Jade axes and adyes, skilfully fashioned, "with good cutting edges still without the sughest nick, have been dredged from a depth of about 20 feet below the Pasig River in the vicinity of the town of Pasig. Two such axes are now in the possession of Dr. H. Otley Bayer, of the University of the Philippines, who believes them to belong to the Chou dynasty, thus turning back pages of Chinese, relations (as
at least the 4th century B.C. traders) with the " nilippines to Dr. Guthe's discovery of the Tang dynasty pottery bridges a part of the gap between this ancient time, contemporary with Athens ju its flower, and the later Sung and Ming periods, of which something had been known prior to his work here. In fact important specimens of Sung and Ming pottery exist in the Philippine Museum, as the work of previous explorers, The specimens which now engage Dr. Guthe's abilities are of course chiefly valuable from the archaeological standpoint: they are types Of ordinary Chinese pottery of their respective periods, and not such precious and costly things as would be placed in the tomb of an Egyptian Pharaoh.
Results of his efforts in the two years more that he is to be here are awaited with keen interest by Philippine anthropologists and ethnologists in-the hope that further discoveries will more closely unite the broken chain of epoch periods in the Islands' past,—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.