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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1954.
WHERE LONDON PLANNERS WANT TO PUT CAR PARKS
GILES goes underground (HTS)
"Undergrahnd car parks! Makes a change "aving a traffic jam dahn 'ere instead of up top, don't it?”
THE BENGHAZI
BABE
FFABLE,
tubby,
soberly tailored.
Astute eyes and gesturing hands. Smile that lights up an off- cream complexion like electric ad.
11
There you have Mustafa ben Halim. Prime Minister of Libya, the world's young- est sovereign State, founded 1951. Christmas Eve, His secretariat ineidentally claim, that, at 84, he is the world's youngest Prime Minister.
on
} Benghazi Babe. The
him, call heard a diplomat
for in London touched down Informal Forcuci Office contacts on is way to Weshington talks. presumably about Amtrien's air base in Libya.
Mustala bon ladina ban alwaya been top
of the clas
20
At the French school in Alex-
where he Bladies an in years ago he was always top of the class. He is top of the class still-nad keen to stay there
In Londen he is abed nightly by ten and awake and working His only re- on papers by 118. Laxa'ion since reaching Britain air has been two hours of sea at Dighton,
æmi ke means to slay there
by FRANCIS MARTIN
MUSTAFA DEN HALIM
twa cigars and 20 cigarettes a day
no
First Zoo Started In China
By James Wickenden
CINCE Brumas grow out of babyhood, London Zoo has been short of visitora.
As the first polar bear born in captivity aho topped the bill of the Zoo's attruellóns. At the nge of four she still bobs up and down in her motor tyre and eats" felt hats accidentally blown into her pool. But the crowds do not come any more.
Like human ators, animals need the right build-up to nitmel fans. So the Zoo 1:1 getting out a big new pro- gramme of late Saturday night showings, with artificial moun- light, militory bonds and glow- worms in the bushes.
Eventually the Zoo hopes to draw winter crowds by enclosing and centrally heating the paths. A £1,000,000 programme of rebuilding will begin soon.
Meanwhile, a steady flow of new oddillies is arriving. There ore man-killing spiders, a rare yellow-coated pand-cat from Arabia, and
black-maned Nubian lion to see.
A
TRICKSTER
But some so-called roological
never specimens
materialise. They are the brain-chlidren of the joker or charlatan.
One of the most FATTYOLIN animal tricksters was Dr Albert Koch, who found no difficulty in gulling our Victorian grand- parents. He produced a stuffed sea-serpent 114 feet long and dubbed it Hydrarchos Sillimani, or King of the Sea.
When this was discovered to be a fraud, he appeared in few years later with the Mississippi ad- Saurian. This
primeval hemonster of immense size.
Dow
up, as a man
Was
A
deep-sea At or a stiff day of politics, he dependence. I can understand the was constructing ræw
sendrome cht a 10 Mr quays, G ikes to came up at home in his Libyans being grateful
township nca: Alexandria, has Benghazi But Pelt, study-litzy; listen for an hour
When the new' Libyan or two to his favou:tte gam
was Bet The ministration phone records-La Triavinta, La Alexander Street or Montgomery
Halim dears not. Tusca,
office Beethoven symphonies, Street? For all his radiant smile, the
There stopped into
of slippe, Someone pointed out that it Brbe has much on his mind. Chopin waltzes--or take his wife oversight is regrettable.
Commis- steps into a pair
П WDS would have been no
clever arrangement of As King Idris's right-hand man, and children fer a run in the
becoming Libya's first Minister job of
geen hill around the elty.
stoner Pelt and no Libyan of Works and Communications. mastodons' skeletons with the he is faced with the
dependence but for the libera- Before assuming the Premier- tusks arranged as horns, but not inter- 1948
in 1710 modernising a nation which was
worked before the doctor had drawn the There are two described by Ice
and its com- ship last April he ling 8th Army Halim "mostly Halim's garage. Mrs
frenziedly, providing Libya with gate-money.
better roads, проте national commission us
drives a Chevrolel, her husband manders, nomadic and Bliterate."
electric strzel lighting. a Mercedes.
