1959-02-02 — Page 3

THE CHINA MATE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1959.

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Dark Ages Voyage May Prove HOME Sharks

Group Says The Irish Beat

Ban Tests,

Risk

"

Cheating

Washington, Feb. 1.

Columbus Russian

London, Feb. 2.

Twenty two prominent Commander Alan Villiers, who skippered May-

scientists, clergymen, edi; tors and business and Jabour tenders called on the United States, Rusula and Britain today to ban atomie tests even if there is a risk of cheating. In identical letters to President

Kjarnhower,

the Russian

The

flower II on her voyage to America in 1957, met a young London historian last week to give his advice on a plan to sail the Atlantic in n tiny boat of the type used in the Dark Ages. historian, 35-year-old Geoffrey Ashe, belleves the voynge would help answer the quesilon: Did the Irish discover America nearly a thousand years before Columbus?

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lecturer In

Premier, Mr Khrushchev, and the British Prime Minister, Mr Ashe. Mr Macmillan. the Froup mantement studies #t the nald, "there are elements of Lontion Polytechnic, Is respeel- risk in any agreement.”

ed aman historians for his re- "But," they said, "the risks of search into ancient mysteries. continuing the arms rate in 11s bork on King, Arthur bas delinitely are even grester."

[been widely acclaimed.

Commander Villers said yes- They Hall a recent disclosure

that countries might be able to ferdiny: "Asle bas on interesting cheat on a nuclear fest ban by theory. We know that the Irish welling off blasts underground gut to fecland,

don't but we nhould "not defect the gov-now for sure whether they ernments from their stated got any further. 1 min now took desire to secure an agreement in into the possibilities of the to end all unclear weapons voyjuge and the type of shio

tests."

that might be used!"

Mr Ashe sale: "It is not a question of proving that the mobilise voyage con be donc. The

Jeopardy

"Nations which can

aelentiile talent and resources to develop the H-bomb and intercontinental missiles," the letters said. "ought to be able to devise a workable Inspection system to satisfy all reasonable requirements." The croup urted the three Iradros +tu exert vigorous. constructive and constant leadership to find a way end the arms race which placing the future

to

13

jeopardy

of all and

mankind in diverting much energy and resources away from tasks of promoting human welfare.”...... U.P.I.

SNAKES ALIVE!

Calcutta, Feb. 1.

Tuc conductor of a bus arrivinĖ at the Narkeldanga terminus, got the shock of bla life to- day when he lifted the

Alan Villiers "Interesting Theory"

Allantie has been crossed many from one of two baskets terstimes in honts us small as those behind by a forgetful passen-used in the Dark Ages,

ger, and found himself staring Into a pair of beady eyes,

A moment later, joined by the bus driver, he was dashing for the door, shouting "the basket is full of cobras."

Later, a group of conductors and drivers armed with wooden poles and iron bars cautiously re-entered the bus, put the li back on the basket and took both baskets to the State Transport Headquarters.

Tomorrow the zoo will receive on unexpected present.

I was believed that the baskets contained more than 12 cobras-the transport employees did not stop to count them.- France-Presse.

"What`1 want to prove is that if you sall from Ireland In a boat of that typeIt could only go before the wind --you will finish up in New- foundland 40 days later.

Turned South "According to legend, this is just what appears to have been dene about the year

500

by

the

He

square-Balled craft something like a certain type of Cornishi fishing boat still in use. visualises converting one of these boats rather than build- ing a new one,

Legend says that St Brendan raw tog, lecbergs, and walruses. "If we see some of the things described by him it would help still further to prove that the legend was based on fact," says Mr Ashe.

claims there is other

to sopport

He evidence theory. "There are references in two Viking sagaa to Irish colonies

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Industrial

Forecast

Branded

Ridiculous

The

Washington, Feb. 1.

reasonably

National Planning Association today branded "preposterous" Soviet predictions that Russia's per capita industrial out- put will top the United States by 1970. It said a

full employment growth rate will keep the United States comfort- ably ahead for the next 15 years.

But, it cautioned, not all the Economle projections outlined Mr by the Soviet Premier Khrushchev, are "outlandish,"

"The Soviet blueprint cails nol for sober reacclior, outright disbelief or undue anxiety," said a report writ- In by Joel Daramstadter, re- search nasociate for NPA's project on the ecntiamics of cumpellive co-exise:nce,

for Various Ameri- can races had legends of white! gods based on men with long roben and beards, presumably monica."

Small Towers

In Newfoundland excavations

have unearthed mone buildings which might be the cells of Irish monks,

It-

In New England there are Mnull, windowless towers sembling carly Irish structures.

In Mexico there are reports of similar towers. One Mexican archaeologist claims to have fourid pottery

Celtic with crosses,

In Peru ruins of buildings

to

Noting that "not all statistical disclaimers are to the Soviet's disadvantage," the report suid the seven-year plan inid before ibe 21st party congress appears

contain "far less exaggera tion" than Soviet claims prior 10 -1050.

