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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1957.

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Dog Comes Off The Wagon'

Tiger With His Celebration Ale

-SWEET? Tastes Horrible'

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Brighton. expression OR

the face of a bay in the baelt row caught teacher's eye.

"What are you chewing?"

asked. sho

The boy blushed: "Please, miss, it's a sweet and it tastes horrible."

The teacher at Carden Junior Sofiool, Brighton, ordered him to bring the Aweet to her....and white found they were tabieta.

class

the

Two other boys in

admitted caling some. One said he foun:1 them at home. "I think they are sleeping pills," he said,

aud

Pallas were called, and three red-faced ltte boys, Michael Saunders, Graham Woolven Barry Hunn, all aged eight, were taken Lo hospital.

There doctors

"them

Pumps

worked on wiB Blomach An hour later three white-faced little boya were driven home, "Never again,” thịơ said. The tablets were phenol barbitone,

Greens Grow On Chairs

London,

A London newspaper charged that condensation of moisture in county-built eleven-storey prize-winning apartment houses is so bad that tenant grows watercress her armchairs.

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Life in the Ackroydon Estate,

Tiger Has NEAPOLITANS WANT

First Beer In A Year

Devon.

TIGER, a 10-stone bull

mastiff, trafted out of court the other day without a stain on his character, then went home to celebrate with a tankard of bear-hi, first since the vet put him "on the wagon" a your ago for health reasons.

FAVOURITE

BREW

TO OPERATE RICKSHAWS

But Officials Say: 'Social Degradation'

Naples.

A question as to whether or not operating a rickshaw is a "social degradation" here has more or less developed into an important issue these days.

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Home to Tiger is the 040-

It all comes up because the thing about the leisurely pace year-old Coft Inn at Darting city authorities have decided to which has a peaceful attraction ton, Devon, which is kept

by gradually eliminate horse-drawn and is a great contentment his owner, Mr Sam Meating.

cabs from circulation and when many Southern Italinns racl Tiger is famous in drinking

Heences expire, several from tourists. circles throughout Devonshire į 1.

time to time will not be TC- Naples was the frst lown In and beyond for his

bar-noomnewed. So a group of hefty Italy to establish the public tricks.

Neapolitan vetturini Carrozza carrozza exsally 350 years ago. drivers, who will be shortly un-It was a mode of transport al- employed, plan to

to operate o moet Indispensable up until just of rickshaw along some of before the last war when there kind the coastal and historical attrac-were between six and seven thousand licensed cabs in the tions in order to earn a living.

district. While apparently there are no like

Italien laws

such a

form against of public conveyance,

or day covering municipal regulations this enterprise,

project appears to at nevertheless

Tricks like picking out three tankards full of beer the one which contains his favourite

Tricks brew-bent bitter. guessing in which hand a bis- cult is hidden

obstacles

the

have

"traffic

Crowded Off

Now there are not many more ve than A thousand, Say's Ikm Luigi, because they are being off the roads by the crowded rapid increase of automobiles and Boooters here during the past 10 yeRTE.

It was these tricks of Tiger's which indirectly ied him and his master to the county court Totnes, where 42-year-old Tor-gged on official objections in- quay butcher Me Robert Wcluding

hindrance" and "public opinion", lioma claimed £400 damages But the vetfurini group

are from Mr Mcaring.

still fighting to carry

on with their idea and

have started a publicity emmpaign to convince the poiple of ita merits.

Mr Williams claimed that Tiger attacked him and injured his face badly when he tried to ahake hands with him. And in support of his allegations Mr Mr Williams's counsel, Mr Roy- mond Stock,

rend an affidavit signed by Hollywood film Forrest Tucker, who claimed that he too had been savaged by Tiger.

star

But Mr Mearing and his Botty denied that Tiger

ever

wife

attacked anybody.

TRUE VERSION

Then the judge decided this was a true version of what hap pened no BL Sin fl stor Tucker and Mr Williams:

Tucker-"a giant of a man," safd the Judge was exelted by the dog's successful tricks and embraced the dog with both hands

around his jowl and lifted him up.

"Naturally," said the judge, Frthe dog struggled to get free, his paws came up and slightly scratched Mr Tucker's neck.”

When Mr Williams visited the in ho tried the guessing game on Tiger but did not give him his reward

{ Tiger's.

