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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1954.

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THE FORGOTTEN ACTRESS ELBOWS OUT SIR RALPH

Report from Rome by Thomas Wiseman

UNTIL I came here had Babylon, but apparently Miko-

forgotten

Kerbau.

anapel

about the

There been are others who oqually forgetful. in Eng land. But not here in Rome. where everyone is talking about her.

Babylonians kings and architects Hought wing these lines

sakl Has plunderer', 1. n was just like L

We Tool W.

Hasl no nižas research, "T bankans just like these. Nu- ally, not clctrically operated. You know,"

he went on

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had

Korina The Algerian enthusiastically. "they have got

Karl with

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Alexander Korda pave

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For her in Britain. expected to

beser

again, it was probably

Dr Kerima,

THE SNAKE PIT

But when 1 met her Kee the other day

To the antiseptų at aptivates of a

her

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rything

HOL IL Habylonian tetuple... they several of Uuse. Mussell

of

Sure everything. have to pay for it, but don't ask

are courtyneth-they

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how much. One day I get a whole palace for £25, the next day they charge me £100 for a

lite swimming pool,“

Mexan

Ithardi Me maltaan was dashing betweezi marble pillars, sword in handh the mung over and weled

neboc

Well," he said. "better

that being Esther Wall

2 manatag pin ther. That have bern three times already

POST OFFICE

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THE

DEVIES

HOOFPRINTS

CONSIDERABLE EXCITEMENT has been caused mong the inhabitants of this place since Friday last in cantequence of a report that a strange animal, not known, had whether natural or supernatural is pard us wiit.

Hrs footprints were traced through the greater purt of the town.

They resembled somewhat those of a donkey, but to add to the affect of mystery it was rumoured that

in some mstances they were

'cloven".

Donut correspondent of Woolmer's Exeter

Ca orte February 17, 1855

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Cowapaper.

hunter tracking and the truth

canned prevent a sigh of frigeration.

Portut tent he scenis

To be with touching dis- only tam authenticly

to find that once again pre- vise data incking that this

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Another of the World's Strangest

Stories

by

FELIX BARKER

heights

of

In two-and-a-half years Kerima has made x lims, the Lunet the let me beg

Confound

vorm letters to the Illustrated London Ish were to be traced for miles Pharaohs" with Jack Hawkus

รา | 1 the Samme o She does not anticipate displae spenchant

wh dayed News, from brief, ironical little up to the wooded OUT Posit Hawkins from the top billing

be

Der Friruury paragraphs under beadings such Luscombe Park. ID :

as "SATAN IN THE DIOCESE why, dit day tass' Wa hare "He and the Pyramid

they put po sa arat bring back OF HENRY EXETER." The only good parta," she says.

How

Arst-beard does one become 64 autress without my training? might have

on of t teries of all times”

in the firm.

And what does one have to have for Itz

NOVOURI that Wi Broer basis for Paffling my

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What serius tolerelay reriom

that on that Friday morning 99 years ago the minibitants of

vil about u dezen Lowie atd.

It was a bitter winter, the worst, some said, that the West

had Country

known for

yeurs

London

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There were reports of them in places as far north as the old report of Topsham and to the south as far as Totnes and Tor- quay.

to stir after cansei or to go out half a mile into lanca or by ways... under the conviction that this in the Devil's walk and none other."

The braver in heart--a party "f tradesmen itick others Dawlish-sycat best part of the Friday tracing the footprints through the surrounding countryside armed with guns and bludgeons Their long.

weary.search

...was qulig bull

Miss Fursten also put for. wand an explanation she heard at the time of how the foot- prints were modo-that they were a cat's paw-marks which with the thaw and light rain bc-

were partly washed away fore the sharp frost froze the then-expanded prints in a shope resembling a small hoof.

This certainly its in with the bh known weather conditions the story which had Bickered baly faintly faded out that night, bus does not explain what induced so many cats to ef the local papers, leaving

luve their Devon and posterity with no

warm resides. It explanation is almost easier to believe that, satisfactory

more

than one offered by Sir Richard as in Coleridge's poem, the

Owen

When drawings of the marks were subenlited to this fomnis naturalist he

pronounced them

to have been made by the hind foot

of a badger but, like the solution that they were of an

otter or Crather Ingeniously)

marks made by the tour feet of n leaping tat, this hardly explaineri why they appeared in so many places on a particular night.

It is tantalising that for all the speculation there is not (und of the Bles I have examined nearly every local paper for the period) one single contemporary eyewitness account by a person prepared to sign his name and only one by someone using a pseudonym.

Her Terror

to

Devil left his brimstone bed at the break of day, "to visit hij.

mug ittle farm the Earth" see how his stock was furiog.

to

!

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Fairings in Plenty"

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TO-DAY

Saturday

Becember

Grognised by the Marianne Reichl Aid to Lepers Group.

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For the man whose purse is modes), yet whose aspirations are high Rolex of Geneya have specially com missioned the Tudor Oyster Prince. In many respects, the amazing Tudor Oyster Prince, matches the most expensive wristwatches. For Rolex of Geneva have endowed this" watch with the fampus Oyster water- through the places In which-proof caso and the infallible "roto they appeared and 11. as 15 self-winding mechanism. vaguely suggested in some re- parts, they joined up village to village.

