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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 16,

PIECING TOGETHER THE FAR EASTERN HISTORY

HONGKONG TO U.K.

IN SIX DAYS

With £60,000 Contract

Dr. Callenfels Explains His Archaeological Work

| MIGRATION OF TRIBES BY WAVES FROM CHINA. SOUTHWARDS

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1936.

LONG STORY OF

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Night Landing Thrills

R.A.F. FIGHTERS AT PRACTICE

ON many clear, dark evenings

Hongkong residents see the! flashing of searchlights,

The droning of engines is heard, and high above are seen the red and green navigation lights of an aeroplane.

At Kai Tak nerodrome is not, lit up

RADIO BROADCAST

Dance Music From The Hongkong Hotel

Z.E.K. PROGRAMME From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 356 metres (845 kilocycles);

the 5-7 p.tn. Dance Music from Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden.

7 p.m. Don Cossack's Choir. March Prince Oleg (arr. Jaroff);

the windows of serodrome Razine Folk Song) (art.

machine.

JONGKONG and Malaya are only just about to be ex-

plored by the archaeologist and ethnographical re-except for the red obstruction lights RECENTLY we published search worker, declared Professor van Stein Callenfels, the on the wireless want, faint glenms in a picture of Mr. J. Heminent Dutch archaeologist who has conducted research and one tiny red light at the acro- Pennington leaving Hong- kong by the Imperial Air- in south-eastern Asia for the past 30 years, in a recent inter-drome boundary under the incoming ways liner Dorado after al

Professor Callenfels granted the interview just prior spectacular dash here toj secure an engineering con- to his departure recently for Oslo, to attend the second tract from the China Light international congress of pre-photo-historians as delegate from Netherlands India. Mr. M. W. F. Tweedie, curator and Power Company.

of the Raffles Museum, who has already gone on leave, will This is the showing he re-

represent the Straits Settlements at the congress which ceived in a London daily opens on August 3. which commented on his flight.

!

"Although

But the spectator may be in a posi

to ace on the ground half a dozen faint, hazy, yellow glowing patches, at with apparent gentleness, slowed down wide intervals. The pilot descending to about 100 miles per hair, has his eyes fixed on the ground lights indicat- ed by this glow.

THE LUMINOUS "T"

The Red Sarafan (nFr. Jarut); Stenka Dilrowen); Kanawka (Trchesnokoff): 7.17 p.m. The B.B.C. Wireless Dudki (arr. Jarott).

The Black Domino-Overture (T. Military Band.

Curr. Winterbottom): -Overture Winterbottom); The Mill on the Rock of the Tumblers ("Snow Dance Maiden") Rimsky-Korsakov); Gol- liwog's Cake Walk (Deliussy),

7.40 p.m. Old Song Bits by Layton and Johnstone.

1. I like to go back in the evening;

2. The Song is you-Music in the

Air

1.

QUESTIONED about archaeo-

logical work in Malaya, Prof. Europe Mr. Noone will be still at brain of the pilot Judge diminishing; blue; 4. king for a little bit of

"Mr. J. H. Pennington is the Callenfels said: All the finds we Modern Commercial Traveller, make and the whole of our re- He has just flown back to London search concern one special prob- from China with engineering clem-the Melanenoid race which tracts worth £60,000 his must have come from somewhere pocket.

in the north, passed through the "The journey of 9,000 miles took him peninsula, through the archi- 6 days 9 hours. He believes hipelago, to New Guinea, Australia; the first fare paying passenger to do and over the Pacific.

the trip.

in

“Talking about hie "hustle," Mr.. Pemainuston said:

"There was a possible contract Se ing in Hongkong. I had to be there quickly to get it. There were other British firms after it, bestalin foreign-

CTH.

FOUR WEEKS SAVED

"I flew out to Singapore by Emporial Airways, and finished the trip Hongkong by boat,

"Coming home, I dew in the first Imperial service plane from long- kong to Penang. There I caught the Dutch K.L.M. servire, which brought me back to Croydon in five day The British fine takes eight and a half

days.

"My Fare by nie came to about 170 more than by bort, But it saved me four weeks.

AN

"I made another business air trip in China, 600 milles between Hankow

in Shanghai. That Was 11/1 American plane, which did the journey in three hours five minutes through a snowstorm.

