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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1936.
Saviour Did Not Speak Hebrew
--SAYS AUTHORITY
Washington, May 24.
Dr. George W, Lamsa, widely known authority on scriptural language, has advanced what ho considers to be conclusive proof of the theory that Jesus Christ spoke the Aramaic-instond the Hobrow-tongue.
of
The theory that Aramaic WAR the language generally spoken in Galileo in the time of Christ was hased by Dr, Lamsa on:
Kruger's Bars FIRE GOD
Of Gold
LIKE SOAP PACKED IN
IRON CASES.
NEW LIGHT ON BOER
WAR MYSTERY
RITUAL FOR DULEEP
Bombay, May 20. SUAL Oriental splendour was lacking at today's weiding of K. S. Dulcepsinhjl—”Duleop" to cricket lovers-and Jayaraj Kumari, the Maharajah Rajpipla's niece.
of
"Duleep" and his bride sat bo- foro a fire, with priests and brkle- groom chanting the angrod verket
the Mantras.
The wide interest displayed for some years in the rumoured "Kruger millions" is recalled by Mr. Napler Devitt, late First Criminal Magistrate at Johnnes-of burg, in "More Memorica of a Magistrate", just published.
1900
When Paul Kruger, President of 1. His translation-the first) known-of an inscription, found the Transvaal Republic, fled in from Pretorin and halted last year on a pillar in the ruins of with his Executive Council in his a synagogue in Cavernaum.
2. General acceptance by experts railway conch at Machadodorp, he that Christ preached his first ser was believed to have taken with him A large quantity of minted and mon in the Capernaum synagogue, unwroughted gold from the Re- "I believe that, If Christ were publican coffers. The idea was alive to-day." Dr. Lamsa said, "he would speak in Aramaic, and that to carry this treasure to Europe, there to utiline it for the purchase I could talk to him."
of munitions and other purposes. UNCHANGED LANGUAGE.
"Colonel Deneys Reitz (now Minis- The Aramaic language, the ex- pert said, has come down practi-ter of Agriculture in the Union) has publicly denied there was any such the author cally unchanged from its original wealth disposed of,"
as spoken by 22,000 Assyrians who states; "the matter has been con were isolated for centuries Introversial for many years." Kurdistan.
The inscription was found on a buried block of stone in the syna- goguio ruins in 1935.
The inscription in its original form was in Aramaic symbols, bearing no resemblance to present day letters and including no vo wels. Dr. Lamsn deciphered the inscription into English letters, inserted the proper vowels, and tranainted as follows:
"I knew nothing of it personally,
But that gold went astray between just before the outbreak of the war
and
The bride, deeply velled, ent quietly while the groom. prop!. tiates the fire god by throwing rice and ghee (semi-liquid butter) into the flames. Then he will take an eatli to be true to his bride,
:
Both will take seven steps round the fre.
"Duleep" then will place his bride's fool on the Massala grind- ing stone, symbolising acceptance of hearth- and home, and lift the veil from her face.
NEGOTIATIONS
FOR PURCHASE. OF ST. DUNSTAN'S
the capture of Johannesburg there is little room for doubt. In Slr T. L. Devitt, then a Lloyd's under- 1999 I was told by my uncle, the late BY COUNT AND writer, that during that period he had lost $1,000 by under-writing the risk of certain gold in transit from the mines to London, which never left the Transvaal,”
COUNTESS VON
REVENTLOW
Count and Countess Haugwitz Mr. Devitt relates that on a recent von Reventlow are negotiating Dyhir (a memorial) Ltav (as a visit to Machadodorp, a hamlet in good) Zebedi (Zebedee) Bar (son) the Eastern Transvaal, he met an old to buy St. Dunstan's, Regent's Yhhanu (of John) Dagluvad (who resident who remembered many in-Park. cidents
of the Presidential fight. made it) Hadin (ot or them) Gha-Her father had been a friend moda (pillar) Li (this) Yibad (ho Kruger; they were boys together and made) Li (for himself) dekhrani trekked together, from the Cape, (as a memorial) Amn (amen).
A fluent translation, Dr. Lamsa said, would be:
TRANSLATION
ROOM OF MEMORIES
1>f
well ad- The negotiations are vanced, but are understood to be conditional upon the permission of the Commissioners of Crown Lands being obtained to rebuild the house,
The lease is owned by Lord Rolhermere,
The President and his party arrived at Machadodorp by special tram early in June, 1900; the village was pre- Zebe-claimed the Seat of tiovernments and St. Dunstan's is an historic London Kruger remained there until about house which came, during the war, August 25. He then went to Larenco the first headquarters for the treat- Marques, and to Holland by a Dutchment of blinded fighting men, - man-of-war.
"As a good memorial for dee son of John, who made this pillar as a memorial for himself, Amen."
As evidence that the inseription was made at the time of Christ. Dr. Lamsa said:
"Zebedee son of John, who in scribed the synagogue pillar as a memorial to himself, in turn had a son who was named John son of Zeheilee'. This latter John, 1 Armly believe, was
of the apostles."
ona
The Capernaum aynagogue was built several hundred years be- fore Christ, and was destroyed by the Romans about 200 A.D..
The stone carried the only in- seription known to have been in existence. daring Christ's time in *Galilee, Dr. Lamsa said.--
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"I asked my informant whether she hark seen anything of the gold which It was once in the occupation of the
of Yondesborough, but the party were said to have taken Enri with them."
Mr. Devitt writes, purchased by Mr. Otto Kahn, the "Cryptically, she replied; I wish American banker, who offered it to bad all the geht, that fuas been in the British Coveramunt free of ex-
pruse, on the outbreak of war.
this roam.'
