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The Britain Air Ministry is un- Kortunate in its choice of some of the sites for bombing practice at
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Popular resorta seem to have Jan unhappy lure for those opera- tions, which hardly lend them- selves to happy holidays.
Bridlington is the latest victim.
HIDDEN TREASURE IN BRITAIN
ROMANCE OF FORTUNES
LOST AND BURIED
OPPORTUNITIES OF SALVAGÉ
(By Douglas West.)
London. treasure-seakers. Those who un-
Two smoke bombs were dropped oled, which stolte Justo che will do well to control their hopes. THE piquant lawsuit, con-dertake these fascinating quests recently a mile from the shore latest scheme for recovering King If they do not find El Dorado, they The explosions caused much alarm John's crown and jewels from the may with luck come upon treasure jamong bathers and fishermen.
Wash is unlikely to disabuse trove such as from time to time Last year a girl was killed on romantic minds of the belief--for forms the object of coroners' in- the South Coast by machine-gun which, indeed, there is some au-quests. Discoveries of gold and fire from an aeroplane. ·
thority that the royal baggage ailver coine and ornaments which It ought to be possible to find
still lies beneath lund reclaimed enrich the finders by a few pounds more secluded waters for these from the sea. It remains, as does or a few hundreds of pounds are practices, which admittedly are a necessary part of RA.F. training. all buried treasure for which a jot not uncommon.
of plausible evidence extats, a chal- Two years ago a hoard' of pre- lenge to the enthusiast and the historic ornaments of the Middle salvage expert with an-adventurous Bronze Age was found in Cornwall, An American resident is spend-soul.
where many almilar discoveries ing the summer in England, in Britain is richer than perhaps have been made. One of the finest contrast to his usual custom-most people realise in legends of torques, or gold collars, ever made PAIR which is to go to a small New great wealth hidden in the soil, or from Wicklow gold collars, about 700
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The China Mail
Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 3, 1934.
A Declining Population
maintain large numbers
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* PASSING THE TIME
England village. There is only under old buildings, or sunk be. B.C., was discovered in A rabbit one grocery store, and it is cus-neath the sands around the coasts. hole not long ago by a boy in Ire-
owner.
tomary to let the bill run for the The most persistent and provoca-land. The peat hogs of that coun summer, paying on departure, tive is that of the Spanish galleonstry have yielded innumerable exam- He did this, but got it again in laden with gold and plate, worth ples of treasure trove, which the the middle of the winter. Sur several millions of pounds, and law defines as objects of gold and prised, he verified the fact that he sunk, after the rout of the Armada, silver hidden in the soil or in had paid from his counterfoils, in. Tobermory Bay off the Island buildings without clue to the and .did nothing more. The of Mull grocery store did nothing either. Until his death, three months Recent Finds Cited
Next time he got back he call-ago, Col. Kenneth Foss, of Bexhill, Within this definition fall such ed. The owner was out. but his conducted salvage operations year recent finds as the gold brooch young son, pressed hard, explain-after year without losing hope, but picked up at Selsey by a young ed the mistake.
with discouraging results. A fisherman; the gold and silver of "It gets mighty lonesome up piece of plate, a few daggers, some Roman coins found by Lord Wey- craftsmen to put their personal here sometimes in the dead of coins, and some human bones have mouth in Cheddar Gorge; and the touches to the
half-finished winter", he said, "so Pa goes over been recovered; but. the wreck it-fint which was broken by a boy on goods which the machines will the books and sends out bills to self, buried in the silt, has not yet Salisbury Plain and disgorged 65 deliver.
all our summer customers. You'd been located with certainty. A British coins of the second century be surprised how many pay up diver's report in 1683 suggests that B.C. Excavations in the London.
at this date the poop was still in-clay, probably turned over tact, and that gems and silver plate often than any other soil in the were strewn about.
world, still yield surprising relics of the distant past. £30,000 At Loch Lomond Had modern diving gear been concealment of treasure by finders There has certainly been some available in 1588, when the Spanish ignorant of its value or reluctant galleon sank, the treasure, if it
to trust to official "honesty to offer an adequate reward. The great ob
QUOTES BIBLE ON twice."
GIRLS' SHORTS
Indecorous, Ungraceful
And Brazen"
Your Daily Smile!
