutral port. Ships not cently gave birth to a child. (Ur.), Egypt (Pyramid Aren), to the water. There was a strong

He points out that at sea and in a safe port were only discussed held insured while they remained Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan, current running parallel to the parents would send their sons there luminating.

shore at the time.

if they could for the education that though proposals were Central America (Yucatan, etc.),

canvassed by underwriters, there. Yue Kwo Kau was seventeen and was given, even

though they and and other parts of the world.

an only son. The family a related had no intention of sending thom inerchants and bankers-and some- times even by politicians-it was to the well-known Chou family into the Navy afterwards.

only the shipowners' associations The Duke of Montrose withdrew that worked, year after year, to (Mr. T. N. Chan, the barrister and

bring them into a practicable form, "these being the only trading asso ciations in this country who con aistently devote their attention to the Conditions under which overseas trade is carried.

not to do more damage to the Locs deposits of the different coun piano than is really necessary.tinents of the world. (See my books 9. Nets off these little Butterfics, and supplementary pamphlets and to have been drowned.

even though you may be

newspaper artichs Noa, 1 to 29), Ardent collectors.

Hent.

13. The Company's attempt at a

14. The Horapipe by a gallant band of sailors off the S.S. J-Pan, gallantly led by the Bosun.

15. Boxese, as they have decided Three Little

to remain Maids."

abilities.

16. Our start Rachael exhibits her 17. An appeal by A. Steel. 18. Pianoforte Solo-Miss Vaughan. 19. The lovesick couple--V. Capell D. and C.

Lake beconte moonstruck.

The buried cities and ante- diluvian "Secrets of the vast Loera areas of China and Russian Turkestan have yet to be revealed. Therefore, man cannot be the ac 21. The Y.M.C.A. have kindly cidental product of a "life germ

20. Our Jazz Girls-Some. Kids!

obliged by having the security

of the roof seen to after Mr. Glover's Grat attempt

24. Mr. Lake brings back memories

(Moneron), as taught and believed by the Evolutionary" school of

the late Mr. Chau Sin Ki). He his motion. was a promising scholar and popu lar among his fallow students.

Body Recovered.

The body of the young Chineac

Scientists, and, which, according to student, of St. Stephen's College, SI

Dr. Orbarn, has taken 16,000,000 who was drowned at Stonecutter's years to evolve and attain its pre-Island while bathing with a party. thing be more fallacious t

of La Belle France. 23. A little breath of heather-Ment state of maturity! Could any of his fellows, was recovered at the

Glendinning,

24. The Company in a larking mood before wishing you Good night.

It is surprising how lightly some

of our scientista toy with millions of years. Of course, it is a handy 25. There is an end to all things and convenient plank for the bridg

even this rotten show-henoe

of. scientific the final. All costumes designed and dances helps to impress their followers and

arranged and taught by Miss V Qapell.

So far

TARIFF WALLS. JOSEPH COOK AND THE ECONOMIC CONFERENCE. "In my judgment there is a way

Our

The result was ****

Thus,

On hearing his sentence the first. accused asked the District Judge to increase his sentence and not to inflict the ratan.

This, however, was refused.

BORN.

A LONDON MYSTERY,

On May 9th Mrs. Proctor, before the birth of the child, left home to see, a doctor in Forest-gate, where Necessity Of State Co-operation, formerly, she had lived. Her hus- The London and Liverpool Asso- band knew neither the namas nor the address of the doctor. Her mother, ciations, formed in 1921, were re- sponsible for the next step, for they who had arranged to go with her, urged the vital necessity of State was in like difficulty. Nor was the co-operation if shipping was to bo mother helped by a note which she encouraged to pursue its activities found on arrival at Park-parade, in war-time, with the result that a and which read, I have gone on. sub-committee of the Committee of But don't worry. I shall be all Imperial Defence was appointed in right." Mrs. Proctor was not seen "Shipowners' Schemes."

or heard of again until mine p.m.

