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THE CHINA ·· MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST '. 20, 1955,

Interesting News

Stories

From

All Parts Of The World

From Cairo: Egyptians Enjoy A Little Fun

the Fun From London: The Guided Missile Was

Professor Low Tells How

;

ONE CITY HAS TWO ZOOS

Berlin.

Split Berlin, which has two of everything, how has two 2008,

The old Berlin zao is in the British sector of the city and the Communists evidently cfiled they did not want their school children and other Enst Berliners

elephants,

de-

feeding Western

So they opened one of

their

own in the Soviet rector of the city,

Two zoos in no surprise in a cy that has two elty govern- ments, two police and fire de

and twe of almost partments everything you can name.

Inny now telephone Germans Moscow,

but they still cannot phone from West to East Berlin.

Phone communications

West Germany and this oscow

Were restored month for this Best time since the war.

Lav-

by

But the phone lines between East and West Berlin, eut tiso Russians three years ago.

arc

still severed. The Com- munists rejected a West Berlin City Government offer to dis- cuss resumption of an Inter-city telephone service.-United Press.

Population Growth Poses

At The Expense Fallon King.

How

Six Bravo Bulls

From Spain: Disrupted An Afternoon's

Bullfighting.

Born.

West Berliners Crowd On

To Keep Cool,

From Berlin: To A Little Strip Of Beach

NOW IT'S .781 YEARS

OLD

When Will The Leaning

Tower Of Pisa Fall?

Pisa. The leaning tower of Pisa.

which celebrated its 781st birthday last week, may

the not survive

20th Century. That is the opinion of some architec. tural experts.

But others think it may go on leaning for at least another 300 years.

the 179-fool The fate of

high white marble tower was a subject of general scientific concern on the anniversary of the laying af its cornerstone,

Then The Tilt

Big Problems it was on August 10, 1174,

Munich,

expert

German population Berr Otto Von Swiedineck- Sucdenhorst predicted that the work would becoine hopelessly overcrowded within the next 100

years.

Population

19 increasing

the

that construction of tower began. A Guard of Honour of crossbowmen stood straight as ramrods ut the site and the archi- tect, Bounaus of Pisa, proudly gave directions.

apidly, he said, that it would. The tower was one-third up

cneb 5,000,000,000 within 70

усп

AIRI

there

13,000,000,000 people by

19,00

year 2015.

ار

woulti

the !

the

In

speech belure Bavarian Academy of Science, Herr Swiedincek-Suedenhurst said: "All nations must begin now seriously to censurve nu- to enable the tural resources

rising eurth 10 support its

population ni today's lying

Standards.'

.

He said the world's popula

Avefold in tion had increased

800. the past

years, from 463,000,000 to 2,469,000,000 and was of increase

that the rale

He said exceeded deaths by 78,000.-United Press,

rapidly expanding.

daily. births

поw

to

when it began to till. Bounaus washed his hands off the affair and the stood uncompleted tower for 90 years. Then Pisans decided

finish it, building the upper portion heavier on one side to allow for the lean. The bells, weighing 22,000 pounds, were placed in a spot where they would not aggravate the ican.

Since then, the tower hus

survived

And the bombing raids. probings of scientists and the footfalls of panting tourists,

#

What bothers engineers is,

that the tower leans

every year. How long can this go on?i

little more hurricanes, earthquakes and war-time

Satire (In Celluloid)

Dethroned King

On A

Cairo.

Three years after the fall of King Farouk, Egyptians are enjoying a

cinema treat on a royal character seeped in orgies of the harem.

Egyptian movie-goers are rolling with laughter over "Abdulla the Great,"

m

about a despotic and bulfoonish monarch who reigns over the felitious Eastern kingdom of Banderia.

The fun and follies of Ab- dulla recall the hushed-up scandals of the past.

and on the luxurious yacht El Mahrussa which took the king into exile.

The film was produced in technicolour, and first projected here this summer to coincide with the third anniversary of the Egyptian Army revolution which ousted Farouk.

As the autocratic King. Banderia,

caviare and

the

It is as if old times are lived again with Abdulla's harem champagne loving-Abdulla life, his sea-borne high Jinks used to getting everything with a beautiful

model

of

is

ho

who wants. He espies 4 beautiful spares his love, and the Army-model, Ronnie, who is model- led revolution of the oppressedling Parisian gowns in a night- people who overthrow the once- club, and tries to seduce her. mighty Abdulla.

Ronnie bucks the King's crude courting,

3

In Technicolour **

out palace. The army carries Its long-planned revolution, in- vades the palace, and forces the King to abdicate.

The flim cost half a million pounds and was financed mostly by the Egyplo-Sudanese' multi- millionaire, Abdel Latif Abu Regella, He.is widely known in

circles European business Rody Regeila,

English Actress

group

S

of

An international Alm-makers and players turned out "Abdulla the Great." The headed by the group even when he threa-

American her

producer- director, lena violence or offers fabulous Jowels and the chance Gregory Ratoff, who also played

title role.

The greater part of the álm

in Farquic's former sci palaces in Calro and Alexandria, to be his Queen.

MAJESTIC

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30. 5.20, 7.30 & 0.30 p.m."

Alee GUINNESS Odile VERSOIS To.

Paris Love

with.

- TECHNICOLOR

.

