THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, · AUGUST 23, 1958.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY "MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
Determined Attack On One Of Props Of British Civilisation
FISH AND CHIP FOLLY!
Children
Turning
Into
Race Of Fatties
A
London, DETERMINED at-
lack has just been
made on one of the
props of British civilisa-
tion: the chip. The fish- and-chip chip.
Chips, according to
福
city's school medical off- cera, are turning the young- er generation into a race of fat lies.
Children buy chips which they guzzle after their school ments. The over-tufting of chira 1s making eltldren "Jeiborgle and dull." And mak- Ing the girls difficult to dress. Dr Marion Taylor, who Is Sheffield's chief school medical officer, has not a single good word to say in favour of chips. Her colleagues support her.
Such FIL attack cannot unchallenged. Chips, after alt, are not merely a food: they ure a way of life.
En
Chips, of course, have alwaya had onemlos.
Thero was the husband in a divorce petition this year who complained that his wife mado their Continental holidays misery by insisting on having fish and chips. This, the Judge ruled, was not cruelty.
There was the Corporation of Great Yarmouth that Instructed fla town clerk to kero people from eating fish and chips x the town buses.
And so on.
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Anti-Deer Hunt League Chalk Up Another Victory
London.
FTTHE Loogue Against Cruci
The dope spraying
squad has boon in action again?
The Devon and Somerset Sing Hunt has once mure failed to find a deer on Exmoor although the harbourer of the hunt had told the master, Lieut-Col. L. M. Murphy, of at least two slags which had been harboured in the woods around North Molton, Caminon.
SPORTS CARS
Farmers spoke of seeing a couple of grey sports cars around Sandyway at the other end of the Common for somo time before the hunt,
Mrs C. A. Norman, chairman of the North Devon branch of the League anid "supplies of the dope, which is intended to des- troy the scent of the deer, hos been entrusted to various mem- bers of the league in all parts of the area.
They
would use it at their liscretion. Whether they did in fact min the North Molton Hunt or not I don't know. Anyway it don't do any harm to coep. the sing hunters guessing," she |enid-China. Mail Special.
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CATS WERE IN
THE BUDGET
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of Karlsruhe, West
ROLEX
constable WHEN the budget watch the hundreds Germany, was presented to the Counci)-they of cyclists whizzing `part... | discovered that a sum of 500 West Marks (about sucking their orangos, nibbi- HK$600) had been set aside for ten cats,
ing their bananas, munching thoir sandwiches as they took part in a 12-hour race.
Anu he thought: what do they do with the skins and wrappers?
He boon found out. The skins and wrappers were discarded along the roadside of the 21-mile circuit.
The cals have beta patrolling. harbour installations and whent stores nainst rate and mice, in the past year they did such an excellent job that preṭically no mice or ruta dane show or falls in the harbour district any more, and the city now feetls
the hunters
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on offal-China
Out came his notebook. The Dual Status
costable walked up to Douglas Erunwin, the rano secretary, and said: "All those riders Bre committing an offence."
And the conscientious police- man recited the now Liller Act with its £10 penalty.
It happened at Hatileld Heath, Escx.
This, necording to 30-year-old
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Greenville, Miss: TWO states will have to contest
Tthe honour of being the
native soil of a burglary, suspect who was gaoled here.
The prisoner gavo his name As Houston Texas Augustus Georgia.—UP.I.
'Lifters' At Work
Mr Brunwin, of Brentwood, is how his conversation went with |||] the policeman, notebook poised:-
Saw His Point "He asked me to send some body to pick up all the Rtter. I saw kls point. But t was in possible. The constable saw ny point. But he said the law wis the law. I said I saw that,"
Woman
Killed By Stiletto Heels
London.
QUYLVIA HILL had wide foot, but likod smart, stiletto-hoolad shoes. These shoas killed her,
Chicago. FFICIALS of the Chatham
Her heels were four inches YMCA on Chicago's south
an inch acTUS, side puzzled over a theft. Some-high-Just half one "lifted" six curved rodwood the end of the spike. benches and a large patio, tubsc Her feet were four inches from a now outdoor swimming wide. The shoes were 34 inches pool.
ot the broadest point.
The "Y" officials are pretty sure the furniture was lifted since the pool la surrounded by an eight-foot high fence topped with barbed wireU.P.I.
As they talked the cycliste Scented Skunk went round the circuit, nibbling and munching the litter,
and dropping
Cherry Point, N .C.
HAD TROUBLE Donald Hill, 25-year-old Sheffield greengrocer, told a coroner how Sylvia died.
"My wife had previously had trablo with walidng in high MRS. R. E. Ddrick appealed heels on wet pavements,” he
of this stid. That made up the constable's today to residenta
Brea not to harm her missing mlad. He sold he would take a
He left Sylvia at the top of note of ALL the cyclists in the skunk named Petunia.
"Petiniu 1s unatened and the steps leading from their new ruct. Mr Brunwin pleaded. The
amells nice," she said. "I spray | Cal-No. 13—into a yard. constable relented. After all, if nearly 100 cyclists were to turn her with cologne.-UP.I. Lup les court,
Said Me Brunwin: "Tally he Dry Bathing Suit
Look my name, 1 told him I could not be responsible for all the cyclists and what they did on the clrealt. I think the constable SLw that. But he still took my name"
So now Mr Brunwin expecta to bo mummoned under the new Litter Act
London.
Civitavecchia. CONSTANTINO ZINTU, 51, has been forbidden to wear
a bathing sult la pubile-by ordor of the police department here in Italy.
He went into the yard to averse his van; Sylvis was "coing sơmo`hing to her shoes," Ho added: "I felt a bump whilə 1 was reversing the van,
UNDER BACK WHEELS
"I thought I had got to the Officers said tolloos of his brick koep in the yard to tell
arma chest, back and
far were me when I have objecĺknablaU,P.L
cough,"
He found his wife tying under Street Walkers
e of the back wheels, She was dena.
London'
Polico Inspector
Henry Curiomore at the Scotts Re-WOMEN don't like waliding on
the pavements at Ripley. Fawcett found Mrs Tilia left Etaurant in «Central London zan
Derbyshire. They are afraid of shod on one step, for the doors after momebody spraining their ankles, the "I came to the conclusion orderait their steaks really well council wit be told at Rs next she had been walking down
meellug,
from the fat and missed her Reason Boys playing marbles|ničps," he said.
dono.
Tha stenka caught fire and Alled the restaurant with acrid angke. Piromen quickly pul out the blast--UPI.
on the way home from school -The curorier said. Be uccépied have burrowed dangerously deep Donald's evidence unreservedly, holes to make mariile aileya. Verlisi Mlandeiluri,
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