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1. Greta Garbo is to make A new m. Her last one was

Grand Ilotel, Two-Faced Woman, Auna Karepina, Ninotchka, Conquest?

2. Can you name a Stirling- shire village which has given lis name to

1 naval cannon, an oil used in_the_treatment of barus?

3. A care-wicket Is Fenced-in

cricket pitch gate, perch for a parrot?

4. Not a Zulu warrior's cere- monial beaddress. Something antaller, unpleasantly domestic-

What is y

b. Andrew J. Volstead died recently, The American Vol- stead Act was concerned with-

Electricity, Pan-American re- lations,

German reparations?

Prohibition,

G. A chick, breaks out of s FRE by-

Taking a deep breath, using its con-tooth, stamping with its. feci, flapping its wings?

The longest river i Brl-

7.

tain is

Clyde, Thames?

Forth, Severn,

8. "The rule is, Jain tomor- row and jam yesterday—but never jam today"---- .

Author, please?

9. The term sterling is de- rived from-

Greek for silver, North Ger- man traders, starling originally on early silver coins?

10. A former commander of the First Army has been ap pointed Governor of Gibraltar-

Who la he?

320) CANTARUSIJA KUNTA JAPANIA KRAANANETARZINDAGINE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1947.

THE CIVILIZATION OF THE Sailor Sam's secret for sale PHARAOHS COMING TO LIFE

LUXOR. Egypt. The monu- ments erected by an ár- cient people are still yielding now

information for archeolo-

By MAX BOYD

VIRAALAMEONCTIONAL LINNAOS

--Before each house is an open kit-

A

tombs

In

Another monument from the time of the Pharoah Amenhotep I, about 1550 years before Christ, is in pro- cess of reconstruction. It includes a of the god Amon, which Mr Chevrier atritelng relief of the sacred barque

says is the oldest picture of the boat ever found.

The Temple of Karnak is being a repaired. It was the particular temple of Amon, god of the fabulous Egyptian capital which the Greeks called Thebes.

Architect Chevrier some time ago found at Karnak o corner of emplo constructed by Akhnaton to Aton, Now he has developed a plan to excavate the remainder in about two years.

REIGNED 17 YEARS

Fifty-two statues of Akhnaton were found by Chevrier, who has kept four of the huge, bizarre cary- gigs, ings in his workshop near the dig-

Akhnaton was described by the Inte James H., Breasted, of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, as "the first individual in human history." He reigned for

B.C 17 years from 1375 to 1350 assuming the throne when about 13 years old. He was the son Amenhotep 111, and the remarkable Queen Tly, and he also was given the name Amenhotep, which Breast- ed interpreted as "Amun rests.

of

gists about ware, kings, ceremoninis and labourers chen, with a masonry oven and thousands of years ago. Even bread-working stone, Most of the the artisans who built the an- homes were built on top of

dug Into the cient tombs and who lived for carlier generations. Many familles face of the cliff by generations in a village of their used these old tombs for atorage own in the "Valley of Kings" or Uving space. Some removed the are beginning to emerge under mummies that had been buried patient investigation as

them; others pushed them into real

corner and fived alongside. people with problems and hopes

On the gates of the wall that of their own.

surrounded the village as the name of Thutmose 1. He was a powerful clent temple is being excavated by Just outside Karnak, another on- Pharaohi who conquered Upper Egyptian workers under the direc- Nubin, quelled revolts against the tion of Clement Robichon, repre- The ancient pictures of Akhnaton

a senting the French Egyptians in Syria, slaughtered

Institute in almost always show him.... with his battle Calro. It is the Temple of Montou, family, especially great number of Asiolics in

bis beautiful first god of Thebes.

queen, Nefertiti. It was an exquisite and

boundary

stone head of Nefertiti, Within a few years the world may found by American occupying forces recently marker on the Euphrates.'

more about the BRILLIANT QUEEN

idealistic in Germany, which stirred efforts. Pharaoh, Akhnaton, who 3,300 years the Egyptian government to have the ago conceived the idea of a single work of art returned. They say Outside the main gate is a water beneficent god and prohibited wor- was smuggled out of the country by tank. Glazed jars found beside the ship of the many other dietles of German scientists. -- Associated tank bear the names of the empire- anelent Egypt. builder, Thutmose III, and the benu- tiful and brilliant queen, Hatshep sut.

