1947-01-04 — Page 5

It's Fun Finding

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY

Out

HEN I told a girl in the They reached Pembrokeshire, vis

office that I thought of doing an article about Stone hengo she said, "What! That place! Have you

been ever thero? It's just a lot of old stones."

Normandy and Comwall, and there hills, something they'd been look they discovered In the Prescelly ing for all their lives greenishi coloured rock that was just the thing titul circles. for building bigger and more beau-

They built them madly all over

So I took her along, na à special Pembroke, and then somebody dis- treat.

Instead of going to Stonehenge right away we made a subtle move and called first on Mr Frank Stevens, the Director of die Salisbury · Mu- seun. Mr Stevens is about 80, and one of hits claims to fame is that he helped to cat the last bustard m Britain,

ife, ale In 1871, and ever since that meal the bustard has been ex- Unet.

Mr

The skin was stuffed, And Stevens has 11 in a glass case in Fils, museum.

AN AUTHORITY

[OWEVER, we didn't go to see f him because he once aten bus- turl. We went because he's quite an authority an Stonehenge, having been around the place since he was nboy.

Mr Slevent was only too willing to enlighten us, and the first thing he sald was that we must forget all about the Druids and human acri- tives.

the

Tub was revolutionary talk ta the girl from the office and me be- cause we had been brought up to believe that Stonehenge was scene of all kinds of horrid rites, such as blood baths and burning people to death by the dozen In wicker basketa,

There was no evidence of this whatever, Mr Stevens sold. Some fellow put the theory forward at the same Umo that a new school history book was being prepared and it crept into the pages.

Actually, Stonehenge W43 built 1,000 years before the Druids

There have been two Stonehenges. The Grat was built 4,500 years ago, Mr Steveius reckons.

covered Salisbury Plain, which, to

Going backwards

in stone circles

}

by Bernard Wicksteed

prehistoric Britons, seemed the pro- mined land itself.

"Why on earth Salisbury Plain?" asked the girt from the office.

"Well," said Mr Stevens wistfully, "in those days everybody wanted to come here. Now nebody does."

Salisbury Plain was dry and well drained. There weren't a lot of trees chop down (which is quite a consideration when your axes are made of stone) and the bustards were nowhere near extinct then.

HOLY STONES

Mr

But the girl from the oflce and I put our faith in Mr Stevens. Alter Britons. He's the only living man all, he's got a link with these ancient

who's eaten British bustard.

Having got thai clear we'll now Ko on. This Megalithle people had been around Stonehenge for 500 years when strangers began to turn up.

cephalic, whereas the natives were The new arrivals were brachy- delichonephalic.

use

(People who keep museums words like that in their daily con- versation, but what Mr Stevens Stevens. But their green stones had THE Megalithle people decided to mount was that

settle down there, said

the old lot had long, narrow heads with dark fea- become so holy that life was un- Inees and short, square heads).

tures and the new lot had paler supportable without thom even among the bustards on Sallsbury Plain. So they brought 58 of the stones along too.

It is 150 miles from Prescelly to Stonehenge and the stones weigned between two and three tons each, How did they do 117

SARSENS

THE square heads didn't think

got a much better idea. "Let's bulld much of Stonehenge. They'd something really terrific," they said. something that will astonish the Nobody really knows, but

world for the next four thousand Stevens has a theory. He

Mycora, something that will sull ho thinics they brought them 500 miles by raft standing when the last bustard bas round Land's End and up the Hamp been caten." shire. Avon. Anclent tracks have "We will use your old Welsh living at the eastern end of the ríes down to Haverford-west and but we'll also use ones five times Pyreneen got the wanderlust and set Narberth and alro from the Avon as big, ten times as ble if we can

And them. somewhere better to live,

These fellows who were literate, who wore skins and used poly fint and bone implements, squared the tones, dressed them, cut mortices, tenons, and toggle joints, and laid or the circle is still as it was 4,000 foundations so excellent that much years ago.

all.

A

1947.

'CANDIDUS' SAYS—

PUBLIC MUST HELP THE

POLICE

ROM some of the letters which have appeared in the newspapers, the Hongkong Police Force would appear to be brutal, overbearing, and in fact, generally bad.

I totally disagree.

