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Sir Erle Chatfield, the new Admiral of the Fleet, has filled pearly every important post in the Royal Navy. He is a gun-i very specialist, with a passion for efficiency and a firm belief in big-and-up-to-date ships. (A) silent, reserved man he shuns publicity. His only activity out-
BIBLICAL HISTORY
RECOVERED
HEBREW INSCRIPTIONS
DECIPHERED
REWARDS OF ARCHEOLOGICAL RESEARCH
(By C. B. Mortlock)
(INCE the publication in Eng It is known that Jerusalem fell land of translations of several before the onslaught of Nebuch-
side the Navy was his captaincy of the unique, Hebrew inscrip-adnezzar's army in 388-586 BC of the Wentworth Golf Club. tions found by Mr. J. Starkey at in the reign of Zedekiah. It had He has a great sorrow. His Tell-el-Duweir, I have visited the beex assumed that Lachish fell father was an Admiral. His only site of the excavation. The first the same period but the in- son was destined for the Navy. view of the great mound as I sawternal evidence of the Lachish The son passed out of Dart- it in the brilliant light of the Pales-Letters points to the city having mouth with the highest boncurstinian moon was extraordinarily been subjugated some ten years earlier in $97-596 B. C. of the Last year, as he was carrying his impressive.
bar on to the Frobisher for his. It stands over 100 ft above the reign of Jehoiakim. final training course, a joint in surrounding levels, and one's
·Translations of three of the numbered L IL
his neck, which had been damus-first thought is of wonderment letters, those ed in an accident, went again. that it has remained so long and I have already been pu
A naval career had to be aban-investigated. No doubt its-blished, and it will be doned
accessibility has preserved the that in one of them there
recalled were
Sir Erule was Admiral Beat-mound intact. Had it been ex-freferences to military signals precise which correspond with a state- ty's Flax Captain at Heligoland cavated in days of less and Jutland. It was to him archaeological method, it is by no meat in Jeremiah The fact that that Admiral Beatty remarked meats unlikely that the frag they were all found in the guard- when the Queen Mary was blown ments of pottery, with their faint room, and the nature of their in cursive Hebrew contents, suggests that they were be some-writing thing wrong with our ships to-characters, would have escaped addressed not to the governor of the city, as was at first suppos. day. Steer two points nearer to observation
ed, but to the captain of the the enemy.”
guard
wp:
"There seems to
*
-ST. GEORGE FOR ENGLAND
Biblical City
Reading The Script :
of.
Potsherds are the commonest finds of the archaeologist. They
The work of decipherment has His predecessor, Admiral Sir presice an invaluable means of Roger Keyes, made before the
dating stratifications of human been a task of great dimculty, Zeebrugge raid a almost The China Mail sees there is not in certain in- as famous. It dewarae occupation, and are turned up is owing to the writing being over
hundreds of thousands. Whether laid with the incrustations stances something amiss with ard-arm of Vindictive under his inscribed fragments have been centuries, and also to the fact eyesight. That is not a surfag. It read: "St. George for dog up in Palestine in times past that,
with one exception the prising question from one who|England.” The Zeebrugge raid and discarded unrecognised can writing was
on the burnished adopts the saying of Leonardo) was on St. George's Day.
side of the pottery. The ink had' that "the most praiseworthy
Admiral Keyes's captains fash-ever be known. painting is that which has mostled back: "Pray God we may give concentrated
Those on which interest is now thas not been absorbed by the
at Tell-el-Daweir porous material. conformity to the thing repre- the dragon's tail a damned good are 17 in number, and it is no It is due to the patience and sented a doctrine that succes twist. They did. Between them exaggeration to say that they are erudition of C. E Torczyner. the sive schools of the moderns have they won nine V.C.'s that day.
laefied in the belief that great
Juvenile delinquents of
Hong Kong. Monday, July 1, 1935.
DON'T
TAKE
The Child And The Film
A
CHANCE
WITH
YOUR
WINTER
present generation have
at
of
*
+
the most valuable documents of the Hebrew University at Jer- which have yet rewarded the pa-usalem, that the writing has been and translated. In that tient researches of Biblical arch-read
work he was assisted by Mr. |aeologists.
-
jart must always be something ELEVEN ADMIRALS their disposal an excuse which
more than representational Ir— their nineteenth century prede discussing the value of art in The King and Lord Beatty are envy, international relations, Sir John the only Admirals of the Fleet
Mr. Starkey, who is in charge Gerald Harding, a member of the cessors might well
Expedition.
whose "Please, sir. I saw it on the evinced a desire to have per who are permanent in this rank of the Wellcome Archaeological Welcome
before the Research Expedition to the Near sharp eyes proved of even great- films.**
This revelation of the manent collections of British They were promoted
roading has paintings in British Embassies Eve-year rale became operative third season's work on the site.graphy. The writing will short- East. has just completed his jer service than infra-red photo- origins cf
In addition to the King, adi moved many an elderly magis abroad. It is a fascinating sug-
He told me that he reckons it ly be scrutinised afresh in Loo- trate to denounce the cinemas gestion. but if the pictures are mirals of the Fleet are four. Un- CLOTHING as harbingers of evil. Sceptics to be those of our own day, til Lord Beatty retires there are will take 100 years to complete don with every aid that scienti-
are however, on the increase, diplomatists will discover that therefore, only three vacancies the scientific excavation of what fic photography can give
Letter III a translation of ajevery five years.
he is now confident may be ideo- and the magistrate who takes they have been thrust into his own children to the pictureworld in which differences
There are eleven full Admirals tified with the ancient Biblical which I am able to give here- with, is written on both sides of thouse when he is off the Benchew may be as embittered as in the Navy. Admiral Chatfeld's city of Lachish.
