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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938.

PREHISTORIC MAN FOUND IN FRANCE Greatest Anthropological Discovery Since Last Century

SOVIET THREAT

FOUR CHARMING FLOWER GIRLS AT

NAVAL WEDDING LAST WEEK

10,000

Year-Old

Murder

OF GAS IN WAR MARSHAL VOROSHI-

LOFF, Commissar for Defence, speaking at a mass meeting here said, "If an enemy spreads gas over country we shall pour buc- ketsful of gas over them."

"In 1925," he said, "we signed a convention under which bacteriological and chemical war

was to be

restricted. Unfortunately other countries, and the Fascist countries in particu- lar, have not kept this pledge.

"That is why we cannot limit our chemical corps to the needs of anti-gas dofence. We have been compelled to train chemical troopa.

dis-

When denouncing various "enemies of the people," covered last year in the higher ranks of the Army and Navy, Marchal Voroshiloft included Adml. Oroff. Commander-in- Chief of the Navy and Vice- Commissar for Defence, who disappeared in the autumn with- out any official explanation being: given.

OFFICERS ROAR APPLAUSE To-night's meeting was held to celebrate the 20th birthday of the Ited

The Army which falls to-morrow. Grand Opera House was packed from floor to ceiling. The audience roared their applause at the fery outbursta of Marshal Voroshfloft.

any

Down To The Sea

THE

In Shorts

THE Admiralty no longer frowns on calves, according to a cruise fashion note in the London Gazette. Officers in tropical waters, it is stated, are to wear white shirts-and shorts.

NAVY LEADS

WORLD Britain's 12 Battleships

of

The shorts will be reminiscent of those seen at Wimbledon during the. women's tennis tournaments, tor, though wide, they will be modishly cut.

the

THESE FOUR CHARMING young flower girls Missos Daphne Purry, Janet Cloavo, Sue Diblay and Nancy Dibley, added a pic- turesque touch to the wed- 'ding last week of Surg. Lt. Cdr. S. J. Wheeler, R.N. and Miss Daphne Fullbrook.— Staff Photographer.

THEY LIKE SPINACH!

New York.

Disclosed

Toulouse, Feb. 15.

One of the greatest anthro- pological discoveries since that of the Neanderthal man has been made in the Dronne valley of southern France. The body, which was found completely intact embedded in an azilian atrata of soil is estimated to be ten thousand years old.

A curlous part of the discovery was that the prehistoric man had been murdered by one of his fellow cave- men dwellers, for a crystal spear- heod was found embedded in his spine. Moreover the body was found with its knees doubled to the chin and the entire skeleton bent double Indicating that the victim upon itself, had been tied before being buried. This is one of the oldest crimes which anthropologists have been able to re- construct perfectly from the corpus deiecti discovered in its centuries-old | stove.

The discovery was made by Dr. and Mrs. Jude de la Reole while they were carrying out careful digging in the vicinity of an old mill in the Dronne valley. The body was im- mediately removed in the cake of carta surrounding it and brought to Professor Vallois of the anthropology department of Toulouse medical school.

Anthropologists regard the skeleton as being one of the most perfect pre- historic places yet discovered, being practically intact, including the body's ashes. Each plece is being carefully removed from the mass of earth in which it is caked, about a square yard in size.

The skull is in perfect con- dition, and la expected to form un Important link in the development of the human skull as man developed in Spinach and Buck Jones, tur-intelligence through the ages. "Of white drill," says the Gazette, "with a 234in, band and two pleats. key and airplanes, football and

Professor Vallois, commenting on Two straps in front, with buckles, of Sonja Henie-These are some of the and, told United PrCSS that white metal, one inc' wide. Bottom the favourites of boys and girls French anthropologists regard it as of hurts to be 20in. (circumference between the ages of six and 16, extremely important. "It is very un- and to reach to within three inches results of a survey by the boys' usual for us to have at our disposal the complete skeleton and skull of Jatnietic league revealed.

prehistorie body, such as this one. Usually we have to reconstruct some missing part by a comparison with the sections we have in our possession. This time we can study the azilian man without any chance of error.

of the knee-tap.

The capitalist countries," he de- clared, "are engaged in a wild arma- ments race, The flames of war threaten to spread over the work at

The Soviet Union, THE annual report of the fleets mament.

the leading countries nore than any other State, is exposed to this war.donger. We are hated by shows that while the British the Imperialists, and more especially Commonwealth of Nations leads The shirts, too, will be talored by the Fascist countries, which are in capital ships under age (under

with true naval style, with "soke at back and box pleat. Three ready to drown the Soviet Union in a 26 years), Japan and Italy have buttons, all to builon, of plain

cach nearly twice as many sub-

white pearl, down the front. marines as the Commonwealth. Shoulders Otted with holes for shoulder straps 11.5 on white An unusual feature of the repurt,

tunic." issued as a Blue-book (Stationery office, 2s.), is that under the head-

Officers are to пове that white filled out ing of Japan, both in "building" and stockings, turnover tops, are to be following 12 questions: "projected."

words "Not worn with white shoes, black with black ditto.

spoonful of water.

"Their arms

not long arc enough, and we believe they will never grow long enough to reach over our Soviet frontiers. "But if the Fascist gods, or any make their arms and their grow longer, I believe that the

other teeth

Hods,

Red Army and Red Fleet will tear known." their teeth before they are able to

Are the

ditto

Here is a comparison of the

Battleships Murderer Was Shot While

He "Escaped"

make use of them. We must be strength of the various countries: rendy for them. If the bourgeols armies are strong, ours must be in- vincible."

