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THE CHINA'. MAIL SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1957.

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Interesting

From

Paris

The World

ROYAL US DOLLAR EARNER?

AMERICANS WANT TO SEE THIS

Behind the model of the Royal Yacht ‘Britannin',

"This wasn't made for slut-machine,” He shows a money ring from New Guinea,

"Remember we're all one family." The exhibit

a New Cuinea baby cradle,

BEES HOLD

UP TRAIN

London.

Urgent messages flashed

ahead of a train running from here to Ipswich

azking railway officials to do something about 40,000 passengers who had escaped in one of the train's cars.

Railway staff Chelmsford

members

at

Hot Hie first

message, but refused to

the problem.

touch

They sont

an

urgent request to Colchester,

where the train mopped again.

Again the staff did nothing

At Ipswich, however, detion

NY Network Trying To Buy Prince's

TV Smash-Hit

London.

Top executives of the state-run British Broadcasting Corporation were reported meeting last week to consider offers by American networks to buy film of the nation's latest telévision star - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

The handsome Duke scored such a success with a travelogue programme called "Around The World in 40 Minutes" on May 17, that BBC is hoping to get him to 'do similar programmes later this year.

sources!

And well-informed said American networks, enger. to cash in on the Duko's uile,. easy style and good looks, were anxious to buy telerecordings of his Arst talk,

Repeated

The Duke's programme a talk on his globe-girdling world tour aboard the Royal Yacht Britan- nla

last year, ran in BBC's children's programme. The rival ITA network carried it too-- both stations repeated It for

2. Will the American networks agree to keep advertising off the Duke's show, Appearance of J. Fred Muggs in telecasts of the 1953 Coronation од American networks occasioned conalder- able resentment here,

3. Does the copyright on some of the “flm shot by the Duke during bls four and used to illustrate his lecture prevent BBC from selling il Oytricha,

Astounded

udult viewers six hours later after being swamped with toie- į McGiven told newsmen he phone calls demanding a re-had been "astounded" by the Teuction to the Duke's talk.

ruz.

"It will be a day

BBC Television Controller, Films shown in Australia and Kenneth Adam, and Corporation Canada had had an equally Deputy Director, Cecil McGivern, | fabulous reception, he said. were reported to have called an

or two carly meeting to consider the before we can give the Ameri- offers by the American networks cans an answer," he said, "but -not identifled,

they will have to give assurances to screen the show exactly the way we did it."

The conference will consider three problems arising from the American offers, informed

turers said.

★ 1 Will Queen Elizabetli II Arbe Lo the Dake going on American TV.

McGivern suid the question of money had ngt yet boen discussed.

"It's too early to speak of Prince Phillp us a big dollar carder," he said-United Press.

MOTHER IS HER

CHILD'S BEST NURSE

London.

Mothers are now being encouraged to move into hospital when their children are admitted for treatment.

Experiments have shown that a sick child suffers less with "mummy" always beside the hospital cot.

nurse, who is still managing the experimental ward.

tried and

Four hospitals Newcastle, Aberdeen St James (Leeds), and Amersham General-are so Other cases were far providing side-by-side beds now a maximum of six children for mothers and their children, † with their mothers can be

In an experimental ward at accommodated at one time,

MOUSE 'KILLS Amersham

TWO ELEPHANTS

Kampala.

A mouse has led two elephants in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park.

An autopsy 002 A drad cow elephant showed that sho had ruptured a blood vessel trying to get rid of a mouse inside her trunk, and callapoda on her ball- grown son, orushing kèm to death,

was taken against the 40.000 Shot By Steamroller

ewaped passenger-all bees

Liverpool. George Sale, 42, was shot dead by a steamroller,

lost work I Was shown how well the system worked. Not a child cried.

Mothers sat knitting in Partitioned cubicles beside the young patients or helped the nurses to care for them.

has

Tila hospital's experiment already bee carried out with 300 mothers and their children,

Enthusiastic

The doctor who is organising it sold: "I am very enthusiastië about the results: As far as we have gone the children have been far less fretful in hospital and far less upset after thes leave,

being

Sister Morria was emphalie:

are

children aro much better with their mothers- not half the trouble, 10% mnali more natural and the mothers

often a great bely." All the mothers agreed that it was "a much nicer way."

Mrs Irene Sparr, of Prezi- wood, Buckinghamshire, quietly watched 24-year-old Nina In hospital for observation,

"I'm sure she would havo been frantic without me here," she said,

Not Fretting

sala

it'a wonderful Mrs Joan

"Malcolm

Jon't fretting about being in. hospital and I'm not tretting about being alone at home."

101 COTEXSD "The mothers appear to be like this," profoundly rateful for the Lowellyn of Chartridge, opportantly of

near Buckinghamshire. their children. "Many mothers have become extremely good nurses to their children and some have helped Wo with desperately ill cases. have had very few hysterical or unsuitable mothers"

Ernest Linstead, a clyll airline nilot, was visiting his wife June seven month; - old

and his

duughter Ashley.

Apiarist Edward Волкер, called to the station to deal with the swarm of bees which had escaped from a hole in the packing case in which it was Police being transported, walked into was crushing some rough stone-) Ørst tried the scheme with a sensible,” hò said.

the baggage car unprotected.

