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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1957.
Interesting News Stories From
Parts Of The World
ROME HAS THE SAME PROBLEM
AS HK Not Enough Water
Rome.
The Queen of Waters, as the eternal city is frequently referred to because of its innumerable fountains, is preparing to suck water from an ancient volcano 30 miles away to satisfy her growing thirst.
The lake of Brecciano, whien problem of electric power pro- *ATE GRO
duction. war a velcante eratvi torrents apeutit
of glowing The lack of sufficient flow of lava and clouds of hot a hrs, we drinking water 19 plaguing The supply #:19 which tent Rome's population every sum- muthorities set their eyes tomer, and so is the recurrent
ulye Rome's increasingly acute, shortage of electricity. Recently
bad the authorities. shortage of drinking water
to Import electric power from Do far Bavaria to light Roman night
Mussolini Built It
An argudel which Musolin torted binding iri 1938 #
Popes' Preference
AS
Two Tinte, whose waters were
Preferral by many Papes over all other beverages, could have asily helped the authorities out But experta
bring To the Italian capital water pipe at the source uf The Veling river, and
which started operating in 1949,
of their plight. hadi
that Lake Brucelano been designed to take care of the gured
for better city's needs until the end of the would provide
solution current century
C
The Lake is already supply- In tome with Some of The water used 10 feed her
The enormcits perl-wat ex pension o Reme md !!! intense growth of a populariupendous fountains.
now
Projects which are ton, which bra now reached the
final 2,500,000
approval con- ct it c mark,
owouting the
sucking o the collapse of these optimistic cai- template the
Lake's water from 30 metres ruletions.
below its surface.
nw aqueduct linking the The Lake to the 30-mile distant double the output
Italian
capital would bring aqueducts, some of which still ¦ Rome water of a quality far run on nne.cat Ronen funds better than that of other existing tion, but fechietaus figure that ; aqueducts. only by
Worried authorities have rendy mede
drawing
1-
Tents
Of
existing
frons WED:
Experis figured that
to
new
Lake Brneciano will they be Bracciant aqueduct adding to able to give hemispermanent. The others, would All the needis solution to the problem of water ¦ of a population of 3,500.000,-
Fhortage
anks fo the parallel United Pret,
The Appiah Children
Going To England-
From JOHN HALL
Kumasi, Ashuntiland.
Mrs Joe Appiah-who was Peggy Cripps is taking her children to England next month. Kwame is nearly three and his sister, Amma, is 15 months.
KWAME
English-non-stop,
J calleri ut
A RIFT? the flat where
the daughter
of the lale
Su Stafford
NO, SAYS Cripps Lives
PEGGY
CRIPPS
with her African bar- riser husband. "We are fly- ing to England early in April
and hope 10 stay three or four months,"
she said. "My
husband is not accompanying us.
He is too busy.
the idea there is a rift between
us because of his staying here.
RIP VAN DINKIE
She didn't wake up
for three days
DINKIE had been ramping
about with all the energy of a four-month-old wiro- haired terrier-then sho yawned and trotted to her basket.
It was hours before her usual
bed-time, but within
鼴
tow minutes she 'was fast asloop. She didn't stir when visitors came.
Next day she was #tif} asleep, snoring quietly.
Eleven.
-year-old John Pengelley, of Plymstock, Devon, became alarmed about his pet.
Small Boy
Kills Huge Bird
Sydney,
A 10-year-old boy shot dead "wanted eagle
hawk i Moss Vale with = high-powered air rifle,
The eagle
hawk 714
from wing-tip to had for three years ravageil to wing-tip. flocks of sheep in the area.
The boy. Malcolm Mekay, of Aftjina pro- Dirty, Mors Vale, naw perches on top of of gumtree near his home.
of
It
lle crawled to the base the tres through long grans, look careful alm, and shot it through the eye.
