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The Seaforth News, 1928-09-06, Page 6Andrews Recounts Tiara r"bi''ac w much Ili illi my life, But, of course, we mat e(the spot an His r ozur maps, atlti We skis planiun to. is Trip Through Agh Return �azuci ,get all of the ]celirtan,. In ol�an Desert 'including the trail, if the beast had e l�ll0 4 tali. —_-_. "I can beim give you an idea of the Fossil Remains of Enormous siza of thea best $ny to1.iing you Chart ,Beast Prize of Expedition tine pelvis Is as big Asa bram," ss dru SAND ENEMY Expedition Me. Anlrtrewe mid the beast was about twists the size of "Jumbo,," the famoula circus elephant of the old P. T. Barnum shows in America, and circus mon claimed that Jumbo weigh- ed 10 tons. He: calculated that he could bravo worn a tap hat sand stood under the great "beast without touch- ing its belly, Ma•. Granger declared the diseavory was the greatest in hie 32 year of scientific experience. He said- the beast was' a vegetterien, eating chiefly the smaller branches of trees. It wars of distinctly Asiatic aright and was too heavy and awkward to travel far, "The beast' lived. on the fat of the land of its birth," he explained'. "It grew larger with each succeeding gen- eration, until after a uviellion years it became eo roly-poly that it coed no longer navigate. It finally gave up the ghost, having eaten itself out of existence, because it was too enormoue. for any earthly use." The relics and fossils are being ar- ranged in the work rooms of the ex- pedition in this city, where the scion Lists will study them this autumn and w,inber. Mr. Andrews may latergo to New York, leaving Mr. Granger here to measure and cia.sefy the fos- sils. Explorer Says Weather Worst He Has Ever Encount- ered Peking, China,—Tales of eneoun't- ers with brigands, of terrific sande storms, of a thickly populated fertile land of 20,000 years ago that is now a desert and of fossil remains of an onornious beast which ate itself out of existence, were brought back here by Roy Chapman Andrews and his expedition into the Great Gobi desert in inner Mongolia. They returned laden with relics, some of the 150;000 years old and others showing a remarkable stage of stone -age culture, But they did not discover what was most sought, a trace of the ape -like stem of mankind,. popularly known as the "Dawn Man," Mr. Andrews and Walter Granger, chief palaeontologist of the party, ex- hibited tho foselle with a pride which they made no attempt to conceal. The specimens were wrapped in splints and gaune and bound with strips of tape. Each looked as if it had just come from the operating rcorn of a moSern hospital. They were shown to the newspaper reporters of Peking, bat only the explorers were allowed to handle them. Sand was the great enemy of the expedition and came snore nearly to halting it than did the brigands. Mr. Andrews, who is no tyro in Mon- golian exploration, said the weather was the worst he had ever encounter- ed. Late in May and all through April they were besieged day and night for six weeks by terrific sand storms, the fine, flinty grains pene- trating the tightest wrappings and most closely fitted cases. At times it was impossible to leave the tents and the automobiles of the party were al- most covered in sand. drifts. Condi- tions became so unbearable that some of the Mongols threatened to commit suicide, The discomfort of the leader was in- creased when he accidentally shot him- self in the leg. The sand got into the surgical and medical vappdies, making it ttiffieult for Dr. J. M. Perez to treat and dress the wound. Brigands beset the explorers early in their drive westward from Kalgan in the narthwest section of this Prov- ince. The marauders appeared in the guise of friendly soldiers and invited the expedition to a tea party. But the ruse did• not work foe when the motorized caravan rolled up to the spot selected by the brigands, the chauffeurs were stepping on the gas and every man who had his hands fres grasped a loaded rifle. The brigands mounted horses and gave c1 -4,s -s, but were quickly out -distanced. The expedition drove westward from hal an into the heart of the dese•-t and theca worked north east- ward to the region of Erhlien where the irony interesting discoveries were made. There they found a new fossil area in ancient lake bed's and east of Erhlien they came upon the traces of the oldest inhabitants. These people are known to the scientists as "Dune dwellers." Thou- sands of relies of them were found, showing numerous phases of a stone age culture of 20;000 years ago, The country was more thickly populated then than now and the climate was different too. There were trees and lakes and plentiful annual rainfall. The crude implements showed that man was then beginning to accom- plish with stone resoles which former- ly were done solely with handle and in the same locality where traces of hu- mans dating back 150,000 years had been found