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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.“

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1934.

ASSYRIAN TRIBESMEN

HUNT

FOR NEW HOMELAND

LEAGUE BURDENED WITH UNUSUAL TASK

RESULTING FROM GREAT WAR

DANGEROUS RELATIONS OF IRAQ

STINGING AND LIVING

DOUBTFUL THEORY

UPSET

Bees can sting and yet live. The contrary hellef, which for untold generations has consoled the cipients of bee stings, has now been ahattered by Dr. J. G. Myers, of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad.

"My scepticism regarding the

A report of the League Com-and la October, 1993, the com frequent statement that worker mittce which was set up to admittee already. referred

a country tor the Assyrians to appointel. settle in will be presented to the Council at its coming session.

scheme to establish dressed Following the abandonment of Brazil, the Committee

Lo

Wan

exiles in FRESH SHOCK AT

LOCH NESS

an appeal to over a dozen other suitable countries. Most of the replies have now been received. and although no information as to their nature In yet available, official circles do not abandon hope of a solution,

The acttlement of the Assyrians is one of the most characterbtic of the many problems of race and religion bequeathed by the last war. The members of this sect of Neatorian Christians are the unwanted children of Asia. For

ever

EARTHQUAKE FELT

IN INVERNESS

London, Aug. 27. Alarm was caused in Inverness and the surrounding upland dis- triets, and especially in the Loch Ness area, by an earth-qunke shock early yesterday morning.

was felt in Inverness by many West to East and lasted fully ten people. The movement was from

Reconda,

Some men were on the night shift and they were startled by the large building shaking, A loud noise like thunder was heard and then there was a crash.

bées cannot withdraw their barbed sting" Dr. Myers staten, "was firat aroused by observing a raid by wasps on a hive in Essex.

'In one case a wasp made a bold entrance by the doorway, was met by a bec, and vigorously repulsed. It entered again and emerged at once, struggling with a bee, which oventually succeeded in throwing It to the ground. The bee seemed somewhat exhausted, but quickly recovered. The wasp fell helpless and died a few minutes later."

TEST ON HANDKERCHIEF. His curiosity aroused by the survival of the bee, Dr. Myers pro- ceeded to experiment for himself, three occasions when a beo was in- He found that on one out of every

Denmark and Norway's Queens of Beauty on their way through Paris to England for the contest where Europe's ruler of Beauty's realm was to be chosen. They seem to like policemen,

WOMEN & FASHION

During the past few years A growing demand for sports gar- Įments, evening dresses, and so on.

No Cost Barriers And No has arisen from a class of people

Age Limits

to whom only a few years ago these were unknown, or at least were not used.

acad to ating a handkerchief One resident said his house would the bee get its sting into a trembled and the doors rattled.

The shock was severe at Foyera,position from which it could not overlocking Loch Ness, where the extricate it. British Aluminium Company have Dr. Myers has also seen both a big works.

frog and several varieties of insect (stung more than once by the same

Grandmothers are by no means "Another great change is the bee without any damage to the

fashion consciousness of: atter; and only on one ocension, behind the times with regard to when he was himself stung in the dress, according to hir. Frank

to-day. This has been Chitham. chairman of the Sum- women thumb, was the sting left behind.

mer School Committee of the fostered to a very large extent and The earthquake was also felt in

well-informed Ross-shire, on the other side of "There thus seems little ground," Drapers' Chamber of Trade of the developed by the

recent issue of United Kingdom, who spoke of fashion articles which appear in Inverness Firth, and in many other he sums up in a

the belief that the increasing fashion conscious- parts of the Black Isle people were Nature, for awakened by the tremor and noise. worker bees sacrifice themselves, or ness of women. Addressing mem- the national Press, and which are

Two distinct tremors were felt that they are more handicapped bers of the Summer School at their at Pitlochry (Perthshire), where than wasps in defending their opening luncheon in Oxford,

nests."

merly scattered about Kurdistan and the border of Turkey an Fersia, they lost their home by siding with Rusaja against their Turkish rulers, and they have been looking for another since.

FAILED BY RUSSIA. When their Russian allies failed them for the second and fast time in 1917, thone of them who had not been scattered retreated through Persia into Iraq with the help of the British, and temporary rofuge at Rakuba.

As a result of this action, und Although he pledges of help were given them, the Assyrians have always tended to look to Britain as their natural protector. The suggestion that Britain brought houses were shaken. them into the war, and thereby assumed responsibility for their fututre, is, however, £1 complete misrepresentation.

a were given

They were induced by Russin to throw in their lot with the Allies owing to the affinity of their religion with the Orthodox Church. The part played by Britain was to rescue them from complete 森门一 nihilation and to help them for humanitarian motives over a con- siderable period and at some ox- penae.

TEMPORARY ASYLUM.

The refuge camp at Bakuba wasi only intended, of course, as a temporary asylum, but owing to the long delay in negotiating peace with Turkey, the problem of the Assyrians.could not be tackled un- til 1924: At the Conference of Constantinople Britain endeavour- ed to get their former territory of Hakkiari, to which some of them hud meanwhile tried-to-return,|--- included within the boundary of iraq. This solution-undoubtedly the wisest was rejected, and it was turned down finally by the League of Nations in 1925.

