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Do You Want To Get Away From It All
BUY AN ISLAND PARADISE!
NAUGHTY But There Are LUNCH FROM NIGHTIE A Few Hitches A BOTTLE?
GIRL'S
Dig, Dig, Dig
THE headmaster
To The Dream
By HENRY MACLENNON
Rome.
London, IF you love peace and quiet and would like to buy of a small island to get away from it all, well there £105 - a - térm Stare several thousand scattered around the coasts Christopher's School, of Italy and many of them are for sale.
paradise."
You need plenty of money to a few i hitches to his dream of pos- start with. There are very few Bessing an Hollan "Island | jalands costing less than 20,- 000,000 lire (US$32,000) and the latest price given for a fair- Elze island was about 80,000,000 line ($120,000).
Letchworth, Herts, Of courto there are doled out punishment to eight girl pupils who made a moonlight flit to London in overcoats and nighties as a joke.
The punishment: laying a new path in the school grounds.
As the girls aged 18 to 10, fcited with shovels and cinders 1];ជ head, 16-year-old Mr Nicholas King Harris, sal he was "absolutely furious" about the affair.
The girls tiptoed out of scliol after lights out one' Wedzieclay. walked three intles to Hitchin Stallon, then headed for London on 'an express,
RAISED ALARM
A ticket collector raised the alarm and the train was stoppet at the next station, Stevenage.
But the girls foxed the officials searching for them.
quid 19-year-old Ann Chur- shill, of Kensingtan: "We all hid
In one toilet. We did, not lock
the door, so that when they saw
The won Vacant they
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International
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Directory
Paris.
A YOUNG French
An island for sale. must b
It is next to uninhabited for Impossible to evict anyorie from
under Italian law. an island But even It is uninhabited thero is also a possibility it considered vital to nay le Italian defence and therefore you cannot build on It: how- ever you can own on paper subject to periodie visits of the Italian navy.
Earthquakes
printer, who once spent two days trying to track down a New York Earthquakes and eruptions of nearby volcanos must be telephone number, today take into consideration with prepared to publish an many beautiful ittle islands off the southern coasts of Italy. international" telephone For instance the Isola di Vulcanu directory with more (Vulcan Island) of Sickly be- than 400,000 addresses Englishmen
came quite a surprise for two in four languages.
at. 6,000 Lapiece,
who
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London. Today's poser: 15 it unparliamentary to say 蠲 lawmaker drank his lunchz
Some back-bqhen Mem- bere of Parliament think (t* is. They spoke up after.. Becialist Robert Edwards Interrupted speech by Conservative Dudley WI- llama and acevaed him of "having his lunch out of a bottle."
Furthermore, " Edwards Edded, "It le the bottia which is speaking--and not. the honourable member."
The Deputy Speaker of Commons. Hours of Bir Charles MacAndrew was asked by the back- bencher If such s state. ment
"proper, and WRI
the
seemly."!
It's
The Deputy Speaker
ruted pondered and not improper "if there was nothing except water" In the battle-United Prear.
Here's One Civil Servant Who Didn't
Ask
For A Raise
London,
A shining example of restraint in not asking for
a pay raise during the battle for inflation has been set by one of the Government's black- coated established civil servants.
He is Peter-the Home Office. cal,
Peter is paid slx pounds ten shillings, oyens. A spokesman was asked today whether Peter Peter Is on the official staff of had recently asked for a raise. the Home Office, a diab, sooly "Until a few years ago he was building in Whitehall housing only making three pounds the Ministry which oversees | eighteen shillings a year, but it Internet affairs,
was decided In view of the bost
Ho patrols the corridors of of living to put ium up, to his the building day, and sight,new rate of pay. always available to chase ruts or "He has not made any request or sits in front of the recently, the spokesman bald, mice,
al the Are glowing
malnut naturally we would con- Entrance and watches whosider any request on its merits".
comes, in and out.
The Law Returns
One Shilling
With Thanks
BUSI bought it
story
half of what they
CAN MARRY and
London.
And with that he closed his ble on on the Strange Case of the Bob and the Eobby.
Peten is a shining example to his fellow civil servants, No complaints from him for work- ing overtime, and no demands for more pay.
10 YEARS OLD
The pleck block animal is 10 years old, and was brought to the Home Office as a kitten.
"What will happen when he dles", the spokestrian was asked, but he refused to consider the question
The Homo Offee without Peter is unthinkable.. There Calways has been a black cat at the Home Office and his eame always has been Peter.
