THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1958.
Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World
A Week Of
ANIMAL ODDITIES
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London. Woodpeckers are Something has happened in the animal world. chewing down a church steeple in southern England. A singer wooed a Even lion in Italy and theatrical cats posed for operà judges in London. camels and elephants are acting up.
Nobody knew whether it was the after-effect of Europe's cold wave or an outbreak of premature spring fever-but it was a topsy-turvy day for animal news last week.
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The church would look betier longing to Mrs Elleen Anderson. without a steeply anyway,
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to get two free sardines,
At the end of the auditom,
Camel Upsets Actor
Fred To a preially A emel neted up In Chel es,
en tructed milk bar at the side! in the heart of London. 11 of the stage.
After Maggots
Unew felevaton avior Pertwee.
Jon
Pertwee, whis was makh a TV Alm, we wiring a bowler That and carrying an umbrell
while he rate the emat. When inte relaxed his grp to inise his hot in preeting, a car rouard by, Pertwe The met Jungel Indied, shur, the street.
We packers at Wed Nov frustrated by the cold wave
Bunt for rond, turned to
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The shut.l
ny holes have bevar hotend an the steeple that it may fall
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the audition time woo Dayld Ward, Sellers Wells pincipal si gey. who will set with the ent
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New York
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a teys have drabeel
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Mereka,
America
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recently t a 14 700 years ago, anesly, I had been thought that the Inst big re nge occurred
but 25.000 years ago.
Filmt sell that clating of local samples by 140 of given lacive carbon hudh
their first accurate
picture of the aweep of the last,
age Into northern
America--United Press,
He Fed The Lion!
(With His Finger)
Mr Mox
29-
Melbourne. Neudorfer, a your-old labourer lost the third finger of his left hand when he tried in stroke a Honcas In
And then there wie Dumbo, | the London Zoos elephant. Aj
2009 patitey Tim.hed painting a
betch the zoo, ni ponded a "wet paint" sigti.
Dumb Finland aloon and
HAL down.
The Wenntprekras Swans Do Battle
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of the web; to West
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Hichmonl
in a short badtle royal Themes River in
for the Royal A spokesman Society for the Prevention "Tan be said one more word. į Cruelty to Arane
4, the
wans don't like dirty ones. Forder said
The
dirty Hut doundering in mudpools afte The Mistry of Agriculture's the RSPCA cleaned them pos, department is conducting they had picked up enriner
navee.igallme
the river United Press
- was
SIDE GLANCES
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From London: Exports Debunk A
Famous British Ghost Story.
From Vienna: A Siberian Slave- Labour Comp Escapeo Arrives On A 60,000-mile Crusade Against Com-
munism.
From Geneva: A Houlth Expert Sounds A Warning About A Serious Donger To World Health.
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From Paris: They're Trying To Make A Sundial Out Of A Famous Gity Square.
Debunking Of A Famous Ghost-hunter
London.
They called Borley Rectory "the most haunted house in Eugland." Witnesses told of a ghostly nun who materialised in broad daylight, of scrawled messages which appeared spontaneously on walls, of pebbles and religious medallions dropping into rooms apparently out of nowhere.
1:
LA
of
ME'S ON A 60,000-MILE HIKE ROUND THE WORLD
to
Vietna.
A Biberian slave labour cent escapee is walking 60,000 miles around the world
Warn people againal communism. Lithuanian refugee Urmann, 41, took an oath walk 60,000 miles and to agalhat comriulain" when escoped from a Soviet Alave labour camp near Vladivostok, seven years ago.
Stanys
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reach he
Urmann, who is presently staying in Vienna, said he was arrested by the Russians after the Soviet invasion of the Ballic states and WIN
Rentenced to death. The sentence lotur was commuted into a life term.
Met The Queen
In 1040 Vrmann and 10 other Baltic refugees Rucceeded In escaping from the slave enmp. After months of hardships 13 in Nationalist of them arrived
Chinese territory, Urmann said.
Urmann since then wallung
communism.
from
has been Country
country to warn nations
He walks every where until the sea stops him, Then he takes a ship.
In his six-year walking tour Urmont has been received by
late King Gustav of Sweden. Queen Elizabeth and the form- ston Churchill,
er Prime Mislater. Str Win-
Urmam, who is accompanied by his East Prussion wife whom he met in Hamburg, plans
tour via continue his walking Italy, Persia, and India, with Australia as his final goal- United Press,
EUREKA!
I Can
Speak
· Again
Florida.