Sunday Morning Show

2 Ati 250 năm. "CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FESTIVAL

To Monte Carlo

WIS

The lean from the perpen-i

dicular is now 17ft 2ins and it is increasing at

rate of about 027 inch a

year. This is perceptible only to members of the **Ministerial Commission the Vixilance for

of

il

SIDE GLANCES

of

the

V. M. Gng. 11. 1. Pat D15- Sep. 1988 byỦA Barvkes, ba

The principal members the cast with Raloff are British actress Kay Kendall, as the Abdulla's obsession to possess the model who frustrates

Sydney Ronnie grows so intcuse that king. American actor he takes the Royal yacht and Chaplin as Captain Farid, whose chases after her to Monte Carlo, attempt to masinate the King arki her There he has

kidnapped sparks off the revolution, and bundled aboard his ship. Ilolian actress Marina Bertl as

Meanwhile, rumblings against Aziza, the only

woman

Avho the nefarious Incidents in the loves Abdulla to the last

The costly cortumes for tha King's life spread throughout

the land, aided by ecandalous aim were made by the top photographs showing Abdulla in Paris couturiors Jacques Fath druniten state sprawled on a Jean Demer and Maggie Rouff. dance floor in Monte Carlo. Re

But Not Farouk

mosque,

in

luctantly heeding his ministers warning that his throne is donger, Abdulla attends. a rc- Chico attorney Gamal Qtein ligious ceremony ot the Gront the legal adviser for the pro- Mosque in token of his regen- duction of the film, denied that cration.

the film was on Farouk. He sald the

tho that despite

resemblance As Abdulla passes before

and Abdulla, crowds packed

the between Farouk otsido

differences major disgruntled Army there were a officer, Captain Farid, fres a between them, He pointed out older {pistol what' 40' assissinste the that Ablulla was much

King. The bullot misses the than Farouk and were no dark King by inches, but the evoth-lasses like the ex-king. Further

tried |ing population takes the shot as more, ho said, no

a signal to revolt. In the dis-to assassinato Farouk as they orders, the capital is set to the did Abdulla. torch,

The London frm of Abdulla now senses dropónd-pendentl ing doom. He dismisses Ltd, have signed a ministers and frenziedly at with Regella for world-wide tempia to rotain his ewolute distribution of "Abdulla the power.

Abandoned by all; fris Gront 20th Century Fox may servants, he clings to Aziza, Hile rolames the Aim an "Aterica and only loyal anjeun ons, while gun other ones are beinendamined:

Fum

one

Bell Tower of Pisa," who measure it faithfully once

a year.

In 1907, the tower leaned

over a whole 2.75 inches further.and the Minister- ial Commission shot thou sands of tons of concrete into its base to forestall what seemed to be an imminent collapse. Similar injections of concrete continued through 1949.

A Diabolical Plot?

Although some

cluim

Dr Low Dropped SUMMER

Pencil..

AND THE

GUIDED MISSILE WAS BORN

London,

Some day you may be terribly sorry, or terribly glad, that Professor A. M. Low sat down on the eider- down covering his bed,

Even though that historic day was WO

backe in 1912...for in that moment the age of the guided missile W3S

born.

In his little laboratory, Dr Low recalled the day.

"I always used to carry a pencil and notebook with me," he recalled, "and one day--I don't remember the exact day or month-I dropped the pencli and notebook on the elderdown covering my best and sat down io think.

that

"As I did no I noticed the pencil moved. My weight had pushed down the ciderdown, setting up a sort of wave which moved the pencil. Now, if a wave of the elderdown could 'move a pencil, I thought, why not n wave of radio? Quite simple, you see.

Lethal?

"So I wired the pencil and historians pretty soon I had come upon a the architect way of reproducing handwriting

by radio." Bonnous devilishly plotted the tower's caprice to confound future genera- tions, it is generally be- lieved the tower leans be- cause of shifty subsoil and underground streams feeding the Arno River.

This experiment became rather well

and known

one day Dr Low ind callers gentlemen from the Royal Flying Corps who wanted to know if it might Under have lethal applications. rigid secrecy, Dr Low set to work and in 1917 the War Office was able to patent his "dirigible rocket".

One of the patent claims was that it could be used "to pursue enemy airmen" but, they had already foreseen all its possible

Eight people have jumped to their deaths from the of the upper reaches tower and one woman charged with a local mur- der contended that the uses.

tower daily sight of the had driven her mind off used centre,

The Low rocket was

never

Was

in the First World War despite successful tests from ground to plane and from plane to plone because

there great difficulty in keeping the Footnote: In the accompany-missile stable. As a result, the Admiralty in 1917 asked Dr Low to apply his principles to sub- marine for

forpedoes instead.

come-

ing picture you see "Two Ton" Tessie O'Shea, famous American dienne doing her best to correct the lean.-United Press & Reuter.

By Galbraith

7.21

"Smith, I've enjoyed this evening's fun no end! What makes it nicer is I know you're one employee who wouldn't try to polish me up for a ralso!"

THE BRAVE BULLS WERE TOO BRAVE

Alicante, Spain.

A bullight had to be suspended here because the brave bulle were too brave.

will

Dr Low belleves the rocket of

or 30 years future-20

carry mail or passengers from London to New York in He belleves the two hours. "heat barrier" which turns objects white hot at 1,500 miles an hour will not apply because the rockets will travel high in space where the atmosphere is very thin.

He is sure the United States is "far in advance" of

Russia

on gulded weapons but this is,

of course, only an opinion, United Press.

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