1954-01-16 — Page 5

The Gold Sovereign Is Still Minted

By J. W. TAYLOR

THE British gold

been

sovereign has very much in the news lutely. In two places in Yorkshire hourds of these colns were found where they had been hidden by owners long since dead, And the latest story from the Royal Mint itself is that 318,000 have been made to give young work- era practice in gold coining the supply being returned to the Bank of England to remain as part of the na- tion's gold reserve. This happened previously in 1949 when 138,000 were made. The last Rovereigns coined for general circulation were struck as far back as 1917.

Minting of sovereigns is quite the most highly technical work undertakers by the Royal Mint. Less than 40 of the peveral twin:Ireal

erplaye ther

engaged in the

varbus processes of gold coin-

ing and only half a dozen of

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A fullor with

exsellin Standard

In the production of mite

vatuulate

demanded

Britain's

artistic

coin. The settl behaves very

differently from other

and the high

value of

alloys, gold demands the txt ption of specta!

MYCNSAICS to emaire the safety

the material

The

of

during

various stages of coining. There

great

tidying-up Job of gold

the

AkJ 1

retrieving cust und fmgments—jā money-saving tork.

HALF AS HEAVY

sovereignæ

Later English: have been only half a heavy as the first ever minted. Marc during the reign of Henry VII. they weighed 240 grains. They

were then produced Эта the

Tower

رفة

London until

The Ita

Itoyal Mint was removed to present site early lost c Homy's coine Wwx struck, and the "rounds were lopped off cylindrical rods like slices of cucumber, with

rc-

suthaunt variations In weight.

This was rectifled with the in- truction of mechanical ᎠᏆᏅ. duction after the Reformation. Dies were cut by and until tho inter part of the last century. Today, the dies are eut by mechanicul progces, from artist's sketches,

The British sovereign has a considerable work value. 11 featured in one of the strangest items of news that came early in the Korean war. American aircrews were issued with them In case they made forced land- ings and had to buy aid froin the natives. The coin is still the most valued currency in many parts of the Orient. It is cer inin, LOO, that there thousands of them hoarded in India, where

are the colns assiduously handed down from

father to sor,

BIC HAUL

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1954.

"You and your 'Let's call at the Palace and invite him to our party while his Mum and Dad are away."

Syracuse Becoming Another Lourdes

MIRACLES

"

(London Express Service)

OF THE

WEEPING MADONNA

W

Rome.

118

FILL Syracuse in

Sicily become well known Lourdes.

Loreto

By Ignacio Bartoli

Finally by the application of a piece of

reached. cottonwool from Syracuse,

What has the Vatican been staln doing about nil this?

In the beginning, the Vatican was extremely sceptical, even When the first reports reached Rome, the Archbishop

the

H. K. S. P. C.

Neede financial support for the

sake of pear children

Please

As the communique said, it all started on August 29, 1953 in the, Uttle room of Antoninu Glusti, a charwoman who was baby and was was expecting a compromise 11

would suffering from a nervous break- The Vatican

down.

address communion- from making any

Antonina said that when she |tions-Secretary: Hongkong pronouncement, and the Sicilian looked up at the small, cheap Society for the Protection bishops were authorised to

of the of Children. P.0. Boz 2502 deal with the matter according terra cotta bas relief

Madonna which hung over ber

Hongkong. to their judgment of the local situation.

bed, sho GEW tears trickling down from the Holy Virgin's eyes,

Bishops Meet

and Fatina? Can i take its place with these famous sanctuaries as a landmark on the Catholic map?

The fame of Syracuse hostile, and its Weeping Madonna of Syracuse, 72-year-old Msgr.

