THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TÜESDAY, FEBRUARY⠀⠀ ̈ 15,
1938.
EXPLORER'S FINDS IN 5,000 YEARS
DEAD AVIATRIX HONOURED
IN RECOGNITION of the record-breaking flight of Amelia Earhart from Los Angeles to Mexico City, Mexico has bestowed post-hum- ously the coveted award of the Order of the Aztec Eagle on the late flier. Above, George Palmer Putnam, left Miss Earhart's hus- band, receives the medal from Mexienn Consul Renato Cantu Lara, at Los Angeles.
AMERICAN
STUDENT
DISCOVERS GREATEST
KNOWN EXPLOSIVE
25 Times as Destructive as TNT
Berkeley, Cal. Jan. 15.
A high explosive, reputedly nearly 25 times as strong as TNT, has been developed by Wendell Zimmerman, young Univer- sity of California graduate student, it has been revealed here.
Zimmerman sold the new explosive; "The elements used are In one form not yet commercially tomle, or consisting of one atom, practical, is 25 times more destruc- whereas other explosives are dla tive than TNT. However, he added, tomie or triatomic," he explained. the tremendous explosive force of
The new formula has been sub-
mona-
OLD PHARAOH TOMB Bones That May Be Those of Menes And His Queen
SPEAKING by telephone from Badrashein, a small rail-
SPE
way junction on the Nile. 20 miles south of Cairo. · Mr. Walter Emery, the 35-year-old Liverpool archaeologist, told the London News Chronicle of his discovery of a great tomb which is thought to be that of Menes-the first of the Pharaohs, who lived 5,000 years ago.
Mr. Emery emphasied that he has as yet no definite proof that the tomb is that of Menes, the first King of the First Dynasty, but he said that all the evidence so far pointed strongly to it being the royal tomb.
In any case it is definitely a tomb of the First Dynasty. "All I can say," said Mr. Emery, "is that all the material we have discovered, such as pots, stone vessels and clay celllugs, bear the king's name.
Lady Anne Cavendish-Bent- nick, 21, daughter of the Duke of Portland, whom London's Mayfair gossips believed might be en- gaged to Prince Charles, brother of King Leopold of Belgium. The King's visit, with his wid- owed mother, Queen Elizabeth, to the Duke's home at first sug- gested the King might wed her.
"The work of clearing the tomb
"That is as far as I can go they actually mean is very dimeult for the moment. I cannot vouch to say.
"No, there is no hint these ple- Tthat it is the king's tomb until
tures
conquest Menes' reputed the work is finished, and that of Lower Egypt. and of his con-is dimcult because the root has fallen will take another fortnight. solidation of all Egypt as one king- in..
"If the tomb is not that of Kingdom." Menes it is that of one of his relatives or of some great noble.
"But the important point is that
TWENTY-SEVEN ROOMS
"There are 40 of us at work clear- Ing up the mess."
There are 27 rooms in the tomb, And before he rang off Mr. Emery "We have still to reach two or cleared up the misconception that it the tomb definitely belongs to three more chambers and magazines is always warm and sunny in Egypt. Menes' reign, and It is curious that before we have finished, so it is just)
"It's
preity cold out here," he ex- we have not been able to and any possible that the best is yet to come.plained, "and you have to work hard nome other than his."
"But unfortunately the tomb has to get warm in the early mornings." Broken crumbling bones of in the far distant past been
and
An official of the Egyption Depart- two bodies were found in the plundered very badly,
ment of the British Museum sald that burial chambers, and Air. Emery "The Ands cannot be compared in even if the tomb were not that of agreed that if the tomb is the royal perfection and artistle value to those King Menes, or of royal person, one, the chances are that the re-in the tomb of Tutankhamen, who the discovery was of great import- mains are those of King Mienes and lived 3,000 years after this tomb wasfance as there is so far little evidence his queen.
scaled up.
about the First Dynasty. "The bones are to be examined by nu expect," explained Mr. Emery.
HOW DID HE DIE?
this form is yet too great for any-mitted to seven governments, Zim-
The vital question is will the ex- thing but experimental use.
merman said, The Japanese, pert eye be able to detect anything to The experiments were started in Russian, French, Italian, English, support the legend that Menes was the basement of his home when he United States and German govern- killed by a hippopolamus? was 17 years old, Zimmerman sald,ments діте now considering the No sensational inscriptions have
sce,"
He reached his present formula in formula, he said, and the United been found so far. August, 1936.
Since then, he said, States and English governments "You continued Mr. Emery. he has been refining the process. urged him to continue his work. "at that time hieroglyphic writing)
At present, Zimmerman said, he was very primitive. It took the
The explosive, he pointed out, is
constructed on a different principle
BRAINY POLICE MAY
BE INCH SHORTER
EN with brains are offered a discount of one inch in
height by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
is working with leading rocket ex-form of picture writing and wo The Commissioner has announced then hitherto used, being composed rerimenters and engineers with a have specimens of this on the vases, that he is prepared to offer a limited AND THE HORSE view to using the explosive in that which bear pictures of hunting number of vacancies to unmarried
scenes, fons and gazelles, but what men over twenty and under twenty- DROPPED DEAD
of simple chemical elements that in themselves are non-explosive.
feld.-United Press,
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Humboldt, Idaho, Jan. 15.
are particularly well developed A public auction was being held physically and possess sound eduten tional qualifications.
Previous minimum helght for the Metropolitan Police was Ave fect
nine inches
Remember Kipling?
"Oh, 'e's little but he's wise "E's a terror for 'is size
“An'--'e-does-not-advertise--
"Do VCT
Bobs?"
-Or-perhaps the-Commissioner was thinking of some of those famous men but small-Napoleon, Dollfuss, Lord Roberts, George Washington, Jellicoe.
R. A. F. Strength Doubles In Two Years
It is learned that the Arst-line strength of the R.A.F. is now more than twice what it was when the ex- pansion programme began in the middle of 1935. The first-line establishment was then stated to be 280 aircraft.
In addition, the intermediate types with which some of the new squadrons were equipped in the Arsti instance are now being replaced by new bombers and fighters as they are delivered from the factory.
The Hawker Hurricane single- scoter Aghter is now in course of delivery to the R.A.F. This aircraft is one of the fastest fighters in the world, and it is being produced in large numbers to the Air Ministry order. It is understood that deliver les will iso be made shortly of an- other fighter which i being bullt for the RA.F-the Supermarine S, Spiffrc.
There are now five post-war types of bombers in course of regular and satisfactory production-the Vickers Wellesley, which has been selected for long-distance fights on behalf of the R.A.F, this year, the Bristol Blenheim, the Fairey Battle, the Handley-Page Harrow, and the Armstrong Whitley. Thesd aircraft are in many cases boing manufactured by firms other than the designing company in con- formity with the Air Ministry's polley of reducing the number of essential types to a minimum.
URGE TO DANCE TOO STRONG
* Melbourne.
Dances are few in some' parts of Australia. William Packward want-
ed to dance so badly that when his falled to stop at the town
train where he know one was in progress, he pulled the emergency cord. He jumped off, went to the dance, A fudge And Alm £B 'next day for stopping the teria.
at the Gottlieb Hanselman farm near here.
"How much am I ofered for this fine horse?" erled the auctioneer. "Seventy five dollars," came reply.
"I'm bid $75, do I hear $80?" "Eighty dollars."
*
The horse dropped dead.-United Press.
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