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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-09-06, Page 3„.,"•-•.T -.. Andrews Recounts leave annIthitl!b” , o much in all my life, a�r�But, of come, we marked the spot on 1 His Trip hrough . ouir Wraps, and we are planning to inall of the eiteletele, tMongolian uesert aeluebing the •taitl,rn crud !fit 1, if the beast had "I can best give you •a•n idea of the. Fossil Remains of Enormous size of the beast by telling you that Beast Prize of Expedition 6AND ENEMY the pehiie ins 'as big ,as a bass drum. Mm.. .Andrews eaiid the beast was abouttwice the size of "Jumbo," the f ainotes cbreee elephant of the old P. T, Barnum shows in America, and Explorer Says Weather. Worst circus men claimed that Jumbo weigh - He Has Ever Encaunt- ered Pelei7ng, China.—Tales of en0ount- ers with brigan'de, of terrific sand storms, of a thickly populated fertile land of 20;000 years ago that is now a desert and of fossil remains of tin' enormous 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 erten-age culture. But they did not discover what was most sought, a trace of the ape -like stem of mankind, popplarly known as the "Dawn Man." Mr, Andrews and Walter Granger, chief palaeontologist of the party, ex- hibited the fossils with a pride which they made no -attempt to conceal. The specimens were wrapped in spIinrbs and gauze and bound with strips of tape. Each booked as if it head just come from the operating room of a modern hospital. They were shown to the newspaper reporters of Peking, but only the explorers were ,allowed to handle them. Sand was the great enemy of the expedition and came more nearly to halting it than did the brigands.' Mr. ed 10 tents. He calculated that be could have worn a top hat and stood' under the great beast without touch- ing its belly. Mr. Granger declared the diseove'ry was the greatest in his 32 years of scientific experience. He said the beast was a vegetarian, eating chiefly the smaller branches of trees. It was of distinctly Asiatic origin and was too heavy and awkward to travel far. "The boast lived on the fat of the land of its birth," he explained. "It grew larger with each succeeding .gen- eration, until after a million years It becar e roly-poly that it could no longer navigate. It finally gave up the ghost, having eaten itself out of existence, because it was too enormous 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 scien- tists will study them this "autumn and winter. Mr. Andrews Wray later go to New York, leaving Mr. Granger here to measure and classfy the foe- sils. 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 su_ici ds. The discomfort of the leader was in- creased when he accidentally shot him- self in the leg. The sand got into the surgical and neducal .supplies, making it difficult fox Dr. J. M. Perez to treat and dress the wound. Brigands beset the explorers early in their drive westward from Kalgan in the northwest section of this prov- ince. rowince. The marauders appeared in the cruise of friendly soldiers and invited the expedition to a tea party. But the rue did not work fort- when the motorized caravan rolled up to the spot selected by the brigands, the chauffeurs were stepping en the gas and every man who had -his hands fres grasped a loaded- rifle. The bri ran• to mounted horses and gave cam ae. but were quickly out -distanced. The expedition drove westward. fro.. [Calgan into the heart of the do and then worked north east- ward to the region of Erhlien where the nee e interesting discoveries were mace. There they found a new fossil area in anrdient lake beds and east of 'Erhlien they came upon the traces of the oldest inhabitants. Thc.3 people are known to the sciertists as 'Dune dwellers." Thou san•es of relies of them were found, showing numerous phases of -a stone age culture of 20;000 years age. The country wars more thickly populated then than now and the climate was differ; err.'5 too. There were trees and laleas and .plentiful annual rainfall. The crude implements showed that van was then beginning to accom- pl5.rh with stone results which former- ly were done solely with hands and in the. same locality where traces of hu- mane dating back 150,000 years had been found previously. The stone age area extended from Siberia to China. It was a rough tribe but evidiently post-dated the "dawn men. Bones showed that the race sub- eted cl:r:efly on birds and frogs and traces of a breed of horses or donkeys. indkated that they used beasts of burden. Women adorned themselves with necklaa'st of fox teeth and wore bane rings on their fingers or in their earn. For weapons the men had bone knives and arrow and spear heads of flint and agate. They pierced these with stone drills. CLEVER PEOPLE "These people were wonderfully