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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1965.
CHINA Life Becoming Difficult For West Looks
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Clandestine Archaeologists
Rome, July 6.
Life is becoming increasingly difficult for Italy's hundreds of clandestine archaeologists.
Police are now keeping a special watch for the men who pillage the Greek, Etruscan and Roman tombs and temples scattered about Italy.
Answering question in the probably founded by the Chamber
Deputies of
(the Etruscans, near the mauth of Lower House of Parliament)the River Po six centuries recently, Signor Gluseppe before Christ. The city was. Ermini, the Education Minister then either on terra Arma Gr.
that there had been a built on piles. The area now
ENTS2% increase
in illegales under several feet of marsh
months,
in the past few
ow waters. in Central Signs pecially
of the city and the Italy, technically known as necropolis were first discovered Southern Etruria and archaeo-in
1920
and intermittent ex- Jogically rich in Etruscan and cavation followed. But the Roman ruins.
marshes made digging difficult. The
Minister sild that the The clandestine arthseolo-
however, solved police had been ordered to gists, launch
"more vigorDUS A
and problem constant" campaign against One dark, July night in 1953. these "archatological bandius" |they paled out over the marshes and ten arrests
had already in flat-bottomed boats. been made,
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NOTHING NEW
Clandestine diggings in Italy are nothing new.
cal
long.
iron-tipped rods
this
With they
sounded the muddy bed and raised mud dams round the most likely
spots. baled
and vases which
The following nights, they cut most of the water The Penal Code lays dows inside the dams. Men wearing that whoever tampers with the oxygen masks slid over the national archaeological, histor-sides of the boats. They prised Ը artistic patrimony", in open the tombs and handed up liable to a year's preventive, the amphora custody: and/or a fine of up to they found. ́ ́» 8,000 Lire (£5). He can also incur a series of other fines and terms of imprisonment of up to three years en charges of theft and trading 11: objects of archaeological value (which re- LATEST LES Rimsky's Opera Squires a special licence): Souvenirs
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GLIDED AWAY
Later, the loaded boats glided away into the might.
have
an
Archaeological bandits |been responsible for some not- The
penalties did not deterable discoveries. The most im the archaeological bandits. They portant of these was a temple ran little risk of detection and dedicated to Feronia. prod is have always been Etruscan tortility goddess (later laconted by the Romans) who Secret cingers share an un-rule: over стора curative
and Hacks 2,000 erring instinct for buried rulas, and whose shrine had been
waters and
en Some are professionals with a
ANG sound Imowledge of archaeology. sough
sought by archaeologists for Others are farmers with a jover 100, years. shrewd sense of the "value of original
of earlier civilisa
mementoes Lions.
The
years
temple. Was
SENATOR
BETTER
· Washington, July 7, - Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson's doctor said the Texas Democrat is "better today than he has been at any time"
since he suffered a "moderately severe" heart attack late on Saturday..
But the doctor, James Cain of the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota,
emphasised it will
be "five or six months before 'the extent of permanent
damage can be determined. Hannibal's clephar.t by
Dr Cain added that as of now in 211 B.C. (Beldre. "I see no reason why the Senate Christ) but it was rebuilt scire. Democratic leader should not years later and regained its old, be back at his desk in the 1966 popularity. China Mall Special session-United Press.
Methods of locating the exact Ros during the advance on
of the
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES sound a promising arca,
*Consignees per CEF DES MESSAGERIES MARITINĖS
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thiệu PET NAM, "are hereby notified that their cargo will be discharged into the Horg Kong & Kowloon Whart & Godewa Co, Ltd.'s godown where. It will be al, consignees risk and subject: in. 184 wharf, terms and conditions of
storage, and where delivery may be quired.
whereabouts of a ruin vary
Dr Giuseppe Luglia former Government inspector office controlling the export of artistic works, described two of these methods recently. some places, he said, a long, iren-lipped stake is. used to Ex- perienced cars catch the clink of iron against a tombstone, the dome of a temple or the broken wall of a building. In other places, pickaxe and shovel de- licately clear away the earth in an arca showing signs of buried treasures. "
BANDITS
Archaeological bandits, like genuine archaeologists, can also tell the probable location of a ruby the thickness of Damaged packages, dre to be left In the fucows or omination vegetation on the surface
But
coraignees and the comparty's arri veyors, Menary Goddard & Douglas at 10 am on Monday, 11th July, 15 No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the godown and all good, remaining undelivered after the 12th July, 1959, will be subject to rent.
All claims against the vessel munt be presented to the undersigned on or before the 5th August, 1955, or they may not be recognised.
Yo Fire Insurance will be effected
ÇIR DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
Hong Kong, 0th July, 1955.
in a county
like. Italy, where' one can hardly dig a hole.with- out revealing some remnant of history, searching for ruins' is rarely required.
