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Quietest 1,300-year-old Meeting Ever Held
By A CHINA MAIL
REPORTER
The quiatost. meating over
Castle Found In Cyprus
Nicosia, Aug. 30.
held in Hongkong took ARCHAEOLOGISTS reopened a forgotten chap-
place yesterday when the Hongkong Deaf - Mute Handicraft. Association gathered for their annual alaction, report and revi sion of articles of associo- tion.
One could hear a pin drup when over 50 deaf-mutes voted, spoke, and
ter in the history of the cast Mediterraneun island of Paphos with the discovery in western Cyprus of a fortified Byzantine castle built 13 een- turies ago to ward off Arab invaders,
A tall mound towering above and withdraw. The Byzantine tiny Paphos harbour, long be- rukrs Immediately starled work lieved to conceal Roman bulld- on the fortified castle to guard ing, proved to hold the mains Pahror harbour. of a 7th century castle of the
ruiders atlarke Byzantine empire centred in Cyprus 24 times in following what is now Turkey.
years and for at least some of the raids, historians now believe, the castle at Paghos must have strong defensive proved centre.
The Arab moved resolutions nil by sign-language ut the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce auditorium.
:
Archaeologists carried oul trial dig last year at the mound, known as the Hill of the Forty Clunes because philors of a Remon temple have been found on the spot,
It was resolved that the organisation will be renamest the Honghong Deaf-Mute Wel Inre Association
Another resolution passed divided
dutfe:: o! the organisation inio seven offices: board uf
standing on
solut.
committer,
fl
JE
The Castle
sfood for anot Ave centarles until It WALT this badly damaged by a disastrou A full-scale operation
which ht W251 year lad bare a five-tower basearthquake
dine hy traces of nn Cyprus in 1222. outer wall 111 The Byzantine in Hye
directors,
Briance. Handicraft, Amusement, vestigation and welfare,
The meeting passed plans for raising funds in furtherance of the association afros-promation of deaf-mute: weltre, employe ment, education through mutis help.
Resolutions were also passed for expansion of the associt tion's premises at Tung Mon Street and the establishment of a tree school.
tok
Ahead Of The Game
Knoxville, Aug. 30.
John Chester Bowling, 42, police they were 3 Ditte
te when they arrested in yesterday and found $750 worth of counterfeit $20 notes in his Faci:et.
"I don't care about these bills," hr said. "I've already porsed $149,000 worth."-UPL
Send Off
Dumfries, Aug. 30. Arthur McConville, 22, decided
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'The disenvery adds to the eviilence of a long series of cummunities siled around this west Cyprus town-seaport, religious centre and scene af orgies dedicated lo the Enddess of love in ancient ilmes,
The Byzantine Getle
was
L
on top of the ruins
Took Flight
cartiest In the excavations out this year pollery and
and domestle other personal
ulerin were discovered In positions Indicating they abandoned in great were Isante while the population Look flight during the carlk- quake.
of The excavations, carried an
Greek and Roman buildings in under Mr A. H. S. Maraw.
11
of
Antiquities
i11
three-
pet now known as Old Director Paphos, a mile south of the pre-Cyprus, cleared about
rent town and chee the capital ↑ quarters of the castle krep, of Cyprus.
the central bastion with live Caves,ower,
A cluster of city
ruined chanches and catacombs The line of the aller wall ffround the Hill of the Forty with eight more towers, WAS
Columns
stoa!! nuw attracts faulets traced userpt for onc
section,
to Old Paphos.
Arab Raiders
Archaeologists my They also have kamed more about the Greci ani Roman coNUBILES
originally, on the site.
But in anelent times this site
knewn WUS
New Paphos AS (New Pugihos) to distinguish it
The dig exposed a cul stone water with from: still older city
aqueduct Intact eight
pipes almost as they must have miles away.
plumbers been when Roman fashioned them centuries ago.
Nea Paphos then was a rs- ing place for pilgrims Tɛom sur- rounding makrifand states mok-
ng their way to the older city, ite of the shrine of Ventus.
The pilgrims stopped at inns and rest houses int Nea Paphos Con their way to and from the shrine dedicated to the goddess
to celebrate on the night intoer juf love,
Beneath the aqueduct the archaeologists found two vaulis apparently used as secret dun-
geons,
Finds in the Byzantine castle self included part of a stair- ease leading from the central courtyard to upper ramparts to heal
his wedding. but his fricinis Hundreds of prieteases de- and a furnace used failed to get him to the church voted to Venus served the pil- water for steam rcoms prou-
gains and their goddess at the fably the original version un tone.
McConville was sentenced tone. Pilgrims traveller jong | Turkish baths..
GD days in gaol yesterday for distances to take part in เจ msuit, breach of pence lad orgies derrist as "the shame "of causing malicious damage. The Cyurus
wedding was postponed. -- UPI. By the beginning of the 7th century after Christ.this islandl
GIVEN AWAY
40 miles from Toritey and 60 inties from Syria Was thyntencil by Arab raiderTM.
