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FAKIR WHO BROKE FASTING RECORD
The world famous Fakir, Burmuh, bas Just beaten the world's fasting record. In a glans CUED * Lille, Franer, he has just been without food for 82 days and has lost 40 lbs. Previous world record was 81 days and 7 hours. — Express Photo.
Miss
Stephens
Fought Magna Carta
And
-
Won!
London, June 20.
A 68-year-old spinster, relying on the word of an English king who died 800 years ago, challenged the legality of Magna Carta last week -and won.
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Miss Maud Elizabeth Sonders Stephens, of Stedcombe Manor, Astmouth, Devon, claimed the was the exception to the rule,
BEFORE KING JOHN
confirmed
her
Magna Carlu, sealed by King in the Chancery Division Mr John in 1215, says that any Justice Valsey Englishman
tidal claim. watern; even the Crown cannot Miss Stephens had brought give the sole fishing rights to
ແກ action alleging trespass anyone
against Bar Seaton shermen. Three gove undertakings not lo trespass
again and the judge found
that the fourth
had trespassed innocently.
At home later, Miss Stephens rld: Jan
for the so glad, suke
of the river. Fish going to spawn were being upstreatm caught, and I couldn't bear 10 think of the river being ruined. "Ownors of the manor furre looted after it for so
inny hundreds of years. I felt i had a duty towards "
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The reason: Stedcombe Manor was given the right to "sole and several fishery" la Axmouth harbour by either King Henry I (died 1136) or Henry II (died
189).
And that right was given before Magna Carta,
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1954.
French Suspicious The World's Smallest Filly-And Mum!
About Washington Talks
Paris, June 20.
Some French officials at Geneva think Sir Winston Churchill's talks with President Eisen- hower in Washington next weekend should be delayed.
They say the Washington conference was con- vened on the assumption that the Geneva talks on Indo-China would end in failure, but now that there had been an improvement in the chances of a successful outcome of the talks, the Churchill- Eisenhower meeting should be postponed.
One French argument is that the top-level Anglo- American meeting at this stage implied that the two leaders of the Western world were determined to make firm plans before learning the final outcome of the talks.
harassing
A continuation of the present of the Monarchist
Another was that France, the two smaller Indo-Chinese was being left "holding the states, Laos and Cambodia, And
that would have without baby"
adequate
A substantiall effect on any views that the Anglo-American support.
President and Sir Winston might And yet another was that exchange on where the Western France, if not specifically in- [world should s up its barrisTA cluded, should at least have gainst Communism in the Far been associated more closely
East. with the Washington talks. The futish Foreign
| Governments of the two states Secretary, Mr Flen, and Mrby local insurgents, assisted by Waller Berdeli South, Under- Vietminh Invadera,
could Secretary of State, who has been leading the American delegation, make this part of southern Indo-
ultimately, at the
vory least, patial
ssured the French that a revocable devi-
China an uncertain factor in any soas on Tudo-Chinu would be calculations on mutual defence made in Washington,
by a non-Communist bloc.
vellement, a
it not assuring the two stules to the
Mr Elen und Mr Bedell Smith M. Per Meries-Frunet. the new Premier, in Paris today while they wish their way Back to our capitals.
American delegation chaels were assumed 1. lave plesk 10M Mendes- France that the conversations 1 Washington would
he on the broadest of poljev levels.
Western side, night at Jeast neutralise" then, giving the prebifects of a Southeast Asia treaty a chance to map out their perimeter with more certainty.
President Eisenhower.
This Is
Invasion,
Says Guatemala,
Not A Revolution
Washington, June 20.
The United States State Department's view that the current violent developments in Guate- mala are a "revolt of Guatemalans against the Government" was rejected by Guatemalan officials today.
KOREAN BREAKDOWN The situation following the breakdown of the Korean talks
The State Department had described the last week will also be discussed uprising against the left-wing Guatemalan Govern- Conference circles, believe that by Sir Winston Churchill and ment in this way after Guatemala appealed yester- 1 at the info-China 200-
Two aspects of this that day for United Nations Security Council ˇaction might be reviewed were recent stalement by South
on the ground that it was "being invaded.” Korean leaders that they no longer re- The Security Counell garded the armistice as binding meeting in an emergency sesion Guatemala.
was 'take
the
this week will induener Washingtons talks next
MAIN REASONS Condition
changed have drastically sinee the "Big Two" meeting Was
L arranged under the shadow of an East- wes conellock
the mane nation talks
The
Imminent
and
w
The
note of the situation in
But the Commission withheld action today pending the
of outcome
Security Council's hearing. It agreed to meet tomorrow to consider Bltuation.
