THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 3,. · 1956.
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MUSICAL
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Disappears Behind Scaffolding
By Gordon Martin
Rome, May 2. Thousands of tourists who will focus their cameras on the ancient monuments of Rome this year will be disappointed to find one of the most famous, the Arch of Constantine, hidden by scaffolding and a protective covering of wicker
screens,
few past
the
ort In the
months, as further evidence
decline int taste. Humans have grown accustomed contemporary
to seeing [ew men working standards, and technical ability. every day with hammerk drills on the Arch, which standa
and
Two years 10. the great in the shadow of the Colosseum, American crllie and historian of at one end
"f the "Imperial urt. Dr Bernard Berenson, pub- Forum Way" inid crut by fished a short book on the Arch Mussolini.
with the sub-title "The Decline he used of Form," in which Constantine's monument as examples of storehouse stylistic debasement.
Experts grew worried about the state of the 1,000-year-old Arch when a block of stone fell from the cornice into the road.
way last year
The Arch, abor the same Fize 05 the Marble Arch tn London, was but by the Em- peror Constantine the Great retebrate his victory at the gates juf Rome over his rival Maxen- Jus in the year 312 AD
the
to
By this time,
complex OUTSTANDING sound and balance administrative machinery of the noted in Westminalera Red Poppy Suite, Patrouchite, Dun Juan.
Floman UAD-
Empire was
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Invasion Threats
Eastern influences had
al- ready done much
the to sap vitality of the city of Rome, and it was Constantine who trans- ferred his empital to Byrantium. renaming it Constantinople (the
modern plumbul).
barbarian invasions and by
to
Large Roundels
Red Aviation Competition
London, May 2.
British experts of aircraft and aircraft equipment may before lont have to "Lace com- petition from Rusia," Mr Re- ginald Maudling, Minister Supply, said here tonight,
of
Speeding at
the
of
Institution Electrical Engineers, he
warnod: "We are facing com-
petition of an extent orcases steadily.
that in-
*At present the portant competitor is America, but we must recognise that be- face very long We may competition from Russia (15 WOL"
fore
He said Russla
of
The large roundels taken from earlier
Trajan. buildings of
Aurelius Hadrian, und Marcus Ive been universally admired.
The contemporary friezes, like those which spiral round the Column, show nearby Trajan's
scenes of military en- spirited
with gogements.
ranks of marching
Buldiers
on Rome. the
Anterico
and
both hnd technological than Britain resources grooter and that if we waste any of our skilled or of our technical abilitira, we are wasting our,
asset.*
most precious Mall Speetal.
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Atomic Blasts
Do Not
Scenes like that showing Affect Weather
siege of Verona are useful to the historian who wishes to learn and
more
tactics about the military equipment of the Im- perial Roman armies.
Other trience depict the Em- peror performing official duties addressing the Senate, or dis- tributing corn to the people. By such of Constantine, the time
distributions had scale
300 been the rule for
once
almost
Geneva, May 2. The world meteorological organisation today denied rumours that atomic explosiona have had an adverse effect on the weather.
The
executive organisation's committee, which has just com pleted a session here, announced that its research showed there was not any reason to believe that blasts held thus far have effect on had an
appreciable weather conditions.
Harassed by the threat or large dwindling revernica, *L seems years, and earned the contempt that he was unable to And either of men like the satirist Juvenal, of people who wrote that the good sculptors or the money to
the masters of Rome, pay them when he wished erect the monument.
world, ved only for bread and circuace.
A of their work,
United Nations in the course
agency, organisation decided to which will go on until the end the of the year, the restorera hope supply data to its members and to throw light on a number of to other qualified organisations problems which have on the effects which peaceful the smuptures puzzled students of the Arche of atomic energy has on the
China Mail Special.
weather.--France-Presse.
He therefore had recourse to
scaling from buildings built by earlier Emperves. His architects hastily put up a rough but not altogethes soild triple Arch. Upon thes They 11xed
the offices of the Company and marble reliefs rifled from a No. 9 Ice House Street, fourth dozen earlier buildings, produc- Floor, Hongkong, on Thurs-ing a patchwork milkely to
centuries day, 3rd May 1966, at Noon, stand up to for the purpose of receivingposure to rain and frost.
of
ex-
the Statement of Accounts
To combat the tendency t and the Report of the Direc- these ill-filing sections do dis- experts re- tors for the year ended 31sttntegrate. Station
cently carried out a series of
December 1956, and to delicato vertical perforations of
transact
the
ordinary the main structure, they inserted rods high-grade sted.
business of the Company.
The TRANSFER BOOKS
of the Company will bo
into which
of special
will
Then and
Bronze towbara securely fasten the reliefs
closed from Thursday, 19th the statues on top of the Arch April 1966 until Thursday. to the rods. binding the separate 3rd May 1966, both days In-parts firmly together. clusive.
By Order of the Bourd
of Directors,
No Gaps
To give protection from the
will
Shewan Tomes & Co., Ltd. rain, the top of the Arch
R. G. PENFOLD.
General Managers,
Hongkong, 12th April 1956.
To ADVERTISERS
then
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For the 8OUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 houre before date of publication,
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be covered with thin sheets of lead. projecting at some pointe to Curry
the dripping water clear of the outer surfaces.
At the same time, experi- enced
craftsmen specialty marble brought from the great quarries of Carrara, in Tuscany Will All in the missing pieces of this sculptural jig-saw 'puzzle. They will fashion new limba and figures to replace those chipped off when the works were form from their original settings, so that the viewer's eye will not
be disturbed by unsightly maps.
