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PULLMAN." "DOUGHBOY
Presented to U.S. by France:
The towered skyline of Manhattan makes an incongruous setting for the Bttle French box eur-of a design all too fami- Har to every ex-doughboy as it was ferried across the Hudson The River with French delegates to the Fidae congress. car was presented to the Forty and Eight society of Ameri
can war veterana.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, DECEMBER 6th, 1930,
ANCIENT CITY OF
VERULAM.
Revela ions of Early English Life.
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In all the romantic story of in parauit of Cassivellusaus, king modern archaeology nothing of the native tribe of Catuvellauril, more fascinating has occurred who was overlord of southeastern· than the revelation that a few fect Britain. His stronghold is sup- beneath a hay-field and trees out posud to have been where Verulam side the old English. city of St. has now been found. In Albany there le buried the re-native British metropolis mains of the Roman city of located the first mint ever known Verulam which was the metro in British history. The native of England before Jesus of Britans had learned about coining Nazareth was
born and beside money from their contacts with which Londinium-original of the people from Roman-ruled Europe present London-was
mere and imitated them. Chesar did trading village.
not finish the conquest of Eng In fact, If the hopes already innd. This was only accompilah- raised. by archaeologien finds are ed in the year 43 A.D. under the realized. Verulam may well prove Emperor Claudius. And eight to be to England what Pompeii years later the Romans conferred and 'Herculaneum are to Italy upon Verulam the title of "muni marvellous preservation, of the ciptum," which in Gaul wns everyday life of the Romun ma- title given only to pre-Roman lers of the then known world. cities which had proved them- Verulam may even exceed them in selves worthy of Roman honor by
reason of their size and impor tance. This prover that even after Cnesur departed and before Claudius cume, Verulam maintain. el its commanding position.. The blg paint, therefore, in that here.
interest. After all, Pompeil and Hereculaneum were only Roman easide towns preserved for pos
of terity by being buried in a rain ashes from the neighbouring vol- cana of Vesuvius, But Verulam
was more
than a Roman
a
anywhere the excavators hope to find the pre-Roman British stronghold and, its native civili- zation--something about which very little is known.
SECOND-In the year A: D. 61, while the main Roman armies were to the north fighting the native tribes, the minor oficiala left in the south so aroused the Britons by their tyrannny that the towniceni under their Queen Boadicea Long before the Romans eame for more correctly spelled now, England on conquest bent, there Baudices) arose in rebellion. They is evidence that Verulam was the destroyed the towns of Colchester, site of a native British town and, London and Verulam.
Vestiges possibly, the biggest in all the
Ancient Roman Walls.
·will not squeak quite so much as in those days when it was in ne-island. this tran
to
of that ancient destruction, it is "40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux."
huped, will be uncovered. To every American who served
THIRD-Verulam was rebuilt in France during the war,
Box car No. M23987 will be pre- It had long been known by the upun an even bigger scale by the sign on a French freight ear meant
regular anmething that could be classified sented to the Forty and Eight 50-people of St. Albans that just out- tomans, being made among the horrors of war. Forty city of Veterans in the United side the town there had been a Roman walled city and here they men packed in one of these little States, which took its name from Roman city. The ancient Roman remained for 360 years. There is, mitch comfort the "10 Hommes eti 8 Chevaux." city walls are exposed for many therefore, the chance that the cars never had
Eighty-three whole of Roman civilization eight. This simple printing on the typical hundreds of feet. certainly less
French box car never seemed at years ago the remains of a Roman Britain for 350 years may be un- Horses would have enjoyed,
French, but it theatre, the only one in Great Bri-covered. And yel, after all these years, all funny to the the sight of one of these little greatly amused cars, with the memories that it doughboy upon
fhan even
his arrival
in
in
the American tain. Were exposed and; nearby," FOURTH-When the Romans the remains of a Roman forum, finally abandoned Britain, there
it was decided Not long ago
was a wild swirl of petty wars to have the site excavated to see between native tribes. The ofth whether further traces of the old city could be discovered.
will recall most certainly will France, Hence the society and its touch something armud the heart name.
