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Englishman's School Venture In Brazil

By HAIG NICHOLSON

Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 6.

High in the mountains on the outskifts of this one-time summer capital of Brazil's former 'Royal Family, a young Englishman and his wife sueckss-

and other countries $7.00 per rooth. fully run a preparatory school with pupils of so

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COMMERCIAL

ACCOUNTANCY,

HOOR-KEEPING,

Compatty Beerotaryship. C

An Intensive Method mare (Por

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award

Arnviate

many nationalities that it is a veritable junior United Nations.

The

For 37-year-old Mr Anthony | The walls of the itd-routed Case-Morris, 14 founder end buildings are painted white and

frames are blue- headmaster, only two cursors the window were worthy

Blue of consideration a most pleasing effect, One was to be

Bre white

the n doctor. other to be school-master,

Born

Poole Harbour, Durretshire,

and a boyhood Trial of wing Commander

Peter

Townsend,

WOR

colours,

Multi-coloured bougainvillea and trees shade the swimming pool which can be floodlit at Flower beds surround night.

Is

twenty when World War well-kept lawna The air

started.

Joined Army

SUPETU.

A gime at the school register shows that the majority of the boya

British with fower

*1 was in the Royal Air Force | Americans. But there within three days of the

number of boys from Brazil, break of hostilities," he explain-Chile, the Argentine and other

"I went to India and there Latin American countries. transferred

the Army. Others are from Canada, Ger- many and Norway while there and from Chin one euch Ruseda.

ink an Indian medical degree and served as house surgeon in Government University teaching hospital at Bombay

he When the war was over

He took a returned to Britada lesuching post, intending at

the time

continue 10

118 medioni studies that he could

oblin British qualineations

But the diffoulties were

Fellow; will wint you to higher grea that I dropped all thoughts

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teaching. My

I

It is a big happy family which competition in classroom and on the sports held thrives Cand mereÜLLEN,

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Starting the school wax an uphill light

started with "1 £100," M: Case-Morri Com-

Poles Flee To West

RUSSIA TO

SOUND OCEANS

Moscow, Aug. 0. ¦ fessed, "and we have had to Magnetk measurements of the

overcome muny Ananed and depths

of the Alantic. Pacific But with the other dimealties

Russia by

from A new nun – melic ship. Tass reported.

well in hit 1 did not want to stay help of patents and friends and and Indian oceans will be laken in England and we doeldedi to a good den! of faith the venture

to Brazil

I have always has surveeded 1 Vs }}}

wanted to do a Job that is con 1948 At Cre

with people-somethink beginning of 1949 they started cerne

cerned personal and there is plenty of Zaria, their own school at Hapon.

1 school Petropolis,

eight that in running will:

wife, trained nurse, shares my view

1437 Irders.

Medling a Jong-fell want the school win a great success and

thove ko the present sile on d struaill pletenu about 3.000 feet obave Mu-level overlooked by lowering mountains wie mode 17 June 1991.

i

University Stage

The 600-ton sailing schooner built specially of non- My magnete materials will do re

search In the Baltic Sea are will make a tlal voyage in the Allantle next year.

Lute

of

Radio

The work will be carried out And what of the future? *kly dream, and it might easily the Scientific-Research Insti- Terrestad Magnetism, become a reality, is to build my

Waves A large private house wasn

said school,"

Mr Caselonosphere and the mucleus of the school and Morris "It will incorporate all Diffusion of the USSR Ministry

though

It will be ROTE14 reconstruction the lessons learned from experi- of Communications,

enee in running Brazil and the teaching curricu- part of Russia's research during lum might be extended to take the 1957-58 goophysical year, the added. China Muil pupils Up 10 The

university agency

Special.

wils tretssary and new build-

ings bad to be rushed

up all

Д

school

was rendy a matter of weeks.

Toxlay

the 73 boys and live girls who Case-Morris Preparatory School at Covcaninho. fve, work and play in Rylle surroundings.

at the stage." -China Mall Special. are boarders

FROGMEN COFFEE 'SMUGGLERS

end

to

moat

The Hague, Aug. 6. Dutch police and cus- toms officers have put an

of the one ingenious methods of Smuggling yet attempted between Holland and Ger- carrying coffee

For tho BOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hours before date of publication. many

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The police said they act arrested three me who had al- tempted to smuggle coffee by swimming in frogman's outflis underwater through The canals anl rivers which CTORS frontier.

the

OBSTRUCTIONS The meal,

whose names were not revealed, made three un- successful attempts to get the coffee into Germany. The first int they were folled by an underwater obstruction and the second attempt failed when the inilk cans in which the coffee was hidden floated above the water.

