• THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1969.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY "MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
ROYAL BIRDS' A MENACE
UK May Become
A Vast Swan
Adoption Agency
London.
ANYBODY like to adopt a swan? Right now
the place to apply is Shakespeare's town, Stratford-on-Avon. But before long, the way things are going, all of England will be one vast swan adoption agency.
The place la full of them. "They complicate everything," admitted a spokoiman for the Royal Society for the Provention of Cruelty of Animals (RSPCA). They have complicated Strat- ford's life, all right,
The elty fathers decided that the only way to geLrid of hall of the 100 picturesque swans which congregalo under Shakespeare Memorial Theatre's balcony was deportation.
the
They begged people who could offer "good homes with decent stretches of water" to "look after"
swart.
Stymied
So far they have received 50 afters, but they're still stymied. They can't accept any of them.
The fact is, Stratford can'L Just give away its surplus
graceful, long-necked birds are getting to be a pain in the neck. They're a menace to naviga- tion.
Swans, being poolni biras, tend to
cluster. Endowed with д -follow-the-leader mentally, they do oytry- thing at олое, And they river have to churn up the for
considerable stretch before they get airborne,
Add those facts together and you can picture the plight of someone in a canoe who reare up from a peaceful paddle to find a solid mass of swang racing straight at him, their five-foot wings falling the water in a mad, frantic effort to take off.
Chances are the conneist tries to lake off, too. And often enough, he doesn't make it.
For weekend sailors and pro-
awans. The forn doren't own torsional rivermen alike, it's no them in the first place-oke. The swans simply get Queen Elizabeth does.
In England, the swan is a "Royal bird," and nobody can own one except the Queen and a couple of London's anclent Bulld
companies. Everybody else "looks after" lite swan in htc meat, or river, or garden pond. as if the evans were adopted children,
Stratford can't just shoot the awans, either, and they can't just round up 30 or so and dump them on somebody else's unsus- peeling river-nearly everyone else his the same problem.
At Stratford, on the Norfolk broads, on Romney Marsh, on the River Thames itself, these
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the way.
Drawbacks
This happened so often in Stratford that even the tourisis complained. It was then the city knew something had to bo done.
But even the desperation de portation solution has its draw- backs.
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Who's going to routed D❞ the swans? Who's going transport them? Who's going
that they're 10 BOG
well treated, ami that The "stretches of water" people offer are "decent," to prevent
howls from the RSPCA and
bird-loving Britons?
Stratford took the easy solu- tion and asked the RSPCĂ to do the job itselź.
"We will help as far as we are able, but it's a local authority problem ni the moment,” an RSPCA spokesman said. "The local authorities must and places where the swabs will be e- cepted."
Pampered
Even this isn't as simple as it sounds.
Already
Swans
every- pre
Getting Down To Eat
It's a long way down to this young lady from the giraffe's lofty height. But Grumpy, despite his name, was only too pleased to stoop for a biscuit.- Reuterphoto.
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An Envelope
That
Never Wears Out
London.
introduced
an envelope
Its
LONDON manufacturer has claimed to 'never wear out.' It is a large zip-fastened container made from p.v.c.-coated synthetic material. use will save large sums for firms with heavy mailing commitments.
Espresso At The
Colosseum
Romo.
It is u constantly re-usabic
envelope and is expected to
supersede expendable envelope Got A Divorce
and canvas bags for many postul tasks. It commends itself par- ticularly 10 banks, lasiranco buliding societies companies, and other organisations with lorge daily transmissions of correspondence between offices. The envelope has been approved by the British G.P.O. and is fully patented.
where. Nearly every stretch of HE aroma of "Espresso" | £4,000 a year can be saved by
THE
water a few yards long has a
coffoe wafted among pair, bually breeding, away. No nobleman's country house would the arches and pillars of the
be complete without a few mighty Colosseum and the cygnets growing up in the meat clinking of glasses and or the private lake,
Borated water bottles could "As far as mature is con- be heurd noor its corned, swans fead a Dam-faron. pered life," the RSPCA spokesman said.
ancient
But Didn't
Tell His Wife
London.
