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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1955.

World

Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The

'Look That's Me' Said The Frogman

Halifax, Nova Scotia. Navy frogman Lieut. G. H. Lawther could barely recog- nise himself the other day when he paid his 85 rents to HCO The new British Alma "Above

Waves," Us The

although he had a starring role.

The him tells the aloy n Royal Navy trugmen. faum:2 Empedors and get rutanarie who attacked Jarse! disable the German battleshilga Torptiz m Norwegian Dand

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dong World War II.

Lease the

HMCS

+<* +f three

Hoyal Navy men now statused!

J

nt

Stulacoma

seal who were

Cuvin

long smiler

To Lamori Rugland, The

Comprasy

Artur Bank) asked the HIN

to double

it roud supply mave s for stars of the movie to Wir underwater shota

Lawther, a 32-5 var-old g nah wall 18 years experience Pure wits the divet who w Based cutting the anti-tampendo hat which opened the way for

10 bitaek mariarad plen Integet

the 40,000-ton Tirpitz.

Treasure Hunt

A Canadian Tells From Lisbon: Thieves Think Up & New From Winnipeg: The World About The Strange Bo- liefs Of Ethiopia.

Ruse To Fool The Police --Aut They Come Croppor.

A

From Pretoria: Don't Discord The From Bologna: Andros A Delicato

Tops Of Vogotables:

There Are Vitamins

In Those Greens.

A 104-year-old Woman

Eye Oporation.

BUTTERED HAIR AND PUBLIC HANGINGS IN A PLACE WHERE

THEY STILL BELIEVE ⋆ ★

✩✩ THE

As

EARTH IS FLAT!

Winnipe Public hangings would be

regarded

Kruesome and barbarous practice in 'ana, but for the people of Ethiopia, who have no newspapers, they fulfit an "The Emperor Haile Selassie

THE

function.

school.

important

Winnipeg said teacher. Mr S. A. Stein- mann.

"Puldic hangings served

A few years ng he nise was Jouned by the Hoyal Navy to The Duke of Argyle to help t wreck of the Spanish | locate the

treasure zablja **** Florencia which went down off the wast coast of Sentian i The search was 400 years ago. abandoned this KUMIT although Tawther is convincert Ut the andent wreck he found is the renaue ship

Lawther joined The Royal

mobias He Coundian Navy 11

in change of the diving school at Hailfox

tige an

is

11e

Kad one thing he did not trach

spearfishing

at

all

slaughter" he says.

There's

JEM

one way in which Ethio- PIRN authorities could slow their citizens that crime did not pay.

Object Lesson

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the

New Zealand To Get TV. By 1957

Wellington.

New Zealanders who, 80 far, can see television in the Dominion only at manufac turers' demonstrations, may be able to watch it in their own homes by 1957,

Thro Prime Minister, Mr Sidney Holland, avurouncing that the start of television was hope in sight, expressed the that the stage would soon be reached when a firm proposal could be announced.

The Minister of Broadcasting, Mr Ronald Algie, has clearly indicaled that whatever system of television is introduced, it will be controlled by the Gov- crument.

Commer-

Representatives u cial television interests here say thul television could be operat-

ng within

They two years, argue that the logical people to would run it in New Zealand be the newspapers. Aim, enter-

and tainment

electronic dustries.

Difficulties

In-

land and

They dis-"They eat raw ment. Kelvin High School here,

all animals serve it with hot, peppery recently

approved of completed HIX

other than oxen,

spices and a good sharp years as education-director

knife. such drawbacks,

The government in the East African King- Despite

Because of the nature of the the former

encourages them to put

its many high dom of the Lion of Juulah. ;

country with In their round, hills found windows

and small population

wide grass huts, but they seem scattered

and transmission on a national basla to prefer open holes

calls himself Kings beenuse subdued

"King of hay has smaller

rulers,"

Steinmann Mr

There told the Society. were a number of upris- ings during my stay, Int' They were soon put down

Mr Steinmann said education,

habbled in was, badly

been us the Ethiopi Coptic Church, to which one-third of the country's! 10,000,000 people boking-!

believed and ed. still Taught that the earth was

Told the Manitoba Geographical Society that their value, as an object Jesson, was the reason why they had been perpetualeri:

standard

part of Ethiopian social practice, İ

new mem-The Church was also opposed one," Mr Mr Steinmano, a

of machinery i to the use of ber of the faculty

involved, 's

"Fish, even sharks. are very fris nelly under water.

no skill in spearing Lawther addext.---Uhulted Press.