Halim musingly agreed that power, better aliport facilitics. the point was worth taking up with the Benghazi street-naming because he met authorities,
cbzors Halim smokes two day end 20 English cigarettes; drinks two coca-colas with and lemon, four if the weather icuches Be s hot, nicohol.
never
A PROBLEM:
WIVES
LIVING LONGER
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
MORE
TORE women than ever are far outliving their husbands because they are
0
Pretty Wife
anything about With his wife Usra, who is of
Noi that there is nomadle от Hitrate Halim's background.
Prasian Arab stock, hts two
10-
little boys, the younger of them widow. six months old, and hus ed moth: he lives in rooned Benghazi flat, one of a the try block of seven built loathed Italians during th: b-lef day of Mussolini's "empire."
on
a
Twice a wick he puts dark sult and a tussoled fez and is driven in his office Humber to the pulpee for a session with The King on the affairs of
day.
most
the
wise
cara
Minister
His salary as Prime Is smell by Western standards--- Io about £150 a month, cut £130 by tax. But the Hultms be a wealthy family.
Mustafa's six brothers run a food-and-textlic merchanting
house funded by thir
father
in Alexandria. Although he takes ne active part in the business,
which share Mustila holds a yleks him between £3,000 and £4,000 a year. Hence the relo- live luxury of the Halims' fut Pelt Adrian In Benghazi's Street.
Field Marshal Earl Alexander at lunch the other day end found him a very ane man. Somehow the 8th Army dropped out the picture.
of
new
OF
more
Budget Item
The doctor tapped that in- satiable interest in the animal world which the world has had sluce
the earliest times, Exhibitions and zoos have been popular since the Chinese started the first one. It was
Britain helps to pay all this founded by Emperor Wen of the in return for the right to main-Chou dynasty in about 1200 B.C.
"The and called
Intelligence tain air and military baseF
Park"-a hint that much could Libya. "In 1952 and 1953, 8035
"Britain's contribution be learned from watching apes, I doubt whether Heilm would Holm,
ARK SANK fone have brea of much use to Libya was something under £2,000,000
there. a year, This year it has If he had beca reared
Hand sorne Rather than live under the up to £3,750,000,"
Our own zoos probably date bonus for a country with fewer pulled
from Henry 1, whose menagerie Italian yoke, his father oul of Petna aral settled in than 1,200,000 population.
at Woodstock was eventually Alexandria befere Mustafo was
Education is a proud budget transferred to the Tower born. Thus, Mustafa's training item, Halim is louchy about London. was wholly Egyptiin.
"literacy" talk, which he dis- This zoo was still running misses as exaggerated or out of when the London Zoo Was At the Fuad-al-Awal Univer- date. "We have 60,000 or 70,000 formed by Sir Stamford Raffles, B.Sc. degree, children in primary schools now. the founder of Singapore, in sity he took qualified as Д
civil engineer, In two or three years we shall 1820.
ali
children, and be teaching
our practice private cntered
Ramies, with Slightly-built Under 100,000.
the while still in his early twentes, about in-
sun-bleached hair and sparse, Itailans, education was next to leathery skin, was an indefatig- able naturalist, and visitors to his house in Singapore found
Adrian Pet? But who is he? Otherwise unknown to world Jeme, Mr Pell, from Holland, served as U.N. Commissioner in was
"Our is a
being wet-nursed towards man," he says. "I am always Libya while the country escaping the heart trouble got to have his advice." which is now killing thou- sands of men in middle age, | says a doctor.
And they may owe their [ longer life span to the fact that many of them do more i hard physical work than) their menfolk.
Heart complaints in bus con- ductors who run up and down stairs all day and in bus drivers who sit most of the time have been compared by Dr Jeremy Morris, of the Medical Research Council.
a
MAFIA-150 YEARS OF SICILIAN TERROR
By YORKE HENDERSON
has served for after government O strangers in Sicily, meat Calogero Vizzini was tried to squash the all-power- relatives.
ful Maña, in vain. The men of a charming business- the secret society have always Medical man, with land and sulphur wan in the end. Association in Glasgow that he mines to provide a found that the drivers have
He told the British
twice as many fatal heart at fortable living.
tacks.
com-
started The story of Maña when Napoleon Invaded South Italy. In the lawless conditions But Sicilians knew better. that followed, the great estate A comparison of postmen and To them he was Don Callo, owners of Sicily hired bands of telephonists showed the same a man to be feared and toughs to guard their property, trend-hard physical effort keeps the heart healthy.
