THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1937.
"Miracle" of The Pope's Fight RAINCOATS
The Vatican Rejoices at His Remarkable Recovery
Radio Plea For Peace To-day
Vatican, March 1.
THE Vatican has provided what is
Tregarded as a Prived in this
remarkable recovery of the Pope.
Although, a month ago, it seemed very unlikely that His Holiness would see February, he has celebrated the 14th anniversary of his, elevation to the Papal throne.
What is more the Pontiff was looking fitter than he has done since the beginning of his illness in January.
After the usual morning visit
12-year-old
Irene Price, who has been
chosen
by the B.3.C. as Britain's Shirley
of Dr. Milani, the Popo attended Temple. She was special Mass of Thanksgiving chosen from about
in the small chapel adjoining his (50 others.
bedroom, where, seated in his wheelchair, he took Holy Com- munion.
Although the day was chilly and foggy he appeared in parti- onlarly good humour.
of
He united happily as he received Cardinal Pacelli, his Secretary State, who presented his personal congratulations and those of all the oficials of the Vatican City, who are rejoicing at his recovery.
Broadcast Plan
out
IRENE PRICE-
Old Bone Relics
From
China
ON LOAN TO U.S. UNIVERSITY
New York, Feb. 26. A collection of sixty ancient Chinéso bone relics, bearing in- Cardinal Pacelli also read extracts from come of the thousands scriptions said to have been of telegrams of congratulation for written more than 3,000 years the anniversary, which have been pouring into the Vatican since ago, has been lent to Columbia yesterday.
Devil's Island To Close
La Rochelle, France,
Feb. 28. The island of Re, lying in the Atlantic off the French coastline here, famous as the last prison in France and sailing point for criminals in the past for Devil's Island, is now doomed to complete an- nihilation as a result of the decision to do away with the overseas penal colony,
University.
They aro regarded by Dr. L. Carrington Goodrich, Chinese expert at Columbia, who departed for the Orient via Europe yesterday, as "by far the most fruitful archaeological find" yet unearthed in China,
Turned over to the university by Dr. E. K. Smith of Yenching Uni versity, Pelping, for "safe-keeping," the sixty specimens are now on dis play in the Chinese-Japanese Read- ing Room of Seth Low Memorial Library. They are part of a large collection now in the possession Dr. Smith.
of
The relies, consisting of fat-sur- faced oxen shoulder bones and the remnants of a torielse plastron, rear
highly specialized characters thought Shang epoch.
to have been inscribed during the
The largest speelmen bears 137 characters which form sixteen sen-
tences.
FOUND ON YIN HSU SITE
since
The French Ministry of Air Columbia's new nequisitions are has just announced that a huge store found on the site of Yin Hsu, part of an archacological treasure air base will be built on the near the city of Anyong in the island at the village of Gouarde northern Honan province, sur-Mer. The Island has a identified as the seat of the Shang high strategle importance because it capital during the latter half of the can be used as a base for an aerial kingdom's existence. fleet capable of protecting shipping lines of the Atlantic, coast of France and at the Atlantic end of the English will contain almost thirty neres of land.
Flanders Poppies at "Cut" Prices
A PROPOSAL that poppies sold on Remembrance Day should bear the date of manufacture was heavily defeated at the annual con- ference in London of the Eastern Area of the British Legion.
The view was expressed that few people used them o second time, and
The inscriptions are said to date from about 1100 to 1100 B. C. AL- though
no curller specimens have yet been found, the characters on the Shang specimens are considered for from primitive, a fact taken by Dr. Goodrich to indicate that by 1400 B. C. Chinese writing already had a long history.
The bone surfaces were used by the ancient Chinese for purposes of divination, according to Dr. Good- rich, who described the process as follows:
"Heat was applied to a spot on one, side of the flat bone, causing cracke on the other side, from which the omen was rend. This divination practice existed over a wide area in Asia, and similar bone divination Bus been recorded of American Indians, who foretold hunting luck from the effects of Ore on porcupine bones.
it would be an insult to offer dated kingdom, however, has writing been "Only at the capital of the Shang
found upon relics of this form
popples.
hit
the
· ΠΙΟΠ
of
At the Legion's north-western area divination. The inscriptions gener- conference at Lancaster, Lieutenant-ally relate the result of the Inquiries Colonel Sir James W. O'Dowdn, of addressed to ancestors, and have to Grasmere, suid he had been told or Flanders popples being sold at half- price and even less--an abuse which made them and, those who who were supported by the proceeds. Major F. W. C. Fetherston-Godley, „National Chairman, referred to
BUR- gestions that branches should keep the proceeds of poppy sales for their own needs. There had been much publicity given to what was describ- ed as a revolt within the Legion, he said, but they would have little mercy on rebels...
