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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1930.
You can't carry
a good thing too far!
Wherever in the world men toil and thirst, there goes Whitbread's Beer. Sometimes it travels by elephant, sometimes by camel, sometimes by
dhow or by ox cart, but it always arrives in perfect Whitbread condition.
And wherever it is kept, it keeps the last of the dozen as fresh as the first.
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HAT do we know are substantial grounds for must be attributed evidence of and N.W. England to join up
about the earliest thinking that at the dawn of the marvellous dewponds which with Ireland.
New Stone Age man, the western remain to-day not only as wit-
There is reason for helloving
Britain that can come been subject to the most violent by the men of Wessex even in was vast forest land; for work- within the category of convulsions due to a great land these times, but as a means to ed flints, pottery sherds and factual evidence?
subsidence; and that for cen- the permanent retention of animal remains which have We have no chronicled re- turies afterwards the West water on hilly ground even in been found in the megalithic TRY ALSO THE 12 H.P. cord to give us any indication; European area was shaken by the driest weather.
our means of reckoning can at continuous carth tremors. the best be merely by a process
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of analogy, comparison and equation.
From remains that have been
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we do know that the
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areas of E. and S.E. England testify to the similarity of the culture of the period of New
FOR many hundreds of Stone Age man of 3000 B.C.
years these remark- IN this way the great able little people remained un- stone-chambered build- disturbed In these Islands, earliest inhabitants of 20,000 to ings as well as the Magalithic leading, unmolested, the peace-
THE most striking evid- 25,000 B.C. were men of remark circles have, by reason of their able life of the agriculturist; for
ence in this respect able physique and build; men of careful workmanship which is in no instance can it be shown comes from the finding of the even greater brain capacity than indicative of the knowledge of that they fashioned any imple- Tilbury skull at a level of the those living in Britain to-day, balance, been built in a maner ments of war; wheras the com. Thames Estuary which must at and, what is more, of a similarity to resist all cataclysmic and ing (about 1700 B.C.) of the first that time have been a hundred of skull formation which has scismic disturbances?
Goidelic-Celtic wave of Bronze feet higher than it is to-day. hardly varied at all during thou- We know at least that, save Age man from across Europe The comparison of this long- where the hand of the despoiler marked a merging between these headed type of skull with others
It is suggested by modern anthropologists that this type. of head yields the most surpris. ing evidence for high artistic ability.
June 16, 1939
Watch Slovakia SLOVAKIA declared her inde-sands of years,
pendence on March 14, just three months ago. AB events are shaping to-day, she will be fortunate to remain independent for another three weeks. Herr Hitler, Slovakla's stout champion but a few weeks ago, is again on the march, and matter what protestations and furious denials issue from Berlin, there is ample evidence to indicate that his aim is the subjugation of the Slovaks. Never since Hitler's March coup has Slovakia been anything but a tolerated State so far as Ger- many is concerned. The back- ing of her autonomy by the Reich has always been an obvious means to an end, and if Hitler assumes a protectorate, this too will have the same motivation.' Poland's apprehensions are understandable. German control
By J. Foster Forbes
found within the long barrows of England gives very little room. to doubt that this Tilbury skull belongs to the same culture and non period as the rest.
has interfered with their forma- two races of Aryan and tion, they stand as firmly intact Aryan stock and the develop- There are grounds for think- as on the day they were put ment under peaceful conditions ing that with the receding of the: LITTLE is known con- together.
of even a higher art in metal last Ice belt further north and cerning the pre-
These people were essentially construction.
consequent increase of pressure glacial men of Britain, save that hillmen and traces of their The face of Britain in those on the far northern area, that similar types who inhabited former agricultural activities days-even after the presumed this would occasion elevation of caves near the frontier of Franco can be seen most clearly even subsidence of great land areae land surface in areas' further and Spain might have been to this day in the Downlaod far out on the Atlantic-yields south. highly skilled as seafaring men areas of Britain. These can be the possibility of there having To understand this better one
by the judging
implements identified as terraces or lynchets been land as a continuous belt must visualise the possibility of which they have left behind; at on which they grew their grain; joining the Suffolk and Essex some kind of land wave compar- all events their art is indicative these lynchets were divided up area with Artois in Flanders able in fact to the action of the of an advanced stage in culture. to afford the maximum amount and continuing south well be balance in the scales; for the That they wero a nomadic of moisture in dry weather and yond the extremity of the Eng consequent reaction and release race is almost certain and there were developed for cultivation lish Channel area whereby Corn of such pressure in the north is a tendency to believe that by primitive implements such as wall was conjoined to Brittany would allow for the gradual sub- these people originated more the earliest form of plough. and even that extended land area sidence which has taken place in probably from the West and, It is to these people, too, that stretched to the west of Wales areas further south. moving in from B submerged land surface, penetrated far: away to the east.
