LARGE-SCALE INVASION BY
LOCUSTS
Heavy Damage to Crops In Argentine and Uruguay
(By George Bloom)
Oct-Dec Forces
Release Programme
since
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1946.
THE ANTIQUITIES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
(By Arundell Esdalle)
IN this article Dr Eadaile, from 1936-1940 Secretary to the British Museum Library, gives
a brief description of the more important anti- quities which have been amassed in the British Museum since it was founded in 1753.
are
not
Aviation Instruments In Fight Against Spinal Disease
in-
during
Bald
A statement has been issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service giving particu- lars of the provisional pro-
High altitude flying gramme of releases and dis-
struments developed charges from the Forces for
the war by the Army October to December, 1946.
Air Forces are being used Under
the An unusually large-scale in- estimated
programme, the
Although it occupies no posi- horn from the forehead of a woman."
in treating persons stricken number of men and vasion of Argentine and women to be released and discharg- tion of any particular promi-, The former, an accidentally veined with Bulbar Poliomyeltis in
nence, there Uruguay by locusts this year ed in the last quarter of the year
stone, is shewn, an an example of Minneapolis' Polio Epidemic, it, are few more that stone, in the Natural History is learned. heightened interest in the Inter-will be approximately 311,300. The familiar sights in London than Museum's Department of Mineralogy:
total cumulative American Locust Conference, 1845, will be approximately 4,292, structure of the British Museum. "curiose e ritory rough by all and the devices were "proving very Dr Maurice Visscher, University June 18, the great classical colonnaded the latter hen disappeared. Such of Minnesota Professor of Physiology, held recently in Montevideo. BUD. Although as far as possible
Its mere size, with the austerity; the public understands the fact, to The basis of the conference was men and women will be released in
useful in the control of therapy in the anti-locusi convention aigned accordance
with thin
provisional
the respiratory pollo esses," of its architecture, may have judge from some offers received by In Montevideo In 1034. Delegates
University hospital officials deferment programme,
deterred Home of the less In- the Director, one of which in re- the new treatment was the greatest compulsury representing nine republies discussed of relenses of # number of in- ways and means of jointly combat dividunt will continue to be neces
terested visitors from entering, cent years was "two joints of meat, single advance in 50, years in the ting the plague.
nght against but even those who have visited cut at the Coronation of Queen Vic-
pollu. for Service kury
reasons, and, na in
tor" (1837). Omeln!
reports which Indicated the past
Bulbar pollo is regarded as the past, there will be some init, and that perhaps often, may that the swarms in the north of Ar-equality in the rate of relenses for be glad 10 learn something more ed on apparatus is now collect- most dangerous type of the disease. gentine had started to depanit ex certain branches,
It affects the stem of the damage to fruit crops trodes of the Royal Navy and Royal can readily gather on the spot.
and than the most intelligent visitor
connections leading to the backbone. spoke of heavy
usually destroying respiratory nerve in parts of the provinces of Entre Air Force.
Patients have dificulty in speaking, Rlos, Salts and Jujuy. It was also officially stated that prospects for the
swallowing and breathing and often die from next cutian crop were not very
· from suffocaiton. favourable because of locust_activity
Nearly 15 per cent of the persons stricken
Minnesota's with polio in epidemic developed the Bulbar variety. After number of them died,
physicians stumbled onto a process developed by the Army Air Forces at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, They found that pressure breathing equlpinent was helpful in treating many cases. The process involves opening a hole in the windpipe just below the "adam's apple" and feed ing mixture of pressurized oxygen and helium Into the lungs through a tube.
the
in provinces of
of Santa Fe, Cor rientes, San
Santiago de Estero and the
departments of Chuco and Formesa, The linseed crop In the north-east of Entre Rios suffered losses estimated at between 20 and 30 per cent of the
rea
The Argentine Government, which recently appended to
the
Britain,
categories
The provisional programme for the Forces and Auxiliary Services is set out below.
