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EGYPT'S SACRED LAKES.

IMPORTANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES AT MADAMUD, EGYPT.

LIGHT ON UNKNOWN EPOCHS OF HISTORY."

on the opposite bank.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 1st, 1927.

THE RECORD BIGAMIST.

47. WIVES.

POSED AS BRITISH PEER IN U.S.

WOMEN ROBBED OF MONEY

AND JEWELS,

New York, July 6th What bo, warder! Bring in the British nobleman." there was ushered into police head- In obedience to this command

quarters at Now York the record

ENGLAND AND THE ARGENTINE.

INDUSTRIAL PEACE IN ENGLAND.

MISHAP TO AIRMAN IN

INDIA.

WHERE ENGLISH ENTER- PRISE IS. WELCOME.

· AUDACITY- IN TRADE.

MR. SNOWDEN'S PLEA FOR CO-OPERATION:

WAGES BOARDS AND INDUS. TRIAL COURTS.

CAPT.

VETCH CRASHES DURING EXHIBITION,

PANAMA PLANS.

WANTS A LARGE HARBOUR.

TO INVITE SHIPPING COMPETITION WITH PORT OF BALBOA

The President of the Republic of Panoma and his Cabinet are da

In order to give a crowd of posal to erect an enormous

liberating over the terms of a pro- Tibetans and Assamese who had wall across the bay of Panama that never previously seen an aeroplane

503-

CALCUTTA, July 3rd. - Capt. Yetch, the first airman to land in the Eastern Himalayas, Senor Don Jorge Mitre, director The John Clifford Lecture," met with an unfortunate accident of La Nacion, who has done much established by the Brotherhood to-day, to assist the development of the Movement in memory of the late friendly relations between Great Dr. Clifford who, during the war, Britain and the Argentine, was the was national president, and for a good view of his Meth machine would reclaim 350 acres of waste guest of honour at a banquet given many years was closely identified in flight, Capt. Vetch flew as nearland and enable ships to come Chamber of Commerce at the May national and industrial aspects. by the British and Latin American with the. Movement both into the ground as possible. When direct to Panama City instead of

Reginald Lewis, president of the den, M.P., at the National Brother- Fair Hotel, at which Mr. L.

was delivered by Mr. Philip Snow Chamber, presided

toast of "Our Guest," raferred to The Chairman, proposing the

the magnificent work which Senor Mitre had done to promote the closer relations of amity and com- MOT CO between Argentina sad Britain. He was reminded that General Bartolome Mitre,

hood Conference at Hastings.

stopping as at present in Balbus, within the canal tone.

An American concern from St. Louis is said to have made the

.. CAIRO, June 19th. The sensational part of this Repent excavations at the Temple year's excavations is the discovery of Madamud has disclosed sacred of an extensive series of portions lakes and archaeological treasure of doors, uprights, decorated in- having to do with the XIIth tels, columns with scenes carved on Dynasty. The temple is on the east them and walks with bas-reliefs all bank of the Nile a little more than belonging to the famous and 300 miles south of Cairo. It is enigmatical XIIIth Dynasty, of only a short distance from Thebes which there exists little chonolo

above the ground the machine be gical knowledge and the, mogu-

circling the race course a few fees The excavation work has been ments of which are yet scarcely bigamist of his generation, Robert

came entangled in telegraph wires. going on for several years. This known.

Seven of the Kings of this dy, in which name he has been year's operations were directed to

The plane fell nosa downwards. Whitman, otherwise known as Lord

and was completely wrecked, but tracing the sacred inclosure sur-nasty have, in fact, left at Mads married to forty-seven trusting

trial Peace," Mr. Snowden said was injured.

