THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 8, 1940.
THEY HERE LION ROAR
London, Maay 23.
Mr. George Thomson, of Tudor House, Cuckoo-hill, Pinner, Middlesex, keeps a lion in his back garden as a pet. Sometimes on Sundays, as many as 200 people come to have a look at it,
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But Mr. Thomson's neighbours think the lion lowers the tone their locality. Besides, they have an idea it might escape. Last year they petitioned the council for the removal of the lion- but Mr. Thom. son won the day.
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When war broke out A.R.P. person- nel asked for rifles so the lion could be shot if it escaped. The Home Office rejected the suggestion.
Now Rota the Lion has developed a roar and Mr. Thomson Is in trouble again. A summons has been Issued against him because of the nolae,
"FOREIGNERS"
"It's a lot of nonsense," he told the "Daily Mirror:" "Rota is safely caged and quite harmless. As for the roar, isn't it time the lion roared, when the Germans have got as far as Arras?. "Rota is the only British animal in the neighbourhood apart from the bulldogs I keep.
"Other people round hare keep foreign breeds like chows, pekinese and Alsatians - a regular Fifth Column of pets.
"Actually the lion roars only twice a day about seven o'clock in the morning and ten at night. I doubt whether he can be heard three houses away. I shall fight the summons."
Yesterday Rota roared his defiance at ill-wishers at 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. precisely.
SNORE SAVED PAPERS
How a German's snores saved the personal papers of the British military attache in Copenhagen from being read by the Gestapo when the Ger- mans entered Denmark. has just been told, says Reuter..
After arresting all those at the Bri- tish Legation the Germans sent men to search the room of the British Mili- tary attache, Colonel Noel Craig, at his hotel.
-- But a few... nights previously, Co lonel Craig had changed apartments because the anoring of a German in the next bedroom had disturbed him. The Gestapo men went to Colonel Craig's former room, which was then occupied by an American business men. They ransacked the American's luggage in vain, thinking it belonged to the British attache-Reuter.
FILM STAR GETS DIVORCE
AND £62,500
Shapely Arline Judge, film actress, was freed from matrimony at Bridge- port (Connecticut) divorce court with a cash settlement of £62,500 and £250 a month allmony.
HE TORE HER BED APART In addition to this bumper settle- ment by her ex-husband, millionaire Dan Topping, Arline was granted the custody of their two-year-old son, Dan, junior, writes a New York cor- respondent.
Arline alleged that Topping struck her, went out with other women, broke down her bedroom door and tore her bed apart.
Topping is reported to be romanti cally interested in Sonja Henie.
NEWPORT DEFEATS PLYMOUTH AT SOCCER
London, To-day
Playing at home in the South West- ern Division yesterday, Newport, de-. feated Plymouth by 6 goals to 3. Reuter
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Love may be an old story but modern youth is apt to turn it into a short.short.
SCARED THE GIRLS
A broken engagement led to the ap- pearance in the dock at Liverpool of Henry Frank Cave, aged nineteen, of Ennismore-road, Liverpool, accused of improper behaviour. He was re- manded in custody.
Mr. H. R. Balmer, prosecuting, said Cave had been appearing in a com- pletely nude state in front of women during the black-out.
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When arrested, he made the ex- traordinary explanation that his be- haviour was in othsequence of his engagement being broken off.
"I have been going out in the nude and disturbing women,” he said. "I have started keeping company with another young woman and I think my will power will now be restored." On behalf of Cave, Mr. G. H. Twy- ford said he would shortly be joining the Army, and he thought the disci- pline would do him. more good than medical treatment.
THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.
MAD KILLER THERAPION NO.1
AGAIN, 3 MORE DIE
THE "MAD BUTCHER" OF
WHO CLEVELAND, OHIO,
HAS COMMITTED TWELVE MURDERS IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, IS BE- LIEVED TO HAVE STRUCK AGAIN THREE TIMES,.
The nude bodies of a woman and two men were found in a railway truck which had recently arrived in Pittsburg from Cleveland. On the chest of one
of the men was carved the word "Nazi."
dead The three people had been from six to eight weeks.
The method In which they were killed has led the police to add them to the list of murders committed by the "Mad Butcher."
This otherwise unknown killer got his name during the discovery of a series of torso murders in which an almost surgical precision had been employed.
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DRINK
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