EXPLORING CITY UNDER SEA.
THRILLS IN RUINS OF LOST, PALEOPOLIS.
VAULT OF STEEL
There is a glorious city in the sea. The sea is in the broad the narrow
streets-RoosIS.
NAPLES.
The recent solution of the mystery of the Blue Grotto of Capri by the Hartman Deep Sea Expedition has been followed by further investigations near Posilipo. in the Gulf of Naples...
There, at the extreme end of this beautiful peninsula, every inch of soil has its history. It is here that some historians, and particularly Professor R. T. Gunther, of Oxford, place the site of the ancient city of Paleopolis, which, as he claims,
disappeared below the waves when the level of the land dropped some 16 feet
lower,
"
The problem of Paleopolis has been püzzling learned men for centuries.
Submarine photographs of some of the many subaqueous ruins at this point were taken during the last few days, and the explorations are being continued:
A descent into the blue water around Capri," said Dr. Hartman, is a riost thrilling and fascinating adventure. The explorer enters, the diving cylinder, and takes his seat before the observation open ing.
While he adjusts the breathing mask. in which is combined the telephone, the heavy steel cover close's over his head. and is locked down watertight. :-. ****
"A strange feeling creeps at frat through his nerves. The strongest man in the world could not cape from this steel vault without "exterior help. something goes wrong, it may form an impenetrable metallic con at the bottom of the ocean
A sudden vibration and the chamber sinks slowly downward. For a moment there appears the brilliant mirror of the sea before the eyes of the observer in front of the window, the waves strike it. and then suddenly disappear the endless, glistening stretch of water and the sun- light, and the eye is fascinated by the enchanting marvel of an opalescent, wonderfully illuminated blue.
:
Like a gigantic, motionless crystal it expands in all directions, and one would forget that this is water were it not for the coloured, swift-darting fish.
The fascinating blue crystal turna darker, and finally becomes black. But still one can see far above the blue hori zon of the water level and the sit houettes of fish outlines against it like hirda against a blue sky. Finally there is a real night, black darkness-at least
for human eyes.,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY JBD 1920
THE HOLY DOOR CLOSED.
FINAL JUBILEE YEAR CEREMONY IN ROME.
His Holiness Pope Pius XI closed the Holy Door in the Basilica of St. Peter's in the Vatican on December geth, and
thereby brought to a close the Jubilee Year of 1925.
BOLSHEVIK CHIEFS. CONFLICT RAGING -BETWEEN ZINOVIEFF AND STALIN,
The Berlin correspondent of a London paper recently wrote:-
There can no longer be any doubt that the barrage of propaganda which the Bolsheviks have recently been putting At 10 o'clock the Pope, proceded by the up, and which arems now to have reach Pontifical court and the College of its maximum density, is designed Cardinals, entered the portico of St. primarily to conceal from the world the Peter's in the sedia gestatoria: Every importance of the political and economic participant in the procession, including events as presen: in progress in Russia the Ponti himself, carried a lighted All this evening's papers print columns candle, as a symbol that they entered th of Stalin's propaganda speech at Mos Basilica as pilgrims seeking pardon.cow, and several of the farther. ciore the threshold of the Holy Doce columns of propaganda interviews with the procession halted, and his Holiness Chicherin, and Madame Koloatai, both descended from the sedia and enters of whom are in Berlin. Tho-only two
organs which have their own correspon
fact that at the conference of Russian dents at Moscow, mention the remarkable
Communists at which Stalin spoke, the
out into open condict,
The Basilica 'on foot, Within De was again litted shoulder high, and to the music of the silver - trúmpets and cheers of the populace which these
the
the church the procession auvanced slow- ly to the Papal altar.
Here the Popo aguia alighted, sad reeling down, adored the relics which smouldering dissensions between the were exhibited one by one from the loggia is to say between the Radical trad Leningradians and the Muscovians, that of St. Veronica. As the “ Head of the Spear which pierced the Side," the sigeants and opportunists, have broken fragment of the True Cross, and St.
