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Interesting News Stories From

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1956.

All Parts Of The World

RUBBER TYRES FOR PARIS METRO

Plan To Modernise Veteran Subway System

QUIETER, FASTER

AND CHEAPER

Paris.

Paris's wheezing subway system many of its cars date back to before World War I will start putting cars with inflated rubber tyres into service this autumn.

The R.AT P. (Reric Autonomie Des Trans- ports Parisiens says the now trains will be quieter, faster, cheaper to run and able to passengers.

BONGO

BONGO

BONGO

Los Angeles, Mrs Mary Femun (J divurce after

10020

husband's

teatifying that her

physicist Congo drums were the only things that could take her husband's

mind of mathematics. She told the court: "I bepins working calculus problems.

in

his head as soon as he strokens. He did cal enlux while driving s

best car and tying on

of night. The Quly thong that would dis- tract him 143M Alziran drums."

Tiger Cost

£2.000

carry

mure

The #bber types will allow faster stuets and stops. Thus the interval between the pas sages of two consecutive triins will be reduced from

a mini- masm of one minute 45 onde du me minute 35 seconds.

Doors (fter on ench side of each eur) will be bayonder (one yard and a half lastead of one Yurtla

To give PRIKABILONS RIDIC men to get in and out. Eveu-

tually. martomakie ploty panied

MORE ROOM

There will be mor CHOST). Che

will of the

new trains carry 816 passengers as against 745 in the present trainas. More starts will be available 240 lastead of 174

¡ capacity of

Home-cured:

In Baptoren, Texas, Mrs Daniel. E. Ellis took her husband for a drive while he was recuperating from a heart attack, lost control, hinnenved down a æterp embankment, crashed into a truck and cement mixer at the bottom, seasoninjured, but had to return her husband to the hospital for treatment of lacerations, explained: "I was driving to relieve him of any physical strain."

DIVERS FIND SUNKEN CITY?

Skin

Rome.

divers may have found the legendary sunken city of Conca, waiting out the centuries beneath the Adriatic Sea.

What appears to be its nucssy ruins are lying a half mile off the Arbing village of Gablece, Jum about where Pliny the Elder said they would be,

Th vid Roman nufuraltet *** never managed to prove the Existence of Cinca before he died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

HE'S JUST WRITTEN

THE LONGEST

POEM IN THE WORLD

Rome.

The noise forced 14-year-old Renzo Colombini away from his books. He was pale and thin from not enough sun and too much reading and studying to be a school-

teacher.

MILW

He

In

EN thirt

safe-depoxi box knew already he was pet and on that day of the

atar undselweg bank.

Colombini does not house, November 4, 1018 Renzo ":,8, t1 nthusiastic Ju

thank he will evom ste his prem eriencing he another in th

published these times of stice 1m. the tal-colour

The Blog Telex on and the elnema latering from every window, high of his psem, which he and women with ears in their al peva duce, puts Dante's

Comedy"

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the end of the war par

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ךהיאאת

An American Buys Killarney

It Made The Irish

Fighting

Mad

Dublin:

FEW Irish eyes were smiling in Killarney_last week. The people are fighting mad. They are angry with Premier Costello and his Govern- ment.

American Why, they are asking, was

broker Mr Stuart Robertson allowed to buy their 8,000 picture- postcard acres of lakes and fella?

The reported price was £100,000. In the 70 pubs of Killarney town, in plusity hotel cocktail bars and in every thatched voltage dotted around The sell-out is being condemned.

A special meeting of the Killarney Tourist Develop- ment Company, who had raised £10,000 towards buying the estate, was held in the town last week. Bitterly the Government's inaction was condemned.

Tourist Chief 'Ashamed'

Mr Dounld Collins, former president of Tourist Association, a prominent Killarney earlier: I am ashamed of my people att

Irish

man, said

1790

KIR YLADY MARR)

SANDEMAN SCOTCH WHISKY

The King of Whiskies

·SANDIMAN SCOTCH

WHISK

my race that would not buy back the land which belongs to them."

Sixty miles away Alderman Stephen Cougitlan, | Available everywhere $10.50 per Kottim Mayor of Limerick, said: "I think it is disgraceful the Sole Agents; DODWELL & CO., LTD.

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way the sale has been rushed through. This sale to foreigner leaves the prosperity of the South of Ireland, catering for tourists, in jeopardy."