Speaking on the Way to Indus Capt Vetch escaped with minor proposition to the Panama govern- rounding the temple and its an- mud evidence of their architectural women in dozens of different cities

injuries. One woman spectator nexes. It was while this was in work, and there is reason to believe and towns in the United States and

that there was now a great oppor

ment and to have guaranteed to progress that the sacred lakes were that nowhere in Egypt, except per-

Canada.

tunity for the 'union of all sym. Capt. Broad, who won the King's harbour, erect port works, docks The same machine was flown by construct the seawall, deepen the discopered. A thick wall of brick haps at Karnak, does, there

Against him

are charges of

pathetic people working together also by the Master of Sempill in a

Prize in England last year, and and other improvements, and drain was unearthed and cleared for a present exist such a list. The most more than £80,000, leaving them at swindling his loving dupes out of

for A of fifty meters. This led important is a new unknown King in doubt as to their legal status.

peaceful and permanent fight from Land's End to John of the shallow water from the minus their money and jewels and

amelioration of the condition of O'Groats-Straits Times. The storehouses of the temple of this dynasty, where complete

marshy land surrounding the city, the the working class Unless this was later to four great freestone protocol flanked on either side by from gao! at Philadelphia, where verated as the "Grand Old Mar the real significance of labour an

Whitmong was released yesterday grandfather of their guest,

thus enabling it to be used for was taken in hand courageously, unless alls that indicated the "limits of that of Ongaf, the supposed foun- he has served a year for taking for Argentina Famous as soldier, rest was understood, there was a

habitation and business purposes. The project will cost in the neigh- the sacred lake. They were buried der of the Xilith Dynasty, will $4,000 from one of his wires in hard earth mixed with frag start a new controversy regarding

in that city.

statesman, and writer, General real danger that blind ignorance

bourhood of $7,000,000 and will ments of pottery, Successively this obscure period of Egyptian

require three years Mitre stood out in South Ameri- and class hatred, inflamed on the

The seawall alone is estimated to to complete. there appeared the remains of two history.

can history na one of the greatest Jarge staircases.

cost about 81,500,000, part of the globe had ever known. Patriots and geniuses which that

(Chears) General Mitre establish ed the newspaper which his grand- son sa brilhantly controlled to-day.. The basis of the industrial system During the World War it was con- before there could be complete would have to be radically changed spicuous among all South Ameri- harmony among all who were en- save its readers what was probably tion of wealth. A system could not can journals for two thinga Itgaged in the management, dires tion, and production and distribu that any journal bad ever present necessary partners in production the inest cabled service of news be defended which put one of the

the other in a state of servility. The in a position of dictatorship-and essence of the industrial problem

Indow of Water Stops Excavation.

As the work progressed the in- filtration prevented clearing down to the flagstones at the bottom of the lake. The water that gushed out from all aides changed the dr into liquid mad and further abandoned until next

work was

spring when efforts will be made to

drain the temple by means of powerful pumps. "

because of his promise to make His sentence there was shortened restitution, but when he reached Hitherto there had only existed detectives took him into custody the prison exit two New York three or four fragments of XIIIth on a charge of grand larceny from Dynasty bas-beliefs on the mural Miss Rose Bergin, from whose surfaces of chapels

sight he vanished after taking her The archaeological examination jewels and furs, valued at £24,000,

to have them refurnished." of these revenia an from that of the XIIth DynastyThis bogus British nobleman að--

Bome of Els Dupes. and very characteristic in its perpeared to-day at the New York sonal features. On the flagstones of police headquarters dressed like a prosperous stock broker. He was

art different

In less than forty-eight hours

XIIth Dynasty, the same sobriety masked detectives from different 埝 and elegance in the general composities. Most of them identified

sition of the scenes; the same wide

white limestone there is, as in the paraded before a long line of

ed in a time of world crisis; it warmly espoused the cause of

after operations ceased the waters

had inundated the lake and the

him

cne aide by fear of dispossession, would bring social convulsion with might lead to a conflict, which

out providing any substantial

bencft.

Britain and her Allies, and at awas to realize that business was a

FRENCH PRIEST'S

GALLANTRY; -

SAVES NUNS AND CHILDREN

FROM CHINESE. MOB.

Shanghai Volunteer Corps Routine The following extract is from the Order:-

City of Panama May Bacoma å Tree Port.