"I flow out to show customer in Chinn that if they buy British

"They came in several waves mt just one tribe hurrying from in wave after wave Chin, but during thousands of years gone by, i and in the difference in time Heie civilisation developed in Pittelt several ways, so that the details:

their implements WIN of hors made, and of what, would furnish with valuable information as fo what partiendar ware our finds he lour to,

ly.

GREAT SCOPE

"Malaya offers a great scope for archaeology, as nobody tins done serious work before this, The whole country is full of in teresting mnterini; anyone works ing with a generous allowance of hundreds of thousands of dollars would he occupied for another 50 years perhaps.

The fares are arranged in a fixed order, and at regulation dislanecs, leaving for Subconsciously, almost, the eye and

altitude and distance, and hand on to; throttle and control etlek, he is ready the right instant to flatten out for the landing.

it for a considerable time: when i loft, we were five feet from the surface: and there are probably another seven feet to be excavated.

There are six ground lights aito- The deeper you go the aller, of gether, and there are arranged as a Spit so that the long arm, which is course, is the material you see. ·

250 yards in length, is pointing Into "There are only two sites in the wind. The arroplane, therefore, the whole of the peninsula has to be brought down so that it lands where we have found imple-on the long arm of the "T" and runs

towards the cross-pirer. ments made of bone, one in Pa- hang many years ago, and then in Perlis last April, when

we discovered them in some 15 or 20

Caves.

"It was rather puzzling that the same civilsation in Java and in Fado-Chinn should have im plements of bone but not here, Now we are starting to get them

out."

It is likely that a large-scale Ulu expedition will be sent to Kelantan next year to investigate

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little moonlight can

Arlene; 6. Waltin' at the

Gate for Katy.

8 p.m. Time, Weather, Stock Quo tations and Announcements.

8.05 p.n. A Relay from Daventry. Gentlemen Players. A descrip- tion of the play from Lords Cricket Ground, London.

15 p.m.

Chinese Studio Concert. 11 p.m. Close Down. 8.05-10 p.m. European

Pro- fre-

The aeroplanes engaged are single-gramme from Z.E.K. on a seater Fighters, which are gaining in- quency of 640 kilocycles. valuable practice of night takes

and landings. It is also practice for Hongkong's searchlight crews.

It needs good sight, nice judgment, and n he experience that can be worked in with the other busy routine of their duty.

The task of the Day and Night Fighter is to go up and tackle enemy raiders in the air. The machines are designed not only for grent speed and fast elinib, but for comparatively low famling. In point of fact, they take the ground at something between 45 and 60 miles per hour, according to conditions.

A FASCINATING SPECTACLE

KUCANES

8.05 p.m. A Recital by Elste Suddaty (Soprano) and Maurice Marechal (Violoncello).

Marta (Mascagni); ("Tinwath")

1. Songs Faith in Spring (Schu- bert); Cradle Song (Schubert); Violoncello Solo--Guitarre (Musz- kowski); 3. Cavallerin

Conte had

4. Violoncello (Coleridge-Taylor); Solos-Cortege (Gaubert); Piccs en forme de abonera (Ravel),

8.28 p.m.

Piano Selections by Arthur Young and Harry Foresy the.

1. Swent Adeline-Film, Selection; 2. Rumbason Tonst; 3. A Bouquet

8.-16 p.m.

Selections by the Salon Orchestra conducted by Fred Hartley.

1. Talking Film Memoriest Medley of Leslie Stuart's Songs.

"It was with this in view that we made excavations In Province Wellesley in 1934, Pahang Jast year, and Sunge) Sijui just recrut-traces of Melanesoid migrations Seen from the road the aeroplane for Cole Porter.

by a series of excavations from seems to creep over the aerodrome north to south through the penin-boundary, or rather where the spec- the boundary exists. sula on the western and eastern (2 sides of the mountain range. Works Even to the spectator it is a moment of anxiety, and in a second or he is being done on the eastern side most funt chut as wheels touch

9 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin and in Pahung now, but the north and ground, followed by a slight metallie

Announcements. west have so far been neglected. Trattling as the aeroplane Arundles on

9.20 p.m. Four Songs by Richard towards the other side of the nero- drome, the pilot switching on some of Tauber (Tenor).

A Brown Bird Singing; 2. I Bis power, and taxi-ing perhaps to

love the Moon; .. My work is gold Within half an hour you may see a beenuse you love me; 4. All hope is takeoff for more practice.

spectacle. The deroplanes | 9.33 p.m.