The site is some 245 miles a shard, or fragment of ancient is not likely to accept so auto-in the sphere with which they promotion makes them all "go up south-west of Jerusalem, and pottery, and at first, was thought matic and simple an explanation are more familiar.
The Duke of York chose safer
Lachish was a western frontier to be two separate letters: From: of youthful wickedness. It is
ground in claiming that art ed" One is Admiral Sir Cyril period of greatest expansion and definite proof of the date of pro- are "unemploy-fort of the Judean kingdom. Its it Dr. Torczyner was able to gain refreshing, therefore, to read
should be given a fuller place in Fuller who now that the Home Office represen-
heads the list activity was Child Welfare Committee tative on the League of Nations Our day life and should be Another is the Prince of Wales.millennium BC. On the top of bably belongs to a few days be
atilised in rescuing our big Recently be has produced a report on investiga-cities from ugliness and saving nine
the countryside from deface tions conducted among eleven nations, recording the view that which public opinion is now
ment. These are directions in Your Daily Smile: the cinema is upon the whole a
is plain force for social good rather than moving strongly, as
from the revolt against ribbon taxes?" ja social disaster.
The League's Child Welfare development and the greater re- Committee and its Home Office gard for mass in the new archi-politician attache impugn the cinema at tecture of
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during the third correspondence, all of which pro- the mound were found the fore the fall of the city in 597 mains of Persian occupation B. C. There are still it will be with evidences of a magnificent seen, a few points missing which Residency, which was equipped at present prevent a complete with pipe sanitation not greatly translation. On the other hand, what do you think of those new different in principle from that in Letter VI. and fragment XVI They are the work of an amateur to which we are accustomed to- there is evidence that the mat
ters dealt with are the stine as- day. "Well, we certainly have something
those in Letter II The-one can- to be thankful for that be wasn't a
not, therefore, be discussed with- | professional!"
Hardly the Occasion
The storm was increasing in vio
the rocket burst over the ship when
A Great Urgency
It was in the levels of the pre-out reference to the others... vions period of occupation, that
These three letters open of the Judean kingdom, that the facts which are as fascinating as Snds were they are important for one must
a more, vulnerable point. It is binnders are not to be quickly not so much that too many fims repaired where building is con- bad for children are produced as cerned, and in the search for something better mistakes will that insufficient files are pa not be avoided. Yet the recent lence, and some of the deck Sting present momentous duced which children could en-
mamı- had stready been swept overboard made. At first the letters were bear in mind that the earliest joy. But it is agreed that the exhibition of design, in remedy of this deficiency pre facture at the Royal Academy when the captain decided to send up thought to be copies of outgoing known version of any of the Old showed how, in an age of a signal of distress. But hardly had letters, written no doubt on pa
Testament writings is no-earlier. sents economic difficulties Children form a numerically achine production, beauty can solemn-faced passenger stepped spyrus; but certain circumstan-in date than the 9th century AD. small class among film-goers, still be given its place. It the bridge
ces, including the fact that se Dr. Torczyner described to me "Captain," he said, "I'd be the last veral of the fragments are pieces the exciting course of his faves-- PARTICULARLY and they are necessarily not the would be a cause of permanent
class which can afford the most ezret if with the fever for man on earth to cast a damper of a single portion of pottery.tigation of the writings, as piece expensive seats. Yet in the change running high there were anyone, but it seems to me that this in point to the probability that they by piece he was able to build up days of the silent films. Wild repeated that forgetfulness of
* are, in fact, incoming letters from the letters a living picture. West" pictures and such spec the sweeter things of life that I took up this game, the hopeless written in the stress of great in of the days when Jeremiah was alive. The essential points as tacles as Douglas Fairbanks's an earlier industrial age and apologetically to his gency
caddy merely to practise self-con- "Robin Hood" delighted children blighted so much loveliness.
What we may now call the La-they emerged under his scruting trol" and adults alike without ap
**You ought to have gone in for remains of a guard room withinry
chish Letters were found in the have all the thrill of a deter parently bankrupting either
caddying, "sir." their producers or the exhibi-
the bastion, and adjoining the
(Continued on Page 6) tors who showed them).
city wall of the late Judean per-
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MAN BURIED
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Only Rescued After 20 Hours
Barriere (British Columbia) Mr. Thomas Becker, a 25-year similar here from time to time jold Canadian, was trapped in a 25-foot-deep well here for 19 hours
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A man complained to the local iod. The fact of its having been postmaster because of the failure to destroyed by fire accounts - for deliver & letter improperly address the preservation of the writing in ed: "Now, suppose,” he continaod.j
addressed a letter to the Biggest ink on the shards. It has long | Dumbbell - ín. Christendom what been the dream of Palestinian would you do toward delivering it archaeologists to discover in. to Sender, coolly replied the post but unlike the dry soil of Egypt, should simply mark it. Eeturnscriptions in documentary form, master.
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Becker was digging a well when
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critic of modern art in the was buried up to the neck in mud
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manag to
down, and ser
the mud
which as yielded so mu
sort, that of Palesti and all papyrus has The burit root.
evidently col
the hard dry floor, and dent has thus preserved 2,500 years documents the only take us back to the
the Old Testament,
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