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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1955.
FOUR GIRLS HAD 14 HUSBANDS Robot Phone WHITE DIVER CAN
Mother Acquired
Fortune
Moscow, Aug. 24. Kometa, Nasart, Toyman and Kaipu, the lovely black-eyed much-married girls of Changyr- Tash, are just a little tired of getting married.
They are unlikely to wed again unless it is a real love-match. For the mother of Kometa, Nasart, Tovman and Kaipu has at last been exposed after marrying off the four sisters to 14 ) different husbands in exchange for dowries.
The stranger than fiction story of how the girls were sold and re-sold by their mother in
out-of-the-way
settlement Soviet-Chinesa the
just appeared in a
on
Tash, Kometa was forbidden by her mother to leave again.
The mother looked around and found a new husband for her, Jalaldin Reduey, who paid 5,000 roubles (about £500 sterling) to marry Komela The first husband was abandonest,
Once again. Kometh settled down with her new husband, and once again her mother forced A third her to leave home. husbend was found for her, then a fourth, then a fitth, then a sixth. Each time the scheining Adkhallmova pocketed a fat wad
for
her selling of roubles daughter.
Eventually, the newspaper said, no-one else could be found who was willing to give a dowry for Komela as a bride.
close to border" has Mosenw newspaper:
beautiful sisters, The four daughters of a peasant woman, Seldet Adithalimova, grew up in the settlement of Changyr-Tash, tiny Moslern village in the cep Routh of Kirghizin, a Soviet repubile bordering on China.
Adkhallmova seemed such a at first that the good mother Government gave her a medal of maternity," thee newspaper Komsomol Pravda reported.
Forbidden To
Leave When Komein, the eldest daughter, was 17, her mother told her "l's high time for you Adkhalimova then turned her to get married." And she ad- attention to her second daughter, vised:
Without money, hap-Nasart, Together, they travelled 200 miles to the solement of impossible." 1951 MONUIA MINOIL two-door piness is
Soon, Kometa was married off Khaldarkan, where the girl was September. Malon available early
bidder. to the highest Milenge
European 25.000.
owner to Zaindy Viskhanov, a man 20 married
mother driven. Excellent condition. $4,000 ʊn
years older than the bride, but Soon afterwards, her with enough resources to pay obtained another dowry, and then third husband was found for 20,000 roubles (about £2,000
Nasari. sterling) to the mother.
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By this time, old Adkhallmova The third daughter was rich.
No
Protection Against Poaching
Wellington, Aug. 24.. When the Treaty of Waitangi was signed 115 years ago Quoči victoria gave her protection to the Maoris and they accepted the sovereignty of Britain.
From Umo to time
This unique telephone so- counting
been robot installed in the Park Hotel, and Dumeldorf,
been Pro- proved a great success. droed by a German instru- ment factory the machine is connected to the telephone system and when a call completed the caller merely button and a de- pressés talled account of the call is automatically supplied show- ing number called -- duration of the call-date and time and cost etc.- Express Photo.
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Asma refused to let her mother crops up where a present-day New 7th Fleet
Moor! claims that that pro tection justifies a disregard of the white man's laws.
The most recent case occurrod
at Whangarei, not far from Waitangi, where the Treaty was signed.
Kometa and Viskhanov drove the to set up home in Mezzanine) Djambul region of neighbour and a wealthy husband for her, Hongkung provides the expert at Kazakhstan. After a short time and escaped the fate of her two
Is your foot descrvomby fully-
Adkhulimova wrote to ask her qualified Chiropodist.
daughter to visit the settlement elder sisters by threatening to again. Once back in Changyr- tell the police of the "marriage
mari"
on which Adkhalimova was doing so well.
Two More This did not disturb the at Home mother unduly, for there were still two younger
"Lime In
found they were successive husbande and mere roubles flowed in.
