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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1955.
World
Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The
'Look That's Me' Said The Frogman
Halifax, Nova Scotia. Navy frogman Lieut. G. H. Lawther could barely recog- nise himself the other day when he paid his 85 rents to HCO The new British Alma "Above
Waves," Us The
although he had a starring role.
The him tells the aloy n Royal Navy trugmen. faum:2 Empedors and get rutanarie who attacked Jarse! disable the German battleshilga Torptiz m Norwegian Dand
ון
dong World War II.
Lease the
HMCS
+<* +f three
Hoyal Navy men now statused!
J
nt
Stulacoma
seal who were
Cuvin
long smiler
To Lamori Rugland, The
Comprasy
Artur Bank) asked the HIN
to double
it roud supply mave s for stars of the movie to Wir underwater shota
Lawther, a 32-5 var-old g nah wall 18 years experience Pure wits the divet who w Based cutting the anti-tampendo hat which opened the way for
10 bitaek mariarad plen Integet
the 40,000-ton Tirpitz.
Treasure Hunt
A Canadian Tells From Lisbon: Thieves Think Up & New From Winnipeg: The World About The Strange Bo- liefs Of Ethiopia.
Ruse To Fool The Police --Aut They Come Croppor.
A
From Pretoria: Don't Discord The From Bologna: Andros A Delicato
Tops Of Vogotables:
There Are Vitamins
In Those Greens.
A 104-year-old Woman
Eye Oporation.
BUTTERED HAIR AND PUBLIC HANGINGS IN A PLACE WHERE
THEY STILL BELIEVE ⋆ ★
✩✩ THE
As
EARTH IS FLAT!
Winnipe Public hangings would be
regarded
Kruesome and barbarous practice in 'ana, but for the people of Ethiopia, who have no newspapers, they fulfit an "The Emperor Haile Selassie
THE
function.
school.
important
Winnipeg said teacher. Mr S. A. Stein- mann.
"Puldic hangings served
A few years ng he nise was Jouned by the Hoyal Navy to The Duke of Argyle to help t wreck of the Spanish | locate the
treasure zablja **** Florencia which went down off the wast coast of Sentian i The search was 400 years ago. abandoned this KUMIT although Tawther is convincert Ut the andent wreck he found is the renaue ship
Lawther joined The Royal
mobias He Coundian Navy 11
in change of the diving school at Hailfox
tige an
is
11e
Kad one thing he did not trach
spearfishing
at
all
slaughter" he says.
There's
JEM
one way in which Ethio- PIRN authorities could slow their citizens that crime did not pay.
Object Lesson
•
the
New Zealand To Get TV. By 1957
Wellington.
New Zealanders who, 80 far, can see television in the Dominion only at manufac turers' demonstrations, may be able to watch it in their own homes by 1957,
Thro Prime Minister, Mr Sidney Holland, avurouncing that the start of television was hope in sight, expressed the that the stage would soon be reached when a firm proposal could be announced.
The Minister of Broadcasting, Mr Ronald Algie, has clearly indicaled that whatever system of television is introduced, it will be controlled by the Gov- crument.
Commer-
Representatives u cial television interests here say thul television could be operat-
ng within
They two years, argue that the logical people to would run it in New Zealand be the newspapers. Aim, enter-
and tainment
electronic dustries.
Difficulties
In-
land and
They dis-"They eat raw ment. Kelvin High School here,
all animals serve it with hot, peppery recently
approved of completed HIX
other than oxen,
spices and a good sharp years as education-director
knife. such drawbacks,
The government in the East African King- Despite
Because of the nature of the the former
encourages them to put
its many high dom of the Lion of Juulah. ;
country with In their round, hills found windows
and small population
wide grass huts, but they seem scattered
and transmission on a national basla to prefer open holes
calls himself Kings beenuse subdued
"King of hay has smaller
rulers,"
Steinmann Mr
There told the Society. were a number of upris- ings during my stay, Int' They were soon put down
Mr Steinmann said education,
habbled in was, badly
been us the Ethiopi Coptic Church, to which one-third of the country's! 10,000,000 people boking-!
believed and ed. still Taught that the earth was
Told the Manitoba Geographical Society that their value, as an object Jesson, was the reason why they had been perpetualeri:
standard
part of Ethiopian social practice, İ
new mem-The Church was also opposed one," Mr Mr Steinmano, a
of machinery i to the use of ber of the faculty
involved, 's
"Fish, even sharks. are very fris nelly under water.
no skill in spearing Lawther addext.---Uhulted Press.
