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THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1953.

CHINA Stones Of Stonehenge To

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from tow

and other countrie

licws

SOME of the huge fallen

Stonehenge, Britain's temple on Salisbury Plain, before the end of June.

The monument

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will then be

on it was before 1707, when one trilhons (two 45-ton pillars with a lutej ner their top) muddenly crashed to earth, robbing the ruins of an essential of their dimily part intelligibilly.

Tic

Other stones which fell in 1809 will also be restart to their original position, but

| nothing will be done to the many

No Faking

Its

London, Apr. 22.

slabs of stone at unique prehistoric are to be re-erected

By SIDNEY

TAYLOR

or for

Be Re-Erected

TH

1,

Us

The

graphs were being taken, axe closely resembles those to be seen in any museum which

Wessex inclus

Implements dating back to 1500 B.C., but the dagger unique tu northern Europe, though cominon at Mycense in pro-Ilomer Greece

People from Asia Minor and olher shotes of the Mediter- rancan were calling to this bar barlan north-west in search of copper, tin and gold. They were dark-skinned Megalith (13g Stone) tribes, farmer- herdsmen, flint miners and, traders who built imposing tombs In Spain,

When the recumbent trilthon France and as far away

is uprighted, further accrels may Sweden

bo exposed. Archacologists sil In Britain, where history had do not know what kind of not yet begun, they were people bulit Stonehenge or who attracted it of Sallebury Plain, miles them. Beneath the mow chalk plateau of ment may lie a great unkown which was high and dry for the king, perhaps a whole dynasty.

Clearly, the architeel was cattle and wine and

many trees a great foreigner of genius who had at too advantage to people whos

his command an abundance of principal cutting implement was

Inbour, xinve ΟΤ otherwise, unly a fint axe,

Many of the workers must have been highly skilled, for some of the stone was three times as Intractable na granite yet was expertly dressed. The lintels of cleverly the trillithona TWIC nitted with mortices and tenos,

Beakers

kad not

Frostrate columns hundent that they will avoid any fudges.

times apparently

lor of "foking" Stonehenge, by the Romans 2,000 years and their order for the delleate when they were ruthlessly

and operation which has now begun extirpating Druidisin

the new concludes with the firm injung. human sacrifice from

Ilon: "Leave slie perfect." colony of Brifornia.

On of the finest stone circles In the world, with more than half of It will unexplored, Stanchenge is a dumb symbol of no one knows what, Its do is

buk Archaeologist and the An-thought to be 4,000 years,

are no one can say for sure which cient Monuments Board

Some 500 years later came the opposed to any attempt to it was bullt, by whom "restore" Slonchenge to what what purpose. It has no back-Beaker People, so-called because ground like the Bible stories or of their custom of always bury- conjectured might be

the Herodotean traditions.

ing a pottery beaker with their If not prepaid a booking fee original siale. They think that

A preserved Is

thousand years or more dead. what should be of 50 cents is charged.

vame into belog, Ireland had been trading her the monument as it is known to before it have been left after the temans, Britain had been severed from wealth in copper and alluvial by the gold with countries on the con- or earlier invaders, had vented the European continent

fron

mellinanent and this rich their wrath.

und Spokesmen

the British Pleistocene lee sheets flooding had to cross the Plain Office of Works hove promised over what is now the North Sea. Wessex.

The Plain became the most populated part of primitive Britain. Probably the earliest open temple and the likely prototype for those to come later was Woodhenge", a name for a bare site of six con- centric rings within a rampart discovered from the air in 1825. Eventually, the real heart of this onclent civilisation,

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KUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER

Sydney (By Airmail).

