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THE DISARMAMENT PROBLEM
Those who are hoping that the cause of world peace may be serv
DAY BY DAY
OUR
FASHIONS IN 2,000 B.C.
By "The Sentinel”, COME YEARS AGO a bored its new buildings
So to the British Museine 169
provided the
SELF LOVE EXAGGERATES FAULTS, AS WELL AS OUR VIRTUES,-um, whllo passing through the future. Donations and inquiries rooms containing Egyptian ex-can be addressed to the Prezident of Antiquaries, hibits, suddenly exclaimed: "Why of the Society
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been made recantly are Aoundly based or not remains to be seen. The Prime Minister declares that "in spite of all difficulties, I be lieve that very subtantial and es- sential work can be done. A failure, in view of its consequon- | Goethic.
Pre- ecs, la unthinkable." The
(Mr. aldent of the Conference
The Ben Line s.. Benrannoch, from couldn't these old chapa die and be Burlington House, W. 1. Home ports vin Straits, In due hero buried like we do, instead of get-
ting made into mummies and com- We are not too poor to be able Henderson) states that "The Dis-on the 10th instant.
sum required-Just ing here to bother us about who to And the armament Conference is going
During the week-end, three cases they were and when they lived?" enough to pay the nation's drink hour for og a very slowly but it is not going to
of typhoid and one of meningitis were And, to cap that little story of bill for an
Indiferenco verging on igorance, gorious gap in our scientific equip. break. We want to bring about anotined to the health authorities.
I myself once overheard a flippantment. A keen and widespread in- olderly com- toreat is now felt in this many- practical success." Then, again,
Through having her arm caught Youth reply to an Mr. Stimson, the American Scere- tary of State, observes that "the in a machine on which she had been panion's lecture on the magnifi-sided science, and the number of working, a knitter, Sau Chi-tal a 30. cence of the statuary in one of the would-be students has been rapid- and year old woman employed at the Kam same rooms by humming the rely increasing every year. But, an problems are both serious
Wah Kriitting Factory, of 155, Fuk frain of a comic song: "Ala't it things are, almost the only way of will complex and their solution
the gr-r-and to be bloomin' well dead!" getting the right kind of training removed to Wing Street, was require time and patience. Never-Kowloon Hospital yesterday morning These scoffers had not realised is to become attached to an ex- that they were looking at the relics cavation party, and opportunition of a life that was once as varied for thus learning in the fold are
successful."
and
of
ຊ້າງ.
Liberian Persecutions, The atrocities committed on the Kru coast by Liberian Government of law and forces, in the name order, serve to emphasise the im perative need for the civilized house in world to set Liberia's
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far
And
Egypt so much as certain papyri which aing small sweet love-songs to us across an ocean of time.
theless, I believe that it will be suffering from a fractured arm.
A chisel, a scrow driver, and bunches and vivid as our own, that they not nearly numerous enough.
have formed were in the presence of the por The days when excavation was a
of treasure-hunting, It is to be hoped that events of keys, believe to
part of a burglarous outfit, found in trait-statuen and the very bodies form will justify these assurances. The the possession of a suspect arrested in of men and women who had once more fascinating than the quest people may not be clamorous In the early hours of yesterday morning bcon much more like than unlike for a pirate's hoard, have long
nexion with a charge of
objects discovered may bo, it is their demands, but it is beyond at Shaukinn, were exhibited in con- themselves. In a word, they know gone by. However, precious the the addition to our knowledge of doubt that they are inwardly firm Instruments it for, an unlawful pur nothing of Archaelogy. In their conviction that a sub-pore preferred against a man before
Mr. Schofield at the Central Magis -In point of fact, Archaeology the innumerable dead (of whom stantial measure of all-round dis-tracy this moming. On the defen- has a more poignant appeal to the living are but guards) which dant claiming that the keys fitted his mankind's "giant heart of mimo-is most prized by the true archaeo- armament is essential not only to own boxes the case
was adjourned ries and tears" than any of the logist. The opening of Tut-ankh- but to the for twenty-four hours to enable con- modern sciences. It has conjured Amen's sopulchral shrine, with general world peace.
firmation by the police of this defence.up out of the deep dust of ages, its incredible wealth of art tren- so tragic a atability and improvement.
