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There and Everywhere.

SEVILLE CALLING

ZIMBABWE RUINS

IN AFRICA

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Union Church, Kennedy Road, yes- terday when the annual St. An- drew's Church service was held.

Anyone who gets Burgos scores full marks. Seville varies between

ease

CENTURY

to the land now opinion that Ruins were

It

known as Southern Rhodesia from the temple of King Solomon His Excellency the Governor, Sir 50 and 75 per cent.

are to be found in the work of on Mount Moriah and the palace Andrew Caldecott, and Lady Calde-

It is reported that one player Persian and Arabian geographers inhabited by Queen Sheba. cott, were present at the church listened-in to the news from that and historians between 347 A.D. was on this romantic theory that Later references Rider Haggard based his famous as were EE. Vice-Admiral Sir insurgent headquarters in four and 1060 A.D.

who novel, "King Solomon's Mines." Charles Little, H. E. Major Gen-languages-English, French, Ger-were made by Portuguese

Since that date, however, highly eral A. W. Bartholomew, Mr. R. Mman and Italian. That was at 130 tried to occupy the country, but McLay, Chieftain of the St. Anam. When the station shut down they were beaten back to the coast qualified geologists and archaeo MORAN-At Victoria Hospital drew's Society. Sir Atholl Macit promised to repeat the polyglot by the malaria mosquito and dis-logists have devoted considerable study to the fascinating problem on 29th November, 1936, to Gregor. Vice-Chieftain, and mem-baletin in an hour.

Thus we are thrown back to a of the builders of Zimbabwe. In Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Moran abers of the Committee.

As a rule, the Madrid short- daughter. Olwyn Anne.

Following the service a reception

and certain authenticated history of addition to oversea people, two by the Chieftain was held on the wave station blocks Seville. Hong Kong. Monday, Nov. 30, 1936 parade ground at Volunteer Head-vice-versa. This may account for 400 years ago. However, events Rhodesians, R. N. Hall and W. G. quarters, when Mr. McLay was the experiences of another player. Prior to that date have provided Neal, spent five years on the task historians and archaeologists with of an exhaustive examination of thanked by Captain H. R. Forsyth,

He was listening to Madrid when causes for argument, discussion, the Ruins. Their conclusion was commanding the Scottish Company,

station came in with what sound-and disagreement, all of which that the Phoenicians were

and they supported for his hospitality, both at St. An-ed like Arab music. He put this tend to suggest that any new dis-builders, Trouble

drew's Ball on Friday and at the down to Seville and its Moorish covery or new theory will envelop Professor Keane that these were reception yesterday.

affinities. It might, however, have the whole matter in an impene-the people who During the reception a presenta-been Assiut (Egypt) giving Four years ago the British

native musical programise. cotton industry, already hard tion was made to Corporal E. M. pressed by post-war competi-Bryden by the rest of the Com- THE LEKTROLITE AND tion from abroad and by dis-pany in honour of his recent mar- turbed conditions in the Farriage. GLOLITE FLAMELESS

Eastern market, suffered a ser-

Among those present at the LIGHTERS, FUNCTION ies of strikes, of which the

OUT-gravest lasted three weeks and ception were: INDOORS

EQUAL cost the industry £12,000,000.

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On the other hand, this theory that was was discounted by Professor Ban-

This view had the support of Mr. H. B. Dunstin, late Director of ¡Public Worke for Southern

Rhodesia, in 1922.

trable cloud.

The late Professor A. H. Keane, FRGS. maintained, in his book!

Gold of Ophir," "The third station interfered. This was

The mystery deepened when giving a number of English songs, ancient Southern Rhodesia

commissioned by the British Asso- re-which included "Rule Britannia."the auriferous "Havilah" of Bibli-dall MacIvor, who in 1905 was

has cal times. The only other station that

Historical evidence of trading ciation and the Ehodes Trustees H. E. Sir Andrew Caldecott and the same wavelength is Tallinn.

by Arabs, and probably Persians to make investigations. He con- the But he is still wondering why and Chinese, with local inhabi- cluded that the. Bantu were By the breakdown three months Lady Caldecott, Their Excellencies

Centuries. ago of the wage negotiations Sir Charles Little and Major Gen-

three ing, but there is little evidence as between the cotton employers eral A. Wi Bartholomew, Rear Ad-the Eatonians were being amused tants in gold has been forthcom-builders during the 14th and 15th

o'clock in the morning.

what particular types and Miss McLay, and the operative spinners and miral C. G. Sedgwick, Mr. R by such a programme at

races, save the Bushmen, lived in card-room workers à repetition McLay, Mrs. and

the land in the far distant past. of this disastrous dispute was Sir Atholl MacGregor, Rev. and

Direct Evidence Lacking

In 1929, Dr. Leo Frobenius, a threatened. The operatives de Mrs K. MacKenzie Dow. Captain

On the other hand, the dis-German satant, revived the anti- manded a restoration of the 14 E. R. and Mrs. Forsyth. Lieut. T.