clever," said Mn. Anclaews. "They lived apparently in a transition per- iod• between the old and new stone ares. The eountryside was sratueated with people and they hunted in the woods, fished in the lakes and streams and built shelters in the dunes of steins, bark .and timbers. There are great.areas of traces of these people, who lived thereabouts for theu:sande of years." But the big thrill oaf the trip was the finding of the prebistor•ic animal eeeeeeereeeere Proves That Women Have Place in Air - WOMAN PILOTS GIANT FOKKER PASSENGER AIR LINER ON JOURNEY FROM AMSTERPAM TO r o Lady Heath, ramous English flier, flew this machine from Amsterdam to London. British Patrol Irak :Gr©h'dr as Rumania Investigates Canadian Methods Winnipeg, Man.—An official delega- • tion representing the Rumanian Gov- ernment is now touring Western Can- ada, making a special study of Can- ada's system of handling her grain crop of 250,000,000 bushel's 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 docks and harbors and secretary to the Ministry of Communications for the Rumanian Government, is heading the party. 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 Ibn Saud, King of Hed jaz and Nejd, Great Britain's middle eastern mandate territories, Irak and Transjordania, 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 he will keep peace with his neighbors, but as re precautionary measure British airplanes and armor- ed cars are patrolling the desert fron- tier between Irak and Nejd. Though no serious danger is likely before October at the earliest, due to tracing deep into the Wahabi territory, and 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 Saud as- serted he was not responsible, were called oft 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, neces- sarily, 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- alto 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- ment, to which, regardless of all de- nials, it is believed Britain, as the occupying power, is implicated. The to all westernizing influences to which the neighboring Arab states under British and French mandate necessar- ily are exposed., With the reports from Irak that they are making a number of converts to that country, the process of a more or less peaceful penetration seems to threaten the integrity of Irak even more gravely than Ibn Saud's raiding tribesmen LONPON The Outlawry of War Stephen Gwynn in the Fortnightly Review ,(London): Even if we 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 would still remain the question wheth- er 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,withmotor cars will enable a handful of bandits to hold up society. Already no civilized country suffers from the consequences of this fact as acutely as do the United States of America. • Absorption of Immigrants Edinburgh Scotsman: Canada and Australia are no more able than oldet countries to absorb at any given time'' an 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 eide was left a ftabmentary 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. Colossus. "1 .never saw Walter Granger see excited," ‘calel Mr. Andrews. "He hardly elept for a week." Several of the bones brought bask are as large as the body of a modlern man. The humerus is four feet long and the collar bone a full load for a strong coolie, The relies include sey- eral splendidly preriefved ribs . and sections of the spine. "We loft tine pelvis bathe and sev- ei al ethee parts in a clay hatlsride,", escape the intrig said' Mr. 'Granger. "I never hated to wives. The Wider World Vernon Bartlett in the Nineteenth Century and After (London): There is only one country in the world which might be able to stand alone, to keep clear of future conflicts, and that couu- 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 lustrument 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. -- FLEES FROM 300 WIVES Si Hamada, Sultan of Morocco, is only 16, and ho is visiting Trance to sue of his jealous- A Lucky Ending to a Disasterous Flight iteeneee • England Still Queen `1;f Seas World Tonnage Rctporta Shows Old Brittainia Still Well Ahead At the end of June world tonnage in existence totalled 68,954,659 gross tons, as compared with 65,192,910 gross tons on June 30, 1927,.accord- ing to advices just received by Bank ers' Trust Company of New York, from its British Information Service. Steamers and motor -ships account for 65,159,413 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 1,892,111 tons, the largest yearly increase since June, 1922. Correspondingly, sailing tonnage de- creased by. 130,362 tons. 