There's

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A LITTLE OLD LADY (AGED 104) "BORN AGAIN”

IS

Bologna.

The delicate

The little old woman in the big hospital bed smiled and said she had just been born again." eye-operation she had undergone at the age of 104 years was announced as a complete success by a team of doctors.

Augura Rosal, Italy's west t

Prof. Tirelli greed to operate Behool teacher, underwent the if her physical condition could She was ad- Burgiral operation on October stand the strain. 13. A inst on her rightmitted CAT WAS removed.

Prof. Carlo Tirelli performed the operation in 18 minutes.

after wards

patient

the

So began to see distinctly.

A

month ago when Augusta Rossi found she could no longer ul her invourite newspaper or conld tell whether Violetta“. her faithful old crt, was clean or dirty, she deelded to do some thing about it.

Very Misty

She called on one of her ex- schoolboys and demanded he operate on her eye so she could

in ner again. The cataract hal cloudied the comen making and the her completely blink

being left eye Wils maidng everything she saw very misty, she said.

schoolboy

to the "Villa Chiara" Clinic and after examination the specialist said that Augusta Rossi had the spirit and strength of a 40-year-old woman.

Immediately after the opern- tion the old school teacher sow the professor's hand. "I've been born again," she said, and you Carlo are my second father. Diet of Onions & Milk

She

Augusta İying In the big

sho could hospital bed old hardly wait to go home. likes to prepare her own food- milk, biscuits and grapes pre- ferred after a pinte of fried onions and a glass of red wine,

Asked her exact ago, Augusta Ross smiled as she tumed ovET to go to sleep-"I'm four years of age. I make a prezent to you of strained | 100 years."—United Press

shc visited

The was the noted Italian Specialist Prof. Carlo Tirelli, the first sur- Eron in Europe to perform live cornes, and isaie grafting.

THIS WALLABY LIKES A

flut

however,

OVET

ป

area.

plenty of smoke in order is likely to be much too difficult

education-director many signs of modernisu- tion in Ethiopia. He said cities like Addis Ababa. the capital, were becoming tourist

be- attractions enuse of the introduction The of attractive, palm-lined streets, modern curs up-to-date butels.

Primitive

Expensive.

When television does come, it the four is likely that unly inator

population centres. for Aurkland, Wellington.

in drive out the flies."

returning teacher

had

"

word of caution those

stations.

Christ-

inclined to regard church and Dunedin-will have the people of Ethiopia as For economic reasons, the socially-backward to the system will be at least partly

The Government point of unimportance in commercial.

20 years of experience be modern bas complex n

hind it in the control of a com-

and it is likely that the televi-

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world.

way as they had done for i centuries past.

mercial broadcasting Bervice,

modelled

television, Who is to contro of whatever kind, is not the

Mr Steinmann said that

rural areas the people still lived in much the same | "The eager young men we sion system will be taught at teacher-training on the same pattern. schools are

with men whom the world will soon burning question for the aver have to reckon," Mr Stein-jage Now Zealander now, how- mann said. "It is up to ever. He is more interested

it in his home-and us to help them: not laught

the better.-China Mail at them."—United Press.

"They use rancid butter to

dress their hair and the smell, as a consequence, is nol.

pleasant," very said.

he

SAXONET Special.

the

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith HUNTING SHARKS WITH

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T. M. Reg. U. I. Pak D, Cove, 1996 by MEA Beren

"Just listen to Mom gush to that new neighbour! And she criticises me when I discuss boys seriously with my friends!”

TALE OF TWO SMART THIEVES

Lisbon,

Two smart thieves devind a new method of robbery lost month by using stolen cars instead of the traditional crooks tools of trade.

They stole 40 ears but were caught in the act as they made off is the 41st,

Lisbon outskirts and other towns, crashed them into shop windowD.

If anybody appeared, it was just

an accident, if nobody ap peared they filed the car with everything they could steal from the broken window or the shop.

FOOTBALL SOCK. They picked up cars in Lisbon Then they abandoned the car

Wellington.

Members of the Australian

Wullabies Rugby

recently fished

tcam. who

a 13-match

tour of New Zealand, exclied no comment in their football stock- ings.

A wallaby which lives in an old football sock has, however, Wille, ng the wallaby has been named, was enug inside his mollier's pouch in the bush near Rotorua when aho was shot.