Bernard Bruyere, archaeologist for the French Institute in Cairo, finds there were about 120 familles in the ancient walled village 1,000 to 1,500 years before Christ. Then Egypt was a vast empire and the Pharaok's armies campaigned from Upper Nubia to the Euphrates. Many of the workers were Syrians, Libyans and Nubiam captured these, campaigns.

in

FORCED RESIDENCE

Once sent to the village to live, a family and its descendants usually were forced to reside there for cen- turles. On their days off,

erected 11 stanc

Hatshepsut built greal temples workers and raised gigantic obelisks to per-

were permitted to dig tombs of their petuate her name. When Thutmose own in the cliff behind their homes III and to build tiny pyramids to mark their future graves.

Anally gained control, the Queen's TRIC and figure were chopped from the temples and he the covered the name on her

with masonry.

Nubian polleemen guarded gates of the wall.

The men who lived in the village carpenters and other craftsmen. Their raines were painted on doorways or on the stone

are masons,

their

bases of roof columns, and tools and plans-cut pottery are left mong the ruins.

on stone of

obelisks

know

Press.

of

it

SHIPS IN BOTTLES

-HOW A Ship gets INTO A BOTTLE

THE. old sailor's secret-how the ship got into the bottle-is losing Its mystery. For model makers are following the instructions of Mr Bill Cooper, of Norwich.

To Stop

Chinese Urge Action

Outflow of Art Treasures

for

more

Since the end of the war some

For 16 years he has kept & fishing tackle shop where he sells model-making materials,

In his shop he heard bewil dered fathers trying to explain "how the ship got in there.' Sometimes small sons would be told that the bottle was built. around the ship. Chinese cultural societies and cautions taken to prevent the curios

Mr Cooper, who was for five lest monuments of nuclent

The broken stones of eleven long-connoisseurs of objet d'art are being smuggled out are "inndequnte." of the most treasured antiques in years in a RAF model-making have been found by workmen bur-

Egypt clamouring

today

spirited department, learned many of Curio dealers engaged In the illegal the whole of China were

their away from Changchun in Manchuria. the tricks from an old fisher- operations are sald, centring rowing into a gigantic pyton at the stringent Customs measures to activities in Peiping and Shanghai. It was further discovered. Temple of Karnak repair

man at Yarmouth, In search weakened foundations. Henri stop the outflow of valuable

Recently, the authorities received The Chinese National Museum be- of hints he has also visited Chevrier, French architect, Is patiently reconstructing the monu-antiques

that a curios

large lleves that though its experts have various ports down being belated information ments one by one.

shipment of "several hundred cases" recovered large amount of the Coast. smuggled out of Shanghai to of Chinese scrolls, brass and copper stolen curios, professional dealers objets d'art, stone sculptures, and in the Shanghai-Pelping area have were slipped out allegedly to a pur- the cultural treasures. chaser in the United States.

to

its

and

Teach Your Child Good Manners De side of each stone is foreign countries by "unscrupu porcelain were, all of great antiquity, likewise acquired a huge amount of

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in the world. There is no need to give ness, the thought for others and the reasons at this early age, merely let care for other people's feelings which him see that Daddy gives up his is behind it all. seat to ladies and old people, and that you and Daddy both pass cach other food at table, and that Daddy hat of when he passes

takes his

the ladies of his acquaintence, and these simple courtestes will come to be second nature to him.

the

When he is old enough to enquire

for the reasons

various actions, you can explain the kind

Chlidren brought up in this kind of atmosphere find it easier to behave politely than to be rude and aggres- sive. For violence begets violence, what to do has half and no amount of telling a child

·much cЛect

og chowing him every day and all day an example of good manners, which he will eventually learn to accept as a reasonable standard for himself and his friends.

permit, each

photographed, Then the pictures go to Mr. Chevrier's drafting board, where he tries to ft them together.

GOD OF FERTILITY The rebuilding of one temple has been completed. It took a year to figure out where the pieces should go and six months to put them to gether. Mr Chevrier says the result is the oldest complete religious monument in all Egypt. It small temple to the god of fertility, Amon-Min, believed to have been bullt

16 A

about 1000 before Christ during the reign of King Scostris.

lous" curio dealers..