There's
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A LITTLE OLD LADY (AGED 104) "BORN AGAIN”
IS
Bologna.
The delicate
The little old woman in the big hospital bed smiled and said she had just been born again." eye-operation she had undergone at the age of 104 years was announced as a complete success by a team of doctors.
Augura Rosal, Italy's west t
Prof. Tirelli greed to operate Behool teacher, underwent the if her physical condition could She was ad- Burgiral operation on October stand the strain. 13. A inst on her rightmitted CAT WAS removed.
Prof. Carlo Tirelli performed the operation in 18 minutes.
after wards
patient
the
So began to see distinctly.
A
month ago when Augusta Rossi found she could no longer ul her invourite newspaper or conld tell whether Violetta“. her faithful old crt, was clean or dirty, she deelded to do some thing about it.
Very Misty
She called on one of her ex- schoolboys and demanded he operate on her eye so she could
in ner again. The cataract hal cloudied the comen making and the her completely blink
being left eye Wils maidng everything she saw very misty, she said.
schoolboy
to the "Villa Chiara" Clinic and after examination the specialist said that Augusta Rossi had the spirit and strength of a 40-year-old woman.
Immediately after the opern- tion the old school teacher sow the professor's hand. "I've been born again," she said, and you Carlo are my second father. Diet of Onions & Milk
She
Augusta İying In the big
sho could hospital bed old hardly wait to go home. likes to prepare her own food- milk, biscuits and grapes pre- ferred after a pinte of fried onions and a glass of red wine,
Asked her exact ago, Augusta Ross smiled as she tumed ovET to go to sleep-"I'm four years of age. I make a prezent to you of strained | 100 years."—United Press
shc visited
The was the noted Italian Specialist Prof. Carlo Tirelli, the first sur- Eron in Europe to perform live cornes, and isaie grafting.
THIS WALLABY LIKES A
flut
however,
OVET
ป
area.
plenty of smoke in order is likely to be much too difficult
education-director many signs of modernisu- tion in Ethiopia. He said cities like Addis Ababa. the capital, were becoming tourist
be- attractions enuse of the introduction The of attractive, palm-lined streets, modern curs up-to-date butels.
Primitive
Expensive.
When television does come, it the four is likely that unly inator
population centres. for Aurkland, Wellington.
in drive out the flies."
returning teacher
had
"
word of caution those
stations.
Christ-
inclined to regard church and Dunedin-will have the people of Ethiopia as For economic reasons, the socially-backward to the system will be at least partly
The Government point of unimportance in commercial.
20 years of experience be modern bas complex n
hind it in the control of a com-
and it is likely that the televi-
ነነ
world.
way as they had done for i centuries past.
mercial broadcasting Bervice,
modelled
television, Who is to contro of whatever kind, is not the
Mr Steinmann said that
rural areas the people still lived in much the same | "The eager young men we sion system will be taught at teacher-training on the same pattern. schools are
with men whom the world will soon burning question for the aver have to reckon," Mr Stein-jage Now Zealander now, how- mann said. "It is up to ever. He is more interested
it in his home-and us to help them: not laught
the better.-China Mail at them."—United Press.
"They use rancid butter to
dress their hair and the smell, as a consequence, is nol.
pleasant," very said.
he
SAXONET Special.
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"Just listen to Mom gush to that new neighbour! And she criticises me when I discuss boys seriously with my friends!”
TALE OF TWO SMART THIEVES
Lisbon,
Two smart thieves devind a new method of robbery lost month by using stolen cars instead of the traditional crooks tools of trade.
They stole 40 ears but were caught in the act as they made off is the 41st,
Lisbon outskirts and other towns, crashed them into shop windowD.
If anybody appeared, it was just
an accident, if nobody ap peared they filed the car with everything they could steal from the broken window or the shop.
FOOTBALL SOCK. They picked up cars in Lisbon Then they abandoned the car
Wellington.
Members of the Australian
Wullabies Rugby
recently fished
tcam. who
a 13-match
tour of New Zealand, exclied no comment in their football stock- ings.
A wallaby which lives in an old football sock has, however, Wille, ng the wallaby has been named, was enug inside his mollier's pouch in the bush near Rotorua when aho was shot.
The markaman, 15-year-old
Coulton of Auckland,
Willo
Dering pathoti
Kurth found cally as him from out of his dead mother's pouch,
Hugh took tho znidget marsupial home and Wille im- mediately took refuge in the old rock. As present Willated milk from an eye dropper with Is growing fast, --- China: MALL Special.
streels and then, by night, in
after, of couras, stealing a few
HOW TO› SHRINK
HUMAN
Buenos Aires.