If approved by the government Gallantry: The following is the the City of Panama will be con- translation of an extract from an order of the day by the Admiral verted into a free port, where ships Forces in the Far East in which thus eliminating the competition Commanding the French Naval can discharge cargoes duty-free, the Bev. Father Jacquinot, S.J.. Guerre T.O.E. with silver star and goods entered there escape the Chaplain to the Shanghai Volunteer of Balboa, which is subject to Corps, was awarded the Croix de L'aited States customs regulations, the Volunteers of the International duty imposed by the Paname, gov courage in repeatedly attempting "Monsieur Jacquinot, Chaplain to Settlement, displayed the greatest ernment.

violent street battle, on March sind, Panama republic has been the fact and finally succeeding, during a

One of the grievances of the

spacing of the figures; the same pears, want him, and a Buffalo doing its best to turn the hearts capital and labour ware essential abling the ups and children of the Taft convention, signed in 1904 and The St. Louis authorities, it ap time when enemy propaganda was collective enterprise; that both 17, in reaching and thereby en- that since the expiration of the ancient walls of the great temple beauty in the hieroglyphic inscrip- brewer's widow hopes to get back of the Argentine people from aym factors; that workers should be Institute of the Holy Family to be valid for twenty years, many goods of Montou were, after seventeen tions. But the technique of the from him£7,000 A Toronto

capitalists and capitalists workers; evacuated from a Chinese street in centuries of interruption, again symbols, and especially of the woman has similar hopes regard reflected in the liquid mirror.

gures of the Kings and the gods, ing her £10,0x, and Mrs. Martin. The great sacred well at the east differs entirely, and, after several of Washington, who believed for of the lake with its accesses, its weeks of excavation, it has become three days she was Whitman's wife, exterior and its great interior casy at sight to place a new find wants £12,000 worth of jewels staircases ལམ་ also investigated. either in the XIIth Dynasty or the which he say he annexed. Here also the water stopped the XIIIth Dynasty. work, but not before the area be tween the inke and the well had given up numerous interesting ob jects, among them a piece of red granite lintel inscribed with a bas relief of Amonophis II

No Sacred Lake Has Been Explored.

Without waiting for next year's results it is possible to claim that the excavations at Madamud far. nish for the history of Egypt new evidence in the great discussion be tween the partisans of the short and those of the long chronology.

The evidence furnished by Mada- Uatit Inst year Egypt was known mud and by the sever Kings of the to possess only five of these sacred XIIIth Dynasty traced three will lakes-at the Great Temple of Am- go a long way to assist, If not. in mou at Karnak, the Temple of the solution of this problem, at any Munt, the Temple of Medinet rate in the revision of the theories Habu, and at Abydos and Dendera, hitherto held. And there are add Nous of these has ever been ex-ed, to Ugab, Amenemhati, Sebek plored. Tradition has it that in Hotep, and Sebek En Sauf-whose moments of national peril the pre-activities have been already found eious objects of the temple were at Madamud-monuments connect- often cast into the lake to preserve ing up more closely these still scat them from vandals. It is thought tered documents there is no doubl probable that some of these may that Madaanud will constitute the yet be found at the bottom of these most important link in the whole lakes.

question

OARSWOMEN MAKE HISTORY.

RACE OVER FAMOUS VARSITY COURSE.

For the first time in rowing his tory two women's eights raced over the full university course of four and a half miles from Putney to Mortlake last month.

The race was the result of a chal- lenge issued by the Ace Rowing Club, of Barnes, and accepted by the Weybridge Ladies Amateur Rowing Club.

FIRST ALBERT HALL OPERA.

CHALIAPIN TO SING IN..

OCTOBER.

The Sunday Express understands that Feodor Chaliapin, the great Russian base and opera actor, will in all probability sing in an opera to be produced at the Albert Hall in. October.

This will be the first occasion on which an opera has been perform- ed at the Albert Hall.

SHOOTING A TAME ELEPHANT.

INCIDENT ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO KUALA KANGSAR.

pathy with that cause La Nacion kept their minds informed as to and that there should be equality which they were besieged by a that enter the canal rane duty-free the truth and their hearts inclined in status, if not in function, among fanation! moh. He in the right direction (Cheers.)

all who were necessarily engaged wounded."

was slightly are smuggled thence to Panama * Mutual Interests.

in the common enterprise of carry- Senor Don Jorge Mitre, responding on an industry.

without paying "tarif. The terms He advocated the setting up of Whitman was quite self-possessed g, said the co-operation between

of the Taft convention provided and he made address to the assembled detectives.