Tombs, temples.
ages
whole vill- appear under ä farmer's plough, a builder's pick or an child's playful digging. When a vase or some other object is turned up, the finder con either report
the discovĚTY to the neares Superintendent of Antiquities or to one of the
મ roving gangs of archaeological bandits
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES existing
"EUMALUS"
Damazed cargo it this vessel will be surveyed by Mesara. Paulsen & Hayes-Davy at Holt's Wharf, from
The former alternative, under brings him nothing but bother. The area frozen until organised excavations can" take
place. The owner is paid for every- thing of value found, even for the parcel of land if the find fr irremovable, but
only
aber
20 am on July 8 and 9, 1959, tedious buzeaucratic procedure,
consignees RTW requested to have their representatives present during the survey.
..BUTTERFIELD & WIRE.
Agents.
·Hongkong, July 6, 1935.
To ADVERTISERS
Space for commercial
advertising should
The clandestine archaeologists dig quickly and pay on the spot.
They bring in a party of who work by expert diggera lamplight or in the first light- of dawn. Objects of value pilfered from the ruin are carried away in cartioads "of hay.
tite
SUNDAY POST-HERALD Eust in their haste,
legal diggers cause inestimable damage. Their sole conceni is to steal the most valuable 02- jects-brodze vases, amphora. statues, statuettes and jewel-
booked not Inter
roon.on Wednesdays.
to than
For the 80UTH CHINA lery Objects of less material
worth, like terracotta vasc Agures and inscribed.
tablels,
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aged. Priceless archaeological information
thus hopelessly
MANY HANDS The bandit's loot passes through many hands and finally reaches the chops of unscrupu Tous Italian antiquarians, cris smuggled out of
'THE-BOYS' & GIRLS' 'CLUBS ASSOCIATION
A gang tical one of expect archaeolo gical robbers carried out the. most sensational coup of recent times two years ago when they sacked 100 tombs in a necro- polis (burial
and in the Po Valley, In worth-central Italy.
Beautifully decorated fan- invites your support in helping to phora and vases
vahied thin the Bongiding eliza
stalen Many have since been recovered, but the experts ter that some of the lovellest pleces are beyond recovery, pa
The necropolia is believed to hava belonged to Spinn, a city
Bryg, and Girl?
Memecial Welfare Bouthorn. PiYEKVODI,
Tancher
10100,000,000 Lire (£37,000) were
MÄNDRAKE THE
AH, HERE'S THE BUTTON | AMAZING, FOR THE ELEVATOR,
NARCA.
GURN. AN ELEVATOR INSIDE THAT CLIFF
FERDINAND
NANCY
I S'POSE YOU'LL
BE GONE ALL
DAY AS USUAL
JOHNNY HAZARD
MAGICIAN
MANDRAKE,
I MUST SEE NARDA PLEASE DON'Tİ'AGAIN. ALEENA,WHY GO YET. DON'T YOU SEE GUAN,
WHOM YOU TOLD ME
ABOUT?
YOU MUST „EŃ JOY. THOSE LONG HIKES IN THE WOODS,.
»EH ?
WITH THE FLAMES LJCKÍNS AT HIS VEELS, JOHANY SUCCEEDS IN DRAGGING SNAP. UP FROM THE BOMB BAY?”.
Western eyes (of Bri- Lish and American air
To The East
PARIS-FRANCE'S ENEMY NO.1
Paris, July 6. Town planners, economists, policemen, motorists and pedestrians alike are agreed that something will have to be done about Paris.
M. Georges Maurice, director of the municipal police, recently published a book entitled "Circulez! Le pourrez-vous demain" ("Move on! Will you be able to tomorrow?”).
at least Paris
Economists and Sociologists, preserving. But pointing to the concentration of was easy to get about in when France's industry, administra- he had finished.
tion and intellectual life in and around the capital, have called Paris France's enemy number one" and the rest of the country "the French desert,”
OUTDATED
As the present Prefect of Police. M. Andre Dubois, sald recently: "Paris lives on a town Two hundred architects, town plan, but that plan dates back to plazaers and other greialists 18527
Gternational recently told an
Lovers of Paris who fear that congress of students of archi-any new major surgical opera- tecture here what they thought tions. would "Haussmannise" was wrong with the capital of their favourite haunts, need have France. Here are some of the no such fears, according to the discoses they diagnosed:
conges
● 1. CEREBRAL tion. Nearly half the students in France are matriculated at Paris university" and
other centres of higher stady in the capital to the detriment of 13 Provincial Universities,
experts.
Historic Paris, artistic Faris, the Paris which attracts visitors, covers, they say, from 15 000 to 17,000 acres. It is bounded roughly by the Champs Elysees an the west, the Bastille on the east, Montmartre on the north and Montparnasse on the south. 2. CIRCULATION trou- The rest of the 3,200,000 acres bles. It takes up to two hoca built-up area, say the plan to cross the city and nearly is | ners, consists largely of slums, long to park. Suburban workers muddled suburbs with factories spend two to three hours a day and cheap, nasty housing mixed In crowded trains and buses.
Ra/roredad much solid, but
post - Hauzamann
You can chop and carve as you civil servants and public alike is like in all that, they say,
• 3. THE Wrong Use of buildings. hand and buildings. The time of
girls) turn towards the Aids The Blind many as Adresaving as harm nothing that matters.