Round his neck he wears the
badge of his office. The solid leather collar, sporta brass
"Peter, Ilome Office, S. W. 1" Few cats
A have better
of address, and surely none
much--United them firn as Prem
QUSINESSMAN Mr J. Barclay-Barr said
ruefully last week: "I should have known plaque rends: some years ago. They passed to sell one year on the island and then better than to try and tip a London bobby....?” Rene Mollard hoper not suspicious and did not look 100,000 copica offie-two-hastily sold it, so the in. We stayed there for the volume directory by, subscription goed, for whole journey. It took over an
francs (US$11.90) paid for it, Stromboli erupted during their stay, crumbled a hour"
castle they had bullt created several sulphur holes in their rose garden,
Other possible hitches Parls that peace and quiet could be a.sudden discovery that your island bas
been used snuggler's cove or the weekend meeting place of organised plenics. gatherings, or
The girl bluffed their post a startled ticket collector at King's Cross by speaking French, But their French was suspected and the police were called And to the girls were sent back Hitchin
early morning trai.
an
HIS HOME HAD 16 CATS
He said he already has sold out the 5,000 copies of a similar directory he published two years ago, and subscription are pouring into office.
hia
requests
With mounting interest in the European Common Market and Free Trade zone projects,
The figures he can't go wrong.
Mollard has reserved a stand
In the forthcoming Brussels World Fair, where he hopes to
attract more subscribers.
Three Sections
▼
The directory is divided into three main section by coun- try, profession and alphabetical
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AND KEEP FORTUNE
London.
hence, busscout gairing of HEIRESS: Penelope Chamberlayne got and Giglio island groups a few some good news-she
colony such as the Montecristo
years DEO.
hinders the
THE GOOBY was a courteous P.C. who helped him to and his car one night when he came out of a West End cinema.
THE DOB was the silver shilling piece that Mr Barclay- Surrey, Barr, of Richmond, offered as a reward.
The PC. refused it at first,
to a police charity.
then he said he would pass if on
Midnight call
But it is the weather which CPR marry and still keep
Two days later Mr Barclay- sale of Itatlan the fortune she inherited Barr's office passed on a mes- islands more than anything from her grandfather, soge asking him to ring West oise. For three months of the, Penelope, 21. Is carrying Major give his version of how the year the weather is sublime, then come the storms which Nigel MacDonald soon. But un-
End Central police station-to
Londan order. There are more than literally sweep the seas over der the firms of her grand-shilling was handed over.
sub-headings cover
FELIX WISNIEWSKI, $.500
everything from hotels 10 off the log of the Italian pen 10,000 acres of ground and the
who spent his £500 savings on
doctors telephone numbers.
report.
Eight hours inter the tele then particularly the Titans father's will, drawn up in 1912, phone called him from his bed. rho loses her huge home, 113; at midnight for fuller prierless, antiques kept in it, it Chamerlayne.
The islands in the Adriatic
Ai the beginning of the sula. a home for directory an explanatory secilan
gives the key to the different and Tyrrhenian Seas are sub-te changes her name from leadings in French, German, Ject to terribio electale storms English and Spanish.
and hurricane winds.
16 stray cats was told
last weeks his cats can stay in their 'shed in a Nantwich orchard.
There also is a special section Chinese and Japanese for the Far East.
the
Mollard plans to keep directory up to date by sending
The Nantwich urban council considered a committee recom- mendation that Wisniewski beut new listings lo subscribers
every year until 1950. Then,
Tourist Resort
B
Grandfather Tankerville Chiunberjayat,
self-made millionaire, was so proud of the family name he laid down in his will that it must always be preserved.
However, a court ruled that
Two days later he received an
for "1 Dd." (ONE SHILLING) offelal receipt from the police offered as a gratulty in the case of PC. mum.
Three weeks later he had letter from the Assistant Com- of the missioner of Police Metropolis:
A Milan Industrialist recent-Peneleye can become Mis Mac-missioner to refer to your gift
allowed to keep the cals i a
up without new edition will come out overyly bought a tiny ununed Donald and still keep her home,
compound He put
planning permission.
Conditions imposed included
no breeding, no stray additions,
no nulence and that the mai ter be reviewed in a year-
The council was read a lettor from the Cats Protection League and Tell Woytra Secretary, AL bert A. Steward, pffering "to
for
nearCal
arrangu
our
cun-
bg
representative nake periodic calls to ensure whatever ditions were imposed would carried out United Press.
