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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY," JANUARY 21, 1958.
Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The
He's Off To Solve The Mystery Of The Amazon
WHAT IS THE STRANGE
WRITING
ON THE GRANITE WALL?
New York.
A young man who is the grandson of John Jacob Astor and the son of a Russian prince—a blend of cool cash and royal blood, that's hard to match-is planning a visit to the tributary headwaters of the Amazon.
11 will go by tedenpter 1
possible, and if not, by burrow
and Arms to try and
the extene
!
hidere civilisation
Tran bolenky.
f
Ser
Obolenky and Aine
ASY
han a tene fentlig de certain carved sinbol mscriptione 4 Krond
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crops found in the high, man- Red country of the A virat... hibe in Bolivi ant Per
'Great Hope'
same TIMECH apherang tin sige occurs augin and auran These SÍUBE AND GYNAL
safe it an infer view I a
where
progressed to 2 point we have great hope t When he says "We he means
the privately
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་་་་
Amazonia Foundation, Inc.. of which he a Vice Presides and Which # hrusted b George Michanowsky, archaeologist who has already chupled half a dozen locations. of the Inteription, mud hope, to and more In in expedition to get under way this spring
They hope to find evidence of a
civilisation much older than j
Lexomashy reddie D The ANDR Pas, ah Judian tribe, do Wirle thus refer to
if there had been a concerteld; Mitleid 10 Heave coume Thiru for Emasterity at NFL #1 #15 Capsule ilise
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and we
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writings
In is valley,
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w]|| search
for
expedition
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the symbol a Bunny as poss like, Mr Obuien- The cailbalion
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and teap' puss
1941 1 standing. 39 believed Inked to the pre- h tray tus American con- Ant in finately ine-inca
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World
From Pettigo: The People Of This
Littip Town That Straddles The
Irish Border Get The Best Of Both Worlds.
From Montreal: Thousands of People The World Over Offer A Silent Prayer For Peace Each Day At Noon.
From New York: a Young Man is Planning A Visit To The Amazon To Prove The Existence Of A Lost Civilisation.
From Berlin:
A
Now Russian Opera Is To Be Porformed In Berlin For The First Timo.
From Pretoria: 6 a boons
And Vultures Are Taking A Hoary Toll Of Sheep In Copo Province.
Baboons And Vultures Take Toll Of Sheep
Pretoria Baboons, and vultures with 4 alx-fool wing span, are taking a heavy toll of sheep in parts of Cape Province, officials re- ported here.
An Diolal of the Wool Board sold that in the Adelaide district vultures were attacking lambing ewes and were also kill- ing Brown sheep by diving down on them. Farmers In the Graaf- Reinet district are FD- porică to be afraid to their sheep on the mountains where mar- Audios
baboons
Are active and fearless in
their attacks,
A nature conservation oM- cial, Dir T. J. Steyn, said the baboons could be. Come ne blɛ a menco to wool farmers as the red jackal-China Diall Special.
NORTH? SOUTH? WHO CARES-YOU GET
THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS HERE
It's The Luck Of The
Pettigonian Irish
Pettigo.
5. Copying him-
Mrk has her writing novel for the hard Ave years. due pin the interior fastresa
Hr Ik led "logues"
for March. thi is not even on the maps.
sebeduled to the Armuras ca Bis pubileoliom in June. Perhaps River Writing
The mys
apurred by the thought of his literary own struguties with e sand tu
and the estion, he is now selling op The huishop founds - from. designed 143 Anance Winthy writers who feel the need to eat while working Meanwhile. he 12 studying decipherin techniques, aut
should "There's still a litle on going | Northern expedition
Irelow) -and very, the north and tea and coal for message for in our particular area, one expensive. I believe we've licked | the south. Gone are the nights from an alent and forgollen | ·aid," "but it's only chicken teed the big boys."
when hundreds of head of cattle Hand here will be plenty to compered with the fantastle war Pettigo, the most famous bor- Weru moved hurriedly into wite about that Isti's fe'ion. and post-war days when must der town in the country because | Northern Ireland, --United Pre
things were In short supply in of Its fantastic sling, is, or was
the smugglers' "dream town". "But," he said, "we sil kel One half is in the Republie and something now
and Chenn to the other half in Northern Ire-liven things up. Smugging s land. Three bridges cross the not completely dead. Plys Termon river which is the actual gagged to prevent them from border. Only one is "approved" zquealing-ore being moved for legal traffic but the locals South now to be fattened on ignore this law and use all three, the better grass down there.
