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Show Discovered Ancient City Robert J. C!asey, American author, returned recently, from a trip to Slam, where he said he found the ruins of a great city and believes he Is the first white man ever to gaze on the ruins that at one time probably housed a million Khmers from the Fifth to the Eleventh centuries. Natives feared to penetrate the dense jungle surrounding the city, he related. Unaccompanied, he plunged through bamboo thickets for nearly thirty miles and found the city surrounded sur-rounded by a slimy moat filled with crocodiles. He stated that French ar-cheologists ar-cheologists had discovered the remnants rem-nants of cities in which 30,000,000 Khmers lived at one time, but could find no record in France of the city he stumbled upon. |