Some of the charges have been so serious, that I made it my business to seek opinions from Chinese and foreign friends who have resided in the Colony for many years. While some of them expressed the belief that a certain amount of cor ruption does exist, not one supported the view that the Force was over- bearing or brutal. The consensus of opinion appeared to be that with the present

crime

wave, the firmest hand is necessary, not only to protect the public, but to protect the police themselves.

some cases

lit

It is true that Hongkong to-day in Infested with criminals who prepared to go to any end to rob, and

are remarkably brazen. Scarcely a day passes with- out one reading of people being held armed men, and it is because of this up, robbed and sometimes killed, by sorry sinte of affairs that the law must be upheld by forceful action.

can imagine some of the writers of letters criticising the police with a pen in one hand and a police The girl from the office and I whistle in the other. Many Chinese think they were very great people, carry police whistles, and are not and so does Mr Stevens. Not just slow to call for assistance should because they built Stonehenge but there be any threat to their person because they lived in peace around or property. I don't suppose that it for 1,500 years, aquarë heads, long|Mf, when responding to a enil, heads, palelaces, dark whites, and policeman found it necessary to use force in order to upprehend the law. It was the dawn of British agri-breaker, the victim would protest.

It is not a question of what is culture." Mr Stevens told A golden era in which the Stone Age wrong with the Force, but rather, turned peacefully into the Bronze what is wrong with the pubile? Age und wanderers into farmers." The best way of stamping out Then, around 430 B.C. the plain crime is for the citizen to do all in was invaded by wild men from the his power to support the guardians Continent, unded with a terrifying of law and order. A constable is new weapon-an iron sword, made empowered to call upon members of In Germany. That was the end of the public to assist him, If necessary, Stonehenge as an institution.

in effecting arrests, although whether the public is aware of this I cannot say, Possibly a campaign aimed at fostering closer co-operation between the police and the public might be useful. Loud speakers have been used for "Safety-First" propaganda insofar as traffic is concerned. To- day our streets present other dangers

First" series of talks might assist in thousands of thugs, and Safet inculcating a sense of civic respon- sibility in the suppression of crime.

BOTTLE OF PORT

►

It all began when some people been found from the Prescelly quar-stones, if it will make you happy, covered. In 1920 a party excava-} –the presence of hundreds, if not

Stonehenge. to

aff in dugout canoes to look for these 56 Blobus they made the

They were called the Megalithic men, which in our language mentis the Big Stone People, and they were called that because of a momia they had for building stone circles,

They couldn't read or write, they wore skins for clothes

and used int instruments, but they were wizards at making these circles.

frst

It

"And we'll stand them up so that circle

we can tell the changes of the sea

the is only fair to point out at this sons from the way stage that not everybody agrees with

shadows fall." Mr Stevens. Some people think that the

original Stonehenge was made of wead and that the Megalithic people never lived there at all. but merely iruded their green stones in a pre historic export drive.

ALAN MOOREHEAD

famous war correspondent, who has writ- ten several books on the North African, Italian and Western European operations,

· indulges in some nostalgic reflections"

Growing up

It seemed such a good idea that everyone set to; whatever the shape of their skulls. At Pewsey, low nilles north, they found whole lot of stones that were just the thing plenty of 15 tonnery and one of 20. The technical name for them. is sarsens and they were floated down the river on rafts and taken up the same track that had been made 500 years before.

END OF STONEHENGE

How do

you Cet

A

20-tan stone up ปี hill with nothing clea but manpower and possibly, oxen? The theory

Mr Stevens has

were put on sledges.

that they The top soil

was cut away, leaving a road sur face of solid chalk that was watered to make it slippery.

A recent excavation-known

PEOPLE like Mr Stevens find much of the evidence on which to base their theories by digging.

There is a camaraderie among these diggers of Stonehenge, we dis- ting

below across a bottle of port wine one- one of the stones came third third full "A man known to have dug around the same named Cunningham is stone in 1801, and he probably left It there as a greeing to some future be somebody in the year 2,000 will generation of archaeologists, biny

sea hole and discover a bottle of Scotch.

Only about half of the site hos

new

0

THESE days in Hongkong, n police-

seen

man's life is certainly not happy one, but it might be inade pier and safer if only the public would co-operate, Many times have been examined by excavating. The people in areas where violent crime parties of police searching rest has been left deliberately so

has taken pince, and have always that the diggors of to-morrow can wondered why some citizens, when try their hand and, with their wider requested to assist knowledge, perhaps evolve

by

consenting to being searched, tako umbrage. theories.

People must

must realise that by res Ever since we got back we have ponding quickly and willingly, they been going around the office talking are not only protecting themselves about archaeology. If you've apprehension of criminals.

and the police, but assisting in the following carefully you can do the and argue slows up the machinery To stop

of law and order, and such obstruc- tionists for such they

are have only themselves to blame if it is deemed necessary to use force in the process of searching.

same.

