THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1955,
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Interesting
Old Chapel To Be Moved On Rollers!
Prague.
Engineer, here are pre- paring to move bodily a 320- j year-old riverside chapel to make way for a new road.
Salut Mary
The chapel, n smult, elicular,
building dedicated l
Magdalene, stave un the west bank of the aver Vilava, which as the ugh the moleste of Prague.
The engineers hope to naïve it alowly, by hydraulic 1, aking rails tending to a new city about 33 yards away, darvel of the water's edge.
They will the job in bel sluga, mgiving the chap1, which 450 tons, a yard at a 12414.14 Ebre
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The transfer of the chapel an clear the way for widening an existing road carrying tranny tame and conruelion et 3 motor- ad parallel t
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News Stories From All Parts Of The
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From London: cold. From Prague: Engineers Plan Tohape
Elephants--As By An Export.
A 320-year-old Chapal To Make Way For A 1 Road,
From Munich:Hitler And Roosevelt is
Man Who Served From New York: Glamour Begins At Going To Write On The "Turbulent Twontios".
Two Now For Tots In America.
THE AUTHOR'S LUNCHEON
GUEST WAS AN ELEPHANT
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Baze. elephant hunter to the former Em-
of Vietnam, pecor leading Algure
The French resistance in Tiklo. China, Chevalier of the Lestion of Hammar, cam {{u town To autograph Popics of his "Just Elephants." When his publishers advised
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1 whose eyes are crinkled from staring patches of jungle from which e'ephants or tigers or bi ffalo might suddenly emerge, M. Baze has spent 40 years
living with and studying elephants. They are, he says, fascinating Feasts.
So fascinating, in fact, that
be thinks bok
hin of the autogrande Arrangements M. Baze approved and asked if he could bring a friend.
it is unneces-
sary to glamorise them with such tales as those of the eerie graveyards to which they are reputed to retire when they sense the approach of death,
Aure.
are
ed and shoots it forward with terrifle force.
Actually, he says, there have been discoveries of un- usual numbers of bones | An elephant ents about 900 and tusks in one place but these, he 18 only places where many elephants died suddenly from the epidemic diacases which occasional- ly decimate them.
Here is some of M. Baze's
elephant lore;
Elephants have distinctive
foot shapes, as identifiable to natives as fingerprints, so thieves when stealing elephants cut the feet into different shapes.
One tusked elephants are deadlier than those with two tusks. They Cun wield the one tusk more accurately.
The trunk is the dangerous part of charging ele- phant. He carries it curl-
He Served Hitler
And
Roosevelt
Munich.
"PUTZI" Hanfstaengl, scholar, historian, and one-time friend of Adolf Hitler, stays aloof from the postwar current of German politics to write a chronicle of the turbulent history of the twenties, documented by his own experience.
when
1 hr. like his eduration, ing situation and holi The HL split with Hitler came WIN half-American, Fir!-
Con- balance."
Foreign Minister German Hi Father
Hantstang now writes and stonlin was Gen-
Von Neurath wrote man, bis mother Amertean. He works in the spacious Mudy of Alfred Rosenberg of Hands. fought for Her m his early Tiefland", his home in a wood-tacng's efforts
to discredit his years bul spent the war in the
ed suburb of Munich Tils library anti-Semitic works and stale.
He was made Nazl Paty every
but press chief
service of the U.S. Psychological fahelve, are crowded with book:ments In foreign Countries. Warfare Department.
111 English unadh German and Hunfstrengl did not walt for
Corner *I The well- further warning. He packed his appointed room is Bed with
bags and fled to Switzerland.
and mcm. rles,
He emigrated to Canada "There, in that obair in trout when the war spread to North of the fireplace, is whore Hiti: America offered his services to user la sit when he came
the US. in
personal letter to valt me." he says. "Franz Liszt President Rousevelt. He worked sat in another chair here before in the American Psychological
fornrigh
Win forced to flee from the country In 1838 because of his clashes with party Theorist and Jew baiter Alfred Rosenberg.
