1936-10-19 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY,

OCTOBER 19, 1936.

The Story of the Empires of the Past

1. Richard Beller, reporter. is president of the Seattle Chapter of the American Newspaper Guilld. The Seattle Chapter has been on alrike against The Beattle Post- Intelligencer, which hra mupended

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2,000 CRIMINALS FOR FRANCE

When Devil's Island

Closes

"

Should bė

Studied as a... Cautionary Tale

--Professor H. L. Hawkins PROFESSOR H. L. Hawkins, Pro-

fessor of Geology at Reading University, thinks that the history of) extinct empires should be studied as

"cautionary tale."

In 'an address on Palacontology and Humanity to the Geology Section, he

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"It is diMcult to find any type of animal

which behaviour in

minn the cnnnot

Whether in excel. strictly mechanical processes, such as locomotion or building, or In the subtle qualities of affection and nspiration, he stands revealed as no exaggerated animal. There are no activilles, constructive or destructive.) and no habits, pleasing or loathsome, in which he cannot outdo the most accomplished animal,

"It would be wearisome to reiterate- the

wherein the various features history of human affaire corresponda with the course of evolution in other

Whether we consider la groups. dividual lives, dynasties ar empires, the same depressing story applica Some races, once dominant in their poeticular sphere, tuve disappeared! entirely; othera, fallen from high estate, Enger in inglorious decoy.

They

Some of the Addresscs at

Past the British Association

A year ago Deputy Sheriff Martin Lange put up a de: pernde bul fullte fight to save a prisoner in the Siskiyou County, Cal, jail Now -shownove-from a mob that lynchest the prisoner. hundreds of men are scouring the hits for two brothers nerused of killing Lange and two others of an arresting party. Authors ities fear another lynching should the men be captured alive unt returned to this prison.

ITALIAN VILLAGE

TRIES SINCE 1630

TO MAKE AMENDS

FOR DEATH OF 40

Trento, Oct. 10, The populace of the small village

Just cervurnitu of Congo has quaint and plous religious ceremony Hear to their hearts for the last 300 years,

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the workinen were

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village

Venice. A emigrated plague had spread in the floating city, and used entrance. They immediately were not returned to Conding but permitted to enter the village for our they might have chugut the ell disease.

So they built their homes

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"But all of those brave civilisations

we an empires of which have records seem to have shown succession of similer histories. have risen from obscurity through possession of successful attributes, and have reached the peak of their power only to pass it.

has the curious "Human nature trait of gambling against the laws,

We always of enure and effect. hope that the fate that befell our the amdi village on a recent Sunday on the outskirts of the village on top gramme From 7. E. K. on`n Fre

will

(13 by, morning and Marius Moutet,

of predecesSOFA Minister Colonies, and M More Theart Babylon, Egypt, Rome, Spain all Minister of Justice,

traversed the some track: and to-day Follow in their footsteps hoping

Parks, Oct. 10, Abolition of the notorious prison; settlement in French Guiana by the end of next year is contemplated by

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the Government, areording to M.

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In interviews published to-day in to reach some different ghal. Parks Sur, theae Ministers state)

"If this were all, man's wutlook; that the necessary legislation will be would indeed he dark. But the Introduced in Parliment during the human mind is more than a fahricu-, next session. In the meantime not for of evanesednt institutions. It can fariner convicts will be sent out to transcend utilitarinigm (wherein it the colony, The number at prezent but exaggerates animal qualities) serving sentences there I believed to and rats form Idealistic conceptions. be between 6,000 and 7,000.

"Len

warning, philosophy and art are "The penal seillement is an abcess calities to which men will devote their lives, creating rather than copy- on the body colonial. All other

ing, with no ulterior or mercenary countries have pbandoned

nun. The urls and virtues bring a absurd system," M. Moutet sald,

new and incalculable feature into the Previous efforts to abollsh the story of evolution. Some, at least, uscafly received of their achievements cutlive king- little sympathy from the Minister of doms and empires, reeming Immor

tal." whole- Justice, but M. Rucort is

settlement have

this

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heartedly in favour of it and recalls that he first became convinced of the necessity of doing away with the system when he investigated It ne a member of Salvation Army com- millee.

"In suppressing the penal colony he said, "France is only following other nations' example. England re placed it by imprisonment in gaol in the United Kingdom, and nobody complained, except, perhaps, the prisoners."

ers-This-reference.

reference.to.th prisoners' preferences brings to the front the fact that, despite the colony's grim reputation, prisoners

usually depart there joyfully, buoyed up by the prospect of escape, or, al the worst, at freer intercourse with their fellow-prisoners,

faithful The procession of

slowly climbed the slopes of Mount Mellno, reaching: a tiny, picturesque chapel where they dropped lites and prayed for minutes.

