EUROPE'S PEACE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18891, 5 January 1927, Page 7

EUROPE'S PEACE.

Locarno not the basis. jtfTERESTING CLAIM BY AL BRIAND. t*r eina—n**t associatios—coptwoht.) AJO) V.l CABM ASSOCIATION) (Bwefred January 4th, 7.35 p.m.) PARIS, January 3. Jt. Briand, in an important passage, in an interview published by "Le Jonrnal," declared, "It was not on the biiia of the Locarno Pacts that the peace of Europe was first established: ««It was at Cannes with notes I exchanged with Mr Lloyd George iu 1022. Germany, Belgium, and Italy word to have joined in an agreement between Britain and France. No country was to have been admitted at the subsequent Genoa Conference without signing a formal declaration of non-aggression. Yon know what happened and do not wish to grumble. When I returned to power I resumed the work where I left off in 1922." JI. Briand concluded: "If a system of treaties BU eh as the Locarno Pacts had existed in 1914, would Germany have declared war? Never." ABRAHAM'S BIRTH PLACE. INTERESTING DISCOVERIES. ftT CA»U—»»«•• ASSOCIATION—COPTSIGHT.) * C'u» Tnas.") (B«eeived January 4th, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, January 3. An expedition comprising Englishmen and Americans has resumed excavations at tTr 6f the Cnaldees. They unearthed numerdus- tablets giving lists of square root numbers up to 60, also hymns and records of the early Kingß. The excavations reveal for the first time the appearance of a City in Abraham's times. The ruins show narrow streets filled with comfortable twostoreyed houses, resembling the best houses in modern Bagdad. As it was the custom to bury the dead beneath the houses, many discoveries are reported of cjay coffins in brick tombs with food io various vessels. An unusual discovery was a long, narrow room in number seven of a quiet street, containing an altar and , thirty bowls filled with the bones of | children. It is believed to have been a shrine dedicated to a deity kindly to children, to which relatives brought their infants for burial. [Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of Abraham, has long been a subject of archaelogical dispute. The s{te, previously supposed to be at Edessa or elsewhere in the north of Mesopotamia, is by the most recent scholars identified with the rum mounds of El Mugheir, low down on the western side of the Euphrates. In Ur Abraham married his halfsister Sarai (afterwards Sarah). From Ur, Terah, the father of Abraham, migrated up the valley of the Euphrates to Haran, in the north-west of j Mesopotamia, where he died.]