as Lazarus was raised from the aures, which had
was perhaps the most their own social conditions. Much Two coolies pushing a hand truck grave, forgotten race, religions sequel, is expected, and much can be done which was involved in an accident and languages, and brought them amazing episode in the annals of over the week-end, resulting in to life again. The archaeologist Egyptian exploration. The last IRELAND.At the War Memorial
serious injury to a little Chinese girl, Nursing Home on Sunday night, despite the difficulties 6th June, to Elise, wife of H. Ustructions
times and furnish as with a little "I have heard the call, I am pre- that have obtruded were to-day fined $7 cach by Mr.may be hasty in his deductions at words of the dying discoverer:
Schofield at the Central Magistracy
to some fraught fuel for the "sudden glory" of paring," seem
with occult significance. themselves in the Conference for driving the vehicle without
paughter. in turning far. Failure is unthinkable, hemit. It was stated that in
into a side street from Queen's Read But his pursuit of "digging up both a
truck West, the
mounted the
And yet I cannot think his the pave knowledge" has long since passed enuse failure would be
ridicule.
loudly-acclaimed discovery quick- tragedy and a crime. The Geneva ment, and one of the wheels passed beyond the reach of
over the foot of a Chinese girl and Truth is the object of his quest, Conference is Indeed the acid test crushed it. The girl was admitted to but almost always he finds beautyed our understanding of Ancient not only of the sincerity of states hospital where it is stated that a stay by the way.
of three works for treatment may be men but also of their capacity.
necessitated. A third evolle who wan pulling the truck and charged in con- It is his unfaltering faith that Certainly the results of the ex- junction with his fokis with Incking his study of the sepulchred life of ploration of the Oxyrhynchus rub
Beence, was acquitted.
men in every time and clime helps blah heaps by Grenfell and Hunt Man to live up to the heaven-were vastly more important. The descended maxim: "Know Thy-harvest of papyri was enormous, LOCAL COMPANY'Self." "His whole business," sald and on the second day one of the one of the true archaeologists, "is most famous manuscript in the to hide the gulf between Yesterday world was found, the Sayings of and To-day.
The Present is Jesus, of which one is a witness too small for him; and it is there to the immanent Deity: "Raise fore that he calls so insistently the stone and there thou shalt find wood and there ed by the Disarmament Confer-order. Two international commis-
to the Pust to come forth from theme, cleave the
And am I." Moreover, the examination enee now sitting in Geneva have sions appointed by the League of
darkness and augment it." so it has come about that this of these papyri in Greek script. probably followed the progress of Nations have established beyond
all its Before the Chief Justice, Sir truth-seeker for so long derided including those which had been the deliberations with mixed dispute that slavery with feelings of hope and disappoint-evils prevails in this West African Joseph Kemp in the Supreme Court has given us a vision of a Greater used to make mummy cases, pro-
this morning Mr. R.CH, Lim, in-Present, which is as awe-inspiring duced such priceless scale of no small
structed by Mr. P. Siu, appeared as the physicist's dream-picture of trove as the whole of one of the ment. In the four months that state upon
stellar cosmos, but vanlahed Odas of Sappho, an en- love-poem, and the have
passed siner its opening. dimensions. A detalled scheme of on behalf of the Tungar Press the colossal
of a lost play of there has been little to justify the reform has been drafted and the Company, Shaukiwan-road, North neither fantastic nor forbidding. trancing
gressive power of man's uncon-Euripides. belief that the Conference would question of the international loan Point, to apply for a reduction of For it bears witness to the pro-greater part
asked for by the Liberian Govern- the Company's capital.
The statement of clain set out querable mind, and so opens out
of
We must have our Institute of 1 Greater succeed in erecting a definite mile- ment to cuable it to do what has that 300,000 shares were offered brighter vistas
Archaeology, to be a world-centre stone in mankind's march towards been suggested has come up for with a nominal value of $10 each. Future.
of practical study, if only because England has always led the way an international order from which 'tinal discussion by the Lengue of Of this amount, 18,270 shares had
Let us hope, then, that the pro-in the exploration of the prehis- not only war itself would be ex- Nations. Mr. Henry L. Stimson,been fully paid.
By Article 20 of the Company's
"It was posal for establishing an Institute torie past. I do not wish to under. the Secretary of State
Articles of Association, cluded but also the whole destruc-
United States, recently declared provided that the company might of Archaeology in London will not rate the achievements of other The Uni-nations in this illimitable demain. Live machinery of war. The or-
that either slavery in this form time to time reduce its capi-fail for lack of funds.
versity of London is about to erect For example, it was one of Na- dinary people of the different na-
official American protectorate must tal.
been its central bulldings on a site poleon's officers who discovered in A special meeting had tions know that the world 19 he ended, or its President, Mr.
covery was assigned to Rosita spending nine hundred millions a Charles King, lose his office. It held at which it had been decided adjoining the British Museum, 1700 the Rosetta Stone (the dis-
to reduce the nominal value of and the idea is to provide accom years since Liberia shares to $2.75, the reduction to modation there for a centre of Forbes in a Fifth year on armaments. They know, is now 130 too, that this colossal expenditure was founded as a home for freed be effected by cancelling capital training for students from all over essay written not so very long
science. The dreadful burden American slaves. The question of which had been lost or was not the world in every branch of the ago!), the inscriptions on which, space assigned one of them being in Greek, proved is not only a
The Chief Justice adjourned the would have to be sufficient for the a master-key to the interpretation which falls upon them, but that international action to put an end represented by available assets.
