THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1956.
Interesting News Stories From
The All Parts Of
World
How Eyam Stopped LONDON
The Black Death
Eyam.
THREE hundred years ago today the plague known as the "Black Death" swept down on this remote Derbyshire village.
Of 305 villagers, 269 lost their lives.
The
As always on the last Siday persuaded not In August, the people of this isolated enl villige, gathervil ! in solcmn remembrance of the courge and Lombonum,
sacrifice of their
an Trpe tramortal service held amid the scrubby Melds and wcky gut crops the descendants of those who died recalled ni vpå ode of COMIST ge Charl is en blazca The pages of the high hukay,
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until to stray yond merer
the plague - the parlah boundaries,
stuercat.
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Today Eyman la practically ur the villagers agreed wih their changed. The stuul stone houses priest. Infected and uninfecketti and the stone walle that divide aike rimtined within the parish arvel subdivide the felt have Mortes of the Cofing And Usey kept in theu, weathered the word.
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Radio
Active
friends
London, Aug. 21. "Happy" Jim Hlabgoods is
His radiunctive. shum him. His wife won't 33 vent war klas him and he has brough!
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a bad name to his brother's. that the bes
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BLACKMARKETEERS HIDE BEHIND GRANDMA'S SKIRTS
PLUMP, toothless old grandmothers form
Rome.
the harmless- looking facade of Italy's huge blackmarket operations. The old women sell American cigarettes from such central spots as the main Post Office in Rome. They ask about 30 per cent less than the government-controlled tobacconists for their wares (about 250 lire per pack compared to 360).
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Feed the giveendiest perhaps 60 eat. behind the
The tax co 1.te America lking grandim, thers, who fre-
"ha k Speela their business ch quently condurt in tud vow of the pebre, lava t cham of furt ve blackmarketeers and sumugglers
Together with the man who buy the cigarette, they are all engaged in the favourite Balian pastime ož besting the lax- Collector.
A Public Duty
Italne gatelte. aben 100 of the 2001 Dire eut mer pays for
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Italian Finance Minister. Sir Ciullo Andreotti recently urged pouple to hear with the Treasury the Police
in their blackmarketeers
raids on
Not A Mania
I began last Tik when
Happy Jum dropped
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1 km in King's Crus Abans and spiked out 15 tado-
active cold seed being taken!
to a do pital
REVIVES 1666 CUSTOM
London,
London recently TC- vived another ancient custom which has been out of vugno for more than 70 years.
Leather Aro - buckets were presented to the Sherish of London by the London Fire Brigade --a custom dating back the Great Fire of kshi.
to
The buckets aro utili tarian, however. They were designed for uas da champagne coolers rather than Are fghting.-- United Press.
THEY'RE
TAKING
ME BACK
TO THE
The ends were hot enough lo! MORGUE!
and than three fert distant
Im was stooding
right there watching them when . they fell out of their lead con- fainer which erneked wide open. Happy Jim 01. has worked
for 16 years as a porter and he
Melbourne.
A woman certified dead a week ago spent her third
mone that nothing like this day in gaol after a magis- has ever, happened before, I rate ordered her held must as it's quite einbarru sing | medical examination.
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be raslourlive."
ATOMIC ALARM
for
JI,
Mrs Sheilah Baulch, appeared today before City
A1 atomic alarm sounded Court Magistrate Jackson when the gold seeds tumbird
on a charge of assaulting on the platform. Com-
and muter
other travellera police, were a barricaded away," and Witnesses said she collapsed traine were diverted from the at Melbourne's Railway Station {arta for two hours.
Saturday night stricking Birbara Bryson, a lovely "They're going to take me back blonde scientist who was to the morgue", described in the British press by auch epithels as "atomic" and "incendiary"
Javed the day
ALMOST IN
ast A week ago
Saturday Mrs Baulch revived in Mel- bourne's City Morgue as atten- dants were about to put her in the ice box.
Melbourne The Royal
had his, pital
ecruifted her after an accident.
Witnesses shid today
by picking up the radioactive material with some long long. Happy Jim stayed on till hls shif Wis finished and then went to help his brocher Alf unload vegetables, word of radioactivity soon followed and Alf kod him to leave.