The Arch has long been the subject of disputes between art critica. Some regard its sculp- ture as marking the beginning of a new era in art, others see
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
CHARLIE. UPHAM–2 VCs
Captain Charles Upham, a sheep farmer in North New Zealand, who is the only Canterbury, combatant soldier to win a bar to Britain's highest order of military valour, the Victoria Cross, is coming to London, where he will march in the parade celebrating the centenary of the VC in June.
1941. Illness He won his first VC in Crete in had made him a walking skeleton. Lame and exhausted, he led his men from one strongpoint to another, blasting the enemy with grenades and Bren gun fire.
The second was at El Ruwelsat in the Western Desert. He destroyed a tank, several guns and vehicles with grenades.
He declined a £10,000 postwar gift, subscribed by New Zealanders to buy the farm he wanted. "The military honours bestowed on me are the property of the men of my unit......." he said. The money Bend fund to became the Upham Scholarship ex-Servicemen's sons to university. Upham raised a loan for the farm-Express Photo.
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PART IN VC CENTENARY
New Delhi, May 2.
Eleven Indians who hold the Victoria Cross, Britain's 'highest award for valour, will sail for London this month to take part in the Victoria Cross centenary celebrations there.
They represent a cross-section of the famous martial races of India, Sikhs, Dogras, Mahrattas and Gurkhas, who made the Indian Army one of the finest fighting forces in the world.
Indian Army.
Ten of them, who won their Mylngyan road, annihilating an
in World War anti-dank Victoria Crosses
crew single- Fun II, are
still
serving in the banded.
of The eleventh, The most rendor member Honorary Captain Ishar Singh the Vittoria Cross contingent who won the Victoria Cross for will be Colonel P.S. Bhagat of gallantry in Waziristan en thethe Engineers who
his Northwest Frontier in 1931, has Victoria Oroes in Abyssinia in now rotired.
1041. He carried out a 48-hour non stop clearance of 50 miles of road
thickly strown with minefields, blocks and booby-
WON IN BURMA
won
traps, although his carrier waa The Viotorin Cross тудя in-
twice blown up, many of his situted in January, 1950, anel mo
men wore
were killed, and he him- until 1942 the
bronze simple
from medal was struck from the eventually collapsed metal of guns captured by the exhaustion and shock with both British at Sebastopol, during the plosions. The longest continued by ex- damaged Crimean War.
fem of sheer, cold courage," said his commanding officer.
car-druma
In 1011, the right to receive the Victoria Cross was extended to Indian soldiers,
THREE GURKHAS Since then the Indian army has won eleven Victoria Crosses
Gurkhas Three stocky
who during World War I, and 31 won the Victoria Cros in the during World War 11. After the heavy fighting
the against British Army, it has won more Japanese in 'Assom and Burma Victoria Crosses than any other in 1943 and 1944, will also join force in the Commonwealth. the contingent for London,
Among the heroes who will Subedar Gale Ghale of the be in London in June are two | Gurkha Rifles led hia platoon
turbaned toți.
ridge bearded in un assault in 'and
key Sikhs who won their awards in held by the Japanese and ul Burns.
though" "wounded by a grenade Captain Parkash Singh,
the Sikh Regiment, rescued the the hin after bitter hand-to-
two
crews from
of (10
of
In the arm, chest and leg, carried
Bren
carriers hand fighting.
open beach under
Mayu peninsula,
in
heavy Japanese fire at Donbalk In the
Burma, in January 1943, and later towed to safety a crippled
carrier with two wounded men. Jemadur Gian Singh, also of
the Sikh Regiment, made two lone charges against Japanese astride
the
the Kamye-
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Jemadar Ganju Lama of the 11th Gurkha Training Centre, engaged two Japanese tanica single-handed, killing or wound- ing all the crow
Havildar Agan Singh, of the Gurkha Rules, 1ed his company. under withering Japanese Biro ta silence two gun positions, kill- ing ten of the enemy himself.
Two other Indian VCs wha will be at Le London cele brations, won their decorations in Burma. Jemadar Bhandark Ram of the Dogre Regiment re- ceived a direct hit from a gren- ede when, already wounded, ha was moving forward to attack A Japanese bunker.
and
Nevertheless crawled an
hurled
grenade into poot, silencing the Japanese gun before, drenched in blood and semiconscious, he collabeed suy= ing "I do not mind dying now. I have done my job.". He lived. HEAD WOUNDS
Jemador Umrao Singh, of the Mountain Regiment Artillery, beat off four attacks on-hig đưa by Japanese in Arakan, Burma, finally using a heavy, gun 4001 in hand-to-hand fighting until he was knocked senseless. Wiren & counter-attack
the position he was found beakle his gun aimbot unrecognisable with seven head wounds. Ten dead Japanese 'wiere around him.
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Two of the Indian VC con tingent won their awards in Italy. Havildar Nomdeo Judtáo of the Marathe Light Inkarskry entried two wounded men to antots umber. Are through weber and a mine beit at the crossing of the Senio river in Apri
1940.
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Then he returtied to wipt, out throw German machino – stuZIN poste
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Havildar Katrai Ram, hów, OI the Rajput Training Centre, bes camo the Indian Arky's youn est VC at the dge of 20 in Hing 1944 when he allenoid: Wo mochine guin pontan single- handed under heavy fire,aftie the crossing of the Gari eline in Stafky.
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