The Soviet Union, it said, could match the US total out- put only on the assumption that the United States falls to grow itself.

Obstacles

"It is evident from ambigul

in the Irish style and a stone cirele ke Stonehenge are stilles in the Soviet wording that unexplained.

And Mr Ashe, "Irish on my father's side," says: "In one Irish monastery 1 have pers ancient stone faces which resemble Red Indians,"

Day To Remember

of the forecast, In this part economies bowed to pro- poganda."

AGAIN

Arriving home recently from New York, where he was concerned with UNO and the Cyprus problem, Archbishop Makarios is greeted at the airport by Cypriot girls and men dressed in their local costumes. At right is Bishop Kyprianos of Kyrenia, in Cyprus-U.P.I. Photo.

Eleven

Drink

Hamlets A Toast

London, Feb. 1.

Eleven stage Hamlets including a woman aged 81-stood up and toasted one another

In London's Saville Theatre tonight,

They were guests of honour at

a dinner to mark the opening of exhibition in the Hamlet

a theatre in aid of the buliding appeal of the British Theatre Museum Association.

Invitations bad gone out to 20 actors and the one actress still Hving who have played the part in London's West End or at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre

at Stratford-on-Avon.

Ten, however, including Bir Laurence Olivier, Sir Donald Wolft. Sir Alco Guinness and Bir John Gielgud, were unable to attend. The

woman to play

only

The report also argued that Rusla's past performance is An "rellable indicator of sald future potential." It Russia faces some formidable Hamlet since Sarah Bernhardt, In the next few Miss Eame Beringer, recalled that she played the role at the

obstacles years.

The obstacles listed were; age of 63 at the Arts Theatre. growing scarcenerg of Labour which will relinnee on

put Increased In- productivity

"U.P.I.

Letters

"I knew I could never be Sacramento, Feb. 1. California's new Governor creuses; the fact that Russia's happy until I had played 1" Ldmund G. Brown solemnly abundant natural resources are che sald

Mr Hun Kyrie Fletcher, one and

large requine the Irish monk SL, Brendan, signed his first bill as the state's remote

time of the Hamlets, announced that He then seems to have turned chief executive yesterday.

capital investments and

and the Henry Irving Archives had eMielent utilisation; Lite Routh to

It was a moment he will re-) for Bahamas,

been

purchased unonymously agriculture still a But member. The pen point broke Soviet Caribbean, and Florida. it would not be necessary for and splattered ink all over the fairly weak link in the Soviet and presented to the museum,

They included letters and productive chain.... e." page.--UP.I.

documents preserved by Sir Henty Irving, with four prompt books"marked by him, 110 secount books of the Lyceum under his manage- ment, drafla of letters to Bernard Shaw, the swords bo used as King Arthur, Macbeth, Mephistopheles and Hamlet- fn all, about 4,000 tiems.

us to make the whole voynge.'

Ile believes that Brendon Journeyed

in

A British Crossword Puzzle

10

ACROSS

1 An old story (6).

4 Canine noise (3).

14

7 It's measured in lachen (8).

8 Sensational (5).

D

Initates a famous painter in

the Civil Service (6).

11 Engraving with achi (7),

13 Abstain from (7).

4

5

DOWN

1 Words of a song (D).

2 Boredom (5).

3 In which no Osh

(1, 3).

4 All Frenchised (6). ·

д

Ilve?

Sultable animal for a grey-

G

Too fastidious (8).

0

hound, track? (0).

15 Requisition for supplies (0),

10

Whore

the

wine

(4, 4).

18 Catch with a rope (5).

19 Dog I put on the rolt

fighter (8).

talked?

as a 12 ming nocesally for a

20 Don't be taken for them!

(0).

21 Eaten for breakfast only by

the more hasty? (d).

zember or J. shouting

party (7).

13. Earthman? (6).

14 Makes tracks for, Gretna?

(0).

10 Guys' mates (6).

17 He should be, instructive

(0).

- SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1'Scot, 4 Carding, #cbon; "Dram, 10 Undulas, 11 TU, 12 Heet,+14" Tapéres," "17 Elder, 19 A-Scot, 22 Rut-land, 20/Levy, 27 Tope, 20 juv-ct-er, 20 Eam, 30 Nemp, 31 In-vests 328ot. Down: 2 Cartel, 8 Temple, 4 Court, Annual, & Dr-one, 7 Afwie, 12 Heir, 13 Edit, 15 Rice, 10 Duty, 10 Intent, 20 Sleeps, 23/ Overdo, 25 Union, 24 Liege, 23 Daten.

Reporting For Duty

The Queen's Canadian Wren, Petty Officer Ronales Aucer, reporting for duty at Buckingham. Palace last week. She is on the staff of another Canadian at the Palace, Mr Eamond Heitler, the Prem' Oficer Central Press Photo.