previously. The stone age area extended from Siberia to China. It was a rough tribe but evidently poet -dated the "dawn men.". Bones showed that the race sub - Meted chiefly on birds and frogs and' traces of a breed of horses or donkeys - indicated that they used beasts of burden. Women adorned themselves with necklaces of fox teeth and wore bone rings on their fingers or in their ease. For weapons the men had bone knives send arrow and spear heads of flint and: agate. They pierced these with stone drills. CLEVER PEOPLE "These people were wonderfully clever" said Mr. Andrews. "They lived apparently in a transition per- iod betwecla the old and new stone ages. The oounbryside was saturated with people and they hunted' in the Woods, fished in the lakes and ,streams and built shelters in the dunes of aldns, bark and timbers, There are great areas of trams of these people, who lived thereabouts for thou'sande • of years." But the big thrill of the trip was the' finding of the prehistoric animal colossus. "I never eaw Walter Granger eo • excited," said Mr. Andrews. "He hardly slept foe a week." Several of the belles brought back ase as large as the body of a modern man, The humerus js four foet long and the collar bons a full load for a M colic, Tho relics include ere Rumania Investigates Canadian Methods Winnipeg, Man.—An official delega- tion representing the Rumanian Gov- ernment is now touring Western Can- ada, malting a special study of Can- ada's system of handling her' grain crop of 250,000,000 bushels and wishes to base her system of handling it on that developed by the Dominion. Every phase of grain growing and handling will be studied, and informa- tion also will be gathered on the or- ganization and operation of the farm- ers' wheat pools, now operating in each of the three prairie provinces. P. Demetriad Braila, general director of clocks and harbors and secretary to the Ministry of Communications for the Rumanian Government, is heading the party. Proven Tai Whore, ` ! ave Place in Air PILOTS GIANT FOKKER PASSENGER AIR LINER ON JOURNEY FROM AMSTERDAM TO LONDON WOMAN o London. Lady Heath, famous English Slier, flow this maehh{e from Amsterdam �� British Patrol. Irak Borders as Arabs Threaten Ibn Saud's Nationalist Aims Conflict With Independ- ence for Mandated Region London.—With the breakdown of the Jeddah Conference between Sir Gilbert Clayton, for the British Gov- ernment, and Ibis Saud, King of, Hed- jaz and Nejd, Great Britain's middle - eastern mandate territories, Irak and Transjordanla, are again overshadow- ed by a 'menace of the powerful Arabian ruler's fanatical Wahabi tribesmen, Ibn Saud has declared that despite the breakdown of the conference be will keep Peace with his neighbors, but as a precautionary measureBritishairplanes and armor- ed cars are patrolling the desert fron- tier between Irak and Nejd. Though no serious danger le likely b - October at the earliest due to e ore e.. ,.. testing deep into the Wahabi territory, aucl involving" numerous • casualties, were then carried out in reprisal by the British air force, and a state of near war developed all along the des- ert frontier. Hostilities, for which Ibn Sand as- serted he was not responsible, were called off preliminary to the Jeddah Conference, but with the breakdown of this parley'the whole situation was thrown back into the melting pot. The practical outcome of the failure, nooes- Barfly, is indefinite ;postponement of all hope of Irak achieving the status of a fully independent state, since. the continuance of hostile relations with Nejd perpetuates a military menace against which Irak obviously cannot stand without the effective Support of Britain, involving the latter's indefi- nite political control. The position is complicated by the wave of anti -European sentiment at present 'sweeping the Middle East. This outburst of feeling is due to three causes. One'is the unconstitutional dissolution of the Egyptian Parlia- mont, to which, regardless of all de- ntals, it is believed Britain, as'the occupying power, is implicated. The to all westernising influences to which the neighboring • Arab states under British and French mandate necossar fly are exposed. With the reports from Irak that they are making a munber of ;converts to that country, the process of a more to or less peaceful penetration seems threaten tate integrity of Irak even more gravely than Ibn Saud's raiding. tribesmen. The Outlawry'of War Stephen Gwynn in the Fortnightly Review (London); Even if ire sup- pose international collisions. put. whol- ly out of the region of -possibility, and even if we ignore the chance of incur- sions made by'uncovenanted: hordes on a pacifist civil civilization there 1 ion wheth- erwotrld still. remain the quart any conceivable world can dispense with the necessity for soldiers. Mod- ern weapons will continue to exist, and a very small number of machine guns combined with motor cars will enable a' handful of bandits