HARDEST WORK
Running up and down stairs 25.00 is about the hardest work any
one can do. And few workers do more of it than a housewife.
35.00
10.50
10.50
4.00
5.00
respected.
For Calogero Vizzini was the secret chief of Stelly's dread society, the Mafia.
These men were ready to kill as part of their day's work.
But the landowners had created a Frankenstein's mon- ster. The bands on the various ostales got together, formed secret organisation, and turned against their employers.
Protection
G
the victim
or his
in
At one point the Malla was so powerful that even the com- mander of the royal troops Sicily took orders from them.
At the end of last century
took the government Nearly 160 Malla men were ar- rested. Some were gaoled and many were exiled.
action.
Gang System
The exiles went to America He died last week at the age
and laid the foundation of a of a heart attack. of 77...
gang system which was to breed Nowe of his death spread
men like Al Capone and Dutch like lightning. Telegrams of
Schultz. But Matia had its pour la
roots in the USA. before that, The number of people who condolence began to
districts Now And the
York'a Italian 70's hus doubled from all over Sicily. reach their
Villalba
terrorised by the Blackc Bince 1820-from one and a half tiny post office at
・Their specialty was the pro- were millies to three million. Of the where Don Callo lived had to
racket. They told the Hand, a Mafia offshoot, cables a half million handle
from Maia tcellon one and 5,00❘ extra
estato owners who they could "graduates" of America's
employ and for two-thirds are women.
how much, In Now. Orleans, Police Chief Hennessy arrested a They fixed prices for, land and David
killing rival Mafia gong for Sald Dr Morris: "The middle-underworld.
Officially the Mafia is out- crops,
A terrifled jury aged male now representa a
gansters. Any landowner who tried to freed them.
on the fimaicst 1.00 major challenge to public health. lawed and secret, But thousands
of Sicilians were ready to fol- auction his land or his crops text Within dinys David 5.00 "About 80 percent of men
Hennessy was dead.. die before low Don Callo's coffin and send met a swift death. who reach 35" now
wreaths bearing their nomes. 10.00 they are 08, compared with only even though
they knew the Mañá lenders, groody ***Mussolini thought.ho could 20 percent of women."
police Were making careful
24.00
Coronary thrombosis (a serious notes of sympathies, type of heart attack), lung can→ 15.00
and duodenal ulcer pro cor, "modern" diseases which women 18.00 xeem to be escaping
7.50
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.
HONGKONG SANDAAL
They Got Him
of
for power, sometimes fought among themselves. Murderous feuds at the Mafia from Italy, In were commonplace, But no one Fasciat style he rounded them outled in the law. That up and tried them in batches of
160. Under heavy police pro was forbidden by the Omest, tection witnesses were found the Malla code, vindin
who would testify about Mafia For di Bielly it is safer to The average middle-aged man,
The Omerta fald it down that city leaders were Dr Morris said, now has about auffend the police than risk the no Maba man must ever apply the secret society's lenders
to the authorities for help. He given, long prison s one-in-tan obance of contracting vengeance of the Mana, autor
One man 'crossed the Mafia must never kasist in the detec serious host trouble and one thence in 35 of getting duodenal recently. Balvatore Cuillano, the tion of any crime pyet every if thought he was big, it had been committed " against
Bleiled Under: Mann law the right
1. And he wided with this warm-
But the Mala wan, ketill, vory much alive. And the man who
la alerted to fucosal Don Calto
nothing
at all
of
Not jeng 9ge, according to a dimeatty pushing through the reputable Westagu : \ observer cages of noisy animals and tribal tenants of former Italian potted plants to see him. farms da Libya were putting He silled back from Malaya their livestock in the farmhouses with a Noah's Ark load of and
outside. But animals, but the ship caught fire camping Halim's faith in education is and sank of Sumatra. Se he torchingly great. Already Libya went back to the jungles and has evening schools for adults, made second collection. Since Soon, he reasons, all will to then the Zoo has become one of well.
London's leading) attraction.
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