EORGE Finch want homa One large organisation has estimated that as much 0. U
one night recently and The had dinner with his wife using the new envelope.
weight of
the without telling •her they ghiness in
reduce had just been divorced. material also helps to postage costs.
Finch, 42, was granted. an By using these envelopes in interim decres for cruelty by his different colours, sorting of mail 38-year-old wife Alice. He told into geographical, departmental the judge he had no intention of Dr other classifications is turning his wite out of the facilitated. An additional method | house they have shared-in Tenirists were making good is the use of coloured address separole rooms, scarcely speak- use of a newly opened refresh-cards. These oro carried in ing for two years. "Animals don't prey on them.ment bar set up in one of the transparent windows in which The judge told him that In People have a soft spot for huge arches leading to the cards for the necessary postage that case, he would have them, und feed them in dif- Colosseum's arena, where once is also affixed. cult times when they might walked Roman gladiators and otherwise dle of,
slaves on their way to fighting The envelopes are available lions and tigers.
in sight contrasting colours, The Colosseum has been the ranging from Ught blue to black main carncr amont Rome's Their sizes vary from 10 Inches Mrs ancient monuments of the x 8 inches to 10 inches x 10 didn't ask him, but I did think
and he would tell me." estimated 90,000,000,000 (b) lire inches and special forms (US$144 million) brought an- sizes can be made to speelfiea- nually by foreign visitors to the tion. city.
"Thus they multiply."—UPI.
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Always cool
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A lot of people also like to spend time among the huge pillars and archways during the hot summer months, for it is always cool there.
So the city fathers of Home decided to install a refreshment
bar this year as an experiment
The manufacturing material
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Do As I Say
Hartford, Conn. State agency heade chuckled
leave himself.
But Finch went home, ate his dinner, and left without a word. "How George gut his divorco?" "I Finch naked later.
"I suppose one of us will have to go," Finch said.--UPL
No Privileges
London. Author Vincent Musgrave told. the judge ho bad India hemp in his apartment because ho was writing a book on the underworld and "underworld characters hand it out as honest for the coming 1000 Olympics. on receiving an economy order people offer a whisky and soda."
Now Colosseum visitors can from the budget department to
"Accept no more," Judge Instead, of Clyde Wilson told him. "It munch on д
plain paper ham sandwich Use
the costly. stationery for inter you do while wandering around
you had better burn 070-foot arena stening to the departmental notes. The order it." Musgrove was fined £15 guide unfold the stories of its was on, a formal letterhead-- for possession of narcotics,
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Screwdrivers In The Rough
DELLON, WI.,
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Actress Wanted To Go To
Prison
London.
N- actress who
Was
Athro out of quot is
bitterly complaining that "there's no freedom loft in England."
She is 34-year-old Painela Berry who went to gaol rathor then pay a fine of £1 for pull ing the emergency stop cord on
A train.
But when she arrived in Lon- don's Holloway prison for women the authorities found £2 in her purse. Out of this they extracted her fing and sent her off home.
"There's no
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freedom for the Individual any longer," pro- de- tested Pamela who termined to serve a sentence of two weeks rather than pay up, -UPI.
Spoilt Chimps Spurn Regular Food
THE
Berlin.
West Berlin zoo told visitors to stop feeding] the monkeys.
monkeys
The Zoo rald the get 50 many rich snacks they turn their noses up at their re- gular food and oven mub their keepers. They are so used to free bananas they no longer can be used as bait to get them
to do things.
It blamed two recent attacks
by large monkeys on their
koopers on thie. A zoo spokes- man sold the well-fed monkeya keepers no longer consider the tieir main source of food
Moreover, the zoo said,. study has disclosed that the death ralo of monkeys fed by the public is 70 per cent higher than it is among monkeys, who Just get the zoo food.
the
Signs are now put on monkeys cages reading "Feed- ing is Forbidden."--UPI.
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