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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1989.

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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. ***

Now Stone Age man, the western remain to-day not only as wit- inhabitants of hemisphere (at least) must have neas to an art that la retained that the greater part of this area There is reason for believing 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.

areas of E, and S.E. England our means of reckoning can at continuous earth tremora, the best be merely by a process

testify to the similarity of the of analogy, comparison

culture of the period of New equation.

FOR many hundreds of Stone Age man of 3000 B.C.

years these remark- the great able little people remained un- stone-chambered build- disturbed in thesc Islands,

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Watch Slovakia

SLOVAKIA declared her inde-

pendence on March 14, just three months ago. Ав events are shaping to-day, she

and

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☆ From remains that have been IN this way found we do know that the carliest inhabitants of 20,000 to ings as well as the Magalithic leading, unmolested, the peace- 25,000 B.C. were men of remark circles have, by reason of their able life of the agriculturist; for

THE most striking evid- able physique and build; men of careful workmanship which

ence in this respect oven greater brain capacity than indicative of the knowledge of that they fashioned any imple- Tilbury skull at a level of the is in no instance can it be shown comes from the finding of the those living in Britain to-day, balance, been built in a mener 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 seismic disturbances? hardly varied at all during thou-

Goldelic-Celtic wave of Bronze feet higher than it is to-day. We know at least that, save Age man from across Europe The comparison of this long- sands of years.

where the hand of the despoiler marked a merging between these beaded type of skull with others 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.

It is suggested by modern anthropologists that this type of head yields the most surpris-

will be fortunate to remaining evidence for high artistic

independent for another three weeks. Herr Hitler, Slovakia's stout champion but a few weeks ago, is again on the march, and no 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.

com-

ability.

By J. Foster Forbes

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. glacial men of Britain, save that hillmen and traces of their

consequent increase of pressure: similar types who inhabited former agricultural activities days-even after the presumed this would occasion elevation of The face of Britain in those on the far northern area, that caves near the frontier of France can be seen most clearly even subsidence of great land areas land surface in areas further and Spain might have been to this day in the Downland far out on the Atlantic yields south. highly skilled as seafaring men areas of Britain. These can be the possibility of there having judging by the implements identified as terraces or lynchets been land as a continuous belt must visualise the possibility of To understand this better one which they have left behind; at on which they grow 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 Artols 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 were 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. probably from the West and,

and even that extended land urea sidence which has taken place in. moving in from a submerged land surface, penetrated far away to the east.

Poland's apprehensions are understandable. German control. The much later and post- of Slovakin means a direct threat glacial settlers of Britain and to the Polish south-western Western Europe differed hardly. frontier, but even more import at all in size and shape of head ant, German forces will

from the earlier Paleolithic peo- mand entry to the great Polish-ple. They were not a wandering Silesian industrial area in which

race of people; they established themselves-dug themselves in the principal heavy armament -in' fact in the marvellously Industries are carried on. Sci- constructed underground pas- zure of this area would paralysesages and caves which are most Poland in the event of a war. She would be left solely depen- dent upon Russin, France and Britain for her supplies, and only Russia could effect these rapidly.

The possession of Slovakia by Germany would also be a patently strategic move to enable the Reich to impose 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 Slovakia, parallel with the increasing Far East tension, would probably do more than anything else to precipitate an international situation of the gravest possibi- lities.

obviously the work of these! sturdy builders and fashioners in stone-Britain is most rich in these constructions.

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RCHAEOLOGISTS 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, they may have been constructed but that for life as well, for there is a great dearth of evidence to show of what exact nature their dwellings were, if any,' abova! ground for the supposed bit] dwellings and habitation trenches would seem to have been apoor alternative to the marvellously walling or great stone vaulted constructed dry

chambers that still testify men of great skill. ***

There are others who are in-

to

the

Insult To Injury

characteristic ONE of the

features of Japan's handling of the so-called China Incident has been her policy of adding insult to injury when dealing with foreigners. In Tientsinclined to believe that these un- the soldiers are having rare fun at the expenso of Britons, Yesterday Mr. H. G. McKenzie, and others were stripped of their clothing and made to suffer various other forms of Indigni- ties to satisfy the meticulous Japanese search parties. After all, Mr. McKenzie and his co- sufferers can't do anything about

derground divellings were work of dire necessity; for there

reasons for blockading the British Concession, but how she can conceive that adding gratul- tous insults and injuries to private citizens can in any way help forward her case, passos ordinary comprehension. It is n

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 bellove she has good

ing antagonisms, makes no positive contribution to the solu tion of problems, and may easily result in repercussions of a nature to give Japan' cause for bitter, regret.

It is to these people, too, that stretched to the west of Wales areas further south.

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 Cheshire are more than half as crowded again as London and the Home Counties ? That meat is the most expensive item in the workers'

budget?

THERE

tection. And the advertiser knows- or ought to know-how you act when. [ you go shopping.

Until quite recently, however, the advertiser was content to act by hunch and instint. He did not know, because he had never bothered to ascertain the facts in n_scientific manner. Within the past decade or (50, 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 AFG several professions psychologist knows about your mind. under the generic title of "market whose job it is to low 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 less accurate tille would body behaves and misbehaves. The that Society erects for its own pro-be facts about people." This ad-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

'm, you can't hofp today I'm

By Lichty

vertising research has already led to a number of most valuable and in- teresting result, which the advertisers have been public-spirited enough to issue for all to

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 American Institutes of Public Opinion,

grew

directly out of advertising research.

Three years ago, a 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 pioneer attempt to moke statistics interesting. Those people who combine lively imagint- Hans with strong eyesight have always known that there was a mess of Interesting information to be derived from such publications as the Statistical Abstract. But you can no mord read the Statistical - Abstract than you cap rend Bradsḥnw” (though I know people who habitu ally read both for pleasure)...

The Home Markol usos, evory": device of the artist and the colour- printer to make ita. "facts about. people" leap to the eye, peng

facts

It is impossible to review a book like this. I can only pick out a few that particularly interested me. Many of the Amures relate not to counties, but to the 13

Feographical

regions into which: Great Britain is divided. The sooner, we start think- ing regionally, the better it will be for our idons about the eficient: government of the country... |--Foi" example, most of the talk about evacuation in war time allently

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