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'WOMAN'S COLLEGE 4,000 YEARS AGO.

NEW DISCOVERY IN ASIA MINOR.

Prof. A. H. Sayce, writes in the

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SATURDAY. MARCH 13. 1920.

„COMMITTEE'S CRITICISM

OF BOOK-KEEPING.

In its fifth ard final report,

CLOTH AT £3 A YARD.

NO HOPE OF CHEAPER SUITS,

Hopes which have been enter-

1920.

MODERN CRIMINALS,

SCOTLAND YARD'S NEW TASK.

A Daily Chronicle represent-

Oh, yes," he replied. " but I'm not going to tell you what they

are."

substantial increase in law- lessness.

The point raised in the Daily Chronicle about the youthfulness of many present-day criminals by tte. Com.

was stressed missioner.

on tablets of clay. Hundreds of tablet has turned up which refers THE NATIONAL SHIPYARDS,

woman's college" them have been rececily dis- to a

During the years of the war covered. all belonging to the university," in the neighbour-

there had been a marked decline, same period, about 2400 b.e. hood of Burus, where it gave the

and, although the figures. were Some of the tablets are letters, name of "The Women's Town"

now on the increase, he did not often on business matters; others to the suburb in which it stood.

A great contest of wits is being think they had risen much above of them relate to commerial or This university was divided into)

It was only natural, the Com. legal affairs. They come abrupt-two faculties of "Literature

to an end; it is probable that and "Arts," each of which was the Select Committee on National ained of a reduction in the high waged between the master minds the 1918 level. when internal decay prevented under a "Principal," who, how-Expenditure gives the result of Price clothes are shattered by at Scotland Yard and the modern

of the prospects for lately achieved a startling run should be followed by an outburst

of successes.

of violence, and the position in. The old Oriental world was the Babylonian Government from ever, was not a woman, but a the investigations into the Minis-trade experts, who take a gloomy scientific criminals, who have missioner maintained, that & w wonderfully like our own. It was defending

their male professor. Surely" there is of Shipping.

The Committee is of opinion "The price of clothing is going Criminologists have been busy the country to-day was no worse not acquainted with the mechani-distant possessions, the Baby-nothing new under the sun."

after careful and lengthy in-up, and there is no likelihood of devising new plans and methods than it was after the Peninsular cal contrivances of the twentieth lonian settlements in Asia Minor!

THE BABYLONIAN POSTMEX, quiry, that the work of the anything becoming cheaper." said | to deal with the present outbreak War.

There are now lots of men in century,

Ministry has been performed the editor of Mea's Wear to a of lawlesseness, and it now ap- with trains, and were destroyed by the wild tribes

But the tablets have brought to At all events,

with remarkable efficiency." Daily Chronide representative. steamers, telegraphs and tele-of the North.

pears that a satisfactory plan of the country, he painted ont, who have not only been accusomed to "For the reason one has to go campaign has been evolved. phones, but on the cultural side excavation has shown that the light many other things which

This does not prevent them

take life lightly, but have been it was on a level with ourselves, particular city where the tablets have their parallel in the modern and in some respects eren in were found was suddenly over world. We learn from the letters from criticising some of the to the source of production," he

inhabited that there were roads throughout transactions of the Ministry, such said. "Raw materials and labourative recently asked Sir Nevill encouraged to do so, and it was advance of us. Culture, a op-thrown and

not to be expected that every the country, along which the as the National Shipyards. are becoming more costly, and nosed to mechanical civilisation. again.

In September 1919 the total the increased railway rates are Macready whether any special individual would go back to his

measures were being taken to normal state. effect on i AD is always confined to the few.

The larger number of colonists postman went regularly though

was bound to have which the letters and envelopes expenditure upon them and what is still the high-water came

cope with the present position. Assyria

carried were of clay, like the 26,120,000. and the loss on the prices. mark of the few had already been

at that time was

"It is impossible to forecast the attained four thousand years Babylonian

They stamps which had the form of whole of these undertakings mast province.

discs. In one of the letters the be very heary, says the Com-extent to which charges will be had a republican. and not ago.

increased, but it is quite certain

"Are motorcycles to be used?" We already knew that such monarchical, form of Govern-writer expresses the hope that mittee.

They allow that the scheme that the trend is ever upwards."

The head of a big firm of West- bazarded our representative.

"I suppose they are "young was the case with the Greece ment, though acknowledging in a the postman will have a bright

"That's my business," retorted tellows on whom the war has Reme of the classical sort of shadowy way the nominal out and a clear sky to light was justifiable during the stress

a deep impression than Babylonian him on his way at night. In age. Then came the revela supremacy of the

who obviously had no intention on the older men," he said, "and tion of ancient Egyptian culture,, kings. But they were actually some of the correspondence refer.of war, but they do not consider end tailors said be was afraid

come imperative. over expenditure.

