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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY,
AUGUST 19, 1955.
Maoris Discovered
Antarctica,
Say The Kiwis
Wellington.
- Maoris claim that it was their ancestors who really discovered Antarctica.
Centuries before Christopher Columbus sailed the oceans, they say, their ancestors who peopled the Pacific from New Zealand to the Hawaiian Islands, were pushing into the Ross Sea which washes this country's Antarctic dependencies today.
These people,
they
claim, Tamarero, whose mission was observe the Aurom inace voyages which make those to
which he believed of the Vikings look like coastal Australly,
to be a manifesintion of the jaunta.
gods. He and his handpicked which row put out in winter. they know to be the best tino to observe the Aurora.
As
the
And they base their clalins upon
their own legends, verbal records huckled down from generation to generation, which speak of ice mountains growing out of the sea, frozen cliffs and heas, strange murine monsters, and a land plunged in perpetuni darkness.
They claim that the discoverer of the Antarctic was the grent Hui te Polynesian navigator, Ranglorn.
is
In a big outrigger canoe Hui said to have sailed from his home In Rarotonga, In New Zealand's Cook Islands, 3,500 if not propaid a booking fee miles south into the "Frozen Sea of Pla" where "mountains of 60 centa is charged.
grew out of the ocean, their penks piercing the
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Foggy, Misty
monstrous
south they sailed days became shorter. until they were plunged in perpetual darkness. Buffet by tren- endous seas,
their they stola way round a massivo Isiond. and found lofty cluts of ico which barred their way.
Tamorereti
ded in the Antarctic. sindh the battered
wrecked Wins
within sight of New Zealand. Onis two survivors lived to tell the tale which is still recounted la Moori homen
Canoe
the Southern Cross the
The Maoris remember this canoe and its voyage south by southern constellation which they call Te Rua-o-maahu. in this starry cluster, the belt, of When he returned, he told his Orion forms the stern of the these wonders of canoe. the Peinters the cable, people about
which und seas the battered his ship, and where anchor..
ved a deceitful animal which depthe", and to great dives
and strange women "whose treases float on the face of the waters." He described the region R$ "foggy, misty and a place not shone on by the
About 250 years later, Te Aru Tonga Nuku salled south to see the wonders which his ancestor had described. He brought back DON'T invite mosquito-persecution similar stories and named the
dispensaries and
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STAMP.
STAMPS
Arrowroot, which, when like looks exactly
scraped, snow.
The mountains which "grew out of the sea" were undoubted- ALBUMS "Collection ly leebergs, and the tresses öf New stuck now the woman probably the leaves Builder" series. available.
From South China of the bull kelp, unknown in the Post,
Wyndham Lt.. Morning
The deceitful animal Salisbury tropics. and ilungkung Street
was probably walrus, sea lion hoad, Kowloon.
or sea elephant.
To this day Maer! carvers
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES |
"ADRASTUS"
Damaged cargo ex this vessel will
be surveyed by Measta. Paulsen & at Hull's Whart from Boyes-Dayy
JU A., (2) August 22 and 23, 1953,
requested
and Consignees
have
ם
their representatives
during the survey..
a
perpetuate the memory of the monsters, which their southern explorers encountered, in the
labulous Mārakihau-
human head ture with body and a fish's tail. tusks project from the sides of its bell-like
nd mouth, e.hnologists say that It la #
10 representation of
present elephant,
BUTTERFIELD & WIRE,
Agents.
Hong Kong. August. 19, 1953.
LI
Saw Aurora
and
Lang
$23
Maori From New Zealand, explorers continued to push south. One
then
NOTICE
of
was
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Al there things happened 1,300 years ago, but although the stories are embelished with fantasy, there runs through them an obvious thread of truth. Such accurate descriptions of polar regions could hardly have been produced by the imagina- tion of a tropical race.-China Mall Special.
MALIK TO
LIGHT UP
Blackpool, Aug. 18.
Mr Jakob Malik, Soviel Am- bassador to Britain, has accepted an invitation to switch on the famous fluminations at Blacic- pool, n northern seaside resort, China Mail Special.
Tortures Of The Middle-Age Archaeologists' Unique
This is twelve-year-old Spiridouls Ratti whose admitidos to the Zanlon Hospital, that has created a sensation throughout Pireus uncovered a story of middle-age tortures
have been charged with torturing the girl Greece. George Veljades and his wife Antigoni Spiridouts Rafti by burning her body with an electrio iron. The couple own a night club
they led the and the girl is employed by them as a junior maid—and it is alleged that
hot iron in on girl's nude body on a table and for two days were torturing her with the
When she lost con- effort to make her confess that she had stolon $50 that they had lost.
water into her face to revive her and then continued with the clousures they threw
was, in a bad condition they took her to the torture. When they discovered that the girl
Little Spiridoula hospital telling the authorities that she had burned herself accidentally.
told her story to the doctors. Express Photo.
Hitler Film Chosen To Open Festival
Edinburgh, Aug. 18.
An Austrian film, depicting the last days of Hitler, has been chosen to open the annual film festival aliich starts here An Sunday.
The film, entitled "The Last wrilice by Erich Act," was
author of Maria Remarque, "All Quiet on the Western Fron,"
Based
documents sub- On mited at the Nuremberg Trial, the nim tells the story aú Hitler's downfall and his last Berlin. It ends days In ten with the suicide of Hitler and Eva Braun.-China Mail Special.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THIS YOUR
HUSBAND?
THAT'S EB. OF COURSE HE LOOKS TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER RIGHT NOW FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK, THAT IS.
