CABLE BRIEFS
Folkestone, Apr. 22. Farmer John Rosslyn-Bank Ule Fot annoyed when troops on manoeuvres Wrai fluoughi gate on his farm and forgot to shut it after them.
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So he padlocked l¡ and creek- saying. "Out of
Xounds."
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Now he's planning a formal protest to the local military au- thorities—he last · · balak troops carried off gate and rigo and used them for firewood, Uribed Press.
Londen, Apr. 22. Postmaster - General Breat Marples today ordered a clean- up, Fant-up and smile rumpalga brighten Bellain's post
19 officer.
Marples z ho
tu wants "eut out the look that makes the man behind the counter ap pear to be spending six years in prison."-United Press,
Grimsby, Apr. 22.
A lecture altended by 000 women broke up in chaos sen- terday when a mouse ran across the floor in the Grimsby Town Ilall,
The mouse got away.-United Preas.
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL | 23, 1988;
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Russian Pilots In Indonesia's Civil War?
Savage Air Raids On Rebels
The Cholera
Epidemic
In Calcutta
Calcutta, Apr. 22. Cholora killed 125 people in Calcutta last week as the worst epidemic in 20 years -ragod unabated.
down
Total deaths, so far are 300 and with more than 200 people daily being struck hospitals are finding it difficult to cope.
Two thousand victims were admitted to city hospitals Rest week A corporation spokesman nald today that the epidemie was only likely to be controlled
after the rains had set in casing the heatwave in the city for the pant two weeks.
Extra ambulances have been put into service and 400 tube- wells are belt sunk for drink- Chicago, Apr. 22. ing water in slum areas where
und grinders have the epidemie started
Even orgun agents nowadays.
The Universty of Chicago could
Guiseppe not book Renaldo for its Festival of Arts ut it contacted his agent. United Prez
Keokuk, Apr. 22.
City Courelilors have decided
worst.
s
According to the experts, the Ganges delta, where Calcutin home of Auistic Hes. I the cholera which killed over seven mtions in bila between 1901 and 1923.-Neuler.
to cane the "arony" of receiving THE DEATH
parking meter violation tickets.
Starting May 1. "Meter Malds"
to
Judith Einrrison and Janet Ray- barn will issue the tickets errant motorfate.United Press,
Mily, Apr. 22. Ashumest school
principal Sonasuke Izuka travelled holl way across Jupan to crase some wall scribblings.
His students had defaced the wall of i shrine during a school excursion.-United Press.
Des Moines, Apr. 22.
PENALTY
IN CEYLON
Colomba, Apr. 22.
The Ceylon House of Repre- rentatives today passed for the second time an omelat bli to suspend the death penalty for 01 experimental- perlud of three years.
Earlier the bill, after being passed by the House had been
The Iowa Tax Commission returned down by the Senate on ported that use tax collections the ground that it would en- from cars, trucks and trailers in
courage crime. March жего almost $100,000 lower than March, 1857.
The bill will now go to the Senate again, But under the
Hi nungested that the heart of constitution it will be eligible the Farm Belt may yet see the for the Governor-General's or- revival of the horse-United | sent even if it is rejected there. Fresa.
-Reuter.
The First Of Its Kind
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-London,-Apr.–22. PENJAMIN SMITH, farmer of Hedingham, Essex, made Britis
legal history today by bring the Brat man convicted for stelberately spreading myxomatosis, the rabbit disease.
He pleaded gulity to a chirke of using two infected rabbits -
to spread the disease among others and was fined £6 with conis.
The rabbli were eating his winter wheat, he said.
The case was brought by the Royal Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals-China Mall Special.
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A British
Crossword Puzzle
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24
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ACROSS
1 They are mariners (0),
6 Eliot's Marner (3).
8 One of "1 Across,"
(5).
maybe
The way nourishment reaches
the plant! (6),
10 Dog of war! (5).
11 Often goes
(5).
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1 Cook's drudge? (8).
2 Claiming too much (8).
3 Bone turned black (4),
15
4 Observed it's not cooled (7) 5 Nothing could be better (7)
Devoted (2, 4).
7 London suburb (5).
with glycerine 14 Makes an earnest plen (8).
12 Recopie deliberately burned!
(4).
13 Puts un an equality (5).
10 Don't they ever disagree?
(0).
18 it has an eye but sces no:
(6).
20 Born in South Africa? (5).
22 Like an unwritten low? -(4).
23 Work like a black? (5).
25 Proportion (5).
20 Knightly wandering? (0),
#7 Nón-baseball pitchors (8),
15 Cupboard koy? (8).
10 Shades of colour (7).
17 Silces, (7),
19 This one is not so difficult
(0),
21 Awa' wP II (0),,
24 Irish Gaelic (4).
Many Reported Killed In Bukittinggi
Singapore, Apr.-22.
The Indonesian Air Force attackód the Sumatra robol capital of Bukittinggi twice today and rebol sources said the raids wore so savage that the pilots "must have boon Russions.”
A
rchel reporter said: "No Indonesian pilots could have done such savage attacks," in a morsecast on a station formerly used by Western corres- pondents.
Meanwhile Colonel Dahlan Djambak, spokesman for the revolutionary government, renewed his demand for a United Nations investiga- tion of the Soviet part in the Sumatra affair.
I'M NOT GOING
TO TAKE THIS
LYING
He was quoted as saying that "The use of Russian pilots or Russian crown (on armed mer- chantmen by the Soekarno re- nime would mean that fussin is interfering in the internal affairs of Indonesin,"
The rebel reporter cald the Indonesian Air Force attacked "many places" during the day,
DOWN!including Pajakumbuh, 30 miles
Lady Docket
of Bukittinggi, and Balu- sangkar, 30 miles to the south where the rebel leaders were reported to have laken refuge.
At Bukittinggi, the reportEr sald, the first air raid was aimed at the army barracks and the second at the
market town "where people were busy buying and selling.
The
of the madness showed the attacks
pilots were devoid of feelings of humanity. It was quite clear that the pilots did not know Buklithoggi town”
The rebel reporter indicated that there was a heavy loss of
allc.
FIRST TIME
The Indoncalon government's Iand forces meanwhile drove within 16 miles of Bukittinggi while 1,500 miles to the east,. the rebelo claimed that revolu- tionary government planes had
| bombed Morotai Islatid to bring
They Take Their First Bow-
TWO bear cuby born at London Zoo recently make
Molton.
The cubs are the first pure-bred Syrian bears over born at the Zoo. They weigh 6. Their parents are Winnie and Pickles. Expresà.
THE UNREST IN