Then, pretending to offer the dog pasty, he crouched down, holding one end of the pasty in which won the Government's his mouth with his face near Gold Medal for Town Plan- ning in 1954, "has been Д Mr. Williams lost his balance nightmare

this past winter, and toppled forward. The dog the newspaper said,

grabbed at the pesty--and accidentally bit Mr Williams. Moisture condensation in the

And calling Tiger "# very bad apartments "is so

that docile dog-an exemplary dog." carpets have rotted on floors, the judge dismissed the claim. inould

ceilings, grows mildew. ruins clothes, food con- spoils and puddles formi tinuously on kitchen floors.

on

One woman, the newspaper re- port said, "grey mustard and watercress" on her armchairs "as a demonstration,"

Is

Small Businessman

Dublin.

the

Landlord Alfred Farrel, ob- fected in Fortarlington Court, County Leix, to paying County Council's demand for The Ackroydon Estate a taxes on one of his houses.

development of four-storey He prolested that his teñent, and cleven-storcy apartment Joseph Murphy, who was paying bulldings fronting on Wimble him threepence a week rent for don Common on London's the house, had sub-let it to the south-west side. → United Council for eighteen pañales a PTC58

weck-United Press.

Mortifying Occupation

Most of the vetturini in Naples and other couthern towns long ngo expected the end of carrozza and became walters und

the

porters even before they would have been forced to change their profession.

"It's just a few officials who think pulling a rickshaw is

Don Luigi is mortifying occupation," says the

convinced the leader of the

bis group, n

will be never com- shouldered vetturino called Donpleted wiped out for people love Luigi.

"It's a "But it's as decent rod travelling by carriage.

zaxe traditional profession," he says,

CARTOZIA

SUNK

Sydney.

Nobody on USS O'Baanon aver makes a alighting rafarande v to the humble potato.

The reason: Potatoos saved O'Bannon from being sunk by a Japanese, submarine off Guadalcanal the spring of

1043,

When

O'Bannon,

senton destroyer of the US 26th Squadron, arrived at Sydney from Pearl Harbour, the crow told this story. O'Bannon forced the submarine to the surface with depth charges.

But the

the subutarine surfaced onir a few feet from O'Bannon and It was impossible for the destroyer to bring her S in guns to bear.

Japanese sallors rushed out at the conning tower and begnit Aring at the destroyer with smail arms.

TORPEDO

As they fired the submarine began turning, that it could fire a

torpedo at the destroyer.

Then there was a shout from n petty officer, as he kicked a barrel on the destroyer's deck. The barrel rolled across the deck, throwing potatoes in all directions,

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The

everyone, including officers, De

began throwing the potatoes at the subtratine.

Japanese thought the potatoes were hand grenades, and rushed back Into the submarino.

A Jap Submarine

And a

potato

did it!

By then O'Bannon had moved Bombed Out Tower

To

hack for enough to use her

guns, and the submarine was

sent to the bottom,

prove this story officers pointed to a plaque on the

ship.

To Stay In Ruin

Berlin.

Written on the plaque were the West Berlin will keep its words: "For their Ingenúlty famous landmark, the bombed in using our proud polate to cut steeple of the Kaiser- sink a Jap submarine in the Wilhelm-Memorial Church, at spring of 1943.

the end of Kurfurstendamm, "Presented by the potato the City's Broadway.

Krowers of the Stale of Maine."

honest a job as being a luggage same as the rickshaw In Japan. TEETOTALĻERS

porter or a bootblack.

We are

not human horses, We've made And though the rickshaw Idea anall

light carriages with the probably would not be accepted poesfbility of attaching scooter anywhere else in Italy I'm sure motors for doing most of the it will be finally accepted here, heavy work."

"It should be only regarded

Don Lagi belleves that there is a novel tourist attraction by the drain after they failed to

Is no vehicle lo compare for which

a few jobless velturin! sight-seeing tours than a carriage can earn a living in much the whether drawn by horse or a sine_way_ they have always man. He reckons there is some known."-United Press.

The Church today revoked last week's decision to have the pic- broken turesque Church ruin down to make room for a new modernistic church building.

The decision followed a storm of protest from Berliners of all walks of life who in thousands

Isle of Ischia, Vengeful burglars empiled of phone enlls and letters to seven thousand gallons of pre-local papers asked to keep the elous Ischia white wine, down war-torn tower as a memorini,

The church sold I plans find any money at the wine ] to retains the old steeple and build cellars of Pasquale Castigliolo. a new church next to it.-United

-United Press.

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