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China Mail.
NINETIETH YEAR OF PUBLICATION.
HONG KONG, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1934.
TUT—ANKH-AMEN'S U.S. AIR COMPANY| ANOTHER MONSTER
CURSE
Expert Declares It A "Senseless Myth.”
U. 'S. DEATH RAISES OLD STORY
New York.
New
TO REORGANIZE United Aircraft To Bid For Mail Contracts.
tracts
по
DIAMOND 2122 Carat Stone Sells For £140.
FIND AT ELANDSFONTEIN
New York United Aircraft has announ- ced its decision to reorganize.
Pretoria (Transvaal). The move would enable them to
The Elandsfontein diamond' dig- The much-discussed "curse" of Tut-Ankh-Amen is just a senseless submit a bid for temporary can-
airmail gings, already renowned through twenty-one myth, in the opinion of Mr. Herbert,
¡routes, called for by Postmaster the discovery of the Jonker dia. E. Winlock, director of the Metro-General James Farley last March mond, have still further consolidated politan Muscum of Art in
30, after the Army had resumed their claim to be the richest alluvial Another York.
operation of the mail lines under diggings in the world.
diamond-this one weighing 2121⁄2 a curtailed schedule.
Mr. Farley specified, in his re-carats--has now been found. `-
Thus three enormous stones have cent call for bids, that companies holding cancelled contracts were been picked up in a comparatively barred from submitting bide un-,small area in the short space of less their officials swore that they three weeks-the first being the weighing 266% at no time had sought to prevent Pohl diamond,
carats, the second, the famous Jon- From intimate knowledge of the any smaller firm from bidding.
The specifications stated, however, ker diamond, of 726 carats, and excavations leading to the discovery
The death in Boston, of the well- known Egyptologist, Mr. Albert M. Lythgoe, who was present at the opening of the inner chamber of the Lomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen, has raised the old story of the supposed "curae."
of the 3,000 year-old Egyptian King, that any company holding a cancell now a stone of 2121⁄2 carata.
The new diamond is pear-shaped Mr. Winlock recalled that he knowsjed contract might submit a bid pro-
It! 40 odd men and women who were vided officers of the company who in size, and is 11⁄21⁄2 inches long, 1 connected with the work and who were instrumental in securing pre-inches wide, and I inch thick.
Ivious contracts wherein collusion was put up for sale at Bynespoort, might have come under the curse.
from and, although bidding was keen, iti Only six of them are dead, he was charged, were removed
wys knocked down for only 138. a office. suid, and all from causes which ap-
The Army air corps, under the carat, or about £140 for the stone, pear natural.
irection of Major General Benja-but this was due to the fact that In some Egyptian tombs writinga were found which could have been in D. Foulois, chief of the air the stone was of poor quality. termed curses on those who disturb-corps, took over flying the mails af-Reuter.
ter the administration had charged that there was collusion in obtaining! "no sirmali contracts during former
ed the dead, he added. but most of: them amounted in severity to Arespassing" signs-Reuter.
NEW TEETH AT 75
Dubbo, N.S.W.
President Herbert Hoover's ad- ministration.
21,000 NEW GIRL SCOUTS
New York.
Nearly 21,000 new girl scouts were enrolled in America in 1933.
The P. and O. liner as. Corfu left sccording to a statement given out Girl Singapore for Hong Kong on Sun-by the Headquarters of the An Englishman, Mr. J. E. day at noon with outward Home Scout Federation in New York. Sanson, of Dubbo, has cut nine mails, and is due here on Wednes- The figure represents a gain of
Iseven per cent.--Reuter. teeth at the age of 75. — Reuter. day at about 11 ami.
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