Justy
Scented By Order
"Proletariat Flower"
do with war and the chase, weather and agricultural prospects, as well s ritual matters, notably sacrifices to the royal ancestors."
Writing in the Shang epoch, ex- plained Dr. Goodrich, was, appar- ently confined to the upper classes and was done only on bones but pro bably also on wood and bamboo plan- chettes, although such relles have not yet been discovered.
The treasures unearthed at Yin
Curate Advised To Go
PEOPLE HAVE WALKED OUT
THE
REV. LEONARD WILLIAMS, curate of St. Dunstan's, Acton, has been informed that it would be advisable for him to leave the parish.
Şitting in an Erst Acton public-house, Mr. Williams told how his sermons on Marxism had caused people to walk out of his church, and had led to the hint that he should leave.
He said: "I am a Christian Marxist. I have brought Communism and Fascism into my sermons. To-night I showed how the story of the Good Samaritan was a parable against nur intervention in Spain.
"The ordinary churchgoer in Acton doesn't like it. Last week 1, saw the Bishop of Kensington, Both he and my vicar have been very kind, but I gather that Communism is not popular here,
Two or three people have walked out during my sermons,
Politics And Pubs.
"But now I warn people of what is coming, and tell thêm to walk out
they wish before I start.
"I think Tory churchgoers find themselves in a dilemma. I hope to obtain a position In the East End or in the poorer parts of Birmingham where there may be vlcar with Socialist tendencies.
LINDBERGH AND BALBO During his air excursion to mysterious destination in the East, Colonel Lindbergh selzed the opport unity to greet General Baibo. Pic-
ture shows the two famous aviators,
Another
Monster
Puzzles Scotland
By a Correspondent
Lerwick, Mar. 1. GAINED further details
to-day about, the strange sea monster which is report- ed to have been seen near here.
The creature was "Many people object to my public officers and passengers of
seen by isu are of great value, he explained. house visits. I find very generous
the because they reveal a cultural de-people in pubs. I ran a children's steamer Earl of Zetland, on a velopment during the Shang period party last Christmas on half-crowns voyage from Shetland North which outstripped that of the Chou I got off people at the bar." epoch, until now regarded as The
Isles to Lerwick. golden age of old China.
SHOW CULTURE OF HIGH ORDER
"The diggings on this site have revealed a culture of high order, distinguished by great architecture and splendid works of art in metal, jade and ivory and a well advanced system on writing.
"On the basis of these înds, ex-. perts are tending to the opinion that The Shang epoch reached a civilisa- tion of considerably higher develop- ment than
How Canaries
Came To
Europe
The most definite description of the monster was given to me by Mr. Magnus Shearer, ex-county convener, who was a passenger.
He said
30 FEET LONG
"While 1 was standing on the bridge with Captain William Spence we were attracted by a commotion in the sca ̄not far from us
Paris, Mar: 1.
"Then we saw three large, pointed On the occasion of the bird show ins, dark coloured, and at least six cpoch, which has heretofore been discussed the history of their winged
the succeeding Chowhere, many ornithologist. met and feet above the water. glorified as the golden age of unclent friends. One of the best of these the monster, but we estimated
"We never saw the head or tail of ∙China,"
Its histories is the Introduction
of length at 30 feet or more. Tracing the history of the disin- canaries into. France, turment of the bone relles at Yin
kers,
HEU
"When it came to the surface it emitted a sort of blast, which was distinctly heard.
"The monster raced south past us turned north. We could still see it a long distance in our wake."
Mr. Shearer's description was cor- roborated by the captain, officers, and other passengers.
Hsu, Dr. Goodrich said that a Cana heard of the tiny singers of the high Louis XI, a great bird lover, often dian missionary, Dr. J. M. Menzies, Tyrol valleys who came in the sum- now of Cheeloo University, Tsinan,mer to fill the place with song. In at a very high speed, and then Shantung, first stumbled on the site by.c
1478 he ordered fourteen dozen for y-chunce in 1914.
Until
then the location of the
his Palace ground. They were not real Canary birds but their singing archaeological vaults had been kep! secret by antique dealers and villa-n the palace started a big craze fox
who enriched themselves by singing birds.