A bumptious fellow was giving avidence in a Police Court.
"You say you stood up?" asked the
The decline in Britain's population is now becoming "ap- parent. Opinions may differ as to the persistent influence on the birth-rate of the losses of her young manhood in the war and of the depressing presence of sur- plus numbers which emigration no longer carries off. There can, however, be no doubt as to the The Rev. D. E. W. Denham, standing." direct effect on her population vicar of Chorley Wood, Hertstrate.
INCREASED LAXITY
Magistrate.
"I Bald." retorted the conceited one,
more
"that I stood. If one atanda one must existed, would not have stayed stand up. There is no other way of down six months.
stacle to successful salvage opera-| But the law, as recently modified, "Oh, Isn't there?" replied the Magis-tions is the rapid accumulation of ia distinctly generous to those who of the drop in her foreign trade. recently stated that he intended Pay two pounds for contempt of Bilt. Every year the treasure sinks)romptly inform the local coroner [deeper in its bed. The problem If at the subsequent inquest the A country maintains its inhabit-to stick to his guns in regard to Court, and-stand down!"
* ants partly from its intern-his criticism of women's dress
al resources, partly from the re-jat the seaside and in the coun- sult of its export trade, and in try.
the days when England was the In a letter to his parish Mr. workshop of the world and when Denham described modern girls' the world's demand for British fashions as "indecorous, ungrace-a goods appeared to be inexhausti-ful and brazen."
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chance upon treasure“, trove' and
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which confronts Investigators is
find is judged to be treasure trave, Actually there is no distinct class not the raising of a vast fortune trodden under foot except those who but finding it first. There are, for and is worthy of a niche in hold aisle seats.
example, stories of treasure ships museum, the finder receives the full antiquarian value. If the She had parked her car in front of buried in the Goodwin Sande, bur
museum does not require the coins When the prospects of salvage are TA fire hydrant for two hours.
or ornaments the finder may keep the arrived back from her shopping almote.
them as the nucleus of a collection yourig policeman was waiting for her. "I've waited for you for hours
of antiquities, or ask the help of what's your name?" he demanded,
the museum authorities in discover- "It wouldn't do you any good if
ing a purchaser at the market price.
ble, it was impossible for ton To-day he quoted the author
In the early part of this century attempts were made to recover al many children to be born. The ity of a Biblical law in Deuter expanding factories would ac-jonomy XXII., v.:
cargo of Portuguese dollars said to commodate them all. Things are The woman shall not wear told you," she replied. "You look ahave been lost in Gunwalloe Church) very different now, and many
that which pertaineth unto a nice bay, but my husband is about Cove on the west coast of the welcome the present tendency to man, neither shall a man put twice your size and very jealous." reduce population rather than on a woman's garment, for all
that do so are abomination un-when Tom pulled a blank piece
Tom and Jack were talking together, paper from his pocket,
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When, however, we look be- yond the decline in numbers now
to the Lord thy God.
"I object to shorts for wo-
in progress and ask how long men," Mr. Denham said, "and Icew.eating grasa?" he asked. this tendency will continue, afind that I am not alone in doing serious prospect seems to present 80.
itself. The essence of modern "The average woman does not technical progress is that it is like to see young girls going labour-saving. In the Victorian about in shorts.
Jack.
.
of
By very ancient right and cus- tom the City of London is entitled to all treasure trove brought to
Lizard Peninsula, and isolated dol-|
support to the legend of hidden light within ita limita. Otherwise, lars turned up from the sand lent
wealth. The banks of Loch Arkaig "How do you like my drawing of in Scotland still tempt the treasure- "But where is the grass asked seeker, for it is there that Prince Charles is reputed to have buried "The cow has eaten It!" was the louis d'or to the value of £90,000 reply.
which were seat to him from Yes, but where is the cow?" in-France to pay and equip his quired, the puzzled Jack.".
"Why, man, you don't expect a cow ravaged forces after Culloden. to stay where there is no grass?" It is just as likely that the prince spent the money in the man-
lieve that the contents of pay
Facts You Did Not Knowner prescribed. Reluctance to be-
A freight truck for industrial plants chests ever found their way into
which he stands.
on
treasure
trova belongs to the (Continued on Page 3).