Boards England and the Argentine had Wages. an extraordinary

and Industrial

that the branches-of-the-United He said:

met with remarkable success, main Courts, but their setting up, he

States Commissary in the canal ly because it had been mutually said, would be of little use unless

zone would import only the "actual beneficial. When the first railways the procedure on which they were gentine, the Government, headed generally applied. Isuch tribunals Ware being confinated in the Ar- to work was laid down and was

necessities of life for the benefit of by General Mitre, granted to the could be set up, the right to strike,

their, employes, and that goods Central Railway large tracta of or the right to lock out would be land adjoining the line, as an in- as indefensible as the right of the

would not be imported, by these. agencies either for private sale or refused to accept the decision of The wisdom of that step an impartial Court of Arbitration was evidenced by the vast network of railroads, mostly constructed by British capital, which now Jose Evaristo Uriburu, is of the with British materials and owned Argentine "Ambassador-elect, Dr. traversed the country.

hear.) He is a man, of wide cul new school of diplomacy. (Hear, ture, a distinguished scholar who try for his successes in the field of ed early for his political life, for historical research; and he qualifi-

I have never robbed a woman in my life. I merely accepted What the women gere ue, I may have been weak in allowing them to give me all they wanted to. But on my word as a gentleman ducement to the colonist, with cor- nation to go to war because it had jungle of the, Perak State elephant Profit. That convention lapsed in

I was never dishonest.

I have travelled all over the world, among high and low. In Asiatic mudholes, ea in cultured Boston they are all the same. There is one born every minute, Barnum said it.

Easy Come, Basy Go.

I have always played against

itself. responding benefit to the company

In continuation of that policy, the next generation saw the birth of the Mitre law, which, by place

Owing to the absence in the

number of privately-owned 1994 and the 'Panama govemment animals had to be hired for the was faced with the question of get- recent visit of the High Commisting another convention.or of har.. Malay Mail. sioner to Kuala Kangsar, saya. the ing to face the competition of these commissary branches,

The elephants left Grik on the American Kangsar and stopped one of the long trek of 67 miles to Kuala which imported. goods -duty-Free Juck and I have often won—even

nights in a kampong, the owner of from the United States and sold at Monte Carlo. Money has come upon a firm basis the joint

objected to the presence of is known even out of his own coun- the one of the compounds in which them at a profit and at a lower cost vasily to me, and I have parted of the nation which they served,

he fired a couple of rounds of shot Panama proper. It is complained interests of the railways and those

animal on his property. Finally,

an than those imported direct into with it easily. And when I have gone broke I have found that my undoubtedly stimulated the de he was born the son of a statesman at the elephant, wounding it in the that the government commissary Friends were broke also.

velopment of their vast territories who was President of the Argen- shoulder. But I no thief. I have been consistently carried out by

The policy which it erhbodied had tine Republic, and he was brought was unable to extract the bullets

A veterinary surgeon branches in, the canal zone are lot taken money from those who trusted me in the hope of making the railways and the Argentine public career.

up in an atmosphere most propi of the present age, and tious to the development of a fired the shot, a well-known Malay who do & thriving business.

As a sequel to this the man who

out to private persons on contract, more money for our mutual benefit. 1 wit yet repay all my

Government had just completed &

in the district, has been charged obligations.

'grent scheme for colonisation,

with committing mischief. It was whereby fresh grants of potential

at first intended to charge him un- ly rich areas were allotted to the

Enactment bus as the animal in der the Wild Animals and Birds set plan which held every promise

whether this charge could stand. companies for development on of success.

question was tame it was doubtful

The only difference between me and & stockbroker is that the broker gets a licence and hangs out a sign. I do the same busi- ness but dispense with the licence and the sign. That's all, thank

you.