Antonina's percams brought ail Ettore Barazini, was summoned is rupidly spreading

dbyzens of excited women to the not over the world, and miracles to

Vatican, and did

THE Bishopy, who were de- house, and the perish priest and performed by the Weeping return to his flock for 15 days

He said in an interview that lighted by the religious re- the police. They all say they Madonna are reported from

some of the cures could be ex-vival the Weeping Madonna had saw moisture resembling tears A low places as

plained by mass hysterio.

brought to their island, decided on the Madonna's face. Tunis, Brussels, Barcelona

But, he added, he personally it was better for the Church to drops were collected on a piece

convinced that something lead

rather of cottonwool and sent movement and Buenos Aires.

had actually taken than untagonise it, as Rome chemist for analysis. in Syracuse itself. enor miraculous

had apparently tried to do in crowds, jam the place.

the beginning. square day and night where the Weeping Madon- t has been placed.

mous

far

apart as

The special civic com- mittee set up to probe into the miracle hus reported 72

of healings. four abroad.

them

1 mun

From Buenos Aires wrote saying that his leg was healer after being touched by an Image of the Syracuse Madonna, Could Walk

.

was

No Effect

THE Vulcan seemed to hold a

the

to 1

The analysis is reported to have revealed the presence of substances which are also to be! found in human tears.

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Presenting the Tudor Oyster Prince

The Bishops met at Bagheriu on December 13 under the

For the man whose purse is modest, chairmanship of Cardinal few days later the whole of was talking about the Rufni, Archbishop of Palermo, Sicil

yet whose aspirations are high, Msgr. different opinion.

An- the end of the meeting Weeping Madonna, and and at

Rolex of Geneva have specially com toniria's house was besieged by Burazini was ostensibly sent on a holiday to the North of Italy, they stated: Bod his

deputy was also order-

"The Bishops of Sicily have such crowds that on September-missioned the Tudor Oyster Prince. to leave Syracuse.

listened

detailed report the Madonna was taken out of These were clear indications made by Msgr. Ettore Burzzini, the house and hung on the wail

provisionally Archbishop of Syracuse, about in the street. that the Church, at least, refused to have any the weeping of a Madonna bas thing to

with the Weeping relief which do

and Madonna of Syractise.

August 29, 30 and 31 Warning after warning issurd

Syracuse

to

(0

took

place

on

Great Rush

not to talk of miracles until the facts in the originated place in front of the Madonna

and

announced

to

doubt the

and throughout Sicily by means FO of

and to

Im-

rush to Stelly was on.

The

to

was September 1 of this year, and Tule weeping stopped as soon

examining the Catholics after carefully

as the Madonna left the house, But then Calth healings took have unanimously FROM Barcelona, Senora Maria Holy Office had carried out an

Its that inquiry

one cannot no

Rovira Calinda, sister of a findings.

reality of the facts. They wish the miraculous cottonwool, that, doctor,

utter But the Vatican soon realised that this manifestation of the the supply of which seems reported having rubbed her legs

with that those warnings had had no Holy Mother will inspire every be inexhaustible. And the great cottonwool

with imbued

the effect

and Larger

larger body penance flocked Madonna's tears, she was able crowds

50

the Syracuse. deeper devotion for

narrow cul-de-sac In to throw away the sticks she

to maculate Heart of Mary. The government had institute had used for 48

four

trains special

"And they are looking for which the Madonna had been yours.

placed soon proved too ward to the construction of a healings day. Faith

the masy sanctuary

perpetuate the to accommodate counted by the hundred.

the end Obviously the Catholle fol- memory of this manifestation." pilgrims, and ot

September the Archbishop The communique was printed cided to move her to the Plazza lowers were getting out

in all the Italian newspapers, was hand, and the Church could no

the Euripide,

largest longer prevent the enthusiasm except the Vatican paper, Os Eurip or ignore the phenomenon.

a paralytic woman, In Tunis who vialted Syracuse without

In the middle of the last wor

made one of the Customs biggest hauls In soverelims from Indla

to get result, claimed on arriving home Smugglers tried 28,000 soverviķis,

that she could walk again. cunningly

Brussels

bay stowed away in dhow, out rf Bombay. They were encased in apparently cured of an infection rubber so that they could be -on the eve of an operation concealed around the body 16 packets of fifty, but the

coup failed.

in

Forgers in Italy were recent- ly arrested for minting

gold sovereigns In a basement Milan. These were said to be almost perfect. The lower price of bar gold enabled the forgers to make good profits by selling the spurious coins in Middle East markets, On the Continent the Bovereign market value has reached as high as 20 and £8 each.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Well, off hand, about the only people I'm faitly certain, she's NOT, buen married to ark King Farouk and Burgess and Maclean."

