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No less than 29 Embassies and Legations established in Australia, mostly in Canberra. All the major powers will be represented here if the Soviet Union returns her Embassy to Canberra before this year's Olympic Games.
Recent press reports have said that she wants to do this and that she has started unofficial talks on the subject with Australian representatives,
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Australia's rize in stature turned Canberra Into the not exceeding 25 words, 25 the world's nations has truly cosmopolitan city
token place since Worki War II. country which,
15 years Before 1939. Britain was the loaker askance at foreigners, only major parames to show more Embassies,
the then a little Interest in her American, ult
the Jost Tanies
century colonial style of Vir- ginia, The modern Swedish Legation which won the annual Astrai
ardlystecture prize several years ago, and the new Netherlands Embassy
Canto, Jan. 30. omers. opened.
Twenty women in the village Among the finest buildings in the country. of Varipetron-most of
grandmothers, and all of them over 70-received a flood of Jetters from soldiers serving in a Greek Army up!! stationed in Creic
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Most of the foreign missiona, many still in lensed premises, are making plans to erect their own impressive buildings The Foder Government is giving geROTOUN help to these plans, for it wants to see all missions established permanently the capital.
Grandmothers
amorous
them
The grandmother were de lighted and aunused, but the threatened vengeance soldiers
if they could find the honxer who published the women's names in a newspaper adver- tisement as "young girls wish- correspond with and here ing to Are soon to begin marry soldiers."—Chian Mail erection of a new Embassy In Special.
The French, established since 1940.
thy
style of Le Corbusier. A Canberra architect has recently been to Paris for discussions on #he
profect
A
Two of the slar of the American Negro troupe cur- rently presenting Gershwin's folk opera, "Porgy and Bess", in the Soviet Union, were wed recently in the Russian capital. They wore Helen Jackson, Thingpen and Earl
the flast American Negroes ever to be married in the Soviet Union. Thousands of Muscovites walted outdo their city's Baptist Church to throw
rice over the couple after the ceremony, and number of diplomats were on Imad to attend the reception restaurant. at the "Frague" Pletore show Mr Jackson, centre, watching his bride cut the wedding cake during the rroeplan. Express Photo.
Pipe Clay Cave Paintings
Workmen Find Roman Cemetery
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the
Greek Peasants Think They Have
Found Gold
Athens, Jan. 30.
The villagers of Solo, near Kalavryta, in southern Greece, are engaged in i treasure hunt in the foothills of Mount Helmos.
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Always on the look-out for new sources of wealth and prosperity in a land which is so poor that it barely manages to feed them, they hope, that, this time, they have struck gold.
The discovery was made by pure chance. Ioannis Papadia mantopoulos, a navvy from the village, picked up a yellowish stone which shone strangely. Ho crushed it and found that it jooked even brighter inside... "Just like gold," he said.
There weTO thousands more stones like it at the foot of Mount Helmas, near the village.
Offer Turned Down
examined.
An
the expert sample and ascertained that the stone contained aliver, zinc. flint and, perhaps, a little gold.
And
are
In the 4th century Before Christ, Therdstocles is said to have built his famous flent with the resources of the Laurium minco.
Annual Income
+
Northern Greece is supposed to have had gold deposits which. according to Greek archacolo- gists and historians were known, and widely exploited, antiquity.
Philip
who
of Macedonia, In 382 BC to 336 DC reigned extracted gold which gave him an annual income of 1.000 talents estimated ช the equivalent of some 3,000,000 gold sovereigns today.
Whether the
gold resources Macedonia have been exhausted or not is a matter of controversy among Greek ex- perts.
the
century,
At all events, since the 19th
along villagers banks of the Gallico river, some 5 miles West of Salonica, have been washing
primitive fashion, sand and soil from the river banks and extracting gold angles which they sell to
in
от
money-changers
st the counters of the local banks.
Founded Company
With his report, the expert mode an offer for a mine con- of Belgrade, Jan. 30. Workers buikling a block of
ccasion On behalf of one of fais near the Yugoslav Partio- Greece's largest mining enter ment hurve discovereri what prises. arebncologists here believe to be a second century AD Roman Papadiamantopoulos, however, cemetery underneath
turned down the offer and ap Yugoslav capital.
plled to the Ministry of Industry While foundations were being for a licence to prospect 40,000 dugu
blow from a pickaxe arid neres of state land in the
foothills of Mount Helmos. prized
hole In a trad sarcophagus and shattered the now all the inhabitants of Sola
Tm bone
of a teen-age girl, have joined forces to help him She was
of in his venture, was
Inhabitant DI Singidunum. 09 this city was
Government
experts culled in Roman times.
examining the samples sub- The sarcophagus contained mitted by hum. Although, at the girl's skeleton
and her
Arst sight, it seems that the gold
The total output, however, jewelry-gold car rings, a gold
content is not large enough to has never been suffelent to ot and amber necklace, and a
gold justify
exploitation. the tract investors a portrait of
with view to other minerals may be suf- large scale exploitation. warrior engraved on the stone.netently valuable tờ nhi the
Before World China Matt Special,
War 11, Mr dreams of the peasants of Solo.
