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Loose stone uncovers the treasures
of a Ming emperor
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From CHRISTOPHER DOBSON, Peking. TODAY I am able to send details of the wonder- ful treasures in the newly discovered tomb of Wan Li, one of the last of the Ming emperors.
The tomb is in a uch bowl I passed through one
framed by mountain penks.
3 came upon it after a 30-mile dre to visit the Great Wall. Best of the 13 Wan is the
Ming emperors buried in the Jarwi
oh has been whose Touk And this is the rei description of its treasure to
ch the Wol.
The rond Into the bowl of the tans is flanked by great Fgues, 12 1 15 let high-there are camels and el plants,
dogs. grotesque hors
lion and
warriors fully girl for war, and states- Jami dressed for the crurt
The als re spread round
the bowl, which is some
ve
miles nerer.
Pagodas
lacquered pavilions, There are
pogadas and, ourlisks courtyard after
with courtyard each
beyond
The Eural plaer of Emperor Wen Li and his two wives was discovered most by accident after years of patient work like a great deal of archaro- Pogies Ands.
Someone noticed
that
some A wall did not luck a if they aited. They were dug out and the entrance to a funnet why found.
on
Inside the tunnel, which had caved in, one of the workmen stumbled
Stotie OVER which was carved "From the stone to the doar is 34 fret." They moved on 34 feet, and there they found ather stone which dirreted them right to
Tumb.
All this was
part of the pre- Cautions agunist the Comi being pillage d.
Won Li had 10,000 poldiers and entufio's peabouts working on the building. He started in it when he was 22, inkhed it when he was 26, and then sat down with it his Ministers to
In fenst 12 suous underground palace he was not to occupy until he died at 58. It really s
underground
pse dug 80 feet down into The site of a hill behind the main pavilion.
Marble
It has five balls, each with gates
of olid erved marble about 12 feet
bigh weighing eight and set into solid ton each
bronze beams.
dome-
shaped hall of superb sisi-- pilety. It contained a throne for his second wife and a huge vase filled with oll.
This was a lamp designed to bum for ever, but It had Kuttered uut when the lomb was scaled.
In the end hall were three great ccmns of the emperor and his
It wives,
fantastic WILS treasure trove when Chinese archaeologists ensed open the massive mble Jst of the doors.
There were heaps of gold ingots, boukiers cf uncut jade, head- Anely- dresses of Inanitely worked golden dragons and precious stones, and skeletons of Wan Li and wives in their mouldering finery,
There was food so that Was Li
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THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1959.
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WHO KNOWS AND TELLS
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Gourlay
IN HIS OWN UNMISTAKABLE WAY
THE SUN NEVER
SETS ON FALLEN
CROWNS
Lisbon.
was another of those charity parties where the excuse
that they are making money for the poor.
villa
But the setting was different-a large perched high in the hills above Cascais, near
would not go hungry, miela Estoril, in Portugal. of horses saddled up so that
he could ride out whenever he felt bored, and models of his Ministers to
him keep
company.
Lipstick
Gold and jede pins adorned the
hir of ki queen. Thro were clothes, silks delicately embroidered with gold wire There were lipstick and rouge. brushes and a and CONS orunze mirror,
In all, there were 24 chesis of treasure of supreme historical and actual value.
The Chinese are now hot on the Lewek of other tambs In the mez-of emperors so rich they make Wan Li look like A pauper.
There are wondrous things to be
found ye!. treasures to duli the riches of Tulankhamen himself.
1 visited Wan Li as Peking ancients three days of frantic exitement in a ruin of glitter- ing fireworks and a clunging of cymbals.
it was the tenth anniversary of
the Chinese victory: over Chinng Kol-shek and
establishment of a Communist
regime.
There have been vastly colourful
parades, bands and fireworks,
sports, meetings, and ballet, and, of course, the greret talks between Mao Tse-tung and the Mr Khrushchev behind
Forbidden City.
