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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,

APRIL 5, 1958, 17:

interesting "News - Stories

From WE Parts Of

The World

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The Jinx On Rommel's

By LORD KILBRACKEN

THE jinx

Nice.

on tho

Rommel's Treasure-

Treasure

French Gov-

GUID,

the sunken £10,000,000 1940 after tak- - loot of Rommel's Afrika ng part in a Korps - has claimed erneut search another victim with the for the trea- sudden death in Nice of debonair barrister

M. told та he Charles Cancellieri. found Flelg in Death and misfortune seem sald Flci had to have dogged all those who intentionally have tried to locate the treasure. baffled .tha Cancellier believed he held French search

Cancelleri

Corsica. Ho

the cluc to the exact location by diving in of the treasure. He told me the wrong recently that he was in direc! pisca because touch with Peter Fielg, the only living men to know it.

Flelg, a Czech sallor, is the Jast survivor of the party of renegade Nazle who dumped the tool in the cca off Corsica in 1943.

Fielg has been sought by the| French police since he vanished while under house arrest in

|

CORSICA

the retreating Ковра Airika

tried to gat

In 1948 Fielg back secretly to Corsica lo dive for the treasure himself. The French arrested him and be admitted the whole story,

The French deelded he was | telling the truth.

They financed a secret senych and forced Fleig to work for

mainly from welly Jewish them. Camilies in North Africa,

officets

Nothing was found and it was decldest to continue the search. the next year. Early in 1949, 1948 five [however, Fielg disappeared and Korps has never since been found by

were the police.

ordered

to

move the trea-

The story of the treasure had got around unofficially, In 1951 sure to Berlin. French business man Henri Helle They dumped led a party of divers in tho

But the Starlena was badly de-damaged in a colllston and the Gerted, pinaning expedition was called of.

El in shallow yacht Starienn.

water eff Cor- Flan

he had been promised no share, to return after the wor to Noxt year Helle (ried again,

of the, treasure. Cancellierii abere it among themselves. planned to dive for it this sum- mor under Fleig's direction.'

heart attack he Now; after

is dead-and no one else knows where Ficig la.

The treasure consists of six great crates of gold and silver, gems and works of art looted by

this time aboard the English Ivessel Romany Maid. But the ship broke down before reaching Corsica.

They were captured by the S.B. and shot at Massa, in Italy.

Two tailors with the party A Greek expedition and two were acquitted because they had Italian expeditions which set only obeyed orders. One was out for Coralcu never Peter Fielg.. The other was reached the search area."Always killed in action within a year. something went wrong.

even

PC MAY A NEW TWIST TO AN She Routed

EVICT

HIS CHIEE

POLICE

London. Constable 269 Charlos Morrish settled his helmet a little more. firmly on his head and said: "I shall have to give the -Chief Constable notice.

"It really is embarrassing, but what else can I do?"

P.C. Morrich, standing outside

OLD TALE OF A

SLEEPING BEAUTY

London,

THE Bedding Information Bureau came up with a new twist to the old tale about sleeping beauty.

Every women could be o beauty if she only did a little more alceping, the Bureau said.

"Sleep In a booklet entitled and Beauty," the Bureau 0150 sald beauty sleep could save husbands money,

Their wives could throw away the mysterious collections of

cost each

the police station si Exmouth, Jars, pots, and tubes of beauty. was not talking about resigning from the Devon County Police preparations that

woman an average of £12 a year.

Force which he joined 27 years ago.

He was tuneldering his posi- tion as a LANDLORD with the Chief Constable as his TENANT. For a few years ago when his father died PC. Marrish inherit ed a nea; semi-detached house in Limetree Road, Newton Abbot.

He immediately renied it to the local authority to house, policeman.

When a rent increase became Imminent last year the County Counell opened negotiations to F.C. Morrish buy the house. fixed his price at £2,000.

A cheek

A

Cure Sagitis

Sound sleep would care what the booklet called aagilis- ging cheeks, lined faces, weary eyes and luck-lustre hair.

But the beauty aleep the

advised Bureau

gets a little more complicated than just hop- counting -twa ping into bed,

and lapsing hundred sheep into slumber.

Touline takes' an' hour and should make a first class athlete out of any woman inside beautiful three months, A athlete of course,

'The

The Bureau said the pros- peelive beauty sleeper must strat relax in a warm bath.

After a brisk rub down the face alcould be

The county's standing joint committee had decided it was worth only £1,700 and that they were seeking another place.

LahdJord Morrish brisiled, torso "What a check." he said. "It's a { Wiggled. Jolly good house.

hasi

ALCOHOLICS

UNANIMOUS!

London.

Sunday Dispatch columnist, Marcus Milne told the apocry- phal story of a new organisation called Al coholics Unanimous.

If you're a member who wakes up in the. morning feeling you don't want a drink, Milne said, all you have to do is call head- quarters. The organiza- · tion sends someone around to talk you into IT-United Press.

came the Five Eloping

stretched and the feet

All-Over Massage

onc

Follow that with a quick all- over massage. (As the husband will probably be the only

to give the masssage, avalloble that should make him dead tired too)."

"Why a builder told me i was worth at least £2,100..

"All I've had out of it been about a quid a weck.