ARE YOU SURE?

ANSWERS

Stace the liberation, the Force has a particularly difficult tasks,

h.id

1. No. 2 Tarsus, 3. In 1890. 4. and it deserves the thanks of the (a) Beo-skep; (b) lazy squaw; (c) Jaw-abiding community.

WHEN the war began in 1939 A GLANCE at the theatre pro- nevnted circles as "a dig" simple coll; (d) furcaic. 6. Only two vious, however,

(which is seven years ago) I grammes and the contemporary was living in Paris on an income, if newspapers gives you about the same

or thereabouto."

I remember rightly, of £10 a week result among the pro-war giants of the stage, the cinema, the Church, and

a great many sportsmen, This money I laid out as follows: musicians, painters and authors. Rent of a duplex apartment at St. (Though it does seem that the people| Cloud £2, maintenance and pay- in this last category wear a good ments on a car £1, salary of Chinese deal botter than the politicians). houseboy £1 10s. (apart from the rake-off he got on the household one's pre-war lite with the

I also found that one cluttered up shopping), food (largely eaten in the surprising sort of trivia-useless restaurants) £2 clothes about £1. pencil-sharpeners and elaborate What happened to the rest I don't inkstands, richly bound books of the remember clearly, but I know I purest nonsense, unwearable nerk banked about £1 n weck.

Shortly before the Germans arrived I said good-bye to the Chinese houseboy, handed over my belongings to a local storage ware house and fled the city.

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GOT them over to Englund lost month. There wasn't very much

But what

fascinating

Was

Moorehand

really

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most

lies, forgotten parlour games, awful gramophone records, lush booklets

revealed skid marks and signs watering on the track.

of

The actual construction circle is even more remarkable than the the haulage of the stones.

African. 8,

It is ob-

num-

that ils -the Asiatic (In India) and the bers must be increased considerably, Abel Tasman 7. in order that the Colony may revert County, formed in 1882. 0. The Spree aim must be a bigger, better Agreeable, bigoted, harass. B. Notts to its pre-war sense of safely. The

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contenied Police Department.

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on tourist resorts, souvenirs that SIR HARTLEY BHAWCROSS will WELL-MEANING attempt to Orders are not lavish, and

La have lost all meaning.

have, but will not enjoy, the brighten a UN. sub-committee a lot of "making-do." All this, I know, may be merely sweels of office Recorder of Kings-with a lile ventriloquism earned a The South African Government has evidence of one's growing up; and ton-on-Thames, to which he was ap-small boy's rebuke for Sir MAILARA urged strongly that the visit is many people no doubt, had more pointed recently.

BINGH, one of India's principal de-į "special occasion" and the spirit of intelligent and glamorous back-

austerity should make way for Bri- grounds than this. But I discovered two sugar loaves. These are his only doll for £17 and of course it was

Custom rewards the Recorder with legates. His show was velocd.

Singh had bought a new stooge-tain can make it. other aspects more general.

That accounts for the comparative The chief of these was the In- emoluments, but as he never alts, it called UNO. The credible luxury of many people's seems fair enough.

ranged to meet ten minutes earlier of railway comfort is high in South lives seven years ago.

and everybody was just ready to en- Africa: this train was ordered by the I have dinner menus In this

made in was the opening up selection that read like a fairy tale. 2816, cach, a motes high and weigh USTER. DULLES, JOHN South Africans, built in Birmingham

of wines and drinks which any these days.

a most handsome feo in who takes life very seriously,

U.S. delegate to their specifications and paid for by of the boxes full of

them. The steel coachen will after- books and papers have hoord of

one born in the 1920s, will nover

He whispered fiercely in Singh's wards replace the wooden coaches of A model of the world's second lar and personal odds For my £10 a week I lived a life ting solemnity at a council meeting

They are to be presented with at- eur. The show was off.

the Governor-General's train. rest telescope has been completed and and ends.

Said Singh regretfully, as the scattered which, compared with present con- when the Recorder returns

Similarly, the six royal cars which construction of the hugo, 120-Inch from spectators dispersed: "I had thought are being shipped are for export: them, round on theditions, seems like one long, scanda America. BUT must be handed back the committee could use a little en they will be sold in South Africa reflecting mirror will begin at Lick

lous debauch. The eggs I consumed afterwards. floor seven long The casual

tertainment"

when the tour, is over.