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dead
aiver "You're making my rhubarb her lapse
the railway ni dioactive," ΛΙΣ
Mrs complamed, statron
Baulch attacked and said "I'm keeping clear Police who arrested her and ull the radiation guus awuy the
took her back to the hospital. BOOTS OFF
She threatens to sue for wrongly cortify w hur death. United
"Remember that it IN A marin for porsecution part of the Treasury, but a hard necessity being faced in the war against evaders."
Allegether Tal on igarettes eine lane about Jabo bookNI hare a day (533,000) a day to The black side
the Italian budget This makes it one of the mujer teme
the
Rovera- ment's Branial operations
The
the tux ༢༥:༣༧་༎། cigarettes is so high that the has to And seine government way to get the money it fails t cheating the government init of enlivet from Income tax evaders, te taxes to be almost a public and almost everybody dres his duly. The feel that they are, in best to get out of paying incon hons is a story in itself.--Urdted effect, defrauding the entire - tax.
Many people who would never dream of swad frok cnnsfer
pulation of Bady is rarely vons sidered.
The blackmarket of today is barely a shadow of what it was in the pol-war days. But still the fast motor launches bring in cigarettes the crate Fruen Tangier,
land them on Ionely shores. The tax police catch smugglers from Wme to time, but Paty has one of the
longest
shorelines and
me it is difficult.
Cigarettes are perhaps the best known contraband tiems, bul there is also a lively smuggling éperation in all from Stelly the mainland (where it is more expensive). Salt, like tobacco, is a state monopoly,
Secret Pockets
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I come tax election made more effective,
can
Happy
Jim returned home | Press, told
Ethel ho his wife then would be radioactive for at least
18 more hours. the taxes on cigareties can come
wn and there
let's got will be less "Well,
your boots But im-
olf," she said, "but alter That
profit for smugglers.
Press
to
proving the income tax collec- you can stay away from me."
Happy Jim was not believed
have been burned by
the radioactive gold but doctors ad- vised caution for ગ while. Happy Jim himodit was sour faced,
"This atom lark is no joke I can tell you," he said.
Special Telescopes
To Watch Satellite
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San Francisco.
Cecil Rhodes' Wine Cupboard Found
Kimberley.
A valuable comer wine cup- board which once belonged
RAF Bomb
Defies Excavators
Bonn
The local authorities here are preparing another assault on an unexploded. British bomb which has defed efforis remove It from a house site here for 12 years.
It has already cost more than 40,000 marks (about £3,300) in salvage work.
The one-ton bomb, which was
to dropped in a raid in the autumn
Ceel Rhodes has been discover-of 1944, could not be exploded
to extract the
A special five-power telescope has been de- od at a house in Kimberley because of the danger to sur-
to Mr George rounding houses. veloped to watch the proposed man-made earth which belonged
Efforts to raise it only drove satellite when it circles 1,200 miles above the earth. church who is said to have
cupboard from it deeper into the soft sand in Captain Tim
Tyson, a personal which it lies. Dr Armand Spitz, co-ordinator metal ball could only be
The site is wanted seen friend of Rhodes.
for new of observation facillies for the "at only one geographie Toca- The cupboard is triangular in flats and a determined effort is
|shape and mude 20-inch aluminium satellite, saldton three times each month."
of mahogany, being launched the telescope posscssca the
with sold silver hinges and bomb, now lying 28 feet down. The satellie would be visible fittings China Mail Special. Other
-China Mall Special. smuggled "extrawide vision range of frequently items include coffee, penicilin, degrees to draw a bead on the in the evening twilight period silver, mylon
stockings and sphere which will travel through and morning twilight period on months, for a total watches. Last year, for example, the atmosphere at 18,000 miles alternate
time of "fotze and a half hours pollee denounced 4,017 smuggi- an hour.
a month, anywhere on earth." ers, of whom 136 were arrested. 12,713 The officers confiscated
satellites would be launched by Dr Spitz add 10 to 12 of the
the United States during 1937-58 Goophýnical · Year at a cost of about $35 million.
Watches, including 2,840 made of gold.
