ZIMBABWE RUINS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 27 April 1925, Page 8

ZIMBABWE RUINS.

MR HOWARD'S ADDRESS. The Zimbabwe ruins were tho subject, of an illustrated address given in the Trades Hail on Saturday night-, under tho auspices of tho W.E.A., by Mr E. J. Howard, M.P., who war one of tho Parliamentary delegation which recently visited South Africa.

Mr Howard stated that the ruins, which had been introduced by Sir Rider Haggard in his story, "She," had been built thousands of years a.go, but by w.houn no fine, was- able to suv, although the ruins had been ascribed to various ancient, civilisations. Tho lecturer described tho. wonderful manner in which the Acropolis and elliptical temples had been bui*o, and stated that the. work was comparable with that of modern builders. Mr Howard a.lf-o doscribed how the ancients had worked gold and copper mines iu the district, which was about seventeen miles from Fort Victoria, Rhodesia, and said that tools with which the mining operations had been carried out had been found in tho workings, indicating that something had happened to the ancient miners which had suddenly wiped them out of existence, leaving only the ruins of their -wonderful buildings and tho mine workings to tell the tale of their civilisation, not a single dead body or skeleton of the ra£e having ever been found. At the close of the lecture, Mr Howard was accorded a- veto of thanks.

The room in which the address -was given was unable to accommodate all who scrught admission, Mr C. R. N. Maekic, secretary of the Peace Council, was in the chair.