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 id Italy there was a decrease of 54,506 tons. Of the 1928 total of 66,954,659 gross tons, Great Britain and Ireland owned 19,875,350 tons -19,754,001 tons in steamers and motorships and the bal- ance of 121,394 tons in sailing ves- sels. Taking the world total of 65,- 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 13,702,825 tons, owns 21.3 per cont. of the total; Ja- pan, with 3,348,732 tons, 5.14 per cent, and France, with 3,255,832 tons, 5 per cent of the total. NorwaY, Holland and other countries own the balance of 26.42 per cent Great Britain's por- tion 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. 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 second• is the treaty recently negoti- ing in the present intense heat; the ated between Great Britain and Trans - Road and Rail Truth (London) : What seems to be future of the British protected Arab jordanrap which it is claimed Amir required in the collective interests of kingdoms, especially Irak, even if hos Abdullah—who is the brother of King the public is unified control over both tilities are avoided, is bound to be , Felsal of Irak—signed against the methods of transport. There is al - seriously affected by the failure to wishes of his people. The third is ready an adequate amount of directbn iron out their relations with ISaud.' the trouble between the Syrian Na- public control over the roads, and a Jeddah Parley Collapses I tionalists and France, which has a certain amount of public, but indirect, The conference held at Jeddah, port' mandatory power over the Syrians' control over the railways; but the legislative rights. 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- flict on flict of interests between them. 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 Ibn Saud Waxes Strong For all these discontents a powerful rallying point is provided by Ibn Saud, dispute dates back to last year when who, emerging from the obscurity of the Irak Government constructed a- central Arabia, has carved himself an fort at Busayah, which was some independent kingdom covering most seventy miles inside the frontier. The of the peninsula, while at the same Wahabi tribesmen, however, were ac- time he has added to his duties the customed to use the Busayah wells guardianship of the Moslem holy and it was claimed that the building :cities. of the fort was contrary to the agree- It is in the magnetic way executed ment between the British Government by the existence of this independent and Ibn Saud, under which no - forts Arab power, rather than in its purely were to be constructed "in the vicin- ity of the frontier." A raiding force of Wahabis sudden- ly descended on Busayah and wiped out the Irak levies posted there. Counter raids, on a large scale, pence military meuace,-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 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 weich every ambition of man is folly, and all lower achievement Vain. Those who only make this quest the lives can ever begin to hope to reach supreme desire and passion of their it.—Henry Drummoud.. England's GreatActress Buried The Gasket was draped with eloth of gold, !C? t u•. w� a. 'v�+•a7tAu ..-' ;,. '{�hv�fl,. 3,.�.1:41•%4y YeoF'iA�l�±�. �'' .gtht,.Jtr.�S.. o M ...n,i0kr �. �IffC •ssc:tv7,e:.... s+ rr 'eee( FINAL, HoN • "ORS ARE :teA(D 'DAME ELLEN TERRY, WORLD-FAMOUe AC'i Rlta3a funeral of the late British stage star took place hi the little Kentish village of. Small Hy Lin. The Most Dreaded Sign of Old Age A person nifty lose his eyesight suf- ficiently to make spectacle =aches a necessity; or have the sottness 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 off 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. 'rhe Britain and Russia Former Premier Ramsay MacDon• old, 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, some time ago, is regarded by Mr. MacDonald as one of the greatest blunders of the Bald- • win administration. The loss of trade thus occasioned has. Mr. MacDonald sacs, 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 «Quid be quite forgiven for terminating. diplomatic connection eToth- the Ion mer laud of the czars. 0n the other hand, it may be that tie action of Great Britain has but served to ex- tend the life of the clique that are ruling --of mis-ruling Russia to-daY, .e.nct in the same time, Mr. MacDon-. all tells us, Britain has lost mucic .trade, trade that, in view of her un- enrpioyurent situation, she cannot al- ford Yford MIA, One thing is certain and that is Uiat Russia callu�io� be indefinitely ..lgaeeeg pri eunir y is too large and the i 7pie 'ria to numerous The Russian nation must ' e' iii`u"ally le sumo her place in the world's family circle, "'Perhaps• a Labor government in Britain 'would hasten the day. Mrs. Gutteridge, widow of the mur- dered Essex policeman, is to be granted a special official pension of g78 a year and 415 10s. for each o0 her two children