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How To Save £100] (and live longer) By-

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SIGNING THE CARROT PLEDGE

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

you are willing to sign

a pledge that you will

never eat meat again you can now insure your life at a cut-price rate.

After consultations with chiefs leading doctors the

of a London insurance com- pany

that Stre Butisfied vegetarians are likely to live longer than ment eaters.

So they are offering dis- counts of from five porcent to 10

lift 011 percent premiums to people willing to live on eggs, cheese, nuts. milk. carrots, vegetables.

att

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7DAY. LICENCE

other

"What have we stopped to celebrate this time-the Battle of Bannockburn or Battle of Britain Week?"

The Olive Family in new heading douth from the -Highunds.

London Express Service.

Young people laying a house through insui after can save £100 by signing the no-meat pledge.

For

many yenis instirane companies have Riven reduced

premium rates w people sign the pledge to abstain alcohol.

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This is the first move to apply the fast-growing medlent bollet that more people now die from over-eating thon from drinking.

Too much fat

Over-

This belief is based on three lines of evidence-

THE COMMONEST form of heart disextse-coronary thrombosis-peems to be partly caused by too much animal fat In the diet. Coronary thrombosis is much rarer in countries where little meat fat is eaten than it is

in Britain or Americu.

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E stocked up with sugar cane and a fe w bananas marauding elephants had left in the deserted village.

I FIND MYSTERY

in a BAMBOO HUT

My Fang let out a cry, and he and his wife turned and run for the dug-out. But I and my Nigerian romained.

The decorated creature-a{}}} old womah witch-doctor---was wholly covered with white chalk, Her eyes were rimmed with red paint. Her hands were painted red. The crown of her head was covered with leopard-skin.

She wore a kind of, caloured straw wig, supplemented by red parrot feathers. She wore the

tennis her Corehead "liko # ployer's sun shield, and sall necklaces.

INSURANCE companyAnd in the evening wavtop of a human skull fixed over statisticions

sisted struck the Ikoy River at that being overweight reduces Lite

another more recently de- Vegetarians | expectation are less likely to be over-fat than serted village. meat caterS.

3 VEGETARIANS

We found an old abandon- take suched dug-out. This would just

good care of themselves that they rarely injure their health by 100 much drink,

Clients neet province evidence tha they are vege- tartans apart from sliping the undertaking. This

reads: "1 declare that from this date I will not knowingly partake of flesh, including fish and fowl, ar food."

float us.

Baw

having

About 11.30 p.m., entered the N'Gounie River, we few dug-outs tied up by u clearing in the junkie There

a village near by.

was

The Fang led the way. There was a light in one dwelling only, Kilmmering through the bamboo How does the company check sluts. The sound of drums came thal the pledge is being kept? | from Jaide, Somane was It does not. The comparly trusts singingat to its clients' honour though it may ask them to re-sign the pledge every year.

Anyone who admits breaking the rule by succumbing to the templation of a juicy steak or a slice of Christmas turkey has to pay at the full premium rate- back-dated to the signing of the pledge.

My Fang knocked at the door.

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So fearful

Li noise stopped within. The was yanked open. A door fearfully than a talented Holly human creature, decorated more

:wood make-up

artist could

• -{London Kzpress Service). Il-achieve, confronted our torch.

Les Armour

Her whole whitened body was streaked with red, She wore only an apron,

They flee

PUSHED post the witch into There I saw the

the hut..

and

rest of them about 20 hideously decorated inen, women, children crem-jam round a central fire in the 12 by 12ft. hut. The stink at the bowls af "medicino" the middle was not enjoyable.

I stared for a second.

Then, suddenly, they ske- daddied. Granny, behind me, gave a little cry, and the whole Jot of them tried to burst through the bamboo, bark and board walls.

I captured nine in the hut at the point of the pistol. Granny and the others got away.

TOM STACEY stumbles into a night of evil

TOM STACEY, the explorer-in-Africa, riports today the second part of file adventure Into fargely unexplored territory, to his tant message he told how, accompanied by a Fang tribesman, the Fang's 14-year-old wife, and a Nigerian, họ discovered a “ghost village". In the jungle, Now he takes up the trail again...

ion the bowildered Nigerian with the pistol to keep gold over the prisoners (my rifle was still away down the hill in the dug-out), I ran out with the torch and caught two men escap- ing into the jungle.

Then I searched the dozen huta of the village and collected any "medicine". I found. I put it all

in the "medicing hut which was now converted into a prison.

