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results, I shall applaud. Should they go against the scientific position as I see it, I shall state my view. Future digging. I think it would be wise not to substantially enlarge the part now excavated by your Department during your 1948-49 and 1950 seasons, before the final report has been published by you. I shall also dig this year on a more reduced scale compared with 1949 in order to complete some parts of my plans for the publication and to reserve the main effort for the completion of this report part of which is in the press. Return of my 1949 finds temporarily exported to Paris. The finds exported for study and repair, shall be brought back to Limassol by M. Pironin who is on board S/S IONIA leaving Marseille 9th Sept., arriving Limassol on Sept. 17th. I please have checked would be obliged to send an emissary of your Department or instructions to the Customs to take care of the case with these antiquities in order to avoid Pironin trouble when landing. It is possible that Pironin and a new assistant to the expedition, M. Suffert, will continue their journey to Beyrouth should I dig first at Ras Shamra. Otherwise they would disembark and proceed with your emissary to Nicosia. I shall send you a telegram with a copy of the instructions for M. Pironin. The part of the exported finds which I left with M. Forrer at Beyrouth who made the drawings shall be brought back by him or myself when we come to Cyprus for this years season. Bronze bowl. After a letter from the British Embassy that they expect orders from London, nothing further was heard about the transfer of the gold incrusted bowl from T. 2 (1949). Consequently, I left it behind in safeguard until a decision has been reached. Funds for Pironin. Should P. proceed immediately to
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