For the third try the men a1- tached weights to the cans b again met an underwater obstacle which they were unable to pass. riis in some They hid the |Brushes on that bank where they were found by a mime who warned the polles.

The men were arrested when they came to collect the coffee.

China Mail Special.

Invalid Watches

Home Robbed

Durban, Aug. 3.

While Miss E. M. Hughes, a

John Ambulance 3-year-old Invalid, sat helpless

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in her

wheel chair three men ransacked her house and made off with a paraffin lamp, grama- phone records, £3 in cash and some small articles.

Miss Hughes, who lives alone, was sewing about 11 a.m. when the thieves entered the house | through the Back Hoor.--China

Mall Special.

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OFLEPIA

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FERDINAND

NANCY

I LIKE THE

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JOHNNY HAZARD

WHAT'S YOUR RUSH, GUYSE THIS TRANSACTION) ONLY TOOK A MINUTE I

A MOUTE!

I AM IN TROUBLE ALREADY!

I CAN'T STOP NOW. 1 MUST

THINK THIS OUT.

WHAT NEXT--?

---BUT I DON'T LIKE THE

DIVING BOARD...

BULTY CARE HERE SOMETHING REAL WRON ABOUT ALL THIS A

Hand-Made Gunsmiths

Curious onlookers surroun-I one of the two planes which recently carried four Polish airmen to the West. The planés look off from an airfeld near

and Warsaw.

despite being

fired on, succeeded in making forced landings in Austria al Oberbergen. The airmen have applied for political asylum.-

Express Photo.

Bites

Mad Dog

Nine Children

Brisbane, Aug. 8.

www

Fell Asleep

At Work: Arrested

Athens, Aug. 0.

A to comfortable armchair in the offer of a Piraeus shipping

the arrest of broker led to burglar.

4

Seek Arms Orders

By HARRY CELBER

Ferlach, Carinthia, Aug. 6. Some of Europe's oldest gun-makers' shops, lying in a quiet sunny valley here, are hoping to receive Federal Government orders for arms for the new Austrian army to help them survive in a world of mass production.

For centuries they have pro- They settled in the southern duced fine guns by hand, and in Carinthian valleys where con- recent decades have concentrated | siderable iron deposlis furnish- (712 producing beautifully-led a solid basis for an cams in- engroved sporting Kurs for dustry, and became one of the wealthy sportsmen all over the most important arms manufac- world. Now they are finding turing centres of the Old Aus-

national customs burriers

trian Empire. mass-production methoda

that and

are threatening their industry.

The Carinthian

arms-makes

Frached the peak of their 'im- About 3,000 to 3,500 sporting | portance during the reign of guns of all calibres, shapes and | Empress Maria Theresia In the sizes leave Ferlach each year. 18th century when they pro- They are produced by individual dured muzzle-loaders master craftsmen in their small

home

detailed

and

careful,

bayonets

master

again

for the army, during

atul

the Napoleonic

wars.

few or

workshops Ira

work Each employs sometimes as only two journeymen, and there arc rarely morr then 201 Journeymen and apprentices in " Arm

SPECIAL ORDERS

Since 1884 the

craftsmen

UNABLE TO COMPETE

From

Ferlach 1800 to 1816

the delivered 800,000 guns to Austrian army quartermasters,

With the beginning of the

of miss-production

breech- loading rifles gms in the mid- die of the 19th century, the craftsmen

Ferlach

forced to change

to

were

have had an organisation which undertakes the

machine- The burglar broke into the

production uf stocks, barrels,

aporting shipping broker's office during and moving parts in a

central

unable to guns us they wore These, when half- workshop the night, picked up 300 drachi-

are sold to the compete with the mass-produc- Police at Rockhampton, Northmus (23 sterling) from a drawer completed,

their own

tion methods of other urma cen- nd dug and then set i the armchair raftsmen who put

work

ires. Queensland, shat

and artistry on nine school children and fell aslep He was found the product by hand. which blt

working

In 1878 01 State-supported 10 and a trucher who went to their there by the charwoman in the almost invariably

special

technical school for arms pro- morning and handed over to the orders from morkomen in many duction was set up. The school old.

