1953-11-13 — Page 9

Geoff Duke Signs Contract In Italy

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1958.

EMERCE SECE

the Moto near Milan, Italy-Express Bervice.

Geoffrey Duke, Britain's motorcycling ace, slens a contract with

company at their works at Arcore,

Gjleva

4,000-YEAR-OLD RIDDLE

Australian Antarctic

Base

Initial Survey For Minerals

Melbourne, Nov. 5. A permanent base on the ice-clad Antarctic. will be established by an officia

Australian expedition next

January.

The

i

NEARLY SOLVED BY DEAF MUTE

Athens, Nov. 12.

A deaf and dumb scholar named Nicholaos Boufides, using methods of his own devising, has so far come nearer than anyone else to solving the 1,000-year-old riddle of the Cretan-Minoan culture, The riddle is the unknown hieroglyphic script on the numerous clay tablets found in the palace of King Minos at Knossos on Crete.

To the man who discovers the key to that script will go the ability to fill a great gap in history-the story of the Minoan civilisation and possibly also more details of the catastrophe which ended it.

tems.

the

from the wall paintings, build- ings, and so on.

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ever

set

London Stock Cheerful Mood Motor Show At

Exchange A "Bull Market"

By Sydney S. Campoli, Reuter's Financial Editor-

When the London Stock Exchange opens its "Public Gallery" on November 16-after discuss ing the matter for a mere 70 years or so the public is likely to have something to see.

Throughout this year, London has been rising, even when Wall Street was falling. It has been a "bull market" ever since it snapped out of the

break which followed the electoral victory of Churchill and the Conservatives in October 1951. The market liked the Conservative Government, but there was a balance of payinents crisis and the medicines for it were bitter while the Government was administering them. As they have proved efficacious, the market, like the economy, has responded favourably.

November : returned -- an Admarket.

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Tea Barter Deal?

In Wall:

New York, Nov. 12. Stocks resumed thele upward movo after a two- May interruption with mil *shared"ažā'specially inquen in the davande. A

While there was nothing new in the news to bolster stocks, analysts aid the "ONE" CHEMICA mű benefit from nutter of favour- "able factorstood third quarter carnings and -dividends, an easier money. 'policy, tax relief shead and a growing idea that the much talked about business,

· reoémian-' will be milder shan feared.United Press.

The Rubber Markets

Singapore, Nov. 12. The market fluctunted all day and closed egy stendier. Prices: Ho. 1 rubber per. Ib. Nov. 58-5814 Dee. 38-3012

68-5610.

Earls Court

The Best

Ever

The Motor Show at Earls Court was the most successful ever held. Attendances in the ten days since the exhibition opened reached a total of 612,953, which compares with 462,586 last year.

The previous record year was 1948, when, with the coming of the new-style post-war cars, 564,960 passed through the turnstiles.

This was also a record year] for the number of overɛcas | visitors-foreign and Common- wealth trade ticket holders and others who came especially to vee the latest products, of the |British motor industry.

More than 0,000

such visitors came to the exhibition, far more than in 1.pny pre- vicus year.

FAMILY CARS

1016-17 These family cars, he said, 17-1719 were more roomy 17-17

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Mr.W.. R. Black president pesite experience. It briefly polley of austerity and lode No. 2 rubber per 1. Now of the Society of Motor Manu boomed when the election Inst finite repression of the No, 3 rubber-per lb. Nov. 11-03 treturers and Traders, the Exchange, this rerning amount- No rubber per lb. Nov. 1-484 crganisers, gald,,as hundreds of cu to $138,403, Noon quotations ministration after lis heart's. There is also the point tha! Blanket crepet

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that the outstanding impression SHARES BUYERS SELLERS SALES deemed to have been a bear the best foundation for

United Press. many market, though a very shallow types of exports. It would be

left on his mind was the re- BANKS ******** LONDON MARKET ona. Having

gone sideways hard to find any specific cute

emergence of the British family ank **** London," Nov, 12. home market during the boom, Wall Street where the

|tar. The rubber market was easy

Manufacturers were provid- can afford to go sideways dur-pre-empted goods which export with No. 1 spot Rss quoted at

the ing

aftermath. Viewed nirkets' wanted.

at lower prices: and ing cars broadly, it is doing so,

The Chancellor's underlying pot

10% pence per lb. Prices:

they were remembering that But Langes hors and inhibi- capacity is adequate for But London' has been casting case is that, where production | Settlemans House terms:

101-10% not all drivers were short in botti Dec...........