SHOT WIFE OVER
TELEPHONE /
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Newest Grounds For Divorce
Springfield (Maca.). Shooting-over the telephone
factory every machine demand-"There is no doubt that there ed human labour to work it, but is an increased laxity in the gen- in the factory of to-morrow or eral behaviour of people at the the day after a few engineers seaside. I have seen it myself will supervise an immense mass in some of the coast towns. I am of automatic machinery. It not going to say that Brighton vented by a German in steered by the pockets for which they were-is the newest grounds for di- would thus seem to follow that or Worthing or Eastbourne or its operator shifting his weight to one intended probably accounts for a vorce in the United States. the numbers which Britain will any town that one might men-end or the other of a platform
good many legonds of burled trea Mrs. Gordon W. Coburn, of be able to support out of her for-tion is worse than the rest,
Springfield, Mass., said that dur- eign tråde, even if that trade "It seems to me that there is
Two way telephone conversation has No one who knows how fast ng a.telephone conversation her were to recover, would shrink a tendency for young girls to
the English rumour travels, in remote country husband threatened to shoot her. to a fraction of the present re-unsex themselves. I do not say been carried on across
channel on 18-centimeter wave duced figure. Compensating in- this is done intentionally or with length, a one inch serial and power of districts even to this day will be He emphasised the threat by surprised to find a secret chamber discharging a revolver close to fluences, however, have a way of the idea to demoralise-it is per-only one half a watt being used.
cache, as likely as not, for an the muothplece. asserting themselves and it is haps done unconsciously. It is
An electrical appliance plug has ancestor's jewels and gold-attri-
The judge decided that this possible that what they lose on not becoming... exports they shall gain in in- "This is not a question of im- been Invented that can be inserted i buted to most old houses of any constituted cruel and abusive creased use of interna resources. morality, at all but a question of a wall socket in only one position, pre-
venting short circuits and relieving past or present importance. A treatment, and granted a decree
There is a change, the combined propriety, dress, deportment and strain on the contacts. result of the diminished birth- general behaviour.
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{aure.
considerable treasure is said to le beneath the paved bottom of a well
rate and the increased expecta- "In this matter of general be A. French inventor has designed an at Tront Park, and to be guarded tion of life, in the distribution haviour. I include conversation. airplane that he expects to climb in by the ghost of a 12th-century Con
40 minutes to height of ten miles stable of the Tower. of population into age groups. There is a thoughtlessness and where the rarefied air will permit Each year gives fewer children laxity revealed in conversation speed of 250 miles an hour. and more adults, and the econo- to be heard on the beach at some mic demands of a grown-up are of our seaside towns, especially LOCAL NEWS not only greater but also much among young people who are more varied than those of a still at school.
BREVITIES
-Isle Of Man's Claim
The Isle of Man has a more convincing claim to be the site of secreted wealth, for gold and silver coins have been dug up from time
child. More varied demands Dressing On The Beach.
The Ladies' Club of the 1st Bn. to time near the ruins of the an- mean more varied machines, to "There must be some by-laws meet them, and each type of ma- which, if looked up, would be the South Wales Borderers will clent Castle of Peel, once the home chine requires its own specialis found to apply to dress deport hold a Whist Drive and Tombola of the Kings of Man, and later of ed superintendence. It is possi- ment and general behaviour on at Murray Barracks on Friday many marauders who may well ble, too, that the demands of the beach. After all, if one per September 7. Commencing at 8.80 have found it expedient to bury longer-lived men and women will son is going to lie about in an Pm become more fastidious, resulting improper manner or is going to
their ill-gotten riches. The trea
sure said to repose beneath the Rotarian LC. F. Bellamy will ruins has been estimated at $250,- in individual requirements use the open beach for dressing which standardised products will and undressing why should not address the Rotary Club on "London 000 fail to satisfy A limit will thus the entire community do it? It Passenger Transport An Expert Prizes of this magnitude have be put to the predominance of the at once gets rid of any need for ment in Socialism at to-morrow's fired the dreams and exhausted the energies and resources of countless Imachine and Britain will again the privacy of the bathing hut,” timp. 1
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nisi..
"Why did you pull out a handful of Four face's half of pages
“I wanted it for a very large locket!",
Holite' Hümör, London.