Before the story came to an
daughters to 14 husbands, present day. In return she
received 70,000 The Magistrate was not con- Dividend In respect of the roubles (about £9,000 sterling) vinced and the thres, godwits of 70 cents per not to mention large quantities shot cost Heterala a total of share, free of tux, has been of valuable goods.--China Mail | £24 Bs Od in fines and court
Special.
costs.-Chino Mail Special declared payable on and after 8th September, 1955.
CONTINUING
Simon
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ADENAUER
PLANS STRATEGY
Moscow Visit
Geneva, Aug. 24. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his top foreign policy ad- have completed West German strategy for his Moon Bipartions
visers
MATCH JAPS
Darwin, Aug. 24.
A 32-year-old white pearlshell diver, who intends to retire at the end of the season, claims to have exploded the theory that à European cannot equal a Japanese as a diver.
He is Richard Edward Sonners, the last of one hundred Europeans who, since World War II, have tried gathering shells from the seabed off the north Australian coasts.
For nine years, he has do- mado a pars at me fled the extreme pressure of forward at his nosO
the depths, paralysis diver's shell In my hands.
slelanese and "the bends."
Sommers, frown as the "While Pearler" is No. I'diver with his own outfit operating off Bath- urat Island, 40 miles north of here, He has three Japanes divers and five Japanese crow working with him.
I tunged
with a To my amazement, he turned and dart- ed off.
Shark Wary
The shark is wary in at tack. If you let out air from your mult, tho bubbles will frighten him away.”
But the giant devil ray, will
Last season; with mother while man, Curly Beil, and a Broome half-caste, Joe Hunter, weighing up to two tens,
not be frightened by air bubbles. Sonners returned to port with
ho chaste more than 28 tons of shell,On the contrary,
*** them. taken in six weeks--a postwar record for. Darwin and a houl which even the Japanese simi-
When a divar sights a ray, he signats to be pulled up immedi-
larly equipped will have dif- ately because if the roy thould
culty in bettering.
Main Danger
brush against his lifelino, would snap like cotton.
The groper,
a huge cod
The main danger in diving is weighing up to a ton and slow not under water at all, Sonners moving, wil also attack a diver On the says, but on the surface, in the without much ndo, the diver "tender" who holds the diver's bottom,
can move lifeline in his hands, lika aquicker than the groper, puppet
but
7
on a string. Trained the surface is the safest line to, Japanese tenders are the quick-dateneo.
diver's est to respond to the
seconds signals-and it is the that count when the man the helmet is in trouble.
Another threat to divers
11 the sea spalce, though there is no danger from this unless the diver walks over it. Even if the diver who has
When a diver boing dragged he is
along the pearl bed by the tide been working at depth only for
have to be
does
not
has
a
daughters, Tovman and Kainu. caught in the act of taking god- | A. M. Pride as commander of where Adenauer is vacationing 1 pressure and the sudden drop of dips which can safely.
sees a ledge ahead in the cen-a short ber, a spokesman for the Chun-
averlod
staged" bed, he signals to be reisod cellor said at Muerren today.
until he dives another signal to chance. If it is too long before ho gets to the surface, however, Dr Adenauer, Foreign Minis stop.
will Slow reaction from the tend the venom from a bite Washington, Aug. 24. ter Heinrich von Brentano and
the have done its work before the The Navy
announced today aides held a high level strategyer and the diver is over that Roar-Adm. Stuart H. conference that lasted all day ledge and dropping into water operation is complete.
at yesterday. They met the fathoms deeper. His helmet is Ingersoll will replace Vice-Adm. hotel in this Swiss Alpine resort forced off
increased by the
Ignoring Admiralty tables of Top staging times and the number bo until on August 27.
... and all is over for him,
periods is a Down below, the giant devil made in given The spokesman said that Dr Adenauer's
not the shark, is the danger but, said Sonners, er's programme for his
we stuck
wwe to the tables, momentous talks with the Krem diver's enciny.
picking up "I have often rubbed should should have to be in leaders is now completa
Pieces of Eight to make He will meet with Partyers with man-eating sharks,"
|living." Sonners says.
