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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1958.
Museum Will Tell JORDAN'S ARAB
Story Of
A Million Years
Rome, Feb. 8.
Near the lovely coastal village of San Felice Circeo, where, according to legend, the enchantress Circe entertained Odysseus and his sailors on their voyage home from Troy, workmen have begun to build a museum which will tell the story of a million years.
The museum of human Experts have found there the palaeontology. to give # itsbone of อก curly type of scientifle name, will be built in hippopotamus, and fragments of the great National Park, Rome pottery user by Neanderthal Où miles south-cup) of Rome, on Man, who lived about 100,000 the edge of the Pontine Marshes, years before the birth of Christ, ince infested by malaria but
and Rough tools
weapons, an recinted for agriculture 1 scheme begun by
under Mussolini,
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Early Bones
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Zatike
the 171
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and the bones of the lions and elephants which he hunted, are the only traces of his présence. About 28,000 BC. the glaciers moving Bath sent a wove of cold into southern Europe, and speetmesis Neanderthal Man disappeared. while herds of wild asses, driven from thus min bus uľ Centrol Europe to
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warmer elmute, roaned the bleak ex- panses of the Pntine March.
Fondly, a new il
and tougher form of Man evolved, and the caves of Monte Cirero were con- tinuously inhabited down to the ume when our own civilisation was born there.
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Then men built the massive des fence walls which still stand ou The erogy hill-top overlooking the Mediterranean, and the land fell made the vule of the city of Rome.
Apart Treaty specimens, (visilors to the museram will be to ser models illustrating
Seato Exercise the geological evalution of the
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to which the creatures belonged.
Still Found
Traces of the
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ARAB LEGION FACING
A FORMIDABLE FOE
Members of Jordan's Arab Legion recently made an alma search at a Jericho camp where nearly 60,000 refugees from the Palestine war tive in shauty-town squator. The Legion- naires removed a small quantity of old revolvers and slot- refugees said to be Communists. guns, and arrested many Picture shows: A pyjama-clad suspect is questioned by an officer of the Legion.——Express Photo,
Rene Mayer Calls On Eisenhower
today White
!
Ambitious
Refugee Leaders
Want To Oust Glubb Pasha
By Vincent Buist
Teheran, Feb. 8. Jordan's Arab Legion, which, man for man, is held to be the most effective fighting force in the Arab world, is facing a new and formidable foe.
Officers from this
A call for the removal of British famous desert fighting force has been launched by the power- hungry highly vocal and able refugee elements in Jordan,
were to
Amman valley.
some
GO Glubb'n
some
on
the
to
Ambitious refugee leaders sec | Minister past, present and! In British advisers a restraining future; and they admit that he one side and looked quizzically
And Glubb put his head influence which helps to bar probably knows Jordan and out of the wilow across their taking over political power people better than most Arabs in the Jordan Parliament.
Under Glubb are If, in the present
conversation unsettled other British officers. state of affairs,
of punctuated with reference the powerful them on contract solely to the "chaps." refuges campaign
He refers Inter- Arab Legion. triumph, then the Arab Legion,
others secunded nationally known figures in the from regular British Army Arab world as "That chop compact fighting unit, units. They t many might dissolve
of the he's a ntee chap take that in wrangling technical and staff posts in the other chop." He talks
about over leadership and purpose. Legion, which is, in effect, Jor- Jordan and its people
dan's cational army.
Devonshire tarmer would dile- Apart from these, there are cuss his estate or as a head- some 480 Arab officers, includ-master talks ef grown up "boys" the ing one Major General,
-warmly, affectionately, tender-
DS
The
Shoot To Kill
campaign against Legion's British Officers
acted
camic
03
any
"Some people say you are a dictator," I said to him recently after the riots in Amman,
Long Way Out
a
guns.
Glubb
Military secrecy screens they. to a head recently when units exact size of the Legion, but its were brought in to quell
In spite of his General's red somewhere between de-strength is
Inby, wilch match
florld bir monstrations in Ammat, Jerusa-30,000 and 35,000 or roughly complexion, and a blazing chest- lem and other Jordanian towns two divisions with appropriate ful of ribbons, in spite of even og: Inst Jordun
entering the staff and technical detachments. the Bagdad Pact
three keen-eyed Alliance.
young The
Although small, the Legion is Arnb bodyguards outside his Legion had orders to shoot, and
a brilliant example of the fusion office armed with sten in the resulting riots at least 12 uf devoted Western tutelage and
there is nothing about people were killed and many loyal, intelligent Arab material.