The London Piano cinating with any means for illuminating the

Six i Melley No. 1; Wine Song ground below or in front,

("Caravan"); Log Cabin Lullaby: Six IL Medley No. 2 Remembrance; Campus Moon.

DURMA A LINK

At the Oslo congress, Prof. "We are only just af the start, Callenfels will inform the council machinery they can have in London and it is owing to Raillés Museum and other delegates of what has dozen such landings, a strangely fas-unded.

and the Carnegie Trust of Newbeen done in Malaya, Indo-China man with them within a week if they Yurk that we are able to do the and Netherlands india in the way are not for this practice equipped Accordeon Band.

have any Trouble,"

AUSTRALIA MAY MAKE WARPLANES

TO SUPPLY BRITAIN'S NEEDS IN HONGKONG

AND SINGAPORE

I work now.

"Me finds confirm my hypothesis Fabout the migration of the Melanc

said race and have thrown more light on the question. We are he ginning now to be able to fill in! gaps and understand better the details."

Prof. Callenfels found anuthier Unk in Perak last month, when he was excavating a rock shelter at Gua Baik, about ten miles from the Sungei Siput railway station.

TRIAL TRENCHES

of excavations regarding these Melonesoid migrations,

HEAD R.A.F. IN FAR EAST

Lwill carefully point out that we can never find a solution to the question if no work of this kind is done in Burma," he said, "According to what we now know of Melanesold civilisation there was probably some Indian AIR influence and I intend to draw the attention of the Burmese Government to the need for eo. operation.

the

Mr. 1 D. Noone, field ethno-| "Secondly. I intend to discuss HE possibility of Austragrapher of the Perak Stataj the question of a scurious dispase TH

Museum, dug trial trenches in which is very rare in this part of

of world infection 'lia becoming a centre of eures and rock shelters and as a the manufacture for British air-result of investigations it was) mucous covering of the nose and craft and engines in the Paci-decided to exenvate Gua Ba'aik,pharynx, which probably came to from India round fie and the Far East is being revealing that Perak was peopled this country discussed both in Australia cavations yielded one completo tian Era with a wave of megalithic and Great Britain follow-skeleton and two human skulls civilisation.

bofore the Christian era.

COMMODORE' A.W.

TEDDER

10 p.m. A Relay from Daventry. Big Ben: "In England Now" by Stephen King-Hall

10.17 p.m. Close Down.

MANILA SHARES

The following quotations have been received by Swan, Culbertson & Fritz from their Manila ofee of this morning's after the close session:

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Prices in Pesos Buyers Sellers

3.35

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London, July 15. Air Commodore A. W. Tedder, who is at present Director of Training the Air Ministry, has been appointed Air Oficer Commanding the Royal Air Force in the Far Eust.

The appointment will date as from October-Reuter.

London, July 15. The Air Ministry announces the ap pointments of Air Marshal Sir A. M. Bagulo Gold The ex-about the beginning of the Chris-Longmore to be Commandant of the Benguet Consolidated 12.30

Defence Callege, from Benguet Exploration Imperial

Wedge Major General We September 1, vice Haining; of Air Marshal P. J. Joubert Consolidated Mines which Prof. Callenfels believe, 19 | MEDICAL HELP WANTED

de la Ferie to be Als Ofeur Com-Demonstration

Jogan ing recent investigations by be the remains of people of a sub-

Masbate Wing-Commander Wackett, tribe of Melanesid culture who "I pointed this out to the medi-mandant-in-Chief Costal Command Royal Air Force from September 1, Netherlands) cal authorities in

vice Air Marshal Sir A. M. Longnore: Satacol the Australian expert; who lived there about 2500 B.C.

