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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1930.

STRONG CALL FOR EGYPTIAN PAPYRI OF GIRL BURNT TO

RESTORATION.

WATERLOO BRIDGE AND ITS FUTURE.

HIGH COST OF DELAY.

1250 B.C.

IMPORTANT GIFTS TO THE

BRITISH MUSEUM.

DEATH.

TRAPPED AFTER CRASH IN MOTOR CYCLE.

PRESIDENT

Eight Egyptian papyri, dated between 1250 and 1100 B.C., which

BABY UNHURT. have been presented to the British Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Chester

Hundreds of motorists on the Beauty, are regarded by the trus- The London County Council is tees as of particular importance, Kingston by-pass road saw a col- faced with the necessity of decid and they will undertake their publision in which a girl pillion rider ing, within a year, whether im-lication in facsimile and translation was fatally burned,

The accident occurred mediate steps shall be taken to at once.

One of the papyri is the earliest Coombe Bridge, Raynes Park. A restore or reconstruct Waterloo Bridge; or whether it shall be known example of allegorical writ-car and motor-cycle combination maintained in its present condi-ing. It describes the "Blinding of collided, and the petrol tank of the tion for a further indefinite period Truth by Falschood," and the re-motor-cycle burst. Within a few venge taken on Falsehood by the minutes both vehicles were at a heavy expenditure.

ing.

near

It has been put in this position son of Truth provides a moral end-ablaze.

Mr. David Cyril Bishop (35), of by a notification from its en-

Another may perhaps disclose the Shiplane, Hammersmith, the driv-| Kineers that at the end of 1980 thesecret by which Joseph interpreteder of the combination was severe shortings and temporary works by the dreams of the Egyptians. It is injured but made an which the bridge has been main-

the only book of the kind yet reeffort to save his 17-year-old sis tained for several years will need

covered from ancient Egypt "and to be largely renewed, unless the contains the records of 100 dreams work of repair or reconstruction and the probable results. is then begun.

An authoritative explanation of the position was given with an assurance that the condition of Waterloo Bridge is in no sense, more serious than it has been for years past.

The fact is that with the recent rejection by Parliament of the Charing Cross Bridge Scheme to which the future of Waterloo Bridge was linked by the Govern- ment another postponement be- came inevitable, and the respon- sible engineers took stock of the position.

A "Genera Introductory Guide" to the collections of Egyptian litera- ture is being prepared by Dr. H. R. H. Hall, Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities.

"Unit recent years," says the guide, "it has hardly been realised that the ancient Egyptians possess- ed a literature in the same sense as that of the Greeks and Romans and of our European-American litera- ture of to-day."

horvic

ter Olive who was riding pillion. His wife and baby were in the side-car, but escaped with shock.

"The car then caught fire and by this time flames were shooting twenty feet into the air. Dozens of extinguishers were turned on the blaze by passing motorists."

Mr. Bishop was taken to Kings- ton Hospital.

The driver of the car, Mr. Richard S. Guinness, of Great Cumberland-place, W., who was unhurt, is a prominent figure in The National Art-Collections the City. He la chairman of the Fund, with the assistance of Mr. Mercantile and General Insurance Henry Van den Bergh, has pre- Co. and a director of numerous sented to the Museum the unique other companies. The alternatives before the and famous gold mohur, struck by

"It was an appalling sight, said the Moghul Emperor Jahamgir, a motorist who helped to put out Council are--to proceed forthwith with the reconstruction or restora-bearing the portrait of his father the flames. "The driver and pas tion of the bridge, or, at heavy ex- | Akbar.

sengers on the combination seem- penditure, in, addition to the an Lient-Colonel John Murray has ad to be thrown into a heap. nuni cost of maintenance of ap- presented 49, letters written by Mrs. Bishop managed to get out proximately £10,000, to have the Byron to his intimate friends, of the sidecar with her baby un- temporary supports renewed, and Douglas Kinnaird and John Cam hurt, but the girl on the pillion await the solution of the Charing Hobhouse.

seat was trapped in the machine. Cross Bridge problem before de-

Mr. Bishop made several gallant ciding its fate.

by the process of underpinning." attempts to drag his sister from

The cause of the trouble from the flames. which Waterloo Bridge is now suffering is believed to have been

Sir Percy Simmons, Chairman of the Improvements Committee of the Council, in whose charge the bridge now rests, declined to dis- the scouring effect of the water cousidered by the Royal Commis cuss its future when approached, passing under it; which has left sion on Cross-River Traic-and Views expressed by prominent partially unsupported many of the the temporary bridge to carry engineers and architects show how piles upon. which the wooden "one-way traffic was put in posi- ever that there is a strong consen-foundations and lower masonry,tion and opened in 1925. "The sus of opinion that steps should I rest.

Royal Commission reported in Do-

be taken, without further delay, There has been great conflict cember, 1926, recommending a to effect a permanent restoration of opinion among engineere and vast new bridge at Charing Cross. of the bridge,

"The Sooner the Better."

Mr. Dalrymple-Hay, the en- gineer who took an important part in the construction of London's underground railways, stated: "The sooner something is done to- wards getting on with the per- manent restoration of Walterloo Bridge the better. The matter has been hanging about far too long"

Sír Reginald Blomfield, archi- tect, remarked: "I can see no reason why the question of the permanent restoration of Water- loo Bridge should not be brought forward for final settlement at Fri 18th July at 7am. once. The bridge could be widen. Tues 5th Aug.at 7 a.m

ed in such a way as not to spoil its appearance. If such a scheme Sun, 20th July at 3 p.: were adopted, there is no reason Thurs. 31st July at noon, why work should not be begun up-

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