Period
United States and Holland for urgent assistance in. Its fight mglist the October
focust invasion, received a
November
reply December
Ace & Service Groups (Class A Relensest
Estimated Number of Re- le#uk & Dis charges
ROYAL NAVY
hten
¡Average
Ofteers
14
Pt. 54-ST
217,000
FA
19,000
药性
1,500
52.500
65
from the British Government offering: Total" Oet/Dee?" 54-35 P1, 5-an all possible co-operation and tesking for technical information as to its requirements.
A proposal in the Argentine Cone gress that the army should be thrown into the battle was rejected. After heated
the Chamber of De
puties related the proposal because i
tion
October
November December
Women
(Average)
*.
1t, -PL. E
2,000
Pt. 1
700
Total Oct/Der
60 and 41
1,0)
ARMY
Men
(Actuali
43
PL. 42
02,020
11. 44
13.00
Pt. 46
50,510
GIA
$4,40
101,700
October
it felt the threat was in yet sufi- elently great to warrint the artay furning itself into a body of "least- hunters," Another reason for rejec- November
the WHA
goming army! December which, incidentally, Teal Oct/Der will be held in the neighbourhond of i tiur Argentine-Uruguay frontier,! where thr locust penetration been greatest-Reuter.
manoeuvres
"4 זיז
יז
Warn
(Actualy
$12!
October Novetaber December Total Oet/live
1E 32
2,560
11. 3
$1,55
3,640
P1 54-55
3,600
1 32.53
11,100
JAP AGITATION
FOR ANNAMITE {
INDEPENDENCE October
November December
ROYAL AIR FORCE
Tolm Det/Dres.
}
Ground
43 17.210
Men
rum, Level,
Flying
Perimet
Personnel
40
4
喝好
17.100
30
47 - 13,20
40-30
45-47 40,080
Women
(Gen, Levels
PL. 50
Pt, 50 It. 51
50 and PU 31
4,740
Tokyo, Oct. 7 (UP).—-Japan-i ese agents trained teachers and propagandists to agitate for the october Annamite independence move- November ment in French Indo-China, ac- Total Oct/Dec/ .cording to evidence presented at į
the war crimes trial to-day.
December
2,040
Scientific
and preserved in London in the the British Museum once had many) Science Museum, paintings (of which
In the National Gallery, or the This great British institution, now National Portrait Gallery, modern In nearly two hundred years old, is comedian art in the Indian Museum, and posite in its nature, consisting most branches of post-Renaissance it does of the antional library und art in the Victoria and Albert the national museum of antiquities. Museum. Though the two
two Museums Originally, indeed, and until so re-overlap in such fields no ceramics and cently as 1880, It also comprised the prints and drawings, the purpose collections of
natural history, but of each different; the British these were then removed to Muscum as we have seen, in divided separate building, now an indepen-into civilisations, which it illustrates dent museum (though still governed by their arts, while the Victoria and and by the summe body of Trustees) at Albert Muscum (founded for
This pleturo shows the manafya lo nie parties of the entrance British, Nitreum. Hedged about by a aartig,
to the
limete loomsbury, the build-
ju vecupies no psation of particular prominence, bit there are few more familiar sights in' Londen thân its er, cat classical colonnaded "structure.
South Kensington on the other sidej educitica of craftsmen) is divided of London. Of the Library will by materials, c., woodwork, metal 2016 defer giving any necount and will] Work, textiles, ele. 7,550 deal, as well på ɛpus wili
with the antiquities, the proper.
allow,
Museum
For the first century of its exis- lence the British Museum VII฿ housed (on the same site as now) in Montague House, a seventeenth cen- tury "hotel de noblesse."
which tip pened to be for sale at the time of
First a word as to the government This was discovered by Germans | The former Ambasandoy to Ger- in Saigon, who reported the Japanese many, defendant
firoshi Oshin of the Museum. As established by activities to Germany.
told the Germans that the Japanese Act of Parlament in 1753, this is in According to German documents. Anny could occupy the Russian see-the
the hands of a Board of Trustees, the foundation. The present
brain,
The doctors find believed that the effects of Bulbar Pollo would be less serious if heavy cells could be kept utive:
the They reasoned that healthy cells would have, greater re- sistance if they received oxygen, so they ventilated the lungs to pump muro oxygen into the blood stream. In the treatment, meters developed for aviation studies are used to de- whether there is enough termine oxygen in the blood stream reaching healthy cells.
