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Lest Tobacc0

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or less damaged by sea-water)

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view from Thursday, the 30th

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MARVELLOUS TEMPLES IN ARABIAN

DESERT,

Mr. Lowell Thomas, whose lectures on Colonel Lawrence and his Arab army are well remembered, writes in Asia a fascinating story of his visit to Petra. "A rose red city halt as old as time," carved out of the enchanted mountains of Edom -

had dropped down to an altitude of ; one thousand feet when we entered the ruined city, C

ITS WONDROUS COLOURS.

PORT OF NEW YORK.

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All the explorers and travellers who have visited Petra have war OVER 500 STEAMERS ARRIVE IN JUNE. velled at the wonderful colours of its sandstone cliffs. In the morning sunlight they are like great rain... bows of stone flashing our white, vermition, saffron, orange, pink and crimson. Tine and the forces of nature have played the magician, painting. the different stratag, rare tints and hues. At sunset they glow with strange radiance before sinking into the sombre darkness of the desert night:

The port of New York. established a new high record for 1920 in point. of ship entrances during the month of June, when 508 steamers engaged in the foreign trade antved there. The clearance were somewhat beloje - this figure, as only 436 ships, aggre xting 1,364,297. net tons, departed for other ports: In May:444 ships entered.

Sgularly the number of vessels that entered during the first six mon is of 1920 was less than the number entering during the corre

greater capacities are being employed

in the movement of freight, the smaller vessels haveing been with drawn with the recession of the freight rates.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

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It lies deep in the wilderness of the Arabian desert, a few miles from the town of Maan, and not far-from

“Stairs carved from the rock, Mount Hor, where the Israelites some more than a mile in length, buried their great leader Aron," he run to the top of nearly all the says "Lawrence's enthusiastic mountatis around

Petra Wesponding period of 1919. However, 1,500 Feet above Sea Level, description of the palaces carved out climbed one-great staircase to the the net registered tonnage was of the living rock, where he had temple called by the Arabe El greater. This indicates that ships of camped with his Bedoains, inspired Deir, or the Convent, an almot me to make the ridery mile journey impressive gray facade, one hundred from Akaba to Petra. Accompanied and sixty feet highi, surmounted by by my photographer, Harry Chase, I

a gigantic arm and decorated with started ar by camel caravan.

heads of Medusa. Most of the steps After pushing our way through the cut into the mountains led to sacri gorge for more, than an hour, we ficial alart, where the people used rounded the last bend There, in

zɔ worship on the high places thou- front of us, many miles from any sands of years ago. An even greater sign of civilised habitation, deep in staircase winds up to the Mount of the heart of the Arabian desert, was Sacrifice, an isolated peak that dom! a temple, a delicate and limpid rose, nates the whole basin. On the sum carved like a cameo from a sombre | mit are two altars, one hollowed out cliff. It was even more beautiful for making fires and the other round than the Temple of Theseus at provided with a blood-pool for the Athens After trekking nearly slaughter of the victim offered, to hundred miles across the desert, to come suddenly face to face with such a marvellous structure, fairly - took our breath away.

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"The secret of its enchantment lies partly in its position at one of the most unusual" gateways in the world. The columns, pediments änd friezes have been richly carved, but it is difficult to distinguish may disfigured by time and Mahommedan iconoclasts.

Dhuhara and Aliat, the chief god and goddess of ancient Petra. Se

"Lawrence: told me that it was apposed to be the most complete and perfect example in existence of an ancient Semitic high place.

THE VANISHED PROPLE "All the buildings is this city of ghosts have elaborate facades, but within they are simple and austere.

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Philadephia showed a marked falling off during June. Owing to the longshoremen's strike there, the clearances slumped to 75 ships, while the entrances fell below the record for May. During the month of May, owing to the congestion at the port- of New York, Philadelphia established a new high record/

Boston is making some strides towards regaining the position which she held before the war, but she has not summeeded in approaching the records established in 1913 and 1916. In 1912 Boston had-1.431 ships to enter the harbour and 1,127 to clear. While some improvement "has been shows since 1918, the traffic records show that the entrances will total abar 1,000 for the present year

Boston was largely favoured by the North German Lloyd and the Hamburg-American line operated many ships out of that port. How ever, the ride has formed the other way now. During the first six

of the designs, which have been Their magnitude and Feauty even the foreign lines in the pre-war days, i

THE DESERTED CITY.

now strike one, with awe. How much more they must have meant to beauty worshippers in the days when "The temple was probably carved the city pulsed with life! Most of from a cliff almost two thousand the one is rose coloured, shot with years ago during the reign of the bue, and porphyry, The, desated months 248 American ships entered Roman Emperor Hadrian, who visited streets are rich with laurels and the harbour, compared with 200 of Petra inap. 131 The desert Arabs ole auders, whose hues seem copied foreign registry.

who were with me said it was called from the rock. Itself." In fact, the

El Khazneh, or the Treasury, because unly inhabitants of this rose red-city-

of the grear ung that surmounts the form founded hundred years haze one day wander timing the ruins of edifice, which the Bedouins believe is been the millions of briliant wild their woud city, updat filled with cold and precious jewels flowers that flourish'in toe cracks of -- The presence of Egyptian archi- of the Pharaohs former palaces and wind themselves fecture and symbols indicates that

*** The city lay farther down on the around half-rumed columni, “. plain of an ival valley, a mile and at in the centre of the city, sure

Fetra must have been built by w race

that had come in contact with the culture of the peoples who earyed the Sphinx and piled up the Pyramida

|_ half "long" and half a mile wider sunded on all sides, by temples and How populous it was there is no way palaces and tomber, is a great of "telling, but several hundred amphitheatre, out of the base of the * Nobody knows when or by whom, thomand -people”, must once have came, mountain - that leads to the Petra was bulik... It had its begioning lived here. Only the more insigni- great high place of sacrifice Tiers long before the time of Abraham ficant buildings have perished, and and têrs of seats face the mountain and was an old city when the even of these, some wriking ruins wennes of tomba... If is, the one Israelites Bed from Keyptian remain. The upper part of the valley bymbol of life andmorth in all this bondage,

is the she of ancient fortresses, mysterious deserted city. The little more than a centUITY AND, palaces, tomba and amusement treats | Laughter, and cheers the thousa

allcarved out of the solid rocks. The once rang: bere ac

lower part was apparently, a wster, cemetery of

circum where the people Indulged in ambition

aquatic sports and tournaments. gay thro

Petra is a huge excavation made by i sERIE the forces of nature - Froen the nine - the thousand, fost plateau from which we Edomi first saw the mountain of Edom, sro - tisak a people

John Lewis Birckhardt, ■ S′′is tra- velle, who had heard rumours of a

ted the gorge and found once

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