Although this dispute is in reality a Veronica's Handkerchief were held up in competition or the prophet's mantle their massive silver reliquaries, by one of
and is, at bottom, nothing more than a the canons of St. Peter's, a bell rang clash of personal ambitions, it is veiled out high up in the dome and the cone a difference of opinion on doctrines gregation fell upon their knews His and tactics Zinovich and bis Leningrat Holiness then imparted the Apostolic following declare-and with perfect truth Benediction, which was received by that the present economic structure of loud barst of applause from the public, Russia is not Socialism but State and was carried to Blessed Sacrament, where he remained a capitalism." That is the doctrinal divez- gence, for, of course, the majority in the Political Bureau, the junta which is cow autocrat of all Russia, refuses to admit the impeachment of heresy. The boss through whom the Political Bureau extends its iron sway to the Communists in all other lands also maintains-and doubtless he is right here, too-that the concessions made this year to the morë "dangerous"
the altar of the
few moments in adoration.
From here the Fope returned on look to the Holy Door, and after the whole procession had passed out, he himsel crossed the threshold as the last pilgrim of the Jubileo Year. While his Holiness was seated upon the throne which hat. bern erected in the atrium the hoal pre-: paritions for the closing of the Holy Dcor were made by the Sampletrin (hereditary workmen employed in ra. pairing the Basilica). Descending again, the Pope then blessed and, censed the bricks and mortar which were to be used and kneeling down took the golden trowel, and aprend the first layer of mortar. Upon this be placed three bricks stamped with the Papal arms and gildeu, and having again blessed them returned to the throne. The Cardinal Peniten tiary then complet;d the first row of bricks, and a canvas painted to represent marble and bearing a bronze:cross was carried from inside. This quarks the Soal closing of the door. Meanwhile, the choir sang the special prayers, and responses.
The ceremony concluded, his Holine intoned the opening words of the Te Deum, which was taken.. up by the The steel wall of the diving chamber choir and congregation. After the final turns ice-cold, but the air within is still Apostolic Benediction, the Pope, at the comfortable, on account of the heat request of the Cardinal Penitentiary, generated by the oxygen-purifying printed the plenary indulgences in form paratus. And slowly the cylinder is sink jubilaci to all thoso present, He forth- ing into the cold, black abyss.
Then the danger zone is renehed, and with returned in solemn procession to a great, absolute silence. The voice from the palace of the Vatican. above sounds now shrill, loud, disturbing
prosperous peasants are Moscow really agrees to that proposition, and would not have made the concessions
in question, had it not come to the cou- clusion that it was more dangerous_not to make them, so that the variance here is merely as to which horn of the dilemma has the sharper point.
EVENT WITHOUT PRECEDENT."
is characteristic of Bolshevik methods that Stalin's cackle is trumpetea all over the world, but that when the conference came to the 'osses" the Pries was turned out, or at any rate condemned to silence. What happened then is described by the frazild as an event without precedent in the history of the party. Stalin had reported + to the gathering on behalf of the Central Communist Committee, which, in reality, has no other function than to give of the Political Bureau, but Zicovief formal approval to the secret decisions. took advantage of a dormant clause in the statutes of the party to put forward a counter-report. In this, according to the correspondent of the Berliner Tage- Special measures had been taken to blatt, he expressed, on behalf of the Leningrad party organisation,their but one listens to it with an indescribavoid the overcrowding which had some dissatisfaction with the political report able feeling of relief. It connects with what confused the opening of the Door submitted by Stalin." He was support the world, with humans, with mother a year ago, and the solemnity of thred by Kameneff, and both of them raised earth. Blessed he the inventor of the ceremony was in no way marred by un- telephone!
dns eagerness on the part of the crowd the same charge which was made against *Suddenly another marvel. Through ses everything there ivas to be Trotsky a year ago, namely, that too the black night are shooting coloured sex. Indeed, to one who has followed points of light, like stars of a great variety the great religious function which of colours, size and shape. Luminous have distinguished the Holy Year, the fish. Some have phosphorescent spots. ceremony which marked its close was forming lines along their bodies, while perhaps the most impressiva The gleam- some seem to carry a waving electric bluh ing whiteness of the mantles and mitres bélore them. Others keep on changing of the cardinals and bishops and the colour, and others turn their light on and glittering candour of the Pope's own off at will, appear and disappear in the restments, as they passed up the vast nave of St. Peter's, of points of gold caught here and there by a shaft of falling sunlight, created an impression of regality and splendoar seldom gran ted by the conditions of modern life.
darkness like magic
Swarms of phosphorescent small crea tures crowd together, producing the im pression of a large, faintly illuminated area the nebule" of this submarine system of stars.
