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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936.

TOMB HAD SECRET

SECRET CHAMBERS

Young Briton

Finds Treasure

Experts Missed

Cairo, Aur. 30.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS always passed the tomb at Sak-

karah, near Cairo, in which Mr. W. B. Emery, thirty- year-old Englishman, has just made one of the greatest discoveries of the century.

Those archaeologists, experi-objects meant for the use of the enced though they were, thought idend in his second life." that its walls were solid,

They were not.

Behind them were Hecret chambers, forty-two all told. And in these chambers were

Perfectly-Made Rope

The first collection of thosa "objects" reached Cairo, Muscum this morning. There ono Tound Egyptologists excitedly examining

2,000. Yoars Before Tutankhamon

In point of historical Interest, Mr. Emery's discoveries will rank with those made li Tutankha- men's tomb ni Luxor, since they relate to a period two thousand years earlier that is, Ave thou- sand years ago.

Most of the Unis in the Bakka- rak tomb give evidence bearing on the superstitions and mode of life of that cra.

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Luxor contributed mainly works of art like Tutankhamen's coffin. portrails, statueties, and vases, and objects less artistle like walking sticks, beds, chairs, and linen chesis.

World's

historic treasures beyond price. them. They saw, among other Oldest

When the tomb was "discover- things:

ed" five years ago it had the A quiver filled with bone and appearance of having already been thoroughly searched,

The excavators reckoned with-- out the hidden mysteries behin the walls.

Mr. Emery, tall, bespectacled, Liverpool-born, said to-day:

"They made the same mistake na the people who visited the tomb. before. them-probably thousands of years before.

"They thought the brick super- structure was solid. I re-examined it. To my astonishment, I found it hollow.

"Further investigation revealed the forty-two chambers, filled with

£100,000

ivory-tipped arrows; an ivory- Book Is In

headed spenr; wooden sickles | with flint teeth which were en; tirely unknown until to-day, Jars, sealed with mud, bearing the the name King Denn, which once contained food and wine. Only a heap of dust and a few

berries remain. Enormous flint knives of artistic workmanship, which it War thought belonged to a much later period.

Lengths of rope, so perfectly made and so well preserved that one! would think they were produced yesterday,

France

Paris, May 5. The world's oldest "book" is possessed by the French National Library.

It is not a book in the proper sense of the word but it served that purpose in another and when the present form of bound volume was unknown. It is an Egyptian papyrus dating back 2,800 years.

Worth of Beer Wines made of stone, bronze, wool, most difficult they found written

Given Away

FRE

REE beer to the value of over £100,000 is given away in London every year.

Everyone working in a brewery is two entitled, by age-old custom, to pints daily one in the morning, an uther in the afternoon.

Workers from outside firms, in the brewery at these hours, also draw their pints, and those who are working overtime qualify for an evening drink, as well..

The free beer bill for London's breweries alone runs to a figure well exceeding £2,000 a week.

One firm has 1,500 regular workers all entitled to a shilling's worth of beer

and ivory, three to six inches in diameter, and all well finished, One bears a hunting scene in

inlaid stone.

Sn

Inlaid wooden boxes and small Written at length on the scroll is pieces of wood, apparently not a philosophient treatise, nor a meant, for some game such as scientific study of the period. After

avants had

pored on it for many chess or draughts.

long hours, for the translation was simply a judicious council on how to

simplicity wisely, preaching live

veducation.

moderation in food and drink,

of children... Despite its age, the papyrus is The experts are unable to say

relatively well preserved, for many in the hands of collectors from Inter what purpose these disce served.

Mr. Emery said: "Some of periods better shew the wear of time. the articles are very fragile. When It is only 23 feet, 2 inches long which an assistant gently blew the sand hardly compares in length with the off the top of a box in the tomb famous Harris Papyrus, discovered in he blew half the box away as the tomb of Rameses III, which

measures 132 feet, 10 inches. well."

A facsimile of the papyrus w Two small bone labels are in-published in 1817 with the following scribed with the name

appellation:

Intian: "Facsimile of an Egyp occupant of the tomb-Hemeka, tian Papyrus in hieroglyphic charac- Grand Vizier to King Dens of ters found at Thebes and given to Paris by the National Library in the First Dynasty. Little is known of this period. Emile Prise d'Avesnes. Egyptologists expect Mr. Emery's discovery to clear up many my

of

a day. Their hospitality costs just terics of the customs of man under £400 week

the

FOUND BY ACCIDENT Prisse d'Avesnes, French archaeolo gist and egyptologist, who was famed for his findings about the middle of upon this the 18th century, came

There are quite a number of workers those far-off days-fye hundred who do not take their beer--they are years before the Pyramids were valuable document rather by accident.

built

teetotallers.

QUEEN MARY TO LIVE IN MARLBOROUGH HOUSE.

