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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1956.

Interesting News Stories From Al Paris

Roman Mosaic Floor Found In Excavation

Rome.

Archaeologists digging at the site of the old city walls of Imol. in north cast Italy, have unearthed Jarge mosaic floor, dating back to Roman times.

The most, found ten below are level covITA

floor of a large room 60 feet by 35 feel, in an intricate pattern of black and white tiles.

The lower part of the walls of the room, perhaps a banqueting hall, is covered with a træeze of flowers, dp!tentely painted In

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fr szik, straight ne the east roast to Molaus sime at

most tips tuzat

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7 the Mobile Ages. Intu became bord the Exarıbate, the festeratim of Byzantine

Italy.

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From Prague: King Wenceslas State From Rome:

Throatoned

Domage From Damp.

Fossils Of Bison Belity.

From Tokyo: cd To Be 50,000 Yours

Old Have Been Found In Iwato Prefecture.

Czech Concern

For Good

King Wenceslas

Citizens of Prague are Wenceslas' statue in the following reports that it damage from damp.

Prague.

watching Good King Czechoslovak capital is threatened with

The statue depicts King Wenceslas, Czechoslovakia'a patron saint on horseback.

bedmet and a coat of mail, holds hand alonu aint in bis right

di Pak.

I ARA Sapa trent 12 years

•g when pacres of one of the Fear 1gs began to pone Experts heve that this vuy was due to d. mp penetrating me chigang

de the leg and causing rust and Cracks

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Mi Plantinek Kabiah. tolue, Large natla wa and the Mason ot Prague that there was a dang

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Free-lined boulevard Art. his name

King Wenceslás, regarded 125 the test val apostle of Chris- unity in Bolema, became ruler thit autty, now prof the Cash kovak Republ J

of th Same thing happening

01924, when he was only 14.

crutare, it pain in other jarts ..t

ta pe of the

In the saxleonth pasted into the States Church, after playing at central part in the military carsprongen of Cesare Borgtu, sem of Poper Alexander VI

of some 44 000

Now a town people, it wie. hody damaged during World Was 11, 1 construction work has given an impetus

to archaeological

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The statue, completed in 1913, me of Prague Best FOSTERS

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Teddy Boys Causing Alarm In NZ

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He was murdered on his way des a barren tv year later at the gutagut on of Hú bunther, Bolen- Tav. who had be brought up in Pagan beliefs

NATIONAL MARTYR

During hi

the Trign, yang ruler built churches and insisted on high Christian morals and culture. King Wenceslas was recognised as a national martyr munstately after his death and lalet became patron saint of the Czecha.

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lle 13 buried in St Vitus Cathedral ta the grounds Hradcany castle, residence ot the Czechoslovak President,

a hill above Prague.

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People commemorate the an- niversary of his death, Septem- ofber 28, by laying flowers

and

Wellington.

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the

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The "Teddy Boy" cult, whose members drainpipe trouser costume of the Edwardian Britons that half a century ago, has grown into a movement causing alarm in New Zealand.

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The younger set of Now cupied the treg of their Briti both European – edunterparts. BUL Zealanders.

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'You'll Be Senile

At Twenty' Schoolgirls Told

Capetown

The principal of a Capetown school, Miss T. Tytteli, warned girls n the sehon; prize-giving recently that some of them were living lives that

woud ! brit them to a state of senile dreap before they turned 20.

the use of She criticised lipstick by girls in their early teens and the behaviour of girls the greater part of who spent their lives at cinemas andi partic-China Mati Special.

also

ency Lis Hass boollgunison, and in some

to esime| and violence.

cases

"Teddy Boys" me parading the streets In increasing numbers. They are rarely sen singly and their odd garb has cure to be looked upon as the uniform of the hooligan,

A foen! point of the Fedly Boys"

Decre Auckland, where they clashed with service- and made sperist police men patrols necessary.

Cine who turned up In Dune in, in the South Island, told the press that the services

were - Auckland

jealous of because they the Edwardians monopolised the local girls.

He admited he had left the town because "the services make so much trouble that

rows of lighted candles round the base of the statur. China Mail Special.

50,000-year-old Fossils

Found

Tokyo.

The World

A Roman Moraic Floor Has Been Discovered By Archaeologists At

Imola.

From London: A New Luxury Church

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LONDON HAS NEW

LUXURY CHURCH

London.

A new "luxury" church has been built here equipped with a lift, two kitchens, cinema apparatus for religious films, and a silver-topped font.

The church, St. Columba's in Belgravia, belongs to the Church of Scotland.