"There are all sorts of rumours of being drawn on the subject, who have tome home with no followed by that of the art governed by their own officers, a ence is made to a species of that there was sufficient control that higher prices would soon be the Commissiouer, laughingis, made

When an accountant was sent and culture of early Krete, and province or district being under cheque, the messenger being in-

for it is very fine to take up crime as it is now the turn of Babylonia, the government of a "prince."structed to receive from the car-dawn last February to investigate about a pending big advance in and thus forewarning criminals regular occupation, thinking that

a means of livelihood." The strong points of Babylonian and a city under that of a respondent of the writer the the financial position, it was the price of cloth," be stated. "It of the surprises in store

Sir Nevil had intimated that With the suggestiop that heavy Besides these officers equivalent in money of the sum culture. however. were not prefect."

may be unobtainable for less than artistic, as was the case in Egypt there were also judges, as well as named on the tablet presented to found that the accounts were in is even said that the best qualities them.

The costs had not been pro-£3 a yard. At this figure the be would be pleased to meet re-sentences should be inflicted on and Krete, but literary and com-certain officials, who gave their him.

of five! Truly, the Near East bes a

Scotland Yard to discuss the said he thought it was a good parts of the work, no proper cost over £10." The latest discovery of Baby-days each into which the year long past of civilisation behind poly allocated to the various material alone for a suit would presentatives of the Press at offenders, Sir Nevil agreed, and question of present-day crime, thing to err a little on the side of was divided. and by means of it!

ledger accounts had been kept of

and he received ample evidence severity. of the interest which is taken in which time was counted.

had been experienced in tracing works of bridge builders panned the subject when over 30 reporters For the what had actually been ordered out better. Nineteen are built, trooped into his room.

or building, and the Ministry greater part of an hour they and to whom delivered."

Concrete shipbuilding was nct estimates that there will be a net bombarded him with questions.

The Commissioner emphas set a success. Construction began profit of £1,303,000.

During the war 630 contracts the fact that he was fully alive in February 1918; when 154 tugs

the Ministry to the necessity for the police to and barges were ordered. A were placed by

of merchant keep abreast with the armistice one barge of 1,000 for construction

of modern tons had been completed, and 74 vessels. Of these 358 have been scientific methods were under construction. Jt was completed, 22 are under construc- cracks men. decided to cancel urders as far tion, 262 have been taken over 49 possible.

by new owners prior to comp At the end of July 1919, 19fletion, and 88 contracts have vessels had been delivered and been cancelled. 13 launched. The cost of each. The Committee devote a good £27,500, deal of space to the transaction barge has averaged while the cost of a steel barge with Lord Inchcape, who acquired Aof similar capacity would be £17,all the ships of over 2.000 tons 000 to £18,000. A heavy loss will which were building. They say be incurred; it is estimated at that the agreement was justified, and that Lord Inchcape has £2.743,090.

Ships built up from materials rendered valuable service to the fitted ready for erection in the State.

mercial.

Its rule

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names to the "weeks

But by the side of the "prince "

re-

great confusion.

the stores and materials received and issued. and great difficulty

the

more

Speaking about the murder mysteries which are now being investigated by Scotland Yard detectives, Sir Nevil said they were greatly handicapped by the delay which sometimes took' place before the assistance of the Yard was invoked.

As a remedy, he advocated closer co-operation between the police forces of the country.

lonian archæology has an tonishingly, modern ring. Some centuries before Abrahamn was born in Er of the Chaldees, a and the prefect" there was also MUSICAL CENTRE FOR LONDON, dynasty of kings was reigning a "princess" and a "perfectess,' London is to have a great home which had its capital in that city and a curious fact that emerges of musis; a specially-built centre or supremacy was from the tablet is that the "prin-of far-reaching activities-that is acknowledged from Susa to the cess" and "prefectess "bad equal one of the ambitions of the new Mediterranean, from the Persian powers and rights with the Federated Board of the Music the "prefect. Industries of Great Britain and Gulf to the Taurus mountains. "prince". and In eastern Asia Minor, three "Women's rights had already Ireland, which is being formally miles from the present Kaisariyeh, triumphed at Burus, as the city launched. "The importance of

will be movement there was a Babylonian colony, was called; the women could the

"I quite agree," he said, "that remembered partly military, partly commer-trade there like the men, could alised when it is

the modern burglar isn't the bial, which held the highroad to bequeath their property like the that about 40,000.000 sterling is

CHILDREN'S "CINEMA NECE." same pigheaded fellow that Bill to the north-west and was the men, and possessed, it would invested in these industries, upon

Sykes was in Dickens's time.

"However," he added smiling. Eastbourne children, according centre of the metal trade. Baby-seeni, the same official authority which 500,000 people are depend- lonian firms worked the silver. as the men, It would appear ent," recently said M. F. V.

ly, we are trying to bring our to a report to the town council the Chief Constable, are copper, and lead mines of Asia that, after all, there was some Atwater, editor of the London

attendance Daily

intelligence up to that of the by a

at suffering from Minor, and supplied Western Asia | truth in the classical story of the Music Courier, with their products.

burglar." representative. Amazons whose bome was in the Chronich

Complete returns of criminal local cinemas, owing to the front being 80 near the same part of the world.

foundation fund has been raised Along with "women's rights," to give the organisation stability,

cases during the last year were seats not yet available, he said, and in screen that their heads have to naturally, went women's educa- and it starts with a temporary

their absence he was not prepared be held in a strained position. tion, and the latest discovery is home, the larger building to come

to say that there had been any Medical opinion is being sought the most modern touch of all. Alater.

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