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The following Prean communique has by the Colonial obody good, writes M. Ch. Clemontben forwarded to us Goaneau, the vetärna French Orientalist Secretary- and Membre de l'Institut, in the Consequent on the decision of His Times.. The war in which England and Majesty's Government to issue a memorial
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A. G. DA ROCHA. 19, THE AUCTIONEER.
A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER, -SURVEYOR AND
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Fraace have 'ought the good fight should.. Phique and scroll to the nest-of-kin of London Committee of the Hongkong and Boructions from Mesans. Bem & Co.
et to shoulder has more than sace proved those who have Fallen in the War the Becretary of the War Chice announces that the truth of this popular saying at the work of distributing the scroll has rate in the sphere of archeology. For we
In the case of officers the now begun. In are indebted to the war for the discovery roll will be distributed from the War of several ancient monuments of interest in various parts of the Eastern theatre Office, in the case of other ranks from of war. In Palestine, for instance, there the Record Office of the unit concerned was the fine Byzantine mosaic which was The concurrent issue of the plaque has brought to light by the capture of not been found possible owing to the Turkish trench at Shellal, south of Gaza, necessity of building a special factory for by the Anzacs, and has since been care fully taken to pieces and transferred to its manufacture, and it has not been thought desirable to delay the issue of The war brought about a similar lucky the scrolls pending completion of the discovery not long afterwards, in much arrangements for manufacturing and dis the same circumstances, at another place tributing the plaques Further an
lone way from the first, called Ain nouncement will be made in the Duk, which stands a few miles north-west when the plaques are ready for distribu- of Jericho, at the foot of the mountain tion known as the Quarantans, or Karanta, The scroll is of thick paper in the form where, according to the local legend, of a rectangle, approximately eleven and and was tempted, aveairisentha inches long by seven and It bears
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PINE MATHESON & CO. The news, was received in the Colony yesterday of the death, in London, from beart failure, on November 96th of Mr. Charles H. Boss, Director of Messrs. Jar dine, Matheson & Co., and member of the
Shanghai Banking Corporation. Ross had numerous friends in the Colony, where he had a long and honourable con- nection, and the news of his death was received with sincere regret. Flags were flown at half mast at Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. and at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, as a mark of respect to his memory.
AVING been Favoured with in- froll by Public Auction, on MONDAY,
December 8th, 1919, 15 pat bis Balsá. Boom.
Soon
Mr. Ross first arrived in the Colony in 1995, to join the arm of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. His rise in the firm was fast, for he was signing per pro in 1903 and became a partner in 1907 after, he became bead of the Princely House," succeeding Mr. Henry Kes- wick, and was then appointed, on Mar 11th, 1911, a member of the Hodgi
ng Legislative Council. retirement in 1913 he proved to be a worthy bad of the cara arris Popular connection with Mesard Jarding, Mathe- son & Co., he was employed in Hongkong, Shanghai and Tientsin.
Arm and
Till his
seven-sixteenths inches wide. the following inscription:
"He whom this Scroll commemorates wax numbered among those who, at the
Mr. Ross left Hongkong on May 8th, call of King and country, left all that 1913, his departure being, regretted by was dear to them, endured hardship, host of friends in Hongkong. He bid
Fot faced danger and, finally, passed out. the sight of men by the path of duty spent many years in India before his and self-sacrifice, giving op their own arrival in China One of his claims to lives that others might live in freedom: Voluntance was his connection with the movement of which he was a мету enthusiastic, supporter. He was in Tientsin at the time of the Boxer outbreak to General and rendered valuable service
A Turkish abell. fired at the British trenches bereabouts, very considerately chose to slight and explode on the very spot where a treasure lay hidden from the eye, and once again a mosaic was partially laid bare moenie of really exceptional interest. The work which had been so well begun by this chance shot was hastily completed, and the r mains of a large mosaic pavement were nncovered, tearing an inscription in ill-This is followed by an inscription of
the soldier's name and regiment. defined character.
Major A. M., Furber, who was on the spot at the time, took a photograph of it, and on bis return to England sent it to Paris, to our Académie, with a red quest for information as to its meaning
INSCRIPTION, DECIPHERED.:
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The whole inscription is wurmounted by Gasslee, the Commander of the Britishmalary required, may be obtained at
a device including the Royal Armis in colour with the initials of His Majesty the King.
the G.P.O. and it All Police Stations
The Penalty for non-compliance la
D. G. WOLFE, fine not exceeding $50.
Captain Superintendent of Pallas. Hongkong, Boptember 2nd, 1919.
troops sent to the relief of Peking.
The organisation of the Scouts Com, in Hongkong was mainly due to his pany initiative, and its existence to the constant interest he displayed in it as its Come manding Offcer. Few man had a better 31: knowledge of the New Territories than Me- Bo, one of whose chief recreations as
NOTICE to go on walling tours in the Chinese villager
Mr. Bo idenhed himself with most, forms of apor | THE
in the peninsula.
