One of our meribers went to visit] fa rich thouse in the city, and she was told that pictures of all the deities were represented and they had even got one of the Christian God. She told them that was impossible, no one had ever seen God and so no one could take His picture or likeness. But all her arguments. fell on deaf ears. They declared God Himself had' sent the picture down from heaven, A few days Inter the pictures were carried along the freets in a triumphal march, a the people invited to com: and worship at the newly dedicated Then the Tang Pu stepped in and asked the priests to take a photo of the Governor of Kiangsi by the power of spiritualism. When the priests could not produce this, they were forbidden to. deceive the people any longer and the names of the originators were pub lished. The city magistrate has d cided to close the temple and imprison the spirits for the future! So the lenders are bitterly rueing the day of their new inventions 'As the city streets are guarded day and night because of the continued trouble with communist bandits all noisy. demonstrations Jconnected with temple worship have been forbidden.' Many of these demonstrators now use guns in addition to the us 1 fire crackers.
Before an audience including British, American, French and Chinese scientists at the National Geological Survey yesterday, Dr, Davidson Black, Professor of the Pelking Union Medical College, Pere 'Teilhard, M. de Chardin, President of the Geological Society of France, and others described the find made on December 2. at Choukoutien, 40 miles from Peking, as the skull of the "Peking man'
Sinanthropus is, the owner of which is stated to have foamed over the Western Hills about 1,00,000 years ago, at the same time as the sabre-toothed tiger. 6 Dr. Black, in the course of his lecture, said that the find was unique, A good deal of the skull was still imbedded in the rock bub Some of the matrix had been re~ 1g that the brain-case completely preserved, of the facial region ike the Java ape-man, he went ridges fi but it the following important features—has well-localized parietal eminences, well-developed frontal eminences) and greater height of skull, which point to a relatively greater brain capacity. The good State of preservation of the lower jaw sockets will make easier the restoration of the lower jaw frail ments discovered in 1928, Valuable Discovery Dr, Black went on to say that the total finds now consisted of the ower jaw and numerous teeth of the Sinanthropus. He concluded by saying that the perfect preservation fof the skull would enable much to be learned which is now obscure feoncerning the evolution of the head region of early man.
'M. de Chardin expressed the opinion that the Sinanthropus Pekinensia was cartier "than the Meanderthal mi 'The well-known scientist, De. Roy Chapman Andrews, whose expeditions into" Central Asia sob out primarily to search for the remains of early man, declares that ha would have given' ton years of his life to have made this discovery.
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