10 personally
suggest the more wounded.
the most devoted dictator. Perhaps Although they
tutor of them oli is Glubb
This is what his chief oppon- security forces would in
Poshu himself.
ent, a refugee leader, bod to country faced with auch
say about him: serious threat to civil order, the
"Imagine
A small village Legion, And particularly its
somewhere in the far-off pro- British commanders, were re- viled for "using bullets against
vinces of Jordan. They want a new village teacher because the pencetul demonstrators,"
old one died or left, and they Chiefly, controversy swirled
Glubb turned ♫ pair of write to Amman about it. They around the head of "Glubb amused blue eyes on me, began write once, twice, thrice and Pasha"-- Lieutenant General clicking away on a pair of large still there is no answer-they
amber bends-like any bazaar petition
the local
authorities. merchant thinking over a bust-Nothing happens. ness proposition-and started to "Then one fine day
a little speak in a soft, apologetic tone. Army truck bowls along and
"A dictator?" he drawled,
sits beside the driver
Glubb "Well, I fancy they are rather Pasha. He gols out to talk with
out a long way
of line you the villagers about their prob know, The difficulty here is to lems and they say they need a try and get some of these chaps teacher. to tell me what to do at times like this. I do not suppose you
every torini,"
Washington, Feb. 8. M. Rene Mayer told news- One such model will show the cvast nearby as it was a million.
President Eisenhower papermen that is conversation Bangkok, Feb. 8.
with the President had also venus ago, when the sea covered
received at the touched on the proposed creation Thailand Premier Mar- all the Marsh, and the fantastic
House M. Rene of D European atornic pool shal Pibul Songgram told burelutreture of the Grotta was
the (Euratom) and on problems of of Mayer, President being fashioned by the waves. in newspapermen
Bang-
European unification." dominkan High
the Authority of HEREBY kok today that "Operation are still found when NOTRE
children European 'Coal and Steel M. Mayer volced the hope John Buget Glubb, 59-year-old GIVEN That The Fourteenth Firm Link," the SEATO from the village pick up tiny Community. Their
commander inter- that the forthcoming conference British
of Ordinars General Meeting of manoeuvres,
the duc to be shells on the cliff top, low 400
in Brussels of the Foreign Minis Legion, who is responsible to the Company will be held at | held in Thailand
feet above the water next
ters of "Little Europe" would the King and the Government Thus, the museum will be
taken of Jordan, be enable steps the Registered Office of th"; week,
were intended
to an shustrated history of the
Disgruntled towards European co-operation:
refugee leaders trana region and if this history were
say that Glubb is a "dictator" in the feld of atomic energy, In the form of a 300-page book,
and manoeuvres his devoted not raised Arab soldiers He said he bud
80 as 10 keep mul Troy
with President Elsenhower the them from winning at the polls, possibility of the United States
With some envy. they also Odysseus 3,000 years ago up
would cover
ald to a European stomile pool.claim that he has the car of would call that being dicta- only the last page
Monarch, And of the present day"
1966 Di
the
voyage
[ 보다
Fompans, Hongkong & Shang-test the speed and hai Bank Building, Hongkongportation mobility of mem- on Monday, the twentyseventh, ber nations' armed forces. une from the destruction of day ..f February, 9.30 am, to arrive the Birve. Jays' Report and Statement of Account for the period ist May, 1964 to 3014 April, 1965. to elect Directors, to appoint Auditors and to transact any AndBary busines af
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The Transfer Books ared Register of Members of the Company will be closed from Monday.
1306 the
day of Feltears. 1956 to Monday, the Ewenty seventh Tiny of Februars, 1956 kuth days inclusive
It Order of the Bond,
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8th February, 1956,
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PENINSULAR
SAILS:
The Premier said that unions fondly to the Southeast Asia Freuty Organisation, coulti ap- the preciate the necessity for Lest, while unfriendly nations were getting “exeated" adunat at } cked exmets That 7,000 American Troops would be In-
volved
anci
were
1:
Marshal Songgram said New Zealand
Australia sending observers and that
Invited decided other nations not to send troops, it was not bremse they disagreed with the MOTU VYAS hat probably be-
mase of the lack of time,
A Thailand Defence Ministry sakeman said the Thadd armed forces would hold large- Neale MUNOCUVIOS
Lopburi €135 malles north of Bangkok
Friday,
in preparation for "Operation Firm Linit". Fence-Presse
MP's Wife Dies
London, Feb. 8.
Mr Philip Noel-Baker, wife of a Labour Member of Parllu- meat, died trday of # hear!
atlavok
estate
**-
The daughter of a British landowner in Greece, Mrs Noel-Baker inberlled a Greek Inland
originally limated at 25,000 acres. Most of it was divided among peasants when land-reform
14- wns troduced Ti Greece.United Press
view lasted half an hour.