Free Medicine
Customs officers in this tiny town straddling the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland believe the wild days of "big business" smuggling have gone for ever.
A Minute
A
Prayer For Each Day At
Peace Noon
Montreal.
They are known as the Minute Men of Prayer. At noon each day in 17 countries they pause in their daily toil and each, in his or her own way and according to their faith, offer up a silent prayer for peace.
The prayers-for-pence movement was originated by Herve L'Heureux. recently appointed United States Consul-General in Montreal.
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"It is t chi organisation! “ Sottition, By 1930 the total bel Mr te ureux expdalny It 3 Jumped to 1,700
201101 groups simply. an ord
year later the group want die est dithsement E
muzuberes more than 5,000 international stum AGA PORY
In the luat seven years all arts, Win
JOY!! bas spreadh The wbt. Mr Hurrus received letters: from SURIP
ek chat fres
who believe in thod will prakse for one manate
the
day and ask God to help us and 38,000 people le mure than 17 Jusa ferences"
thale manif
"Each person is free to pray in his own way, and according to his own faith,” he added.
The prayers-for-prace move ment is an outgrowth of Mr L'Heureux' wartim experience as a State Department official in Europe and North Africa.
He says he was astonished to discover in many of the coun- irles he has visited that there
up-
is a widespread luck of preciation of the true character and ideals of the American people.
How It Started
vtinfrin
ས
the
Supporting pavres-for-pence pian,
Chaplains reported that US Korea troops to Jupon and found soluee in the movement. There is also concrete evidence, Mr Luteux
that says,
the (movement has ruught on behind
the Iron Curtain.
He says the Tapense in Gor- mary 145 been particularly gratifying.
It Costs Nothing
'Tie US Congress
bas opplauded the movement, Mr L'Heureux recently was askeri to supply a Quebec college with a rupy of the resolution and prayer so that the movement
into
Americans, be says. arc might bo introduced thought to be extremo y capital-colleges and universities, istic and addicted to luxurious "The movement hus living.
sald Mr
fearing
and
experiences
organised head," L'Heureux.
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Ho says these made him realise the need for "It calls for no financial sub- something to demonstrate thatscription of any kind: ils spread Americans
are, in fact, "God- depends entirely upon the "peace-minded" spontaneous and voluntary efforts of those individuals and movement was born on groups of individuals who wish October 28, 1948, when Mr to interest themselves In this L'Heuroux proposed to ancrusade for prayer." United American Legion group at Man- Press. chester, New Hampshire, solution calling upon members
TC-
of the post to pause for one minuto at noon each day to pray for peace.
The resolution was adopted. and the news spread.
During the first year approxi- mately 650 groups endorsed the movement by adopting the re-
Ex-nun Becomes
Cashier
Piracus
Germans To See
Soviet Opera
The storm",
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SIDE GLANCES
1. M. Reg U. §. Pet Off
Copr. 1953 by MEA Servis, Inc./
By Galbraith
"Remember how we waited for the day he'd learn to walk? Now how are we going to stop him?"
A NEW MATERIAL
THAT WILL BE REALLY TOUGH.......
Ottawa.
Dr Jan Weinberger, co-inventor of the new miracle fabric "Delwin," has ordered a suit of the material with only one pair of pants because he is confident it will last for the rest of his life.
