Peking, Dec, 7.
The pioneer archwological work /done by Dr. J. G. Anderson, of the [Chinese Geological Survey, on prehistoric sites in Honan and Kansu, has yielded Dr. Anderson an international reputation among scientists and promises to throw light upon an, era in Chinese history which is not even covered by native tradition. The collection of painted pottery, ancient implements and other t phies of prehistoric China which hi been built up here in the Geological Survey's Museum is little known, but the duplicate collection in Stockholm has excited the interest of the savants of all the Occidental nation This Intter collection is largely res ponsible for the Swedish Crown Prince's visit to China and is now responsible again for the arrival in Peking of Dr. Sven Hedin, the well known explorer and geographer, Dr, Hedin displays an enthusiasm about Dr. Andersson's work which is unbounded. He was moved by a study of the Stockholm collection to Jcome to China in the hope of encouraging or helping in the work in any way that he could. At the moment, however, he is like most per: sons bent upon high enterprises in China; he does not know what to ido next. He confesses that he was unable to get reliable guidance upon the possibility of doing archmologi-_ cal work in the interior of China in any country in Europe. On his way to the East he made a last endeavour in Moscow to get accurate formation and, with this idea in view, called on Karakhan, who returned. The former Soviet envoy threw little light on conditions, how. ever, and Dr. Hedin arrived here in a state of perplexity to find out for himself what the situation was really like. Conditions as he finds them forced him to take fan intense interest in politics rather than proto-historic pots and us, and he has joined the very rrge company of those who are trying to find out what is going to happen and when turbulent and. disastrous things are going to cease Gust Comstock, 30, a barber shop porter, recently drank himself into a new world's championship, in Minnesota, U-S.A., consuming 62 table-size cups of coffee, defeating eleven Joompetitors who passed out of the race after the 27th cup, A Cuvese bandit was executed Jon Monday afternoon by order of the Shanghai Military Court, for! having wilfully murdered an 2ccupants of a Chinese house, in the French Concession, during an armed robbery several weeks ago. The criminal, 38 years old, was a native Jof Yunnan; just a few minutes before his death, he repented his sins to a Catholic Father, who was present at the execution, and then "gave himself up to the Lord, tors), and to thorities to be careful their treatment of the workers.—Reater.
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