Some years Inter someone heard sporadle raids on the pits of Yin
of the golden winged birds of the individual exploitation led Canary Islands and a merchant de
bickering a villagers, and as a peace move the to
to sell. The boat was smashed off district magistrate ordered that the the coast of Tuscany by a great storm, and began to slak rapidly. Just as the last boat, was about to push off, one of the sullors, hearing the caged birds singing cheerfully, decided that he would not leave until they had been freed.
to
pits be Alled and farmed over, Chaotic conditions existed, however, until 1020, when steps were taken to
prevent further looting.
"In 1928," Dr. Goodrich said, "the Academia Sinica, research institute
of the present government, began The birds flew to the nearby island systematic reconnaissance of the of Elbe, later to become the exlle
prison of Napoleon. At the end of;
The decipherment of the characters several
years they were very
started and shipping them
a court Vogue
Sir H. Mallaby-Decley Dead
M.P. Who
Juggled With
Millions SIR
on the Shang speelmens has presented numerous, but tried the natives to QIR Harry Mallaby-Derley, baronet dificult problems to Chinese epigra-for Canaries phists, who find themselves dealing
to the and former M.P., best known us with virtually a new language, ac mand. By the time Napolcon a provider of cheap suits, has died at cording to Dr.
was sent to Elbe for imprisonment his Cannes, chateau-aged 73. there were no canaries left there to
Work in decre
is now be ing carried on in this country by Dr. Herrlee G. Greel of the University of Chicago and Dr. Roswell C. Brit- ton of New York University,
Rainbow
for the
By A Special Correspondent
LL the colours of the rainbow were seen in cotton fubrle lengths for export which Lancashire firmis showed at the British Industries Fair in Lon- don last week.
¡
cheer his solitude. It is claimed that He was the "Man-of-the-Dazzling- almost all the canaries now in Eur-Deals.". He juggled with millions of Covent ope are direct descendants of these pounds in his transactions, shipwrecked canaries of Elbe.
Garden Estate was only one of the great tracts of London that Sir Harry bid for.
Pyjamas Beach
"
All the letters of the alphabet. Clock faces,
Scenes from track races, Animals,
Sacred stools, and other relicious symbols.
Working in the depths of a gloomy Lancashire's part in the show also Lancashire winter the designers work herald a brighter beach movement with an eye to the effect of colours Poppy sales were a national pool,
Warsaw, Mar. 1. this summer. There are, for instance, seen against a chocolate-coloured skin and less fortunate districts benented Flower" and other scents will be pro- Millions of bottles of "Proletarlot
-spray-proof beach pyjamas of trans-under a dazzling tropeial sun. from the contributions of the duced this year by the Russian
parent olled silk in various colours. wealthier.
Most of the cotton fabrics de- Thèse firms are preparing for the Cosmetica Company, it was announc- The Metropolitan Area conference
signed for native markets. There are Coronation, too. Among the fabrics lo decided to usk that the use of the last night in a report by Mme.
rich Indla sari cloths which will be shown are types of hunting: the word "ex-enemy" In correspondence n Stute concern.
Mololoy, chairman of the company, eventually be embroidered in silver by colours of which will not run. Nor from headquarters should casse and Mme Molotov, who is wife of the
native craftsmen,
can the heaviest downpour, turn them that the bame of the country of the president of the Council of People's
inspecially designed Coronation clollis Here are some of the decorations representative concerned should be Commissars, adds: "Our women must which will clothe people on the Gold for men's suilings will be on show given ins
Instead...
look prettier and be better groomed."
Const:
from Yorkshire..
*
Sir Harry was the Member of Parliament who suddenly turned tallor, opened a shop in the Strand, and announced that he was going to pull down clothing prices with crash.
He did. He offered £5 15s. suits at £2 178. 6d. It was not philon- throphy. It was a simple lesson in mass production.
It was sold that on this venture he lost £60,000. He handed the bust- ness over to a successor,
£60,000 RACEHORSE His biggest deal was his purchase of the Duke of Bedford's, Covent Garden eslate in 1913 for £2,000,000 wards he sold control to Sir Joseph for investment purposes. Soon after-
Becchom
Ills brother; the lato Frank Curzon, won the Derby with 'Call Boy. After Mr. Curzon's death Bir Harry bought Call Boy for £00,000 to prevent the horse going abroad. beginning of last year he married his His first wife died in 1933. At the private secretary...
He leaves one zon.
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