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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1924.

COCOA'S FOURTH

CENTENARY.

Pepys' First Cup of Tea..

The fourth centenary of the introduction of cocos into Europe in to be celebrated this month by a conforance of Empiro producers olthor in central London or at the British Empiro Exhibition. Following the conference, the British Empira Producors Organisation hopes to arrango mootings with foreign producers. manufacturers, and dealers, and anyone interested in encao production who will be in London in June or July is being invited to communicate with thom.

SCIENTIST IN CHINA.

Anthropological Investigations.

anthropological

With a view to continuing his raphical investigations upon the and othnog Chinose, Dr. 8. M. Shirokogoroff, anthropologist of the Russian Academy of Sciences, loft Shang- .N.S. Sunning for Hongkong, hai on the 8th instant by the

News. says the North China Daily

short while in Hongkong, there It is his intention to stay u

meaturing LA many Chineso

us

proceed to Canton, where he possible, and thon to

will bo ablo to measure 11 Of the three popular beverages, number of Cantonusu und cocoa was introduced into Europe Hakkas. By taking a large serios first. Thore is no roforence to of measuremonts of individuals toa in European literature befuroin, various social groups, it is. 1588, and the approciation of possible to discover their affinities, coffon as a beverage dates only with other groups, and so by from the seventeenth century, degrees to work put the Inter- How long before the discovery relationships of the various of America by Europeans cocoa poople that inhabit a given arva, was used in its native country it Dr. Shirokogoroff, who is a past | is hard to say. The soldiers of master in this now, methed of Cortez who landed in Mexico in investigation -known as biome- 1519 first encountered it there, try has curried out a consider- and it was introduced into Spainable amount of work in East about 1524.

Coffeo, we know, was used in Abyssinia in the fifteenth century, and it was then stated that it had been used from time immemorial Toa, according to Chinese legend, gous back to almost 3,000 yoars before Christ, and, if legend is doubiful basis of history, it is al least certain that it was already hoverage us long ago as the Tang dynasty, which began in the

• seventh century.

Siberia, Mongolia, Manchuria, North China, and recently at conjunction with that of others, Shanghai. His work, taken in enables us to form sono idea of the distribution, past and pre- sont, of the human species in Asia. At the prosent time the eastern part of Asia is occupied by several distinct ethnical typos. What are known as the Pai- Asiaties, who once occupied the whole of Asia, are now found in isolated groups on the fringes of To England the three beverages the continent and, working from were introduced about the same narth to south round the East time, the middle of the seven Asiatic coast, are topresonted by teenth contury. London coffee the Yakugir. Chukchis, a small houses date from 1652. Five group of Esquimaux, Koryaks, yours later thu "Public Ad-Itelman, Giliakė, vertisor" announced that "probably Koreans, and the San Ainu, and Bishopsgate-street, in Queen's Tak or Hakka of Head-alloy, at a Fronchman's The

Fukien. hinterland of house, is an excellent West India Siberis and Manchuria i oc- Eastern drink, called chocolate, to be sold. I cupied by Tungis tribes, Mong where you may have it ready allia by the Mongols, and China by any time, and also unmade at a race. related to the Tibotans, reasonable rates," Cogos was but with a strong mixture of brought from the West Indies to Tungus and Mongol in the north| Bristol, and it is suggested that and Malay in the south. the large commercial

A very interosi interesting point is that the Pai- which Qunkers have in the pro- Asiaties appear to be closely duct may perhaps be traced to related to and to have to this day this association, Bristol having much the same culture as the, for long been one of the chief Paleolithic man of Europe, the contros of Quakeris]

Oro-magnons. Dr. Shirokogoro ii Pepys drank his first cup of tea has found numerous Paleolithic on September 25, 1660, but at least sites in Eastern Siberia and Man- two years before this date it had churia which correspond to conio to London, for the Mer- remarkable degree with similar curius Politicus" of September' sites in China and Europe. 1658, contains the advertisements A short while ago Mr. A. de C. "That excellent, and by all phy- Sowerby, as President of the sitints approved China drink China Society of Science and called by Chinoans Teha, by other Arts, made a public appeal for nations Tay, alias teo, is sold at funds to support Dr. Shirokogor. -at-the-Sultaneso "Head, a cophed off's work, kûl so für sufficient house in Sweetings Rents by the money, has been raised-to enable; Royal Exchange, London:" the anthropologist to make his present trip to South China. Since the last report, the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society has douuted $100 towards Dr. Shirokogoroff's work, and Mr. E Lathy $10. More is needed, how evor, as it is necessary for a visit! to be paid to Szechuan, and another to Shensi and. Kansu be- fore the work can be completed.