to hold up society. Already no civilized country suffers from the consequences of this fact as acutely ' ate do the United States of America. Absorption of Immigrants Edinburgh Scotsman: Canada and Australia are no more able than older countries to absorb at any given time au unlimited number of immigrants. There is plenty of room in Can- ada and Australia for man to starve and die in; there is only a limited amount of room for men to work and live in. It is no paradox; it is simply the effect of an ordinary economic law that at a given time there is only a limited demand for labor. No doubt there is an almost unlimited demand for competent and healthy men who will work on the land; but for that life there are comparatively few appli- cants, especially among the older men, who are our most serious problem. Austro -German Union Sisley Huddleston in the New Statesman (London): The inevitabil- ity of the union of Austria and of Ger- many becomes apparent to all eyes. It was illogical to smash up the Aus- trian Empire. On one side was left a great and powerful nation, and on the other side was left a frabmentary and helpless country whose racial af- finities with its big neighbor urged it to join the Germanic Federation. The question of the "Auschluss" is destined to become one of the most difficult and dangerous questions of the new Europe. The Wider World Vernon Bartlett in the Nineteenth Century and After (London): There 1s only one country in the world which might be able to stand alone, to keep clear of future conflicts, and that coun- try is the United States, with its stu- pendous wealth, its geographcial posi- tion, and its immense natural re- sources. When a nation in so fortun- ate a situation comes to other nations and proposes a treaty to rule out war as "an instrument. of national policy" it would surely have been foolish be- yond words to reject the offer and thereby to make naval and cut-throat economic competition between Europe and North America inevitable. strong c oral spleadildly preserved ribs and sections of the opine, "IF'a left, the pelvis bane and Bev- oral other parts in a clay hillside," said Mr. Granger, "I never hated to FLEES FROM 300 WIVES Si ilamada, Sultan of Morocco, only 1.6, and lie is visiting h'ranoe escape the • intrigue ' of his Jeal wives. A Lucky Ending to a Disasterous Flight England Still Queen of Seas World Tonnage Report Shows Old Brittainia Still S Well Ahead At the end of June world tonnage in existence totalled 68,954,659 gross tons, as compared with 66,102,910 gross tons on June 30, 1927, accord- ing to ccording.to advices just received by Bank - ors' Trust Company . of New York, from its British Information Service. Steamers and motoe-ships account for 65,150,413 tons of the total, while sail- ing vessels account for the balance of 1,795,246, tons; at the end of June of last year the proportions were 63,- 267,302 tons in steamers and motor - ships and 1,925,608 tons in sailing vessels, showing that during the twelve months under review there was an increase in steam and motor tonnage of 1,802,111 tons, the largest Yearly increase since June, 1922. Correspondingly, sailing tonnage de- creased by 130,382 tops. The coun- tries showing the largest increases in tonnage were Great Britain and Ire- land, and Germany with increases of 566,328 tons and 414;205 tons respec- tively. > Of, the vessels under the French flag there was a decrease of 125,515 tons, and of vessels registered in Italy there was a decrease of 51,566 tons. Of the 1923 total of 66,954,659 gross tons, Great Britain and Ireland' owned' 19,875,350 tons -19,754,001 tons in steamerseand motorships and the bal- ance of 121,394 tons in sailing ves- sels. Taking the world total of 66,- 159,413 tons in steamers and motor - ships, Great Britain's share accounts for 40.32 per cent. of the total; the United. States with 13,702,826 tons, owns 2L3 per cent. of the total; Ja- pan, with 8,348,732 tons, 5.14 per cent, and France, with 3,255,882 tons, o la per r cent of the total. Norway', s and other countries own the balance of 26.42 per cent Great Britain's por- tion oition of the ocean-going tonnage avail• able for general cargo and passenger purposes, reached 9,697,716 tons, or 38.10 per cent. of the world's total. The United' States Came next with 5,473,408 tons, or 21.50 per cent. of the total. Mutinies at Sea By COMMANDER DANIEL, R.N, Mauy people aro doubtless wonder. lag how it is that P. small nuinbor of stowaways can hold up a largo shift Such as the Jervis Bay, with 700 per- ' Sans' on board. Theyforget, perhaps, what a tremendous faster surprise May be in obtaining early success. But it would Mcleod be a sad eonfossian if in extremity rho mutineer could not rula, although with oonsider- abbeleeloos sbfedilio, A mutiny 1n 1880 on board an Asn• °rime ship named Emelt N, Thayer is a good illustration of how a hand- ful of determined mutineers can ter- rorize 'a timid crew of larger