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THE CHINA (MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 196724/7

After Six Months' Digging, Officials Now Admit: NO SIGN OF TOWER TREASURE Then Where Did Monkey's Best Wishes On Her 108th Birthday

Sir John

Hide The Loot?

London, Oct. 6.

Six months' digging in the vaults of the ancient Tower of London has produced no clue to the £700,000 treasure believed to have been buried there 300 years ago, it was officially admitted today.

*

The story goes that Sir John Barkstead, who was Governor of the tower during the rule of Oliver Cromwell and also a jeweller, extorted vast sums from wealthy aristocrats impri- soned by Cromwell.

But when the monarchy was restored Barkstead was exceut- ed--before telling where he had hidden his loot, then rald to be wo.th £40,000.

water-

Early this year diviner, Major C. A. Pogson, Vice-Treldent of the Society of Doasers, and My Charles Quar- 1ell, Secretary of the Speles- logleal (cave exploring) Society, were given permission to look for it at their own expence,

of

But before they started, tho Ministry of Works, which looks after ancient monuments historical value, decided to do come digging on his own, which happened to be in the same apot where

the

treasure-hunters thought the jewels lay.

Bones

Three .workrucu probed around, and found some bones. Offcialty, they were looking i for burled Roman walk.

Major Pogson, 72, who was water diviner to the Bombay Government of India, helped to locate the right spol with his motoscope, a "Z" shaped piece of wire made out of his wife's knitting needles, which usually led him to water.

The workmen tere up a con- crete patch 12 feet by pix in the boller room of the governor's residence, Mr Quarrel helped by seeking the aid of Clalevoyanis, who told him there was some- thing down thore. Up above were the British crown jewels, kept in the bell tower.

Most Likely

60 Smokes

A Day -A Venial

Sin

Bouth Bend, Oct. 0. People who smoked more than three packets of A' dur Wire cigarettes gulity of "At least a venial sin,” according to an authority on Reman Catholic theology.

The

Дет. Francia Connell, Dean of the School of Bacred Theology at the Cathollo University

of America

in Washington, made the charge in the current issue of Ave Maria

magazine published here. In an

an article entitled “Is it A win to smoke cigaretten?" Father Con

said "Moderate neil smoking can ordinarily be fastifled even for no other

KERGE than the relaxation or rollet one finds in iL"

Fo defined moderato

moker

the who

contents himself with one pack a day "and

perhaps a few more,”— United FreÍM.

Mrs Louise Bimmann, the oldest woman in Germany, orlebrated her 108th birthday in her home in Berlin --- Chat- lottenburg. She was born in Blumenthal district Landsberg and came to Berlin only 11 year ago Bha has six children.... who are ati silit alive (the eldest daughter is 81 and the youngest son 11). They all attended the birthday celebration,

In the picture above the monkey from the Roland Cirous dame and congratulated Mrs Klasmann-Keystone.

TREACHEROUS

Congressman Wants Faubus Exposed

Washington, Oct. §.

Now the Ministry has Iscued "So Sorry No Rep. Kenneth B. Keating called today for release

a long statement about what

they found during their summer

of digging under the 12th cen-

tury bell

tower

and its mont.

|

This concludes:

"The

year

which

excavated this arcas coincided with the arcas. Various people main-

Barkstead

tained to be the most likely hiding place of the ireDaure.

"There was no trace of the frensure, nor was any apparent biding place revealed - Uwugh there were signs that there had

Elections'

Katmandu, Ool, 8.

King Mahendra of Nepal today Informed the Nepalese people "with deep regret" that it was Imposible lo clections on Tuesday scheduled.

hold

general

said his dearest wish was to

of FBI reports on the Little Rock school Integration dispute to expose what he called the "eel-like treachery" of Arkansas Gov, Orval Faubus.

The New York Republican also urged President Eisen- hower to take personal

In a radio message, the King charge of a campaign by hold the elections as soon as "reasonable" southerners to possible, but mentioned no date, offset "alarmists who

Several days ago the election

THEY WANT CATS

been random digging into the commission announced it was are preaching demogoguery-BASKETS OF

solid foundation of the bell impossible to hold the elections which threatens to tower. Some at least of thusa on Tuesday "because of the bad the whole southland in the diggings contained 10th century administration of the preceding flames of racial hate and material."-China Mall Special. government"-France-Presse.

A British Crossword

Puzzle

16.

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120

21

23

24

25

ACROSS

1 Galt club (0).

y Painting modium (4).

Well-known song (0).