HISTORIC WHIP

A jockey's whip used in the famous Derby of 1844, when a great racing fraud was discovered, was sold at Sotheby's for £13. On the whip was mounted rocumbout horse with the in- scription" R. L. G., won by Run-. ning Roin 1844." Running. Rein was disqualified, the winner" it

was aftorwarde discovered, being a four year-old horse named Mac cabous. The horse was ric den by R. L. Goodman whose initials the whip boars, Lord George Bentinck who made inquiries, found that large supplios of buir dyo had been purchased in the West End for the purpose of disguising the horse.

A boatwoman was knocked 'down and injured by Mr. Kwok Chan's car at Whitfield yoalorday. She was taken to hospital..

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FATAL AIR FORCE ACCIDENTS, Viscount Curzon in the House of M. Leach, in reply to Captain) Commons, stated recently that taken placo, in the Royal Air soventeen fatal accidents have Force since Jam 1, 1925. Recent statistics do not support the statement that

been

thero

of ongine failures.

vory large namber The pro- portion of engine failures due to faults of maintenance' is at pro- sant under investigation, but there is no reason to suppose that it is at all high. He is satisfied with the standard of technical. knowlodge and skill of the ground! staffs and organisation gonorally.

A DITTY-

My trục-love hath-my heart, and I have his.

By just exchange one to the other given:

I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,

There never was a better bargain driven." My true-love hath my heart, and I have his

His heart in me keeps him and me in one.

My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:

He loves my heart; for once it was his own,

I cherish his because in me it bides:

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

Sir Philip Sidney.

TEASERS

Down the Chicles

The drawing shows tit helftes of chic, which takes tive separate drops A, B, C, D und E.

Allow self-aloni fuitty, Korunde for this teaser" Blane se H You can estimate which the marke Thevet ruuld fall. nat in the lis tance of the strap, but-in the angle. To other words, which one of the -kutes in the steepest

Make your estimate: to try it your frioul. મા

"checkup" and died yine Maling?

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Saturday's Téaurs.

A 320 gold pirre is decifrails 13 than a half dollar. A su gali pos Abo has quite marginen i gaudete

far. Axa gulpiner nut w kicks nge almost the water size, with the wo pine having a tiny maga is the favou

Either extinale as I called tret. A penny is larger than a $2,50 goi plece, which is abom the size of a dime,

Tu manke all Luge estimates comprarly Is crptional: three, try pool; tur, good; one, average; none, poor,

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Copyright. 11, by Pulite Jaduit e monjon

SOVIET WAY WITH BEGGARS,

IMPURE MILK

"Foot and mouth discaso-has ap- poured around Peking; one forsign rosidunt having been infected.

itc- sidents have hoon rominciod that it is, absolutely necessary to boil all milk South China Morning Post; Monday, Juno 16th. 1924.

before use."

USERS OF

KLIM

POWDERED WHOLE MILK (Full Cream)

ARE ALWAYS ASSURED OF ABSOLUTE PURITY.

Levitt, a Russian, was charged

At Willesdon, when Joseph KLIM COMPLIES WITH ALL NATIONAL FOOD. LAWS, with begging

London, the

Aliens Officer said that Russians could not be doporied, as the Soviet Government refused to have them back in the country. Government seen to have a good The Magistrate. The Soviet deal thore common sense than wo They profer that we shall keep have been giving them credit for. their criminals rather than they should do so. The prisoner. I (Laugbior.) He was sentenced to also profer to live in England. one month's imprisonment, with hard labour.

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