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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1938.

ANTARCTICA WAS ONCE 83 and 74 ALHAMBRA

STEAMING JUNGLE

Parted

Lincoln Elsworth Going On By Snuff

New Trip

Denham. Bucks.

EIGHTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Jack Bunce sits forlornly in his one-room cottage in Willett's-

WEALTH STORED UNDER GREAT lane Denham.

ICE BARRIER

Before him the table is laid with knives and forks, two plates, two cups, and saucers-juxt where his wife left them when he last saw her. He was preparing to celebrato 80

4-year-old wife walked out of hume

ANTARCTICA, now under its barrier of ice, once lay years of married life who other

steaming under tropical jungle.

They had quarrelled beenute Amy took snuff in bed. “If she doesn't. return soon, it will mean the workhouse for me. I can't gp on much longer without her,"

One hundred million years ago, its climate was humid and hot and the air was thick as stagnant water, accord- ing to Lincoln Elsworth, noted Polar explorer.

"That stretch of time rolled "My wife and I will fly first to Jack Bunce said. back momentarily two years Nairobi for a mountaineering and ago when I found fossils and Picture-hunting trek which promises primeval forests, bamboos, elephants, shells which told incontestably buffaloes, and leopards. of the tropics. The snow held evidence that its ancient atmos-"Our slip, the Wyatt Earp, is due phere was also one of coal and the last week of October we head

at Capetown on October 1, and in! oil," said Mr. Elsworth, who is for the Ingrid Christensen coast, at present in London.

which is treacherous and is littered The world has changed since, and with hundreds of islets and reefs. perhaps will change again, or the leg

will not be a bar to transport (whether the Polar plateau extends "I shall y in order to determine it is

is now) when that happens.

If the United States files a formal far towards Africa and whether the claim to the 350,000

Victoria Land mountains run across square milei which he discovered in its name, it

the magnetic Pule to the opposite) would have stored up wealth for that side of the continent. changed time, he said.

"We

are going to Enderby Quadrant, an almost unknown area of 750,000 square miles on the African side of Antarctlea, Nobody has gone mare than one or two miles inland,

"No new territory will be added to the United States, though nobody hasi ever seen what we shall see,

"Australia · already clans it by virtue of landing on the coast," he added.

Choosing A Wife By Heredity

FITNESS TRADITION IN FAMOUS THAMES WATERMEN FAMILY

SNAP-DRAGONS, black and white rats, and the Phelps family of watermen are among examples selected to demonstrate theories of heredity in a pamphlet written

·STOP PRESS

CHINESE SLAIN BY POISON GAS

Mahwelling, Klangst, Aug. 30. Two Chinese companies guarding high-level ground to the south-west of Laohushan (Tiger Hill); in the Kuling sector. were wiped out yesterday

the when

Japanese resorted to the use of poison gos shells.

planes and artillery Japanese severely bombed the place and when the Chinese defence works had been totally demolished, 500 Japanese infantrymen rushed the positions.

were repulsed

suffering about by the Chinese,

200 casualties. Whilst the Chinese were checking L the casualties on both sides on the

the

battlefield, apanese dred volleys

of

poison gas shells.

For over three

the

solid hours the whole ne covered by a a dense suffocating smoke, When the smcke cleared the two guarding the Chinese companiles point were helpless. The position was strewn with bodies of the victims. the Japanese have used poison gas

This is said to be the third time

by Dr. C. P. Blacker, and published for the Eugenics So-shells during Sghting at this point. ciety, of which he is secretary. SIX charts are explained, which

"can be used in schools to demonstrate pictorially that heredity plays a part in our lives, which we should take into account in the choice of a mate. Marry wisely is the lesson to which they point."

BOY'S 16TH‍ BROKEN

BONE

Military advices from the Singize sector allege that the Japanese at- tacking Ox Head fill also used pulsun, Kas shells

afternoon. yesterday

Over GO such shells were fired #1 the Chinese positions, compelling the

withdraw to avoid Chinese to

#313- how-

a

necessary losses. The latter, ever, recaptured the point in For the sixteenth time a boy un counter-attack after the #as had

with accident involving a broken bone. holiday at Brighton met

an disappeared.-Central News.

He is Dennis Roberts Wheatley.

One chart llustrates, Mendel's aged 11,. of Coulsdon, Surrey.. Jaw, by means of the colour of

antirrhinums-snap-dragons. Men- Reaching the seaside he hastened

del was an Austrian inonk, after experiments with

eration.

Chinese Press

NATHAN BIN FOWLOOK PARY AT 1933

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW.......

Mio, to puddle, slipped and broke On Hwangmei Rochelle Hudson - Robert Kent - Ed. J. Bromberg

the garden bones in his left leg.

and

pea, discovered basle principles onį

The ambulance arrived which hereditary characteristics are;

Yingshan, Hupeh, Aug. 30. After the recapture of Talenshan. passed on from generation to zen-Dennis was taken to the Royal Sussex

Taihu and Susung, the Chinese nre County Hospital.

Here the broken bones were set, pressing on Hwangmel on the cast the last short rest Dennis wasifupeh border, which is THE PHELPS FAMILY

and after a picked up by his father and taken in stronghold of the Japanese in the The Phelps family chart

Recap- shows a car back to the beach.

Tsienshan-Hwangmei sector. "the transmission of physical fitness

Dennis is unusual both in regard ture of the town is belleved im- and splitude in a family which has to the ease with which he fractures minent. been associated with the river since bones and mends them.

There are now about 2,000 Japanese the 13th century."

troops at Hwangmei.

The

Phelpses, it is explained, "have been boalmen,

watermen,[

lightermen boat-builders and pro-j fessional scullers. For generations they married the daughters of water- men and sailors, and unconsciously

Scooter Speeder. Rebuked

Pixley. Cal.

they followed the tendency of like Cited for doing 30 miles in a 20 to marry like, thus passing on the mile an hour zone, Glen Gray, ser magnifcent physique that is their vice station operator, was severely great inheritance. They have pro-rebuked in justice court here. Gray's duced nine winners of the race for vehicle was [] home made the Doggel Coat and Badge."

You

can

tell

scooter.

motor

Large quantities of Japanese mill- lary equipment have been captured by the Chineso during their sweep- ing counter-offensive on Tsienshan, Taihu and Susung.-Central News.

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Dock Dispute RED ARMY Settlement FRIEND OF Now Expected MISSIONARY

Marseilles, Aug. 29.

n

Hankow, Aug. 30. Much Interesi has been aroused by Work .on the waterfront was

personal message to foreign normal this afternoon, but dockers missionaries by General Chu Teh, refused to work overtime to-night the famed commander of the Eighth because Unlon leaders had not Route Army, expressing gratitude reached a definite decision regarding for the work of foreign missionaries the new scheme under which longer in China. shifts will be worked..

The Red lendor gives un assurance The men claim that more dockers that the Chinese Communut Army dre able to obtain a share in the] has no prejudices against misionaries work under the old scheme than but, on the contrary, welcomes them under the now system. A seillement and would like to co-operate with is expected-Reuter,

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