1937-05-24 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 24, 1937.

Page: 9

HINDENBURG DISASTER

LAST RITES FOR VICTIMS AT

LAKE CONSTANCE

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA_MAIL")

Berlin, To-day.

ITALY PAYS FOR

WAR

Living Cost Up

69 Per Cent.

Reports compiled by neutral and disinterested foreign experts re- veal that the cost of living through- out Italy has increased 69.8 per cent, since the beginning of the Abyssinian campaign.

OLD TOMBS OF

MEXICO

FINDS OF GREAT VALUE

“GOLDEN ERA

RELICS

HORRIBLE B.B.C. VOICE

"Sound Like Crows"

Ears burned in the B.B.C. They organised a conference on broad- casting and industry at Birming- ham. This is what Councillor Nor- man Tiptaft said about "horrible B.B.C. voices"

Those horrible examples we get

Important discoveries, including A large part of this increase is pearls and Jade in ancient tombs, sometimes of speakers with voices are being made at Monte Alban, the between a foghorn and a crow, attributed to the 40 per cent. de-

famous archaeological mound in wheezing out uninteresting plati- valuation of the lira. League sanc-

the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. They tudes like an old barrel organ grind- tions against Italy and Signor Mus-

are being unearthed by Professor ing out obsolete tunes, are no good solini's policy of economic autarchy Caso, head of the Government Re-for talks on industry." are responsible to a lesser degree.search Department, who has begun Industry was news in practically

The pinch is felt most by those

a new series of excavations there. every home, he maintained. It was classes whose standard of living is

Finds of great value regarding far more important than chamber the ancient history of the western music, variety turns-or even croon-

·in- races which inhabit Mexico to-day

the

Last obsequies were paid in Friedrichshafen and Frankfurt-on-Main above the spaghetti-bread-wine yesterday to the eleven cheese diet of the Italian labourers. hemisphere and the origin of the ers.

When Duce Struck members of the crew of the airship Hindenburg prepared the way for the conquest will, it is expected, result from his who met their death at of Abyssinia is described by Mar- shal Emilio de Bono in his memoirs, Lakehurst.

“Anno XIIII; The Conquest of an Empire."

Particularly touching and im- pressive were the funeral rites at Friedrichshafen, on Lake Con- stance, the home of the zeppelin.

The whole town was draped in mourning and most of the citizens were wearing black as they made their way to the cemetery.

How Mussolini's secret agents

investigations.

A vast citadel and 104 tombs

"The difference between an

dustry and a crooner is that best industry is vitally alive and the only good crooners are those irrevo- have already been uncovered at cably dead," he said. Monte Alban. The discoveries can "This. being a national institu- be divided as follows: Relics of antion, however, one must assume Mussolini had decided in 1933 epoch before the Teotihuacan in- somebody wants them and agree on that the Italo-Ethiopian questionfluence (before 1000 B.C.); relics occasions to their filling the air must be settled, relates the Marof the first Teothuacan period (1000 with their horrible bleatings" shal, who tells how secret agents BC. to A.D. 718); discoveries of

poured into all the Teotihuacan "Golden Era." parts of Ethiopia for the purpose The tombs now being unearthed was that the taste of the listening of undermining the loyalty of the are a continuation of those pre-public did not "stay put." Here six coffins were lying on a Rases and Chiefs to their Emperor |viously exposed beneath many catafalque attended by a guard of with most excellent results. acres of what was once a vast honour supplied by the crew of the He states that at least 800,000|citadel. This was probably built Graf Zeppelin.

Abyssinians either failed to take during the Zapotecan period, when Speaking at the graveside, Cap-up arms, or, being armed, remain-the Zapotecas, who migrated to tain von Schiller said: "Close to the ed inactive, throughout the cam-Mexico from North-West America, site where all zeppelins will be paign.

built, our comrades find their last

resting place.

"As we fly over this spot they

will be in our thoughts.”

and money were

WHAT ARMY COOK

CAN DO WITH 1s.

were forced to defend themselves from marauding tribes,

Giant Staircase

Lady Bridgeman, B.B.C. Governor, |said one of the E.B.C's troubles

One workman was killed and four seriously injured in an explosion in a chemical works at Bad Hoenningen, near Coblenz.

The first tombs contained skele- tons in a better state of preserva- tion than those more recently un- covered, many of the remains being encased în bone substances en- crusted with pearls, some of which

In order to prevent the desecra tion of the burial places of their The bodies of Captain Ernst

dead, the Zapotecas built citadels, were as large as blackbird's eggs. where Lehmann and four other members

the remains might be im- Some skeletons had also masks of the crew of the ill-fated zeppe

For a shilling a head a day the mune from profanation and the of pure gold, and an abundance of was found surrounding the lin, were buried at the same hour head cook at Catterick Camp pro treasure buried with the dead jade

The more recent dis. in Frankfurt-on-Main. Trans-vides a meal chart like this one: might be safe. The giant staircase bodies.

of gold, al- Ocean.

Breakfast: Porridge fried fish, leading to the citadel, now largely coveries show a lack tea, bread, butter, marmalade, Din-destroyed by time, still rivals in though pearls and jade have been ner: Lentill soup, baked meat, bak-grandeur similar structures of an- found. This is taken to indicate Trains on the LN.EE from Clacton ed potatoes, royal pudding.

Tea:cient Egypt,

that the date of the remains goes to London were held up when an R.A.F.

The numerous images of gods, back to the time when the original aeroplane crashed on the line at ColBread and butter, jam, and meat]

croquettes. Supper: Sausages and made of earthenware, pottery, and inhabitants of Mexico had either onions, tea, bread and margarine. other substances, found in the not discovered gold or had not

The Princess Royal approved tombs go to prove the old Mexican begun working it as an art. London Passenger Transport Board has placed an

Wonderful frescoes decorate the order for £1,000,000] them when she came to have tea legend that such images were in- worth of equipment for tube railway rolling stock with British Thomson-with the women and children of the tended to destroy robbers by spit-tombs on which the authorities are

1st Battalion Royal Scots.

chester.

Houston Ltd.

ting fire.

The Coronation Coach

now working.

Coach Leaves for a Trial Spin

The Coronation coach,

eight mil

hite horses, leaving Deans Yard for Buckingham Palace for the Coronation rehearsals.