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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1957.
Interesting News Stories From
Parts Of The World.
The Mystery Of The Windsor COWS NOW GIVE
I
London.
WHILE the
Queen
rode with Princess.
Anne in Windsor,Great
so far.
Castle Treasures
Scotland Yard men then Park last week senior went to Buckingham Palace to on their Investigations detectives of Scotland report Yard were investigating The possibility that tho might bave the disappearance of missing articles
been mislaid wom considered. valuable antiques from But detectives think it the State Apartments likely that they at Windsor Castle.
The Inquiry has boon going on Rince Thursday when servants at the castle, getting ready for the first royal week-end visit since early August, missed' a number of articles.
The Yard
stolen.
i
more
have been
It could have been done either by someone visiting the castle or by a servant who had access to the Royal apartments.
The affair remains a matter of confidence, and no detalls are available on the missing articles.
are
known
ما
be
But they valuable.
The official guide to Windsor Castla
describes thr Stalo
being
했다.
of
Apartments
suite of roams, A thorough search was made magnificent
furnished and before it was deelded to call in sumptuously
an historical Scotland Yard. Chief Superin-enriched by lendeni
Queen's collection of works of art Perkins, the
great interest,” personal bodyguard, went to Cannon Row Police Station
with He spent 11⁄2 hours Detective Superintendent Owen McGrath, who is responsible for the investigation of any crime with the Royal connected households.
Both went to Buckingham Palace and talked to senior cmcials responsible for running ruyni establishments,
articles. On
Superintendent McGrath was given a list of the missing Friday he went to Windsor Castle and shown the rooms in which, they had been kept.
WWW.
Antiques
and
It lists hundreds of valuable items including Minion china, suits of armour, the colours of disbanded regiments, onlique Anc tapestries, furniture,
marble busts, bronze firearms, battle relics, and a vast collection of works of art,
Discreet inquiries have been made
well-known ort among dealers to discover whother any of the missing articles Jbeen offered for sale.
have
ELIXIR OF YOUTH
TO THE AGED
Paris.
The cow, which gives milk to babies and steaks to adults, is giving an elixir of youth to the aged.
Elderly patients at a Paris Hospital are finding new strength and buoyant spirits through 'injections of an extract from cow embryos, hospital authorities reported. Physiologists Leon Binet and, Colelle Jeramec-Tchernia ufj Necker Hospital reported on the elixir to the Academy of Science, Frunet's most august relentine body.
“When we used the prepara-a tion on people weakened by great age, we were struck by u noticeable effect on their state of mind, by a happy effect·0!1 their muscular strength, and by a speeding-up of the rate healing," "they suld.
that
METABOLISM
ANG
BOT
01
The brief statement to the Acadeíny of Science assorted ralses the metabolism rate of the aged. That is, it helps them burn body funi faster, thus giving them ready energy.
Other beneficial effects were noted in the composition of the blood. As the body STOWS
Two Cats Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Whirled
To Death, First Baby
£50 Fine
London.
Cats Blackie and irkey were the pets
of the malthouse. Em- fed them
jiyce}
daily, Then they
vanished,
Rhino To
Be Born At
Whipsnade
London.
BRITAIN'S most ex-
A stunned court listened clusive baby can- lest week to an RSPCA solicitor tered clumsily into the "They were put into a chute sunshine at Whipsnad
tell how they met their deaths.
feeding
machine.
barley crushing last week.
"It was like puiting them into
a mincing machine and turning She is no beauty, but 20
the handle," said Mr Deritek | photographers snapped her
Thomas.
"There was no way out for
them. They were carried down from the first floor to the ground floor, back up, and down utaln afler Dassing through a whirling conveyor and a series of elevators,
"In addition to these sufferings, Uey were choked by the barley.
STROKED IT
Before The court, at Civen- cestar, was Anthony Samuct Gibson, 17, formerly a labourer u the malthouse, now a £d-a-
week night. porice at a London night club,
He told what happened on his
second day at work.
as she raised her long grey snout and grunted.
For Bettimoh (that's what the Zoo think they'll call her) is the only rhinoceros ever born here.
Both her father, Mohan, and. her mother, Mohini, come from Assam. And Bettimoh is short for "daughter of Mohini" in Hindustani,
BLOCK-HOUSE
heated concrete house a
She was born in an electrically week
go. By the time she emerged last week sho had put on 101b,
"A cat came into the room. Ild 02-year-old kecper Albert
ploked it up and stroked it, bui
it soralabed my arm. I lost my temper and threw it into the chute and went on shovellin barley into it"
An hour later the second cat came in. "I picked it up and threw that down the chute.
"I was just playing around, I
Rogers,
The baby is a 3ft-high replies of her Stt, three-ton mother. The only difference-no sign of a horn.
Bettimoh--Britain's most exclusive baby looks around.
Even Mohan, in the text on- closure, is being kept out of
sight.
But the wrinkles across her The call's arrival Wac no- neck and back aro Identical, accident. Only once before has even to the comic "plus-fours" one been bom in captivity-in
Switzerland last year.
HORMONE
did not realise what was going effect on her hind legs.
on until afterwards, If I had known I wouldn't have done it.