Ella Ellopoulos, who believed In the existence of strongly
departs in Macedonia, gold founded an enterprise under the name of "the Gold Mines Com- According to Acschylus, the Phe first stop taken by this
of Northern Grecco. Laurium area, near Cape Sunion. was a "real source of silver and company was to purchase and mineral treasures," which helped | take to the spot adequate The rest Athons to become an important equipment to wash not only the
power.
Adelaide, Jan. 30. Aboriginal cave paintings in white pipe clay and red ochre, believed to have been made 50 ring with mission.
before the years
arrival of six
have white men in Australia, been found 50 milies from
The South African still in rented offices after
is to erect its own offices
New York, Jan. 30. device is being developed here to enable fire engines to control traffic Bighis along their path, so that they all turn green as the Aremen approach,
in CRIDE Ditch architecture, Mr. Wooley. of the Inter-
There is a constant Bow Important despatches from mil Australion posta rbroad to the Department of External
Affairs in Canberra to keep the tralian policy-makers briefed.
of
years, 1
while
Aus
closely
But today Canberra is being looked to as the focal point not nly for foreign pailey but also
host of
The
"take-the-hat-round' national Association of Fire Adelaide, move anong Australian Jewry Chiefs, suid thai the device The president of the Cave is raising
funds to help con would be operated from
the struct a Legation for Israel. driver's seat und could control
All this diplomatic expansion traffic
lights at Intersections has brought a score of languages four to six streets whend. to the capital's official business end community life-Chinn Mail
of other important † Special.
Federal Government's
maller. polley of developing the capitat s the central administrative start about to be made on ely is well under way, with
the transfer f the many Depari- ments of State which have I mather in Melbourne since 1901
Big Build-Up
In addition to her relations with Asia, which are proving s constructive bridge between East and West, Australia's place
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The big build-up of diplomats in the elly, kept busy observing and in liurison on
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these fronts are, however, making other important con- tributions 10 the capital's development and thinking.
Since World War II splendid Embassy buildings have added to the grace of a plan on circular a design of concentric streets by a Chicago architect, Walter Burley Griffin, 40 years rgo.
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The 150-odd divlomats their wives, together with A large sprinkling of Immigrants
Europe. have already
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Madrid, Jan. 30. South Exploration Group ot
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Tejerina Austraila. Mr Elery Hamilton- Canal, parish priest of Sciechas, Smith, suld the red ochre painter Leon, met a pack of wolves ings were thought to be much while strolling round his parish older than the white ones. They with a sporting gum are mostly Agures of men In He shot one dead. action. Chinn Mail Special fted.-China Mall Special.
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The search for gold in Greece has always been the subject of story and legend.
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sand near the banks of the Gallico but also the mud of the river bed.
After the war the equipment was modernised and since 1053 the output of gold has been about one kilogramme (2.2 lb) per working day,
lbs.
In 1940, the company had sold to the Bank of Greece 18 ingots of gold, of a total weight of about
Out 10512
In 1053, 12 Ingots weighing about 134 Tbs were delivered to the Bank of Greece which has the monopoly of the purchase of gold in this country, while last year the out- put of the Gallico river reached some 350 s.
Mr
In Tributaries
Ellopoulos, who is pre- paring to extend operations in this area, says that surveys have indicated that there aro gold deposits in many parts in Macedonia, in the areas where his company holds prospecting rights, but further study in necessary before it can be known whether the deposits are com¬ mercially exploitable.
Tho
also in- company is vestigating the possibility of
gold deposits In the beda of
Tributaries of tho Strymon (Struma) river, a search which will later be extended to the Neston and dyc the Axios (Vardar) rivers.
Greek financiers, however, without challenging the value of such
prospecting, declare that Greece's gold deposits are to be found in the private hoards of gold sovereigns held by people throughout the country.
Dead Capital
They estimate that at least 15,000,000 gold sovereigns havo been thus hoarded away Greece since World War II.
No postwar. Government has yot been able to persuade the owners of this huge dead capital to bring it out and invest. It in the too-long delayed, recovery of the country, China. Mail Special
Monkeys Attack Children
Durban, Jan. 30, Monkeys are attacking young children and raiding kitchens in parte of Durban (UVASIL
- Efforts by, the policy to exters. |minste them” have":falled,, and residents' ore domunding arres newed: drive by the municipality. lorida bult-up areas of the
Meanwhile, the local Bockily zr for the. Prevention, of Crucity is: "Animals reports, that viibbons/k0)
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