Notebook of notes on Cyprus, Gaza, Jericho, Egypt and Syria (chronologies)Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

222. From this table it will be seen that Blegen's excavations have modified the conclusions reached by Dörpfeld in many important respects (e. g. in the assignment of the Homeric Troy), but that in so far as Troy II is concerned both agree on the lower date, while the upper limit is actually set back some three centuries . As M As Miss Lamb has already remarked (Excavations at Thermi in Lesbos, Cambridge 1936, pp. 210 – 213) the new excavations have cut the very ground from under Åberg's feet. The deflationary school has sustained a severe and far-reaching reverse.

[printed: Forecasting and administration of credits relating to this object. Visa of decisions concerning transfer of personnel. Verification and settlement of travel expenses abroad carried out on submission of a statement. IV. Pensions of Navy personnel (with the exception of workmen personnel). Relations with the ministry of Pensions for the questions concerning the two departments. Study of questions relating to military pensions for which the minister of pensions is not called to intervene. Settlement of civil Navy pensions and relations with the Ministry of Finance for the questions concerning these pensions and, in general, for everything that concerns the pensions service. Settlement of the deductions for pensions levied on the pay of officers, civil servants and agents. Forecasting and administration of credits relating to advances on pensions. V. Regulation of naval branches of the national savings bank and of naval postal agencies. Study of all questions relating to these two objects. VI. Decisions ministerial on the settlement of accounts of fleet vessels relating to personnel and to equipment when the competence of local authorities is exceeded. VII. Centralisation and verification of settlement reviews and dispatch of these documents to the Audit Office. VI II. Regulation of family allowances for military personnel.] … continues