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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1986.

CHINA Smiles And Courtesy Record Breaking Scientists

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UNIVERSITY OF HON HÙNG

The I'ublic Lecture 011 Research into Biological Methodn

Con rolling Fertility by Dr. A. S. Parkes, Sc. D). (Cantab.), D.Sc. Landons, P.RS. will be held on November 4, 1966, at 6.80

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Beautyrest Mattresses. Bed-Chairs

The businessmen were admitted to visit the Plovdiv Trade Fair in September, and many also visited Sofla to make new contacts. They found a much warmer welcome than that reported by Western visitors only a year ago.

Numerous restrictions and dis-travel to parts of Bulgaria other comforts, however, still exist, than where he is registered. and these, to a foreigner, can bo Movement restrictions are also

irksome

one of the chief causes of com-

In addition to needing a visa,plaint among the small colony foreigner has to register with of Western diplomats. Except for the pollee, or militla as they are the head of lesion, all other called, on arrival and obtain diplomata must give 24 hours from them an exil visa before advance notice to the Foreign departure.

Ministry when they want travel.

Toilet Paper

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Junior staffs of Western miss.0:15

ask permisadven to travel 48 hours la advance, stating their exact route. Week- onda mut us be placed Letall beforehand.

Hotels are often so full that it is difcult to find

But, # bed. once found, it is usually clean. Toilet paper is now provided in hotels-for the first time, ro- sidents report since the war.

No guide books or strect plans

Many areas of Bulgaria aro help the tourist find his exist to way growere

the Balkan-barred to foreigners Complete- But around. tourist organisation, the equivaly. For example, the Black Sea

the Boviet const, except for Varna lent of Intourist in

will provide guide- Burgas, is out of bounds. This Union, Interpreters

practise means that foreigners may not eager to

visit the historle ancient Greek of a

town, now a seaside resort, of Messemvrels.

western

their knowledge European langunge,

There are no Western news- papers on sale.

Getting to Bulgarin at ali la a since there are no problem,

reel air services from western Europe and only one daily train from Yugoslavia. This, though

a week a sleeping car

to It displaying the altached bourin "Simplon Orient Ex- press," is, in fact, a mixed goods train carrying freight as well as passengers and stopping at every station.

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Vienna This

of City Waltzes, has a new ofalm to fame: it is now and

the place where the world record tight- rope squnt was held. Record- breaker was Mähtrobe artist Helmath Iforlands, pictured here during his epic squat, which was on A rope near Friedensbrucke, The record, in case anyone 19 Interested in trying to beat it, is 130 hours. We couldn't even squat that long in an armchairExpress

The Weslem diplomalle colony is small, ita core being the missions of Britain, France, ituly. Turkey,

and Greece Argentina. The United States is not represented, having no diplomute relations with "Bud- garla.

Photá

as

A six and baby boy born eleven teeth.

The Hard Way Study

Shepherds

Form Union

Solar Energy

FIRMS TAKE OVER RHINELAND CASTLES

Koblenz, Nov. 2.

A West German mining company owns what it proudly calls the most Phoenix, Nov. 2 luxurious mediaeval castle in the country.

Another 700" scieritists from throughout the world' met to day with representatives of in- dustry, finance, agriculture, and

teal uses df. Bolár energy.

education to discuss the prac

The historic building, Burg Gutenfels on the Rhine, has been equipped with hot air heating, up-to-date kitchens and a yesterday loudspeaker relay system, and turned into tical problems involved in a rest home for mining apprentices.

They completed

two days of discussing theore-

harnessing the sun's energy In a

symposium at Ticson, Ariz. One The

the

company bought the

Burg Stahleck, above Bachar,

of the major purposes of that crumbling castle, high above och and its vineyards, has be meeting was to help chart the direction of research in solar cherry.

A Russian sederitist expected to attend the conferences did not appear, in Tucson, and it is not known whether he will at tand the here,

three-day meetings

At yesterday's meetings, Bri- tish scientists suid they are con- sidering using some forms of solar energy in areas where fuel is scarce.

Press.

river, near Kaub for come a youth hostel to which 60,000 marks

(about 20,000), young people from all West Because of the need to find Phiropean nations come on foot and keep apprentices In en or bicycle to find cheap board

always industry

and forging to sing and to A labour, it spared no expense in donce. One day, this summox, moderning Burg Gutenfels. group of Scots brought out their bagpipes and entertained the other guests there.

short

of

Mining apprentices can now spend their holidays there and attend courses to learn about their future, jobs and tho world in which they live.