The Mohammed religion was erread by fire and sword from India to Spain, The recurge of Istam posed a threat
Landrum, South Carolina. When authorities found cows staggering in the mendow by Jurther Arthur Pritchard's to the Christian Byzantine
capire.
the
year the
the
first
- Excitement
of
One discovery which ex- cited the archaeologists most was a large atone corbel-a decorative support for a roof - the Byzantine version of a Gorgun's head.
According to Greek mythology, Gorgons
snake-haired were women whose glances turned the beholder to stone.
The builders of the castle probably kiesi
used the Gorgen
an added defence
pasture, they arrested Pitchmid, Investigation showed that the cows had been drinking from | Telamig raid on Crpers was led | wygainst Invaders, But there the pond where moonshine by by Aku Bakr, father-in-law of were no ssons on the site of products from Pritchard's stlil | Mcħammed the Prophet. The petrified Arab Invaders.-China were being dumped.-UPI, raiders pillaged the countryside' Mail Special.
To-morrow's the day
at
Paquerette's
cikchod. 1845
MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1959.
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
PICTORIAL PARADE
LEFT: Prince Rainier with his pot ope Choota, star of his private zoo.-Express Photo.
RIGHT: Prima ballerina, Anna Hoaton, 28, of the Royal Ballet Company, has announced that the will rotire early, next month, as a result of arthritis in the
right foot. Afterwards she ex- pects "to settle down and have lots of children." Sho is married
to John Field, assistant director
of the Royal Ballat.
LEFT: Eccentric veteran`actor
A. E. Matthews, a livaly 89, is well-known, to be capable of disrupting any gathering. So the organisors of the Scotch-pouring contest in Mayfair should have known what they were fatting themselves in for when they
asked "Matty" to umpire. Bo-
fore the contest, all went well.
Matty, shoelaces untied, made a spooch, than clambered onta
his green tonnia umpira's chair..
But while the 16. competing barmen poured
and poured,
Matty nodded
quietly and
went to sleep,
waking once fo accept a drink. Express
Photo.
BELOW: On display at the Navy's Chatham Diving School-the three types of standard diving equipment at present used by the Admiralty. Left to right: A compressed air suit capable of operating down to 180 ft, and using compressed air: shallow-water suit using pure oxygen, and unable down to 33 ft; deep- diving self-contained set using a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen. The Navy's Bootswein George Wookey made the world record descent of 600 it off Norway in 1956 with this typo of suit.—Express Photo.
SALE!!!!
ABOVE: Glasgow Zoo's lioness Joon with Victor, one of the three cubs to which she gave birth in June. Joan can be very nasty when she has her cubs around--says zoo director Sydney Bonton.-Express Photo.
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From the Files
A
25
years AGO
leading article in the SCM Post said "Dis- cussing the budget yester- day wo relterated that true economy lies not in stagnation but in the sav- ing of waste; a state of affairs which compels the postponement of
public works cannot be acceptable to a community indefinitely. "Hongkong has now for len years endured 'succession of economy waves, so that thera is a lamentable lack of amenities and delay of improvements, and the population grows somewhat Ured of doing without.
"A check to discontent is the argument that the Colony upon its revenue scarcely affords its present expensive administra- tion and defence-while even to hin a further taxation is to Proise fierce objection.
"In the circumstances, thought- Inevitably turns to loans. At ance, of course, arises horrified inunts of squandermania, or of ulterior intent by this genera- tion to evade its responsibilities and pass the cost of works on to posterity.
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"These proteals are, however, out of date. Throughout the world the fallacy of the old idea that development must await prosperity is being re- cognised."
A distressing fatality occur- red in Mire Bay on Tuesday afternoon tohen Lieutenant Archibald R. H. Walker of IIMS Whilshed, slipped while rock climbing and was hurled to his death.
Lieutenant Walker was 22 years of age and was the only ison of Rear Admiral A. H. Walker (retired), who wGS formerly Commodore in Hong-
kony.
FROM the SCM Post's 25 Years Ago: "The his- tory of Sassoons is one of the most dramatic in the dramatic story of the Hebrew race.
"The original Sassoon was a Bombay merchant, but the family is descended from a group known as Ibn Shoshan, who at one time held the position of Nossi of Toledo.
"The name
Shoshan, which signifies lily' in Hebrew, was gradually
transformed.
Sassoon, rignifying gladness."
"The family
Into
claim Davidic
descent and Abraham Sassoon, who flourished in the
17th
Was
20
century, stated that he direct descendent of Shephallah, the nfth son of David.
"Not only are there many re- ferences to the name in Hebrew mediaeval literature, but men- tion
of Is múde. In the Talmud."
Shanghai won the Interport Lawn Bowla contest against Hongkong by securing their second victory today on the Lawn Bowls Club Green in the Race Course, by the nar- row margin of 18 shots to 17.
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