**As soon as the electric submarine illuminators are turned on many of the. fish come quite close, and seem so en- chanted that they become the easy prey of others, floating right into large, open mouths.
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A
POISON WHISKY IN U.S.
NEW YORK'S EVIL CONCOCTIONS.
PRINCE RENOUNCES A THRONE.
SON OF KING" AND "QUEEN OF RUMANIA.
A.
Prince Charles, the heir to the throne. of Rumania, has ronounced all his royal rights, including membership of the King's family.
The King, an official coqumuniqué” says, has accepted his son's decision and pro- poses to proclaim his grandson (Prince Charles's' 4-years-old son). Crown Prince..
The communiqué stated;
H.R. Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, having informed his Majesty in writing of his irrevocable renunciation of the succession to the throne sad of alt the prerogatives appertaining to that rank, including that of membership of the Royal Family, his Majesty the King felt compelled to accept this renunciation and
Pelesch to summon a council at the castle of
In communicating his high decision, bis Majesty appealed to all the men of exin- ence in the country who were present to
clamation of his grandson, Prince Michael, help him in its execution and in the pro- ins heir to the throne..
WEDDING ANNULLED, *
THE QUEEN OF HÚSANTA'S EXPLANATION Prince Charles, who is and a grand son of the late Duke of Ediábarga, was the centre of a romance in 10.9 when he married at Odessa Mlle. Zizi Lambrino, daughter of a Rumanian General
Twice the Prince was reported as re- nouncing his rights to the Throne, ant he repeatedly declared that he would never give up his brile..
The Queen of Rumania has given the following account of what was really an elopement:
The girl is of good family, but not educated to such a rôle ns. the Crown. Prince's wife is expected to fill.
Members of the Royal Family are not allowed to marry Rumanians, as hrough such mixed marriages, the family might become involved in party. intrigues.
My son promised me to forgo his per sonal wishes for the good of the country. But the marriage took place at Odessa arranged by the Germans.
It has been annulled as illegal, both under the laws of Rumania and of Old Russia, as no banns were published,
the Prince went for a trip-round the After the marriage had been annulled
work At the end of 1920 his betrothal to Princess Helen, the daughter of the late ex-King Constantine, was announced. The marriage took place in Athens in 1925
Latterly the Prince has become keenly interested in firing, and last year he made several flights in England. nouncement was made in Athens:
In 1923 the following semi-official ao-
It is denied in Court aircles that there is any truth in the rumour of impend- ing divorce proceedings between Prince Charles and the Princess Helen
Last summer Princess Helen- visited London for treatment for eye trouble. Prince Charles attended the funeral of Queen Alexandra in November.
little confidence is placed in the pos SLUMP IN SEWING BY WOMEN. sibility of creating a Socialistic State
in Russia without the means of an inter- national revolation.” This phrase does not orr on the side of lucidity, but then thero is a censorship in Bussia.
CHANGE OF HABITS AND
FASHIONS...
Women no longer make and mend their clothes, according to Mr. W. H. Coats, of J. P. Conte, and this shirking of chairman of the great cotton thread firm sewing responsibilities has considerably perturbed him.
The Moscow correspondent of the Zinoviel's attack on the official policy Forsische Zeitung, who also reports adds that a quarrel is proceeding in the Press by means of open letters. It ap have sought to prove from extracts from the arm in 1994, but Mr. Coats, address pears that in one of these the Moscovians
A net profit of £454,280 was made by Zinovich's speeches that he has being a general meeting of the hareholders guilty of the hideous heresy of "at
at Glasgow-when a dividend on the Or- tempting to revise the Leninian prin dinary shares of 17 per cent. was un- ciples" This is a mortifying charge, nimously approved-said that sales had because Zinovieff's speeches are largely
been largely affected by this curtail made up of extracts from Lenin's, and ment of the practice of bone swing." Do leading Bolshevik has been more con sistent than he in referring all questions Often fish will strike so powerfully Rum Row" is usually depicted as the to the standard of the prophet's utter against the steel cylinder that they drop chief cause of the failure of the enforce. ances. Indeed, it is doubtless his con- an if dead into the deep as a moth drops meat of proibition in the United States,stant appeal to the authority of the when striking a burning lamp..