The "medicine" consisted of bowls of leaves soaked with unidoniliable Aash, bowls of strongly smelling bark, and varl- ous coloured; pastichen for body- decoration. I went down to try to persunde my Fang: (and his wife) that all was safe, and that the ju-ju (sortery) would not affect him. But he stayed in the dug-out. :

I was taking no chances with white man's medicine. Tooth- Ache slept 'beautifully.

At dawn I brought them all out into the hard daylight. I made them all redecorate them- solves thoroughly; then I made doctors-I tried to find put others, and hand his decorations each one wash in front or the

had been what

going on. I -to me, learned only, from the tremen- dous fear my prisoners had of I know the name of this me, that

had struck a village. By appearance it is singularly fishy little party a civilised affair. It is marked whose object was to cure the on the French District Officer's virulent diseases which had

map, which I am carrying, invaded the village..

Demonstration

If I were to tell the French Administration about what I saw and deduced, the villagers would be in for a good hiding,

MY plark was to keep everyond The chief (who is among those

there until roping. and allow no one to go to sleep. I down their hoped to wear

resistance.

Jungle) who escaped in the would go to gol if captured. The witch-doctor would go to

and stay there,

I made a number of speeches throughout the night, to show But I am not saying anything. how" (cyll and silly were these I do not · think these missable practices. I xxxplaincat all about tribesmen, have been given germs. I nearly quoted the chance to behave otherwian, -- My! Declaration of Independence.

zoquainiakies with them has been short,, but I have seen them I gave

demonstration of as Europeans rarely have. white man's medicine. I got out my large pliers and pulled When I returned to the hut- out thị tooth · of man tor- not a very big 'hut, containing mented by on abscess. I then 18 peopple and enough "medl- gave him five aspitins at pistol cine for a regiment of witch- point.

THE CAT THAT GOES TO THE CINEMA

Talarming much here will serve the show Itself

"In any

'egg-head'

accordingly

"Nowhere," "we will find him **This behaviour is the more points it out. But he is invari- London, throw light upon the ovalution. HERE is something of that cat. Indeed, there may saying, "does the herd instinct extraordinary when it is noticed ably labelled

for us. By plainly than in its continuous that though the figures change shunned. as object. lessions which visits n North studying humans, cain may, attendance at the cinema and and the sequence of action

"The only possible explanation London cinema

each indeed, learn a great deal about nowhere, indeed, is there so changes superficially, the under- evening in time to take in their dangerous latent tendieneles, much evidence of this foolish dying idea appears in only three is that these creatures have been designed by nature to provide animal's constant desire to escape or four major forms, the last show.

goonamle security for pats So the obvious from reality..

"Thoro is what is known as long as their minds can be taken value of the human Reliable observers advise coonomic

the boy mooter girl plot, the off reality at reg

regular intervals, to somc "Over many, yours of patient cowboy shoots jun (bodman, tisky survive oghrairphly, Face us that this animal has not being to cats may,

cocbent, justify the exhaustive watching, I have often noticed Communist)" story, and oop them with the clear perception missed a performance in our which has gone into this the same hdividual in the kills robber.plot..

us, and

dother over a year.

cinema Chave, or four nights a

probably go wook-sitting with a vacant ex- "So dull-witted are theyo

this, then, be m

be a warning met: who bid threa, the cat will get down toon on this down and staring creatures, however, that they sp- to thoes of our youUNTANT.

though hypnotised,' paar, in the main, to be quite have retently talom to hanging | the meat of the thing the ex- at the shadowy figures pursuing indifferent to this montonous about in yowling grupa. The oordmary cinema-going habits, one another across the sliver sequczice. Occasionally, “a noxt sings might mean an avalu- crimination (after all, there of the human being.

scrben.

brighter-creature among them tionary reversion-and disaster/"

It is not so much that the cat shows shocking

taste and lack of dis

must-have been at least

ONE bad picture in a year).

Tr fact, we are inclined to

..

work...

Somewhere ebbut chapter

15

How Do We Talk To The Insects?

3. B. 5. Haldano rather then got up in the middle, your presence is not now re- truce supervise

wars bo-

think that the cat does not go Pal folking to the of the night and at the dostred quired hote wa you may feel even the red and black

to see the picture at all. Other- insects.

wise, surely, I would only go

› thing. I am not particularly, Im-, 'free to depart at your pleasure?" i pressed by the efficacy of talking.;

„Of to bugi..No doubt, however, we On a higher scientific lovely is.

the third performance even a nisemicals which "dontroy the have on using the wrong it porrbie hat

we wood lingots as well as the bad planation must be that, and suzzed that the bed indese, I devoutly

Hould be,

-chionum. --Attor Hadaptorius · the

muurid get bored...

Liu watch the

téli the innts and

will one day

411 that gap for the (nothin

"through with" what?

"Bothering him | at:

the cockroach

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