C

Was

Mr Henry J. Downey, of Kil- Mix Beatrice Grosvenor,

and Aldo Piva. 40-years-old rail-urney Urban Council

a of tho Kenmare family, way worker, and his Ave asserei-director

the Irish Tourist forced to sell the estate because

demand "disappointed that of a

for alow in the Rindni Underwater | Board, was

LA.87,500 duties following the Sports Club may lend him we in Killarney were not given death hand

{1514 to raise sumeient

the deaths of three Earls of Ken- money" He added: "The Gov- mare within a few years. Ever since

legends ernment does not come out well have passed among Eshermen in this at all.” that the old eity. also known i

Crustuntium, is out there

fathom down

FOUND RUINS

Acting on fishermen's reports, brent the skin divers rented 4 and rowed 900 yards off-shore between Cattollen and Gableem

After several dives they GOO feel found an area about

Jong, at 14 depth of several

a fathons, in which were scatieve i

pleces of ruins.

Meanwhile, as he drove ile gally painted jaunting car around The lakes and fells, Mr Martin Spellman was worried. So he decided to ring his new chief 5,000 in Palm Beach. Florida, imules away.

Martin and 110 more Jarveys* like him were concerned about

the futu v. So were the 60 or more boatmen who ply on the three great lakes..

'A Grand Man'

The total passenger carrying

each line premmalle Tyres will creased by 20 per cent.

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11 was ngainst Austris and Renzo Colombini felt a burning dear

1

to write a poem which would, literacy ment and style, or not, Ph the victory and history of

slots not bitlles Colombilut

tent with his achivement Country

Experience 38 years st inspires him

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has

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He

fter al

Yo which Packag

Piva sald he saw parts of wall about 150 ft long, un arch nearly buried in sand, column 25 Inches surmounted by a stone engle, word of the chat spread through

symbol of unclen, Rome.

The new carriages will be more comfortable thuores- Event lights, softer seats. and

moverent with

دانا

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יידי!

- Worked For 22 Years

The distal wiki j cording to the Metro ageals, zouch more easily thon the stubborn dours of the pre- The doors of Metro test cars. Tummy have to be hữu ved open

TWO TYRES

The se

Sup

Metro of pt the characteristic rattiin!

azize of the Parisan Meiro

The whreis will be doubte

weight One, bearing all the New Delhi. | wilt roll un a woolen

track.

1 cost a hunter almost s tyre will be like that of a €2.000

to shoot one tiger heavy truck

here recently.

1 dire

Foot-bunt

3/16252-1 Jan

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The second, with a hard rub- gulde the other ber tyre, will and bear no weight except in case of a blow-out.

ongation for

l as the jungle.

He to the f many foreign foutists Juring theisals of jans into the puckets of hunt organisers each month,

One organisation which Kunranices a tiger has earned about £10,000 from

fight enrisis in four months,

For his money the hunter geta comfort 121 the every" home heart of the jungle.

Several skilled Indian manters guide him through the jungle.

When 3 tiger

located. Heaters drive 11 to his gun while he is safely on one of) four of live hunting elephants or high on a platforms in a tree, If he kills his tiger, skilled nies cure the skin as a trophy.

WHALE GOT AWAY

Vancouver, Five mon fishing in 12ft rowing boat

Vancouver Island, caught a whale ол д z0lb line,

*t.

permit

Today, after nearly 38 years. he considers the poem fuished. And Renzo Colondinį at 52. *་ཐཱ་ཧཱུྃ་ཐཱ་ཟླ་ at the ille school of Sorgu

Verona, married with four children, has perhaps written the longest porm in the world.

For {4!L¥ years Colombini searched for an idea and then between 1920 and 1925 the poem

In 1920 at emerged in design Rovigo

he began to construct the verses working for 22 years. every night. At the end of 1948 the long poem was com- plete with 50.000 verses.

Two characters, Sanlobbio, a conspirator,

Silva.

ER

The new subway typе will romantle girl, move through an a narrowO tannel, bv-triente pattern of the past, the causo no ballast and no cross future, of pleasure and work, of ties will be needed. New tun-love and philosophy, from the nels, if any, will be straighter Earth to an Ultramundane. because the new trains can roll The story covers anystle on steeper slopes.

world of theology, cosmogony, The track will be less ex- astrology and metaphysic

New

pensive.

words and expressions had to The

be invented for Sardobblo un Silvia, which will not be found in the dictionary.

new cars will be triedl out this autumn on one of the ey's 14 lines. If they prove satisfactory, the two bustest lines will be equipped with rubber tyred trains.