Ife then "pumped"" six more shots into it to make sure it was dead—and ran home as fast as he could to tell his father,
DEEPSEA
FILLING STATIONS
FOR SHIPS
Montreal,
MONTREAL firm
says it plans to start
| soon building 40 offshore
**Alling
stations" where deepsea ships will be able to resuel without going into pur.
A spokesman for the firm, Commerciel Leaseholds (Quebec) Lid said the bunkers with
A voterinary surgeon was be available to deepsea vessels
colled. "She's drugged,"
he said. Then a carton
was
which had contained 30 sleeping tablets proscribed for John's mother found empty. Three days lator Dinkio woke up. Now her tail was wagging normally.
Awarded £4.322
Because
Pan Boiled
A
Over
London.
"But I hope no one will ft MRS MAUDE COLLIS, 50-year-old mother of two, got £4,322 damages because a saucepan of greens boiled over.
It happened the
pre
"All the time there rumours that we have parted or
day after ond Putney Group Hospital are going to part, and these are Mra Collis, of Bramfield Road, Management Commitee, who inspired by my husband's poli- Batterpen, started work at were also ordered to pay the tical opponents. It is a strange Bolingbroke Hospital, Wands- costs of the two-day hearing. form of political propaganda, worth, as 24 £6-0-week but there it is.
kitchenhand. "We
are very,
Very happy together, and let me say again
On the stove the greens were But the I have no regrets about making coming to the boil.
had placed the d
a mixed marriage-not a single
cook
I told Mrs Appiah she doen not lack candour. "Well Our case is a special one," she said.
"Because
Only Odd Jobs
on
tightly.
Then they boiled over on to the floor. Mrs Collls slipped on the spillage and fractured her their grandfather thigh. was who he was and because Joe, my husband, Je wealthy man, our children are unlikely to meet
the the difficulties
the children of other mixed mar- Mr Justice Pauli ruled rloges might moet. But in any cook was negligeal in putting mired
the the lid on tightly. marriage how children fare depends on the
Ho sold: "I should have parente.
thought everyone knew that if the lid is put lightly on the pol, the water, when it bolla, will lift the lid and eject on to the floor,"
Enchanting
"Our children accept equally Africans and Europeans.
"They may encounter some
Mrs Collis was awarded the prejudico when they are older
especially if they go to school damages against the Battersea
in England, which they may
but I believe we are bringing
them
The judge mold it, was one of those unfortunate cases where comparatively slight accident had led to very serious results.
Complications set in and Mrs Collls had to have two opern- tions. She now had to
walk with a stick, and could only do odd jobs around the house, like dusting and washing-up. Heavy work like washing and turning mattresses were impossible,
Mrs Collis burst into tears she heard the judge's
within the coastal limits and Panama within a year. of Canada, the United States He said they be operated will by a New York Company.
Mr John P. Gelinas. the Montreal spokesman, declined to disclose the exact locations of the information was withheld of the propered stations. He said
the request of the Federal Government.
Cost: $1 Million
Gelinas suld each terminal would cost about $1 million and controlled electronically from shore. He sold the stations
would supply both fuel and fresh water to ships up to three miles from shore.
Ships will communicate with shore stations of the operating firm and specify how much and what type of fuel, and waler, they need. The operators then. will pump oil from the floating stations and bill the ship's owners,
Plans call for the terminals to be about 40 feet in diameter, And bullt with thick steci plate, reinforced by more steel. Mr Gelinas said they will be assigned to specific locations in the same way as lightships, and anchored there.
According to My Gelinas, bunker fuel and fresh water will be piped simultaneously to chips through separate howo. He said it will be possible to load or discharge cargo futi at a time the same time, with
hours and saving of several sometimes days-United Press.
The Detective
Was
A Gentleman
when
Bingapore. decision.