FOR some inexplicable reason the NSW rainbow that leads to the pot of gamblers' gold is petering out and while there still seems to be plenty of money for gambling, trouble is that less gamblers seem to have a share of it.

has decided The riddles remain

to, these schemes before and is not though Among

most worried Government tho

the

Opera impressed. books written about Stonehenge people at the moment are racing discontinue

For the first time last week, totalled 1,000 between the years club authorities

are House lotteries until the more who and 1600 and 1800

several scratching their heads and ask-easy spending period of Christ- Governor-General, Sir Willem

Three of the lotteries, Slim, took the salute from a de mas, hundred since,

ing what they must do next to Michael Drayton (1663-1831), draw cash customers.

have been Alled and drown and parting warship. Elzabethan poet, called

No. 4 has been put on the

PRO shelf unlif November, Stonehenge the first wonder of the world."

Twonly one meolings they introduced the jackpot

the

br

of more

On the other hand, a church tote. This, with odds modern

has not hesitated to 5/-, organisation than £20,000 a week was to get the turnstiles run- to launch an art union in which

those 21 370,000 £ tickets w ning bo--but at meetings attendances have been 20,000 fewer than at the same period last year.

about

1800 B.C., was an enormous tymplex of ritual monuments, circles and avenues of standing stones, at Avebury,

Most of the hundred great

Was

of

Losses

It is estimated that at those 21 meetings

Australian

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the

offered to the public with Arsi prize a £110,000 hotel at the seaside suburb of Manly. The winner will have to take the pub, but can arrange for sale If he desires,

But don't get the idea that we are running out of gambling chips. Last year a known £230 million was spent on it.

The ship was the Canadian cruiser Ontario, and Sir William stood on the steps of Admiralty House, Sydney (which are right on the water) and waved welform bat.

Mothball

his

The RAN al present has 22 ships in its mothball foot.

They range from Australia's enly cruiser, Hobart, down to an ocean going tug.

Pepys (1633-1703), the Studet diaria waote that the stones were "as prodigious as any thies ever heard of them. God knows what their use was."

Inigo Jones (1573-1852), one of the most important of English architects, accepted the temple

did William as Druidic. So Blake (1757-1827), poet, painter, The Rubber Trust, Ltd., this morning declared a

graver and myslic Some people today, however, dividend of 12 cents per share for the year monoliths were broken up and

Habar went into reserve In for building during the believe that the temple

1955 just after "£1,500,000 had a thousand ending September 30, 1957, at their 22nd used

been spent on modernisation re- 18th century, but the ruins of already standing Annual General Meeting held in the Rubber Stonehenge were left and have years before the Druids came to Jockey Club, which controls the

they ever did.

The fact that there are sint. It has been unoffelalls sug- become one of Britain's most Salisbury

gested that she may re-emerge The Drukds were Cells, a main Sydney meetings, has lost

Lote revenue a few loose guineas about is converted as Australia's Trust Limited, Board Room, Marina House,

Arst famous relles of the past,

class

£15,000 through Stonehenge represents three highly-privileged

falling attendances, also pin-pointed by the fact guided-missile launching war- Mr W. A. Welch

the that this year's yearling sales hip. re- pounds, which was 2.53 per cent

about and were not liable for service Losses in catering and elected Director of the Com-igher than had been estimated, structural phases. The first con- learned men, who paid no taxes

than struction, dating from and five per cent higher

Christ as soldiers. The Romans hated higher labour costs for operat- have established new price re- have curds and hundreds of thousands any.

Mere Lowe, Bingham and the crop harvested on the same 1000-1700 BC. (Before

The-the Megalithic and Neolithlehem because they were hostile ing the jackpol Matthews, Chartered Account-estates during 1955/50. ants, were appointed auditors of average yield per nere from the period) consisted of a circular to their conquest, Claudlus sald brought the AJC's losses over have changed hands in a few Leather-lunged John Ingi:99,- whole

producing area of the ditch and bank enclosing a ring that they were suppressed be the period to at least £25,000 days.

a great cause of their barbarous and and not even the A/C can In Malaya of 50 ritual pits, and

who disposes of the yearlings in Heel Inhuman religion." But Tacitus, stand kicks like, this for long. monolith known Company's estates

the same manner as a fishmon was 457 pounds.

