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TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1931,

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"PEKING MAN."

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The steamship,

"D'ARTAGNAN""

DESCRIBED BY PROFESSOR AS HUMANOID.

Arrived Hongkong on Wednesday, It was officially disclosed peatar- The importance of Sinan-

the 14th October, 1931. From MARSEILLES &c. day that the Hongkong Govern.thropus, or the "Peking Man," in

Consignees of Cargo by the above ment had decided, In view of the establishing the origin vindication of Mr. N. 1. Brewer, evolution of present-day man, was that their goods with the exception of and named steamer are hereby informed barrister, by the specini Carlin discussed by Professor J. L. Shell-Opium, Treasure and Valuables are ment of the Inner Temple in Lan shear, D.S.O, M.D.. the well-being landed and placed at their risk don, to grant him a free parion.known Anthropologist, when he in the Godowns of the Hongkong The Government will also con-delivered a lecture to members of Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., sider the question of compensation

the

for the prison aantenes Mr. Brewer Hongkong University Medical Kowloon, whence delivery can be

served in the Victoria Gaol,

yesterday Professor Shellshear, who

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obtained as the goods are landed.

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All claims must be sent to the 22nd October, 1981, or they will not be undersigned before the Thursday, the recognised.

As soon as the matter is settled.ferred to the wonderful work acte rest. Mrs. Brewer hopes to be able to complished in the discovery of Sinanthropus by Professor David- join her husband in London.

Bon Black and other eminent After serving his sentence Mr. scientists, who worked under the Brower, leaving his local aTairs 'n auspices of the Chinn Geological the care of his wife, sailed for Survey, also made some interest- England on July 12, 1930, with ing remarks on the common mia the intention of making an appeal take that the discovery of fossil before the Privy Council.

skalla meant the discovery of pre-October, 1991. historic Englishmen.

Before approaching the Privy Council, however, it was necessary for him to put his case before the Special Parliament of the Inner Tempio in London, and on November 11 of the same year the Master of the Inn Bench rendered the following decision:

"This Bench having duly con sidered all the documents in twa Ales submitted to then, and which among other documents contain a record of the proceedings which the conviction took place. and having heard Noel Instone Brewer, are unanimously of the

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opinion that they cannot And any Justineation for the conviction. and do not ser their way to take any disciplinary action."

The Case Reviewed.

The case aroused much interest in the Colony last year. Mr. Brewer was charged with making inaccurate statements regarding the Instone Banklag Corparation which he

instrumental

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No Mere Accident. Dr. G. H. Thomas prealded over the meeting, and the speaker, who ave lantern illustrations, opened his lecture by saving that the din covery of the Peking Man was no тего accident. It was almost | MERE

known to be there, and Anderson Black and the other members of the party went there with the ex breas intention of finding the skull.

Teeth were first found in a shor In Peking, which were definitel anthropoid, either of ape or man Davidson Black, in an explanation of the tooth, found it was nearer human than an anthropold tyne and there was aufficient asapicias riven them to search for a skull of human type.

New Class of Man. Davidson Black definitely made new class of man from this dis every, bringing in a new "pozics known as Sinanthropus, or the Man of China. Later, three more

specimens were found, while Ennugh honen of various animals were discovered to keep the scleu thetists Afty years classifying them.

in founding when it went in to quidation M the reault the Chinese Government closing the Shekki branch and

arising. among shareholders and depositors.

The particular count against Mr. Brewer at the trial was that he "mnde falsely on August 16. 1927, a statutory report that the total cash received by the Instone Banking Corporation in respect of shares issued wholly for cash was $870,750."

Some weeks before the ease arone Mr. Brewer had gone to Japan for a holiday. On hia re turn he announced his intention of leaving the Colony for Vancouver

and

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It was while he was again in Japan on his way there, that he received a telegram announcing that a warrant had been issued for his arrest. He immediately turned to meet the churge volun- tarily and was taken into custody at Shanghai while walking along Klangne Road. He was then re- turned to Hongkong for trial.

Supreme Court Trial. Arraigned before Mr. Grantham at the Central Magistracy he was sent for trial at the Supreme Court

presided over by Mr. Justice Wood. There he conducted his own de fence. The case came up for trial on January 20, 1900, and on the 24th., after the summing up, Mr. Brewer made a long and eloquent final address to the jury, making a passionate appeal for a verdict in his favour on the ground that hia Intentions had been honest and conscientions and that he had not endeavoured to further his own interests, or to defraud or at tempt to defraud in filing the re-

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Agen. Hongkong, 14th October, 1981.

the man in the street to beliavo'

hat when a skull was discovered, it was the skull of an English-

man.

Dismissing the popular term of Miasing Link" as being an in- correct idea, the speaker ald horo wna much to show. when

Sinanthropus comparing

with thecanthropus and the Piltdown skull, that the "Peking Man" night be the stem from which the ther skulis had evolved. Thero was a close resemblance between the three, and as evidence to show ow man travelled, Sinanthropus yas found near Peking, Pithecan- hropus in Java, and the Piltdown skull in England.

He would call them humanold, if "they objected to the word human, he said.

Where is Man's Home? Professor Shellshear, in paying The great importance of Sinan- tribute to the work of Davidson thropus was the assistance it gave Back, said that he had to spend in proving where was the home of whole year on piecing together man. Darwin suggested South the thousand fragments of the Africa, but now everything point akull, and the tedious labour in-ed to Central Asia as the place of volved in getting the akull out of istribution, for they found that the cave was almost incredible, the animals had distributed them And as soon as the skull had been selves towards the ends of the ound, it was seen to be practical-peninsulas. That was why, add- ly identical to that predicted by the professor, Englishmen and Davidson Black from the tooth Scotsmen were 80 found carlier.

Not A Gorilla.

pugnacious,

They were trying to save them- selves from being driven off their peninsula, which, in time, unless There were some people who they were careful, would happen! wanted to call Sinanthropus a At the conclusion, Dr. Thomas gorilla, but before they could do thanked Professor Shellshear for that he wanted to know what a his very instructive address. gorilla was. If the skull was the skull of a gorilla, then all he could say was that it was something far more wonderful than the skull of

man.

Ife thought the whole ideal, could be disposed of, unless the critics meant to call Sinanthropus great upe, lu which case, why did they not say so?

"Human," did not mean English- [man: it was a common mistake by

port which formed the subject of the charge.

On February 3, the jury having' found him guilty, Mr. Brewer waa sentenced to four months imprison- ment. The decision of the Hong- kong Government following the action of the special Parliament of the Inner Temple in London, is the final step in clearing Mr.

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