Died In Poverty

Some of the castles have been. hought by wealthy Industrialists or businessmen, seeking relaxa- from their strenuous city

At the same time, Gutente consitutes A practical history lesson. The castle's history goes on back to the early 13th century, life. | According to tradition, Hionard

of

Mr E. W. Golding, of London, said he was studying the har nessing of the sun's energy wi.h wind power and other resources Duke of Cornwall, soh ol Herr Franz Peter Mostert, for in fuel SCRTCO areas.-United | King John of England and example, a wealthy business- himself elective King of German engaged in the export- many, met Countess Beatrice Import business is "lord" of Falkenstein, whom he | Sauerburg, which once belonged married as his second wife in to the Sickingens, one of the

at a font in Gutenfels might of the knightly fami custle.

1 last Sickingen died ther poverty In 1830. Then the ad passed through various Lost Importance hands until Mostert bought the

| rulfié. 17.

NO FREE SHOWS, NO SALE

Melbourne, Nov. 2. Overseas promoters have been neking permission to use Koo yong tennis stadium tenue for Davis Cup matches tur celebrity shows hot connected with tennis.

Rome, Nov. 2. The shepherds of the fondly imountain slopes of Italy, Bar- The Council of the Lawn dinia and Sicily have decided to Tennis Association of Australia form a trade union,

They will revealed this in its annual re- fight for solutions to the many

port. problems

their still plaguing poverty-stricken rezion of the country.

The castle was strengthened The hall where the knights still used to cät, drink bfid play died in the 18th century and played a military role in the was destroyed in a French elege Thirty Years War, from 1818 to in 1609. Oh that pot Herr 1048. Then it lost its importance, Mostert has now hadd Like

the many other castles court laid for his five daughters, strung along the hills overlook- in the Rhine, between Koblenz and Bingen.

Today, many are merely ruina which attract stream of tour It said that, in dich case, the katë throughout the summer, condition was imposted that 3,000 eager to buy picture postcards Prague, Nov, 2.

members of the Lawn Tennis and be photographed among the half pounds

Already 33 000 shepherds are Association of Victoria, which masonry of some bastion blown in Prague had reported to have registered with has Kooyong as its headquarters, up in a long-forgotten siege. Some countries, such

Prague evening the new union. Most of them be entitled to attend one per India and Holland, accredit newspaper Vecerni Praha sula are members of the Vatican-formance free.

The descendants of the formter their Ambassador

were notmal but a sponsored or Minister the teeth

Plous Union bf During n two hours' stop

aristocratic owners have largely as well, little softer and more trans- Shepherds which inspired

"This had led to a discontinu- | pbandoned their castles. Only the the Yugoslav-Bulgarian frontier in Belgrade to Softo

Visits parent than thook of older project at its recent Rome pos- ence of inquiries," the report few, such as Gutenfels, have гот customs examinations, the and he makes periodic

been turned to a new une. children.—China Mat Special,·|gress. — China Mali Special sald-China Mail Special. Bulgarian authorties post sol-here-Chin Mall Special. diers round the under the state in partment.

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train and look

each com-

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But this procedure is a great Improvement on several months

when travellers used report that the Bulgarian fron- ter officials would examine all reading matter and often con-

scale

newspapers

books printed in non-communist coun- tries. They no longer do that. Sometimes they open luggage.

от

do not

even

Movement Restricted

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An open-air vorandah afternoon coffee has been büllt above what used to be the castle dungeon. A block with living and bed rooms and the kitchens. luxuriously equipped Inside, has been built in the original mediaeval style.

The drive up to the castle is to take the larte wide enough motorcar in which Herr Mortert oprives on his weekend, visits, There is a swimming pool, and he and his guests con play bowls, if they will, on the plate. form where, ini fother days, Lookouts used to patrol.

Find A Buyer

The local priest says Mass for the family in the caalle's ancient Chapel every Sunday, when they aro at Sauerburg-

are,

"Rejuvenated" castles however, the exception rather than the rule in the Rhineland.

Herr Fritz Ebhardt, owner of the Marksburg, near Ruede shelin, is chairman of the Gera" man Castles Association..

The postman, who crosses the. 6ld drawbridge, often britis letters from Irupovérished "castle owners, asking how they can save the old masonry from dew. caying through lack of repairi He says that the ben advice he can give is: "Find yourself wealthy buyer."

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Guide books say that Marks burg is the only castle along the Rhine which has survived ⠀ the centuries without being destroy- od or partly destroyed in a siege. But now the Umber is rotting and the stucco coming down from the celling, because Herr Ebhardt, too, cannot afford the necessary repairs-Chină Mall Special.

Problems Facing UK Textile Industry

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