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Relic
Of Nobles' Attempt To
Overthrow Ruler
upon
By RONALD FARQUHAR
Prague, Oct. 16. Archaeologists here have stumbled under- a 500-year-old secret ground mint believed to have been used in a form of "economic warfare" during the Middle Ages.
Their theory is that the mint, found in a large cavern 20 metres (about 66 feet) below ground, belonged to a group of Czech nobles who were trying to overthrow the ruler of Bohemia.
tho
believed that they em- Because of the size of the played a band of forgers, work- mint, its apparent efficiency and
lanternlight in this other factors, however, Ing by dingy den, to dood the country | urchineologisto jeet the "rob- with valueless coins, In bid|ber band" theory.
diebuse the
fl
;
enuse
nrest,
economic
CUFTENCY
chats
t and
The cave is one of a network In a full list
"Golden the Koneprusy, Horse" at
about here. Its 22 milles from
dates back to Barne
period Celts In- Lefore Christ when hated the aren 1<!
to uscel
the 21.
Primitive Coins
It is a matter of history that about the middle of the 15th | century.
of Catholle
robles were waging a political #truggle aydnst the Protestant ruler
the
of kingdom Hohemia, tieorge of Podlebrady.
of
The Hus81p wars between Catholics and Protestants earlier
make sacrifices fix a horse god in the century bad ravaged the ¦ingdom and jeft it short of So, the goods and money.
ckr- by archaeologists argue, culating spurious currency the nobles probably hoped to add to George's economie difficulties and bring about hle downfall.
Archaeologists completed their during researches in the rave August nii then prepared to Under It to the pubile. open
they found primitive debris. equipment and heaps of
ing ens, Just as the Tus left them.
Abandoned
matie of ek thern look like border of
called that of
The wint was ideally situated The coins were
near the but coated with for such a purpose,
the territory con- trolled by George and that over which the nobles held sway.
According to the archacolog- ists theory, when George anally overcome the nobles' efforts to
mint bin, the unsat abandoned and lay undiscover- ed until three years ago.--China Mail Special.
coins, silver
which parvis.
werd #11 Litre
the official currency Bohemia.
Like the geme coins, the forgeries bore the imprint of a The archaeo- 11p in a circle. kogists found the stamp which The forgers used for this.
There was aiso & woorden
block covered with copper cuttings, an uven for melting silver, strips of copper and piles of half-finished cuina Elght small bus undt rejects.
of different sizes, made of tic, are beleved to have been used As menning weights. The archaeologists
believe
that the forgers got the copper i
FAMILY PLANNING for the couns from kettles. They
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cut the kettles into strips, melt- ed these Into sheets and then cut out the ins. Next, they
the
nai, shuupes hammered
ther with the
Bon stamped
tai stupirit and coated them with molten silver. Then
the coins were circulated iu nearby towns and villages
The entrance to the cave was a vertical shaft about 33 feet
deep sunk
from an casily- camouflaged circular holn at the surface.
Hide-Out
DM
cave
was
AL first. the thought to be the hide-out of a robber band which turned to forging a lucrativo side- line. This theory probably had
origin Its
legond in a local dating back to the fifteenth century but never considered to have any foundation in fact the discovery of the
cave.
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The legend tells of shepherds in the area being frightened by in smoke coming from holes the ground. One day, # shepherd peered into a hole and saw a man sitting on a heap of According to the the man gave tho shepherd a handful of silver coins and he became very rich.
North African Jews Seek Entry To Israel
Paris. Oct. 10.
Thousands of North African Jews are seeking admission to Israel, a prominent Jewish ald official said today.
The oficial, Glorn Josephthal, Treasurer of the Jewish Agency, was speaking at a conference of directors of the Asperican Joint Distribution Committee which opened here.
Josephthai lauded the United Jewish appeal of the United States for its work in raising a special
fund emergenty
of $10,000,000 to transport North Afclean Jews to Israel and to integrate them in the country's
economy.
Josephthal said: "Our task would be imposibe without tho financial support of American Jewry
of
Josephthat said citizens Iaracl also are being called upon to sacrifice and contribute to make possible the absorption of the North African immigrants,
-France-Prove,
was
1955.
New Empress Murder Spotlights
Takes Shape
At Glasgow
Seem to be shaping up nicely in the fitting-out basin at Glasgow is the new 20,000- ton Canadian Pacillo iner Empress of Britain. She starts her maiden vorago to Montreal from Liverpool on Aprti 20 next year. Reuterphoto.
