INTERESTING DISCOVERIES
RESULT OF EXCAVATIONS. Bt Electric T«lbguafh--Oopyeight [United Press Association* i - " hiiWthens, j.May. .12 f) ji, Italian excavattes at Rhodes Island secured seventy leases ujivAheieut relics': of great importance!, c > winch were shipped to< Home. urn n Soldiers are guarding the excavations. •• ■ 0*1!'. - i ■■ The tomb of General Aristomenes has been discovered: Aristomenes, a . Greek, was the soil of Nicodemns, and lived in the 7th century. He wail! descended from the kings of Messene. He. defeated the Spartans in a great battle) for which liis countrymen would have made him king, hut he was content with the title of general. Aristomenes died at Rhodes, where he was buried with great pomp.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 19, 14 May 1914, Page 2
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112INTERESTING DISCOVERIES Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 19, 14 May 1914, Page 2
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