FROM SEPTEMBER

One

while searching a Theban Necropolis was approached by a workman with the scroll and asked if he wished to purchase it. As it seemed quite buthentic, the French archaeologist it, but little realizing its true thorough investigation, After E Prisse d'Avesno was able to establish that the papyrus had been stolen from in tomb of one of the Antefs of the tomb which 11th Theban dynasty, a

the whites of the eggs, beaten until a buttered baking

minutes

QUEEN MARY will not leave Buckingham Palace for Marl- value. in dish and cook 30 moderate oven,

borough House until September.

Obtainable from all leading stores.

DANBY & HANCE, Alexandra Bldg. SOLE AGENTS.

-HONG-KONG-SOCIETY FOR THE

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The Society asks for $25,000

in 1936 to continue its work for

sick and destitute children.

Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A..

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co..

P. GO. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Hongkong.

The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central.

JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.

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& Bolled Potatoos

Mixed Grill

French Fried Potatoes

Vegotable

Vanilla Ice Cream Tea or Coffee (Ico or Hot)

The members of the Marlborough Club, who have enjoyed the courtesy of using the forecourt of Marlborough House for car-parking, have received notice that, as from May 14, they must make other arrangements,

It nyill take several months to arrange for the removal of Queen Mary's personal effects from Buckingham Palace to Marlborough House,

Her decision to live in future at Marlborough House will revive memories of the days when the late King Edward VII, lived there as Prince of Wales.

Centenary

Of Composer

Of French Anthem

Paris, May 6.

The "Marseillaise", French na- tional anthem, will be played at the same hour all over France. in every village, town and city, June 26, to commemorate thé centenary of the death of its composer, Claude-Joseph Rouget de l'Isle.

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he himself some time before had un- earthed and brought to light.

At present it is divided into 12

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1 An almost preternatural power

though stepping apparently.

9 To the artist's model this would

not mean rested.

п Scot 10 Name that suggests

telling another what, the cani game.Is.

11 Pine.

12 A protective part of

man-of-war. 14 Wine.

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10 You know the insect, 'tis after

this.

nation's

customs

18 Agile. texts. Those of the texts, which-are- 20-A cleric. intact, are divided into two sections; 21 Town near the mouth of 25 down. the Kaquemina and the Ftahhotap, 22 Tunnel. separated by a spacs of 4 feet, D inches 24 A list of a without characters undoubtedly effaced

perhaps. by scraping. The number of lines of 20 Fruit each section is unequal, varying be tween 11 and 14. The length of the lines varies between eight inches and two fect.

28 Were I in this part of the church

It would be simple.

29 Minda to be down-trodden. 30 Wherein women worked in the

war.

33 Outstanding.

34 A hanging that is always short

at fret.

After the scientist brought it to Paris, a number of savants, headed by the lending egyptologist of the period, Francois-Joseph Chabos spent many hours' studying the complicated 35 Deputy. aleroglyphica before unravelling its simple mennuge.

HOURS TO UNRAVEL The writing was done with the greatest of skill. The lines are firm and clear without any overlapping or overtracing. The scribe using a kash, a reed cut off one end at an angle, used the utmost care. Each time he dipped the kash into the ink and continued where he had left off. ho did it so well that the joining of the characters is hardly perceptible. The scribo did his job as

carved as a sculptor of the perlud cally hieroglyphics into the hard stone.

It is interesting to note that the oldest "book" Is a simplo manual on

The young author composed to revolutionary hymn one night Strasbourg in 1792 when, as a young. engineering officer he was dining at Mayor the house of his friend. Dietrich, Suddenly in the middle of the dinner he rose and In a wave of patriotism composed a song for the revolutionary armles. The song was so moving that it is said that every- one in the room burst into tears.

Shortly afterwards Rouget de l'Isic,

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who has disgusted with the revolutionista, be come a royalist. He was then im-been named as successor of Mr. Bald how to live, how to ent wisely, how prisoned in Paris but later released win in the event of a reconstruction to care for children, subjects that are the death of Robespierre. of the government, in scen photo-Just as timely to-day and which fil Scotland thousands of pages daily of our news- In spite of his change in polities the graphed during a visit in

before pre-papers, magazines and other publica- 1 song he composed became the nation- which he undertook

senting his budget. on April 21. tionsUnited Prens, al anthem of the new Republic.

upon

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DOWN

2 What would sound to a Cockney like a machino for brewers is

bully.

3 Summary.

4 Many And a C.W.P. a cure for

this.

5 This may be red, white, or bluo

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"Seemn in" (anag).

8 Unimportance in meaning, ap-

parently.

13 Inert.

15 A raid that sounds lengthy, 17 Commonplace.

19 Tree of a definite time.

20 An upset toy is useful in the

kitchen. 23 This molluse may, be an oyster.

25 River of S. Asia.

26 Public School.

27

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light-headed Frenchman.

31 Quadruped known on the stock

Exchange. 32 Air.

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