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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1956,

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Of Parts

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World

Now Motels Come

WILL SHAKESPEARE IDENTIFIED' To Europe

Now He's Queen Bess! DETECTIVE AIRS NEW THEORY

New York.

a second-string William Shakespeare was

Those plays, ваун actor from the country. California scientist, were written by his Queen Elizabeth 1.

MAN FALLS 250Ft DOWN CHIMNEY

And Then Walks Away!

Leeds.

Carrying with him a cascade of over-worsening mishap, John Hayhurst, a bricklayer, crushed 250 ft. down the inside of a 340 ft. power station chimney at

Leeds last week--and walked out at the bottom.

The 200-wide Platform No. 3 Ton which he was standing it

George Elliott Sweet, professional the chimney's top looking geophysicist and amateur Shakespearean delec-down at the Third Test match, tive, has a solid lunch there is something in way, and he hurtled 140ft, Elizabeth's tomb to prove his carefully documented

theory.

Gurkha VC

Owes A

Little Boy * Kukri

London.

lo

The great idea came Subahdar Lahadur Thapa, first Gurkha other VC of World War II, as be watched his eleven-yvaroht son Ranbahadur play in the dusty courtyard of Their home in Nepal,

Thaten Bad just poetavert mvitation to attend the VC een-

down with tons of concrete and

ricks to Platform No. 2-20011,

from the bottom

That

On that platform were

Three

The hasn't any illusions the British are going bo start

diintermera

ne suggests

minediately, but

that

two slightly less distinguished graves right alp yield some evidence.

" happened to be true, it woul The fun stry." sald Mr Sweet with a twinkie He la stare if 18. She sure that he has written and published his

DWL eunviction in a persuasive little volume that reads like a detec- tive story printed by Stanford University Press).

The case intricately buşit m dates internal evidence and the arts of the lives of Eliza- named beth

the actor Willam Shakespre, pë

Brilliant

Woman

demen-

71 Queen ww strably b

wotnap Hfe-long

3 playe schedar have a ratige of knowledge and understandi

rarely

ever

tenary celebrations in London. eruntled by any individual

Gurkha kuf

Say's Mr!

of the Elzher men. The mass of debris

he

A few months carlter he had - most eratainty.

Ranbuhat a miniature Sweet, by any given kukri, the cur

curved, razor-erigedhethars otherwise advancest

about which

"The real Shakespeare " Thousand

stories

have been told!. Thapa had ben lu London The vocabulary of the Shake- Leform In 1943 he went to speare works todos 15,000.

Palace to receive

notes, us compared

the Buckingham

with VC fHT AN art of un

average college graduate's 3,000 passed bravery" in North Africa to 4.000. In the skimpy facts of

Will he killed four factor which

Shakespeare's life Germans with tog kukuri and there is no such erudition--there he 1 wo others with his revolver. is not even time in which

rould have acquired it, not any Indication he was inclined to

cloring

Bul even

his great

his brave heart

squalled when he thought again of

idea. Would thread or write any more than he

THE SUBAHDAR

With his ferskeri,

had to. Mr Sweet said.

hangs

condest that platform away also.

The four of them were hurled down another 119rt, to Platform No --9011. from the ground.

When fireanta reached the

of wreckago they found mus Hayhurt hist-he was on top. He was helped down to safety.

The extent of his injuries? dislocated shoulder,

bruises,

A

50111

shock. Firemen pulled

out Jurney Bowman. Be had a spine injury. Mr Sweet spells the writer's After four hours of effort in

And nome shake-speare

the choking dust, rescue workers Elizabeth's chuice on an earth-pullert 22-year-old Barry Farish quake, u war and the queenly but of the wreckage He was

quivalent

of Theodore Roose velt's "big alick," He surmis That

when William turned up in London as an notor. Elizabeth found in the coincidence a con- vement cover, mode sure

Was

+1-

never quit of work. though. Mr Sweet says, he never

· had top billing.

Sonnets For Essex?

He funda other kinds of evidence: the two

works dedicated to the Earl of South- ampton were published during the years Elizabeth was in love with him. The body of the sonnets--the "lovely boy" group - time, Internal reference

zon of the kreut Queen like 10 and feeling with Elizabeth's re-

have Ure kirl of his 50 lationship with Essex, Runbahadur? The gods would

decide.

London,

Subuhdar Thapu Jeft for gesty.

promising 레 rather

very badly injured.

The fourth mun, John Walker, 25. of Dorchester, Dorset,

HE DIDN'T WANT

HIS FIRST

PRIZE

Witt

Darwin.

the

In Elizabeth's tomb, he sug-

Life went quietly for tall, there might be some

most prob- lean Thomas Darmody, 53, carly manuscripts, tearful small boy that the local ably in the hand of her vehicle inspector at blacksmith would make him secretary Windebank. He be-Motor Registration Branch another kukri if ho returned leves there may be a ring in until he won a raffle.

chain around her neck which <mply-handed.

tells the secret.