GIRL WAS SAVED BY A HEAD
Stockholm. woman leaning out of o window saved the life of a three-year-old girl here last week.
Man : Ruth Odst of Bloor-
khagon, Stockholm suburb,
war leaning out of her kitchen
year, he sald-United Press.
Sues For Stealing Her Husband
London.
A
island off tho coast of Torre, Cranbury Park near Winchester, del Mare near Genoa, and not-United Press.
far away a larger island called Gailinara was sold last month to a Genos millionaire.
The prices for these "Island 200 MILES FOR
A SIKH BIBLE
Rotherham. Police:loday completed a 200-
"I ana xitrected by the Com- and to JAV that, while appreciating the motive which prompted your offer, it would be contrary to service regula- tions to sanction its acceptance."
'My little gift'
Pinned to the letter was a Porial Order for 18. Od. (ONE SHILLING).
Sald Mr Barclay-Barr last
[ paradises" were in the region of 80,000,000 lire ($128,000) och Both of them are being turned -into tourist resorts open only. for a few months in the year. A 50-year-old wife sved 31-year-old legless woman in a The weather has been con-mile trip to get what was re-wesic: "It must have cost. the
factor in "London court Just week for addered us a serious
wilness can value of my little gift to return enticing her husband away. deterring plans for year-round ported to be the only Sich Bible police at least four times the
Britain so a Mrs Elizabeth Welton Bued ports,
swear on it in a court case, to me. Gallinaro Island has been "The "casa "ngoinat. two men "I don't know how they found Mrs Florence Broadhead for
with stealing clothing mo-but I imagine the constable damages for stenting Mrs Wel-bought and sold several thurs charged ton's husband, Alan, The cone in the past 20 year The owner from Hari Singh Bladahur was had a note of my car number was rent for trial in higher of the island who sold it to the adjourned for 24 hours inst and.
Genoa millionaire planned to week when Madahur told the bot... Mrs Broadhead has been con-use it for grazing sheep. But judge he was a Sikh and could fined to a wheelchair for the 12 last winter his thousand head swear only on a Slich Biblo.
Police were sent 100 miles lo years since she was involved in of sheep panicked during a uraltroad accident which uccess storm and dived over a ell to Leicester to get one and bring the bourt sitated the amputation of both drown in the stormy oochit. back in time for
her legs. United Prais.
session-United' Press. ..
COURL
United Press,
Boots Galore And No One To Wear Them
London,
window, suddenly received anellain's Army has enough boots in its căp blow on her hand.“.
tourd to shoo another two armies, thin
The blow was 'caused by Government Audior-General' charged' test three-year-old Lenn. ForTON
Mr Guil's head cushioned the falt and Lona
Hip ground unhurt. She was rushed 10 bomital for X-r
who had fallen out of a window | Sir Frank Tribe, Government Axilior-General in the apartmgit above.
wad Epapirofler said in his report on the Army's finances that 1,259,000 pairs of shiny. new boots wye currently sitting in moram hod with kobady to wear them What's more, he charrod, there was nobody to: wear then when they were bought. Eine - War Office placed the original order in 1968- and when, the Army's slength wis cut 000- Hunes the original order Desetine to on Desk
The only onay, needing a doctor's allontion was Mrs Qesh.. "Shoi had a slight, brain concu
sion,-l/r/ted Press.
it would cost too much morey in compeRIU- tion to the nakoru.
There's no likelihood of the Army ever using the boots, Tribe, regoriod. “A gew design oumey into une this year,
1 wan traced through
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His Downfall
Was An Antique Traction Engine
London.
Some men go broke becaușe they indulge in women, or homes, or both.
But 62-year-old dentist James Filzgerald wound up in bank- ruptcy court for the love på an antique traction engine,
Douglas told the, court he The London Daily Express · reported that wouldn't pay the total 1240 boots see only end of las departments in storage rent for the engine -- which the army la blunderida., Mad which he Bought in 100 bài Ons department of the Canizal Orduanes Depot, cause" he thought there - way 111 malá, s prátred: 3,030: blankets from 's going to bo enolder war and "civilian manufaturan-withouty. Checking na wanlod to proesrva Ikea With the dentist need doggy which had meie added, however, he now { "tool" to renting-/hid cancerp, had been The other wo Fat Tine the Express, Pinor a waste of time and
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