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HONGKONG WOMEN.

"HOMO" COMES BACK AGAIN.

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Sir,-A distillation

Mr. Ayaida's dissertion leaves us with "Man in Reason, or Soul" and "Woman Is Templation, or flu

sion."

SHANGHAI PEACE

OUTLOOK.

SITUATION STILL OBSCURE.

Shanghai, Apr. 2, 7.58. p.m. That the Sino-Japanese Confer- ence will be brought to a success- ful conclusion before the end of another week was the gist of the Hin didactic amplifiention of the opinions of the Chinese and Japan- original su-called indictment might to delegates after an hour and a

10-half's session this morning. have contributed somewhat wards an accurate adjudication It is pointed out that, agreement had we been arraigning woman has been renched in practically all bofore a public tribunal. There the major points with the single was no such intention, however, exception of the limit for the behind my first letter, and an Japanese withdrawal. An agree- nendemic discussion upon the ment, however, on this thorny quee female's origin, constitution and tion is now expected. The Confer purpose is, to me, of no practient ence is reassembling on Monday at interest.

No man with any experience at all of Hongkong women requires. an expository discourse to con- vince him of their worthlesiens,

11.30 am.Renter

To The Last Man.

Nasking. Apr. 2. A significant atatement indicat: Philosophy and psychologicaling the possibility of resumption of analysis leaves the average male out bere stone cold. His braia has become atrophled before huя ween three

secure more

THE HONGKONG

CIVILISATION'S CRADLE.

EUROPE'S FIRST COLONISTS.

20,000 YEAR OLD

IMMIGRATION.

TELEGRAPIT.

MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1932.

SWEDISH VIKING

GRAVES.

DISCOVERIES IN SOUTH

RUSSIA.

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The far-flung and daring voy- ages of the Swedish Vikings are enco more evidenced by some in- teresting finds recently made in Ukraine in South Russia, The well-known Swedish antiquarian Speculations concerning the T, J. Arne, in an article in the cradle of civilisation were made Auta Archeologica describes by Sir Arthur Keith in his Frazer number of ancient graves found lecture before Glasgow University near the town of Cernigov In Sir Arthur discussed, in the Ukraine previously believed to orf- light of recent discoveries, the ginato from a Slavie tribe but now Aryan theory of how the lanu-proved by Dr. Arne to be the Inst ages of the world spread from one resting places of Swedish Vikings. common source, and stated that The graves, about 80 in number, discoveries had now been made are square, 1-1.5 meters deep, and which might lead to a solution of Ined with wooden boards. In this the problem.

grave the dead warrior was de- posited with a woman on his loft aide and sometimes resting on his arm, his horse with full trappings, weapons and a number of objects destined to serve him on his Inst journey.

The evidence, to my mind" he declared, "is now conclusive that Europe was colonised by Caucas- lans at a comparatively late date, when reckoned, according to the calendar used by geologists.

hostilities was made by General Tani Ting-kai, who declared that if

Judging from a raport the Japanese renewed the offensive,

by П contemporary. chronicler of the Comy thinking thereby to

"The Caucusina pioneers began there is reason to believe that the moons, and the only way of effect favourable armistice terms, the to appear in Europe in driblets in women either voluntarily followed: ing his resuscitation is a declamin-Chinese were prepared to resist to

an interval of the last ice-age the Vikings in death or that they Lory sledge hammer.

the last man and bullet.

which, if we count in years, can-

were killed in order to provide: So Mr. Aynida would be well

not be less than 20,000 years ng... them with a companion into the ndvlaed to forget his intention of He said the saccess of the Shang- "nising the discussion to a highchai Armistice Conference depended both Africa in the south and Asia These women instead of the cin

They may have come from unknown rea'm beyond the grave. level of dignity." The slightest on the sincerity of the Japanese by in the east. The point is imma-boste ornaments found on women elevation would carry it Into obli- | fixing. A time for the with terial, for those early mammoth in Swedish graves wear simpler vion, and as the question of the drawal, and not on bargaining hunting Caucasinos are sufficient- ornaments of

local or Oriental Hongkon man's extinction a over points to where their troopsly alike in structure of body that origin and probably were native. pears to me to merit a certain should withdraw, and added that

we must regard them as deriva. | wives or slaves taken by

the amount of practical opposition, unless a time limit is fixed the Con-

lives of a commun stock, whose Vikings from the district where respectfully RUSTJECAT that

is doomed to failure evolutionary home we Mr. ference Aynida takes his "souls" and illu

may pre-they red. sume to have been in Asia rather Dr. Arne found the objects in sions" In a plane where such

Troops Mutiny.

than in Africa,

the graves, especially the weapon, phenomena ure found more com-

Shanghai, Apr. 2, 10.16 a.m.

to be of pure Swedish type and prehensible. very much regret

the graves correspondt Aerial observers were sent by

to those having given him cause for per-

the Japanese yesterday to investi-

found in Sweden and around the plexity in using the expression gate the sounds of warfare from

shores of the Baltic, where the "Hongkong women." In writing the walled town of

Tai Tsang.

