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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1931.

THE MYSTERY OF "THE DELUGE:"-

WHAT RECENT DISCOVERIES AT UR OF THE

CHALDEES SUGGEST.

TRAFFIC CASES IN COURT.

NEGLIGENT LORNY DRIVER FINED.

A fine of $30 was imposed by: Mr,

WORLD WIDE OR LOCAL CATASTROPHE?". Schofield yesterday on a Chinese

[By TSE TSAN · TALĮ.

Most interesting to Scientists and Bibliologists are the recent excavations and the wonderful discoveries of gold and silver jewellery, ornaments and precious stones, gold heads of liess and bulls, etc., pottery, etc., made by Mr. C. Leonard Woolley,, Director of the British Museum Expedition, in the prehistoric royal tombs of Ur in Mesopotamia, proving the truth and the his- torical necuracy of the record of the Flood,

The Excavator of Dr.

I have just read through Mr. Woolley's book r of the Chal- dues," kindly presented to me by my friend Lieutenant Colonel F. H. Eisch, Chief Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in Jerusalem, Palestine, and have cème across.imp staṛt and signifi- 'cant statements and fuels, all prov. in the truth of a Universal Flood caused by a Tidal Wave created ly the upheaval of Central Asia and the subsidence of a large miss of continental and in the Pacific Ocean, and which adruly drown- ed and destroyed all contemporary Prehistoric races and civilisations

the different estinents of the World, as fully explained in my looks and thirty six supprementary: Emphlets and spcial sticles.

Upheaval in Central Asia. Mr. Woolley believes that the -Flood was local and not universal; and I presume this must due to the fact that he has not been able to devote much of his time and at tention to the study of the geologi- en facts, which prove (1) the up- henval of Central Asia, (2) the subsidence of land in the Pacific Ocean, and (3) the Diluvial origin, of the extensive "Loess' deposits of the World.'.

In dealing with the clay and sand, &c. deposits, which have. smothered and entombed, the Pre- historic Chaldean Sumerian) cities of the Delta-land of Mesopotamia, embracing an area of about 40,000 square miles, Mr. Wooley writes:-

Pago 13"Westwards of the "Jino of railway which joins Basra to the capital of Iraq is desert blank and unredeemed. Out of this waste rise the mounds, which won Ur. To the north and west and south of Ziggurat hill (the highest mound), as far as the eye can see, etretches a waste of unprofitable sand.

It seems incredible that such have a wilderness thould ever been habitable for man, and yet i the weathered hillocks at one's fect cover the temples and houses of a very great city,"

Th area of this waste is over ́10,000 square milea. Such physical conditions are conclusive proof that the vast deposits of mud and sand are water-land (Diluvian), and that the destruction of tho city was sudden and overwhelming.

Page 17 "; al Ubaid, about four miles from Ur, we have dug out part of a primitive settle- ment.

In the rains wo found quanti ties of the fine painted hand-made pottery such as occurs in the lowest leve's touched at Ur. There was nothing to show to what race those first inhabitants of Mesopotamin belonged."

Page 10. Then at a date which we cannot fix, people of a new raco made their way into the Valley, coming whence we do not know, and settled down side by side with the old,inhabitants. These were the Sumerians." Sumerians From Chinese Turkestan.

I find that these Sumerians are. rived in Mesopotamia by way of Persia, coming originally from, the Incality between, the Caspian Sex and, Chinese Turkestan, where I believe great prehistoric, cities are entombed in the 800,000 square. miles of, Diluvian 'Loess” deposits of the area now named Russian. Turkestan. And aà 1.said in 1914, the uphoaved plateau of Chineso Turkestan is the..._Cradis_of_the Hunan Race.

driver who pleaded guilty to neg ligent driving in Lower Albert Road. The defendant was driving

a larry at the time and took the Dairy Farm corner at a very great speed. Inspector Alexander said that in his opinion had there been anyone on the road at the time the defendant would in all probability have failed to pull up in time.

Speaking of the man's record, Inspector Alexander said: "Ho has been fined, fifteen dollare for speeding, and has already killed a person in Pokfulam."

The Flood 2,400 3,0, The Hebrow stary of the Flood os recorded in Genesis of the Bible is behind to be inspired, and should In imponing the fine, his Worship not be confused with the Sumerian said: "You must learn to driv story, both being 'sparate and distore cautiously:" tinct records.

In another case; his Worship fined

Fage 22-During the season n chauffeur 810 for cutting cross 1927-9 and 1029-9 our work on the before a tram car in Jackson Road prehistoric graveyard had re- sulted in the Acavation of a when the rod light was against the huge pit some 20 feet across and | motor car. between 30 and 40 fret deep,"

Inspector Alexander said that the Page "Just below the floor defendant drove a publie' motor

of one of the tombs, in a layer

of burnt wood ash, there were car, which had two Europeans as found numerous clay tablets in-passengers, from Queen's "Road, acribed with characters of a much Central towards the Hong Kong more archaic type than those of the insriptions in the graves.

The writing of the tablets might be assigned to about 3,700 before Christ, and were two or three bundred years older than the tombs,"

According to these tablets the date of the Flood might be about 2,400 B.C.

Wonderful Civilisation,

The Biblical dite of the Flood is 348. B.C, and it is hoped that further discoveries will result in the verification of this date.

Pago 20,-"To wonderful divi- lisation illustrated by the contents of the graves, had always seemed to imply a long past behind it; now we had proof of just such.