Observatory in California, in 1947, years anddenly, rol steak.

mountains of - grilled

says United Press. led away and I had

Previous Recorder was And through it all life seemed DONALD SOMERVELL Ho got—

SUMMAGING through some old IN a December gale 50 years ago The $1,200,000 star-gazing instru- most complate then to have a curlous lightness and and kept one miniature sugar loot LAN, conductor

Beores Bir ERNEST MACMIL- (and embarrassing) view of myself irresponsibilty. At the drop of a in 1940, the best that could be done. Symphony Orchestra, found that rats

Brighton's famous chain pler, wWAS (and may friends) as I was before the hat que rushed off to foreign places, East full ratton whs earned by Lord had chewed on Pipe of Hamelin, sound to the Brighton Herald office Technology, where the world's largest hall, it was taken over by John Gar

of the Toronto destroyed during the night.

mont, with an eight-ton mirror and A man watching the storm tumea 58-foot tubo, was designed by W.W. picked up acquaintances and Ideas CALDECOTE 18 years ago..

to his 17-year-old son, and said: "Run Balatian. The astronomer formerly As a theatre, the "Intimato" is fust They say that the body changes and lost them again.

It was the Pied

was at the California Institute of ten years old. Originally a church SVery Neven years. Believe me, d this evidence, It is nothing compared NOW my purpose in all this is not OMING to Philadekobin is RESPONSIBILITY of granting extra They boy arrived just as the go- telescope, the 200-Inch Mount Palo-ments in 1986 and became the home of with what seven years can do with memories, nor to good you with your one of America's best-known radio visit to South Africa was too great press

to midden you with nostalgic 11 DONALD GREY BARNHOUSE, clothing coupons for the royal year-old newspaper was going to mar instrument, was constructed. the mind. This is what I found.

The My handwriting had altéród | (and ·my) prezent poverty. My predchers, a wisecracking evangelist for Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS to bear the following were held and the Herald publish- day purpose is simply to bring you to the who believes there is nothing: dull alone.

ed an eye-witness account nearly a My hobbies as they are now were last and, I think, most important of about

religion mi that tho He took the Palace a application to column long headed com- my discoyories, which is this.

Bible is full of good news.

the Cobinet, and that august and proof is beautiful, cucu Zest momenta ALASKAN PLANT After a temporary bath to Coward, I cannot see that life was so very

sumably busy conclave considered Thai boy was Councillor FRANK much: happler then. ... Easter; certain- 1 sul like the story which he has the matter carefully." They op- WILSON and he kept the Ly. But just as troubled and almost told hundreds of times now of the Brave GEORGE needs few new Herald office with a ropy of the paper sary by a sentimental journey to tie as desperate, pirannakate EMTA

American butcher, who, after being Despite all the luxury of seven saved, was asked how Christianity clothes, he has his uniforms and also dated December 8, 1890, in which the botanist at low State College, in the Alaskan highway. His two- Dr J. F. Anderson, 72-year-old mile motor trip to the territory aver years ago we seemed to and a re-affected him.

the tropical drill be wore in North report was. And the public figures whom we markable number of things to make have stopped weighing my queen and her children, kio-ALAN MOUREIRAD Writes that dred new specimens to his private

was published.

bliny these days adding several hun-month trip yielded some species no- dred new specimens to his private vor before collected in that region." Inikod about and wrote about with were trivial. such deadly seriousness at that time At least our prosent diacontents my thumb hundreds of times until clothes which, if good enough, will Paris. That is an Americaniam in existence, says Associated Press here between 15,000 and 20,000

and thumb," said the butchers The Queen,

had a duplex

apartment in said to be the largest such collection Dr Anderson.dstimates that his are now almost all either dead or are based on something pretty solid, read in the Word of God that a falso fetch big trade orders, are choosing a Bat-on, two floors or, as we say, 'n

Alaskan collection includen, seme- discredited or forgotten (Stalla being We know what's wrong with us. We balance was an abomination to the carefully: Tweeds and collon frocks maisonette which is French any the great exception).

I want more, omm, : More sloakes, Lord.”

The latest additions were gathered specimaging of diferent- b) are due for a boost.

Dr Anderson on ́s-rocas 6,250 plants D

wor

almost beyond recognition.

com-

elther non-existent then or pletely different

My aftemplant literary postiion

were strictly bunkur. (They may still be so, but I assure you they are not as bad as they were),

"

Africa.

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and let thera know."

anniver

COLLECTION

a small company, helped by West End artists, who performed every type of drama and comody from Shakes peare to: Priestley, Ibsen

ralds, they re-opened in 1941, and have beon active ever since.

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