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Figure: newspaper clipping pasted on page, with a torn strip from another clipping at top left; labels: Istanbul (handwritten), 1st September 1946 (handwritten)
Istanbul. 1st September 1946
The strip at top left, in Turkish, partly legible:
...vermemek ... tutan Top... ...nede 120 milyon ... ... ...ini büsbütün kaldıracak yerde, 4... ...k, köy okullarına karşılık tutabili...
A French archaeological mission discovers at Arslan Tépé, near Malatya an unknown civilisation dating back about 2.000 years BEFORE OUR ERA
A French archaeological mission under the direction of Professor Claude F. A. SCHAEFFER, director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, curator of the Musées de France, assisted by Mr Etienne COCHE de la FERTE, attaché at the Musée du Louvre, and Mr Paul PIRONIN, architect, has just completed a campaign of excavations at Arslan Tépé, near Malatya. On this site, a French mission led by the late L. DELAPORTE, who died in Germany in a concentration camp, had, before the war, uncovered the ruins of a Hittite palace decorated with sculptures now exhibited in the Hittite Museum at Ankara.
The research just carried out aimed to explore the still controversial chronology of the palace of Arslan Tépé and of the remains of earlier civilisations. It has been established that the Hittite palace and its sculptures are older than was admitted following the first discoveries.
In the deeper layers, the remains of a civilisation dating from the beginning of the second and the end of the third millennium have been uncovered. This one presents itself to us as new and is characterised by fine painted pottery; it has also yielded some religious idols of an already known type and seals in which Hittite influence is discernible.
In the depths of the hill, the French mission noted the existence of still older remains, going back to the Chalcolithic period, around 2000 years before our era.
The importance of the discoveries due to these excavations, the first undertaken by a foreign mission in Anatolia since the war, will probably lead France to have the research at Arslan Tépé continued next year.
On his return to Ankara, Professor SCHAEFFER expressed his gratitude for the assistance granted to the Mission by the Director General of Antiquities and Museums, Mr Hamit Koşay and his collaborators, at Ankara, as well as by the Vali of Malatya and his services.
The French archaeological mission has just left Ankara by air for Cyprus.
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The U.S.A. intends to try the Nazi industrialists, war criminals
Washington. — During a press conference, President Truman announced that the United States intends to try, after the Nuremberg trial, the principal Nazi industrial leaders, considered responsible for the crimes of the Hitlerite regime. He specified, however, that a final decision would not be taken on this matter before the end of the trial, and that the U.S.A. is currently studying the question.
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[Handwritten at bottom edge, partly cut off:] ...W. Wiskinsky? [illegible]
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