Here was a concentration
titles, their money.
of
the inter-bred families who once who ruled feudal Europe and were now shorn of everything except their dignities, their
Behind o bar at the top of the terraced garden I found a synl trlo-Princess Maris sabrielia, daughter of ex-King
Princess Umberto of Italy: Pilar,
daughter of Don Juan, claimant to the Sponlah throne; und his son, Don Juanito, who night get the job instead father.
ot
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Ex-King Umberto bought whisky from his daughter and gave a few words of fatherly encouragement.
Generosity
And
remark:
in
But the king said: "You can write about this if you want to and you can quole me if you ke. But there's nothing much 1 can say about world event and about Italy. I AIT not and was reprimanded by his when che made her financial allowed to go back there under
Pillar "Let them eat cake" barmaids, the Princesses
a special law. It is sad, Maria Gabriella They "'s all for a good reuse. For
"Su, 1 like living here the poor of the district. Tomor- whispered: "Don't give so much.
Emori). Inst row night the poor will have a
It's a pleasant place The mupplies will never
will be party here and they
and a lovely climate. I swim in out,"
the money, Go and glyen
the sea every day of the year. Don Juanito, shrugged and spend."
"But I'm kept fairly busy tan. refused to pour any whisky
the
bought another Every morning and afternoon I has boille. He back in
Dutifully I
give audiences to visiting obviously no future as a barman drink from Princess Pilar.
Halinus. They come all the time if he falls to get the job of King
She was less
generous than to pay their respects. It is very of the Spaniards.
her brother with the whisky gratifying. This morning I had
She diplomatic. but just us
on Hallan singer, a doctor. in Ilving here snid: "I like
ecientet, and Jazz bal." Estoril, I never thought about & prince in Spain. I'm not in- In the main room of the villa, terested in politics and
things decorated to look vaguely ilke a like that, Don't know anything night club, the dancing was in about them. I leave all that to fuil cha-cha-cha, father."
He told me: "Soon I go back {o n Spanish university. Alter that
I don't know. I cannot discuss the political future or the restoration of the monarchy You will have to ask my father about that."
the
His father
at was not party. He was grouse-shooting in Scotland. He considers his son, a 20, too young for the throne, responsibilities of the and he would prefer to take it over himself. But Franco
has indicated that when and if he restores the monarchy he would prefer young Juanita.
At a table near the bar sat Ue wife of Don Juan, who, for the
the title moment, uses Countess of Barcelona white awaiting the change to queen or queen mother.
Like her husband rhe is of descent. She is an Bourlan oppressive figure, tall and amply proportioned with the imperious prominent nase down which the Bourbonis have looked at the world for centuries,
She said to me, sounding
Antoinette ite like Maric
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questions about that business with the Shah of Persia,"
I told her I had interviewed the Shah recently and that ha sunset was telligent, charminst,
to Irresistible (I Imagine) women.
She said: "At least with you've spent some time him. Which is more than I've done. How do I know whether he's Irresistible or not when we've hardly met?"
High jinks
With that the princess went count, off to dunce with the
charming, who I Intelligent,
Irresistible to and I imngine) A
women, including prinCEMEN.
kad The Inat cha-cha-cha been played in the night club. Mest of the guests had gone.
Count Tyszklowicz acciden-
drink over. tally poured a young man in Tyrolean shorts, To make amends, the noble drink fetched another count from the bar and slowly poured it over himself,
It was all a good blue-blooded frolic.
Princess Maria Gabriella was Then the raffles and muctions going round the door check to storted. I bought three tickets cheek with Count Jan Tyszkie- which could have won me 24 wicz, a handsome Pole of noble rabbits, lineage whose family is distantly piglet, a pair of white
related to ex-King Umberto, or a cock.
flower- The princess was So did ex-King Umberto. We
Apart from serving watched the rofiling apprehen- bedecked sively,
At last it was over and we realized we had been lucky. Neither of us had won.
Interview
a
The ex-king took me to room in the vilin and granted me a short unofficial audience. One of his aite:dels toll me:
You more
I ordered a whisky and soda from Don Juanito, a tall, hand- some blond who looks Kike a son of the Vikings than a descendant of the Bourbons. He poured out a generous measure
at the bar the princess had te solling flower to surp ible males who were then given
her the honour of adorning
with their pur- Foyal person chases.