The much later and post-
Western Europe differed hardly at all in size and shape of head from the carlier Palcolithic peo- ple. They were not a wandering race of people; they established themselves dug themselves in -in fact in the marvellously constructed underground pas- sages and caves which are most obviously the work of these sturdy builders and fashioners in stone-Britain is most rich in these constructions..
-of Slovakia means a direct threat-glacial-settlers of Britain and
to the Polish south-western frontier, but even more import- ant, German forces will com- mand entry to the great Polish- Silesian industrial area in which the principal heavy armament industries are carried on. Sei- zure of this area would paralyse Poland in the event of a war. She would be left solely depen- dent upon Russia, France and Britain for her supplies, and only Russin could effect these rapidly. The posscasion of Slovakia by Germany would also be a patently strategic move to enable the Reich to imposo her will upon the Poles, for Poland would then find herself facing Germany's armed forces on three sides, rendering her vulnerable to attack.
German action in Slovakin, parallel with the increasing Far East tension, would probably do more than anything else to precipitate an international
ARCHAEOLOGISTS tend to think that because skeletal remains and grave furnishings are the only actual pieces of evidence of these people, that such buildings could merely have been used as death houses who knows, but that they may have been constructed for life as well, for there is a great dearth of evidence to show of what exact nature their above ground; for the supposed pit] dwellings and habitation trenches would seem to have been a poor alternative to the marvellously constructed dry walling or great stone vaulted chambers that still testify men" of great`skill,
situation of the gravest possibi-dwellings were, if any,
lities.
Insult To Injury ONE of
the characteristic features of Japan's handling of the so-called China Incident has been her policy of adding
to
Insult to injury when dealing There are others who are in- with foreigners. In Tientsinclined to believe that these un- the soldiers are having rare funderground dwellings were
the
at the expense of Britons. work of dire necessity; for there Yesterday Mr. H. G. McKenzie, and others were stripped of thoir- clothing and made to suffer various other forms of indigni- tics to satisfy the meticulous Japanese search parties. After all, Mr. McKenzie and his co- sufferers can't do anything about
reasons for blockading the British Concession, but how she can conceive that adding gratui- tous insults and injuries to private citizens can in any way Jp forward her case, passes ordinary comprehension. It is n
DO
It If they showed any resent-cheap and childish way of creat ment or resistance-well, the whole world knows what hap pened to Mr. Tinkler at Pootung. But it is all pretty Infuriating, because it is so very unnecessary. Japan may belleve she has good
ing antagonisms, makes positive contribution to the solu Hon of problems, and may enally result in repercussions of a nature to give Japan cause for bitter regret.
Facts About People
DO YOU KNOW
That only one family in 19 has an income of more than.
£10 a week?
That half the wealth of England belongs to a minority
of one in 200 of the population ?
That Lancashire and Cheshiro are more than half as crowded again as London and the Home Counties ? That moat is the most expensive item in the workers" ·
· budget ?
leetion. And the advertiser knows-m or ought to know-how you act when you go shopping.
Until quite recently, however, the advertiser, was content to set by hunch and instint. He did not know, because he had never bothered to ascertain the facta in asclentide manner. Within the past decade or so, many of the more enlightened advertising agencies have been spend- Ing great deal of effort and money in remedying this defect.
The sort of work they do comes THERE are
several professions] psychologist knows about your mind. under the generic title of "market whose job it is to know facts about The policeman has a vast experience research," though a much more inspir- people. The doctor knows how your of the way people react to the rules ing and no ieas accurate title would body behaves and misbehaves. The that Society erects for its own pro-be "incts about people." This ad-
GRIN AND BEAR IT
vertising research has already led to
By Lichty testing result, which the advertisera
“No, ina'm, you can't help to-day--I'm too busy!"
a number of most valuable and in- have
been public-spirited enough to Issue for all to see.
Much of our knowledge of the. poublic's food-buyng habits comes from advertising research, The new technique of sampling public opinion, practised by the British and Americari Institutes of Public Opinion, grew directly out of advertising research.
Three years La book, called "The Home Market," was published by two of the directors of the London Press Exchange Ltd. It has been so successful that a second edition has now been published;:!".
No book has ever deserved its success better. - "The Home Market" was an admirable ploncer attempt to make statistics Interesting. Those people who combine lively imagina- tons with strong eyesight have. always known that there was a mass of interesting Information to bo derived from such publications as the Statistical Abstract. But you can no the Statistical Abstract more read than you can readBradshaw' (though I know people who habitu- ally read both for pleasure).
"The Home · Market" - uses every [device of the artist and the colour
priater to make its "facts about people" leap to the eye.
It is impossible to review a book like this. I can only pick out a few. facts that particularly interested me. Many of the figures relate not to countles, but to the 13 geographical regions into which Great Britain is- divided. The sooner we start thinks" ing, regionally, the better: it will be for our ideas about the Belent Kövérment of the country,
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