countries.

and the craftsmen still attract police.

and Emperor Framels the First many

students foreign The dog first attacked a small

to tired and could brought the gun-makers on the

Journeymen who wish to study then turned

"I boy, and

was drg

Carinthia in the 16th century, under the Ferlach mosters, children who other

were pre-not resist the armchair, it looked

when he imported some of the Some of the moving parts are so comfortable; I won mthely

finest

Walloon Flemish and

made of duraluminium now, but paring for morning parade.

planning to have a nap and cer-

warkcors and metal

gunsmiths the steel of the barrels and the

Austrisin- other parts is still high quality tainly not to sleep throughout

Countries, now steel from the Austrian Кар- gun fonberg works, and each must pass rigorous government Inspection before it is passed to

The teacher, Mr D. Pringle, had several stitches put in a long gash on his right hand.-Chinahe night," he told the police.-dominated Low

China Mail Special. Mail Special.

NARDA MUST HAVE BEEN CARRIED OFF! BUT WHOT PARE ABDUCT A PRINCESS FROM HER PALACE ?

BONC

By Lee Fall and Phil Davis

EXACTLY! WHO?

THIS MAN THINKS

HE SAW THE

PRINCESS

LAST NIGHT.

I DID, YOUR

HIGHNESS. RIDING ON A HORSE.

WE WITH A GENT.

By Ernie Bushmiller

NOT

SPRINGY

ENOUGH

JOHNNY'S, BYES ALERTLY. SCANNING THE.

FAX SUSPACIOUS EVIDENCE COME TO · REST ON TWO OVERLOOKED

ACHSIH,GUSTY, WE'D BETTER CALL IT A NIGHT AND HEAD FOR HOME &

By Mik

By Frank Robbins

́SPOILSPORT) BUT LOOKS LIKE EVERYBODY COULD

·USE, SONG BUBER EVEN YOUR BOYS LOOK ALLA BEAT UP MR. GANSITI

Belgium.

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

thien

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REFRIGERATORS

FROZEN FRESH | THE COUNTRY [

TRY

Libby's

FROZEN FOODS TODAY!

ROWNTREES

this situation

tall

San Miguel

n customer

The Ferlach gun-making in- about 300 10 dustry employs

400 people today, 70 of them in the central workshops deliver- ing semi-finished parts and the others working with or the 23 master craftamen dominate the industry.

under

who

KINK STRAIGHTENER

The central workshops, equipped with thachinery cost- mg about £70,000 ile by the side of a tast-running stream which stiil drives the ma- chinery of one shop, although the others are driven by elec

and corner a specialist with

of years

experience straightens the almost invisible kinks in completed barrels with special vice or by hand after Judging the straightness of the shadow cast in a barrel when It 15 fooked through against the

These shops have been re- built since the war, partly with United States credits, and they now contain an assortment of German, Taljan, Czach and Polish machinery, both pro atid postwar

to Нат Alnis

light

Schnechutechar, the chair-

man

or the Gun-makety A390. ciation, British and American machines are too expensive.

t

Ferlach's best customers, cording to Her Outscher, are. West Crearimay, the

United Sweden, Franke that order,

Exports to Britain British-dominated trend

In

and

• Bro

"extremely difficult", due to competition from British gun- makers. And the West Germany customs dues

Bro

proving

ADS e gaith, would be

the United States market, especially contacting ismail gun shops, The large firms there, he added, sdered only Interested in Jotá 01.3,000 to 10,000 guns, which the hand-production industry of Ferinch could mot supply.

SECRET

Fun-makers treat the identity of their customary de a Þusiness séiret. But it is known that one over, and under, shot. gum, calibre 17.

was delivered to the Shah of Porada recently Roadside-by-side shotgun, “calibre-20, Wene 18de for Prince

Nicholas May 1953.

Chì ôf the

Feriden Pasko" una rodaty zone buck

to be overhauled. This sporting gun with woven barrels inrrarkijedi in soolmatigeable sota 01. two, two and Wicer, und ran in calibre 1: from-