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humoured,
The count started to take oft Prin- his hoes to dance with cess Marin Gabriella. But the princess throw one of his shoes playfully into the garden. More laughter.
rich
It's amazing what the count and the Juined her
will do for the poor. of for a drink. For the price
quests Other Gragging challenged emerged into the darkness of the next round he
Laxis me to stack the glasses higher the mountains to find no
princess than he could probably an old and no lifts. Polich custom). The
The cock crowed in the hems A shout his looked on with youthful toler- of the raffle winner.
and said: "I don't like went up: "My kingdom for
inen newspaper
mule." usually. They always ask silly
ance
13700 realse mit majesty never gives Interviews. You must regard this as private talking talk."
to
-London Express, Service).
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A PELLET THAT'S WORTH The big danger when
A GOLD MINE
REPO, the reactor, squats massively in an ex- Edward Doiling, £850-a-year scientific assistant, winds a little aluminium can with a pellet inside, just SO close to BEPO's uranium heart.
RAF hangar at Harwell.
For minutes, hours or days, the intense rays rose red walls of the ancient from the atom furnace pound at the canned pellet. Until it, too, is highly unstable and "radioactive."
Mr Dolling winds
This
of
the
it cul
дпу
moment
is the lige complex buildings where the Chinese emperors reigned from
watches it drop into a lead-UNDRED MILLIONS a year fourteenth century until 1911
shielded trolley and wheels it time that takes A period of
industry away to be despatched. Another chooses. in Wan . who died in 1819.
radio-isotope is born. --Londa Express Service).
They are sold almost at cost price. Why don't more firms buy? "Ignorance," sald Dr John Putnam of Harwell's Isotope Research Division.
Just Fancy That!
canal
London,
basin at Bradley N unexploded bomb found in a
(Staffordshire) the other day is believed to have been dropped in the First World War-from a Zeppelin. The bomb is 14 long, weighs about 12lb.
MAN was escorted out of a Tory election meeting recently at Lavender-hill, South Battersea, after constant interrup- tions. Then he came back with an Alsation dog and shouted: Police took him outside-to ask "Touch me now if you dare."
him if he had a licence for the dog.
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Treasure trove
It happens dozens of times a day at Harwell. For radio- isotopes are now one of Britain's most exciting ecramercini mine Rold "inventions" — U worth millions.
But I report that British Industry is stiting on top of this treasure trove and doing ile about il,
are
A survey shows that isotopes saving U13 between £3,000,000 and £7,000,000 £1 year. Yet everyone making or marketing them is agreed they could
ONE be moving US
QUOTE
by Mr Jacob Malik, Soviet Ambassador, speaking at the Royal Albert Hall:-
Dom-
ULTURE ↳ a field of
petition in which everyone
is the winner.
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by the Philadelphia Inquirer, commenting on the crash of the
last serviceable Splitre-
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Er
is as if the last of Francis Drake's feet were headed for the scrap heap. If there is no other recourse but to ground the herolo old war- rior, its relirement should be honoured by permanent pre- servation in fitting surround- ing both in Britain and the -United States.
by Sir John Hunt, speaking to pupils of Sandy Place School, Sandy, Beds:
TUNK of the most important lask in life being to who make friends with people are on the other alde of Dome barrier.
-by Professor Arthur Newell, American broadcaster and 18:-
Oxford: turer, to women in YOU British are silli falking about "our dear American Cousins." You often say that with a curial ate that makes u feel wo Bre bunch of Coignials gone wrong. But to- day Jean than half of the American people have any Eri- tish blood tri thele votos and what there is is often dilutòd, (London Express Service),
"People just don't know what versatile tools they are," he said, "Recently we ran a course for directors. Their reaction was: 'We would have jumped at this new technique if we had known about it before,'
"
Little marvels Everything about these little marvels is fascinating. In mak- ing them, three factors must be considered.
the
The World
of Science By Peter Fairley
IT.
a
gangster ‘resigns'
T is a tough job, need- ing the gift of razor- edge diplomacy, to get a New York teenager who wants to reform out of the gang warfare which ravages the city's streets. been have just following some of the which social cases
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FIRST A PEACE MEETING, THEN A RECKONING
By Our Reporter
coming workers have tried to back to his gang friends for between
solve recently.
in
Anything posing storage tank? the question "What is
ezn be traced out and where?" by an Isotope.