One by one, ho enticed about ing. 100 angry bees back

cald the steamroller

The doctor said that they

"I think this Ja really "It's botter

work near where Sele was work-child who was so freth that for everyone"

Most A pleco of sharp stone her recovery was being delayed,

of the experimenta? Into the few from under it and plerend The miggestion of Installing | cams are in for a few days only. through the heart, they tho mother was first suggested This longest cngs has been eight saidt-United Press.

by Sister Ivy Morris, 20 years a weeks,

box without being stung.

rest followed.-United Press.

The bim

INTELLECTUALS CERTAINLY GOT A “SHOCK?

The film, the

aald, would deal

advertisementa | screen remained white, some- with the times lighting up, sometimor

darkening

dxploits of the Marquis Do Sade: legendary French nobleman of the eighteenth Occasionally a high pitched century who gave his name volca muttered phrases in to sadian.

French auch an "his little sinier sita in the water of the earth crying”

London. Two hundred earnest

intellec fuals turned up for what was Gined as a shocking" movie show-that sat for an hour looking at a blank screen, One of the most elaborate heaxes in yours whe organised by members of the Institute of Two Contemporary Arta, which advertised in several tighbrow Journals that it was singing a movie show titled "Hurle- ments en Favour. de Sado". Uchimenes for Sada).

.

hundred intellectuals

burned up. They paid the

ailings a time, sat in The audience bore the "how" patiently, but at the cod half them demanded their money back, What, Insitute ottotala antamat 'anormal, juttiped.

darkened hall before a movie | screen and walled, Nothing huppened. Movie pro-

Joctors whirred

that

on the stage and started play- ing tic-tac-toe on the *reen. Despite the darnago, to the Lawrence Alloway, Deputy Director of the In- -alut, said. the hoax hind been a huge success. "Everyone paid their money

and turtied up

expecting to ses a bit of sex in the Älm,” he said, "They expected to be shockart and to have som thing to go home mid talle about Well, didn't

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INSTRUCTION BOOKLETS GO 'RED'

де

East Germany. The Comunnuicts distributing their Baganda, 28 Instruction booklets for pedestrians,

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· The book!els, distributed hero And in neighbparing town, tell pedestrians how to behave in tramo for the

first few pages. they shift gear into Com-

munist doctrine.

Then

The Communist Party and

Propaganda

banned in West Germany, Last your the Reds mixed Marx with Mozart in book- lele sent to music lovers. ---United Press,

Bookworms Great Weakness

The Boy

Who Loves To Shine Shoes

DAVID GETS

David polishes those new shoes with his good right hand.

BOOKS NEW TWIST

Loods.

Bookworm William Tingle's private library got critical reviews in a mingistrate's court here,

The trouble was, police suid, that hair of Tingle's 2,000 books were stolen,

TO OLD CUSTOM

DODGER TOM

NEW FEET

γου

London.

"OU don't meet many 18-year-old boys

who ASK to clean their,

own shoes.

And polish them with c'esperlo prido three times duy.

▸

Young David Butler does just

that,

But then he has not had any smart black hoce to wear for more than a year. Nor any fert to put them on

SUNDAY PICNIC

He lost both legs and his left arm on a Sunday picnic at Ivinghee Beacon, Buckingham- shiro, in Ayrli 1956 when ha picked up an oka mertar bomb which went off.

Forty-six weeks and 18 operations after that explosions David, still smiling, went back homo to his parents at Hemel Hempstand for the first time.

Last weeke

carnic 4 -W

chapter in David's story.

He was Atled with his two now legs at the artificial imb centre in Rashahipfch. He took his first unsteady steps, falling

once or twice.

HIS PRIDE

And then he began to polish the shiny new black shoes they carefully fitted on to the pink

CAUGHT AFTER in feet at the end of his now

30 YEARS

Tom Wescott' was herneless

Palermo. after

legs.

Going For A Walk

He has made them a symbol of his pride in becoming an Llanelly. ordinery boy, train..

"They've given me sine four a court ruled herbees," ho said. "One size Silan bandits gave a new could not algen under thebigger than. I wore before the Tingle's bedroom, line

Follco suld books crammed twist to age old vendetta faciles furnaces of a steel mill.

zeeldent. I've grown, you see!" walls,

the here by attacking fresh straw- For 31 yoora the lean gray covered the bed and berries instead of bumens, Tom dodged, nightwatchmen, 10 overflowed into a wooden chest. Two farmers were driving a return every night to the There were enough books to 1 truckload

furniture van, they testified: strawberries from the town of tunnels

of freshly picked dangerous dark and very hot beneath the furnaces Ribera to Villabute Tingle, a 24-year-old graduate when their truck was held up court

near here here. The steel plant gob a student at Leeds university, ad- by four masked men.

declaring

London. order

that Police Tom could

arrested. 32-year-old mitted stealing 50 books

no longer sleep Inn Climie on charges of jay- asked for 20 other offences to

ther because of the danger to walking, After gagging the drivers, the him of mollen steel. be considered, He said he stole

bandits calmly Sprayed the blographies, histories, maps, text trawberries with Creosol. The books, children's tales and other pungent olly quia destroyed since Britain's dissatrous general Tom said he had not worked books from the university and the Leeds bookstores.

strawberries valued at strike ét 1928. The strike $1.500.

upset him, ho said, and "now He was fined £50.-United | Police officers said another|108 cold outskje, cvcn Pics.

In vendetta "United Press. summer."-United Press.

and

4 ZRZAZE

They said they found hin between Paddington and King's walking up the subway tracks Cross stations. He said he was/ going to King's Cross to catch train home to Scotland.--- United Press..

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