Vikings held sway. The expedi the English press, (11

The airmen reported that two

tions of the Swedish and Seaudina- apt to overlook

Chinese forces were engaged in a

vian Vikings have been previously its renders

hot battle. British, but I can assure him that had manged the walls on the north

A strong detachment

proved by numerous finds in the Swedish soil and abroad to have i would never presume to criticise west section of the city and had

reached Constantinople, the Medi or even discuss the women of any kept up a steady fire upon a body

terranean shores, Great Britain, rare other than my own. I have of about 600 Chinese who had np

France and even as far as North no knowledge whatever

During later years it parently been attacking them from

America. that direction.

the

one is

that

not

the marital relationships of Eastern races, and am eontent to leave the destinies of their women under the control of their own menfolk.

Reuter.

Tai

The Japanese

forces are ap- proximately two miles from And as to coming out in

Tsang. The actual cause of the open and making a frontal attack, clash is unknown, but it in believed I questionin one Hongkung to be due to a mutiny among the woman in a thousand has cogni. Chinese troops at the city. Conal- zance of my existence and really derable dissension is believed to fail to appreciate how giving my have existed among the Cifinese name would provide them with any forces around Shanghai lately, due, fairer means of vindication than the Japanese state, to the alleged fallure of the Chinese high com- they already have in the press.

"A Toe by

mand to pay the troops, and dia- my other maras would smell as sweet.which retribute the gift money sent to the minds me of a few lines of a sour country by Chinese residing abroad,

-Our Own Correspondent. with which fragrant, easy-to-look-at enchan Fress set the aural medium rip- pling la entrancing harmony:

I

once

heard

Ah then tix mine to mark the

hidden longing.

And all the passion in their eyest And then the joy of conquest over.

comes n

TWO MOTORING

MISHAPS.

NAVAL OFFICER SENT

TO HOSPITAL.

in Dex Voeux

Every man is my prize. Which again recalls the story fascinating wench called of a Circe, who got a great kick out of

The victim of a motor accident turning the pala of poor old Ulysses into a herd of swine.Paymaster Lieut. W. R. Vallance, Rond Central,

of the Royal Naval Yard, received injuries to his head last night when he was thrown out of a rickaha which came in collision with a public motor car near the City Hall,

Yours, etc..

A Disclaimer.

HOMO,

Sir I do hope that "Home" doesn't think that I'm like other Hongkong women.Yours, rte..

"REBECCA".

Oh, Poor Deluded Boob Am I" I'm sitting stone locked up in my

roem,

Lieut. Vallance was taken, to the Royal Naval Hospital, but fortunately his condition is not considered to be serious.

My wife's LAZY st 'making | juries to her right leg were

whoopee,

that little bunch

In another mishap, slight in- suffered by Mina Edna Stephens, Fve got "Home" and "Hobo" and aged ten years, of HI, Wongnei- chung Road, who suddenly ran To thank for this trouble-but I've across the road and was knocked

got a hunch

down by a private motor car yes- seribile a verse, and theaterday. The car, No. 1579, was scrounge some lunch. When you've read it you'll know I'm driven by Mr. Li Tse-shan of 18,

quite loopy:

Leighton ICHI Road. Stephens was removed to the Go- vernment Civil Hospital, where she received treatment, but was not detained.

l'il

I had hope of producing a sextain.

But sex is taboo for a while.

My wife thinks I'at "Home", it's

sad to relate

And I've got the blante for his

"Hymn of late

She looks so suspicions if I stay ou

late.

While her aspect is more or less,

hostile.

The Veras.

"Twas on

T Sunday,

R

bright Sexagesima

The church bells were full of appeal, Rexton no doubt was doing his The

stuff,

Plus four blokes were cussing their]

luck in the rough

While coy Sexagenarians were

thinking it tough - When you don't prove as young as

you feel.

DIPPY.

Miss

MATTER & ENERGY.

PROFESSOR'S NEW THEORY.

New York. Mar. 9.

A new theory of matter und

enery explaining the phenomena

"We know how these early in- habitants of Europe obtained a subsistence, and how they con tinued to live down to a date late as 3000R.C. They lived on the natural produre of land and shore.

try to

"It needs a fertile hunting coun- maintain one soul to the square mile all the year round, a tribe numbering a hundred needs at least a hundred square miles as its own territory for a bare sub sistence.

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has been found that the "Vikings were not only warriors and raiders Britain's Population B.C.

but also merchants. They were **in the your 3000 B.C. the moreover energetic colonizers, the even maintained population of the British Isles was Viking kings

I doubt diplomatic relations with foreign probably under 30,000;

innds and their international very much if the natural produce of soll and river could provide, sum-power was surprisingly great. mer and winter, sustenance for a greater number.