woman The merchant and manufacturer May, 1913, and their report was Island yesterday by the police out of the troubles of the moment. freight and insurance, while the then there was delay, but the ship who knew her met her on the plat

concern themselves with the cost of issued in the following April. Even on Tuesday fast, when The body was taken to the mory and cultivate the inter-trading underwriter takes the risk, pro guns, and on August 14th were able days after her disappearance. She owners associations stuck to their form of Marylebone Station eleven tunry,

เส whole," said Sir vided the aggregate premiums will sue the historic, circular an- had completely lost her memory, of the Empire da Joseph Cook, High Commissioner over the losses and, of course, nomcing that the intention of the and failed even to recognise, her for Australia, at the luncheon of leave a margin.

scheme and the object of the Gor husband. All that she could say the National Union of Manufac that the proposals came to be re, ernment in reinsuring war risk to was that she had a dim recollection

merely shipowners' turers at the Holborn Restaurant. garded as

All attention to-day, he said, was schemes and as such were looked the extent of 90 per cent, was to of being helped by two nurses into and maintain the overseas trade of the a taxicab. She also spoke vaguely concentrated on the Economia Con- upon as suspect A step onward

was made in 1903, when a Royal country, Members were advised to of staying in a nursing home.

The baby had been born, but' was ferénce at Geneva, where they wore confirm my discoveries and findings going round the walls of the tarifi Commission on Supply. of Food and set. prudently as common partner, not with her.. Mrs. Proctor's father

to minimize calls, but to recognize Jericho. Whether they would fall Raw Material in Time of War was (a) the upheaval of Central Asin down at the clashing of their cym appointed. The investigation was the duty of keeping their ships has called on a large number of dac, ground living, cursorial, and subsidence of the Pacific bals and their music he would not very thorough and the report intel going wherever it was reasonably doctors and nursing homes around alert, capabic of tool-making, and Continent, and the flooding of pretend to say, but as he saw ligently visualized the economic possible. How splendidly the scheme Forest-gate, but has been unable to worked and how premiums dropped find any trace of the child nor can Europe to-day he did not think conditions which obtained during until the "sink at sight policy of he catablish where his daughter was living in a relatively opan coun- the world by a tidal wave, try on the high plateaus and

and

they were going to have an easy the war.

In 1907 a Treasury Committee the enemy was developed is well between May 8th and May 17th. It plains of Northern Asia.

(b) the Diluvial origin of Loess task in getting those walls down

was appointed, when the proposals told by Sir Norman. At the same is evident, however, that in the deposits, as the unravelling agin

this mystery moans the He was going away with the feel for insurance and indemnity were time, however, it is terrible to meantime she had been properly solution of many of the per- ing that there was no decadence in again examined, but they were think what might have happened looked after. The police have made ploxing riddies of Science this country at all. It was never unable to recommend the adop to the country had it not been for inquiries at every nursing home, and Geology, and the recon- more overflowing with vitality and tion of any form of National Guar. the wise foresight of the shipown. hospital, and workhouse infirmary ailiation of Science and Be. vigour mentally and in every other antee against the war risks of shipers and the excellence of their in the Metropolitan area without ligion,

way. (Choora)

ping and maritime trade except organization-Jyren.

ing

chas,

2114

and the open country, best adapt ed to the evolution of the horse, is also best adopted to the evolu- tion of the higher races of Man." 1 am now waiting to see whether Dr. Osborn will also be able to

The dawn-mantt line belongs regarding: tó a distinct family the homini-

admirers. I am also exceedingly glad to know that Dr. Csborn sup ports my 1914 discovery that Chi- nese Turkestan is the Cradle of the AT THE MILITARY HOSPITAL. Iluman Race. He enys:-

Mias Alleen Woods, Mrs. Woods and Mr. G. W. C. Burnett gave the inmates and staff of the British Military Hospital, Kowloon, a very enjoyable hour's entertainment on Wodnesday evening under the auspices of the Naval and Military YM.O.A. Entertainment. Comunit tes, the Secretary of which has since hoard in appreciative terme from the Matron, of the pleasure the artistes were responsible in bringing to the men.

advise searching for these ancestors in the region embraced by Chinese Turkestan, Tibet and Mongolia, bcosuse we have recent ly determined that this was prob ably home of the primitive horse,

(Continued on next Column),

result