BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

rAustralian & N.Z. Cable Association.] CONSTANTINOPLE, .June 8. Tlui Antoni Assembly ratified the Anglo-Turkish .Mosul agreement (cabled on Gtli). TIN*: AFRICAN FLAG. CAPETOWN, June fi. In a letter to tlic Labour Party, .Mr Creswell, leader of the party, defends his attitude on the Hag question, lie declared it was untrue that the Union Jack would be hauled down. As a symbol of South African nationality, South Africa should have flags for both sections of the people or neither. Tho Union Jack would recall painful memories to the Dutch section, therefore both sections could not stand before it on an equal footing. Tho Flag Hill maintains the Union Jack as the* symbol of relations with the Umpire, but establishes another Hag as the symbol °f .South African nationality, without any reminder of past differences. He admits at first he thought a combination of British.and Republican flags the hest, hut he was now convinced he had to recognise the feelings of the other side. He concluded by denouncing the agitation as engineered by the South African prsss and politicians.

THE COHANA SKULL. NEW YORK, Juno 8. Doctor Franz Boas. Professor on Thropology at Columbia University, commenting on the Column skull, said: “MacTvenzie’s claims are not impossible, shut it is unlikely the type of mammal fauna found in Australia is exceedingly ancient, yet none of the. forms to which man is more closely related seems to he there. We should therefore hardly anticipate the finding of the earliest forms of man in Australia. Asia still seems the more likely field,” Doctor William Gregory, Curator of comparative and human anatomy, in the American museum of natural history, who is particularly familiar with Australian conditions, us a result of study there said the primitive characteristics of the skull are not necessary to include givent nge, and dcptli and the fact that the skull was found in close proximity to two modern aboriginal skulls has no great hearing on tho matter.” I note although it is impassible to accept the claim of logical antiquity that tlw Coll ana skull has a strong resemblance to Talai. Australian scientists, including Mackenzie are mere than competent, however, to settle the question of antiquity. There are few countries able to present so brilliant a group of .scientific' men as Australia. The evidence is there and they will most certainly find it.”