The markaman, 15-year-old

Coulton of Auckland,

Willo

Dering pathoti

Kurth found cally as him from out of his dead mother's pouch,

Hugh took tho znidget marsupial home and Wille im- mediately took refuge in the old rock. As present Willated milk from an eye dropper with Is growing fast, --- China: MALL Special.

streels and then, by night, in

after, of couras, stealing a few

HOW TO› SHRINK

HUMAN

Buenos Aires.

HEADS

extras such as radio, tools, spare tyres, etc. They stole so much in a month that Police had to use a hugo lorry to carry the swag from two rooms where the thieves stored it, to the polico quarters where it was put into the biggest room in the building. A veteran police sub-chief mid: "I have never seen so much

- robbed in sò short a time by oo few.”—China Mail Special.

Prefers Life Down

On The Farm

A RAZOR-EDGED SLICER

Barkley Sound.

West coast salmon fishermen

have declared all-out water) warfare on sharks.

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The new weapon the salmon fishermen are bringing kuto

gives play definitely

the sharks A hard time. But it protects the fishermen's nets from shark damage and frees sockeye salmon schools of the devastating shark menace, Responding en urgent sp- peal from the west coast sal- Federal De- men the partment of Fisheries has devised effective means of with Basking sharks. coping In recent years sharks have menaced antmon fisheries off

of the parts British Columbia coast.

Inon

seriously

With

30 Feet Long

the installation of

D

food as the sockeye salmon They

frequent the ISTLITIO

areas as the salmon and are In their greatest numbers in the height of the sockeye scason.

Since no commercial use has

bren

found for then the gire... sence of a basking shark in salmon school is the Asher- man's nightmare. When the sharks become mared in

the nets they do heavy damage and destroy hundreds of dollare worth of webbing in a fàw minutes

Schools Of 50

Trolling

tho gear, claim, is equally

fishermen vulnerable

an

If the hooks snag the sides of the sharks. As many as 50 of them may gather area where salmon are feeding for making it impossible fishermen лcts.

to lay out their

specially built razor-like ram "Wo scout and find the salmon,"

on the bow of the Asherics

protection vessel Comix Post, heavy, fell of basking sharks have been taken in this area.

J

Reports

from fishery officers Indicated that since the out- atting of the Comix Post with the shark weapon about 40 have been destroyed. A bag of 18 was the highest recorded.

Damage to gill nets and troll- ing gear by banking sharka has been the west coast sal- | mon fisherman's problem for many ycamz. Tho sharks, some of which reach a length of 30 feet, foed on the sand

one fisherman said. "But Jose our enthusiasm when we see those large, menacing fles." Fishermen and fishing com-

have tried for many panics years to find an answer to the problem. Harpooning has met with limited success, However,

the method was considered too slow to be effective. Rifle fire was dis carded because it endangered other craft.

The

new method of shark- "killing is an improvement on a device tried in river inlet by a fishing company, a few years ago United Press..

Don't Throw Vitamins

In The Dustbin

Pretoria..

You are throwing away the best part of the vege tables you buy, according to a report issued in the Union Department of Nutrition.

All the vitamins people look wood fr too large quantity" "they said, are found in much larger Mail Special; quantities in those tops and

for In their greens, the report give a bitter flavour, China

leaves which they unthinkingly

discard.

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Bast. Lorason Seven door were kept in in euictum and iron s the car-

His name is Matthew MOR captivity for several months to ros ftself and 30 times as ich Euke John Vosloo, bis the dis Dr Jorgo Carranza Vidal, of acclimates them before they in Vitamin C-vital for good not keep film on his semight mod - A French explorer M. Ber: Argentina, who accompanied M. were tumed JobsO

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in the He was found); rušity, the Upper Amazon, In Fund to Buenos Aires with this the game reserves.

as much Vitamin C on the root, East › London - (South Africa) recipe of the Jibaro Indians recipe in his pocket. ***Tho

But one of the deer returned and turnip leaves five times as Regional Comit on then co for Biniony human bouds,

Jibaros," he said, "are no worst an doclined to follow the much as the turnip itself, the

Lethe of than Westerners. In fact in others into the mountains Is roport aided some things, they are ballet. how grazes peacefully with a "All theso louves kra

hey, do 10%. have as many dew herd of core during the day much tamilbe shah pinze It count, bare til or cus

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