| Show INFLUENZA FATAL to 10 POLYNESIANS Half of Race Wiped Out by Disease HONOLULU T. T H. H Sept 6 6 Influenza Influenza enza wiped out half hilI the members of at the tho Polynesian race according ln to tho the statement of OC Dr Herbert E. E Gregory director of at the tho Bishop museum hero nn and l chairman of or the the- pan scientific scientific congress In session in In Hono Hono- lull lulu I The Tho big bh vanishing problem of or the I Pacific Is the tho Polynesian race raco race de I de-I de- de claret Dr Dr Gregory The t j epidemic removed halt half of of t the tho O Poly Poly- I inhabitants That ns means thai wo we must 50 go 0 to lo work If It wo we ever er ar arc c l to soi solve the tho 10 mystery of or the origin o ol 01 f the race e. e I Z have hn been told of or four Islands Island s In th the the i t where the last words word s of or the n native tl e dialect have 0 b been n ken IHm That part of or the race raco Is 18 gone Dr Gregory Gregor then told of or the ar arrangement arrangement ar- ar under J which Yale er university sity Is turning over to tho the Bishop Bisho n no a n fund of or yearly t to o aid alit In the search for tho the Polynesians Polynesians' orl origin in Many pages p of oC the story of or the Pacific Pa Pi I Wc are arc lost or obliterated declared declare A A. G G. Mayor director of ot marine blot oS ogy Carnegie Institute but he added adds enough remained to solve tho the mystery I of the whence what and when of or the e Polynesians In ever every fundamental thing on lit ute life the tho Japanese and the Polynesians aT ar arthe arc e I the tho same asserted Dr Mayor Maor The Tit e relationship to Is so close dose that it must mug t I be bo due to blood tics ties When an English prince of at Wit Wil liam lam m the Conquerors Conqueror's line lino was WiS drowned l in attempting to cross croos the English Ush h channel these people dominated a avast avast vast empire 1000 miles from north t to o south and more moro than miles fro from Cram m cast cUU to west That geology cology holds the ke key to th the th e locked door of ot Pacific information was the declaration of Dr Frederick k Wood Jones professor or of anatomy a at t tho the University o ol of Adelaide Aus Aus- I I believe wo we shall end this conference con con- i ference with the feeling that we really real- real i I ly Jy know very cry little about man In the th y Pacific said Dr Wood Jon s. s Our Ou r knowledge la is so scarce scares It If anything g is dono done as an outcome of this conference con con- I ference terence the first thing thing- should J bo be 1 in n regard to tho the races of Polynesia I |