E

were

of

to

servatore Romano,

PAKISTAN LOOKS OVER

THE IRON CURTAIN

By JAMES WICKENDEN

оп

small of of

dc-

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city's square.

The Weeping Madonna taken in procession through the city and placed

t high pedestal in the centre of the square. Thirty thousand people attended this ceremony.

Since then there have never been less than 5,000 people in the square each day.

Every day four special trains and hundreds of buses and private cars bring to the Weep- ing

Madonna thousands

of

for a favour just to satisfy their curto- Countryfolic also come in brightly-painted Sietlan

ILGIT la a little holiday naval power in the world by the Alma Ala region, between people who hope to regain their

17 destroyers giving her

and the mines and the plant. All cath, to nak town sat in the grassy

these centres are well withimalty. four larger vessels. Kashmir foothills of the

This addition would increase air range of Gilgit; the farthest the Himalayas. About the only Pakistan's ficot by 400 percent, point of the plants la no more carts, on donkeys and on foot. thing to do there is to although it would take time to than about 950 miles.

The development in Russian breathe pure mountain nir train crews to operate the new

research

possibly in or buy a pair of the famous ships, The

Elsenhower's mind quilted cotton Gilgit boots.The expected gift of large President

THE excitement and tension in of aircraft, mostly after the numbers

Bermuda conference the square are enormous. to keep out the cold.

would provide her when he made his great plon People kneel,

pray and sing with

very considerable for an International control of hymns, while loudspeakers urge them to move on and to make

new of Russia's

So, it seems likely that, under

cently

Dakotas,

WAS

People

Boom

City

น

If another

the

It seemed miles from any transport fleet, forging a strong atom bombe where, until B.. straacgist link between East and West The situation seems likely to place for now pilgrim crowds.

it is Pakistan, which lie on

either bring Pakistan into the fore- apparently noticed that

on stretchers aro the nearest airfield to the pre- alde of India.

front

of global strategy as per carried to the pedestal and Ufted sumed nito

hops

a more important region as high as possible towards the plants for producing the latest

to the U.S. than Spain and the Madonna. Now and then some- most horrible bomb of all the

new American bases there,

body --ACTCOINS and * crowd cobalt bomb.

But if the move is to make surges round to see Pakistan a front-line country, i miracle has taken place, which The Russian plants mood U.S.

When the tho

will pono

grave problems in

Bots, milltary

ald grogramme to appear

have to

around South Asia, Pakistan would be Piazza becomes a brilliant sea Gligit, airdeld will be Washington's attention are said the first country to be drawn of lights from cand

candies, torches modernised. And this means to lie in the Karakh uplande, Into the U.S. aphera of infiiience, and burning newspapers. of country, and that the free world could easily in a lonely streich

the A publia collection this would split reach the heart of Rumia's near the railway northeast of "neutral" are upheld by Nehru. ready been started in Sicily and arms effort.

Lake Ballchash.

Gligit is do Padhani hande, in the rest of Italy for the build- The Such is the probable signia-

uranium

A well other but it low in Kashmir, the com- mg of a

By sanctuary, corice of the. talky between minerals uod in making the touted aroa between Indila and Jnown architect how been asked Pakiston, and the US, which bombe are closer to Gilgit, just Pakistan.

polley of to plan it, b nerom, the mountain ranges developing Oils & Pakistani And Byrouse has become a Nehru has so strongly criticised worating it from Kazakhstan. :baws, could not, Full tió doopen, the boom city that seems It may explain also why the-: U.S. appears willing" forma The proving sounds") for the extring, gulf betwynt, India and the way to becoming a second

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