Scientists wanted to know how Thames mud moved. So It scems that the would-be they slung an isotope overboard convert goes to a borough youth haircut, traced some of the radioactive he wants to quit his gangster nud a fortnight later 15 miles life. upstream.
Avenues.
tenement
district
Third and Fifth
near Tilbury. Sensitive counters board and tells them there that the Viceroys to get married. Or the 40 boys who were in
A booklet
In the same way, isotopes can be used to follow the movements of Insect swarms ccross country, or the way in which plants absorb fertiliser.
They
sterilise grain or foed. In fact, once health teals are scientists unplete, Harwell
The reformed thug is forced crowded
protection,
Now, on the insistence of his The 21-year-old, his hair still
the
fashionable young wife, they live somewhere greasily
"I'm not taking any Puerto" Rican "pompadour rise.
explained that he left chances on somebody recognis
ing me." he said. Now he works as a £16-8-
his gang only two years ago, week clerk in a luggage firm
So for this year the fighting about half are in gaol or reform The youth board officials, who maintain contacts with teenage gangs have cost the schools for assault or carrying
and girls. weapons. all neighbouring gangs, Ax on lives of 12 boys appointment for the convert to Five have died in the last two meet the leaders of rival gangs months. under a flag of truce.
Revenge
explained that he had joined a gang in the he wanted Arst place because "to get a reputation."
"I'm pretty good with
their hands," he said flexing amateur. I never carried a gun ot a knife."
The 21-year-old
my
"Ten others have gone on to worse things taking drugs, selling the stuff or living on prostitutes' earnings.
"The other 10 have gone social. That means they either get married, go back to school, or join a social club. I've gone
London Express Service),
believe they will soon permit gang-leaders that he is no longer thoughtfully. "I used to box social,"
a
store
her housewife to "perishables" five times as long. A little booklet for directors lists 318 different
uses for
The convert tells the rival
in the rat-rpce.
If he is lucky, that means he streets in safety can walk the
But not always, a 21-year-old
How susceptible are the stoms of the metal or chemical pellet to radiation? Gold, for instance, radio-isotopes in 40 different even inside the territoy of the can be made 5,000 times more Industries. More ures are being rivals. radioactive than iron. How close found dully. Yet G6 per cent of should it be placed to reactor's heart? For how long? Is the rubber, steel or plastic sheeting, rolling off the mill, always at the right thickness? Is there a leak in that under ground pipe. refrigerator,
No chances
But his face was badly scarred razor. "That the demand for them today former leader of East Harlem's by somebody's
happened when I was jumped savage Viceroys told me, comes from overseas.
"Sometimes the other gangs by six other guys," he said.
He joined the Viceroys when just won't let you quit--because maybe the are waiting to get he was 14. revenge on your gang, and they want to get you too."
As Dr Putnam explained: "Nothing surprises us more than the slowness of industry to respond."
London Express Service).
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home In his operated territory, the desperately over-
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The boss decided it was too hot
“First wook's anniversary"
to work and sent us home!”.
TALKING
POINTS
To do nothing is the way, to be nothing.
-NATHANIEL HOWE.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
---GEORGE HERBERT. *** * *
Matrimony is a bargain. to get the
Someone has
worst of it.
HELEN ROWLAND. * **
K you want to be thought a llar, always tell the truth.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH,
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All free Governments are party Governments.
JAMES GARFIELD,
As to honour, you know, It's a very fine medieval in. heritance which women never get hold of. It wasn't
theirs.
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-JOSEPII CONRAD.
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He thinks like a Tory and talks
like & Radicul and that's 60 important nowadays.
--OSCAR WILDE, +(London Kaprese Service),
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