Be took a ticket in a rallie

crocodile dicin.

for what he thought was a Mr

in London the Gurkha be- came one of the select company of VCs from

all parts of the The zonnet manuscripts,

have been world.

may He matched with them Sweet said,

Countess of In Hyde Park and was enter buried with Mary, tained

by the highest in

the plays with her land. The Queen spoke to him, son, William Herbert,

thePembroke,

but Subahdar Thapa could not

summon the courage to tell her

In the body of the plays and

of the gift he hati for Prince sonnels, he finds other evidence, Charles.

come in riddle form, of what he Believes is the true authorship, epilogue

Then, last month be Wis One riddle he un-riddles is the guest of

commanding his old officer, Colonel R. C. Jackman from

vf Henry VIII-and that he talec's a wry his title page: Kent quotation for

OBE of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles,

Tunbridge Wolls

nt

Thapa told him of the gift he "They'll say 'tis naught had brought and that it looked United Press.

an though he would have

take it home again.

'Very sharp'

to

He Fell For His Sweetheart

Penang.

Last weekt, a truck pulled up outside the motor registration brunch with his, prize.

Mr Darmody looked up from checking a car and gasped, "I

don't want int.

CAD

What I do with 137 I mn't keep that in my room? "Why couldn't somebody else have won it?**

thie brunch comte a past advertising a circus.

12xem

Cr

at

Out stepped the driver, looked the rette prize and asked,

"How much?"

"You can have it," said Mr Darmody.

And off to the cirem went the first prize Codric, a eft baby manenting salt water crocodile,

A 17-year-old plumber fell LEGACY CAME

for this sweetheart in a big way

Last week a proud Subahdar had a private audience with the Queen at Buckingham Palace, With him was the kukri, tes six-inch blado razor-sharp, Its Ivory handle and beaten sliver-filigree sheath.

The modest 5ft 4in. Guricha here, officer was beaming happily when he left 30 minutes "Yes," he said, "Prince Charles now has the kukri. The Queen was there with Princesa Anne, I showed the Prince how to draw it and then replace it in the sheath.

Inter.

"He was still holding it when Loft But I do not think that he will be allowed to handle. It until he is a little older"

Thapa beamed again; "It is very, very sharp."

TOO LATE

The youth was listening ent- raptured to the singing of the

Patras 16-year-old

when he Irene Panagiotakopoulou,, who suddenly toppled and fell off 2 died at the village of Lappa, verandah 25ft down a drain close to Patras, at the reputed below.

age of 116, inherited $25,000 last The boy told police from his year from a brother who died in

Tho United States.

hospital bed that a jealous She left six children aged room-mate had pushed him tron between 60 and 96, who will his chair, tipping him over the now inherit the legacy which verandah cago, China Mall came too late for her to enjoy. *Special

***China Mail Special,

dead when rescuers reached him an hour later. The other three, now in hospital, were all Leeds VISA

Для be rested from restuc work, Charles Warke, 30 ot Woodlesford, Deur Leeds, told me: "Hayhurst, John Toddi, and had just been watching the Teri match for few minutes from the platform on top of the

there chimney when

Was creak and the platform began to

Lintee.

a

Horrible

"Todd and I jumped clear on to the chimney-top, and when I turned round the platform and sewffolding hact disappeared, and I could

hear Johnny Hayhur shouting

fell. It horrible.

climbed down the W side of the et miney met back inside to

comick

fentses

WIN

Car Bowls Over An Elephant

A

Bloemfontein.

Viljoenskroon motorist knocked elephant down with his

car.

an

Mr G. A. Haasbroek, a building contractor, was motoring from the station to Viljoens- kroon. Ahead of him he Baw

elephant walking on the side of the road.

an

He slowed down. It seemed as if the animal would keep to its side of the road, but just as Mr Haasbrock about to pass the elephant swung into his path.

was

He applied his brakes but it

late was too and with a thump the car struck the elephant,

Nice.

A touch of middle class Americana- motel has sprung up on the sunny Riviera, playground for the European titled and wealthy.

Sharing a Mediterranean vista and bench with anobbish villas and ornabe rambling MUXTITIGA homes the 'Motel Cote D'Azur, a string of 40 modern cobins, each with hot and cold running water and bathroom, and over- looking the sca

If it proves as popular and financially successful as ilg the United counterparts in

DOW

States where there 60,000 motels, a string of mantels | la expected to pop up through-

out France,

At present there are only two others in France-at Touquet and Saint Jean De Luz.

NO TIPS

The "Motel Cote D'Azur" on one of the busiest highways in France the famed National Route Seven which skirta the Mediterranean coast. It is almost two miles from Antibes.

French

newspapers

notice of the phenomenon

took

last

Week and noted that it offered the traveller comfort and roms

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