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PHONE-CENTRAL No. 1116. Contral 25
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SATURDAY, AUGUST
KING'S TOMB FOUND BELGIUM
IN ARCTIC.
STONE AGE SARCOPHAGUS
·WITH 4 MUMMIFIED BODIES.
AND THE SCHELDT.
M. HYMAN'S HOPE OF A NEW TREATY.
CLAD IN OTTER SKINS. ANTWERP APPROACH.
While the Frozen North con-
Brussels, July 6. tinues to be the scene of anxious M. Hymang, the Foreign Minis- search for the possibly living, one ter, in a speech in the Belgian of the mysteries of the vanished | Chamber to-day, dealt with the races of the Arctic appears to have problem "of the navigation 'of the been partly solved.
Scheldt which 'la stili panding be- tween Belgian and Holland.
Four mummified bodies, believed to have lived in the Stone Age, He remarked, that the Dutch have been discovered in a tomb Minister for Foreign Affairs said, on the top of a cliff on a rocky last. April, that the resumption of island in the Aleutian Group by negotiations depended on the Harold McCracken, the Arctic ex-initiative of Holland, adding that plorer and scientist.
ha' hoped to arrive af ́ an agrco- ment and to have it ratified before the elections of 1929.
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One of the bodies, wrapped in furs and birds' akins, is described as an Ice King; the others 'aro presumably those of a hunter, a sompstress, and the.. chief's favourite child,
M. Hymana associated himself with this statement. Ho insisted that the object of the Belgian Gov. ernment was to provide Antworp weat-with the guarantees that are in- step-dispensable to it.
The Aleutian, which He ward from Alaska, are the ping stones by which, it is sup-
"Our harbour," he said, "which, posed, the first human beings is one of the best in Europe, can crossed over from their Astatic be developed only if it is provided homes to the unpeopled shores with easy communications with of America.
the sen and the Rhino,"
This was the theory held by McCracken when the expedition, in the schooner Morrissey, set out on this quest from Seattle last April.
An Arctic sarcophagus now dis- covered at a spot 600 miles from the nearest timbered country, and hundreds of feet above sea-level, he describes in a wireless message to the New York Times,
It consists of a large wooden vault. fashioned from well-shaped and mortised driftwood, and fast- ened by bane nails. It is lined with otter skins, and surfaced by finely-woven grass fabric,
The tomb is partitioned into two parts.
At present Antwerp is in a curious situation. Its approaches in both these directions are subject! to a foreign State. The develop- ment of Antwerp affected the entire economic activity of the country, and this national interest coincided with the interest of the world. The Scheldt is an import- ant means of communication, open to all nationalities, and all countries will benefit from its development,
Rotterdam.
It is a remarkable fact that the principal approaches to Antwerp are not only subject to fordign sovereignty, but also have no im- mediate interest for the State in question, which is entirely
con-
In one lay the body of a man evidently of high rank, whom the explorer designates as an ice king.cerned with the prosperity of a
In the other were the bodies of rival port, a man and woman, presumably hunter and a sempstress, and a "child who may have been the favourite offspring of the great chief, put to death to make plen- sant his welfare in the spirit life.
Shirt of Bird Skins.
After referring to the history of international relations concern. ing the navigation of the Scheldt, M. Hymana recalled the terms of the Treaty of April 3, 1925. It provided for the organisation of a River Board, which would enable measures to be taken for the im- provement of navigation without the interference of a country in- directly concerned.
The ice king is dressed in a cont of tanned sca-otter, surmount ing a shirt of bird skins, both
It imposed on Holland the.eb- elaborately newn and ornamented. Outside the clothing was the care-ligation of maintaining the water- cloth of skins of northern animals, way in a condition capable of covered in turn with another lay- dealing with the development of naval construction and the in-
er of woven grass.
Encasing the whole was a pareh. mentlike layer of sea lion intestino, sewn with animal sinew.
The bodies of the servants were equally well wrapped, but with less elaborate detail.
creasing number of vessels.
Also it provided for the cons- truction of lateral and supple-! mentary canals which would im- prove the existing communication with the Rhine.
The interest of Antwerp and Weapons, implements, bone knives for the hunt, and other Rotterdam were bound up together, prized possessions were also the prosperity of the one would increase the prosperity of the
found.
The whole of the treasure trove other. has been placed aboard the schooner, and will be brought toi the American Museum of Na tional History, New York
Mongolian Influence, McCracken says, "It appears that Mankellan Influence was at work on this early tribe man.
"There is absolutely nothing to Indicate contact with ancient or modern white races. The culture
New Treaty Needed. When the Dutch Parliament- rejected the Treaty of April 3, 1925, Belgian opinion interpreted this vote as implying that the Dutch nation did not regard the. treaty as satisfactory; but It was never suggested that Holland was opposed on principle to any treaty. in 1919 Holland accepted the views of the Great Powers that It
is indubitably that of the Stone was necessary to revise the Treaty of 1839, and agreed to negotiatlate Age,"
Anancial a new treaty,
The organiser and backer of the expedition is Mr. Charles H. Stell, of New York, who was accompanied on the voyage by his wife.
1.
The captain of the Morrissey was Robert A. Barlett, who com- manded. Peary's craft, Roosevelt, when he discovered the North Polo in 1909,
The direct canal between Ant- werp and Leige, is the essential element of the whole scheme.
M. Hymans concluded by ex- pressing the hope that Holland and Belgium would collaborate to their mutual advantage and to the Prosperity of their respective ports. M. Vandervelde, leader of the Dr. Clark Wissler, Curator of Opposition, and formerly Foreign Anthropology at the American Minister, declared himself in per- Museum, says that if the mummies feet agreement with M. Hymans, reveal that real embalming, such saying that the claims of Belgium as practised in Ancient Egypt, concerning the Scheldt were legi- was employed, it will be the first timate, and that M. Hymans spoke case known of this means of pre-in the name of the entire country. servation outside the land of the Pharaohs.
Unique Discovery.
. The American expert's view on the importance of the discovery was confirmed by Captain Joyce- of the British Museum Ethno- graphical department.
"Everything depends upon whe!! ther the bodies have been em- balmed by artificial agency. "If. that is the case, and the viscera has been removed, then the dis- covery would be unique for that part of the world.
"It may be, however, that the bodies have been desiccated by the climatic conditions prevailing there,"
Captain Joyce added that the Stone Ago in the Aleutian islands extended down to comparatively recent times, so that it was diff- cult to make any computation of the age of the bodies at the-mo- ment. It was difficult to believe that a sarcophagus had been found, but the manner of burial and body wrappings, were tradi- tional.
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