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By "The Sentinel”.

YEARS AGO bored its now buildings provided the.

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been made recently are soundly baned or not remains to be seen. The Prime Minister declares that "in spite of all difficulties, I be lieve that very subtantial and ck-

SELF LOVE EXAGGERATES OUR Bontial work can be done. A

FAULTS AS WELL AS OUR VIRTUES-um, while passing through the future. Donations and Inquiries rooms containing Egyptian ex- can be addressed to the President failure, In view of its consequen Goethe.

hibfts, suddenly exclaimed: "Why of the Society of Antiquaries, Pro ia unthinkable." The CeB

The Beu Lino .. Benrannoch, from couldn't these old chaps die and bo Burlington House, W. 1. sident of the Conforence (Mr.

ting made into mummies and com- We are not too poor to be able Henderson) states that "The Dis-Home ports via Straits, is duo here buried like we do, instead of get-

on the 10th instant.

ing here to bother us about who to find the sum required-just armament Conferonca la going

During the week-end, three cases they were and when they lived?" enough to pay the nation's drink- hour for filling a very slowly but it is not going to

of typhold and one of meningitis were And, to cap that little story of bill for an

indifference verging on igorance, serious gap in our scientifle equip-1 break. We want to bring about a notified to the health authorities.

I myself once overheard a flippantment. A keen and widespread in- elderly com-terest is now felt in this many- practical success." Then, again.

Through having her arm caught youth reply to un Mr. Stimson, the American Secre- tary of State, observes that "the in a machino on which she had been panion's lecture on the magnif-sided science, and the number of a knitter, Sau Chi-tai a 30-cence of the statuary in one of the would-be students has been rapid- working, and year-old woman employed at the Kam same rooms by humming the rely increasing every year. But, as complex and their solution will Wah Knitting Factory, of 155, Foki frain of a comic song: "Ain't it things are, almost the only way of romeved to the gr-r-and to be bloomin' well lend getting the right kind of training Wing Street, was require time and paticace. Never-Kowloon Hospital yesterday morning These acoffers had not realised is to become attached to an ex- that they were looking at the relics cavation party, and opportunities of a life that was once as varled for thus learning in the field are theless, I believe that it will be suffering from a fractured arm.

A chise), a screw-driver, and bunches and vivid as our own, that they not nearly numerous enough. successful."

to have formed were in the presence of the por

The days when excavation was a It is to be hoped that

treasure-hunting, far events of keys, believed

suspect arrested in of men and women who had one more fascinating than the quest the will justify these assurancen. The act of a burglarous outfit, found in trait-statues and the very bodles forme day

possession of people may not be clamorous in the early hours of yesterday morning been much more like than unlike for a pirate's hoard, have, long

charge of possession of nothing of Archaelogy.

objects discovered may be, it is nexion with their demands, but it in heyoudat Shukla, were exhibited fa con themselves. In a word, they know gone by, However precious the the addition to our knowledge of doubt that they are inwardly firm instruments fit for an unlawful pur

before man pose preferred against In their conviction that a sub-Mr. Schofield at the Centrul Magis In point of fret, Archaeology the innumerable dead (of whom On the defen-has a more poignant appeal to the living are but guards) which stantial measure of all-round dis- tracy this morning,

lant claiming that the keys fitted his mankind's "giant heart of memo-in most prized by the true archaeo- was adjourned ries and tears" than any of the logist. The opening of Tut-ankh- Armament is casential not only to own boxes the case

but to the for twenty-four hours to enable con-modern sciences. It has conjured Amen's sepulchral shrine, with general world peace

firmation by the police of this defence.) up out of the deep dust of ages, its incredible wealth of art trea- so tragic a na Lazarus was raised from the sures, which had stability and improvement

was perhaps the most Two coolies pushing a hand truck grave, forgotten races, religiona sequel, their own social conditions. Much

accident and languages, and brought them amazing episode in the annals of is expected, and much can be done which was involved in an

over the week-end, resulting in to life again. The archaeologist Egyptian exploration. The last IRELAND... At the War Memorin!

and ab.

serious injury to a little Chinese girl,

each by Mr. may be hasty in his deductions at words of the dying discoverer: Nursing Home on Sunday night, despite the difficulties

fined $7

scem to some fraught 5th June, to Elise, wife of 11. Ustructions that have obtruded were to-day e Central Magistracy times and furnish us with a little "I have heard the call, I am pre-

Schoßeld at

with occult significance. And Ireland, a ron.

themselves in the Conference for driving the vehicle without a per-fuel for the "sudden glory" of paring,"

yot far. Failure is unthinkable, bemit. It was stated that in turning laughter.

