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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1931.

HISTORIC FIND IN. MESOPOTAMIA.

Flights of Stairs Beneath! Moon-God's Temple.

BRILLIANT STUDENT POISONED.

Death After Visit to

a Cinema.

KING FIRED AT.

HIS ADJUTANT SHOT IN THE HEAD.

FIRE RETURNED

THE CHINA MAIL.

ROYAL VAULTS.

The death by poisoning of a

Vienna, Saturday. Two men were arrested to-day brilliant students was revealed at whilst attempting to assassinate The tombs of kings who reigned the inquest at Watford recently. 4,000 years ago at Ur of the!

King Zogu of Albania. Both are The dead, guan WAS Chaldees, in Mesopotamia, have Frederick, Felix Troiter, aged 20, a captain of Artillery; and Ndok John Albanians-Aziz Cami, an ex been discovered by the joint ex-student at the Imperial College of Gjelossi, who belonged to -pedition from the British Museum Science, South Kensington.

the and the l'ennsylvania University took his Bachelor of Science de- were wearing evening dress and He Albanian Gendarmerie. They Museum, under the leadership of gree with honours six months ago. Dr. Leonard Woolley.

The verdict was that denth was

-This is one of the most remark caused by neute irritant, polsoning able archaeological discoveries on self-administered by misadven-

record.

In

his

It goes back nearly 1.000 ture. years before Tutankhamen reigned; Percival Kenneth Davis.Trotter, in Egypt, and comes only about the father, said that his son was 2,000 years after the Flood It is studying arganic chemistry. about the time of Abraham and long the afternoon he went with before Moses.

brother to a cinema, and in the The lambs that have been found evening went out alone to do some are those of the great kings of the shopping. Returning home, he had third dynasty-about 2400-2300, bath and went to bed. Shortly afterwards he rushed downstairs

B.C.

This third dynasty was the great calling "Mother"! They asked him age of the prosperity of Ur, and its what was the matter. He said " kings, Ur-Engur, Dunget, and Bar, feel very queer. Where is tha Sin, are famous in history:

A building, with bricks bearing the name of Bur-Sin, was reached at the end of the exploration of the previous season This, on fur ther Investigation, proved to bat

an annexe built by that monarch

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a much larger buikling-a temple of his father Rungi.

Below the floors of both are tombs-lurge and lofty chambera -with gorbel vaults which are it is announced.unquestionably: tlic tombs of the kings.

Dungi's tomb contains

salt"?

Drank Salt and Water,

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Report of the Board of Directors, for the Financial Year ended 31st Two Directors and the Auditors. December, 1930, and re-electing

Auction. Wednesday At 6, United Ter- race, Ho Mun Tin, Kowloon, house. hold furniture, 10.30 a.m.

Sports.

His mother gave him a, handful of salt, and he drank salt atid water. Suddenly he collapsed. Ho Tratier said he thought his did not regain consciousness. Mr. died when he collapsed,

son approached the Royal party as the King was about to enter his Replying to the deputy coroner, motor car outside the .Opera Mr. Trotter said his son had

Home Mail. a House. small laboratory adjoining his bed- They opened a fusillade at and porta (Empress of Russia and To-day-Inward from America room. He did not heag, his son. go point blank range. The King's President Lincoln); Outward for into the laboratory when he went attendants immediately sur Europe via Siberia, 6 p.m. (Pré- higl. to bed.

rounded His Majesty and returnsident Grant). pintform from which descend flights poisons in his bedroom?--I don't ried revolvers

The Coroner: Were there any [ed the fire. Apparently all car of stairs to chambers. or passages

in their of which the exploration is not com-know nothing of chemistry.

hip know. I expect there were I pockets. pleted.

The King's Adjutant, Major Mr. Trotter Plundered Buildings.

added thut

he Topolni, was shot twice in the All the buildings were, unfor

thought his son had been overhead and died on the spot. The tunately. completely

working.

Court Minister, Libohova, al- plundered David when

though twice wounded, continued Ur feli

to fire his revolver. sued and caught and roughly

One of the ussailants was pur R.M. treated by the crowd, He was found to have discharged seven cartridges.

The two assailants are reported to have been sub sidised by friends in Albania and Albanian residents in Vienna. the latter's homes at night time The police visited a number of and made several arrests.--Reu-

a victim to the Elamite intaders, more than 2,000 years before Christ; but strae terally they are, it is said, of great interest, and the possibilities of the site are not yet exhausted.

These discoveries rank in im portance with the most notable in recent years made by the jolut ex-

Trotter, a Kenneth at Chelsen, described a visit to a student at an engineering college cinema with his brother on the afternoon before the tragedy.

that

He said he did not think bis brother experimented with drugs on himself.

Taken Hours Before.

The Coroner: Did anyone in the film take his life?-A Chinese took This life in the end.

By what means?-He prepared some poisoned ten and drank it.

Did your brother pass any com- ment or discuss the scene with you? No, but he thought the film was good,

Was he susceptible to what he saw? He thought deeply, but I do Professor: "Rother! I have for-not think it would affect him.