to slavery there has long been
matter for further consideration.display of the large collections of of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. By instructive materials (e.f., pottery the Treaty of Capitulation of 1801 the armaments which it brings
under discussion. A climax was
from Palestine and Mesopotamia) the antiquities in the possession into existence constitute one of
renched in 1929 when the League
which are at present stored in-of the defeated French Invaders the greatest menaces to world peace of Nations took the matter in hand rule. On the other hand, civiliza-accessibly in London and cannot had to be given up, and the famous and security. They want to be and au
committee tion is justly concerned with the be used by students. The Initial monument of black basalt is now comprising Dr. Cuthbert Christy, abolition of conditions of slavery equipment-materials for study; in the British Museum. rid of the curse of armament com.
library would petition, u manifestation of which Dr. Johnson and Sir Arthur Bar-in a state set up for the express laboratory and is to be gound in the inability of France and Italy to come to an agreement that will bring them within the frame-work of the London Treaty,
authoritative
of the
un-
REDUCTION
.
being prepared to assign space in clay went out to West Airlea to purpose of affording freedom for cost about £30,000, the University Investigate. This committee issued slaves.
A report in the latter part of 1930 which showed that the situation was even worse than had been sup- posed. A League of Nations com- Agreement for a substantial re- mittoe went into the situation in duction in national armaments the light of this report early in would not only bring direct relief 1931. A body of highly qualified Thomas to at overburdened Europe, but it experts, including Mr.
Ligthart, M. Brunot and Dr. would also ease the way to an en Mackenzie, was
sont to Liberia lightened handling of the problem and drew up a scheme of reforms.
This scheme was submitted to the League of Nations committee. In
of War Debts and Reparations which is one of the chief pre- occupations of the official states- the meantime the British, French
and United States Governments— acting, happily, in unison-have found it necessary to add to past protests by addressing fresh
rc-
inen. Sir Harold Bellman, the Managing Director of the Abbey Rond Building Society, who has just returned to England from presentations officially described as America, states that "in the mind ["urgent" to the Liberian Govern- of the ordinary American citizen ment in consequence of "the con- there is a deep-rooted conviction|tinued persecution of the Kru po- that debt relief to Europe will en-pulation by government forces."
The Krus
are an industrious courage European expenditure up-
on armaments." American public African race largely employed as sailors on European vessels trad- feeling on this matter is an
ing along the Liberian coast. They important factor and perhaps are reasonably entitled to look for one of the determining ones, and sympathy to the white men who It depends largely upon Europe it- employ them. Exactly what form self whether or not American intervention will take has not yet opinion is to become more favour- been fully decided, but an arrange- able in its attitude towards the ment seems feasible whereby the granting of a loan would be con- cancellation of War Debts and
ditioned by League of Nations Reparations. But the results of
control of the administration the Disarmament Conference so sufficiently close to enable at least far have not been very encourag the worst of the abuses to be re- ing. Whether the cautious but moved. There is no question of optimistic statements that have substituting European for Negro
"My business is going to the dogs. I'm going to have to drop in on the office some time and give it a shake-up."
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treasure-
Form boy's
Schliemann's discovery of the wonderful treasures of Troy and Mycenae Is Germany's outstanding triumph in digging up new know- ledgo. He was quite wrong when he sent his telegram to the Ger- man Emperor after opening the Shaft Tombe: "I have gazed at the face of Agamemnon." But hin excavations throw new light on the epoch of the Homorie horoes, actting us on the track of the true story of Troy, the most sated of cities. Troy was bealeged and destroyed because she played the part of a stone highwayman, col- lecting her "regulars" from the merchants trading into and out of the Black Sen (that trade-route extended ng far as the fabulous Cathay) who had to tranship their cargoes across the peninsula to Avoid dangerous currents and deadly-aqualls. The probability that the golden-haired Helen was really an iniquitous gold-produc- Ing impost is distressing to the romantic mind.
Of late years, however, the greatest archaeological victories have been the work of English scholars. The Knossos excavations conducted by Sir Arthur Evang nvo fted up out of its long- forgotten grave a brilliant son- shore city, some time mistress of. an amphibious Empire, in whose thronged thoroughfares something Ivory like Homer's speech could be heard. The legendary Labyrinth has been visible as a great palace of many chambers and corridora. The Minotaur was evolved from dim folk-memories of State bull- fights in which girls from tribu- tary Athens were compelled to tako part. And the frescoes of (Continued on Pago 7.)