"SHINFUKUI MARU head of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. will be despeched for KOBE (directs on or He was succeeded nozzle? var chartered by the French Government
The scrolls will be accompanied by the following letter from Buckingham Palace over the King's signature:-
I jo With my grateful people in sending you this memorial of a brave life given for others in the Great War The secalls will be distributed ze the beeone ready and a special application for them should be made as in view of the large number involved, it is impos- able to say when their issue in individuals Mr David Landale. cases may be expected
The task of examining It was giron me, and at the first glance, I recognized it sa a text in Hebrew characters of the aquate cursive type and in the Judeo Aramaic or Arameo-Jewish, langu580 Arun very great deal in common with the inscriptions, ali morate, of the Galilean synagogues at Kair Kenna (the Cana of the Bible) and Sefurire (Sephoris), which L. revealed some co- siderable time ago. The inscription has. suffered pretty badly, in, parts, and cer tain optical distortions, due to the candi, BUY FOOD WITHIN THE tions under which the photograph had to beken, add to the difficulties of decip hering characters already distorted by perspective,
It should be added that on the right and left, outside the text, there are traces ot designs much mutilated, which at times seem to resolve themselves into the outline of some uncouth, animal nos une
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food from the British Dominions like a lion, and opposite this fragmentowever great may be the disarming. of a human arm. Before this can be power of the League of Nations, finitely settled a new inquiry on the spot
will be necctRATÝ.
The result of my deciphering, based on this first photographic evidence, is ss follows:
Place Amon!
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our own interests and for the purpose of national defence, this Honcured be the memory of Biayan country must be self-supporting What (Benjamir), the Pharnas (a sort of ad- we cannot produce within this island ministrator of the community), the son must be imported, and self-interest do Yosch (Joseph). Honoured (also) be the mands that we shall insure a constant memory of all those who render assist supply of raw materials from our own ance, and of everyone who has given or kith and kin on whose co-operation we can
Further subscriptions are invited and shall give, to this Holy Place, whether rely, rather than be at the mercy of the may be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, Hr. gold, or silver, or any (other) valuable, changeable, good will of a foreign nation.. Matheson, care of Chartered Bank of **Our export trade again seriously Be not backward in giving to this Holy
mensced alike by enemy and allies India, Australia and China, Hongkong. Thus it is, in substance, an appeal for Already the United States and Japan funds, probably for the expenses of the have mada heavy inroads into British
Both of these UNIÓN CHURCH THREE-QUARTER services, works of charity, payment of supremacy in the East.
TRECHT equipped and
CENTURY FUND. personnel, batay in material, work to for keen competition in commerce with be done on the' synagogue, repairs, exten. sions, even decoration, such as the laying the United Kingdom, while this country of the mosaic itself who knows? For is suffering from an epidemic of increas
ig cost and diminishing output. related to a synagogue The To recover or maintain British mar evidently name by which it is called is verkets a friendly field in the Dominions curious: atrah gadichal "The Holy will be a great, help, and a preferential Place" and it calls to mind the phrase tariff may stare off the danger of under which, as Philo tells us, was used by the cutting by foreign competitors" Essenes-ippi ráno, the holy places i -ie, "the synagoguen.". It is known that the Essenes lived in precisely those
Ain Dak has preserved the name, but and the Dead Sea,
not the exact position, of Dôk of the However, that does not necessarily Maccabees, which was no doubt situated imply that the date of our mosaic should not far away, but a little farther up the be fixed at a time when there were still mountain. I have previously brought Essenes that is to, say, at the beginning forward the theory that this place is the Of the Christian era. Bat this phrase site of the Noars of Flavius Josephus,ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY. may be associated with a tradition of from which the Tetarch Archelaus, the Essenic origin, through the "medium, son of Herod, had drawn the water to The Bazaar Committee of the Society perhaps, of one or other of those strange irrigate the Jericho palm groves. This Jewish or Judno Christian sects such as Noara is the same as the Na'aran of the of St. Vincent de Paul beg to scknowledge the Nazarenes, the Gibeonites, etc. For, Talmud and the Noorath of Eusebius with thanks the receipt of the following owing to a number of considerations for and St. Jerome, who in their Onomas further donations for the bazaar which which there is no room here, they will icon try to identify it with the Biblical be explained in the detailed monograph, Noorath, in the land of Ephraim. of which this is only a very brief sum-On this subject they give us two valu- Mr. P. HJ 0. alary-I am inclined to, place the date able pieces of information: first, that the Jonckheer810 of this, inscription as late an historical Noorath of their day was five, Roman Mr. D. Chellaram...1 Indian Fabroid- conditions, will permit. The very fact miles from Jericho (just about the same
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the stronghold where in the second century-It, fe evident, of course, that what is it, as he was under orders to proceed B.C. that terrible, tragedy was played left of the mosaic will have to be com- Home out which ended in the death of the pletely, uncovered. But it is also esten Mr. Hutchison remarked that the famous Asmonean Prince Simon Mas-hal to explore right beneath the pare licence expired a long time ago, to which cabeus, who was ambushed and murdered ment itself. For perhaps, in the base the defendant replied that his motor by bis own son in law, Ptolomy, the meats of the old yoagogue of Noeros, cycle had not been used, as it was out of Governor of Jericho
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