1939-05-31 — Page 3

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 31, 1939.

YOUNG BRITONS FIND BUDDHA RELICS

This is Futsal. II.

three-year-old King

He succeeded to the throne of Iraq on the death of hly father King Ghazi, killed in a recent automobile accident.

Cleanup Sale Just That

Cleveland, O.

Mrs. Charles A. Otis, chairman of

Bell The Monks Rang In 500 A.D.

AN IRON BELL which was rung 15 centuries ago by Buddhist monks in the Valley of the Thousand Monas- teries in Swat, beyond the Khyber Pass, is on view for the first time at the India Museum, South Kensington.

It is one of 150 discoveries made last summer by Mr. Philip Wright, of the museum, who, with three other. Englishmen, all in their twenties, made the first official excavations in the Swat Valley.

"The valley is now a barren waste," Mr. Wright said "but 1,500 monasteries, and in ancient times there were about

Chinese pilgrims carried home tales of their beauty and richness.

Roman Coins In Skeleton's Mouth

Excavations al Kams Xi (North Berkshire) lins brought to light pottery of the Neolithic or late Stone Age (about 2.000 B.C.) and of the Iron Age lype (300 B.C.), together with two 400 Roman skeletons af tate A.D.

In the mouth of one skeleton. enclosed in a sliver case, were of the two coins of the reign Emperor Arcadius. Seven other colns lay beside the remains.

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The excavations, directed by Mr. Stuart Piggott, Fellow the Society of Antiquaries, were carried out on a site which was revealed by att aerial photo- graphi.

Tree Trimmers Trimmed

Two

"The monastery bells, they śnid, Alted the valley with music."

ON MOUNTAIN TOP Among the other disenveries Is a set of miniature friezes, about six inches high, carved in bluish stone and showing strongly the influence of Greek art,

The friezes depict scenes from the Bife of Buddha, including his birth, his first ball and his young manhood as a prince taking part in wrestling and shooting matches.

Besides sculpture, there are coins, painted pottery and metat implements. top Some were found in a cave on of a 6,000ft. mountain, and were carried down the rough track on shepherds' backs,

The importance of the finds is that their sites are exactly known and re- corded.

Toad Skips Cornerstone

WILLIAMS, Ariz. When contractors laid the corner- stone of Williama grammar school in tree trimmers learned in 1912 they imprisoned a horned toad

Cleveland, O.

the

Allte. Eve Curie, daughter of radium discoverers, inspecis lead-lined vault and containers, at Eldorado refinery, Port Hope, Canada, only radium plant in Western flemisphere. Vault safe- guards $120,000 worth,

Clerk Dismissed For Marrying In Secret

A BANK CLERK who married secretly five years ago in defiance of his bank's marriage ban has caused a crisis between the employers and his society, the Scottish Bankers' Association.

His case was discussed at a meeting of the associa-

to obtain, if possible, abolition of the marriage ban.

a "white elephant" sale conducted police court that they should limit in it. The other day when the tion recently, when it was decided to conduct a campaign by the Cleveland Garden Center, their customers alone. They were building was being demolished, took off her galoshes while working jailed for 30 days when a property cornerstone was removed, but the at the sale. When she looked for owner testifled that they had assault-horned toad had disappeared. Papers

unharmed. them later she found they had been ed him when he refused to let them in the cornerstone crypt were found

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The clerk, employed by the North Bank of Scotland, married in 1934 when he was 22....

In 1937 he asked the bank for and this was permission to marry granted.

Mr. Alexander Kelly, secretary of the Bankers' Association, said the trouble began shortly after permission was granted.

****AN INFORMER -- Information was given to the head office by a common Informer, and the man was told that he could have the option of resigning....

If he did not resign, he would be; dismissed.

He had now been given-notice.of. dismissal, his services to terminate On June 22.

"The man has Mr. Kelly said: had 11 years service in the bank and is perfectly proficient.

Time and again, bank clerks have upplied to their management for per- mission to marry, but they have not been allowed in do so until they reach a certain salary,

"UNFAIR"

TOP BOOT TANTRUMS

Constant waring of top boots tends to cause "rushes of blood to the head."

That, at least, was the theory advanced by ProfesSOT John tton at the Aldwych; Club recently, when endeavouring to explain the manner of life of dictators. He said:

"I may be due to their' having to wear those top boola. all the time. They are so hot, and 30 constricted, and unventilated. No wonder they -got-rushes of blood to the brain and pull auch faces and shout 50.

"Couldn't there be an inter- national pronouncement, re-

carpet slippers engnising correct dletaforial wear?"

Professors'

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"The Scottish Bankers Associa Dismissal Demanded

tion will not stand for a clause in ot enslaves the #greement which

worker.

"It is unfair for any, organisation to put a stipulation ruling man's private life.

"We shall go all out to have the clause abolished in every bank."

Old Fire Whistle Silenced

LAWTON, Okla. Lawton's fire whistle was abolished by the city council after speakers had condemned it as "merely good ball for fire fons," Merle Warren as- serted that are whistles went out, with bucket brigades. They attract so many spectators, he said, that sometimes the fighting of blazes la seriously hampered.

Toronto,

A motion demanding the immediate dismissal of Prof. C. H. Underhill and Prof. G. M. Grube from the University of Toronto has been in- troduced Into the Ontario Legle Inture. It is alleged that the two men indulged in "subversive and unpatriotic public statements."

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Mr. Hepburn, Prime Minister of Ontario, and other members of the Legislature bitterly attacked professors. Mr. Hepburn said that' the Government, if necessary, would take steps to force the University to dismiss the two men.

HOW TO SHORTEN CONVALESCENCE

A

Hen Adopts Kittens tedious

HUNTINGTON, Ind.

here.

A hen a rearing kittens The cat placed her. kittens in the hen's nest, and when she returned the hich refused to give them up. With the help of Blaine Maples, a. the kittens who brings farmhand milk every day, the hen is rearing

them.

Lighthouse Isolation

Begun

Toledo, O. Citizens here know it's spring, be- cause: Harley Johnson, keeper of the Toledo harbour light, and his two. Assistants have gone out 10 miles into Lake Erie lo remain until late in September.

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convalescence Long

and tiring to both doctor and patient. After many. operations and illnesses, diger- tion is affected and impaired, yet it is necessary to eat well to regain your strength quickly,

The trouble is that the very thought of food is often repul- sive. Doctors have found that Horlicks is generally liked by the patient and that it is very quickly digested, and absorbed.. Horlicks quickly pours new strength and vigour into your exhausted body, Your con valescence is shortened. Soon you feel full of life again. Keop Horlicks always ready, at home.

Away With That! GIVE ME CASTORIA

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