Subsequent attempts to settle the Assyrians in the north of Iraq met with a certain success, the settlers being assured protection, thanks to the British occupation. As the term of the British man- date in Iraq drew to an end, how- ever, they felt increasing anxiety as to their possible fate when the

British withdrew.

With a view to allaying thesa anxieties the Iraq Government in May, 1932, made a general declar-

Anid:--

The 70,000-ton French liner Normandie is nouring completion and will be put into commission shortly on the

Atlantic run. The frame-work of giant liner's Funnels has just been created.

NUDIST CADDIES

acute

by hundreds of thousand of people.

he

People of all ages and classes read theni. The time is past when fashion was merely the interest of the few. It is now of universal interest, and we find the customer who wishes to pay only a modest price for a dress is keenly sensi- itive and well informed 19 to

fashion.

"Even as fashion knows no cost barriers, so it knows no age limits. Mother and daughter are often Indistinguishable from the fashion point of view, and one is no taste- fully dressed as the other."

WOMAN MAYOR'S WELCOME. Mr. E.. W. Busby, chairman of the Executive Council, welcomed the students, the largest and most ropresentative number which has ever attended the School. More than 70 towns were represented. |~~~Alderman Lily-S.-Tawney,-Mayor- of Oxford, extending a civic wel- come to the students in the even- Ing, said she believed that men thought a great deal more about clothes than women.

With regard to fashions, aho said:There is a tendency to go back to the time when no clothes were worn, and a little. blue paint was the fullest full dress. I don't taldng place they went nudist, up her stance, prepared to swing, think you will encourage that. It romped over the fairways and bun-but stopped suddenly as a nude will be so bad for trade.

figure appeared in the distance, kers, and splashed about in the followed by another and another. "But, on the other hand, I don't water hazards, much to the amaze She immediately left the course, want to go back to the days of my ment and embarrassment of the the other women accompanying her youth, when we had so many yards women golfers who were playing.

Police, being hastily summoned, of stuff in our frocks. I could not Twenty golf caddies adopted an

Earlier in the day, 169 caddies forced the lads to get back into take to crinolines ngain." their had gone on strike as the result their clothes and then chased them unusual method of airing grievances at the Exmoor Golf Club of their demand for higher wages from the course.

refused. The golfers than nt Highland Park, Chicago, re-being

The caddies had demanded 4s, cently. In spite of the fact that a decided to carry their own clubs for eighteen holes and about 2s. 6d. Ing mixed foursomes tournament was around with them. A woman took for nine holes.

ation guaranteeing protection of SEQUEL TO REFUSAL all minorities, including the

OF HIGHER PAY Assyrians. But the latte do- manded autonomy, and in Juno of the same year the Assyrian lovies, which had been raised in the service of Britain, threatened to "striko" unless this and other

demands were acceded to.

MARCH OVER FRONTIER. -There was thus already con- siderable friction when, on Octo bor 3, 1982, Britain relinquished her mandato and Iraq' entered the Longue as a Sovereign State. Ono of its first steps was to appoint a commissioner to arrange the set- tlement of the Assyrians, and British officer, Major Thomson, was appointed to the post.

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The Assyrian patriarch, Mur Shimum, refused to co-operate, and before the settlement officer was able to formulate a plan, 1,500 Assyrians, abandoning their wives and children, crossed the frontier Into Syria, presumably in search

of

a new home. They were pre- vented from proceeding further by the French, and on August 4,

they recrossed into Iraq.

1938,

The rest of the story

still

fresh in memory, The migratory hand either attacked or wore at incked by the Iraq troops; they were defeated in any case and thair villages looted. A truo ne- count of the subsequent massnero is diment to obtain, but there is no doubt the Iraqi got out of hand and committed excossen.

Their Government, indeed. ad- mitted as much and expressed its sincere regret, while offering to assist financially to settle the Assyrians elsewhoro. The Council of the Longue decided that this was now the only possible solution,

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"ADVERTISING WAR".

Mr. Sinclair Wood, London, deal- with tho effects of social changes on the retail distributive trades, said that nowadays the re- taller was not only in competition with every other retailer, but also with the cinema, the motor-car, the "hikera" hostel, and so on.

Dealing with advertising, said they were in dangers of seeing the most ridiculous war the world had ever seen, a ward in which the retailer would fight against the manufacturer,

he

with advertising

as the munition, and with public goodwill and confidence the prize. It was one in which no one would benefit, and the public would lose because of higher-priced goods.

The population was divided into four shades of opinion, each derived from a penny paper, he said. Troy ivero building up a race of people with

standardised Ideas. People were losing the habit of thinking for

themselves. Ho wondered whether they were breeding. a standardised race of mentally Inzy people,whose minde ticked over once in twenty-four hours. Women. had the tube train and bus to take them to the big, glittering shops They were empty-headed, just passe Ing the time, ready to be persuaded Into considering buying this and, Tthat, provided it was something

fresh

For now, something to brighten a dull, empty life for low minutes.

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