:ough he recorded the rooting Stone,

out of Druidism

Another painter that all is

fish and who in Anglesey,

ger disposes of Оп re-planting, Mr Elliott

knows the difference between a made no reference to Stone- not going well on the gambl- stated that of the 1,504 neres

the ing front is the fact that

face twitch to move a fly or to planned for re-planting, some

henge-China Mail Special.

send the price up another hun- dred, makes money quick. 000 acres had been completed

lively for his firm.

He gets a 6 per cent com-diploma of education but with

takes and it mission

only one subject short of her minutes for a yearling to change degree, began teaching at coun

try schools, hands. The 7,100-guinea buy on

Then she got mureled, In two

For the BOUTH CHINA | 1110 Company, to huid office until MORNING POST and the

the next Annual General Meet- CHINA MAIL, 48 hours ing. before date of pubilestion.

Special Announcement and Classified Advertise _mante_as_uaseal.

NEW TERRITORIES-

FANLING UN LONG & SHEUNG SHUI DISTRICTS. THE

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SHEUNG SHUI RAILWAY STATION,

Orders Accepted

Deliveries Undertaken.

In their report, the Directors the estimated announced that production in Malaya for 1057/ 50 was 5,723,000 pounds. The New Amherst Estate-owned-by before the end of the financial the Company in Burma was year and the remainder-had- been re-planted before the end Chengal and Samagaga estates of the calendar year of 1957.

sold in July Inst year, and the

were sold recently.

Proceeds

Re-survey

A re-survey of the area re-planting showed that

c

As the

Blue Stone

the

Ip_the_second_phase, Beaker People brought beautiful blue stones from the Procelly mountains in Parabrokeshire, the only place where they exist. stones, The transport of these

the largest of which, the Altar of Stone, weighs over six tons, was The remarkable achievement for

The 'Directors announted that actustarrare-planted was those days. It is bought that the proceeds from the sale of 1,500 acres, which was mire they were brought by ruft up the New Amherst Etate were than had been thought when the Bristol Channel, thence up paid into the Company's bank the estimates had been drawn rivers, in Rangoon, The reserve for

up in 1950. He Burma profit not remittevi in respect of the year ending July 31, 1986, has been reduced as a result of pruill and other taxes paid, and now stood at HK$160,721, which is the equivalent of K.133,243, being the actual profit remittance that has been applied for.

and Anally dragged across Land, possibiy on sledges in winter time.

The third stage included announced plans for re-

actes, bringing 50-ton sarsen slones clearing further 1,260

Wiltshire north

and which will be re-planted before from

of this area, erecting them in a circle_and the end of 1958.

be dealt with liorseshoe of trillthons. They 1,206 acres can

dominated the sanctuary, the meebanically.

blue stones having been dis- mantled and given a 'different arrangement.

At this time, the brilliant at Hts Weases Bronze Age was height (about 1500-1409 B.C.) and the region was part of a extended trade network which

and

in a general summary of the situation in Malaya, Mr Elliott The Planting Adviser to the said that during-1067, they saw Rubber Trust Limited, Mr F. C. the Federation of Malayn be Elliott, stated in # short report come an independent member that the loss of crop caused by of the Commonwealth. He sald the Influenz epidemic during that so far no unfavourable cir- the male of 1957, duc loeumstunees have resulted in po as far as Central Europe tappers being affected, was not far as any of the branches of Mycenaean Greece. Bu serious as the go-slow strike the

wêre Company's estates

Aegean techniques of architec In May and June, 1930.

concerned, General relations ture and masonry are reflected Of the The weather proved to be between Europeans and Astars in the Anished temple. more favourable on most of the

in the plantation Industry greatest significance are carvings and daggers on thu estates, than it had been in the seemed to have improved, it of axes

discovered by preceding year. The total crop anything, since the change in sandstone,

photo- accident in 1933 when for the year was 0,054,486 | the country's status.