A communique issued after. warda
Hald Qrat President Eisenhower had assured M. Mayer that the United States considered the continued pro- Kress towards European Integro- tion as a vital contribution to Europe's security. welfare and liberly in the years to come.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
DO YOU THINK THE CLAY CAMEL'S AMONG THOSE REPORTERS AND WHERE'S MANDRAKE P
I DON'T KNOW. NARDA. LET'S WAIT
AND SEE.
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THEY'RE ARRIVING. I'LL GO DOWN AND
-France-Presse.
GOOD LUCK,
MEET THEM AS YOU, MANDRAKE.
AND IN THE GARDEN, WATCHING-
MR.AMBASSADOR,
WAIT HERE.
THE CLAY CAMELI
AUNT FRITZI --- I BOUGHT A CASE
OF GRAPE SODA
YOU CAN'T PUT YOUR SODA IN THE REFRIGERATOR---ITS
FULL
GRAFE
JOHNNY HAZARD.
'AFTER I'VE STARTED THE | SELF-TIMING MECHANISM, |SECONDS WILL BE PRECIOUS! I'LL OPEN THE ESCAPH HATCH
NOW
GRAPE SOPA
GRAPE SODA
to
THAT'S THE AMBASSADOR'S ROOM. NARDA'S ARRIVED. I'D BETTER GET STARTED!
STEPHAN COMPLETES HIS PREPARATION FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF MEER...WHILE A MILE AWAR THERE THEY ARE BUT, BABY, TO CHOP,
THAT:HOSE WITH OUR
ROTORS GA
SNAP! WE MAY STILE
* HAVE TING!
the
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
EVEN NARDA DOESN'T KNOW MANDRAKE'S MEETING HER--AS ME. A FANTASTIC PLAN TO TRAP A FANTASTIC CROOK. WILL THE
CLAY CAMEL SHOW UP?
CONTINUED-
By, Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
BUSHMILL.
By: Frank Robbins
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TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
FROZEN FRESH IN THE COUNTRY!
TRY
Libby's
FROZEN FOODS
TODAY!
ROWNTREES
IT'S THE FULL
MILK THAT
SHOWNTREE'S
CHOPMATE,
DOUBLY $300
MILK
CHOCOLATE
situati sils for a
Sau Miguel
Makes A Note
**From
somewhere. Glubb produces an envelope and stub of pencil and makes ittle note, and then he goes off. "A week Inter-after Glubb has got back to Arman und
telephoned one of his friends in a Ministry somewhere) now teacher arrives in this Cor- off vllinge.
"The people adore him. But unfortunately they also heed his remarks on polities. A wink from Glubb about a can- didate for Parliament is like d bugle call to these simple Bedouins,"
It seems that almost everyone In the country knows Glubb Pasha. His fame is more wide- spread than the fame of most politicians and he travels the than country more frequently' most. He speaks Arable softly. without the gutturals or sing- ing "r's" which make it harsh in the mouth of a Palestinian Arab.
Wiles And Tricks
Undoubtedly the Pasha is an unusual soldier and clearly one reason for his success with the Bedouin Arab is his simple humorous approach to military problems.
In the early days, when Glubb helped to pacify the warring ........ tribes along the frontier of what
was then called TransJordan, and Saudi Arabia, he would use wiles and tricks with a touch of Arab humour to outwit the sheikhs,
More than anything else. his careless, instinctive mastery of Arab psychology, helped him to assume control over the old raiders who figure so frequently in books by TE. LawreÚCE about the Arab' Revolt..
Today,... Glubb" tras adopted three Bedouin orphans., He also supports a school, in Amman for. Bedouin orphans his home
Those who know.
say that gazelle bound through
the open verandah ....... windows Into the dining room and tro Frewarded with titbits by Glubb
and bla tamily.
In public, Glubb tries hard to. avold cameramen sind reporters. On ceremonial occasions he is' there, but probably gazing at the scone over the shoulders of a group of his Legion Bodouin-. hickion from the general eye.
Bodyguard Increased
In the past year, his personal. bodyguard” has been increased and now he travels abort Amman in (dhi'óperi'› Jeep with two bren guns mounted tore and. aft.
Glubb's type at paternallom, which can be roughly "aunmed up in the phrase "I love, the Bedoting and the Bedouin, loves mo-and we both love our no longer. fitz", the country | senná in Jordan: no. 1k sunod, 16. {For, in the' lest:-eight-Pekel hald: # ̈ trillion refugees 2017 deveni former: Palmtina, Farve: your
marelalised and determined: obtain control” Thien, dov soli