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ROMAN RELICS IN TRIPOLI.

1928.

ARMED GUARD AT A HOSPITAL.

FREE STATE OFFICIAL AS PATIENT.

BURIED CITY DUG OUT OF DESERT SAND.

Within the last few months Im- A policoman armed with a re- posing stretches of the buried city volver, guarded on Thursde night of Leptis Magna have been de-jand during, the greater part of divered from their covering of yesterday, the entrance to West. sand.

minster Hospital, where a pro-

The lines of colossal walls have minent Irish Free State Official been traced; the arch of Septimus was taken on Thurd f treat Severus has been restored; relics ment, says the Morning Post of of the days of the Crusades have Apr. 28.

been identified, and it has also The police and hospital authori been discovered that at a comparaties are preserving great secrecy tivoly recent date a clumsy regarding the identity of the attempt was made to blow up the patient. He entered a private city walls.

ward on Thursday afternoon, and

When these offorts at destruc-immediately a policeman with a tion were carried out, or precisely revolver in a bolster on his belt by whose hand, is a puzzle yet was posted at the top of the en- unsolved, but a theory has been trance steps. The officer advanced that it was the work of later relieved by another armed Mohammedan fanatics at the be-constable.

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ginning of the Eighteenth Century, During Thursday night there who feared that even the half-was an unusually lare number of buried ruins of Imperial splendour police near the hospital. would act as a temptation to Latin The guard remained on duty reconquest,

throughout yesterday, but was How well such fears were justi-withdrawn about 5 p.m. fied is seen to-day in the recon- struction" of the ancient clty, the growth of the adjacent townalin of Homs, and the recently bonclud ed visit of King Vietor.

From its covering of fine sand amitted to the hospital about the complete Roman city is steadily fame time as the guard was. post- rising into view--a

city/ed.

A "Plot" Recalled. Inquiries last night showed that

a patient named McNeill was ad-

twice the size of Pompeii It was learned in Dublin, last and one specially embellish. night that Mr. James McNelli, the Irish ed by the Emperor Septimus Governor-General of Severus, in honour of his birth- Free State, was In London, but it pince. The isolation of the Baths was not stated where he was stay- completed, work is now concerned ing. on clearing. the huge Basilica

At the beginning of March Mr, Soveriana, niready seen to be excep McNeill came to London to enter tionally rich in columns, pilastere, nursing home for a slight opera-. and decoration. The network of tion. He subsequently returned city streets and the murch of the to Ireland.

walls are being traced, and a key Mr. McNeill was High Commis- lo certain monuments in Rome is being discovered. For instance the sioner in London for the Irish Free State, when in December last so-called Palace of Septimus is now

rovealed to be not an Imperial he was pointed Governor-Gen- house, but part of a public forumeral in succession to Mr. T. M. having dimensions and designs Healy. He as installed on Febru similar to that of the only partfully are 1.

When he left Euston on Januare existing Forum of Trajan in the

accom- capital. The wall, round this re-30 for Ireland, he was plice stands about 100 feet high,panded from his house at South and there has been brought to light Kensington to the station her -là avast corridor with two rows of clothes officers, and special pre- sixteen marble columns nearly fifcautions were taken by the police teen feet high.

lo guard against any untoward incident.

Mined Walls and Pillars.

Reports were then current that The discovery of sections of bad-news had been received in London ly wrecked walls and pillars at first of a plot against him and that prompted a theory that an earth- attempts might be made against quake had done the damage. But his life while in London or during Dr. Renato Bartoccini, the archaeo- his voyage to Ireland. logist in charge of the excavations, These were afterwards denied, has found at the base of destroyed Mr. McNeill, before leaving Eus- blocks and along the line of the ton, laughingly sold to a friend,. walls, undeniable evidence of sun-well, I summose there must be a powder. The attempt at demolition

must have been made long after plot against me, they are guarding

me closely enough." the passing of the crusading Knights of Malta who had a strong- hold here, for Dr. Bartoccini 'has

also discovered that it was neces- Major H. Q. D. Segrave, the sary for the mine-layers to dig racing motorist, was fined 40s. at deep to reach the foot of the wall, West London Police Court for He is now trying to discover marks driving along New King's-road, which will reveal, to what level the Fulham, at 35 miles an hour. aand had risen when the mines

were laid, so that from a calcula- Mr. W. B. Blackie, chairman of tion of how much the sand rises on Messrs. T. and A. Constable, the an average cach year he may gauge King's printers, of Edinburgh, has the date of this gunpowder not. died in Edinburgh, aged 81.

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