A Uhincas delsolivo of the Singapore police fotos was 10- "You should be smiling," said | primanded by a magicirais when her counsel.
ho admitted in court he allowed a woman thief to burgls a shop "I know," and Mrs Colts, for 30 minutes without mereriing "But I just couldn't stand alther "because she is a woman.”
ing there and hearing happen all over again."
it
up to be able to over- DON'T WEAR THAT LUMINOUS 1 sicaling "- electrical
ride prejudice.
"I believe parents in
other
mixed marriages can do the WATCH IN BED, DOCTORS SAY
same. It means special care,"
Kwemia and Amma are en- chanting childron. Both are a light cafe au lait, have Euro-
London. ell last year on the danger of
that auclear and allied radiatice. RECOMMENDATION
shop
Chinese New Year's Day.
on
Charged with theft was Lily Chan, an ex-dance hostess, who told the court she was separated from her husband. and bas children
to support. She was appliances from
Delective Lea Kim Hong ad- mitted in court that he Glid nothing but watched Lily Chan burgle the shop, He then pean features, with bolt, brown-A luminous watches should not That report said the contri- followed her for some distance
from the and telephoned the police. be worn in bed, especially by bution of radiation Kwemo
"What a fine detective you Laiks
non-stop-in children, la mede in this week's estimated 4,000,000 watches and
Magletrate Eu Chłow English. He alrendy attends Brillan Medical Journal. -
10,000,000 clocks with luminous are,” school, a
-an Army school where
dials in Britain was "small but Chye remarked. "You are moet
detective and yet you rang up of the children are
It adds. If the glass is evor real. English
main hotard broken the watch should not be
iz to for the police, workers in the Juminising Di When Loa insalated ho wa After school Kware and his used at all until repaired." sister play barefoot with other
dustry, but the risk from wido afraid to lay his hands on the African childtroni 'in' 41mm
"Things like that should not triadlan wireet,
you
black
cona-
pound of their home and in the
The
A
The Journal recalls that tho | sprend⋅ use of such instrumente woman, Magistrain Eu boomed point was bovered in a report bot entirely negligible," the by the Medical Research Coun- ! Journal meras
An extraordinary performance confirms a new champion
the
GP
HEAT • DUST
COLD
HUMIDITY
SHOCK
This illustration shows the GP watch attached to the pedal of a bicycl.............
Girard Perregaux's film- let "A Gruelling Test": now showing with "The Silent World" at Queen's and Alhambra Theatres. Enter for the ESSAY CONTEST, particulars available at the Theatre Lobbies,
Gyromatic
During the 1956 "Tour de Suisse" cycle race around Switzerland, a sporting event affording one of the most gruelling tests for man and machine,
Girard-Perregaux demonstrat- ed the lasting precision and sturdiness of their watches by attaching 6 standard Gyromatic self-winding watches to the pedals of the "Allegro" team's bicycles.
For 8 days, over 1,000 miles to cover, these watches underwent the hardest trials: climbing a total of more than 33,000 feet, being covered with dust and mud, soaked by rain, submitted to snow, hail, sleet; in fact, everything the ele- . ments could provide, These tests, more lifelike and severe than
any that could be supplied by a
labor- atory, were successfully passed by all 6 watches. At the finish they A were checked by exacting specialists and they showed no damage, no wear at all; as at the start, all / worked perfectly. The most active sportsman can hardly give his watch such a trial though he wears it many years, and these 6 Gyromatics were ordinary stock models!
In spite of dust, snow, rain, sudden changes in altitude, heat and cold, these 6 Gyromatic watches worked steadily and without variation, for their high precision movements are protected against shocks, and all such hazards. The following figures will show better than words just how much work was done by the Gyromaticself-winding mechanism during the "Tour de Suisse" test: '-in 8′ days, the “rotor” revolved approximately 300,000 times: as often as a propeller of a DC6 flying from London to Rome.
-300,000 turns will keep the watch
going during 14,400 hours!
Ref. 7050
GIRARD-PERREGAUX
Fine Watches since 1791
dunilable at