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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1988.

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Stories.

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World

M. IRR FOUND HIS DAUGHTER

-But When She Saw Her Father ...She Fled

A MAN pushed into

Paris.

a pastry shop near

Limoges last week, dropped to his knees, and said to a girl: "My daughter, my daughter."

The 10-year-old schoolgirl in ian and white uniform, screamed to a nun: "Protect me."

It was the Brat time in 11 years that 44-year-old Jean Izr had seen his daughter Elizabeth in years of searching,

The French Government kept her hidden from him.

Appeal

A Government department has repeatedly turned down his op peal to be reunited with the daughter who was taken from him when she was five years old.

Inside Onco

the shop Elizabeth, perched nervously on the

of edge a chair, sat She did not know trembling, what was happening,

Jean Irr, shaking with emo on and weeping, said to her: "Elizabeth, I am your father. Dour't you know me?"

had recognised her

Then the

M. Arr from a picture,

But Elizabeth was frightened. She repulsed him. nun shepherded the group of leenage girls out of a back door and down a side street back to their school.

Slammed

It had started when Irr's wife walked uut on him after 14 The heavy wooden door at the In 1947 ho school-it is called "The Saviour" years of marriage,

shut in Jean Irr's won a divorce from her on the lammed ground of desertion But the face. court gave her custody of his

M. Ier talked for half an

two daughters. He was given hour with the daughter who custody of his two sons,

docs recognise him.

he

TWO WOMEN GUESS WHAT IT MUST SPEND

MUST SPEND Is It Duck,

£12,000 IN || Banana, Or TWO YEARS || Submarine?

Johannesburg.

A new twist on "brew- atera milliona" was revorted here the other day.. As d result two Bouth African women are in position almost everyone would like to find himself in. They MUST spend £12,000 with - In two years.

J

The money wat left by 73 year old eccentric

recluse, Johannesburg Francis Melville. to 74. Adolsino year-old widow Young and Miss Margaret Croft, 47.

in his will he stipulated that every penny be spont on seeing the world, which he did in his youth. Unleas the money was spont it was to be donated to the Nationalist Party.

Both

women friends of Melville, who

hut himaoit us in room of a large house. United Press.

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THE

London,

HE naval ratings at the submarine base at Gosport, Dolphin Hampshire, started a

week revolt last ngainst a new badge, Ometally the budge shows the "silhouette of a sub- marine,"

--

But the unofficial reaction of one chief petty officer was that it looked like "a sausage on a fork." Other senior ratings described it variously as: "a tank regiment sign" and banana with stalks grow. ing out of it." To fan the indignation the submariners have to PAY

IS

for the badge they dis- liko-5d, in red cotton and Ts. for gold wire badges for best suita.

The

Flag - Officer, Sub- marines, Rear Admiral Bertram Taylor, is in America. The news about the badges revolt will be given to him when he re- Lurns.

The Latest!

PHOTOGRAPHS

OF DISHES ON MENUS

Nauhelm: Jokes about West Ger- man menus are part of the and parcel tourist trade, Even Germans are times what is put in front of them after they hayo given an order.

surprised

some. at

M3

His secretary, Commander Geoffrey Thatcher said that the wearing of the badge would be optional. prietor of the Hotel Rosennu

Herr

Kurt Hofmann, pic-

Was here, has solved the problem for He admitted that it

"not a thing of beauty," with colour photographs of each "his guests by presenting » menu

but said: "It was neces- sary to have an entirely different badge to distin- guish it, for instance, from the torpedo badge."

but not rengning his Ante The Slipped 'Smokers Anonymous'

came out of the school he said:

In 1953 M. Ir, wanting news "I cannot tell you how happy of his daughter Elizabeth, was it am.

At first Elizabeth was Elizabeth told

had . that

very reticent. But I showed her bcon made a Government word family snapshols, and I spoke to Immediately after his divorce.

her very gently,

noo, the bas been handed from one guardian to another,

But last week, 03 snow swirled

"Little by Utile she relaxed. by the end of our that she blinding seemed happy that I had come outside the little to see her, church at Alxe-en-Vienne, the

"I told her to keep studying drama which has shaken France and working hard until the day came to a head,

when we will be reunited."