"Drinking glosses, BONDS packaged detergents, sulphate ammonia, super-phosphates watches to still good lines." United
pero
fts do inhabitants enjoy the the best of both worlds, The 350 living in the Republie ero Press.
smuggling the bridges northward for cheaper and a better variety of groceries and most. Medical and dental treatment in North- ern Ireland is also free lo "visitors" under Britain's wel- ware state.
to
The 150 Britons" have only
CTOSS southward to
suve money on watches, Hauor, gaku- line RIVE cigarettes. They unally only purchase enough for themselves and their famn!- Hey! a custom omeful sald. "So we let them by we have Lu Myway because I would be
to watch Impossible
then 24
hout a day
"In Munnier
the river dries be forded without up and can getting your shoes wet. And if you Wont to be particularly fumy, you can heave contra- band across the river to a friend
we relative and
can do nothing about it."
or
Pettigo has six saloons -- and they are all on the southern side of the river where liquor, beer and cigarettes
40 per cent cheaper.
ard up to
Two Of Everything
There
of
two Customs pasta - one on each side the only "approved" bridge.
There are two polico sta- tions, two post offices and two Wilk memorials the one in the Republican side to Д patriot killed in 1920 by the British and the other a British memorial to locals killed in the First World War.
Pelligo also banken, two
schools, two
two boaste pourthouses, two recreation' halls Cono anders and the other orange) and four churches →→ two on each side.
The only butcher's shop north the river and down the street
a
magnificently-locked
grocery store owned by Paddy Johnston. He has two other
Dr Weinberger, a 50-year-old | The name Delwin is a com-shops "round the corner in Eire" bachelor, leaves for Europe with | bination of their names.
whore, says a nollico in his win- his now sult in the spring to Canadian Patents Ltd has dow, we have a particularly help start production of the applied for patent rights in fine selection of Swiss watches." Berlin, cloth-which is five to 10 times respect of Delwin in 33 foreign
Pettigo is altuated in a small Soviet орега "In the stronger than any other_fabric countries. Production Agents Keanikov, is to be performed Austria, Switzerland and Bel- the
with music by Tikhon in Germany, Holland, France, for it have been appointed Isalient of County Donegal (Re- United States, South Public of Ireland) which sticks into County Fermanagh for the first time in German at glum.
America, Europe, Britain, India out
(Northern Ireland). - the Drostden State Opera this
Three Canadian hims, two in and the Far East. | year.
in Moniton, Ontario, and one
are producing the under a special licence
cow
Last Indefinitely
Children's clothing, bed and linen, furniture covers, Unings and household
car
definitely cloth
Its importance is due to the fact that it is the only point for The opera, based on a novel cloth
miles where notorials may cross Sophronia Mathioudakis, the called "The Loneliness", by issued by J. R. Johnson, chief pretty 27-year-old nun who was N. Virta, is said to re among of the Development Branch of bath
the border (because triptiques must be stamped) and also acquitted Jast October of come the most popular in the Mos-Canadian Patents Limited. EL
because it is the railhead for the plicity in the murder of her
since repertoire lover, a monk, at a monastery premiere there in 1930.
Ita Crown corporation.
{annual Lough Derg pilgrimages By next spring, the now cloth draperies will last almost into which 40,000 people travel in Crete, has taken a job as
made of the new from all over Europe, ceshier at a restaurant here. It deals with the October re-will be on sale to the pubile
Sophronin is reported to have volution of 1917 and is based
Statistics revealed that where the actual experiences of received two offers, of marriage on
ordinary types of material foar franilice who lived in a from England, but to havo two
under a seven-lba, weight, Dol- turned them down becauDO of village in the Tamboy distriét Dr Weinberger, chief of the win remained firm up to about Gone also are the days when.
Anglo-Greek friction over of Tsarist Rusia.
Defence Department's special 76 lbs,
hugo lorries, with specially- Сурга
A tope of throw specialists projects division, and Col. H. A. Experts have said the new tuned engines, moved silently Lie British return { was translching the work in | Belcellier, head, of, the Intors| raaterial em bo mado into als along ⠀ "unapproved" 'ronda Cružuje to Gregor and Lion. I time for this yom's 150th an¬ service ; development......' brincar, most anything from heavy fare | (rdatis on which trame may not
Pavling to China Man Hpecial
"Hans Mili “SFUSIAL"
The four, grem sad, sugar, for
the
Two Names
Gagged Pigs
can*iink about it," she said→nlympaty of the founding of SMEARS 149 DIOSH NAUF A VIDA KATIKAN PERO PREDOjwászbanilo Renally cros há „hotrias) loaded
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