1937-12-27 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER

OLD SAMARITAN

SCRIPTURES

TRANSLATED

Original Five Books

of Moses

VOICE BROADCAST FROM SUBMARINE

Picked Up 10 Miles Away

Voice signals have been success- After working for many years, a fully broadcast direct from a sub- priest of the Samaritan Israelite merged submarine for the first time community has translated into Ara-by four radio engineers in Connec bic the original five books of Moses ticut which had hitherto been hand-writ-

The signals, sent from a submar- ten on ancient parchment scrolls in

ine submerged off Bartlett Reef the Samaritan fext. `·

Light were picked up 10 miles away Resembling Aramaic in format the naval submarine babe in New this Samaritan text is among the London. oldest known scripts in the worl

The translation has been pleted by Jacob the Priest.

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Authorised Capital-

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$50,000,000

20,000,000

Reserve F

Sterling

$6,500,000

$3,000,000

Reserve

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$10,000,000

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£3,000,000 torst

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HEAD OFFICE HONG KONG.

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over

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Manila

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(Peling)

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Fanamy

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Previous broadcasts from under- sea craft have been made The Samaritan scrolls of the Law waterproof telephone cable to a are said to be priceless. The Sam-shortwave transmitter on the sur- aritan community has never left face. the soil of Palestine and refuses to identify itself with the remainder of world Jewry.

Their ritual is limited strictly to the five books of Moses and they do not observe the later rabbinical customs and usages which are in- corporated in modern Judaistic practice.

RAISING THE AGE

OF CHILDREN IN INDUSTRY Lowest In India

And China

Children may be employed in in- dustry at an earlier age in “

India and China then in any other coun- try represented at the International Labour Conference at Geneva, ̈ if} the conventions dealing with child labour which were passed last June, are ratified. The conventions have just been outlined in a Blue Book-

Children under 15 may not work in any industrial concern, either public or private, except in those countries where the minimum age is 12 With these exceptions, and to a minor degree in Japan, the conventions raise the minimum age from 14 to 15.

Both in India and China it is laid down that children under 15 may not be employed in mines or in oc- cupations classed as dangerous or unhealthy.

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