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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1957,

He Was Taken To Hospital

The

World

Interesting News Stories From All Parts

5ft 2in WRAC

Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Pond BEATS UP

JEANNIE, 12,

SAVES LITTLE

DOG NAP UNDER FIRE

London.

TWELVE-YEAR-OLD

Jeannie Dixon, wounded in the leg bý

an

airgun slug, shielded her mongrel Nap with her body because she thought he was going to be shot.

Another slug halt her in the back, and she ran crying to her home in Ashington. Wansbeck- terraces carrying her four- year-old doy,

A FISHY TAIL

THAT ENDED

UP HAPPILY ·

One, two, three, four, five

Once I caught a fink alive....

Now I cunnot let him go

I have grown to love him 80....

London.

Oswald, a tench who escaped the frying-pan by the flick of his tail-is going to have his own private pond.

In the sunken splendor of a 270 luxury home Oswald will live out hi fishy life with no more worries of ending up on someone's breakfast table.

The strange story of Britain' luckiest fish began at Kidder- minster when O: wild fell for saut the knit on angler George Clay'

I

"I couldn't see Nap hurt, tried to protect him," Jeannie, daughter of miner Mr | line. Bob Dixon, last week.

Then only another anonymous The pelvis were fired by Lwo unys aised 15 and 13. In A-Worcestershire tench, he was ington Juvenile Court last week į the remoniously wrapped in a fined £1 for | pleer of paper and thrown into they were ench

the boot of a car. discharging a freuem in a public 10. for having no place and

Eun Beener.

Next....

One pellet broke the skin on Jeannie's leg, the other caused inflammation on her back, said Superintenleri Walter Turn bull.

Her mother, 37-year-old Mrs Mary Dixon, said last week: "Jeannie is very keen on pels.

and

In the bath

L

Mr Clay, 34-year-old public works contractor, drove 270 miles to his home in Ponteland. Northumberland,

it was 17 hours later when Mr Clay slapped the tench an the kitchen table and told his

for breakfast,"

thought of han ending up on some other angler's hook was too much, and baby daughter Beverley insisted "He's a nice

b. mununy,

don't send bini way

Miry

Goodnight

Clay old last week: "After all that Oswald has been

through it doesn't sean right to put him back where he might He's getting to be caught ngain be a real family pet now, and I'm sure he knows is, He lets is stroke him and Beverley al- ways kisses him goodnight.

So Mr Clay is paying a land- scape gardener £270 to lay out In his front garden a supkon pond-empecially for Oswald.

She has a gokinsh. # canary, wife: "Hure's er 200 tench IT'S INVISIBLE

this semi-greyhound pup

we bought for £ from the

Mrs Gwen Clay unwrappesi

purents of one of her schnal him, picked up a knife to chop Iriends."

He

ie-

off his head and the fish swriggled. He was still alive.

Mrs Dixon added: ". Nap fanatically. initely her dog. 1 bed on The Clays didn't have the shopping nud found her heart to Cat him. They crying, but happy that Nap christened him Oswald and put him in their bath, planning to wi. Nate,"

Next, blue-eyed Jennnle hopes return hun to a river or lake. to get a pony. She wants to be is

ven heaves sehnn).

Hut Oswald en quickly be- came one of the family that the

Madera.

Don't you believe It-yet- when you see signs in Madera warning of ender trafle control.

How-

keep

by

The City Council declded it aloes not have enough money to huy radar equipment.

upreed 10 ever, they motorists their guard signs

of ereeling

Warning radar contral-United Pris,

on

What a pain in the neck!

THEN » giraffe gets something wrong with ite W

neck it

really knows it. And when it'e a star ́circus performer X-rays as well only the best attention is good enough. showed thle pne to be suffering from bone injury while It was appearing in a circus at Coblanz, Germany.

Is

Business

Booming At The

NO SMOKING

Cinema

London.

Business is booming at London's non - smoking cinema, the Classic at Tooting.

At the Tooling Vogue, where the same Alm is being shown, but without a smoking ban takings are poor.

A RED CAP

London.

AN 18-year-old, fair-haired Wrac, just 5 ft. 2 in.

tall, was sentenced to 28 days' detention Inst week for beating up a 6 ft. 1 in. military policeman in a brawl outside ʼn public house.

And at her Catterick court "She bit him and got away. murtial Lance-Corporal Anthony We followed and she refused to Hulton ruefully recalled the into a truck," night he set his red cap squares ly on his head and set about arresting her.

It looked a simple job for a burly six-footer....the trouble maker at the Richmond (Yurks) pib, Private Mavis Ashton, did not come up to his shoulder,

Kicked

The two cinemas, owned by

But when the hand of the Army the same group, have been given

law reached out for the same film to show so that Private Mavis this is what hap- the

compare the pened: popularity of smoking and non- smoking.

owners can

Aften checking figures Mr Jack manager

of the

Monday's Vaughan,

Classic, said:

"In spite of the weather we did very well indeed. Since we've started having two non-smoking days a week, the foldings haven'i | dropped off at all,

'Not our type'

She kicked Lance-Corporal Hutton on the legs;

She kicked him

stomach;

in

Then came the kicks..........

Salt Private Mavis's defend- Ing officer, Lieutenant Elizabeth Kóss: "It Was self-defence, Juving had her hair pulled."

NEW RAIN MACHINE TESTED

London. the A now rain-making machine is boing tosted in 18 different countries bo- twoon now and January,

She kicked him in the back; She pulled off his red cap and jumped on It

Aud

the burly policeman ended up in hospital.

The machines-developed by a Sydney scientist make rain The Fighting Wrac herself in a small quantity of normal went quietly when WOMEN red air. Tests under direrent con- cops look over. She gently, laldditions will tell scientists more her head on Wrac lance about the causes of rain,

"The indications are that this corporal's lop and fell fast

experiment is going to prove the sleep. For Private Mavis war Interest in rain-making has

success of the scheme, but we drunk.

intensified throughout the world

shall have to be absolutely sure There wasn't a thing she following successful experiments

before making it permanent,"

remembered, she told the court An official of the Vogue said:artial, after leaving the music "Busines fg

terr. e-we've room of a pub where a demab Rever been so quiel.

parly was in full swing.

"But that may be due to the fet that this isn't really our type of alm. Our patrons like lots of action and Oghting, so

Hit Him

in Australia during the drought of the last few weeks.

CROPS SAVED

Scientists have saved

stock and crops worth thousands of pounds by artificially seeding

Toinfall

Lance-Corporal Button led cloud formations to make rain. Frank Sinatra in The Tender In the gaps. Private Mavis, 2 This method produced 20. of sold. was in the pub arguing rain in one area where there Trap isn't likely to appeal to

for six with the landlord. Her battle-had been no them.

dress blouse was undone. Her moth

But The SUCCESS of this shirt was hanging out,

saltoblo "I took her to the door, but method depends on

he sald, cloud formations. The new "Another military policeman device may lead to rain-making helped to get her out.

under any conditions.

"From

tomorrow we and the Clasic will be showing Quentin So Profesor Waterman of the Dusseldorf Orthopaedic Cinta was called in.

Durward and that should give she broke away," Here ha la uning yards of bandage

us a much better opportunity to while an assistant foods the animal with titbits.

compare results."

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