SINATRA AND WIFE SEPARATED
་
Hollywood, Oct. 7 (UP),—Frank Sinatra's press agent nnnounced to-day that the crooner and his wife have separated but since they are Catholics, no divorce in contemplated. He said, "It is a case of a Holywood carcer versus family
The syringe had long been con- despite the crooner's gigantic list idered one of Hollywood's happlest
of bobby-aux admirers.
AMERICAN CONSUL
Mr Howard Donovan, of Windsor,
assigned to the State Department.
Germans keeping a close watch dis- tion of Sakhalin and make other ad- partly high officers of Church and ing. (which has been much build-/l, U.S. Consul at-Bombay, has been Japanese-trained vances toward Vladivostok or Lake State (the "Principal Trustees" be was begun in 1820 aturges) Formerly he served at Kobe, Hong-
te
completed
covered thint squad
and of agitators propagated the Baikal, but noted that such operations in the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1845, covering the garden, of the kong, and Swatow.
Speaker old
old house. This anti-French uprising in 1941. The would have to wait until spring. It the Lord Chancellor and the Sp
rebuilding was of the House of Commons), observers pointed out that Japan had to mal- also Japanese
placed
the ntecasitated by the arrival of grest Presidents of a few great learned report | Vanee southward to obtain petroleum. | Pre
ations to the throughout Indo-China
collections. The
kings at Nimrud. which
yielded French troops movements and locate: Oshima said the seizure of Borneo bodies, representives of the families fist consisted of the famous Egyptian magnificent relief sculptures of lion-
_(one_ofisculptures.and .ether. ̄musterial ̈and starest"
was necessary because-of-the-strator-foundation benefactors.
Antiquitles - Ita- hunts and other royal-scenes, as well American
these, added after the gift of the cluding the Roselta Stone for plerre Anglo-American blockade.
as braries of cuneiform tablets diplomatic documents
from which showed that the United States bud
the and other small objects, Strinuous objections by the Ameri. King's, c. King George III's library, Champollion
appointed ún inkling of Japanese intentions to can defence attomeys prevented the
the by Sovereign), unclent Egyptian language was first Later, attention was turned to the and a number whom these elect to interpreted; these were the collec nccupy Indo-China and protester in Russian prosecutor, S. A. Golunsky sit with them: the current work of tion formed by Napoleon and his civilisation of Sumario, and by
even more ancient Mesopotamian advance. The Japanese, by their from re-opening the Russian pre-
government is virried on by a Stand- corps of savants on the spat. and series of excavations under Sir predetermined plans, show that secution phase and the introduction in Committee. These form a body fell to the British Crown after the Leonard Woolley and others the re- they lied about their intentions. of a Russian statement was postpon-jof great weight, and the title "Battle of the Nile; they were deposit-markable goid, ivory and lapis lazuli In November, 1941, Germany trieded tentatively until Tuesday morn servant of the Prusices of the Britished in the Museum in 1802, und had work of the fourth millenium BC at to get Japan to attack Russia, but log.
Museum" is one of which the staff to be housed in sheds. in the garden. Ur of the Chalders has been brought have always been proud.
to light and much knowledge of the Hellenistic Sculptures
carly history of the country made. The Foundation
clear.
Space forbids any more than The foundation was primarily duement bought and deposited the few words on the other departments, to the will of Sir Hans Sloane, royal Hellenistic sculptures collected physician and a distinguished ceien-Charles Townely, a collection typical treatment. The British and medie- though cach would deserve full those formed by the large f
English
val
Antiquities, a
heterogenous
the Japanese expressed, the opinion The defence objected un the tint, owing to the tie of year, ground that the Russian statement military operations against the Soviet went back as far as 1900, far beyond Union could take place only on a limited scale."