Stone and bone weapons and India and they are now working and of Air Commodore A. W. Tedeter San Mauricio has been consulting with

the Royal Air Force in the Far East, United Parneale

Market:--Quiet, steady. leading aircraft manufac-plements were also found in the on it on the Palembang highlands, to be. Air Oficer Commanding the Suyuc

reek shelter which was evidently in central Java, Bali and turers in England and on the inhabited by people who buried Celebes where there are traces of British Wireless,

their dead in the same place. this civilisation, and they have Continent.

found this malady already, so it seems that my theory in connect- Two firms have already been

"We are just yet working on the ing the disense with this civilis- approached in Australia in connec- top layers," said Prof. Callenfels. tion is possibly right. tion, with a scheme for manu-

TO GO DEEPER

facturing British nero-engines What Punishment By The

under licénce. Because of the

limited demand, however, during

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Birch" Is Really Like

the initial stages in the establish- ment of the industry, the proposed Austranan aircraft branches could THE other day a bag snatcher sentenced to receive be kept employed only if orders were obtained from the Imperial twelve strokes of the birch.

What is punishment with thei Government as well as from the "birch" really like? Commonwealth..

Dried birch wigs, hard and brittle, about thirty-six inches in length, tied at one end, constitute the birch.

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

WE ATTRACT HEARTS BY THE One case each of Typhoid and QUALITIES WE DISPLAY: WE HETAIN Meningitis were reported to the local THEM BY THE QUALITIES WE POSSESs. Health authorities on Tuesday. -Suard..

The convict has his feat and hands secured to an apparatus similar to the gymnastic "Vaulting horse" only. Elis. slightly smaller.

Properly administered, the birch

punishment as the "cal."

Yu Sik, 14, was seriously injured Appearing on remand before Mr. when struck by a motor-car fr E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magia Nathan Road at 8.45 pm. yesterday. trucy this morning, Chan So, aged He is now in the Kowloon Hospital.

sial assistant, charged with maliciously cutting and wounding Man Fong, also a stall assistant, was Wons Yuet-lin, aged 24, unemploy again remanded another 48 hours, oned theatre attendant, and Cen the application of Detective-Sergeant Tin-cheung, aged 23, unemployed laboratory boy, were charged before Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis- is just as painful and brutal a To Yautai, a 12-year-old girl, had trucy this morning with the poses- a lucky escape from death yesterday sion of a revolver and five rounds of ammunition without n leenco, and end boys recive the birch but at the expense of Au lui, & were retuanded for 48 hours in police instead of the "ent.".

60-year-old woman. The girl over- But the officers of the law and pri- balanced from the verandah of her custody, on the application of Detee-

hame in Canton Road and fell into Live-Inspector A. II. Elston. son officers are human. Nine times the street, striking Au, who was

Chink Wo, a coolie, appeared on some men are employed to do out of ten when a boy is sentenced to walking along the street, and in- nothing but make these birchos, the birch an officer will be despatched

The birth is inflicted for smilar to buy a twopenny cure and uses it juring her savorely. Au is in Kow-remand before Mt. Macfadyen at the loon Hospital in a serious condition. Kowloon Magistracy this morning, on a charge of larceny of 21 baskets uffonces to those for which the

But young men do receive the birch. The selection of companies to under- "eat" is administered, but only when—and never again commit the offence. Burgess at the Central bound for Wuchow by the master of Ying, who was convicted by given him to take on board a steamer take the work, however, includes one they are of less serious character. for which they received the lashings.

Inspector A. II. Elston that is closely associated with an en- For example, the ringlender of a

A birch is used only once. As the lagistracy yesterday for the posses- firm. kineering firm in the United States plotted mutiny in prison would receive blows are inflicted the twigs snap and sion of cocaine, was sentenced this stated that defendant was discovered and it is unlikely that the Imperial the "cat," while those who blindly fall away.

morning to imprisonment for at his home, chopping up the baskets Government would be willing to place followed his dictates would receive the

When a youth is punished with the months without the option and also for firewood. The baskets were valu- its secrets in the hands of n-firm con- birch.

birch he is allowed to have the flows fined $1,000, in default, three months. el, at $1 each and 14 of them had nected with the United States.

Like the "cat," a prisoner always foflicted upon the outer garments, Kwan admitted possession of the drug been recovered. Defendant's explana Wing Commander Wackett has left receives a medical examination pro-while the convict in prison is atripped, which was found in an elaborately tion was that he went unconscious. Europe for America-where he will nouncing him fit or otherwise to be The men who administer the birch, equipped factory in Queen' Road A fine of $10, or three weeks hard

Jabour, was imposed. the prison officers, hate the duty continue his investigations.

WAR-TIME VALUE The Australian authorities are seek- ing this forcibly. They emphasise that the production of British aircraft -in Australia would be most valuable

to e Far East in war-time.

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