FREIGHTER
FREED
Montreal, Oct. 10. A Dutch
49 freighter with
treed passengers aboard was this morning from a mud bank in Montreal Harbour where it had been stuck since last Thurs- day.
The Prins Wilhelm Orange, operated by Montreal Shipping, Lid, ran aground on Thursday when it tried to avoid another ship in its path.
van
Economy And Foreign
Policies
Washington, Oct. 18.
ADENAUER
MAKING
PROGRESS
Missing Women
Rome, Oct. 16. About 6,000 Italion women, mostly young, quietly pack a bag and slip away from home every year.
The police investigate only perfunctorily their disappearance and newspapers hardly ever report it, except when one of them becomes a job for the crimé reporter. Distracted parents alone show any concern for the missing women. Sometimes, even this is lacking.
to
Now, however, a particularly police has to make a patient, vicious murder case bas focussed laborious check of all women public attention on these mass aged between 25 and 28, <ho "flights from home."
presumed age of the victim, re- Formerly, the polico atitude ported miasing in Italy, includ
tho mising from home ng foreign tourists, this cum- reports which daily flowed into mer. police stations all over Italy That was when the Italian was: superficial investigation public first heart of the large if unsuccessful, drop. In any number of women who do
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case, it the WERNETA return home, they can do so, without the State spending millions of Bre on enquiries,
to abandon their homes. Over 90 per cent are between 15 and 28 years of age and 99 per cent come from lower and middle class familias. The ratio be tween provincial and city girls Is about equal.
Body Found
This attitudo has now changed. For the public has had a horrifying picture of what can] happen to
young officially classifod as "Missing from home; enquirica unsuccCUS= ful,"
11
Lake
woman
Frustrated Love
Frustrated love and the lure of the cinema top the list
of reasons for the abscondings, police declares Lovo in many
find
for
Two Sunday picnickers, stroil-parts of Italy is still governed by ancient family conventions, ing about a thick wood early which modern girls, nurtured last July after rowing on the W
on magazines for women, valcande
Albano below:
excessively strict. Girls are, Castelgandolfo, (12 miles) southe of Rome, stumbled on an objecte
instance, discouraged from hlten under a newspaper.
marriages "below their station."
usually
ally Then, a younger sister They
the removed
paper. has to wait until an older gets Underneath, was the oakeri.
married before she herself can headless body
marry. If the older sister con- The 79-yr-old West Ger- already in
a husband, it is just man statesTRAIL recovering decomposition
too bad for the younger, Ques- from
tions of dowry can also stillo a love affair between two young pooplo.
Bonn, Oct. 10. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer Representative Richard Boll- continuea to make good pro ing announced today that his gress toward
recovery, a Bona Joint
sub-government Congressional
Kild spokesman committee on foreign economic today. policy will hold hearings next month on the Impact
of US foreign policies on the domestic economy.
He Baid 38 witnesses from government, labour, business and education would testify nt pessions from Nov. 9 through November 17.
Tho ship was freed with the ald of the ຂົນສ Foundation arrived here Josephine, which yesterday morning from Quebec.
Mr Bolling said the sub- Once freed from the surround-committee will "explore the re- ing mut, the passenger-carzo vessel was then able to proceed lation of our foreign economic policy to the continued growth and stability
of the domestic economy. It had been feared at first
He said It also will look into that the ship's 8,000-ton cargo | governmental policies would have to be transferred their consistency with the basic another boat in order to principles of international lighten her.-United Press. trade."-United Press.
to her shel power,
to
OWD under her
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
PLEASE DON'T
CALL THE
POLICE. NO ONE ELSE MUST KNOW--
I MUST. THIS SOLVES THE MYSTERIOUS CRIME WAVE--
FERDINAND
NANCY
I STILL
SAY ALL WOMEN ARE CONCEITED
CHIEF! COME WITH A SQUAD TO 16 GAREN. I'VE GOT THE CREEP GANG --AND THE LOOT. IT SEEMS THEY FOUND THIS TIME TRAVELER.
THAT'S NOT SO--- LET'S SEE
YOU PROVE IT
JOHNNY HAZARD
ERIC KOLN MAY HAVE
| FAILED IN HIS ATTEMPT
TO KILL BREBLAU-BUT IT'S MY GUESS THAT HE {KNOWB YUR, X' WHO FINALLY
SUCCEEDED IN DOING THE
WOO!