Mr John Sandras, who had been deaf and dumb for seven years, shouted to hi tule "Our child iz safe," when he received a letter saying his long- lott son was in Canada, Then, weeping with joy, he discovered he could ticar NA well ឥត speak. Mr Sandras lost his speech
and hearing when an air craft rocket exploded close to him during b baitle in the Greek civil
war.
Vangelt, his younger st
was laken prisoner b the Communists and held in an Eart European Communist country.
The letter told Mir Sandrus, who lives at Antartikon that Vargas released
near here, had
been
through the interveniton
Cross,
of the Internationd! Red and had jolred other members of the family Canada. Special.
En
A
china
Toronto,
Matl
Russia Has
A Suicide Problem
Moscow.
women
Suicides among because of a "feudal" atil- tude towards them by their menfolk are reported from the Moslem districts of Soviet central Asia.
Reports of polygamy
Communist officials among central Asla have found their into Soviet newspapers.
way
even
in
to turn in a story. But the Beware! Baboons There have also been complaints
When It burned stown at mul- secretary when he was hit by Recently, clean white swony, nicht on the 27th of Fetinary a large pebble. Immediately he 14399 thare were reports of | grabbed Price and forced him to turn out his pockets. They Area rawze girts walking about in
the Amer
Many groups
were filled with pebbles. ፯ .
Button Bald this was one the curious Journeyed--and still
"phenomenon" Price could not journey to the isolated spot in
explain Essex to investigate the ruins
80 he rushed to л phone the hope of hering the and and rustlings
news editor rejected It because witnessing some of the marvels of the possibility of libel under
the atriot British Inw. reported by earlier observers.
Numerous books stud articles been written about the Today there comes un- other book, perhaps most tional of all, it is The Haunting of Borley Rectory" by U:ree distinguished members of the world famous Society of Psychleal Research,
By Galbraith
"I'm sorry you didn't ask as many questions when you were a boy as I do, Dad-maybe you could answer aome of minu!“
circus enge at Traralgon, about Insects Developing Resistance To Poison...
100 miles east of Melbourne,
"
Mr Neudorfer, nn Austrian immigrant, fold the police: puked
my hand
between the bars of the enge to stroke the lloness. She snarled and caught my anger in her teeth. 1 jut her on the snout with my free hand, but the tip of my finger wan gone."
Doctors later ampulated the lager to the next joint.--China Mall Special.
Happiest Days
Of Their Lives
Istanbul..
One hundred invited guests drank lemonade and roda water
SERIOUS DANGER TO
Says WHO
WORLD HEALTH Director
Geneva.
Insects, like human beings, develop resistance to polsons.
by
have
After a long and exhaustivo- investigation of all the evidence they have "with regret" reached the conclusion that most of the gend of Borley Rectory was faked by the late Harry Price whose books on the hauntings earned him fame and consider- arbie fortune.
Deliberately Distorted
The three researchers, among the most experienced in the 4. are Kathleen Goldney, Trevor Hall and Dr E. J. Dingwall,
They said they had drafted their report "with reluctance" because of the inability of Price to defend himself. But they Added that the close study of Price's flics on which part of the reports based would not have been possible during his Üretime.
They said there was no doubt that in his books, "The Most
"Bad luck, old man," Sutton quoted his editor as saying, "but there were two of them and only one of you."-United Press.
Tragic Plight Of Old Doctors
'Retire At
90? That's Impossible'
Walthamstow.
Dr James Clarke, aged 90, said recently he intended to go on practising medicine for some years yet.
"I've got to earn a living," he said.
Witnesses testifled a1 B coroner's inquest recently
that Mr Matilda Annie Gardner, 80, died after
vainly asking Dr Clarke to come to her home and
Haunted House England" and treat her. "The End of Borlay. Rectory" Price "presented a deliberately distorted
of necount" material in his possession.
the
They added: "most auspicious
of all perhaps, is the coincidence
Mrs Gardner's son suid he Won
to the doctor's office to learn why he had not come and the doctor told him he couldn't remember that he was supposed to call.
of the first outbreak of violent A police constables testifled
Dr objective manifestations at the that
Clarke "couldn't be rectory with the first vialt by allowed out on his own"
any-
+
Price
1020. way. to Borley Extraordinary coincidences do "Owing to loss of memory he accur, of course, but if this ex-would have just wandered," the planation
is not accepted the policeman said. circumstances point somewhat directly to Price himself being responsible for the throwing of
NO RETIRING AGE
Coroner H. H. Kenshole said,
stones, keys and medals (of which Price was a collector) fort was not foreseen in the the transformation of liquids National Health Act of 1947
into ink...."