FERDINAND
NANCY
WE HAVE A WALL SAFE AT
OUR HOUSE
JOHNNY HAZARD
WITH THAT NICE,FAST SPEEDBOAT HE'S GOT, THE GENERAL WELL OG KERS N A MINUTE FLAT! AND US WITHOUT BYEN A BEANSHOOTER TO KEEP HIM HONESTI M
Hmm. GO HOME. WE'LL LET YOU KNOW.
NO, SIREE! HE CAME TO THIS CITY I'M STAYIN RIGHT| HERE TILL YOU FIND HIM!
HUH---THINKS HE'S CLASSY BECAUSE HE
HAS A WALL
SAFE
LOOKS LIKE THE WHOLE THING TURNED OUT TO BE A KEYSTONE COP
· CHASE AN WITH GEFALLEN HOGAKHS THE LAST REEL/ -
| Austrian Doctors : TRANS-ATLANTIC
Plan Strike
PHONE CABLE
London, Aug. 18.
The main section of the first- Vienna, Aug. 18.
Chamber of ever trans-Atlantic cable telo. The Austrian Medicine (doclora association)phone line is now in place. The Is to call a two-day strike be- work was completed boday, the fore the end of August to pro- British Post Office announced in test against a proposed health London. insurance bill, It was announced today.
The dole of the strike will not be known until it is actually called, so as to prevent counter- measures, the Chamber said,
They will continue to treat emergency and serious cases.
Doctors say the bill will not allow free choice of doctors by dissatisfied patients and are
fee-fixing methods about China Mall Special.
Find On Chios:
A Lion's Paw In Stone
Athens.
An unique pillar base in the form of a huge lion's paw has been unearthed by British archaeo- logists excavating on the island of Chios.
This find is probably the most important of those made this summer by members of the British School of Archaeology in Athens under the direction of the Director of the School, Mr Sinclair Hood, nesisted by Mr John Boardman
Experts here describe it as "unique for a Grock building of the 6th century B.C."
The British School of Ar- Chacology In Athens, began excavations in the southern part of Chlow, at a ttle harbour called Emporio, in 1952.
Last year, a British team also conducted systematic underwater explorations with the ald of aqualung off the coast of Chios, close to Emponio,
•
The
on Early Christian Basilica, with a fortress of the same period which are believed to have fallen into the hards of Arabs during their invasion of Greece in the 7th century A.D.
Honts
paw pillar basa uncovered this year was part of the foundations of a 6th century B.C. temple uncovered last year. This year's excavations have
that also demcostrated build.az
Gih and c't the
small harbour of Emporio,
more
7th
Dug Back 4,000 Years centuries BC. existed in the
A series of terrace walls Since 1962, British archacolo which, accrding to archacolo- meant to provide gists have dug back through gists, were 4,000
of history in this platforms for these temples are years aren, discovering successively: regarded as conclusive proof of
the ruins
fortified this. towns of the Early Bronze Friezes Of Animals
Age
of a
A Mycream settlement;
and
COURTING BICYCLE
Of these builings nothing is left. But in the fill of earth and stones behind each of the terraces rich deposits of votive gifts, which once stood in tho
found. temples, were
Most of the votive gifts found are clay vases painted in characteristic Chian style which
а
with friezes of and animals in the eastern Greek
"wild goat" style.
by
give for the first time a clear
ceramics The Hogue, Aug. 18. picture of Chian
version A new
of the "bl-that period. cycle bulit for two" for court- One of the finest vases, of The section is 1,300 miles long ing couples has been invented which only part was found, was and the cable line now lies on by a Dutch father for the con- decorated the ocean
bed at its greatest veniênce of his daughter depth-two miles deep. It stret- her young man,
designed ches between a point 200 miles
The
bicycle, northwest of Newfoundland to a Johan Jennick of Hengelo, has point 500 miles southeast of two saddles and two handle
The riders bars side by side.. Oban (Scotlonk?).
pedal with one foot only, resting Two two linking sections, on the other foot on a step in the
European middlo. the American cold ends, should be completed by Jennick has not yet put his
the the end of September this year. invention.on
market. -France-Presse.
France-Presst.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
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The neck of this vase is shaped like a bull's head with the mouth forming the spout.
Of the other finds, the most remarkable is part of an Ivory horseman of the 7th century BC. executed in
exceptionally fine miniature stylo.
an
Bronze Ear Rings
Many bronze objects are in- cluded in the finds. Mostöf them are bronze brooches, ear £ITOW heads and belt
handics.
Some of the clay to statuettes unearthed appear
Apollo
have been made on the potter's wheel and represent animals as well as men and women. Part of the name of which appears Inscribed on one vollve cup is considered, along with a fragmentary inscription to Hera, to indicate that thesa destroyed
đêm temples were dicated to these two gods,
After concluding this sum- mer's excavations at Emporio, Mr
continue Hood will now excavations in the Middle and Late Bronze Age cemeteries st Knossos, Crete, while Pro- fessor
Alan Wace, of Cam- bridge University. England,
will
resume
his excavations round the one time "Golden Palaco" of Mycenae, In the Peloponnese-China Mall Spe.
cial.
Britain's Dependent People
Education
Compares Favourably
London, Aug. 18.
Bri- Education among tain's 80,000,000 dependent peoples compares well with that In "under-developed countries, whether sovereign or dependent, elsewhere," an official pamphlet declared today.
The 92-pare pamphlet, published by Britain's Central, omeo of Information, sold: "The very strength and vocifera- tion of local criticism is a tributo to the free growth of independent thought and speech under the system "which" "bas fostered."
The booklet-sketched the spread of education throughout the depende forritories in: face of many special dimciltios. Some 64 million people involved live in tropical Atries, it wid ta
·
Past policy in schucationi
been justified • by
emergence of India an
power not only in Asia but In worki, politics d Burna and Curlan
vallis afidhe edukati
produced
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