SIDE GLANCES
„TOHE VIKA 19’HRA SERVEK, VRIT MA’KRO," D.'"
the indictment, and contained many atbatable historic facts."
list and cul.ector, thu his
ed to the Crown for
Three years later the British Parlia
-by
By Galbraith library and in-seum
perhaps a filth of 13.20,000, or novels in Italy. A new building was
"This is official notice that we have given up the idea of raising children by psychology, so don't get caught A. W, O. L. again!"
for 3
George I (1727-1700) said that he sculpture of the great period, the much and of
value. King crected
these. True Greek
In
before the
the
Jn
side by one of the Keepers, W. Franks, Is naturally doubted whether there were £20,000 known, was soon to arrive strongest on British history: it pre- the Earl of Elgin, serves such famous objects as the In the Treasury; but the money was n land, when
Royal Gold Cup of the Angevin Kings found by
to the Porte, and the crystal lottery, provided for in British Ambassador the Act. Another significant provi- brought home the Athenian sculptures Elizabeth's astrologer, Dr Dec. Per- used by Queen sinn was one forbidding the offeints of the Fifth
Century BC. mainly of the new Museum to accept fees, these executed by or under Phidiis
idiishaps its greatest importance is The Antiquities were originally at the direction of Pericles for the the Prehistorie and Iron Ages. Just part of the Department of Natural adornment of the Parthenon. After were enriched by the gift of the the recent world war these and Artford Productions, which, much debate, some authorities de-
great hoard of 5th Century Jewellery with thes of printed boots and of claring that they were only fate forks.
al Sutton manuscripts, constituted the Museum. The Elgin marbles were purchased from a ship burial
Parliament
Hoo on the Suffolk Coast. Another Nor were they then relative·nd £35,000,
the British in by
or half what Elgin had recent acquisition is a set of magni- portant.
Classical teenin
cent wine vessels The intellec- born collected in the
of the Celtle spent. and deposited. Arundel and. Century by their Charles nceused Elgin roundly, and
tuals of the day, headed by Byron, Bronze Age from Lorraine. amall
Chinese Arís. (1625-1349).
:: - royal abuse is still igcorantly repeated. But collections were Beli Parlin he undoubtedly saved the sculptures inent in 1049. und the Arundel (the finest in the world except those marbles went to Oxford, where they Otyin.pl) from utter destruction
till are.
on the soot, destruction which had Increased knowledge of world his-rady gone for, and so tory and of unclent and modern arts st abuse but, gratitude. were in later generations to force C1 later Greek acquisitions we can specialisation on the Museum with only metition in passing the sculp the result that there are now six Deres from Phigalela (Bassae) and partments of Antiquities: those of from the Mausoleurs at Halicarnas Greek and Roman, of Egyptian and sus, one of the "Seven Wonders of Assyrian, of British and Medieval, the World."
and
their
deserves
hang
For the other departments a word should be said to call attention to the splendid series of Greek coins, to the early Christian Ivories, and to the Chinese and Near Eastern ceramics. Or Chinese: arts the the carlier and more Interesting Tang and
Han periods were the latest to become known to the West, and re- cent accessions
of those are largely dynasties. The Ethnographical col- lections, in part based on gifts from the Missionary Societies, are very
but require a new
building Later exploration" in_ Egypt of Oriental Antiquities, of Coins and Medals and of
of the capital of the British Ethnography: added much to the original Napo that
of Prints and Drawings Isleonic collections mentioned above; Empire. (Physical anthropology
Natural History reckoned as being part of the Library, the collection is now far more repre collected in the Similar specialisation has resulted in sentative of the civilisation of the Museum): some fields of collecting and.. study Nile Valley in ancient times. But Bombing during enemy air attacks being left to other Museums. At it was in the arts, and especially on London during the 1939-1040 war Grat the British Museum stood alone in the sculpture, of ancient Mésopo- caused much damage to the build- (except for Oxford and the Royal tamis, that the greatest additions Ing, especially to its south-western Society), and was omnivorous and, were
made in the mid- part. But all the antiquities were.in It must be uncritical. added,
and twentieth centuries. vaults or evacuated to the country Among nineteenth the objects specially pointed out in Sir Henry. Layard, followed by Sira necessary breach of the law by ane of the eighteenth century guide Henry Rawlinson and others, ex-which, with certain closely limited- books were a portrait of Chaucer cavated part of the ancient city of exceptions, nothing may be removed In an Aegyptian pebble" and " Nineveh and palaces of the Assyrian from the precincts of the Museum),
to be
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