He still

be refused mae custody of his daughter, but at least he has seen her again.

He saw his daughter in nun- escorted crocodile or 40 girls. As he grabbed at her, she ron into pastry shop.

SANDEMAN COTCH WHISKY.

The King of Whiskies

SANDHURST

CADETS MUFF

PYJAMA RAID ON NAVY

FOUR

London. Sandhuret cudets worked out a secret "commando” raid. It was to be Operation Pyjamas.

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Their idea was to kidnap sub-leutenant from the Royal Naval Collega at Greenwich and march him on to the Sandhurst parade ground for the morring porade in his pyjamos.

The mission mistred. The four Sandhurst "commandos" found themselves being marched into

East Greenwich police station instead.

A REPRISAL

The cadets Omeer-Cadet L.

De

A. F. B. Turrell, T. D. Denne, E. II. Conder, and T. J. Week-had planned their mis-

Sole Agents: DODWELL & CO, Uro. sion in retaliation for raids on

Valentine's

PREPARATION

MEAT-

JUICE

OBTAINABLE AT ALL

LEADING STORES

Sandhurst and the RAF College at Cranwell.

Disc'

Cats

Suffer

In Silence

London.

THE fireside cat is a

silent martyr to "slipped disc"-the pain- ful spinal disorder much which chuses Fo

human backache

veterinary surgeons

have discovered.

Dr Anthony King and Dr Richard Smith, who examined 100 Bristol cats, found that 20 et them were afflicted.

Sald Dr King last week: "It is hard to know how much pain cats endure."

ABTIE...

Antre- "We're safe with him—he's under wet's orders."

Until now It was believed that

Last week they tried to get their revenge. While they cats were immune to slipped prawled through the tennis discs, courts at Greenwich, on Ad- mirality policeman spotted them But their car was surrounded policemen, There Was short chase. ·

They fel.:

by

'DREADFUL'

f

Indeed the Bristol vets were studying cats in the hope that by finding out why eats were immune they might discover the spinal weakness which cadues the complaint in humans,

The feline slipped disc

may

Then the four were marched be a penalty for the rapid spinal Into the police station in the contortions which ensure that a undress uniform of green cat, always lands on its feet.

denims and blue pullovers. Thoy

were under open arrest.

A senior oleer at Sandhurst

said: "We don't mind

not ever

pranks, well

ONLY 75

YEARS OUT!

Southport,

Society Set Up To Treat Smokers

By REX CARASOV

Crosby.

Now there's a "Smokers Anonymous"

dish.

Horr Hofmann put the idea

after noticing that many guests

--even

Germans-asked

walter what the

the

dishes were. Others took a look at what was being served at the next table and asked for the came.

DIFFICULTY

Foreigners bed most difficulty. Herr Hofmann found that many of them could not even order a simple sausage and potato salad. and anything more was beyond moot

Herr difficulties

Was

in

Out

"The

Hofmann

once himself. of curiosity, he ordered

Crown of the House" which ho It turned out Baw on

mushrooms,

menu.

to be vent steak,

fried potatoes, and salad.

The first attempts to photo-

badly. Pess looked like lentils,

graph food in colour turned out society. First came Alcoholics Anony-res Boug came out black. Bir mous where gentlemen sweated out a the kitchen was turned into a veritable photographic aludio And the HOUP problem Was - cure. from that bottle habit.

solved by printing a ploture on Treatment was always adver- "The cure will be up to the the rim of the plate or a Used ቦ። "confidential", and patients themselves." Mra Wi- obleken, o tall, turtle, or what- sufferers would always be cloak- itams conceded, "but we will ever it tappaned to be that was ed in anonymity.

give them every ponible help." going into the dish.

standard Mrs And, like Alcoholles Anony- Last week, 27-year-old

Photogmphs of 40 Williams

"others who have suc: | West German dishes are being proposed mous, Rosemary helping out the untold numbers ceeded will lend their assistance prepared, and Horr Hofmann who want to give up smoking- and those who are trying will Intends to extend the list later.