numbers. On this occasion two coolies armed with knives surprised the crew and battened them down forward, They killed an officer and wounded the cap- tain, but he, aided by a very plucky wife, held . out in his cabin fo'r more time a day against them, and finally made a sortie. The coolies jumped overboard rather than fight for it, but not before they had set the ship, on fire, ,The coolies were drowned, but ,...,ar-. the fire took hold of the ship and she had to be abandoned, In this story 23 seamen were over whelniecl by two Indian cbolios. Ono man laid iu a bathroom, another spent all the time aloft on the crass -jack yard. It is satisfactory to bo able to say, however, that these men were not Angle -Saxons,' -, 11.71.8, Goshawk, a gunboat, came to the rescue of, the: Caswell, a barque, in 1876 and towed her into Queens- town. The crew had mutined and, ae usual, after' ]tilling most of the offi- cers, had spared the mate with a view to his navigating the ship. Later the carpenter managed to regain control and was finally rescued by the Gos- hawk. Similar tactics were' used in the .mutinies of the Flowery Land, which left London in 1863 for Singapore, and the Vittoria, which put out from Ma- nila in '1830. In each case the mate was apparently spared for navigation, andthis ultimately led to, the punish- ment of the mutineers, but not before they had murdered several officers. All -these eases would seem to have been the result of shipowners' employ- ing "Dutchmen" (as the sailor indite criminately calls all foreigners) be- cause of their cheaper wages. It is true that Englishmen Have been known to mutiny. There was the mutiny at Spithead in 1797, for example. But this was more in the nature of a peaceful strike and the public sympathy was clearly with the seamen in their determination to ob- tain redress for "their `grievances. .The mutiny at the More, also in 1797, was different, and it neither deserved nor received any sympathy. Richard Parker, the ringleader, was a scoun- drel; and unlike' the leaders at Spit - head, who obtained the King's pardon, be and his confederates were hanged. Others were flogged round the fleet. The most, famous mutiny in history is that of the Bounty, Her captain. Lieutenant Bligh, had undoubtedly harsh, and the men turned him adrift in a cutter, together with 18 others. Most of these eventually reached Timor after terrible hardships, hav- ing covered 3,600 miles ;in 42 days. The leader of the mutineers was the officer of the watch, Fletcher Chris- tian, who collected his party from men • who had tasted the "cat" from. Bligh and were greedy for revenge. This party founded the colony on Pitcairn Island, and escaped retribu- tion, desbI to the voyage of H.M.S. Pandora to bring them to justice. Instead, the Pandora was wrecked. More years later H.M Briton and than again20 H.M.S. Blossom r.S,e- ported these islanders most ardent and pious Christians. -4-- Cathedral Presented to the Nation The Duke of Atholl has presented. Dunkeld Cathedral to the .nation. The cathedral is one of the most hie - torte buildings in Scotland. It stands a few hundred yards away from East wood, the picturesque old house where the Duke and Duchess spend much of their time viten iu Scotland. The office of works have been busy preserving portions of the fabric that were in imminent dangerof falling. Much of the masonry had been dis- lodged by trees, the roots of which ,in some eases had penetrated to 6 depth of four to five fest. Tee work of preservation has now' been completed. A fracture in the west tower has been treated by grouting and pointing and the founda- tions oundstions made secure. It is hoped is the course of the next few months to renew the leadwork on the roof of the tower and place gunmetal frames on the windows of the north side CRAFT FROM STEAMSHIP RESCUES COURTNEY IN MID -ATLANTIC ' A boat from the S.S. Minnewaska taking off Capt. Courtney and his three companions who were forced down while flying from the Azores to Newfoundland in the Whale the impossibility of desert campaign- ing in the present intense heat, the future of the British protected Arab kingdoms, especially Irak, even,if hos- tilities are avoided, is bound to be seriously affected by, the failure to iron out their relations with Ibn Saud., Jeddah Parley Collapses The conference held at Jeddah. port of the Moslem holy city of Mecca, appears to have broken down by rea- son of a disagreement over the thorny question of frontier fortifications. The dispute dates back to last year when the Irak Government constructed a fort at Busayah, which was some seventy miles inside the frontier. Thal Wahabi tribesmen, however, were ac -i customed to use the Busayah wells and it was claimed that the building of the fort was contrary to the agree -I rent between the British Government and Ibn Saud, under which no forts were to be constructed in the vicin- ity of the frontier." A raiding force of Wahabls sudden- ly