CON-

The National Museum in Pelping reparts the recovery of a siderable number of curlos formerly considered "lost." The curios, In- clading valuable scrolls and sculp: tures, were picked up in cities and towns between Shanghai and cultural capital of China.

the

ILLEGAL OPERATIONS

time Customs, the export of curlos

According to the Chinese Mari

and antiques 1 forbidden,

But connoisseurs charge that the pre-

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"I HOPE YOU KNOW WHAT

YOU'RE

DOING?

'NOTHIN' TO IT!

ANY DOPE CAN.

HANG PAPER

#AN'I · SAID... (cercet

AN THEN SHE

·SAID...AN"

00! IT

RUZ TURPIBLE

PU YI'S BROTHER

The authorities belleve that the foreign buyers are engaged in the Chinese curlo dealers supplying the

business to "obtain foreign ex change.

Other Investigations have brought to light that part of the collection of imperial curlos of Chin Dynasty vintage have been smuggled out of the country by the brother of Henry Pu Yi, Japanese puppet "emperor" of "Manchukuo".

CROSSWORD SOLUTION

Solution of yesterday's puzzle:- Across:-1 and 9, Highways and byways; 10, Adn; 11, Tea; 12, Redan; 13. Lard: 14, Par 15, Arab; 16, Ordain; 10, Nay; 20, Oar; 21, Trow; 23, Gamma; 24. Essay: 25, B. W. L.; 28, Restricts.

the

WORKING DIAGRAMS

East

At his workshops in Bridewell- alley, Norwich, opened recently, four girls aro busy packing the frst model I ever to be sold for making models of full-rigged skipa to go into bottles.

With each kit aro supplied working

and diagrams

sealed booklets which reveals "Sailor Sam's Secret,”

The Arst kits now being packed Bre models of the clipper the Cutty Sark, but many other models sailing ships are being designed.

Instruction books

of

Down-1, Harpooner: 2, Idea; 3, Gad: 4, Hiawatha: 5, Winning 0,

being Atlanta;, 7, Yearn; 8, Sara: 9, See 1[ translated into such languages us Across; 17, Ralse; 18, Dress; 22, Omit. Į French, Danish and Afrikaans.

"You'll Be S-o-r-r-v-!"

BY KEMP STARRETT

"WHAT MAKES YOU

SO TIRED ...? WHATCHA BEEN

DOWN' ALL DAY?*

SO YOU'RE GOING TO PAPER. "THE ROOM YOURSELF./HA! HA! HA! YOU'LL COON BE WISHING YOU'D TRIED WRESTLING A¦ POLAR BEAR OR SOME OTHER SOFT CHORE.

I'M WORRIED ABOUT HIM-HE TAKES IT SO SERIOUSLY.C

LISTEN TO THE NEWS COMMENTATORS" AND STUDY ALL THE EDITORIALS AND READ ALL THE T'APORTANT BEST-SELLERS.

ONE WAY TO PILE UP THE REGRETS IS TO SPEND TOO AUCH TIME ON THAT GAB-GADGET.

"THAT MIDNIGHT SHACK: GOLD BEANS, PICKLES, POTATO CHIPS CREAM. PUFFS AND A BOTTLE

OF MALT BREW... AND YOU CAN REPENT AT YOUR LEISURE.

-Ledger Syndicate

WHEN YOU CORE HOME AND FIND THE WIFE ALL IN FROM HOUSE-CLEANING. DON'T SAY IT..OR YOU REALLY WILL BE SORRY?

"TUT. TUT!! THAT AIN'T NO WAY!

IF YOU THINK THE KID LOOKS LIKE HIS FATHER KEEP IT TO YOURSELF... UNLESS YOU LIKE TO MAKE ENEMUIES.

IF YOU'RE TEMPTED TO PLAY DONE OR PEACE IN

A FAMILY ROW... LAY OFF, MACDUFF HELL BOT

LAY IT ON TO YOU...AND YOU'LL BE AS SORRY AS, A PIGEON ON TOT GRIDDLE