**I have completely with- drawn from political life,"
6
he
SAYS BOW. "But I can say one thing. The world would do well to pray that two great old men -Adenauer and Elsenbower- stay alive.
"If they only can be with us
ix more months, this is amort
an eteenly in our Inst-tempo
times. It is extremely imperlant
to
either of us were bien. Carl Warfare Department through
Maria von Weber hudl an in the war and returned to Ger- sciplin engraved 028 one of many at its end. those pewter mugs."
Inventory of Century
nume
His current book, which will for udh by that i mean be published soon under his full the entire world-that on-
of Dr Ernst Sedgwick sible and steady statesmen are Huntslaeng, will be called "An Inventory of the Century". It
here to master the ever-chang-will deal not only with his one-
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tline confidant Hiller but with the whole series of European statermen in this and the last century that preceded the Nazis in Germany.
Lo
in
Hantelaeng was called to face
a denuzification court in Well. beim near here in January, 1949, because of his early party mem bership. He produced
lotters from former State Secretary Summer Welles und Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt testifying to his war- time service and was acquitted.
Composed for Hitler
on
both
Since then, he has returned to his books and his plano. Ho ecmposed movie music during Hantstaengi himself played, no the 30's and wrote a "Hitler small role in the early history sulto" for his boss. The music of the Nazi Party. The son of now is free from politics. The an art book publisher, he went writing enjoys the benefit of a
school
Munich
viewpoint developed and graduated from Harvard in 1909, sides of the Atlantic.
"I am planning to return to Handstaengl and his second Cambridge in 1939 for the 50th wife of a few weeks, the former clasa reunion," he says. He re Baroness Renate Van Willich, called that he was schoolmate have recently begun another there of John Reed, who later hobby. They collect encyclopae became an aide to Lenin and dias from various periods of the author of The Ten
history. Days German That Shook The World,"
"It is very interesting." he Hanfstand worked in the aye, "what there supposedly New York branch of his father's neutral chronicles of the times fem from 1811 to 1931. In 1923, bave to say about a person or ho returned to Munich to study a fact in the 1887, 1914, 1937 United history but became involved and 1910 editions" instead in current events. He Press,
took part in Hitler's attempted
| Becrhall Putsch" in 1923 and
was exiled...to Austria While Glamour Begins
Hitler wont to gaol to write "Mein Kampf.".
Fled to Switzerland
At Two
:
Now
New York.
A girl once had to grow up before slie..could drift around Two years later, he was back the house in a frothy neglige,
In Munich to resume his studlez,
Now little girls lingerie i
mothers, Little
at
and in 1928 he received his copied after latest thing doctorate in history, In 1031 girls modelled the Her gave him the job of in filmy underthings rolling the Nazi Parly idens to fashion show recently given by the aulsida world as foreign the Yolande Carpa a company Press chief
which
formerly made Hanfairengi insted five year. He was convinced at first that-lips us
• Woom, two-year - olda the National Socialist govern teenagers, the girls showed that Metime ment was "doing something glamourmow
for the German people. But he thing in a giri's life, line only found himself i claming, môre thitig: mlining for toddlers & Was and more over the anti-Semitien black chiffonso it remains the of the party, and the rest of the pecalipe
pounds of food a day - and M, Buze would like to know how Hannibal cart- ed the immense tonnage of food necessary for the he elephants with which
crossed the repeatedly
Alps in 217 B.C. Male elephants in the East know they are hunted for their tusks and are guard- el by a wall of females when hunters are scented. Court In Public
Two elephants will each lend a shoulder to a wounded elephant and help him es cape. Elephants court in public but make love in private. They hold trunks. like humans bold hands. The period of gestation is 22 months und females cali have babies from the age of 20 to the age of 60. They have about 10 bubles in a lifetime. The babies are three feet tall and weigh from 170 to 260 pounds at birth. Elephants often live to 100 and one M. Baze knows of -lived to 150.-United
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