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There were also letters in the collection from Browning. Lord Tennyson, Whistler, Osear Wilde, Burne Jones, Gladstone and Horatio Bottomley-Reuler.

The Lance Corporal Had The Best Legs

London, Feb. 2.

The poster proclaimed a fascinating legs" contest and Lance Corporal William Nimmo noted that it did not speelty feminino legs.

So the Lance Corporal, station-

Ancient Chinese

Town Discovered

Peking, Feb. 2.

They began excavating and found that there had been a cemetery of the Han Dynasty period on the spat.

-And People- Stop

Duke

Madras, Feb. 1. The Duke of Edinburgh was

driven 37 miles from Madras to the beautiful bench at Mahabalipuram today but could not have

a swim.

He appod a cool drink in the shade of palm trees, and with a wistful eye on the surf breakera rolling in from the blue-green Indian Occan and' Guld: "I would have loved, to Gwim-if I were not surround- ed by an army of people."

There were 14 earloads of -officials, polloe, newspaper photo- correspondents and graphers with him, sa well as local peasants and sightseers, But apart from the crowd, and his time schedule (he had to be back in Madras for lunch) there were niso the sharks whote dorsal fing could #c scen siling through the

water in the area today.

the

Flew Comet

Earlier, the Duke had visited sculpted rock temples at Mahabalipuram, where he saw hugo elephants and bas reliefs, carved in granite boulders near

the shore 700 years ago.

After having lunch with Raja Muthian Chettiar, pro-chancel- lor of Annamalai | University, the Duke left by Heron aireraft for Bangalore.

chcered by at the airporé së he siralzlt to the cockpit

He crowd

WILJ

went

of the Heron,

Yesterday, while

5

flying here

from Bombay, the Duke took over the controls of a Comet IV aircraft for the first time,- Reuter.

Wife Troubles

Archaeologists have discovered near Peking relles of an ancient Chinese town dating back to the time of the Chin and Han Imperial Dynasties which ruled 'China from 221 B.C. to 220 A.D.

Historical records showed that that there had bʊm a town in the area but previous attempts to locate it had been unsucces-

Meridian, Miss. Feb. 1. ful, the Peking newspaper, the

Clay, 32, is in In the same area the archaeo- Kwangming Daily, reported.

logists found a pair of marble hospital today in a serious con Recently archaeologists statues of ions, believed to dition with gashes from a noticed that villagers had dug belong to the period of the late whisky bottle inflicted by his

of fragments

ancient Manchu Dynasty, last Imperial former wife and a stab wound earthenware and coins at a House of China which ruled in the neck indicted earlier by brick-klin

his current spouse.-U.PJ, 'from 1044 til 1011-Reuter.

up

William

Mr Mikoyan Liked U.S.

"AMERICANS

WANT TO

KNOW

ABOUT.

RUSSIA"

Moscow, Feb. 1. First Deputy Soviet Premier Anastas 1. Mikoyan yes- terday gave the Russians a better image of the United States than they have ever received in the post-war period "from a high Russian leader.

In addition to telling them ed at Didcot with the Royal the Americans are friendly and

Army -Ordinamico Cordo, went hospitable-which they have to nearby East Hagbourne to hear from many returning enter the weekend contest.

Beyen pairs

tourists Mr Mikoyan duld the shapely legs people of the United States with skirts bold high saunter really want to understand the

od serpis the stake—and Soviet Union and are attentive

meter registered the applaud with aetenllsto precision. Tika the Lance Corporal, the inst surprise entrant, bared his ints abil crossed the stage.

Girls Fümed

1

The audience clapped freni- cally --- but loudly enough to register moto on the meter than any of the girls,

The contest committee, which od try fuming girls, went into conference hud decided the svideo of the meter had to kand.

and receptive to "explanatioris from Soviet vizitora

Ile also stressed What Hudelang ́haye ätten expresset their double about-that the citisena, of ibe' world's leading capital ountry, includiox Industrialists, Tonlin

Vig

Paace-Hopes-

·MA MIKOYAN "Ameriame are, friendly”

What a chläuśtoplie nuclear Communist leaders from 70 Americans think and feel- world war would be and no countries at the Congress and the Soviet people knew tenst Langer

fol- meseriah” the fusion | some 200,000,000 Russians

about. that war bells business.

lowing the Congress · lax the The overall optimism he ex- Press

premned on the prospects for.

and Although" bo wid nothing peace

improvemen of about the high U.S. standard Savioi-American relailona can- of living and the aura of dot have failed to make a deep property HOW⠀ DETTAÏing. Impression upon all who hoard durys My Milkayan-deviled | peyreft hie spenoty, published in emalterable gitenting in buw (today's Premamul de

WAK

The First Deputy Pramier's So today the Lance Cheporel | address, made before the 21st was back in camp taro with his Party Congress yesterday, priso an expensive electris directed not only to the more {18ich_133200); daléknies but also to Bouger.