"She went on to talk about certain gold she had seen, She told me how ne day van Alphen (the Pastmaster General) had taken her to a closed railway truck, which he opened, and showed her much gold in bars. She had no idea of the number, but said they had only been shown her because of her close friendship with the old President, upon whose knge she had afttimes sat."
Mr. Deyiti states that these "mis- sing millions" have been the object of treasure hunts from time to time.
10,000-WORD JUDGMENT is book gives many intimate and
MANX RELATIONS WITH THE GOVERNMENT Douglas, (1.0.M.), May 18.
of South glimpses illuminating African life, and he makes sume valuable observations on the "Poor White" problem.
St. Dunstan's has been described as a country estate in miniature. I ja within five minutes of the heart of the West End, and on the edge of Regent's Park,,
Countess Reventlow was formerly She was first married to pliss Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress, the late Prince Alexis Mdivani, and married Count ventlow Nevada, inst year.
at Reno,
Passing of Public. School "Snobbery”
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1 Attractions which are the last
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6 Joined for mountain climbing. 9 Hero was fought the battle which laid a trap in front of the hall of justice,
The constitutional relations DRUNK-DETECTOR [a thing of the past in England, 13 It's only proper to sound rather
What
10 Think-probably in the night,
How
Lister helped to make wounds. Sydney, May 24.
12 Making clear it is not a vicious "School snobbery" is virtually
circle, but vicò in a circle. damping. between the Isle of Man and the
according to Mr. Frank Fletcher, 15 Grow fat as a boardi Imperial Parliament formed the
Four Cleveland men who became M.A. Headmaster of Charter basis of a 10.000-words judg- Intoxicated to prove the scientific ment delivered by Deemster value of a new "drunk-detector" were house for 24 years, who is on a 18 Farrant in the Manx Chancery assured by the Police department visit here.
"For years I have worked to Court to-day. The matter arose they did not drink in vain.
Armed finally with proof to con- bring the public and secondary out of a legacy of £1,000 left to the Parochial Church Council of found the sceptics, Safety Sergeant schools together," he said. "Such Arthur Roth had in his desk the re-success has rewarded my efforts suits of two tests-one given to four and those working on similar lines 26 One cannot escape the mud in men under the influence of liquor, that the "die-hards" of the old the other given the same men a day school have become practically non-27 Ten-urn. Inter under apparently normal cundl-
ons.
Lonan.
existent.
The Deemster was asked to decide if the Enabling Act passed by Purlin- went 17 years ago, establishing parochial church councils as legal
"No discrimination is now made bodies in England, applied to the
"The tests show definitely," the in English Universilles between pupils the from Manx Church, Canon John Quine sergeant said proudly, "that
the greater public schools, Vicar of Lonan, having claimed that the logney should be paid to him and machine is a success and that in the secondary and government-maintained his wardens in trust, as there was no future results of its test will be schools, and a general public school such thing as a parochial church accepted as evidence by the courts spirit of grent benefit has been the
of Cleveland."
outcome."-Reuter. council in the Isle of Man.
announced that Mr. Fletcher was mentor of the three of the men who fell for below Archbishop of Canterbury, and Pro average when tested "under the insident of the Headmasters Associat- fluence" registered 100 per cent, when lan of England. Before going to sober, but that the fourth man, whose Charterhouse he case the sergeant said, "s very Marlborough College for eight years strange," suffered 20% loan of vision and before that Assistant Master nt when sober,United Press.
Rugby.
It was clear, the Deemster said, by the Act of 1541, that the diocese of Sodor and Man was part of the Archbishopric of York. He held that the island was ull'ected by the 1919 Enabling Art, thus making it incum bert upon vicars to constitute parechlal church councils.
SALESMAN SAM
Sergeant Both
WELL, CLOTHES LINE,OL BUNDLE O'BONES, YER IN THE FIRST RACE T'DAY, BUT I DON'T THINK YA KIN BEAT A SNAILĮ I'M TICKLED PINK I DON'T
HAFTA RIDE YA!
Whe master
Now He's Not So Tickled
ISCLOTHES LINE READY]AN' IF HE DON'T WIN FER THE OPENIN' RACE?
BOSS, ALL I KINSAY
IS-HE'S IN THE BEST SHAPE HE EVER WAS!
at
next. I wonder? Liko
a monarch begging. 10 Comes from the off, all right. 20 Does he subdue the lord of creation? No, merely bovince. 22 Edge wund the Inner Circle. 24 What the user of electricity
DAY, HE NEVER WILL, CAUSE I'VE DONE MY
BEST ON HIM!
(YER'A GOOD WORKER;
SAM, AUKAS A
REWARD
pays for but isn't right.
this British possession.
20 Some people eat this, though
Spectacles not encouraged in the Navy.
it's absolute rot.
31
12
Storms taking up a lot of time. Nonconformist.
DOWN.
1 Get together.
2 Send away from home with the
team.
3 No, this bend a not made by a
draughtsman.
4 Hardened.
5 Sarcasm.
G Raty!
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7 Is a prince involved? Yes. 8 Gouge made
orator.
for n
popular
14 To be out of form is not proper. 15 Slanderer.
16 Opposing the growth
inanimate object--
17 Prefix.
18 Take half Alfred.
21 Charms a stubborn heart.
20 A politician in a perfect fury
may go on this.
24 An arrow is.
25 Takes the place of an unclent
city in the interior.
28 There's a French articlo in tho
tub for the servitor. 29 Tronds both sides of it on a
stair.
Saturday's Solution
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NIEZNAPOOLETET
ENCOREL KILLER 8 FTER STAREMEEEE SUSIE STREROUSES
By Small
YOU KIN RIDE HIM IN
TH' RACE