SHORTER SKIRTS

AGAIN.

EVENING FROCKS

REMAIN LONG.

Fashion parades at the London dress houses are still in full swing. that of models by Captain Molv. One interesting dreas show was

"The Continent of Europe has an Area of 3,75 million square miles for the support of each individual- man, woman, and child-and we obtain a total population for Europe in the year 300 B.C. of, 750,000. 'Now on the same area 475 millions of men, women, and children man- are to live. How has this vast transformation been accomplished? Five hundred people are living on an area which 5000 years ago pro vided enough for only a single soul!

"Discoveries are being made us, the famous English dress which, if they do not reveal the designer in Paris, who has opened # London salon in Grosvenar- actual origlijat Aryan dome, do guide us in its direction. The street. All the models shown were cavations which are being carriedale in London in the workrooms

of the new salon. Mr. Leonard Woolley, and at Kish turn of shorter out at Ur under the direction of

This collection showed the re- skirta For day under Professor Stephen Langdon,

WORY. Sports suits and tailorcil and the still older explorations of clothes had skirts that Susa

renched by M. de Morgan, in the only a few inches below the kuce, south-western corner of Persia, tell Skirt lengths for reception and us very plainly that at the begin-evening gowns, however, remain ning of the fourth millennium B.C. long. Navy blue and black figured ngriculture in the lands to the north frequently among tailored models of the Persian Gulf had attained a and various shades of pink were high development, and indeed was used for evening gowns." then already uld.

"How old we can

As yet only Kiess, but if we place its begin nings early in the sixth millennium B.C. we shall under-estimate rather than over-estimate the antiquity of the art which still provides the foundation of our modern civilisa- tion, and which has led to such a rapid increase of the population of

he world."

ma-

Jumpers Back in Favour. "Zebra" striped woollen terials made most attractive sports sults, and the majority of the woollen materials were of British and hems were used on roats ne- manufacture. Deep fox collars

companying frocks for forminl ocensions.

Wool Jumpers recently

have been superseded by blouses, but the useful and comfortable jumper seems to be returning to favour. M. Kitchigin's exhibition of paint and many were shown at this salon. ings at the Athena Studio in Glouces A coat made from English stouts ter Building will be oper. to the public is a novelty at the Poutz collection. for the rest of the week. The lavish This fur looks like summer ermine, use of brilliant colour and boldness of but is less expensive. The skins design are the outstanding charae are worked in the same way at teristics

of his work, which

ranks

RADIO BROADCAST

RELAY FROM THE KING'S THEATRE.

By Z. B. W. on`a wavelength of 355 melres. (845 K.C.').

6.00-7.00 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7.00 p.m. European Programme, 7.00 p.m. Stock Quotations, Mail Natice, etc.

8.00 p.m. Local Time and Weather .Report.

7,05-8.10 p.m. A Selection of Elec- trically Transcribed Radio Pro- grammes kindly supplied by the Brunswick House and played on Western Electric Sound Equipment.

Ankon Week's Orchestra playing at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, and the Ölymplan's Quartet in Novelty Songs.

8.10-9.45 p.m.

A Programme of records kindly aupplied by Messrn. Thang Fook Piano Co.

.

8.10-8.35 p.m. Variety. Humorous Song-Thank Your Father. Humorous Song-I'd Go Barefoot All

Winter Long,

Helen Kane. 22397, Hawaiian Guitars-Honolulu March. Hawaiian Gultara-Kohala March,

Frank Ferera and John K. Paoluhi. 20027. Vocal Duet-Keep Your Skirts Down

Mary Ann. Voeni Duet-If I find a Girl

Like You.

Alleen Stanley and Billy Murray, 19796. Organ Solo-How Am I to Know. Organ Solo-Mian You,

Jesso Crawford, 22120. 8.35-9.00 p.m. Rosenkavalier (Richard Strausa). Augmented Tivoll Orchestra conducted by Richard Strauss. 9280-0283. 9.08-9.38 p.m.

A Concert, Violin Solo-Zapateado (Sarasate).

Jascha Heifetz: · 0096. Song-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere

(Pounda-Fearis).

Marion Tale Valse Miniature

(Soprano). 1248.

String Ban

(Roussevitzky).

Sorgen (Shakespeare

rge Koussevitzky. 1476.

Song-Who ¡A

Schubert). Song-None But a Lonely Heart

(Techaikowsky).

John McCormack (Tenor), 1300. Piano Solo-To A Wild Rose To A Water Lily (Macdowell). Piano Solo-A Deserted Farm-Of Brier

Rabbit (Macdowell).