But his pursuit of "digging up into a side street from Queen's Road would be both a West, the truck mounted the pave knowledge" has long since passed Cause failure tragedy and a crime. The Geneva ment, and one of the wheels passed beyond the reach of ridicule. over the Cont of A Chinese girl and Conference is indeed the acid testerushed it. The girl was admitted Truth is the object of his quest,ened our understanding of Ancient not only of the sincerity of slateu-hospital where it is stated that a stay but almost always he finds benus Egypt so much as certain papyri

of three weeks for treatment may be by the way. necessitated. A third coolic who was pulling the truck and charged in con- Junction with his fokis with lacking a licence, was acquitted.

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THE DISARMAMENT PROBLEM

men but also of their capacity.

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and

Liberian Persecutions, The atrocities committed on the Kru coast by Liberian Government

of Inw forces, in the name Those who are hoping that the order, serve to emphasise the im- for the civilized cause of world peace may be servperative need ed by the Disarmament Confer world to set Liberia's house in order. Two international commis- ence now sitting in Geneva have gions appointed by the league of probably followed the progress of Nations have catablished beyond the deliberations with mixed dispute that slavery with all its feelings of hope and disappoint-evils prevails in this West African scale of no amall ment, In the four months that state upon a have passed since its opening, dimensions. A detailed scheme of reform has been drafted and the there has been little to justify the

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And yet I cannot think his loudly-acclaimed discovery quick-

which sing small sweet love-songs to us across an ocean of time. Its his unfaltering faith that Certainly the results of the cx- his study of the sepulchred life of ploration of the Oxyrhynchus rub. men in every time and elime helps bish heaps by Grenfell and Hunt Man to live up to the heaven-were vastly more important. The descended maxim: "Know Thy-harvest of papyri was enormous, self." "His whole business," said and on the accond day one of the one of the true archaeologists, "Is most famous manuscript in the to hide the guif between Yesterday world was found, the Sayings of and To-day... . The Present is Jesus, of which one in a witness too small for him; and it is there-to the immanent Deity: "Raise fore that he calls so insistently the stone and there thou shalt find wood and there APPLICATION

to the Past to come forth from the me, cleave the REDUCTION

darkness and augment it." And am I. Moreover, the examination so it has come about that this of these papyri in Greek script, so long derided Including those which had been Before the Chief Justice. Sir truth-seeker for

treasure- this morning Mr. R.C.H, Lim, in- Present, which is as awe-inspiring duced such priceless Joseph Kemp in the Supreme Court has given us a vision of a Greater used to make mummy cases, pro- structed by Mr. P. Sin, appeared as the physicist's dream-picture of trovo as the whole of one of the on behalf of the Tungar Press the colossal stellar cosmos, but vanished Odes of Sappho, an on-

love-poem, and Company, Shaukiwan-road, North neither fantastic nor forbidding. trancing the Company's capital.

gressive power of man's uncon- Euripides. The statement of claim set out querable mind, and so opens out

vistas of

We must have our Institute of 1 Greater that 300,000 shares were offered brighter

Archaeology, to be a world-centre with a nominal value of $10 each.Future.

of practical study, if only because Of this amount, 18,270 shares hud

England has always led the way Let us hope, then, that the pro-in the exploration of the prehis been fully paid.

By Article 20 of the Company's Articles of Association, It was posal for establishing an Institute toric past. I do not wish to under- provided that the company might of Archaeology in London will not rate the achievements of other un-form time to time. reduce its capi- fail for lack of funds. The Uni- nations in thin limitable domain. worsity of London is about to erect For example, it was one of Na- tal.

the

belief that the Conference would question of the international loan Point, to apply for a reduction of For it bears witness to the pro-greator part of a lost play of

succeed in erecting a definite mile- stone in mankind'a march towards an international order from which not only war itself would be ex- eluded but also the whole destruc- tive machinery of war. The or dinary people of the different na- tions know that the world is apending nine hundred millions a year on armaments. They know, too, that this colossal expenditure is not only a dreadful burden which falls upon them, but that the armaments which it brings into existence constitute one of the greatest menacea to world peace and security. They want to be rid of the curse of armament com- petition, a manifestation of which is to be gound 'in the inability of France and Italy to come to an agreement that will bring them within the frame-work of the London Treaty.

asked for by the Liberian Govern- ment to enable it to do what has been suggested has come up for final discussion by the League of Nations. Mr. Henry L. Stimson, of State of the the Secretary United States, recently declared