The Commission is made up of delegates obvious we have been invaded." States, Argmiina, Brazil, Cuba
Reneral British and Ameri-later today to hear Guatemala's polley on the maintenance charge of aggression against its any of their troops in Kores.
territory, Britain, with troop needs in A Guatemalan Embassy Mulnya, the Middle East and spokesman said that reports in- Kenya, is apparently
anxious to cut her dicated that his country was contribution to the United Na-being invaded from neighbouring of
tions Army now that hostilities (Honduras by forces totalling have endel-Reuter.
possibly 1,000
breakdown the conference and a general deterioration of Anglo-American relations generally assumed to be among
that
Bre
the major spurs that made the British Prime Minister suggest his Foreign unch lit
Mr Anthony Eden, Secretary. shouldy to Washington for "talks at the subunit. **
Since then, a marked change In the Communist policy at the Geneva conferines has lol to
imminent
opening the censere talks covering all Indo-China,
of
of
Persia May
Need More
British Aid
Teheran, June 20. The Persian Prime Minis-
General
The possible effeels of success or fallire of these military talks will be one of the items that are expected to figure prominently ter.
UNCERTAIN FACTOR
men. "It
he sold
There have never been such
a number of Guatemalan exiles in Honduras. I doubt if there would have been 200."
Discussing reports from his Government of the uprising, the apokesman said that "pirate" pluges strafing Guatemala City three- yesterday had killed a year-old child and wounded 11 other people.
NO FIFTH COLUMN
to the Inter-
the
from the United
and Mexico.-Reuter.
The smallest filly to live -- was born recently to Malze, a bay racehorse, owned by r and Mrs Eddie Frakes of Ited Danks, Jersey, U.S.A. Malze save birth to twins, but one dird. The foal named "Big Bertha" weighed only 13 the at birth and was 20 Inches high. Nermal
fleures for a foul are 75 lbs. and 40 inches. The filly
reared on WAS bottle,
with honey, regular foods, vitamins, and was kept standing with the aid of a special aluminium support.
Malze poses proudly in this picture with her baby daughter, "Big Bertha".
To
day she weighs 80 lbs, and is 32 Inches high. ExpTESS Photo.
Hindu Sacrifice For World
Peace
car-
New Delhi, June 20. Mountain porters ried thousands of pounds of butter, rice, wheat, sugar, Pepper and salt up the Indian Himalayas today where it will be thrown into: Hindu ritual fires
as
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Remote
Tribesmen To
Meet First
4
White Men
New people
Melbourne, June 20.
Guinea's secret 100,000 light- skinned Papuans who have lived undisturbed for thou- sands of years behind un- mapped mountain ranges—- are expected to meet their first white man late this year, it was announced to- day.
First contact with civilisation will be through a Government patrol, carrying gifts of salt, exes and krives, an stated.
Commenting
official
suggestions thut the secret people abould be left alone, he added; The New Guinea Administration is bound under the United Na tlons charter
lo apon
up and develop Now Gun with the
utmost caro for tho native population."
The traibesmen's sunny, woll- cultivated valleys have boen described as "Uttle England,"
with such pastures frrigated by
rivers. They were
earlier this
spotted month by survey planes which flew over the
12,009-foot 1m:stone ranges of Moller and Karlus moun-
the
Lolan.
A Melbourne local feature writer, who has travelled widely
in New Guinea, and today there werǝ snaks
*Shangri-la."
the
Excret
#
The tribesmen lived in state of perpetual warfare, and "devote more time to killing off their fellow than we do," ho said.
";
"It takes more than isolation and a topography like the Eng- lish countryside to make paradise."--Chiha Mail Special.
Work For 500 Men Over 40 In Civil Service
London, June 20. About 500 elderly
men and women are to act as guinea pigs
Soviet Jets sacrifice for world peace and a Government experiment to
Fly
place in employment persons freedom from hunger and over 40 for whom there is little unemployment.
opportunity in industry. They Thousands of pilgrims have will be given clerical posts in already gathered for the sacrifice the Civil Service. which begine tomorrow In Badrinath, reached only by
Over Persia rough mountain trails.
Discussions are proceeding bo- tween the Civil Service organisa- As the ritual fires are lighted, tions and the Treasury. It is 250 Teheran, June 20.
priests wearing saffron hoped that the first
STOUD will He said that so far there had
The two main Teheran even- robes and squatting cross-legged | be" taken on before the end of Fazlallah been no "fth column" or in- ing newspapers today reported around the temple hearth will the year. on the unofficial agenda at the Zahed, said today that Lernal aclivity
the that six Soviet jet planes flew begin to chant an eight-syllable to support Washington meeting.
The suggestion came from the economic development was
over the town of Astara on the prayer as they pour the sacrifi- attacking rebel forces.
of cial food into the flames.