A Mobile Memorial,
This task was entrusted to Dr.
of every veteran and there will te a friendly response.
During the contention of the Such 14 meeting is being made American Legion in Paris in 1927, possible by the Fidac society of the Forty and Eight Society was R. E. Mortimer Wheeler, keeper: and French and secretary of the London Mu-i French war veterans-Federation very conspicuous Interailles dra Anciens Combat newspapers tried their best to in-seum, and his wife, both of whom iants whose delegates recently, form, their readers, in a friendly are well known British archaeolo visiting America took with them away, of this "quaist American gists. They had not gone far be war lime 10 and 8" box car. The humour. The French veterans, fore they began to make senen- French were among 140 veterans who ten years before had begun to tional discoveries-the remains of
American their of eight allied armies atteming understand
a great Roman gateway, Roman the eleventh annual congress of comrades, accepted the society villas, a Roman wine cellar and a whole-heartedly. And that's why Roman cemetery, which ས་nt Fidac.
the Fidne aent the box car back to always placed outside the
walls for hygenic reasons. the Forty and Eight.
city
да
ณ
century after Christ, so fur Britain is concerned, remains Dox car No. 323987, which saw
mystery. It is known that Eng- much service transporting Ameri,
land was harried by Picts and "This car is a symbol of Ameri ean and ather troops during the
Work Postponed. the war," Baid
Scott and Anglo-Saxon and Irish war, was turned over to the Fidae enn sacrifices in
Work in excavating has now pirates in the fourth century. Hociety by the Nard tailway in M, duvary, director of the Chemins
been postponed until sext year sa|Notwithstanding. Verulam seemia fitting edremony, It is being de Fer du Nord when the car taken to Amerien as a symbol of was turned over to the delegates. account of the setting in of the to have continued a semi-peaceful rain season, but points of vast existence, because a contemporary Franco-American friendship and "May it stand for suceceding archaelogical and historien im-life of St. Germanas, a Gaulish -comradeship in arms.
generations of Americans an The oki "buddy" has been done humble but expressive monument portance are expected to be clear-bishop, says he came to Verula
the Americaned up:
in 429 for the purpose of putting up in full dres uniform. It has to the spirit of
Itsjarmies who fought on
FIRST-In 64 B. C.. Jullus down a native Christian herosy. French a fresh coat of grey paint.
Caesar crossed the Thames river] This would imply that Verulam joints have been oiled so that it soil."
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was not at war. Since the inhabi- which ran the main Roman road covered. The Roman baths wore tants had time and leisure to from London to Verulam. There of our present Turkish bath type quarrel among themselves about was also uncovered the remains of and were heated from furnaces veligion. In Verulam, therefore, what was probably an elegant which supplied hot air to base- if anywhere, it is hoped to dis- Roman villa of some higher
menta beneath the floors and to about British official. Tesselated pavements of cover something
influe pipes which carried the hot urban life in the fifth century, the the floor of the villa were story of which is at present a covored. These were made of red air to the upstairs rooms and kept blank page.
pottery squares measuring about them comfortable in bad weather. Discovered Ancient Baths. an inch each way. In what was
In fact, just enough has been found in six weeks work to justify One of the first discoveries Dr. another room was discovered Wheeler made this past summer pavement of a Greek key pattern. the hope that next summer com- was the foundation of
great
In still another house remains plate pages of ancient history will gateway in the walls through of a Roman bath system were un- be laid bare.
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Scones of vengeful rioting in the capital city of Rio de Janeiro followed the spectacular coup d'etat which brought about the swift overthrow of the Brazilian government. Mobe surged through the Plaza Marechal Floriane, shown lower left, and other main thorough- fares as news of the success of the revolution was broadcast through the city; note, in the background, the dome of Monroe Paince, the Brazilian Senate Building, solzed by a rovolutionary committee. Lower right in Dr. Washington Luis, the deposed president, who yielded to arrest after hours of defying the robels from the sanctuary of his executive man-
sion, the Palacio Cuanabara, pictured." at the
top.
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