descended on Busayah and wiped out the Irak levies posted there. Counter raids on a large scale, pane - second is the treaty recently negoti- ated between Great Britain and Trans- jordania, which it is claimed Amir Abdullah—who is the brother of King Felsal of Irak—signed against the wishes of his people. The third is the trouble between the Syrian Na- tionalists and France, which has a mandatory power over the Syrians' legislative rights, Ibn Saud Waxes Strong ° For all these discontents a powerful rallying point is provided by Ibn Saud, who, emerging from the obscurity of central Arabia, has carved himself an independent kingdom covering most of the peninsula, while at the same time he has added to his duties the guardianship of the- Moslem holy cities. It is in the magnetic way 'executed by the existence of this independent tArab power, rather than in its purely military menace, that the most serious danger for the future of Irak as the British -mandated territory probably exists. The Wahabis profess a fana- tically pure form of the Islamic relig- ion, and they accordingly are hostile Road and' Rail Truth (London): What•seems to be required in the collective interests of the public is unified control over both. methods of transport. There is al- ready an adequate amount of direct public control over the roads, and a certain amount of public, but indirect,, control over the railways; but the authority is in different hands, and, there is no means of co-ordinating their -functions properly. If both methods of transport were made sub- ject to a single State authority, there would be no question of rivalry or con - filet of interests between them. Progress . No man who feels the worth and solemnity of what is at stake will be careless as to his progress. To be- come like Christ is the only thing in the world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of pian is folly, and all "lower achieyement vain. Those who only make this quest the lives can ever begin to hope to reach supreme desire and passion• of their it.—Henry Drummond. England's Great Actress Buried is FINAL HONORS ARE PAID DAME ELLEN -ERRY, W0riLD-FAMOUS ACTIihSS to The funeral of the late British stage sl:ar took place in the little Kentish village of Small Hytlte. us casket was draped with cloth of gold. The Most Dreaded Sign of Old Age A person may lose his eyesight suf- ficiently to make spectacle crutches a necessity; or have the softness and .elasticity of skin give way to lea- thery, wrinkled hide; or replace his own teeth with manufactured ones; or develop a gouty foot, a sciatic leg; a rheumatic back, or a .bilious or splenic .disposition, and still consider old age somewhere oft in, the future around several 'corners, But when grey hairs begin to appear people feel that the whole world knows that youth no longer abides in the body capped by such hairs. Britain and Russia Former Premier Ramsay MacDon- ald, now Canada's guest, says that immediate re-establishment of rela- tions with Russia would be one of the first acts of the Labor party were it returned to power In Britain. The severance of relations, sometime ago, is regarded by Mr. MacDonald as one of the greatest blunders of the Bald- win administration. The loss of trade tens occasioned has. Mr. MacDonald says, caused unemployment and great loss to the country, One -can appreciate both points of vie win this matter., The conduct of the Russian Government has been so treacherous and so exasperating that Mr. Baldwin and his colleagues could be quite forgiven for terminating diplomatic .connection with the for- mer land of the: czars. On the other hand, it may be that the action of Great Britain has but served to ex- tend the life of the clique that ars ruling—or mis-ruling Russia to -day. And at the same .time, Mr. MacDon- ald tells us, Britain has lost much trade, trade that, in view: of her un- employment situation, she cannot af- ford to 1080. One thing Se certain` and that is teat Russia cannot be indefinitely ignored, s The country is too barge and the people are to numerous. The Russian nation must eventually re- sume her place in the world's family circle. Perhaps a Labor government in, Britain would hasten the day. Retiring Spy -hunter Had a Colorful Career Inspector Robert. Brown of the Special Branch, Scotland Yard, who has just retired, was .one of -the great spy -hunters of the war,' Mr. Brown was destined for a legal career. ile became a law student, but gave up law tojoin the metropolitan police. During his career he was called up to watch over, the safety of many notable people. Tho suggestion that automobiles be Mrs. Gutteridge, widow of the mule equipped with bells indeed of..horne dosed 'Essex palieeman, is to be has' its ptonte, but we could nam/ ,granted a special official pension of half a dozen fellows who would 'rho ,878 a year and £10 108. for each of .mediately buy a huge breast gong and her two .children. whale the daylights out of it.