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1. When Julius Caesar in- vaded Britain he found our ancestors telling me by means Of
Water clocks, aundials, hour. glasses, penduluma?
2. A long-slx I
Seven, cricket ball hit out of ground, canile, domino?
3. Of which poet was it said
that he "wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll"
Goldsmith, Wordsworth, Keats, Milton?
4. A tandful of
What are they?
mischief.
5. One of these football clubs has won both the F.A, and Amateur Cup competitions
Bishop Aucklanil, Dulwich Hamlet.
Old Carihuelans,
Corinthians, Casuals?
G. The
surest way of dis- tinguishing a sloat from 器 weasel is
Is y
Colour, size, tail?
7. If you are 80 years old how
British wars have Many you lived through-
4, 5, 7, 107
8. The patron saint of Lon- dan is-
ST Peter, Giles, Paul, Clement. Olave?
9. "Procrastination is the thief of tima" was sal by--
Pope, Young, Milton, Shake- speare, Shaw?
10. Given D terraph you would-
Serve wine from it, make soup, measure speed of earth through space, vine it to church?
a
CDM65142012562220/2892357||20|12|92|224) 1829 SHIP'S LOG
FOUND IN WALL
Twelve pages of
ship's log writ-
ten In 1820 were found pasted to the back of wainscoting of a house being torn down in Salem, Massachusetts.
The page were turned over to the Peabody Museum, where ofllelals and they were part of the log of the brig Olinda, skippered Mansfeld.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY," MARCH 8, 1947.
Helas, France
PARIS. There are many alarm- ing indications of a strange Puritan trend among a section of the French people.
One of the manifestations of this ex- traordinary peacetime development is In the deletion of the word "Putain" from
posters advertising a current Parisian play, "La Putain Respectueuse" ("The Respectful Harlol").
Another is the police closure of the famous 'girl-show cabaret, ital Tabarin, which is known to every tourist in France,
is
is turning Puritan!
Drinking laws are all as civilised as ever-
restrictions at all--but enemies of liberty in Ilferature, speech, and painting are opening their mouths wider and wider,
A
Latest example of the growth of this Parker point of view occurred during the week, when gendarmes walked inby a little picture-framing shop in the Latin quarter of Montparnasse and At the end of the forces tilting at anything "Invited" the proprietor to take out of his win which may shook the suburban mlad, is ndow a small nude by one of France's moderns, mon called Daniel Parker. He is head of an Paul Bret, organisation called the Asaelation for Morni and Social Action.
Gendarmes tok the proprietor that despite his English-sounding name, passerby had found the young woman "400 Frenchman, and if he gets his way he in- desirable," and had "prisestad tends to "clean up" not only literature and These protesting passers-by." It is suggest painting, but the stage and cinema as well.. ed, are fairly closely linked with Monsieur
He is France's current crusader for "good Parker's organisation. morals" and, under a law passed in July, 1939, anyone judged guilty of alteners against "good morals" may be sentenced to two years' fall and heavily fined,
In n
All French intellectual reviews are at boil- There are grave, ftars that France is going Ing point over the activities of Monsieur Parker
and his society.
wowser.
Liberals ace in this incident another plece et evidence that reactionaries are building up a bist attack on traditional Latin liberties, "Soon," they say, "Parker's organisation will be shutting cafes at six o'clock,"
-Neville Thomson
RENEWED SEARCH MADE FOR
E
SITE OF OLD JERUSALEM
WINDOW ON THE WORLD
prison.