101-104 the leg. dans of several dreary, years, the home market and for fill Jan/March April/June Here are some of the reasons the exports that can be sold, re- July/Sept.

murket it basis, poris, Dec. well.

would be screless and would

Jan why market has been doing so pression of the home

merely It was too low previously.

unemployment. Estate crepe thlek วรร

10% nom. convenient Depressed by recurrent crises So politically

United Press. wholly by restraints en profits and argument may not be

NEW YORK MARKET

to rise; Provident and in the dividends, British industrial convincing

New York, Nov. 12,

reaching Wheelock share were about the cheapest run thene may be some

Rubber futures today closed record proportions but there capitat GETCIS in the world. gers. But, for the

potential, Even after this year's rise, they London Bridge is staying up 20-35 points lower with sales of is still considerable

28 contracts.

Lower London for the makers as a whole are are still at only about 130 een of their 1935 level, though

and Singapore cables were the not yet producink to the limit main factors that sent the mar- of their capacity. And it is

only change in the value of

by high production "that ket down. cther many hae raised mast

The

was prices can be brought "down. outside market valute to more than 300 per-

chsler with sellers becoming

ERICES THE -KEY ess of their 1935 level. Specta-

Calcutta, Nov. 12.

more conspicuous. Prices: A Russian trade agent hore cular es reme of the individual

Das.

Mr. Black rices have been, the market as would

confirm not

London Afarch 1954

emphasised that were 'The 20.20-bid prices whole

can be

regarded as rumours that Russia was eritdr May

key to the whole future of the industry, cautiously ing into a barter deal with July only belatedly and

20.23 nom. Leaders at the industry Bupt.

bre substantial, Dee. itself to the post-India involving a adjusting

7025 nom. becoming concerned about from tlic —United Press. war value of money.

poundage of tea.---Reuter.

competition 2. Shares were selling at for below their real ayset values. From the

this beginning Ingenious people have year, been finding

wayy do "unlock" the capital values cl

somc companies by buying them out.

has This applied particularly to stores companies which have varkable 10al estate. Directors. Jose businesses to their oulside

hove bidders,

been mare.

with dividends. Renerous

poli- In cher cases, a better

enabled tical atmerphere has higher dividends. It has come

almost I to be recognis

That" Tenperly economy, desperately needs risk capital, and that it will not be altracted unicas It is deemed to be worthy of its hire.

ind of

Australia has already staked

For over 50 years, since its A claim to a segment radialing from the South Pole und cover dkervery by Sir Arthur Evans has dencil

Decoding the Inscriptions on ing almost one quarter of the in 1900, this reripi

It. the tablets which would all the attempts to read And the ex-alf known land mass.

Archaeologists, scientists, schol. caps, has been one of the most possession. pedition will take

nine 201013, including ats and all sorts of experts have fantalising problems

archaeologists-for

they used every

known means to in- for geologists, meteorologists and a

in the land erpret it, including the fre- know that once they are able to wil live etoctor,

in-read them a glamorous

epochi tables of army to establishquency where Scott died

sys- sunk into oblivion for thousands code-breaking International telligence ownership

ry will of. under

in live again law. But the set of hoisting a

Today, although the riddle is human knowledge, dug was not enough,

Evans himself Sir Arthur Unlike the

nearer to rotution, the key still Artic jcezay

pludes the searchers. And the classified his Ands into three formed of fluating lee and snow,

man who so far has come near categories of serist: the hieru- Continent Sher the frozen kid, Nobody knows yet est the goal is the-30-year-old, glyphs, in which a mystical sign represent a word or 0 nay what wealth may lie under its deaf and dumb curator of

But the nations Athens Archaeological Museum. whole phrase, and Minoan lincar depths of fee.

scripts A and B, which bear an laking no chances and

analogy to our

syllable Australia is staking a Common-

signs. But he considered the wealth claim.

Nicholsos Boutides has levoted task of deciphering them to be that they would POSSIBLE COAL

his life to decoding the Mingur hopeless because ho thought Geologists suggest there may script, bringing, to bear upon that it was not feasible to reso signs corresponding to a totally for the it the whole range of his of least be coal there. jand was

by pert knowledge of Egyptology: unknown Innguage. covered once tropical forest. Gezphysicists, and ancient Asiatic cultures and

HAVE NOT DESPAIRED Other scientists. knowing that uranium occurs in languages. He still hopes, by

however, and now, Australia, believe it might ale combination of unclent Cypriot. be found on the Southern Con- Phoenician-und-ancient

have not despaired, 50 years of conseless work-has- One u to

way to read tinent,

brought a solution, nearer. Minoan script.

But, he confided in bls sign Janguage of the hands, "what in would really be a godsend

F

The fest expedition, leaving Australia January 9. will only make initial surveys, Later two geophysicists will continue the work of the first expedition. Theit-perhts--the value of the

Commonwealth holding aa new Empire in ice-will be

manned that

of Sir

vast

known.