It is also impossible now establish a basic point whether

The marks, shaped like * hoof, were 4 inches long by 24 the footprints were continuous there

inches wilc, Bud, very curiously, were all in a straight line, me fallowing the next and cach about eight inches apart.

"Naturalness." mys Kerima.

When producers say in me.

faraway In *Kerimu smoke it cigarette,

wus skating on the Thames at Kemma, druk amp of tea.

Kimeston and even under tho feel really wont to smoke a

lages in So: Reven woke to tunnels of The Regent's Park cigarete and drink the cup of

wind sw-covered Belts Canni; and in Devon So I do a naturally. Carol and wheir Reed told me, 'Do not take End gard

their driven snow piled up six feet poofs and Jayetacies, It might spot you.

covered in a single night and the River jessons. Stay as you are. So stay as with strange vetprints.

Exe freze solid.

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and even

Bitter Winter

There were bonfires on the fee at Tiverton, and at Paignton a schooner was driven ashore by the violent farms. A Mr. Vickary, of Fore Street, Exeter, Legend has doublodig un- Vid has use for Mussotiul's proved on foot, bull chough even laid a gas-pipe across the Fair. It In ridea ext to show that lee and there, right

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Thus we have a magnificent watch, thoroughly, waferproofed, automatically wound, yet priced, at a moderate level..

Rolex of Geneva, have submitted, the Tudor Oyster Prince to the most rigorous tests ever devised for a self- winding wrist-watch. So impressivo were the results of these tests, that

making an ideal pằm not for those footprints were pocu. And mkidle of the river, triumphant he adḍcó flavour to the story have managed to And one state- has been decided to make them the

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Rhomin Fleming and Ricardo however perilously circumdan- ly cooked a leg of mutten in a Montalban, starring in the film, tial most of the reports,

they patent stove. "Courtesan of Babylon"

Appened it

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Today there is no one alive in that part of the country who remember that are the specifications can possibly given by soomeone signing him- long-ago February morning, but self "South Devon" in a letter to with the help of the Devonshire the Illustrated London News, county

librarian at Exeter 1

"This mysterious

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on elthor dlspincing the snow was followed by rain and a bols hall Ficet Strut rushing to

I doubt, somehow. whether spread over 100" miles of Mye this is the use Mussolini had in-countryside.

tended for it. Bls dream was to

expand Rome up it was a elty Today the first whisper of it

once down garden

or

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building on an area the size of

Battersea Park, just outside the Exinboth and Lympstory and the next morning there was

Dawlish. Even if thaw beat hard frost. reporters und photographers to swimming the marks, there would pools. It was to have been a dozens of interviews to authon

city-towering marble palaces. pavilions, colonnades. court.

fountains. yart, setting of the World Fair, but work stopped in 1940 and was nover resumed.

tleate what tried trean scen.

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According to the report which appeared in The Times:

The Marks

tween the feet and passing on no hand.

it the wall had not been àn im- pediment."

She

fleld, this is undoubtedly the finest watch Swiss skill and experience have ever produced. It is retalled to the public, as illustrated.

Henrietta is. Miss Fursden, daughter of the Bev From such detall obviously Edwart Fursien, the vicar of grow the first tallt of the Devil, and, perhaps a liulo, icked that Dawlish at the time. In 1923 the London pipory had benten she wrote: myself remem But that

the way

them to it the local venelles, bor distinctly seeing the toot waz not The place is usually deserted

Lho

sithed Ignored the lingur: prints, and my tecrợc în a child, now, but a short wolle no things we enkred in

adopted an 'aiutude of tipugui of the unknown, wild beast the mickile of the last century. The film

moved in with scores ter eat back apparently unit

might be lurking about fas the footprints, were to be copilem hors, dozens of harem Kirla and hundreds of extras. They happy to awalt leiters on the sten in ut idada, et inaccessible But editorial ridiculq did not the servantu would not, ge, out focused their colour cameras on cul content with, i local man who pul marrow wall in surdens youssure locul corsis. In the after duck to shut outer doors'?

subject weeks later: they sein places on the tople at houses the nicoleton of Murcolini's 20th Century dream and deelded it badevilled his necount with and courtyarda enclosed by high small towns, and villages on

Uke "in consequences of walls and palings, as well as in scattered chitores the footpipe she recalled that the foot looklet. Just likọ Babylon in 1000report" and "it"ja, radioured." oben fields. There' who, hardly caused considerable'alarme i ti prie woke "álk over Dawlish!

garden in Lympstone where

dns Her father ng vicam Nearly all that is known of the footprints, were not

dbe. We know tint these on that Friday, thisted because on the following, Killed by Els, curat suh ob fur rugs spread out be- the famous, "Devil's Footprints" served

derives from eleh lackadaisical -

Sunday Day Mr Musgrave churchwarders whe Fb dug role in the Journaliere frain à report The footprinta, crossed the found 11 foodman, to prosch a Bhe filmskod, the producer The Times Abying "It appears eatuary to the Exe at a point sermon, at Lynbcont whether all this was not rathion that on Thursday, might...where it is two miles wide, and Chrisundi scorta

initialled from the parian churchs at Dawn and bles molera, for a story of ancient from anonymous or

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