10 Tapering structure (9).

27

11 Churchill, for example (4).

19 Hearing aid (10).

15 Equestrian accessory (4).

10 Slightly open (4).

19 They make belleve (10).

24 Spot (4).

24 Where at Mou?' (5).

1 Kopt in (5),

20 Prophetto sign (4).

27 Revoltini nët" (0),

29

DOWN

2 Put into words (5).

3 Roof worker (5).

4 Carry on with the summary

(6).

5 Did this with intent? (8).

Scottish valley (4).

8 More than annoyed (5),

12 Cards (8).

18 Wriggle out of (5),

14 Staying awhile (B).

17 Rusch, parḥāps (5).

18 Pour through (0),

20 Sleep time (5). 21 Consumed (5). :23 Ditto (4).

SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acrogr: -Vortex, & Usurp,

federal defiance,"

Rep. Keating said in a formal statement that "the cel-ke treachery of Gov. Faubus in obfuscating all solution offered to the Little Rock crisis demon- strates clearly that the time is overdue for responsible cle- ments to make themselves heard,"

PERFIDY

THEM

Capetown, Oct. 8. Cats galore are wanted by the Hite Transvaal oopper town of Messina (poppia. tion about 3,000),

"Fit, free from disease and with adventurous

Couse

are needed to keep down rats, mice and rabbits which heavy damago to tree sends and young plants at the Gromfall

Rep. Keating, is the log Re-Park afforestation and planting pubiican member of the house project.

Judiclaty committee and

jender

Nights Bili.

LIKE AN

EEL

They Took Pictures

Of Our Cruiser

What A Nerve Says Moscow

Moscow, Oct. 6.

American' sailors who took close-up photographs of the Boviet cruiser, Kuibyshev, In Turkish waters were to- day condemned by the their prout for "trollesa bahaviour.”

Soviat

The Kulbyshev accompanied two. Boviot destroyers tak- ing Marshal Zhukov to Yugoslavia for talks with President Tito. It is due to reach the Asgean Box to- day.

As the ship' emerged, from the Bosphorus into the spa of Marmara, a correspondant of the Kulbyshev wrote in today's army paper Red Star, a cutter showing the

BABY'S

stars and stripes approach-

od,

The crew took several "pur-

ried enapa" before

sutter approached destroyers and

tho tho

Further

anepa were taken.

This

could

"tactless

buhayloar

not but evoke tha condemnation of Soviet officere and sellors," re- ported Red Star.

The Bavist Navy nowspaper Boylet Ficet, which alsa has a correspondent on the Kulbyshev, reported • almilar insidant with the detall that the navigator at the wheel of the cutter wore American military uniform/Router.

CRIES

DROWN CHOIR

have good But

"The in the Aght for Pres.

will cats Eisenhower's original Civil, bomes, a daily allowance of milk and porridge-but they must get own meat by hunting the their

rodents," an official said..

No payment would be made "baskets of for the cats-but them" were invited to help in the development of the country. -China Moil Special,

He sald he hoped for early release of at least a sum mary of the FBI's reports on developments leading up to the Little Rock crisis,

"Only when the trun and complote story of

the tragic events in Little Rock... I made public," he said, "will the nation have the full pic- ture, on the one hand of utter perfidy, and on the other, of responsible and necessary 40- tion by the chief executive."

Slullar demands have been maide by Republican Gov. Theodore I. McKeldin of Maryland, one of the

four Southern Governors seeking a solution to the current impássc, and Serato Democratic whip | Mike Mansield of Montana.

NOT ALL

The_White House Press Socio- tory, Mr James C. Haporty sale yesterday the Justice Report-

ATOMIC

SUB VISITS FRANCE

The

The

Duke Bounced Her In His Arms

London, Oct. 6- Queen watched her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, with lively interest here today as he bounced his three-month-old godaughter in his arms to pacify her during a christening

ceremony.

West London,

The dield, Maria), daughter tended the birth of the child of Prince and Princess Andrej at King College Hospital of Yugoslavia, was being chris-July this year. tanedat the 10 Serbian Orthodox Church of St Sava in The Duke, in morning dregs hold the child throughout the The Duke was witness at the half-hour service. The Queen in Prince and two-piece mult of midnight wedding of the Princess in Germany in August coloured velour pat, was pre blue, with Email cherry. year,

sent in her capacity ha a men- of the Royal Family, -

lost

Le Havro, Oct. §. Police cordona today: kept sågor crowds from getting too close

As a result he became what look at the U.S. Navy the Berba pa. "Kim their atomic powered submarine, nearest spiritual relative and Nautips, which arrived ya- by ancimit tradition their first terdgy to take part l the child's godfather.