Ministry
of Labour and the the key to
The spokesman said his Gov-Caspian Sen at the mouth Persia's future ernment had "denounced" the the river Mordab yesterday.
chant the prayer Treasury. Many people over 40 They will Western sources said tonight that with or without a peace and Britain with other ma-attack in a note
The river at this point forms 1,000,000,000 Umes during the are refund work because they settlement
Indo-China, tions could help this de- American Pence Commission of the frontier between Iran and 56-day rites.
not eligible under super- France faces
phonelle Hindu, it says:annuation schemes. the lass of the velopment.
the Ori misation of American the Soviet Union. important parts
Namo Narayana.” maust
not been "Om States.
reports have State
means: "Hall God all existence. of
Vietnam
In the first Interview granted
The Government
If the experiment succeeds the the to a British journalist since the
had asked officially confirmed, however. Vietminh.
the five-nation Commission
papers, Kelhan and all knowledge, all bliss, we bow Civil Service scheme will be ex- resumption of But a peace settlement could relations on December 6, 1953, Anglo-Persian
heads before Etelast, quoted local authorities aur
you Lord tended. Persona taken on will a stabilised
have to pass a simple examina- situation in the told Reuter Britain might find
as stating that the Soviet planes God."
frontier The sacrifice Includes 1,000 tion in general knowledge. opportunities enabling her to
only just crossed the
contribute to Persia's economic growth in a larger measure than before,
mean
of the
to
Sacred Cow
Round-Up
In New Delhi
He declined to express views on Persia's negatiations with the eight-company oil mission to market Persian oil again.
Asked whether a successful settlement of the three-year-old dispute might influence Persia to modify her neutrality between New Delhi, June 20.
Eastern and Western blocs, 100 stray sacred General Zahedi sald he con- More than cows and bulls were rounded sidered that the two questions up on the streets last night in were unrelated. The neutrality
a big operation to clean up the policy was the decision of the
city,
Some of the brasts protected from slaughter by the Hindu
Persian nation-Router,
religion clattered wildly through Indonesia Signs
narrow streets, leaping over the the bodies of sleeping persons as they were pursued by teams brandishing ropes and slicks.
Others lay stubbornly on the pavements and had to be lifted bodily on to trucks which car- ried them of to municipal compounds.
Synthetic Rubber
The
The two
to
Demand Up
Washington, June 20.
The Reconstruction Fin- ance Corporation today re ported a rising demand for synthetic rubber.
21 “Sales of synthetic rubber for
the month of September will be
approximately 48,000 long tons.
cont over indicated August
Trade Pact ki increase of almost 10 por With E. Germany
Singapore, Juno 20. Indonesia has signed barier
A
sales," the Corporation said.
In a statement outlining its scheduled production and sales trade agreement with East Ger- prospects for the three months of July, August and Boptembar this year the Corporation, opera-
many after several months
of
They will be kept for seven slow negotiations, a report from tor of the United States Govern days walling for possible own the special correspondent of the ment's synthetic rubber indus ers to claim them and to pay Singapore
newspaper Straits
Aine. Those, remaining unclaim-Times in Djakarta said today,
ed will be taken to, an "old
China Mail Special.
Indonesia, the
added: August
st production will be cows" home in the country would supply East Germany 3400 long tons over t
report sali, 38,000 long tons, an increase of with raw materials, and would cipated 80 days ago Production Import manufactured goode on for September will be
"parallel basia"
exchange will be in at the 39,000 tens lavaltinued The Corporations muld, in the cph three months ended on Septem
trade
Auckland, June 20. Whangarei magistrates' court decided that emoking is "a form 10
of refreshment," and it cán
and, non-alócholle drinks ONL
foreign
so that
report said, the
therefore be sold with snacks ¦ wild be handled by "nailoraju | Der, 80, 1954 it expected to pro Sundays without breaking the Indonesian Arms but do hace 11,100 long he of GR-8; not the menoral purpose othetic estimate, the volume. 10 mid, rubber, and to sell 180,000 10 The magistrate, Mr John R. however, Indonesia will import com. Hard, had boon asked by the polygraphic machinery often timated Tuto
The Corporation kerner, er Crown in a Lest care whether machines, opticals and precision
Jaw.
le Bycles, ad motor vehicles 25 factories between selling a cigarette und
and ement, and | Rapo
a cup of coffee on. Bundays.
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Are
as a part of manoeuvres and pounds that the incident could not be butter), 20 tons of rice, one ton They will serve a year's pros described as a violation of air of wheat, half а a ton of sugar, bation and then be engaged per-
quarter of a ton of pepper and manently if sultable. space.
also The Kelhan
reported a quarter ton of salt.
that a Soviet warship saijed The Badrinath temple ringed Those chosen will qualify for along the territorial waters by the Himalayan mountains is pensions of up to £3 à work on boundary line at
Pay will range about the one of the hollest spot in India.retiring at 65. samo time-France-PreRSO. --China Mail Special.
'from › £7' to '12 gulričus a wook.
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