Club along Jackson Rond. Al- though the red light was against him, defendant drove on, and in doing so, caused a tram-car to pull up suddenly, There was no colli. sion, "but," added Mr, Alexander, it is a dangerous thing to cut across a tram-car, when the red light is against you.""

WOMEN LOSES $1,000.

DAYLIGHT ROBBERY IN YAUMATI.

A report was made to the police

a steady growth as we had as-yesterday of an armed robbery sumed.

which was carried out. at 17, Pitt Street, Yaumati, at about 8 o'clock yesterday morning.

Instead of the stratified pottery and rubbish we were in perfectly elonn clay, unifirm throughout, the, texture which showed that it, had been laid there by water. The clean clay itinued without change.

Altogether five men were involved. Thoy, bound and gagged the occup ants of the house, and after bust- ling them into a cubicle, threw a blanket over them. The robbers then The sole object found in it was made a hurried oxamination of the a fragment of fossilised bons place and managed to get away which must que been brought with money and jewellery to the down with the clay from the up-lent of 81,000.0

per reaches of the river, until It was sometime before the victims, it had attained a thickness of a managed to free themselves and by. little over 8 feet.

that time the robbers had got clean Then, as audlinly as it had away. When the authorities were begun, it stopped, and we were notified the immates were able to once more in layers of rubbish give a description of the full of stone implements, flint truders. cores from which the implemente had been flaked off, and pottery."

Page 27-"The great bed of clay marked, if it did not cause, a break in the continuity of his- tury.

Above it we had the pure Sumerian divineation slowly developing on ́is own lines.

Below it there was a mixed culture of which nu element was Sumerian and the other of, that al Ubaid type which seems to have nothing to do with the Sumerians but to belong to a race which in- habited the river valley before the Sumerians came into it."

No Ordinary Flood. Page 25-"The bed of water- laid clay deposited against the slopping face the mound, which extended from the town to the stream or caual at the north enst end, could only have been the result of a flood.,

No other agency could possibly account for it. Inundations are

of normal occurrence in Lower Mesopotamia, hat no ordinary rising of the risers would leave behind it anyting approaching the bulk of this clay bank."

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In this way we can explain what before was one of the great- puzzles of South Mesopotamian archaeology, the sudden and com- plete disappearance of the paint ed pottery which at one time seems to have been univerently distributed over the southern Bites.

The people who made it, the older inhabitants of the country, woro wiped out by the Flood.”.

A Tidal Wave,

All theso facta prave conclusively that this Flood was not local, that the volume of water which flooded the Innd was cataglysmic and Bonus. thing extraordinary, and that the physical conditions of the Delta- and could only have been created by med and debris swept down from the upper reaches of the Tigria and Euphrates Rivers by the continuous flow of the impounded Tilul Ware flood waters of the plateaus and highlands of Arteria.

It is impossible for a local flood, no matter how extansive or how heavy the rain-fall, to create such vast deposits of raud and sand, &c, which cover, the Delta area

(about 40,000 square milea), extend. Persian Gulf. ing from Kish to the head of the

Eight foot of sediment imply -very-groat-depth-of-water, and the flood which deposited it must havo beon of a surgnitude unpar-

As the physical conditions of the alleled in loent history. That it Delta-land of Mesopotamia was so is further proved by the identical with the Delta arcas of fact that the clay bank makes the Nile of Egypt and the Whang- definite break, in, the continuityHo river of China, all of which

of the local baltare. A whole civilisation which existed before it is lacking above it, and seems to have been submerged by the waters."

However, Mr. Woolley, has not

are

have prehistoric cities swallowed up and embedded in their extensive Locas" deposits, this is conclusive proof of a Universal Flood, and the fooding of the World by a Tidal Wave. And nothing but a devastat

Page: 20. Many generations been able to account for the origining Tidal Wave could have sudden

ad magnitude of his Flood. came

the

passed and

then .Flood."

Page 21. "It has long been agreed that the story of the Flood. as told in Genesis is based on the Sumerian, Idgand: of which the oldest written verajona that we possess, go back more than two thousand years before Christ, but many authoriting have doubted. whether either story had, any basis in historien) fået.

That the Bu.norians had 'na such doubt, is clear, for, apart from the legend, the analysts in their sober table of the reign of kings made mention of it as AD event which interrupted. course of history."

the

and

Page 29,aking into con and so completely wiped out and sideration all the facts, there destroyed all. Prehistoric races and could be no doubt that the flood, civilizations of the World of which we had thus found the ought the great physical changes. only, possible evidence was the which have altered the faces of

continents. Flood of Sumerian history and legend, the Flead on which is based the story of Noah:" Page 31,--"So much for the facts. What, then, is to, he built up on them 7

This deluge was not universal, but a local disaster confined to the lower valloy of the Tigris and Euphrates, affecting an area perhaps 400 miles long and 100

milck neroas."

(Continued on next Column.),

I have been retiently waiting, since the year 1014, for the results He of the Chaldern, and I hapa of the excavations in Egypt and at Mr. C. Lennard Wrolley will even- tually be able to write and confirm

the truth of my discoveries and "hadlaga, tiæreby racempting Scence: and Religion and proving the Two periods (1) Antediluvian and (2) Post diluvian, of Chaldean history and Tikowiss Chinese, Persian, and Egyptian history and civilisation:

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