Only one satellite has
been
made, Dr Spitz said last night, but there would ho "thousands Travellers try to bring contru- of them eventually" for use by band through customs offices, in observers all over the world. every conceivable hiding place:
Dr Spitz said the satellite including valise: with false bolfoms, secret pockels in their would only be visible in clothes or stuck under mud-light hours. This guards of cars,
All told the customs officers
twi-
meant
the
and Treasury police denounce Complaints From
no less than 37,240 people
year, and arrested 1,028. It all the possible penalties bad been exacted and paid, the govern- ment would have received the fantastic sum of 99,000,000,000 lime (£53 million).
Comparative Costs
are
Many Italians feel they fustified in trying to cheat the government out of the cigarette faxes since the taxes are so highs, running up to perhaps four times the price of the cigarettes thewolves.
, öf American for 300. Ure,
The Cooler
London.
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A police sergeant asked ballot fane qutusins all night alongside Bow Street Polico stallon for Wickels At the nearby Covent Garden Opera House make less noise repently,
The pelsoners in the ilan wire · complaining they couldn't slowp”, the sergesat
tho
He described the satellite "the Brat atep in man's conquest outer space." He said the pro- Jeet was one of "pure research" and no immediato results of a practient natura were expected. Data gatherod while the metal aphoro was being watched would toword mord Decurato weather forecasts, ho saki.
COLLISION DANGER
go
WETO
Other problems namocl the texfperatura · of the upper the varied Jone of atmosphere, ourth rostly pull and the danger of collision with other materials in speod.
When all the telescopes bot up in a highly complicated pattern of observation Dr Spits sodch, a 90 degree are of the would be covered by, thờ locIBOS.
Cat's Hair-Raising
Escapade
On Electric Train
London.
A cat. which travelled hundreds of miles under- an electric train was in a hospital last week recuperating from the trip.
For three days the tortoiseshell feline travelled be- tween Liverpool Street and Cholmsford, often reaching speeds of 60 milda an hour,
The frightened animal was found by railway 'work- men when the engine went into a siding for a check on its wheel. They tried to entice it out with saucers of milk and ham, but it was too saared to move.
DRAGGED FROM ENGINE
Finally it had to be dragged from the engine casing and rushed to a city ranatorium for animale,
Said Hallwayman Joseph Tapping, who found the animal: "It must have come close to death on many occasions.United Press.
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ASTRONOMERS WHO LISTEN TO THE STARS SAY::
UNIVERSE IS STILL EVOLVING
Sheffield.
Radio Astronomy, one of the newest of the sciences, has produced evidence to support the theory that the universe is not in a fixed state but is evolving with time.
Two scientists discussed new techniques whereby radio telescopes are able to listen to the secrets of outer space without the drawbacks of the optical telescopes.
Dr J. G. Davies of Manchester University, which is building the world's largest radio telescope a radar-like bowl almost the size of a football field suspended on 160-foot towers spoke of research into
meteors.
Visual observers can see perhaps 10 meteors an hour if fog, cloud or other atmospheric conditions do not interfere,
"But the number of radio echoes detected can run into thousands an hour," he said.
Using this ablilty to hear for more than the eye can BOC, radio astronomers, he said, h checked 17,500 meteors to de- prove the visual theory about the orbit which meteora take through space And the 2901ar system.
of
It would have taken visual astronomers
ycars many observation and photography to amass the same evidence.
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in
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Dr J. R. Shokestuft of Cam- bridge pointed out thul ឆេរ American engineer offered Theory of radio astronomy
1932. But already many dark or radu stars, Awisible to the
were optical telescopes,
being charted and sources of emission of radio waves in outer space were also being located,
One of these sources is the remains of the explosion of u star reported by Chinese astronomers in the year 1054 AD Another source is 300,000,000 fight yours from earth and apparently is the result of the clossal collision of two galaxies kal. the very extreme limit observable space.
Unseen Bodies
about
waves
Dr Shakeshaft sald of radio 2.000 sources from outer space had been found-most of them bey and the limits of even the largest optical telescopes.
There were
more of these sources than would be expected
if they were distributed uniform-
ly through space, anx thle tended to support the theory that the
universe
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