The last station -Antarctic

Was

Douglas Mawson, 1911-1914. Express Service,

in

Wants Revision

Of Air Pact

New Delhi, Nov. 12. India has notified the United States that I desires to bring her air agreement into line with those of ether countries.

LIFE DEVOTED Working

our

Independently,

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Greek the

search would be the covery of another two or language -tablet like the Roselia a the Stone which was found by French

during sergeant Napoleonic campaign in Egypt

at enables

The which later

Jean and

archacologist. French

to read Egyptian Champollion. hieroglyphics."

Today, however, as exepris and amateurs work steadily on the various pleces of the puzzle do seem to be taking concrete shape.

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and it will ÷be

Jil necessary for the British dustry to produce 'more than twice the potential home de mand if it is to make its prices attractive 10 the export markets.

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Epris Court has this year provided the British public

with in opportunity to see the

of competition

we are

facing for German, French

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LONDON

MARKET

Landon, Nov. 12.

view. It was evident from the The lin market. Was firmer

lady anade

these vehicles

but quietTurnover was 10 that there by visitors

con-tons of which live tons were for insiderable interest

the novel eash features Incorporated in them, Cloning prices at the end of For the makers there is con- the morning official session siderable prestige value to be teres derived from the stbeing of Spot tim, buyers

Products at this p

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on

when new

sellers Business 3-month fu, buyer

Business Settlement

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London Metāls

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there

London, Nov. 12.

Manchester, Nov. 12. Exhibitors at the International Machinery c tho

Fair were generally satisfied that the first fair One of the great steps for-

four years had fulfilled its main function. ward was made by Professor C.

It had put before the cotton, wool and Blegen of the American Archae- who, in 1930, dis-ological School,

3. PornS BROKEN of tho

Butter's synthetic fibre industry the latest machines and

their discovered in the ruins

Ex- King

Nestor, near Palace of

hibitici. Incentive budget of Test spring, improvements to already well-known machines. bunky has been Fylos (in the Peloponese), 400

recovering

For the first time – since 1948, Inscriptions from the 1052 recersion which The trend in the machinery | sections. bearing

To, increase produc fablets

car orders were 80 seems to be that ́ of | tion and reduce costs: every

Largo the the dollvary it's ex- identical to the Mincan script A. the United Stres did not have. worl

greater section getting

must play its part, tended to several Professor Blegen's find auto Industial production in Bri- streamlining,

vizilers years, In mili lay-out, Greater spect in winding

to matically: bridged the historical fain this autumn has risen to uniformilty

the show were permitted to space and casing the pins can lead to increased handle the vehicles. In 1845 saying uap between Crete and the main the highest on record. land, and permitted the con-

crisis, work of the eperative.

Any-breakage of yarn and also to there was a shortage of cars and 4. The odd 3040 slgus

achieved in the interests Irregularity because of tightness some of those on shory were on both clusion that the

and 1951, broke the sequence 19 the worker must obviously at the end of pirn. This would damaged by the rough handling while, copper and lead were could be w

The zinc market wad "fitiner sets of clay tablets

linked and trans-. linguistically

did not arrive in 1963. In be a step towards that greater mean even more attention in they received at the hands And

crowds. This year those years, the crises were productivity which now is the checkink the ultimate "eigth

there are steady. Turnovers were 200, 200 lated into a language which was

of

for Thults. most acute in September, which main Spoken by Greeks at the time

more cons avaliable and the and 450 tons for zinc.cuper the inscriptions were written.

and lead, respectively, m was also the month of sterl- 'dustry.

deenage done' is accepted as

part In After World War 11, Frofessor:

British mills While ing's devaluation in 1931.

are of the cost of exhibitlen. Another Closing prices Hope is again rising that, in

more tabicis

the Exhibi- behind their competitors One feature of September of this year the Bank

But buyers, sollere WWE years Copper number the not too distant future, the Blegen found das

the use of of England broke the spell. In on was the

fully-automatic the inblets will give up the secrets at the same spot and a British

the, volume of Professor, Alan Wace, found a the face of the seasonal bome the response

cmachines which

demonstrate looms, the latest models shown Previously only verly-comiES -meth of the Minoan way of life.

of the research similar tablels

of some further! Fotteries

lew and wall

sterling, and paintings

In engineer and the technologist might help to narrow this gap, were able to obtain bath, but tals Kine developments

For there milis which untoward

yen: there was plenty for prices of rubber and some other to the golfenge of man-made afford to replace their in the palace and other build- north, in Mycenae.