The 72-year-old architect, Sir Edward Maufe, hos used modern design and colour schemes with enough effect to make many night-clubs old fashioned in appear- ance.

^ Japanese palatontologist claims that fossils of bison, decr. The Alwi fir trees found 1 Iwate prefecture, northern Japan WOTC the first fossils of con- Unersial origin to be found in Japan.

Professor Nobuo Nuora, head of a Japanese university pa- lacontology research Institute

'Tokyo,

suid that simliar fossils were mostly found in Siberia

and North America at about 4,500 feet above sea-level. He added that Iwate prefecture it Was similar to these plocca

is not worth staying there."- 50,000 years ago.-China Mall China Mail Special..

Special,

electric lift serves three floors. Two kitchens provide Junches at two nel sixpence ench

Rnd the luxuriously appointed church hall is Otted for film shows.

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A tower 170 feet high,

organ costing £15,000, blue tapestries chosen by the architect's wife, and his own gift of a sliver-topped font complete the picture. The old St. Columba's was

destroyed by

bomba

llarlow Invention Can Gauge Effect Of Restlessness

MECHANICAL SLEEPERS TEST WEAR

ON BEDSPRINGS

an average,

Londoni. people turn

in bed seven times

ouring a night's sleep. Now a 24-year-old Harlow (Essex) In- vuntor has produced a machine- the only one of its kind in the world-which gauges the effect this restlessness on spring innitresses.

of

Two melni "bodies." weighing 12st. and the

are

one other turned aver and after the

Buchanically machine has been running for 60 hours the mattress has had

10 years' wear.

There is also a 12st, weight, which "aits" on mattresses to reproduce the punistiment which a mattress receives when it is sat on twice a day for several years

Says the Inventor, Mr P. F. W. Fanghancl: "It is very bad for a mattress to sit on it, but many people do-lo put on and tako their shots.

of a

"This machine, enables us to

which purt find out mattress breaks down irst. With the cheaper mattresses it nearly always the middle springs which go frat, gorge

"One mattress falled in this

ifler '10 years' wear on

CHECKING FOR COMFORT

IN THE FACTORY

in

1941. The new "kirk" cost £284,000. Like the former church, it will probably be #1 favourite choice Bociety weddings.

for

St. Columba's needs £8,000 to clear the rebuilding debt.— China Mail Special.

SHADES OF HOMER!

NESTOR A BATHROOM TIPPLER?

Chicago.

An archaeologist raised an eyebrow about some of the things he found in old King Nestor's palace in Greece.

Dr Carl W. Blegen of the University of Cincinnati dis- cussed his diggings near Pylos at a meeting of the Archaeolo- gical Institute of America,

In the palace of the King who was mentioned in Homer's Odyssey, Dr. Blegen came upon a built-in bath tub. In the tub were a number of cups.

Perhaps the cups, were used for perfumes and olla, Dr Blegen suggested, but "one may wonder if it was the custom in the palace to drink Wine while being bathed."

Near one of the front doams, pantry with 600 pots was uncovered.

"Were the obligations of hositality so prompt and urgent," he asked, "that visitors had to be greeted with refreshmerits at the front door?"-United Press.

Wedding Feast Lasted Six Days

Brena, Spain. Four mukired guests ale 15 lambs, 25 turkeys, 10 hams and drank 100 gallons of wine and 30 cnacs at aperitifs and liqueurs at a six-day feast to celebrate a

double gpysy wedding here.

The brides were the sisters Bercedes and Paulina Romero, who married Rafael Fernandez and Jose Porus Reyes

400

After the ceremon

This Device May Help To Conquer

Blindness

R

Philadelphin.

An electronic device that may mark first modest advance towards conquering blindness has been patented by Dr Denman Shaw, a 33- year-old member of the staff at the Albert Einstein Medical Centre.

The instrument, which would substitute for the eye and optic perve by stimulating the visual contre of the brain by electrical Impulsce, has not yet been test- ed on a blind person.

Its inventor, Dr Shaw, hos made no extravagant claims, bul

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Dr Shaw's system involves surgical operation in which plastic socket would be inserted in the skull of the blind person. Electrode "terminals” would be "plugged" into the socket 10 CirTy the electrical stimulus directly to the brain. He hopes It may also be possible to oper- ale his system by applying the electrodes to the outside of the skull, at least in some cases,

The device itself is powered by a small battery. One of its essential parts is a photoelectric cell, or phototube, which emits electrons when exposed to light reflected from an object

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