China Mall Special. but can't.

work together to reinforce their And, lise those other addicts, own efforts."United Press

they will be treated in private,) Mrs Williams proclaimed. She is secretary of the (British) Society of Non-Smokers.

are thou Apparently there sands of anoke quifery in Bri

time tan who shudder every they take a cigarette and mur- mur, "Wish I could give it up." Said Mr Williams: "I've re- ceived so many letters-nearly a thousand-pleading for help that the clinic will be opened in Liverpool."

TO ELIMINATE

She did not say what form the treatment would take.

But

she sald Bodlety Chairman Dr

Miss Lottie,

The PC,

And The Bar

Of Soap

London:

POOR. Lottie Leder-

policeman

Lennox Johnson of Wallasey man was so embar- would head the clinic. The aim, rassed--and so was the she said, would be "to finct and eliminate any psychological

Of course, weakness hampering the pati- ent's efforts and to assist and dyes.... adviso him how to tackle hla problem."

GUILTY!

said the JP

WRONG!

said the clerk

London.

he

averted his

It was the soap that caused it all the ja 24 bar of toilet COLD that 45-year-old Miss Zotile, who lives in Hampstead, was using la hor bath.

She placed it on the edge of the bath. It slipped-outwards, down a narrow gap between the site of the bath and the bathroom wall.

Miss Lottie put her arm down tho gap. It stuck.

It stayed stuck, however hard aho pulled.

She called out to a neighbour, who found the bathroom door locked and called, in polico....

A MAGISTRATE.

found the caso

HE PULLED....

Bernthal,

married

children,

the

aged 91, ft. tall, a with threa man

but this was planned.

"Thero la every possibility of

against a woman motor Police Constable Ernest disciplinary action being taken."

ist "proved" before he At the Royal Naval College a

heard her defence.

Ha broke down the door. Royal Marine officer-one of the

He put men who took part in

He averted his eyes. were more than 75 The clerk in Bedford court,

told the his back to the bath. He grabbed kidnap raids last December-years wrong when they told 10-Mr Lesile Brown, said: "It was a dreadful show. year-old Ada Fisher that the magistrate, Mr I Francia: "Now Miss Lotile's arm, But we would not have expected had not long to live.

you have said that you mast He pulled....and the dismiss the case.

came free. anything different from Sand- hurst."

the

CAT WITH

8 LIVES

London,

LARGE ginger cat darted,

into bury Calodones Road. noep King's

Doctora

The warning was made In 1073, and inst vock Miss Fisher celebrated her 101rt birthday,

daughter of Miss Fisher, wealthy manufacturer said, "I have probably lived so long because siever had to work.

Arm

The defendant has not had Miss Lottie, blushing, said a any opportunity to call witnesses word of thanka. “So 'embarras- or give evidence. Her solleitoraing, constable, sa very conbar- has not had the opportunity of rassing. making any you.

And PC. Bernthal went back to the beat, his duty done.

"

to wybrnbasions

caso "You cannot and the

My mother wouldn't let mo."— proved until you have heard the United PreNS.

Melun.

defence."

Mrs Gwen M. Gooch, of The Croft, Burbage, Leicester, had pleaded not guilty to driving, "a"

The court was told she

Police last week hunted a bubble car carcionly, Grom Station,---- right under a trolley-bu

greedy burglar.

48-to-1 Chance

.

Tamworth.

David Bryan Jones pold a £3 fine here on a 48-to-1 chance, bod He da friend to raiso The cat. Jonped in fright and He broke into eight houses. Just taken dallvery of the car, some money on a water The stuck, unhurt, in the chassis collected a haul of money-laden Mr Kodin Rome, prosecuting, friend promptly took it to one For half an hope it home wallets and purses, then drop-said: "She was unable to find of Tamworthla të pube which and dashed its claws as the bus ped the los and fled when a dog the footbrake on the car in happened to be the gas from driver and pecengwe tried to chaved him as he attempted to front stopped the agrorved and whines Upsala, bad altay the

water thres days Valen grab it. Finally a pollosman break in At Number Nine- kha larry.”

Tho paso wis dientent, pullesh it freak.

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