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HOW?

Mysteries to be explained.

TOWN PLANNING.

The Explorer at Work.

Becontree Housing Scheme. The party of American excara- A story comes from. Madrid Becontree, visited by the King tors who have obtained permis- | through the newspaper Imparcial (and Queen, may become in future sion to explore the site of ancient of the two sons of a Spanish years A model town, with a Carthage in collaboration with nobleman who can see through population of over a hundred the Dapartment of Antiquities of metal.

thousand people, It represents

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Tunisa bare now begun opars Of course, one says at once the largest and the most ambitious tions in earnest, and already that it is absurd and incredible. of the London County Council certain discoveries of interest, Perhaps it was after dinner, when housing schemes. have been made, writes the Paris night sometimes playa ua strange correspondent of the Times. The tricks!.

The area of the estate is ap Tunisia Government has been I am not one who is likely to It lies between Ilford and Barking proximately three thousand aorse. able to devote only modest grants accept such tales readily. for the purpose of ress■rch, but I

on the western side and the old Nevertheless, it is quite pos market town of Romford on the am informed that the Americansible that we have not yet reach eastern aide, and is intersected by help promises to assure to the led the limits of knowledge as to two main railway lines running patient labours of Pere Dalsttre the way in which many seae-into London. It was originally and other French archaeologiste jations may be transmitted. the rich reward they deserve.

proposed that about twenty thou- The apparently miraculous re- and houses should be built, bat From the point of view both of ports of some who have been developments have been restricted history and of architecture the deat from birth hearing messagesby the check on operations which possibility of revealing something broadcast by wireless should the Ministry of Health in the last of the lost splendour of the Panic mate the unalterably sceptical Government found it necessary city of Carthage excites the pause and think. keepest interest. The story of its

to impose in the interests of The discovery of a ray that economy.. Until recently, build destruction by the Romans in 146 would penetrate opaque bodies iaz had to be confined to the [b.c. has hitherto discouraged was an eye-opener which, when Ilford sectipo, of 440 acres, where exploration, but the truth is that fest reported, Caused much nearly three thousand houses are nobody knows what treasures derisire scoffing. To-day its use either completed or under coa- may be found within the great is a matter of routine. old sex wall whose ruined stones!

struction. Work has now been May there not be other subtle. started on lie scattered along the coRIT.

& further thousand intangible, and as yet undis-houses on the Dagenbau section The site of the city not only has covered not been investigated with any emotions and thoughts are trans Dock. At the end of 1920, when which of fifty-five acres, near Dagenham completeness, bat it threatens to mitted from one become a modern suburb of Tunis. another means that are inde scheme, it was impossible to get person to a beginning was made with the Land is being let and villas built.pendent of our known senses? Ground is being dug, to provide

sufficient bricklayers, and, after

concrete construction, quiring Let the sceptical reader coa-investigation, various systems of

the minimum number of opera tives, were tried.

means by

How does a dog know when you are afraid of it, though you betray ne signs of fear obvious to man?

the foundations for new houses, sider a few well-established facts but not necesarily deep enough of common experience. to reveal whmever remains of the ancient city may lie lower down The sea wall itself, with its pillars, many of them fallen but ut-

It has been suggested that the broken, might contain lessons in chiracler of the sweat chaozes the bistory of military architec-and the dog, with its wonderful olfactory brain, can detect this. I Within the city, in spite of do not know how the dog knows; limited means, the explore's have but he does know. already unearthed ajxtyfive

ture.

buildings, or scattered fragments POWER OF PERSONALITY. of buildings, sufficiectly preserv. How does personality make ed to be of interest. Among them itself felt, as it notoriously does? are the remains of two San. The old idea. long since ctuaries. Fine stones bearing discarded, was the existence of Punic emblems, which formed animal magnetism. part of the monumants of the o'd circular port, have been collected. The potters' quarter has gielded specimens of caramic furnaces still almost intact, as well as numerous specimens of pottery. ROCK TOMBI. Ons of the most striking dis coveries--that of the Fountain of the Thousand Vases"-akowa

each

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When the plans were prepared for the Becontree estate they re- presented the greatest attempt етер made by BDY bousing authority to provide housing| accommodation to meet the re quirements at a particular area. It was sugested that there should be one civic centre, and for this a site was allocated at the junction of three central avenues. In this neighbourhood there was to be a shopping district, central markets, churches, and other public build-Į

WAS

It has been suggested that anings. It was further intended invisible, intangible

that there should be a wide octa- shadow, surrounds

gonal boulevard divided by the main avenuea, and local centres transmitting AUTA receiving emotions and feelings. were proposed at eight points of A theory again.

the boulevard. The suggested Still there is something about Preliminary division personality

follows:-Park, 150 acres; play to appears di-play itself beyond the known in fields, 50 acres open bilt senses of man.

including 60 acres for playing How does the bypaotist in-fields and 150 acres for allot A style of underground Punic Auence his subject? We do not meure), 425 acres, further silot- architecture which is particularly believe in hypnotic rays; the ments. 10) Acres: twenty-six characteristic. The water feed Rubiect is now supposed to be the school site, 68 acre; arterial and ing the reservoir (whence the main factor in hypootism. But ring roads, 165 acres," existing Carthaginian boatmen go: their this does supplies) flows down a corridor conviction to my mind

not carry absolute properties and adjoining land, 251

acres; land for commercial pur with vaulted arches, which recall

Lastly, how do fear and panic poses, 125 acres: sites for Work- the modes of building in the infect the crowd, and how does aing-class cottages,1,215 acres sites underground tombs discovered by sense of impending disaster that for cottages other than working Pere Delattre Some of these often comes true reveal itself

clase, 450 acres. It was estimated tombs, cut in the solid rock, are thirty yards deep.

I fancy we have not yet got to that the total cost might approach the bottom of these things.

£10,000,000, and of this sum in 1920 the Concell had voted account. This original scheme bas not been arthaginian art. borrowed from Already attempts have been abandoned, but the attitude of the Grecce and Egypt. Two of these made, unattended with success, overnment will be a factor in statues, recumbent on the tops of to record some of the emotions by determining how far it is carried stone coffins, are Greek work. means of delicate, Pensitive ing-out. In any case, it is expected Bat the most perfect specimen of truments. We may in tim learn that further portions of the estate

Punic mausoleum is to be found not at Carthage, but at Dougga they are transmitted by agencies has so far been chiefly confined are transmitted-if will gradually be developed. Work (the ancient Thugga a three as yet unknown-Paily Mail, storeyed tower 66. high with a pyramidal roof The Libyan Punic inscription which it formerly bore is now in the British Museum: it was not re. placed on the monument when it was rester 1919.

Fine statues have been taken may be on the verge of lifting the out of these tomba, which are ef veil that bides much that is un- interest as showing how much koown.

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The name Becontree occurs in

ralue of the Punic remains of The news that the stars photo- Carthage and there are personsgraphed by the Canadian astro-Domesday Times. who doubt whether much of value nomers during last year's eclipse is left the rcaretions.now going! show displacements of the on may furnish surprises. It must order demanded by Einstein's be remembered that successive Theory of Relativity is what cities have risen on the same site. astronomers in this country ex- Ruins of Roman buildings stand pected, for the result of the on Pusic foundations, and the city Greenwich expedition which flourished in the early centuries) first tested the beory in 1919

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