"The ascent produces new sensations but, according to Mr. Buckner, Public Grand Panjandrum which has called Prosecutor of New York, foreign smug forth from the Moscow group the re na the sunlight gradually appears again, glers are responsible for only a fraction minder after Lenin's death individual and the explorer ascends suddenly into a of the liquor supplies with which the personalitics have no right to claim to blinding, glistening brilliancy-into the country is inundated. More than 90 per be the sole interpreters of his teachings, full daylight, into the sun.
cent of these are, ko says, concocted at since this is the task of the party in its Busy hands hasten to release and open home.
entirety and collectivity." the steel cover, to lift it away, and qúes- tioning eyes greet the man who came back-Daily Chronicle..
Mr. Buckner draws an
an appalling pic-
A more serious charge against Zinovic ture of the extent to which the nation from the point of view of practical is being poisoned. The Government, in polities is that he has deposed the order to full the letter and the spirit adherents of the Moscow direction from of the prohibition laws, insists on all high offices, concealed the fact of their GERMAN REPARATIONS.
alcohol for manufacturing purposes being. "denatured"; but bootleggers last position at the Leningrad confereng, In conformity with "Article 12 of the year secured forty million gallons of this and closed the Press of his satrapy to Finance Ministers Agreement of January oficially poisoned alcohol, which they con-
their protests. There can be little doubt 14th, 1025, the Reparation Commissionverted into bootleg" whisky, gin, and over the dispute may end, it will be that Stalin will carry the day; but, how- at its meeting of December 18th, 1925, other concoctions. fixed the value of the receipts of every They do their best to reriore the poi- another important phase in the disin nature obtained by the French, Belgian, son, but never completely zucceed, with tegration of the Bolshevik junta which and Italian Governments from Germany the result that more than 90 per cent. of eat in an soon as Lenin's autocratic between January 11th, 1623, and Septem- the illicit beverages drunk by American authority ceased to be effective. ber 1st, 1924, at 894,230,266.41 gold marks citizens contain more or less deadly poi- [£44,711,628), after deduction of the costs son. This year in New York more than enumerated in the Article.
500 people have died from the effects of these beverages, and the fatalities are steadily increasing,
Changes in women's fashions, he stated, have also affected trade, but not to the same degree as modern. woman's refusal. to spend an hour or so at home each week, contentedly sewing,
A woman writes:-
There has never been "a time, aince women forsook the spinning wheel and utilised their needles instead, when they have used so little cotton or silk, or, indeed, executed such a small amount of needlework.
Modern fashions are responsible for the change. Years ago women öt jeisure delighted to make all their own lingeria and blouses. Now, unless girls are ex ceptionally good needlewomen, they find it cheaper to buy these articles.
Then, again, women's underwear has changed in kind. Yoluminous petticoats, with masses of frills that took them 30 many hours and so much material to make, bave vanished. Skimpy silk dnes do not require half so many stitches.
Dresses have suffered similarly. Short and narrow one-piece frocks do not need the yards of neat bemming that women of other decades: put into their work. The amount of cotton used in stitching NO WONDER ADAM FELL. one, modern is probably only quarter It may be added that the amounts re-
of that needed for the trimming of an. ceived in cash and in kind by the Allies from Germany since 1920 are as follows:
Sir John Lavery, the famous painter, old fashioned dress. There are how ng Mr. Buckner declares that the foremost tells a story about an old Scottish tails or trains, frills, or furbelows that 1020-92, 6,373,520,916 gold marks; Ruhr task of the law is to put a stop to the gardener in the employ of a friend of once made inroads into the reels in the Occupation (January 11th, 1923 to August activities of men who in lofts, offices, 31st, 1924), 894,230,868 first annuity cellars, and garages in New York are his, who went one day to an exhibition housewifery baskets, Dawes Flan, 1,000,000,000; first three engaged in the manufacture of spurious of pictures in London. Among them Eves infants clothes have changed. months of second annuity, 250,862,035 Scotch and rye whisky, gin, and brandy was one labelled The Fall The What self-respecting Baby of today is To this mast he added 2,653,900.000 gold from alcohol elaborately poisoned by the gardener surveyed this so intently that seen wearing yards of white garments marke, the value of items ceded to Ger Government and released from the ware his employer was moved to ask him his that are repeated several times on his
houses by fraudulent permits. manygamm
The total receipts of the Reparat prohibition cannot be enforced, be tion Commission to November 30th says, it is in the interests of the national last are therefore:-10,072,319,140 marks health that i should be speedily repealed,
or modified [£503,616,967.J
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