"
The calf is, potentially the Gibson, of Oatley Road, Crea-most valuable zoo animal in the
cester, was fined the maximum country.
Mr Tong studied the methods of the Swiss 200logists and planned .A similar event በሩ hud Whipsnade. Mohan even harming treatment.
Chief Alcoholic THEY WANT
Grand Rapids
To hear nine-year-old Philip Billey telt it, you'd think his futher was the town drunk.
George Billey was recently
A CARRIAGE FOR TWO
London.
named Director of the Grand A young Invalid couple said
Rapids Alcoholism Centre
when Philly,
asked by this leacher for his father's occupa-
£50 for cousing unecessary
If she can survive the next! suffering and put on probation few months Mr E. H. Tong, the walle he pays the fine by weekly superintendent, expects her to instalments. He was given a
be worth more than Mohini, who year to pay.
cost £2,200, Sald the chairman, Mr W. 1.
"I will be comeilting like a Croome: "We hope no one will
tion, answered: Mohini seems to be the per-| year before our colf is weaned," Interfere with this decision by fect mother, but she must not he told me, "but we know so paying the Ane.” He called Gibbe upset. One careless move- little about rearing them thal son's action terrible, wicked, and ment of her ponderous feet we'll have to learn as Wo Eo horrible.
could mean death to the infant,
along."
"My father is the chief al- colole in Grand Rapids." United Press.
TALLY HO! IT'S ALL-OUT WAR ON THOSE FOXES'
Melbourne.
apent much of thoir - time ) DRIGHT lights are sweeping hunting -rabbit-heipad by
Victorian sheep-grazing the foxes, Batter
Наз Now, myxomatosia paddocks,
dono ringing. high wire-netting away with all but the hardlost fances are being built..........it in of the rabbits and hungry all part of the turmers' war faxes have begun to attack
young lamba for food. on the fox,
Because wool' is one of the Empira's ・・ biggest dollar earners,'' Australia has begun an all-out war on foxes. It la`a`no-holds-barred war, too. Foxes can be shot, trapped, or polaoned.
People brought-Taker and rabbits from England to Australia In the last century because they thought it would be fun to hunt fexes and eat
But the rabbilta opread rapidly
strong - smelling • compound foxes dislike—but the problem is to find the smell.
their marriage is going on the rocks because they connot get a powered whool choir built for two.
the
Douglas and Rose "Brown, both 25, each have an "Invalid carriage," supplied by Ministry at Penators. Invalid carriages are powered, single- scal open vehicles,
But Roso's airringe is electir)- cally driven, and its ten miles- an-hour top speed is too slow for Douglas's gasoline drivenį poc.
· TURNED DOWN
Douglas mid, "Going but "to-
two
carriages gether in those
frighton tho foxes, today, farmers are paying big money to professional fox hunters. and they don't wear
pink coate and blow hunting born. Fences are little use, alther, They.have found that ringing
apart from the expense of is useless. It is ruining our bella don't alarm shoep-but -fencing vast Australian, sheep married itre,"
do sobre adgy taxes stations, beRUDA foxes can
The Ministry, has turned down! g: Jump 1brt, fences if they are their appeal for a two Bentor With lambs worth. 47 a head; hungry enoughálka
carriage because of "the cost Sheep and Wool Advisory Bone local councile are solving and our difficulties. Board officer/ (Bill · Gaarý has the problem by putting all Douglas has offered to pay the been ordered to: Investigate arke of 7a dd, 'on every fox's running costs if the Ministry
· brush, MA ComeUANA | will, lef them, trade in the two
thity Away..
the fox menace na a full-time Job,
baudes, in their new land and did eo | Many ahoap station owners haya | One. Ides be la working 'on' la to much" image, thật, farJONIT
paint the young,tamba with a
Installed the flashing Hghītu ka
it might not de for the. English | carriagos-total cost £700—for
hunte
but the... Aumenifan, a two-seater model which would kunties are out in foros, 1923 Least about £400,--United Fress.
old, the composition of the blood tends to change. Dinet
and More Jeramto-Tchernia report that their serum makes old blood young agaku,
Preparation of the extract is painstaking process that begins with the removal of the cow's uterus, and extraction of the embryo.
The embryo is crushed, and the gulp is turned into a fluid m a mixlog machine. All the while the embryoble matter is kept cold
chemical to preserve its
| structure.
Then, except for the addition of antiseptic to kill possible bacteria, the extract is rendy for injection into old and fing- ging bodies,
Any alchemist in search of the elixir of youth could have made it,
POWERFUL
But does it fill the alchemist's bill of what an elixir of youth should do?
It does not turn sliver hair golden It docs not iron wrinkled foreheads smooth.
But the indications are that It restores Élarging spirits and sagzing ouseles, that it makes the blood redder and sends it coursing faster through the veins, and that it speeds the powers of recovery,
In tu uarded language of the scientists who discovered the extract:
The facts seem to demonstrate learly the favourable and powerful effect of embryonic therapy on men growing old,
"We unhesitatingly conclude that the human body worn out by age benefits by the injection of embryonic extract."United Press
Just Hiding
Detralt.
Cristobal Hernandez, 24, told the judge that police found him in the main office of the Belle Isle Zoo early on morning be cause ho
hiding, from robbera-United Press.
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