"Take him away," said the Lord B was in durance vile. officer in charge And once more

FLOWERS FROM ROOF.

the men

(Hear, hear.) They ere now on the eve of a Presiden- tial election, and though it was early to forecast the result, be thought he might safely say that it would not in any way hamper the growth of even more friendly relations between Great Britain And the Argentine. (Cheers.)

FRENCH ARMY REFORM.

HOME FORCE OF 1,200,000.

PARIS.

Rafties to Ratlly Canal Treaty. The new canal treaty that waa States and Panama contained some drawn up between the United Provisions that would obviate this competition, but at the price of cez- tain concessions to this country. that were held to attack the sovereign rights of Panama as an independent republic. Consequent ly, the new canal treaty was not ratified by the Panama Congress, and negotiations are now proceed. ing to adjust the difficulties.

Encouraging British Investor. Government has consistently endea- "For its part, the Argentine

investor by the enactment of laws Youred to encourage the British designed to secure a safe, return upon his capital, in exchange for his co-operation in the development of the country. There is every in- dication of a great increase in our mutual trade in the near future, but let me take this opportunity of laying before you the necessity. Chaliapin, it is understood, will

of showing in fature commercial sing excerpts from opera, and the

No Political Interference.

One of the chief sources of re enterprises that spirit of initiative; The challenge," said a girl promoters,

In defining the duties of the venue to the Panama government in the belief that

that audacity, if I may so term it, French army, M. Painlevé explain- is its tariff on imported com- "The mutual, co-operation be which was characteristic of earlier ed in concise form the principal modities, and it is not known what enthusiast to a Sunday Express Chaliapin is as great an actor as representative, *

"was to a certain 199 is a singer, have arranged for

SHOW BLOOMS FROM A

tween our two countries," he con Englishmen in all parts and coun- features of the bill for the reor the result will be of establishing extent in defiance of the recent him to take part in an operatic

tinued, "depends, esturally, upon tries of the world. Those English ganisation, of the army that is now MODEST GARDEN. Ozford regulation against women work which will be produced for

the good faith and goodwill of men who may show the same spirit under discussion. For Colonial de project for improving the harbour a free port at Panama City if the crews rowing against one another the first time at the Albert Hall

our respective Governments. It is of enterprise, the same audacious fence, he said, there would be goes through Panama receives no This bit of devilment, however, The name of the opera is being and sub-tropical, highly scented though hundreds

Gorgeous orchids from the East. Very satisfying to think that, al character, which distinguished mobile force of owo Senegalese, two benefit from the growing preceeds if the promoters of the race may kept secret for the present, but the

of millions be trusted, will become in the end work, tha promoters believe, will Ahrubs mingled with, the beautiful.sterling have been invested by their ancestors, can be sure. of re- North African, and ofte White divi- of the canal tolls; her sole income

be within the limits prescribed for English rose and the modest pansy the British Government has never something

capitalists in Argentina,

ceiving a warm welcome, from ELS. sion, each of four regimenta. The from the canal is the stipulated ready being talked of as music in the Albert Hall char-to the Royal articulural sought to take advantage of the he, the foundation of the relations at least forty divisions on a war race is already being talked of 63 ter: and the production, therefore, Society's amateur flower show it with the internal affairs of the trade is a delicate organism, and at a low days 30,00

form a bower of glorious coloure

(Cheers.)

home army, whose principal duty sum of $250,000 annually, payable Trade has been, and must always was to oppose invasion, must have in perpetuity, under the terms of an annual event.

Just after 4.15 the umpire gave will be independent of the passage the

fact by anterfering in any way between our two countries.

the original canal treaty, the signal, and the two crews start of the Albert Hall Bill through Westminster

But footing expable of going into action Royal Horticultural Hall, country. The close relations be it cannot flourish without careful division would be

To Ship Bananas to Pacific Coast. ed-off in choppy weather from Put Parliament

They were going

feature was the number of tween us have been punctuated by attention, cultivation, and spirit cluding all arms and services Fruit Company to start a new line The recent decision of the United ney Bridge

Chalispin was born in Kaza, lovely blooms grown in little gar such events as President Alveare of enterprise; these are some of about thirty-two to the minute, and on the Volga.