SCENT FAILED

Pruned It Down

After 1948 Colombini began

The most crowded of the an eight-year, beart-rending but will goi the necessary pruning of his poem, remaining linea extra rolling stock and use smoothing it down to 30,000 trains made up of five instel | vergta,

of four carriages.

He divided it into three

the first called "Human

Paris streets are overcrowded which is the title

with cars and city

authorities his

his poem,

the second "Comedy

hope for a wider use of the Arcana" and the third "Devine Metro, The R.A.T.P. 15 nio- DramIN,

dernising

tried

and 116 platforms

spraying perfumes

Oven

In the subway to attract scent. | (tirikmi," and two "super-

Parisians but that

Consejous experiment failed

The

Each section is sub- "armonie" divided

six into (harmonics) od

"Him" 100 four "disarmonies" of 36 armonie of 20 "super-ritml," Three copies of this colossal poem exist One Colombini possesses, a second is in the care of a trusted friend in Milan

new carriages are part of #ve-year modernisation plan of Parisian Metro which may cost 20,000,000,000 francs (abil £20 million).--Untied Press. for a publisher to see, and the

Boil Cure' Turned

Lethal With Vitamin

Paris.

Victims of a patent medicine for boils that turned They did not manage to land lethal when mixed with vitamin D can claim immediate

"In fact, at one stage it locked as if the whald might Innd ilem.

"The whole came close and seemed to head right for our boat," said Col. MacInnes, one of the five.

I tried to move the boat out

financial compensation a French court ruled last week.

French authorities said the the Fevrier Laboratories in the poison, called "Stalinon" killed Paris suburb of Charenton. 100 people and made 133 more It was made from a pewter gravely III in 1954,

based compound that produced Six insurance companies, the a furious reaction it mixed court said, have earmarkod 900 with Vitamin D. million francs for damago Most of the 11 victims who escaped the horrible death ita Victims certified or their boiling fury often brought were "The tow Lasted only aheles who do not want to left permanent crippled, minuto at about four miles anwalt for the trial of the firm Both director of the com- hour but t socmed much that marketed "Stalidon" may pany werd Indicted for longer. Then I cut the line., apply for an immediate vettle-homicide, involuntary infliction

That whale was glad to go ment, the court said, p

of wounds and violation of the his way, and we were gînd to go The medleine made in appear- | Pharmacutical code of France.

Tak, ance in 1954 It was put out by United Pres.

of the way. As I did, the claims. whale. caught in my Une

and 21 In diameter

YOU FALL MORE SLOWLY HERE

London.

At Warlingham village in Surrey everything weighs less than it does anywhere else.

It means that husbands who drop plates when washing- up have a better chance of catching them before they hit the floor.

For everything at Warlinghảm lakes a split second longer to fall.

The reason in that Warlingham "gravity deficiency."

tam

an Inexplicable

This was first diagnosed by oil company experts seven years ago.

Ever since the experts have been trying to find out what sort of rock the known cause of the deficiency-11 in that helps Warllogham plate-droppers.

to

cost This week a Government geological survey. £25,000, began sinking a test borehole which will enable the testing of rocks a mile below Warlingham,

A drill similar to those used on oilfields will work six days a week, 24 hours a day.

Warlingham's hole in the ground will cost up to £20

a foot If the going is bad.

The villagers reckon It's an expensive way of satisfying curiosity.

Mr Spellman dialled the inter- national exchange and asked to be put through to 39-year-old Mr Robertson. For 15 minutes. he and "the boss" talked. As

the town, strained faces eased inlo smiles for the Arst time in tlays.

Martin cald to me "Sure he's grand man, I told him of how worried we were. But he came straight back at me: *Please tell everyone concerned I will do everything to protect you

interests.'

"Mr Robertson told me that he had no intention of commercial- ising the area or harming in any way. He hoped to be u Killarney next month, and pro- mised to meet all the jarveys und boatmen."

* JARVEY: horse-cab driver.

The estate has

Jaunting-car or

been owned

for 400 years by the Enria of Kenmare.

BUT HE GOT IT

PARKED!

Deal

A hotel porter at this seaside TCSOTT who offered to park a guest's car, did so after hitting five others.-United Press.

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