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NEW BOOK BY "G.B.S."

AFRICAN GIRL'S SEARCH FOR GOD.

Johannesburg, Mar. 17.

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Shaw loft Knysna this morning after a atay

morrow."

Interviewed on his holiday work, Mr. Shaw declared that ho had not written a play, but a story instead, dealing with the search of an African native girl for God.

| RIVALLING TOWER OF BABEL.

"MESPOT"" TEMPLE

DISCOVERIES.

A HOUSE OF MYSTERY.

DERELICT-OWNER UNKNOWN.

Discoveries which shed import- A mystery of the ownership of ant light on two of the lenat a derelict house stated to be in al known chapters of human history dangerous state, and to have been of five works for Cape Town. They have been made at Ur of the untenanted for 30 years, way dis- will make part of the journey by Chaldes by the joint expedition of cussed by the Romford, Essex. neroplane, both having become fly the British Museum and the magistrates. ing enthusiasts since arriving in Museum of the University of On the application of the Clerk South Africa, They will call for Pennsylvanis under Mr. Leonard to the Romford Urban District England in the Warwick Castle to Woolley,

Council, the Bench made an order "The results are of the greatest calling on the owner or owners value," an officer of the British either to repair the house or de- Museum explained to n represen-molish It.

The Clerk to the Council, Mr. tative of the Morning Post "and provide interesting links in the C. T. King, said the house, which early history of Ur and the dove-in in Shakespeare-roud, Romford, In her travels through the forest |lopment of the great temple which in In such a condition that it is Abe meets several Christian and was the city's equivalent to the danger to people using the road and also to occupants of adjoining pagan gods, and has an Interview Tower of Babel." with Christ, and also Mahomed! Beneath this temple, the Zix-houses, and Mr. F. G. Beaumont,

which several modern and

sclentin gurat,

about the surveyor, said the roof might authorities, including the Russian 2300 B.C., Mr. Wooley has un-collapse. Maavant, Pavlov.

covered terrace walls underlying The last-named is likely to be all those that have been previous. uncomplimentary, no Mr. Shawly found. They are the terraces considers nl}

of earlier temple-towers which oc- vivisectors scoun- drets.

rupied the same site as far back

the fourth millennium B.C.

FLYING AT 50,000 FT.

built

Never Claimed. Efforts have been made to dis cover the owner, but in vain.

Mr. King said the property had for apparently, been untenanted 30 years, and ther had been a dispute about He understood Places of Sacrifice,

that it was left to a woman named Their discovery from, so early Engliah, who had died, and that an age. It was explained, gives her family, who did not live in strong support to the belief that Romford, had never claimed it.

If the magistrates' order is not FRENCH MACHINE DESIGNED Buch towers originated in the de-

STI TO REACH 2481⁄2 M.P.H.

sire of a hill people to reproduce complied with, the Council their traditional "high pluces" as take further netion. The calculated

centres of worship and sacrifice performance figure for one of the remarkable when they moved into a low-lying The present finds in- new French atratospherie aircraft,country.

dicate that such worship was prac- designed expressly for flying great altitudes are now available. tised at Ur for nearly two thou- The machine is being built to sand years before the most recent the designs of M. Guereliais, and of the temples was built. is a monoplane nearly 60 feet.

Mr. Woolley further reports a

with a span of rich harvest from the graves of

the

CHEATING THE

ELECTRIC CHAIR.

GANGSTER'S SECRETS STOP EXECUTION.

A Brooklyn gangster when about

It has a special, hermetically the little known second dynasty. scaled cabin in which pressure "In wickerwork collins," Mr. Wool. and oxygen supply are artificallyy states, "we have found copper maintained, so that the occupants weapons and vessels which recall to take his seat in the electric chair are unaffected either by reduced those of the pre-dynastic kings. in Sing Sing Prison to-night, gain- gold ornaments, ed n temporary respito by break- pressure or by the shortage of whereas Oxygen at heights up to nearly agate heads and vase forme anti-ing gandland's code of allence. 56,600 ft., or more than 10% miles, cipate the age of the great King sea level the top speed is Sargon of Alkad, probably one of given as 209.4 m.p.h.. at 22,970ft. the most powerful of the Mesopo-

tamian rulers." it risen to 248.56 m.p.h.; and at just below 50,000ft. the speed Is 2013 m.p.h.

At

The climb to 50,000rt. taken 50min. 65 see. A height of 22,970ft, is reached from the ground in 11min. 17sec.

of woud. and the engine Is Lorraine giving 825 h.p. It is itted with a supercharger turning at 12,500 r.p.m. The airscrew is

flight.

Evidently terror-stricken by the approach of the final ordeal, the man talked freely to the officiala, and gave details of half-a-dozen un- solved murders, Information which was considered of auch importance that it was decided to postpone the execution.

"Come back next week and I'll tell you more," suld the condemned

his cell,

of this high-flying three-bladed and is ndjustable in gangster, as the State Attorney left

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