A sad legend is inled ceremony.

In 10, forty workmen of

A Prince's

Films For

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SIAMESE

Singapore, Oct. 18.

prince studying A O

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of Mount Melino.

11 p.m. Close Down. 8.05-11 p.m. Eurunean Pro-

quency of 640 k.e's.

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A Variety Program- Their relatives living in Condino carried food and water to them hajť

Song-I'm a fool for loving you, way up the mountain side. The 40 Dinah Miller; Instrumental-Maunu this hermits lived in isolation for nearly Loa, Kanul and Luta; Vocal Gems-

three months, when suddenty one of The Knig Steps Out": Organ Solo- thats then fell sick with the plague. Six I Medley (No. ),

Harry Swiftly it died. praying God to Groudson, Vocal--I'm putting all my pardon their selash compatriots who,

SERS In

one basket. The Boswell sincken with grief, buried them on Sisters; Instrumental-Haleiwa, the mountain top.

Papalina Lahilahl, Ray Kinney, with Dick Melntire's Harmony Hawaiians; Song-The Scene Change, Hildegarde.

8.10 p.m. Orchestral Music. Toy Symphony (Haydn), "Aida"~~ Grand March (Verdi), Procession of (Iwanow), Carissimu

Announce-

in

PROFESSOR HAWKINS, in the

receive ♫ course of his address, said: parcel from his father containing B The impet toas ancient beforem record of the recent activities of the first vertebrate appeared. fis his family in the East.

has been its salvation,

For several years now he has been sumplicity is a characteristic of receivin, such flims, but this one is Nature, and complexity a reflex of the luat of its kind, for his father, human ignorance,

Prince Purachatra, has died in Sin The mating of most creatures,gapore. particularly "of marine Innerte- brates, achieves a degree of pro- He may, however, receive onc miscuity unattabed even in Holly-more film, taken by friends, of his wood,

Polar "Lands" That Never Were

-Professur W. H. Hobbs

It is expected that a mixed com-POLAR mirages, which deceive the

mission representing the Ministries of Colonics and Justice will be sent to Cayenne this autumn to study the situation carefully with a view Lo recommending measures to be taken for closing down the settlement.

most experienced explorers, were discussed by Professor W. H. Hobbs (Michigan) in the Geography Section.

He said that the phenomenon of the desert mirage had long been familiar to travellers. It was due to quiet condition of the lower atmós- phere during the bent of the day, Under the which made hot layers of air next the ground with cooler layers above.

PROBLEM OF LIBERE One of the most difficult problem: is that of the "libere."

of

the

father's inourners passing by the comin-containing Priner-Purachatra's embalmed body.

The prince and his son frequently exchanged moving-pictures of each other's activities. Thus the father could see his son at Cambridge, and Uc sun could follow his father's travelc.-British United Press.

SKIPPER HERO

IN TORPEDOING A RETIRES AT 60

New York, Oct. 10.

mand of the President Roosevelt in

the

A shepherd one cold winter morsing brought the miraculous news to Couidino that Alles hrdi grown out of

lid the now on

workmen's graves and, henceforth, pilgrimages were organized every summer to venerate and Cover with Ben the tombs of the hermita,

In 1800 chapel was built by the faithful of Condino on Mount Melino, and this year plans for n new road leading from the village to the mountain top have been approved by the mayor,--United Press,

They Want To Make Life Simpler

Washington, Oct. 10, Delegates to the third World power conference have plotted an international revolution, a blood- less uprising against hard labour and

social poor

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Chopinezza; Liszt in Rhythm; Schubert Time; Waltz Mentories from Vienna.

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1Pale Moon (Logan, art.

Kreisler).

2. Allegro (Flocco, arr. Bent &

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They gathered here, 2,500 scientists from 56 countries, for a six day conclave with that one purpose in mind-to make life present system, known as "doublage, Within the polar regions a reversed. President Roosevelt of the US creased use

Capt. John F. Jensen, master of the simpler and easier through in- when a transported man has served condition, where the warmer layer Lines, ends a 45-year carcer on the

of electricity, his term he must also remmin for an air as abort the cooler one, was sea what he retires. He took com- gas and coal, equivalent perled in the colony. This semi-liberty and the miserable common. conditions under which