Invasit was, considering making Nato goste autumn mang-

pubijo ali information Bi sup: 1. POTER, plied to the President before he Caplain of the Nautilus, dom decided to send federal troope

Into Little, Bock.

Fut ha sid

731 Kong Bush

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He would take. Do

RENOUNCED SATAN

last came the initiation. The Duke named the child, an after repeating three tirsan that The had tynounced Batan, thm Dubai was called upqa by the jacient to breathe

Half Way To The Moon!

Moscow, Oct. 6.

The world's first artificial satellite has now travelled more than twice the distance from the earth to the moon, the Soviet Tass new? agency announced today.

The agtney said when the, transmitted tonight by Russia's satollito circled the earth for earth astellito as for the second the 22nd time (at 0900 GMT to- | day it whirled around the world. day), it had travelled a total in 96 minutes.

other signals frem satellite, in addilion

the

10

tho

dislabes of about 620,000 miles. fleuter correspondents all over An analysis of observations the world cabled reports today Indicated that the length of each of radio signals received from revolution of the sabelute the 10,000 mph sphere-from the around the earth, had remand tiny island of Antigua to Paris practically unchanged, and and Shanghal therefore the satelite was not Radio operators were picking

by any up being slowed

GOWN force, the agency said,

Tass said the satelite passed pulsating "BEEP...BEEP over the Cape of Good Hope. BEEP" already famillar enough It also possca East of Austraila to be imitated by small boya and over the Now Hebrides, playing "space" games, Canada, the Cape Verde Some of theso other radio Islands, the Aleutian Islands, signals were believed to bo El Salvador, the South Atlantic, coded data registered by the the Indian Ocean, Tokyo, Instruments packed into the Chicago, the West Indies and machine details of tempera- Calcutta.

lura, light, speed and so on. The agency said that the But the possibility that some intellite tomorrow would pass of the signals were over Bucharest, Kiev, Moscow, photographe was raised in Cairo Madrid, Paris Berlia and

by a Sovlet scientist. Professor Leningrad.

Fesenkov told the nowspaper Al Radio pictures of the orth Ahram that he had helped to and other planets as well na| instal lostrumente in the satellite coded data were possibly bọing | -and it could take pictures,

radio-

Physics Professor Says 'It's Got Me Worried'

Sydney Oct, 0. Jussia would never build the Profesor H. Mossel, Professor atoms bomb by herself and then of Physics at Sydney University, in 1948 off it toent,

and

said today that the "Russian patellite Pregns life, or deaths (*:"A couple of weeks ago the for us freedom or the extinc- Russians cnnounced they had an tion of civilisation."

| inter-continental mizuite He added: "It""" has got me hardly anyone would take them worried. I have got a dreadful seriously. feeling that tos are negring the "How they have launched a and

estallite and if it can be sent Far too long those who should|vp ro can this ICBM. But ro- know better has been deceiving | Pôdy seems to be worried about the smublic.

fold it."China Mall Special, We wera

·

World Govt Needed

Weapone could be handled in much the same way as a aatel- lite to cover vast spaces and threaten them, be said.

Canberra, Oct 6. Dr Herbert Eyati,, Australian Labour leader, said today that the launching of Russia's earth satellite was a chellange to the Dr Evatt id a world ́`ray- world, especially the bigger crument properly run would powers,

make another overcome the threat of war- attempt to disarm.

Reuter.

A Hunk Of Iron...Well!

Mopcow, Oct. Di“

The Soylet. Communist party |.....

newspaper "Pravda" today

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advice, and described him as swaggering sailor who says in effect: Say, if you

commented Ironically on the hayo a minute,`` Launch statement by American Rear- Admiral Rawson

satellite Bennett, Pravda suo

Chief +4 Naval Operations,

the

that

Soviet artificial satellite was “enly a hunk of iron almost anybody could Jaunch".

The paper asked: "Why has the American hunk of iron not yet been launched?" Pravda suggested that scienti- ic and technical centres of the United States do not know Bennett's address to call for

American

to

д

commented on an millionaire's offer t

д

pay $25,000 to have family tomb built on the moon so that he and his descendants could pest In peace after death

The paper said: "It would seem that it is not enough to have $25,000, for one must know to which country's Брасо travallers to apply—especially if one is in a hurry."-France- Presso,

Boomerang Satellites?

Moscow, Oct. 6.

The Kuslans see how seeking to build artificial satellites which can return to the earth undamaged, E. Federov, a member of the Buvist Academy of Sciences, wrots in the official newspaper Pravda today.---Franco-Presse.

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