"I reckon folr rent now is £2, but I want to sell the place so that I can build a house of my own ready for when I retire,

the Next, said the Bureau, livo in and I don't want to

hair must be brushed 100 times, Newton Abbot."

and D Warm Was PC: Morrish worried at the nose blown

milk Constable glass of

and honey riving his Chief notice?

swallowed.

Then dive into bed and let I don't expect the "Oh, no. Chief w mind. Anyway, I've the mind take over. nothing to lose. As I haven't If after all that you don't had promotion yet I think sleep don't worry. The Bureau they've passed me over. Any and occasional sleep won't ruin way, yo less than three years your looks worrying about it

wii-United Press.

for pension."

SHE WANTED TO GO

HOME-TO HER TREE

Worcester.

Boys Are Suspended

London. CO-ED CATIONAL

A

suspended five 15-your- old boys for running away London with three schoolgirls.

to

The boys, who are boarders at Midhurst Grammar School, Sussex, were missed on Sunday night.

The girls, who all come from the village of Cocking, two miles away, left notes for their parents.

Then they met at B secret rendezvous and began a hitch- hike to London:

We

In

Last week they explained: "It was just a prank. wanted to see London"

Police began agarching

two of the, boys, returned on Monday.

The ather three boys and the girls were found on Tuesday.

THIS PRANK

FARSI Labourer's wife, Boris Parkes, pleaded unsuccess-London offer

fully with court offelals to send her back to her' home in a hollow elm tree.

Disclosure that the couple has The free was set affe several the trunk it lived in the five-foot widd shellyears ago, and di thee for the last six weeks hollow from top to bottom.

The Parkes lined the inside came last week when the 37-

A member of the school staff

CHAMPAGNE RESTAURANT & NIGHT CLUBar-old Mrs Parkes pleaded in with racks, and uses sacking as sold. The headmaster hus re-

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The Famous

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London.

EIGHTEEN YEAR -

OLD Gillian Ben-

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gough could make unique boast today. She

is the first person in history to have routed the famous British Life Guards,

The smiling young girl sent" a" fir delschment of the breast-plated and beplumed mounted Guards scattering in confusion on a sun- It morning in London's Hyde Park.

The rout took place appro- priately enough on 'Rotten Row -tust five hundred yards from the barracks ot Brital's pre- miere cavalry regiment, whose mission is guarding the "life the Sovereign,

· ROTTEN ROW-

of

--Gillian was exercising -- her. Irish thoroughbred Hack Jvamar en the cinders of Rolton Row. As she cantered along at a fast clip the guards detachment rode towards her.

The bun fisted on their highly and the polished breast-plates inild morning breeze rußled the plumes on their helmets,

A few minutes later Clan. swung round the corner. Ker mare saw the breast-plates, the plumes, and the high boots and heard the angle of swords and spurs. It was too much for the mare,

PANICKED

reared

Jvomar panicked and and plunged right through the middle of the Life Guards ranks. In a few seconds she desiroy- ed three hundred years of proud tradition. The troopers, broke ranks in confusion.

Gillian and Jromar plunged azd through the broken ranks carried on down Rotten Row.

The remnants of the Guarda stopped cussing, reformed sanks and rode on down Constitution Hill with stuff upper lips bristl Ing-United Press,

They Dug Holes In

The Ground

And Left

Naples,

A distinguished "ail com- pany executivo” vanished- from nearby. Cava Del Tirreni, last wook 'leaving' -behind # disconsolate hotel awner, 15 penniless workers and lots of little Hags and holon in tho ground.

the

•

prank to stealing a of boots a carpet. The door is a hole ported this

will have She was remanded without ball in the trunk, and it is covered governors. They will: more socks.

to decide what action to take." The 30-foot ligh tred is in.

Police said the man, belatedly "The"· magistrates refused to "The boys' parents have beep held on a farm where Parkes grant Ars Parkes bail,

told and the boys sent home. identified as Sicilion confidence and his wile worked. Their

"I have no objection to ball The suspension is for the rest of trickster Piero Raimo, 40, stow- former employer Tom Bomford, providing there a suitable the terra which ends next week, ed up at Cava a Low days who said they moved into the tree surety," a police officer told the

The girls, Sylvia Weekes and with 16 workers he had hircá when they were evictet from a court. "But the prisoner is of Margaret Tarren, both 13, and at nearby Torso Anunziata. He introduced himself as uit oll pro- ronted truss tiller wisich tho fixed address, and is, I be Rosemary Evans, 12. attend spector, and for days his unaus owner needed for himself,

Mkiliurat lieve, resking' a 'tron trunk,"

Secondary Modern But it's more › than a tree Thole chpal is not taking any pocting men dug holes here and "I was absolutely amazed | trunk to Mrs Parken.

there and planted, little flags. netion

disappeared when they began living in the "I wont to go arine, the And the polles Bad Then he tree," Bothford raid. "They seld before she was romanded In was just an advøhlure, No without paying tile hotel bill,

qetlon will be taken.“

and with her wante total icave car in the moming and custody.

the return late at night: One night Her husband plans to keep ringd word from the father of 220,000 aire (US$800)

saw them cooking a monk. house in the tree while she is one of the siris. We pui Dal workers had paid him as a "le- They looked really," happy als awayUilled Pres

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