-entire bedne key for every November.

body WERE GREEKS

fibres, which although bringing 180 Bank ings uncovered at Knossos have

SCOTTISHI SHOW commodities,

losses by automaties, sterling

ündoubted ·bments" Professor Wace, in a recent

by their and Inspired con il'demonstrateki

units which can be Atteli

As soon The last members of told something of the story. These depict a people in whose

existing 100

non-automatics Ind qualie fell the chork scipiór life beauty played a major role interview, said: "I am certain

Moreover this

aroused same time, many problems in which can go some way to the exhibitors began to shift their The agreement has been dis- and who had apparently reach that the people who lived in ence by lowering the bank special qualities, bring, at the

Fin | processing, change.In een the two countries ed

Nerds achieving : "results. This displays. Many of the car and between

Luty cold who wrote the tablets found bank role would be in further

can lead to auth more pro- other several

chols will be shown at months and usunily ed such a high level of material Greece, around 1900 B.C. and hopes that the next

Another that civiliantion

Important move- reliable sources say the Indian afford all the luxuries

In Mycenae, were Greeks and

drop. of n

ment was that to concentrate duction per man-hour and that the Scottish Motor Echblog, spoke Greck.

market Cabinet will discuss it this week, elsured life.

the

the processing roos about the nobellon Instead of“

of: the allver in is what the industry wants. Which opens in the Kelvin Hal conclusion The same

was had dire The agreement allows United

Ginigaw, on November 13. going Women's dress and headgear

dcha

Germany, among foreign ex◄: 'Ulks is a dealers” and States

effects of the offers of companies to operate an unlimited number of surpassed in fantasy even the reached, by an amateur,

which formerly

considered the|bulow, show, witch will Were necesary most daring Paris fashions of to- very expert archaeologist the iomallred steel shores. 1999 through no mattyproocESS. Hibitors, was services through India.

architect. Mr Michael that the first such operation is to obtain the material for the most formidable competitor to the only commercia reached a high ventris, of day. Buildings

Highgate, London,

British

machinery manu-hibition in the U In progress, it la likely to be a. level ot architectural and

roaring success. Over-subscrip- pinning end. Drafting machines |gacturers! But where Brices ** Importent develo who after only having studied

how can draw out the aliver artistic development,

Were oscurated. Sh 4024he All this splendour, however, the tablets from pletires any lens and a premium are con until it has been reduced

to foreign machinery

than "their". Bridah vehicle field in the pai the necessary fineness for the cheaper was suddenly Interrupted by n can, Emmet Bennet, told

et basically, there in the light vans and lorries, and At one time this counterpart, Sir Arthur Evant ference of the British Archae-

inner

in catastrophe.

the heavies found signs of a disaster simila ologien Society in London

necessitated about four R was not much difference

prices because of Britain's im High duel costa Hava odmpelled to that which overtook Pampel ently, of the success

férent : processes.. of his tainties in the cutlook than the industry i

or heavy, venst y has not been.

a forgotten, port duties, of British mills find the eruption of Vesuvius method of decoding Into markot suppose. If bink rato There was now acting that fufolge machinery sulls to study the duration of order and was led to bellove that an earthquake had taken place.

cient Greek,

were cut again, it might be in which can spin yarn from Ala- their special requirements ther the overall welsh arid eobalden Mr Ventris method was ne circumstanser that

ha bep mode in obtein ment

oneporations Viccesary Impore::

can usually lows lo

the abla "The sudden "catastrophe seems to have cut through the thrend claimed as the most siteecssful ¦† justify litria low RS

trends Included The Postimi's Autely warn later by eminent archaeologists like

tha

foreign construction and by the use of of history, which Was

Mr John Chadwick of Com the markt! taken up again on the Greck:

Gudmund Bjork bridge

indy Because the Chancellor

use he charmellos lahe tendency to contexto masters White Bademleri diftere motor

chanco

ncome or acoing this AZ VOLKSWAGEN CUT malaland,

packages the form In But of the great: Furumark of Upsala, and Yds-b

Exhibidon «bben ziba portraits do horto: Patch, das

muy love to walt Minon culture not a traco re-mest Sitting of Tubingen.

The Cherumal Vankermogen cort The

is wound another four years before the sold in the United Kingdom a cersumption, -rosentilally, of the P

In this con- however, the speeding hibitions are held only wh pin winding

sufficient has hot

puted

for

airline

It has more favourable terms with other than agreements countries, who are restricted to a set number of services every week..

to

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MERE GUESSWORK ology, went as far is to de- If this cor.thued it might bring plu

of nounce his own methods on another balance of day or What were the Cretons

What was erroneous, occepting, Me Ventelementy, crisis. ruling that they must display the Minoan ages?

hat conclusions in lato.

One may sippose, however. *lleensed

Boards 'outside their their origin and language? What

Mr Boulides, while congrel that the Chancellor and the were meir customs and the office.eny such

signboards foundations ör their highly

MrVentries on his the market, have not Logre blind achievements, in doubtful about to hapeshiljiy» qui; developed civilisation? away customara

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