Capetown Women Can

Drive

Britain

U.S.A. Japan France

12 12

The organisation made the study to find out what children prefer in foods, education, sports, radio, mo- tion pictures and social life so that |free-time activities, meals and en- tertainment which youngsters enjoy and are interested in could be plan- ned.

"Another Important point is that the skeleton was found imbedded in More than 22,400 boys and girls an untouched layer of azlilan. We forms containing the have therefore been able to confrm

by the studies of a series of experts in this fold, the exact

paleontologie age

1. Do you want to go to college? 2. What is your favot rite meat? of the skeleton. Moreover, although 3. What 15 your favourite bone tools are completely lacking in the finds made in the same spot,

dessert?

4. What is your favourite fruit? stone implements are fairly numer-

5. What is your favourite veget-ous. These tools are characteristic able?

of the Perigord Azilian period slight-

6. What is your favourite sport? ly different from the Pyrence Azilian

Ls your

favourite discoveries that have been made.

the

7. Who

Bühlcic?

8. Whose company do you like best: Boys' or Girls'?

Tia Juana, (Mexico). Juan Morales, a private in Italy, Russia Undler

the capital ships headingMexican Army, charged with murder

CONTROVERSY CLARIFIED Britain also has three battle cruisers, and rape in connection with the slay-

"The layer of Azillun soil, more Capetown. three monitors; France one battle ing of Olga Comacho, aged eight, was

9. Which would you rather do: than five feet thick, overlies a layer One town where no criticism is cruiser: Germany three armoured placed by soldiers in a closed mili-

Read a book, go to the movies or of Magdalenian itary van and taken to the military

VI soil embedded heard about women motor drivers ships.

tisten to the radio?

with harpoons of rate beauty. We Is in Capetown.

10. Who is your favourite movie have found here different hooks and Battleships being built are British feemetery, where he was dragged out of traffic case convictions there is the Commonwealth, live: United States, and allowed to "escape," almost complete absence of women two; France, two (and one battle

Federal police then killed Morales offenders. In five months in one cruiser); Italy, two, Germany, two win a volley of shots under the “Law

ballleships (and two battle cruisers).[ of Fugitive." court only three, women appeared.

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barbs, not with a single spear-head, but with series of barbs ilke a spinal formation. They are without curves and are completely different

11. Who is your favourite radio star?

12. How

would you prefer to travel: By plane, train or bus?

type of instrument from what we have BUCK JONES "TOPS"

heretofore found. The find is there- That rootin, tootin' star of the fore of great importance and will westerns, Buck Jones, was the

favourite with the boys while Shir-ve us many details which we have been lacking. Azillan skeletons found ley Temple is the big attraction for in the past have been imperfect." Kirts, Robert Taylor, the nation's number one heart throb, was

Is believed that the discovery third on the boys' list but he could will help to clarify a controversy that make only fifth place on the girls' has been going on in anthropological tabulation.

circles for many years. Up to now Com is the girls' favourite vegeta- anthropologists are completely agreed ble, closely followed by spinach upon seven stages in the paleolithic which led the boys' list. Both age-old stone age-man, while a classifications named bananus as limited number insist that the Azlilan their best liked fruit.

perlod forms on eighth chronological Hash, of all things, gave turkey a period which must be added to the stiff fight for first place in the meat accepted seven. category while steak was a poor fourth after chicken.

These periods mark the progressive Although Joe DiMaggio is the development of the culture and

boys

could

Flye

Youkee

only

favourite on

athlete, baseball physique of man through the entire footbali as their favourite sport.velopment naturally overlap some-

ve other baseball players-Babe

abe what and it has been the contention of Ruth, Mel Ott, Carl Hubbell, Lefty many anthropologists that the Azillan Gomez and Lou Gehrig-trailed the alage was merely a part of the pre- outfielder white only one ceding Magdalenian atage. Many football player, Glint rauk, made cultures prefer to call these stages the list.

in development "cultures" or "indus- ENJOYS A SMOKE

tries" rather than "periods"; but it Sonja Henie is tops as an athlete is commonly accepted that as man with the girls closely followed by perfected his tools and his hablis Jack Dampsey.

through the stone Age, his entire To the question, "Whose company cultural and physical level continued do you like best?" 87 per cent of the to make rapid progress. boys said they liked boys' company

make second place after paleolithic age. These stages of de-

while 50 per cent. of the girls pre- Azilian man may mean the acceptance The discovery, of the latest perfect ferred by the companionship of their of the Azilian perlod as the last

own sex. ::

the

Joo Perner and Eddie Cantor are Paleolithic age

distinct

stinct stage of development. In the first and second respectively on both

Tho

he alteleton is

Es one lists for radio, honoura

of the The best

"youngest" discoveries made Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy of man in the Paleolithic age, the could do was 12th place on both period

riod generally believed to have ex- tended over almost half a millon Both girls and boys want to go years before the Neolithic OF to college, voted Ice cream Their

nge begun. According to favourite desert, said

lived almost n

lists.

Blogists, man

An-

rather go to the movies than listen

they would million years in these two periods

to the radle or read a books, and before he finally emerged from a state would rather travel by airplane than of savagery, perfected his use of tools, any other form of transportation, and became the dominating creature United Press.

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