Mixing their work with a round he lives "Thus objects which may be for 1932 when Capt. George Fried was of social netivities, they exchanged usually serve only to confirm in the below

natural horizon are promoted the new liner Manhattan. bagnard the vicious and brutal brought into view and appear rela Jensen

and pooled all power knowledge and commanded

army

progress made in their nations since habits developed by his prison life.ively near. This effect is greatly transport Finland. when that ship the second conference in Berlin in increased by the noteworthy clarity was torpedoed Oct. 28, 1917, about There are about 2,000 of the of the atmosphere within such re- 170 miles off Brest. He took the liberes In Gulana at prescit, glons, and it has been ascertained vessel to Brest despite a hole amid-

A plan for returning them to France int objects have been clearly seen ships measuring 30 by 21 feet. For the parley's purpose when, while and scattering them through the much in excess of 200 miles away.

this deed he was commended by delivering formal address, he "This quite remarkable pheno- Secretary of War Newton D. Baker pressed a golden telegraph key put- country on a ticket of leave system in under consideration.

menon explains the gross under- The son of W Danish shipmaster, ing America's Boulder dam into Jensen was schooled in boats from actual operation producing cheap early boyhood. When only 14, he hydroelectric, power.

himself as a "full-blown

service 18

ол Delegates met shining in, years salter

In two sessions round daily discussing such topics ** Cap: Horn 10 times and circled the utilization of coal and petroleum Cape of Good Hope the same number products; significant trends in deve- of times.

lopment of power resources: publie Jensen, who retires at 60 under the regulation of private electric and International Mercantile Marinesies: organization, financing and operation of publicly-owned Company pension plan, will live at electric and gas utilities; conserva- Rideid Park, NJ.-United Pression of nufural power resources;

able

statements of distance which bove The penal colony was established been made by polar explorers and in 1852, and in the following 15 years the fact that in so many instances

criminals were explorers have For the next 20 years, however, the fall over lorra do when chin to Island of New Caledonia, in the put upon the maps and so bring. South-Seas. was preferred, and it their discoveries, quite without wars was not until 1887 that French rant, into discredit," Guinoa was re-established for the reception of confirmed criminis and for prisoners sentenced to more than eight years hard Inbour. ・・

In the public mind it is most pro-j minently associated with the fm-] prisonment of Dreyfus at the end of the century.

DREYFUS' PRISON Devil's Island, where Dreyfus was kept in solitary confinement,

then became synonymous for the whole settlement. Actually, however, Devil's Island is only a very small station with accommodation for come 5 prisoners, who for various reasons it is desired to keep apart from the others. athers

The main settlement is on the mainland nt Cayenne, although there is another island settlement in the the reception of the same group for more recaleltrant criminals. The outstanding criminals who are await ing transportation in the annual December voynute of La Martiniere aro the three Ustacha terrorists sen- tenced to life imprisonment for erm- plicity in the negasstriction of King Alexander of Yugoslavia..

Mexican Returns

Rattler's Bite as

Check on Poison New Name Wanted

For Chorus Girls

Rotan, Tux, Oct. 10.

A Mexican Inbourer has made news-he bit a rattlesnake.

He was working on the ranch of J. C. Stribling, Jnr., when struck on the hund. The Jabour- er halted fellow workers who. hustened to kill the reptile,

**Wait." orld the Mexican, "let me kill him, then I get weil."

He snared the snake with his. hands, held it back of the head. wrapped a handkerchief 'nbout its middle, then bit through, the cloth. The rattler was released and it died in a few minutes.

The ranch owner forced the Mexican to take a seturn and the next day he was, at work. Insisting his own method cured him-United Press.

President Roosevelt dramatized

national and regional planning for power development.

The United States was used as a basis for much of the discussion, especially the new deal's regulation of utility holding companies, Its municipal power programme and the government's Tennessee Valley authority and other "yardstick" ex- periments.

Hollywood, Oct. 10. The beautiful girls who decorate the screen musical shows are tired of being called chorus girls,

American private utility.hends "The designation of a dancer as rend papers attacking the adminis a 'chorus girl,' is both inaccurate and trallon for its federal power policy. uncomplimentary, declares Martha Government ofcials answered, one Manning, newly-elected president of advocating an amendment to the the chorus girls' organisation.

constitution enabling a still broeder "The contracts wo sign call ur federal power programme. dancers. Furthermore there is ne such thing nowadays as a 'chorus.'

Coal and petroleum was the first

We have to be trained dancers. And subject before the conference when besides, the connotations of the term if convened. Featured speakers in- chorus giri are not very prakse- cluded Sir John Cadman, Chairman oil worthy."

Two alternatives are under conald cration. One Is "topsters" and the other Is "rhythmites,United Press,

of England's = 'Anglo-Iranian company, and J. P. Williams, Jor.. president of the American national Coal Association-United Press.

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