This story comes from America: He was a very young officer, who covery in 1920, at Broken Hill,quity view that the ruins are the A flameless lighter that per cent cut in wages imposed P. Saunderson. Mr. A. Stevenson,

existed combines utility within 1932 - a reasonable enough Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Greig, Mr. and proposal if the cotton industry Mrs. A. S. Mackichan and Miss

Imee-breeches.

an extinct type of man allied to pire-Erythres-which It is equipped had fully shared in the recovery Mackichan, Mr. and Mrs. B. Wylie, looked as he should be wearing Southern Rhodesia, of the skull of relics of an unknown African te theory Then followed equally weighty finish of the nation's industries in Mr. and Mrs. D. Drummond, Mr.

first authorities with different views. But the employers and Mrs. T. G. S. Alexander, Mr. up for inspection at the training the Neanderthal Man of Europe, jover 3,000 years ago.

tone of deep sarcasm: "And a little that the Bushmen were the general

They were Dr. P. S. Nazaroff and declared that the industry was and Mrs. N. M. Currie, and Mr. and camp one of the men remarked in appeared to explode the

child shall lead them "

dwellers in Southern Rhodesia the not in the then circumstances Mrs. E. M. Bryden.

The Company marched to

"The man who said that step for-

However, it is really, with re-Miss Carton-Thompson, the latter wardin was the immediate command capable of paying increased wages. Their refusal was not church from the Parade Ground to

between the coming of the Bantu British Association. Miss Carton- an absolute refusal, since it the accompaniment of the pipes The entire company stepped out and ference to the intermediate period being sent out in 1929 by the The officer looked up and down and the short period of occups-Thompson concluded that the build- was coupled with an offer to and drams under Pipe Major W. repeated the quotation

tion by the Portuguese, some 400 ers were an independent race of collaborate with the trade un-C K. Markie, and during the re-

"Dismissed." he announced aborty years ago, that direct evidence is natives of a different stock to the ions in considering steps which ception the members of the pipe the line

The men thought they had got the lacking in connection with the present, and that the rains dated better of him, but not for long. for might, by the improvement of band entertained the visitors with

that night at retreat when the orders solving of the great Zimbabwe back probably to 900 AD.

Then, five years ago, Dr. Naza- trade, make the payment of in- Scottish music.

Concert At Peninsula creased wages more feasible.

The St. Andrew's Day Band Con- for the following day were read, riddle.

The first modern theory of their roff came on the scene again and The operatives, while welcom-

"There will be a twenty-five-mile origin came from Karl Maren, a advanced the idea that the Zima- reserves for liberty of action Hotel's tea lounge last night. There hike to-morrow, with all equipment, German traveller, who visited the babwe Ruins were nothing but ing this suggestion with some cert was held at the Peninsula they heard:

(Continued on Page 6.) three months hence, insisted were many people present and thend a little child aball lead them ruins in 1871 He expressed the

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upon an immediate advance in eleven musical items on the even on a very good horse." wages, and upon this demanding's programme played by being refused the negotiations East Lancashire Regiment were reached a dangerous deadlock greatly appreciated.

That deadlock has remained un-

til last Saturday, when the spinners' and

carders' unions

CUT AND COME AGAIN

declared their intention to go on-strike, a vote taken among

at Willesden police them showing that 90 per cent. Woman,

-court: After looking daggers at of them favoured the strike which threatens to bring out me for weeks, she appeared in my some 120,000 members of the kitchen with a knife in each hand. unions immediately affected

and mist also speedily throw idle the 150,000 weavers

ent-

ployed in making up the yarn. In short, a vicious circle, with Considerable sympathy must neither side ready to budge an be felt with the employees in linch, and what is left of the the cotton industry for their British trade in textiles being difficulties during the long de-jeagerly snatched up by foreign pression. Even allowing for competitors who can give it a the decreasing unemployment nasty smack at the best of in the industry shown during times, without the added ad- the last few months, there is vantage of labour troubles to still much under-employment paralyse the industry. The de- and part-time work and the cision to scrap the conciliation taken about 15 standard of living in many board was cases is lower than a study of months ago, upon the really the wage-rates would imply. trifling pretext that it cost £80 But the operatives have yet to to 100 each time it was sum- the industry prove that the rise which they moned. Now demand is economically fea-faces another stoppage which cost it another sible. and they have them-is likely to selves made this more difficult £12,000,000 or more before the to demonstrate by abolishing dispute is settled if, indeed, the conciliation machinery, lit ever is, in the present tem- Truly La- which, after the 1932 settle-iper of both sides. ment, was established precisely bour can be as fatuous in its to bring employers and employ-decisions as Capital is often ac- ed together when occasions cused of being. Where is the like the present arise. And in rhyme or reason in this sense- the meantime the hard facts of less decision, which is appar elementary economics operate. Jently welcomed by 90 per cent. workers concerned? It is a fact that the British cot-of the ton industry is in a very de- Have they nobody honest en- pressed state, although some lough to inform them diapas notice-resort to strikes to obtain their able. But with the best wish points, the less likely are they in the world employers can to restore the industry to that of healthfulness hardly be expected to pay condition wages which are economically which will make their conces impossible and conditions sion possible no less than pro which might lead to a return bable? To echo the Bard: of the time when they could doThere is something in this so are hardly likely to be more than natural, if philoso- brought about by the threstenphy could find it out." But ed crisis to the industry at this philosophy, itself all reason, stage of the proceedings which indeed fails to offer an the proposed strike represents. ¡planation.

slight improvement in its pros- sionately that the more they

pects has lately been

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