In
Auckland One of the.world's most course of grammar he began while Eamous malt-Tincan Island post- serving a sentence at Alcatraz. has closed for the Inst tline because court he charged that prison au-. the island has been handed back to thorities would not return his les nature. Its real name is Niusfood, cons because he is writing book small member of the Tongan Group exposing "brutality" at the Islık north of New Zealand. A violent. eruption and fears of another have led the Tongan Government to eva-
MADE IN GERMANY - cuate, with New Zealand's help, all New York-"Made in Germany" its 1,300 people, Stamp collectors trade marks, will soon appear again the world over prize Niuafoou covers in American shops. Government because the mall had to be floated geneles are now soliciting ordern fur between the harbourless island and German China toys, precision instru- passing ships in scaled tin cans by
imenta, cameras and optical goods, hardy native swimmers. Postmaster Malekamu cancelled the last half bug of letters by hand, writing his name across each staro. They are expected to be sought eagerly by philatelists,
ITALIAN DIVORCE CAMPAIGN
QURSE OF THE CLERANS Paris-For the third time the curse of the Clerans has struck. The Clerans are one of France's most daring trapeze ac's and Leo Clerans, the star, lost his partner two years ago when he missed a hold after a Rome. The Italian Commitice for mid-air icap and crashed to death. Divorce, which began in October its His second partner, Charlie Clerans, campaign for Inwa permitting died, the same way a year ago in. divorce in Italy, now has 400,000 Paris. With the third partner, Leo membern ind 64
offices did the critical leap, missed his hold throughout the country, During and fell 30 feet to the ring. Both 1948, out of 8,500 applications for legs and severni fingers were broken annulment made by Italians to the Vatican, only the
1,500 were granted. Fees and costs of an annulment average £500 each. The only alter- native for Italians who cannot afford this is legal separation. Legal in farce in Italy have reached the record high of
The wall and three towers fitted was, probably a reconstruction of the The older and lower paince, which original wall, made after it had been he restored and named the Antonia, breached in the Seleucid-Maccabean after
Mark Antony, was at wars of the second century B.C.
north-west corner of the Jewish Temple, which he also rebulit.
XCAVATIONS have been
resumed by the Palestine close together in it were part of one Department of Antiquities in fortifled line. They have been un- the Citadel on the western side covered in the Citadel in parts to in the present walled city of their lowest depth. The northern- Jerusalem, near the Jaffa gate, most of the three towers stood where Herad later erected his Tower of Phasnel, the massive construction known until medieval Ulines as the Tower of David..
They tend to confirm doubis which had arisen as to previously accepted beliefs about the extent of the first Jerusalem, established in the time of the Hebrew Monarchy
about 100 B.C. to 387 B.C.
The hill on
which the Citadel standa Is traditionally known as Mount Zion, but the excavations do not support the theory that a part of the "stronghold of Zion," the city of David and his successors, was located on that .
the
C
The other two towers were to the west and south and connected by curtain walls. The walls show three phases of construction.
+
Hellenistic Period
TEMPORARY, rough
separations now rubble
wall was first erected in front of the ruins, until a proper recon- struction could be understaken, per- haps in the first half of the first century. B.C., during the time Alexander or Antipater, father Herod.
of
of
It was this reconstructed wall that Herod strengthened with three great towers, one being the Tower of Phusael. The other two stood out side the area of the present Citadel,
£30,000.
ANCIENT MOSAIC
mosaic
MAN WITH THE STUTTER Johannesburg.-Armed polico possa and fanners on horseback arc Conducting a mass search for an arm-
outlaw named Rullers in the Port Elizabeth district. He has built up an astonishing record of cattle thefts. He keeps writing to the police taunt- ing them and they can't entch him. He is known ha the anan with the
It is now partly occupied by the convent of the Sisters of Zion and is generally identified as the 'place where the trial of Christ took place.
Trieste.-A But the Roman procurators, when dating from the second half of the stutter.
pavement. they come up from Caesarea, some-fourth century after Christ, has been times took up residence In the upper discovered in Grado Cathedral. palace instead of in the lower, and Under the pavement has been found It is considered possible that Puntius tomb with the inscription "A Jew Pilate presided over Christ's trial family worthy
named Peter, the only one of his in the upper palace, which lay with- Christ." in the angle of the wall now being
be
and
1144
extremely difficult
to
THE uppermost and latest phase is the Herodian addition, built at the same time as the Tower of The pottery which has been found examined. No remains of this palace Phase). The two lower periods of is the established have been uncovered masonry are dated by the deposits, as bebig older than the second cen- would pottery, and colms found against ry B.C., and this evidence is con- either reached up to the walls, in found almost down to the lowest them. The layers of these deposits Armed by the coins which
were reach.
cumulated in the ordinary way after second century or later. It appears, pre- which case they must have 'ne level of the wall and are all of the the wally had been built, or they then, that this is not the original were found to stop a short distance
BIBLICAL maps showed the city as extending to this point in the ume of the Kings. The theory was supported by Josephus, the Jewish historian, who regarded Herodian wall which runs through and under the courtyard of the sent Citadel, as being the first, or "very old" wall of Jerusalem, Examination now shows that this wall could not be older than the second century B.C., in which
case 1s not the original wal of
Jerusalem, and the first city did not extend as far as this point from the site south of the Temple area, now enclosed by where it began.
the Harames-Sharif,
from the walls.