HEADS
extras such as radio, tools, spare tyres, etc. They stole so much in a month that Police had to use a hugo lorry to carry the swag from two rooms where the thieves stored it, to the polico quarters where it was put into the biggest room in the building. A veteran police sub-chief mid: "I have never seen so much
- robbed in sò short a time by oo few.”—China Mail Special.
Prefers Life Down
On The Farm
A RAZOR-EDGED SLICER
Barkley Sound.
West coast salmon fishermen
have declared all-out water) warfare on sharks.
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The new weapon the salmon fishermen are bringing kuto
gives play definitely
the sharks A hard time. But it protects the fishermen's nets from shark damage and frees sockeye salmon schools of the devastating shark menace, Responding en urgent sp- peal from the west coast sal- Federal De- men the partment of Fisheries has devised effective means of with Basking sharks. coping In recent years sharks have menaced antmon fisheries off
of the parts British Columbia coast.
Inon
seriously
With
30 Feet Long
the installation of
D
food as the sockeye salmon They
frequent the ISTLITIO
areas as the salmon and are In their greatest numbers in the height of the sockeye scason.
Since no commercial use has
bren
found for then the gire... sence of a basking shark in salmon school is the Asher- man's nightmare. When the sharks become mared in
the nets they do heavy damage and destroy hundreds of dollare worth of webbing in a fàw minutes
Schools Of 50
Trolling
tho gear, claim, is equally
fishermen vulnerable
an
If the hooks snag the sides of the sharks. As many as 50 of them may gather area where salmon are feeding for making it impossible fishermen лcts.
to lay out their
specially built razor-like ram "Wo scout and find the salmon,"
on the bow of the Asherics
protection vessel Comix Post, heavy, fell of basking sharks have been taken in this area.
J
Reports
from fishery officers Indicated that since the out- atting of the Comix Post with the shark weapon about 40 have been destroyed. A bag of 18 was the highest recorded.
Damage to gill nets and troll- ing gear by banking sharka has been the west coast sal- | mon fisherman's problem for many ycamz. Tho sharks, some of which reach a length of 30 feet, foed on the sand
one fisherman said. "But Jose our enthusiasm when we see those large, menacing fles." Fishermen and fishing com-
have tried for many panics years to find an answer to the problem. Harpooning has met with limited success, However,
the method was considered too slow to be effective. Rifle fire was dis carded because it endangered other craft.
The
new method of shark- "killing is an improvement on a device tried in river inlet by a fishing company, a few years ago United Press..
Don't Throw Vitamins
In The Dustbin
Pretoria..
You are throwing away the best part of the vege tables you buy, according to a report issued in the Union Department of Nutrition.
All the vitamins people look wood fr too large quantity" "they said, are found in much larger Mail Special; quantities in those tops and
for In their greens, the report give a bitter flavour, China
leaves which they unthinkingly
discard.
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carrot tops are ten times as fich
Bast. Lorason Seven door were kept in in euictum and iron s the car-
His name is Matthew MOR captivity for several months to ros ftself and 30 times as ich Euke John Vosloo, bis the dis Dr Jorgo Carranza Vidal, of acclimates them before they in Vitamin C-vital for good not keep film on his semight mod - A French explorer M. Ber: Argentina, who accompanied M. were tumed JobsO
ots' the tooth and, a healthy complexion. ATOW trand Florney, as sent from Florney part of the way return- Liebana Mountains to increase Boot leaves contain six tiines
in the He was found); rušity, the Upper Amazon, In Fund to Buenos Aires with this the game reserves.
as much Vitamin C on the root, East › London - (South Africa) recipe of the Jibaro Indians recipe in his pocket. ***Tho
But one of the deer returned and turnip leaves five times as Regional Comit on then co for Biniony human bouds,
Jibaros," he said, "are no worst an doclined to follow the much as the turnip itself, the
Lethe of than Westerners. In fact in others into the mountains Is roport aided some things, they are ballet. how grazes peacefully with a "All theso louves kra
hey, do 10%. have as many dew herd of core during the day much tamilbe shah pinze It count, bare til or cus
Önd Recommended on one couro The “Fashion Show" of the year fects as we do and Uley are end comes back to the farm declared certainly les cruel" -- China with them at night China Mall that they - bú má žen Mail Specia),
quantities,
The recipe is: "Boil in water until all fat is removed, curo- fully renove tre nesh from alcull and sow up along the out, Fill with hot sand and rub on out-
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