Myrtis C. Earer. 22181. Song-I Know A Lovely Garden

(Teschumacher-D'Hardelet). Maria Jeritza (Soprano). 1301. Trio-O Sole Mio (Capus).

Neapolitan Trio, 20248. 9.38-10.00 p.m.

Band Selections, Forge in the Forest (Michaells). Trovatore (Verdi)-Anvil Chorin.

Arthur Pryor's Band. 19870. Hinein Loyalty (Guild). Jail to the Orange and Osker Wow

Wow (Green-Hill).

University of Illinois Military Band, 19835.

10.00-11.15 p.m. (Approx:). Relay of "Sunshine Susic" from the King's Theatre by courtesy of the Management.

11.15 p.m. (Approx:). Rugby Mid-day Press News. 11.20 p.m.

Close Down.

45,000 ROAD DEATHS IN TEN YEARS.

►

STARTLING FIGURES.

Sir Herbert Samuel, the Home Secretary, reports that 45,000 people have been illed on the 1čude in Britäht in the last 10 years.

He adds: "There is a feeling in the House of Comnions that "the large number of accidents cansad by motor tame must be reduced.

"In the last five years the num- ber of fatal accidents has nearly loubled the figure in the first five years.

"But for skillel driving and re- Hability of the mechanism the

among the best exhibited locally. M. those of the ermine and are slight-figure might be higher." Kitchigin does not confine himself toy brighter in colour.

any one medium of expression. He

is equally at home in landscapes,

compositions, and figures. The "Fire"MOTOR PARADISE".

carred out a

In calour technique.

The .. Tymerle is due to arrive

GERMAN WOMAN ON

TOUR OF ENGLAND. A German woman, who, with

Sir Herbert, who spoke at the luncheon of the Commercial Motor Ukers' Association. at the Savoy Hotel, said that there were two methods of dealing with the situa tion.

One was to tighten up the laws and increase the number of pro- secutions.

WHA

The other method, which simpler, was that motors should not.

be driven quite so fast.

"I suggest," he said, "that your. powerful organisation should set itself to secure that drivers should be instructed never to proceed over a certain speed."

Mr. P. J. Pybus,

of light In contradiction to the in Hongkong to-day, bringing a cargo wave theory of light first stated of 7,350 tons of Sriporo Pontinte Seam 150 years ago by Huygens is an-Stean Coal from Calcutta. Her nounced by Professor R. Plyler, a charterers are Messs, Bhagat Singh, her husband, hins just finished n physicist of the University of of Tal Ping_Building, Queen's Road, motor tour through Great Britain, North Carolina.

at Mesers. Bugga & Co. The ship has given an enthusiastic account ment represents the first consignment of hor tour The Professor holds that radia from the above firme Calcutta offes. "Mittag."

to the Dusseldorf The gangster scourge is realistical-tion is corpuscular rather than ly presented in the filth "The Secret wave-like, and no concept of other

Sho declares that Britain is a Six" which is being shown at the is necessary. Ho declares that the which is the ultimate building some of the things that particu- "motoring paradise." These are Queen's Theatro. In thla story, Wallace Beery, cast in the role of concept does not violate the prin block of all energy.

Jarly struck her: The magnificent rising gangster, gives a characteriza-ciples of the quantum theory of

The Einstein relatively equation, ronds, the "discipline" of the delight light as hald by Einstein and showing a change in the mass of trafle, the safety of the railway tion which makes him wholly delight Planck, but extends the theory the moving body due to change in crossings, and the kindness and ful and almost likeable, until we are reminded of our duties to democracy since it explains many phenomena motion, fe ensily demonstrated by courtesy of motorists to one an- and civiliantion, and we are then hitherto unexplained.

nt

The light the Plyler theory with the aid of other. At Harwich they wore 48- one with the

when the corpuscle is assumed producer villain is given his just doserts in the linear motion and energy rather

elementary mathematics. The alated by an R.A.C. offelal, who electric chair.. Lewis Stone is irre-than wave, and two kinds of spin theory holds that the universe is n was "kindness and energy per proachable as the crooked lawyer, and

ma energy.

conservative system, neither gain-sonified." Clark Gable, as the brilliant crime

ing nor losing energy; that there Sho declares that Britain is not newspaper reporter, rounds off a The first postulate of the theory may be transferences of energy sufficiently advertised in Germany, drama which closely approaches the is the existence of an indivisible from one bady to another, but the Evon in Dresden she was unable real life.

unit of energy. "the atomerg," sum total remains the same. Ito purchase a map of British roads, it would allow it.

to

have

Minister of

WOKO

Transport, said the Ministry was inclined to the view that the num- ber of speed limits for commercial lorries should be reduced to three.

When the regulations

and amended

Cornolidated- course" which must shortly bat taken-he hoped to submit to. Parliament a rovised and simpli- flod schedule of speed limits.

He did not propose to recommend any increase in the speed limita and he did not think Parliament

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