In thie that either slavery official American protectorate must be ended, or its President, Mr. Charles King, lose his office. It is now 110 years since Liberia was founded as a home for freed American slaves. The question of international action to put an end to slavery there has long been under discussion. A climax was reached in 1929 when the League of Nations took the matter in hand and an authoritative committee comprising Dr. Cuthbert Christy, Dr. Johnson and Sir Arthur Bar- clay went out to West Africa to investigate. This committee issued a report in the latter part of 1930 which showed that the situation was even worse than had been sup posed. A League of Nations com- Agreement for a substantial re-mittee went into the situation in duction in national armaments the light of this report early in A hody of highly qualified would not only bring direct relief 1931. to an overburdened Europe, but it experts, including Mr. Thomas would also ease the way to an en- Ligthart. M. Brunot and Dr. lightened handling of the problem of War Debts and Reparations which is one of the chief pre- 'occupations of the official states- the meantime the British, French men. Sir Harold Bellman, the and United States Governments- Managing Director of the Abbey acting, happily, in unison-have Road Bullding Society, who has found it necessary to add to pust

proteats by addressing fresh

Mackenzie, wAB Bent to Liberia and drew up a scheme of reforms. This scheme was submitted to the League of Nations committee.

In

re-

just returned to England from presentations officially described as America, states that "In the mind urgent" to the Liberian Govern- of the ordinary American citizen ment in consequence of "the con- there is a deep-rooted conviction tinued persecution of the Kru po- that debt relief to Europe will en-pulation by government forces." The Krus Gro an industrious courage European expanditure up-

on armaments." American public African race largely employed as sailers on European vessels trad- feeling on this matter is an ing along the Liberian coast. They | Important factor and perhaps are reasonably entitled to look for

one of the determining ones, and sympathy to the white men

who

it depends largely upon Europe it employ them. Exactly what form nolf whathor or not American intervention will take has not yet opinion is to become more favour- ablo in its attitude towards the Cancellation of War Debts and Reparations. But the results of

been fully decided, but an arrange- ment seems feasible whereby the granting of a loan would be con- ditioned by League of Nations control of the administration the Disarmament Conference no sufficiently close to enable at least far have not been very encourag- the worst of the abuses to bo ro- Ing. Whether the cautious but moved. There is no question of that have aubstituting European for Negro optimistic atatements

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A special meeting had been its central buildings on a site polcon's officers who discovered in Assigned to Rosita held at which it had been decided adjoining the British Museum, 1799 the Rosetta Stons (the dis- to reduce the nominal value of and the idea is to provide accom-

for a centre of Forbes in a Fifth Form hoy's shares to $2.75, the reduction tomodation there

ago!), the inscriptions on which, be effected by cancelling capital training for students from all over science. The space assigned which had been lost or was not the world in every branch of the essay written not so very long a master-key to the interpretation represented by available assets.

The Chief Justice adjourned the would have to be sufficient for the one of them being in Greek, proved matter for further consideration. display of the large collections of of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. By instructive materials (c.f., pottery the Treaty of Capitulation of 1801 from Palestine and Mesopotamia) the antiquities in the possession which are at present stored in- of the defeated French invaders rale. On the other hand, civiliza-accessibly in London and cannot had to be given up, and the famous tion is justly concerned with the be used by students. The initial abolition of conditions of slavery equipment materials for study, monument of black basalt is now

library-would in a state set up for the express laboratory and purpose of affording freedom for cost about £30,000, the University being prepared to assign space in

olaves.

"My business is going to the dogs. I'm going to have to drop in on the office some time and give it a abake-up."

in the British Museum.

Schllomann's discovery of the wonderful treasures of Troy and Mycenae is Germany's outstanding triumph in digging up new know- ledge. He was quite wrong when he sent his telegram to the Ger- man Emperor after opening the Shaft Tombs: "I have gazed at the face of Agamemnon." But his excavations throw new light on the epoch of the Homeric heroes, setting us on the track of the true story of Troy, the most sated of cities, Troy was besieged and destroyed because she played the part of a stone highwayman, col- lecting her "regulars" from the merchants trading Into and out of the Black Sea (that trade-route extended as far as the fabulous Cathay) who had to tranship their cargoca across the peninsula to avoid dangerous currents and deadly-squalls. The probability that the golden-haired Helon was really an iniquitous gold-produc- ing Impost is distressing to the romantic mind.

Of into years, howevor, the greatest archaeological victories have been the work of English scholars. The Knossos excavations conducted by Sir Arthur Evans have lifted up out of its long- forgotten grave a brilliant sea- shore clty, some time mistress of an amphibious Empire, in whose thronged thoroughfares something very like Homer's speech could be heard. The legendary Labyrinth has been visible as a great palace of many chambers and corridors. The Minotaur was evolved from dim folk-memories of Stato bull- ights in which girls from tribu- tary Athons were compelled to take part. And the frescoes of (Continued on Page 7.)