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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT

ROXY & BROADWAY: "Boy On A Dolphin," Alan

Ladd and Sophin. Loren look for a statue. KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Bridge On The River Kwai" William Holden, Jack Hawkins and Alec Guinness in an Academy Awards winning war picture.

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Filmed

HOOVER & LIBERTY: "Until They Sail." Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine and Paul Newman, in a romantic drama. 9.30 p.m.: "Raintree County." Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in Civil War romance:--- STAR & METROPOLE: "Man. Of A Thousand

Faces." James Cagney as Lon Chaney. LEE & ASTOR: The Bolshoi Ballet."

during their visit to London... QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "Beware Of Pick-

pockets." A hilarious Chinese comedy. CAPITOL: "Pardners." A Martin-Lewis comedy. RITZ: "The Tall T." Randolph Scott in a western. ORIENTAL & MAJESTIC. "Peyton Place," Lana

Turner and an all-star cast.

Audio And Visual Entertainment

and

of the

HMAS Sydnry, one Navy's two light carriers is due to go into the mothball Beet this month.

Mra Ellon Treesan at the Melbourne suburb of Essendon doesn't like anything to get the best of her and she has Anished a bachelor of arts course which she began in 1915.

now

She began the arts course at Melbourne University that year. Three years later she had ber

BA

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the opening day went and a half-minutes-for-a-con-family arrived, and one way... mission of £447.8.0.

the had other - and another things to think about than BAS, Two years ago she decided to "Anish the course, “büt found that times had changed, and had to complete 'two rubjects instead of one.

A-Tunnel?

So great has the trame jam become on the Harbour Bridge

She decided to go on with it. at peak hours that it is almost

40 of the main however, and now, hearly certain that one tasks confronting the Premler,years later, has completed her Mr. Cahlli

education on his visit to America is to Investigate the posity of tunnels under the harbour.

surveys

Gas Basin

Already preliminary have been made and unemelel Sydney is bulit.on o huge. departmental spokesmen are natural gas basin thousands of confident-that the harbour-will-miles-in-extent necording-to-a be tunnelled in less than 10 visiting US authority, Professor

Dr Glenn G. Bartle. years.

The cost about £15 million The locals have realized for a would be only a quarter of long time that we are literally

bridge building anothér

and sitting on gas, but the Austra could be completed in twolian Olt and Gas Corporation years, whereas a bridge-based brought the Professor out to on our bridge building speed tell them how much. over the last 10 years could take a retime.

There is so much natural gas available that eventually it will Idea is not to tunnel under be piped to cities 100 miles from the harbour itself, but to Sydney and will last so far into dredgo a deep trench and lower the future that he won't guess hugo concrete pipes into it. the year it might run out.

1 These would bo cemented

The NSW Police Force is try position and joined together. ing to recruit a number of new Maximum depth, would be 60ft Australians to help solve and ventilation shafts would crimes in which migrants are run to above water level.

invalved

to

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Another traffic idea that won't The Commisaloner is particu hit the ground is a proposal bylarly looking for men who can on Australian construction Arm handle European languages

build a straight four-inne that police themselves can quiz highway between Sydney and suspects instead of Having Newcastle and charge 15/- toll rely on govemment interpre- ziren's Coner Premester! by

ta motorists using it for the next ters. Auntie Ray;' 6.30, Wednesday - Rc- quests Presented by Nick Kendall; 20 years, then turn it over to The Torce at present has 10 820 Evening Serenade--bielachrine d. Mulachrine Musicale; &M, Birth the Government,

New Australians, but the tough 0, Time Bignol Luoky, day Mailbag: 830. Dick Jurgens

set Balodern Requests presented Sh 7, Personality

tests

would-be recruits Parade

makes their entry pretty tough.

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