TUT-ANKH-AMEN.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17935, 1 December 1923, Page 13

TUT-ANKH-AMEN.

A LIFE-SIZED STATUE. (BT CABLE—PXES3 ASSOCIATION—COPIRIGirr.) (AOSTHALIAN AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 30th, 10-15 p.m.) LOJNDON, November 30. The Luxor correspondent of the"Morning Post" says that Mr Howard Carter has removed from the tomb the first life-sized statue of Tqt-ank-haman, which guarded the sealed door to the mortuary chamber.' ' A second statue will be removed tomorrow. OARS FOR FUTURE USE. LONDON, November 29. Mr Howard Garter discovered 11 miniature oars for Tut-ank-hamen's use when lie crosssd the dark etrenm tbeyond the Elysian fields. These were laid inside the outer shrine of the lung's tomb. i WITHIN TWENTY YEARS. JAPAN'S NEXT SHAKE. (SI CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION— COFYBIGHT.) (AUBTBALIAN AND N.2. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Eeceived November 30th, 10.15 p.m.) TOKYO, November 29. The prophecy by noted scientists, as well as by self-proclaimed seers, of further great earthquakes m Japan, iscausing considerable disquiet among the populace. Mitgata Meteorological Observatory, under the sponsorship of Dr. Omorayra, a recognised authority on the origin of earthquakes, has announced that the next great disturbance can be expected within 20 years around the Shinano river, in northwestern Japan, where a vast earthquake occurred in the past century. The observatory is not. able to locate the exact date of future visitations.