In such instances the gaps were Alled with
different deposits, the original deposits having been inter- sected by the builders, who wished to secure solid foundations either on picked soll. Obviously the deposits rack or on previous foundations or which were intersected must be earlier thon the masonry of the
wall. by Capt. D. H.
The Olinda was engaged in the South American trade In 1020 and Mosfell, a native of Salem, was at one-time Zanzibar.
United States consul at
At one point the wall incorporates primitive, and possibly much older, masonry, but its Inspection has been inconclusive, because a tower was later built against it, and any pre- vlous deposits of pottery and coin from which the date of the masonry might have been surmised were re- moved.
Examination of the deposits seema to indicate that the first and oldest phase of masonry
of the Hellenistic period, perhaps a part of the Maccabean fortifications bullt about 150 B.C. The second phase
all of Jerusalem. Possibly it is a
later extension.
It advanced a good way north and west of the wall of the Kings, and included the west hill. where the Citadel now stands, just as the two later walls of Jerusalem, known as two inter walls, built in the time of the second and third walls, advanced In turn more to the north. Those Herod and Claudius respectively, Just before and after Christ, have Bill to be fully traced.
THE Citadel stands on part of the site of Herod's newer or upper palace, which he bullt for himself.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
The Trial Of Christ
of the
#race
of
on arrival.
SOME JOKE! Madrid. For having insulted their neighbours and played wo practical jokes on them
many over tho phone, the Oviedo municipal au- thories have gaoled 40-year-old Jase- BLACK MARKET-ROME
fina Tunon and her 25-year-old daughter, Carmina, and their two Rome. The
One of their mildest Rome food black servants. market, in spite of a police drive miles from home because his son was pranks was to lure a neighbour 200 which almost cleared the streets of with pneumonia. Of course the black market barrows, is still in full son was well and greeted the father swing. Black marketeers are now selling their stocks from suitcases in house-to-house visits. Spaghetti is butter 14 da Dd a pound. pound, ofl 10s a pint, eggs a shilling each and meat from 10s a pound and upwards.
FAILURE
the path taken by Christ when he 19, died in an iron lung in a chilren's The early Christian conception of power breakdown, John MacMahon,
Sydney, During
Church of the Holy Sepulchre now paralysis. No efforts of the medical carried the Cross south towards Calvary, where the for
wns from
the hospital stands; and if Christ was condemned
He had been in the lung 10 years following infantile on the site of the Citadel this route, rather than the present one ap proaching Calvary from the cast, would be more likely to be correct. The present tradition, is, however, likely to stand, unless and until Is forthcoming.
more directly contradictory evidence
IF Christ was tried and condemned in the upper palace, then the route of the Via Dolorosa, as now
would be open to question... accepted by the Christian world,
down.
electric
ANGLO-INDIAN TRADE Rome--During the first 10 months of 1946, Italy exported to Britain over £1,000,000 worth of goods and Imported fron Britain over £5,000,- 000 worth. England is importing before the war, four times as much Italian fruit s
headmaster, Richard McFeley, says SOUNDS REASONABLE Philadelphia, - A Philadelphia that parents as well as. school- children should have
report cards. How they might win top marka: pro- vide a quiet study room for their children; insist on their gotting ade- quate sleep permit them to go to un- praise good
before he died, he said: stoff could save him. A few seconda
"I ring, Sister" and the nurse broke
WHERE THERE'S A WILL San Francisco-Richard Numer is chaperoned parties, secking the law's ald to complete a things before criticising the bad.
Sixty-four Dollar Question
BY, KEMP STARRETT
"WHEN ARE YOU GON' T' GET A JOB?"
GEORGE, ARE
YOU SHOKING JAGAIN D
"WHEN IS YOUR MOTER GOING HOME ♫*
WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO
WHEN MAY WE EXPECT PAYMENT"
GET A DECENT HAT?"
WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO TEACH THIS BRAT SOME MANNERO 2o.
Ledger Syndicate
HOW DO YOU KEEP SO NICE
AND FAT THESE DAYS §1·
WHY DON'T YOU GO HOME AND TAKE CARE OF THAT COLD
WHY DODE YOU BIND YOUR OND BUSIDESS?"