Dr. Glyn Hall said that Trotter gotten why I am hurrying and where I am going."--"

was dead when he arrived. Но Mocca, Vienna. could find nothing to indicate the

pedition. In January 1927 the ex pedition found near the excavated

de

cause of death. There was no cor

rosion of the tongue or lips. A post-mortem examination suggest ed that some acute irritant poison

ter.

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VACANT CHAIR.

STATUE WANTED IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.

Who *will оссиру vacant pedestal?

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London's

obviously made for a statue, and It stands in Trafalgar-square

supporting Chantrey's equestrian is an exact copy of the pedestal George IV.

It is one of the finest statue sites

grave of Prince Mes-Kalam-Dug had been taken. He could not say in London, and its emptiness without analysis what that poison renders the square lopsided, as it was. it had probably been taken statua had been removed for

cleaning.

treasury of golden offerings dicate to the 'donal ruler of about 2500 B.C.

There included an ornate gold charlot heavily decorated with gold figures and ornaments, drawn by two cases, and a twelve-stringed harp the upright of which capped and bound with gold.

Was

The botly of the king who was buried there was not found. Pro- bably, as in so many instances, the tomb was rifled at an early date, but many other bodies were in the grive shaft. "

Back to Noah,

some hours before.

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TORY WIN,

Statues are squeezed and slid into uncomfortable London corners -Westminster Abbey Is admitted- ly a soup of sculpture-public

SIR T. INSKIP AT TOP, OF THE gardens are statue packed. while

POLL.

12,437 MAJORITY.,

London, Saturday.

In Trafalgar-square, which might be called the "Coronet of London," there is still a setting without a stone.

It la "To Let."

The by-election at Fareham, and we have no intention of put "It is not reserved for anybody, Hampshire, due to the retirement ting anybody up there yet, sald The expedition has made valuable of Sir John Davidson, M.Pan official of the Office of Works. discoveries throwing light on | (Unionist) who has represented A fascinating little, "yet."

by

'ancient civilisations both before and the Division since 1918, resulted

after the Flood. The explorera in a Conservative victory. have passed back through the ruins The voting was as follows:- of the buildings Inhabited Abraham and his contemporaries to nges which stretch as far as Noah, and even earlier. They have proved the existence of pro-Flood buildings and a pre-Flood elvilisa- tion.

It would be tactless to suggest who might be on the "hoodoo" Sir Thomas Inskip (Cons.) 18,749 Londoners should find it amusing` pedestal in the near future, but all Mr. Pearson (Labour) 6,312 to suggest who might have been Mr. Cross (Liberal).

3,617 erected there.

Captain Fryatt? Conservative majoraty 12,437

-Reuter. Was it for some military nabob [Sir Thomas Inskip was Solici- who disgraced himself, some great In other part of the world traces tor-General from 1922-1924, and scribe who began to "pot boll, had been found of civilisation be- during the War served in the some Guardee of the past who fore 4000 B.C.-the approximate Naval Intelligence Division at the married an actresa?. date now assigned for the great Admiralty.]

--- Euphrates flood-but the expedition

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under Dr. Woolley has been the known as the Ziggurat, which bad first to discover traces of clvliisa- great flight of wide stairs galng tion in the land which the Flood right up its aldes, something like actually covered.

the historic temple that Cortez found in Mexico.

.

Many of their discoveries came to the explorers as a complete sur

In Abraham's Days. prise. In one notable Instance The rampart was bulit before the they had no knowledge in advance time of Abraham-who migrated that they were uncovering a royal from Urto Palestine and in burial-place, and had no idea of the Abraham's days It had along the presence of wonderful gold ortop of it a line of public buildings naments, gold headdresses, gold and houses which served as a well. lyrea, and goldon bulls, which were At that time the river Euphrates hidden in a royal cemetery,

ran along one side of the city"of The kings of Ur whose tombs] Ur, although since then the river have now been found ruled all has moved its course about ten

Babylonia, it is said, from the Per miles away,

sian Gulf to the Mediterranean. Ur had a large harbour, with They came after the fall of the many "connecting waterways, and empire of King Sargon, whose sent Dr. Leovard Woolley has said that was Babylon. They bullt, or re- in Abfaham's days Ur was a kind built, the famous temples of the of Venice, with ocean-going dhown Mopn-God at, Ur. M

moorer almost at the gates of the King Ur-Enger built, about 2300, Moon-God's templo, 25. B.C, the celebrated "great wall of Duugi, one of the kings whose Ur,” which ran along the top of a tomba have now been found, rampart two and quarter miles reigned over fifty-one years, Uf long, at least 20ft, high, and from was in those days a great centre of 70 to port wide!

Commerce, and explorers have

Thin wall has disappeared, but actually found tablets on which are DrWoollere expedition has unrecorder bisiness contracts, and wered the great dyrkmilial sound. ther documenta relating toŝtrm

See Diary on page 8.

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Segrave? We have Nurse Cavell. Would Captain Fryatt be consider-

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Why not a dashing equestrian remembrance of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" to please Jacobite Lon doners?

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A mounted Earl Haig would give laughter and tears of the city, a nobia finish to the unfinished capture her soul in a single figure, Arthur Conan Doyle? Sir Henry vacant chair of London! border of Trafalgar-square. Sir what a superb conception. for the

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