A Maori, Mr Timoti Heteraka,
wita, a bird which is protected by law, claimed that as the old time Maori could take all birds for food, the Treaty of Waitangi
Interim our Adkhalemova had 'eold her gave him the same right at the |
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WOW ---LOOK AT MY DOG WITH A STICK IN HIS ·
MOUTH
JOHNNY HAZARD
IT'S NEAR DARK, SHARIZ 19 THAT IS THE GENERAL COMING; HE'LL HAVE A HARD TIME PINDINS YOU IN THE WATER! IF IT
ION TAS
MAGGY, IT'S BEST TO GO HOME. MAYBE YOUR HUSBAND'S THERE.
GUESS SO. EVERYBODY HERË THINKS I'M BALMY.Į
WHAT'S UNUSUAL ABOUT THAT?
THEŃ ALL YOU'VE HAD IS ARO SCARE AND A COLD BATHÌ HANG. ON TO THE BRIDEGACHERE HE
COMBI
the powerful Seventh Ficet in the Far East in December or January.
Adm. Ingersoll has served the past two years as Chief of Staff of the Atlantic Fleet under leaders this weekend in the hope Adm. Gerauld White, Fleet of winning as broad a political possible, at home Commander. He was an aircraft support as carrier commander in the Pacific before he files to Moscow. →→ in World War II.-United Press. Unlod Press.
AND NO WONDER/BUT
I TELL YOU HE WAS HEXED
BY THAT TOURIST, HE DID GET TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER--THERE
HE IS--EB!
PPP
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
„DON'T KNOW WHAT....... IF ANYTHING A KWI CAN. ACCOMPLISH WITH AN CASE, AINST A GUN, BUTA HEYS THAT BUY
I GOTTA FIND THAT TOURIST-AND GET
ANOTHER PILL.
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
By Frank Robbins
„HÍ, HÁZÍ DON'T TELL, MEKAT
JONOWAR YOUR SYED WERÐ? BORM, I'D BE JUSTA THE SING
FOR THEM.
"I didn't know ona what to do when I saw underwater for the first time. I had heard that his nose Woo his softest spot and when
EVEN
MAGICIANS
BRAT
Can't Carlsberg
If we were
any fresher we'd still be on the vine!
Libby's
FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
TODAY
BLACK MAGIC
ASSORTED
CHOCOLATES
situation
Fliquel
he
Frighten Away
Sonners believes that diver's paralysis, and its cure, frighten white man from the industry; Luggers off the Australian coast Bre not fitted with decompres- slon chambers ond
diver developing pains after surfacing has to be put down to his pre- vious depth. The pains disap- pear as he hangs, sometimes for hours, in the pitch blackness of night, while schools at Ast er maybe a shark-dart past in streaks of light In the phosphorus-flecked water,
Sonners has won his bread and butter from the sex alnce he left school when only 44
the years old to work with barracouta, crayfish and scallop Beets out of Hobart,
manta.
He served
in Tas-
with American, Dutch, Norwegian and Pana- manian merchantmen during the war and when ho last signed off was at Townsville, Queensland. There, he met John Childs, who had eat a diving record of 01 fathoms off
Sydney.
there
Childs told him that
to be made in
We fortune pearlshell diving, From various, ventures, Sonners ho's made some money in nine years, but the
"fortune" has yet to be gathered and it looks as though It will not now come from his own diving efforts #ince this is his last Beason China Mail Special.
Home Fleet To Visit Copenhagen
London, Aug. 24. Part of the British Hom Fleet will visit Copenhagen for the British trade fair opening there on September 29, it was announced today,
A comploto British military. tattoo of more than 800 troope will also be shipped overscis for the Brst time to give per«
how formances during the Britain will play. Denmark ät football and an Anglo-Danish boxing contest will be held.
The Duke will arrive, on -October 12 on a twowday" (vinit in the yacht Britanni
Commander = desni Liska