HEY GOOD- LOOKING
AND IF HE WON'T TALK, MAYBE BABY WILLE, PAY KOLHA.
VIBIG. JOHNNY WHILIK
WITH GABY!
E KEEP MY DATI
--KE HAS A GADGET THAT DISPLACES MOLECULES -- THEY FORCED HIM TO ENTER VAULTS AND--
NEVER MIND ALL THAT?
WE'LL BE RIGHT
THERE
2-17
LATER, BEFORE A HOUSE BESUCH THE RIYER BALTACH
RUNDOWN STREST, THIS/ AN WHERE IT ESMAABI HÜRDSTRANDS, *WHERE ERC KOLN LIVER SOKO
Dr
of
WOKEDIK
the first stages of not find
an attack of bronchial The two men replaced the pneumonia and has been con- newspaper and fled. They agreed faed to bed since October 7 at to say nothing about their dis his home at Rhoendorf on the covery, fearing that they would Rhino River near here.
have trouble with the police. The
But two days later, one of the Яpokesman sald Adenauer's condition is
se men reported the And.
A far reaching investigation satisfactory that, contiary
Scotland began
Yard, the earlier plans,
medical
French Surete, German, Swiss bulletin will be issued today.
and Belgian police co-operated He is expected to spend at
inter through Interpol, least another week so in bed national police organisation.
O
to
the
and
to take 11 long period of With the head missing, and convalescetice afterwards at his defying "to test
discovery despite Da favourite vacation hideout at intensive search, and other clues Buehler Koche In the Black negligible, the task of identify Forest.-United Press,
Ing the body was dullcult, The
By Lee Faik and Phil Davis
OF ALL THE GIBBERISH! BUT HE WOULDN'T LIE, HE HAS THE GANG! IF THIS IS ANOTHER TRICK, I'LL BOIL THAT MAGICIAN IN OIL?
9-13
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
By Frank Robbins
ÅND, NOT VERY FAR AWAY. THE MURDER, CARME WHERE TO NOW; HERR INSPECTOR VON SCHNECH 7,
DRIVE TO 181 BURGETRASBE).
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
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If we were
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TODAY
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The result of all this is that large proportion of the women elope with their flances. time and the Normally, peace is made after a
woman is taken
off the police missing list. Disappointments in love count for at least
quarter of the 500 girls a year who dre never seen again by friends or relations
The call of the cinema, with of promise
famo andi fortune, also has a strong at traction for numbers of Italia women in their teens and curly to break twenties. Many try Into the cinema world with the help of us many relations can bo recruited. Others
abscond from home and come to Rome, the heart of the Italian film industry, full of ambition. and illusions
the
Police have
no statistics of the latter. Certainly, they are casiest prey for the of procurers, white slavers, adventurers and un- scrupulous
hundreds
kus men-about- town who abound in the 'capital. Folice here recently found a 14- year-old girl wandering listless ly about Roma's large rallway station.
covered
mein
reported her disappearance from
a
Italian north-central
two days
an
tomm
in
ed from her hasly, and learn
that she had been violated within balt E123 hour of her arrival in Rome, then passed to another man, who, turn, passed her on to tour others all on the promise of a small part in a mythical film "about to go into production,"
Montesi Case
The girl had not a penny on her.
Even her handbag had gone.
Polteo arrested the six men and sent the girl home.
The notorious Wilma. Montesi drug orgy scandal produced the example of a provincial girl who came to Rome to
to become Cina second
Lollobrigida God months later way a drug addiet living
penniless with pointer in a derelict shop.
Poverty and an irrepressible desire to better their condition lead many giris to leave home. Quarrels with husberids (divoren being non-existent in Italy, flight is the only solution, but a. wife can be prosecuted for abandoning the Conjugal home") aro another frequent reason, na is allure in examina- tions, a phebomienion which rectirs every summer.
About 8,500 of the girls aro [eventually traced every year [ond either return home or opt for a free life-China”. Mới Special
BEVAN INVITED TO RUSSIA
London, Oct. 18, Left-wing Socialist Aneurin Bevan said yesterday ho liga been invitex by the Soviet Academy of Belence to visit Russia next month, to lecture an economics
A former Cabinet Minister in the last Labour administration, Mr Bovan will be the Art Bet- tish politicians, who has held Cabinet rank to be invited to lecture in Russia since the revo. lution.
- "I will give two lectures and spend a fortnight in Russin," he rald. "I hope to see a good doal of the country and soo. How labour problems aro tackled in the industrial areas.”—Unitech,