-
Melbourne, July 7.
A blind Samese girl arrived here to study Australian methods of teaching the blind.
She is Miss
many
of
and
40 different addresses, Part of the trouble, the ex
them in buildings perts argue, arises from the fact which would be better employ that historic, inner Pa
Paris is used ed helping to solve the city's for the
wrong things. Their classic examples is the Halles. housing problem,
the central market which not
gal centre to another;
• 4. TOO little shum only feeds Paris but also handles clearnce, and rebuilding Ex- much produce in transit from perts told the congress that hal one the flats in Paris lack either
out of date, served Sahataya Cho-electricity, gas or running water, by no railway and by narrow, who is attending a 83 per cent have neither bath busy streets, the Halles create a COLLTEC of instruction at the nor shower, and 31 per cent traffic jam which is the despair Royal Victorian Institute of have not even their own toilet. of the market lorry drivers and the Blind before returning
everyone else. Siam to do social service work
Misy Cholikastien said: "The blind need help not pity"
East-the colourfully clad figure of Flying Officer Yin Yin, woman officer of the Burmese Air Force, at the Officer Cadet Training School of the Women's Royal Air
· Force at Hawkinge, Kent. Left to right Officertikastien, Cadet Elsie Fistean, of Tonby, South Wales; Flying Officer Hla Than; Flying Officer Khin Hla Win; Capt. Mary Ellen' Bates, Washington; Fly- "ing Officers Nyo Nyo and Yin Yin The Burmese girls are attending 4 course at the Hawkinge school-Reuterphoto.
that the blind can China Mall Special.
to
The last man to take Paris in
destroyed
10
hand was Baron Hausman,
REMEDIES Napoleon III's Prefect of the Here are some of the reme- Seine Department. Filled with dies suggested by the planners. rotiens about quelling insurre- 1. Develop the Provincial tions with a whiff of grape Universities to give the "French She added that her ambition shot the Baron drove wide, desert" more intellectual life. was to make her people realise most congested parts of the economic life, too, by encourag- straight avenues through the 2. Give the "desert" more work-city. According to his critics, he
to move ing industry
pro- many things worth vincial cities.
3. Develop suwounding towns,
life Creil, Compiegne, Meaux and Melun, not as dormitory suburbs but as satellite towns with their own industries, on the British model. 4. Make more easy ways out of Paris like the Autoroute de
Quest, which ena
enables motor- ists bound for, the west and northwest to bypass ali the suburbs which extend to Ver- sailles and Saint Germain-en- Laye A southern motor high- way 12 Link P
up with the main
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
COME ON, THE ELEVATOR DOOA LOTHAR --Hey--
SHUT-!
[ I DON'T INTEND TO SEE HIM AGAIN. | NOR WILL YOU SEE
NARDA AGAINZ
NEVER, NEVER-/
WELL ---AS LONG AS YOU'LL - BE: "AWAY ALL
DAY---
HHOCTANE ALL OVER THE PLACE SURE: HOPE WIRE FAR, FAR AWAY,
| WHEN: THIS TRING BLOWS UP! ANYTHING
WITHIN A HUNDZER, FESTILL BE CHARRED
TO A CRISPEL
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
YOU'D BETTER TAKE SOME LUNCH
ALONG
·DOUGH- NUTS
MAYA!!
By Frank Robbin
OUTSIDE, THE PLANE, SHARI, HIS DISOBEYED, „JOHNNY'S. ORDER TO HIDEMAND RUNS | STRAIGHT FOR THE GENERAL'S CARE.
EVEN
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for a
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roads to Orleans and Lyons, and serve Orly airport is al- ready under construction,
5. Make it easier to get round Paris by building a ring
road beyond the Outer Boule-
vards which are now in town.
6. Move the Halles out to the Perte de la Villette, where, adjoining the abbatoirs and the cattle market and well served by road and rail, a large out.
Lofta vaswerks is due for
7.
-
- group Government offices in a set of new Ministries
round the road junction be- Neuilly bridge, where the monument to the defence of Paris in 1871 dominates a vast expanse of shacks and vacant lots.
8. Move the hospitals out to the country, leaving only ac- cident
and emergency depart ments in town
9.
Get some
of the parked cara off the streets into many- storeyed
including car parks, one on the site of the Halles.
will All these things
cost
to
money, but some at least will have to be done to give 自立 affirmative answer
M. Matrice's question-China Mail Special
Pigmy Tribe Discovered
In Colombia
Bogota, July, Anthropophagous pygmies have been discovered in the south of Colombia by the well- known US explorer, Colonel Leonard Francis Clark, who has spent several months exploring course of the Apoporis River
Tributary: of the
de
Caqueko River, which Bows
Into the Amazoni.
Colonel Clark said that be boil discovered a new mountain. ridge, which belongs to older
formation than
geological
the Andes
fact that
an
This may be confirmed by the not far... from · „the Eastern slopes of the Colombian Andes an old mountain, formma- tion de found
is known as
the Macarena.
Colonel
ridge is up to 4000 The priamy tribe was
height: 13- 3 feet Chiza Masi
"