Mobilisation He made his first appearance at dens in and around London by the visit to London and the reciprocal the qualities possessed in high would supply further forces, and that will run between Panama, and Weybridge, amid cheers from the

it proceeded of freight and passenger steamers following launch and the crowd at the Imperial Opera House, 82. small householder. One small stall Visit of the Prince of Wales to the boat-house, rapidly drew ahead Petersburg. (now Leningrad), in consisted entirely of flowers grown Argentina, which helped enormous and Ln. Any boats, the British M. Painlevé declared that, pro- the Pacific Coast ports ins and

Why to increase cach nation's know. Commerce from seedlinga on a roof top with

Chamber of vided the essential conditions were United States-is-based largely a north-castorn aspect, in London. Jedge and esteem of each other.

as guide, fufilled, this army could be furnish upon the excellence of the Paname The Banksian, gold medal was (Cheers). The seal on our friend who wish to trade with South vice. The active army would con- that Panama exports nearly two philosopher, and friend to those ed by a system of one year's ser- bansas. When it is remembered By Chiswick Eyot, Weybridge laid many an Oxford and Cam- awarded to Lieut. Col. L. C. R. ship has just been set by the eleva America.

tion of our respective represents great task exceedingly well.

It has performed its list of twenty divisions, giving a million bunches a year, and that close to the back, while Ace drew lapsing forward on their oars, the which filled one corner of the ball.

By total of 600,000 men, cach division this amount formerly came to the up to within less than two lengths crew, relapsed from the strain of

to the rank of Ambassador-an British and

it, therefore, Some vivid white lilies, with

the being drawn from them.

military region Atlantic Coast of this country via Both crew were now racing, sat up and looked around long, this blooms, grown by Lady event that has been welcomed in ber of Commerce raskes an invalu sions corresponding to had to be paid, it will be under- at twenty-six At Barnes them cheerfully.

Crosfeld, won for her a first prize, both countries with deep gratifica able contribution towards the The distribution of forces would stood why it is doomed desirable Bridge, however, Weybridge had

asserted their letid, and passed 57aees, as against the record Boat was won by Mr. Lionel de Roths count ourselves fortunate in our relations between Great Britain but such as to give more strength the Pacific Coast, thus eliminating The time for the race was 20mins, while the Banksian silver medal tion (Cheers.) I think we may maintenance and increase of close not be equal all over the country, to import these edibles by way of the post as the final pistol rang out Race time of 18mins 41secs, but child for his cuttings from hardy Malcolm Robertson is a tried and and the Argentine. In expressing towards the east. The four Rhine canal tolis, saving time and reduc.. three and a half lengths in front as one of the coaches explained, shrubs.

diplomatic representatives Bir of their opponents

the crews were rowing in clinker

my deep sense of gratification for innd divisions would be formed by ing the cost to the consumer, An Then came the surprise. Men eights and had the worst of wea fowers and foliage plants was won The Banksian silver medal for

trusted friend of my country the honour that has been done to taking one battalion from each American concern is shortly going. watobers in the launch had expect ther against them. If the Ace had by Mr. A.-P. Brandt, while the gtanding

who has opened a new era in our me by your presence here, I ask division Painlevé is convinced to start a great banana plantation bed to see both crews collapse after shown a little better form

commeralal, inter- the strain of the race which bad bridge might have made a better to Mr. CW Haudes of Chorley dynamle energy. Like him the British and Latin-American Cham-make possible a period of one year's 5,000,000 bunch annually, solely ||course by this entorprise.and you to accept my. warmest. thanks, that in three and a half year 106,000 on the Pacific Coast of them Ramazan. Wes first prize for roses was awarded-

and to drink the toast of The professional soldiers, necessary-to-republic, which will produce (Consimed on next Column;)

Wood, Hertfordshire.

(Continued on next column). Iber of Commerce, (Checra) service, will be recruited.

for exportation

till they were leading opposite 1894 Harrods by about four lengthi

acts

30,000

Each auch

were shipping water, and steered bridge crew low, but far from col-Messel for his Bowering, abruba, tives in London and Buenos Aires continuing, in-American Cham of France and baving reserve divi- the Panama canal, where a toll

k-record?