that doctors would still be in reaching their
There were reports of the preetice
ghost of a nun at Borley as far foth bits is
of the new book bellove, theco
back as 1900 but the authors But a Ministry of Health suld "there is no were coloured by the spiritualls-caman
lais retiring age for doctors under tic beliefs of the family then the Herlth Service Act." living there. In 1028 à now And just that, according to Plague-ridden ficas are also family moved in and, disturbed for the money," Dr Clarke said. "I've. got to go on working Lig Ecientists of the World defying D.D.T. in preas where by run Health Organisation,
by rumours of hauntings, asked represents it has been used extensively.
London
"I don't ever intend to retire." Der how to the biggest threat to
newspaper world So are household. flies, cock-
"Sometimes you strike a contact psychical society. health at the present ilme. Touches and bed-bugs.
patch of bad luck," he said. The editor sent down a re- United Press. Thirty-two
have In a resolution adopied Countries reported that their bisects have the executive board of WHO Fate was in June 1920 and im porter who contacted Price. developed resistance to D.D.T. Dr Candun added: "Should the s and other Insecticides, according degree of resistanco Invectors mediately, says
report, to Dr M.G. Condua, Director of diseases such 4.5 malaria, objective phenomena of a new throwing of General of WHO.
yellow fever. plague and typhus kind appear-the These regions cover. 35 In-ranch the point where control stones and other objects, spirit
Including sproica,
the by the availablo, insecticidos
lapped out carriers of some of the best-no longer possible, disastrous mirror, the appearance of ap
results from a health print
of ports Capports
objeccs vlaw will thevilably, secur in alleged by paychies to appear many parts of the world."
spontaneously)." He pointed out that
most other Insecticides now Used
seel
at a reception to celebrate the engagement to be married of known death-dealing diseases.
two primary pupils of a school
near Sille, in Kenya province,
The blushing bride-to-be was
Lice Immune
messagey
the
are
on u
ឆន Pebble Phenomenon.
by
World's Biggest Sundial
Paris. !
A group of Parls municipal councillors is supporting a pro posal to make the Place de lá Concorde luto one of the world's 12 year-old girl named Emine, Typhus-carrylig lee can no alternatives present greater
biggest oundiata, with an Egypt- who is one year older than her longer be controlled by D.D.T. toxic hazard to man than D.D.T,
lan obelisk-xister" of Cleopp- future husband Halil. Bath in Korcs, and five other coun- or
Britons tra's Needle in London-us lis BHC. One extraordinary
Many well-known shore the trinis of reading, Iries announce its effect is now fact, he said, was that no scen- were convinced
Prica's pin. wrl Ing and Arthmetic lessons weakening.
unit be tist has been able to say with booke
had admiríhá The obelisk, which dates from in the primary school's third Melanii-spreading mosquitors certainly what causes, dontheimonials from Bir Albion the 13th Century B.C., was form.
Jurist, ara showing immunity
brought from Luxor and set up, countries right across the world, secticides.
and Sir Emest Jelf, then The party was barely aver including Ponamu, Greece,
the W.H.O. would | muster of the Supreme Court, However, when Emring's parents an Lebahan, Baud Amnisin and contmud its research in the fight One of the documents quoted All that is needed to mátké o nounced the engagement of her Indonesid.
agulrust disease-carrying in in the new book len report by gigantic sundial to mark the nine-year-old brother Ahmat to A spadles of mosquito, which secta "to avoid. What may well * London journalist, Charice pavements round the square to, another nine-year-old, Ayshe carrion yellow fever, la zualuliita | Decorso a estastzopós for world Button, who was touring the show the hour where the shadow Bosnall,-China Mall Special. it in Trinland.
rectory with ` Prics, and his-tails--China Mail Specialy
to it in when Insects are exposed to in Richardson, an eminent Penior in the huge square, 119 dara
health."
Capetown.
A drought in the Cape area la causing a migration of wild life, with buck, porcupine and baboons leaving their mountain homes for the valleys and
farms.
about "child brides," of young
girls being carried off by dush- ing mountain horsemen, and of familles selling their daughters to the highest bidder.
This is described in the Soviet attitude Press as a "feudal"
to women and as a "relle of the capitalist past.
In the Adelaido district
Mr S. Babaev, first secretary baboons searching for scorpions of the Communist Forty
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