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THE CHINA · MAIL. SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1058, 7

Interesting News Stories Fron AU Puris OY The World

They Blew Up Bombers From A

London.

By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WHEN German bombers released, their londs over

WH German bonds Voo

planca, blowing them out of the sky. And one of the war's most fantastic exploits had achieved its mission. Most fantastic-and most necrot. The other day, 15 years later, I learned the first detalls from one of the men who helped to organino it, Wing-Commander Leonard Harrislon, G.C.

He revealed how captured German bomb'fuses were short- circuited in the cellars of Bush House, in London's Strand. Then repacked, and put back into enemy munitions stores by the underground movement. When the bombs containing the fuses were released the

short-circuiting made them explode,

Bright Lights Attract Him

The Dog

That Went

To The

Pictures

By MICHAEL BROWN

THE usherette

London.

Anshed

her torch along the front row of the circle.... and saw a gloomy figure in the end sent.

"Don't remember getting his fleket," she said to herself,” And, she niched her way nearer,

The figure rat silently storing

at the screen. Then it yawned and licked its

per.

"Odd," thought 22-year-old

Jean Milsom,

A bark

Morto Brando, Montgomery

Cut and Down Martin

acting out

Irwh Shaw's

were

The Young Lions; classic at

wor

Hampsteal's Playhouse)

- Mr Endo,

Glamorous May Brit was doing a tender love Beeng with

And

at that solemn Agure in front began to BARK.

MINIRCHT

the

Jean shriekel and ran for the

manager. Anel Mugsy, tro two-year-old boxer, lost his seat, Manager Mr Erie Edwards phoned up his owner, Mr Chatles Walney, n 36-year-old

garage proprietor, "Can't have dogs taking up all the room," ig snid. "We've got a queue."

In the gods

Down came Mr Waincy from his home in Wildweed head Hampstead, full of apologies,

For Mugsy, a seat in the circle

German

Tourists

Find The

Cheapest

ITALIAN

Rome.

CELLAR!

The whole mission was so successful that the Germans were tricked into helieving their fuses must be faulty, So thousands were scrapped although there was nothing wrong with them.

Harrison he won the George Crons in 1941 for tackling an unexploded bomb wedged in a ship is now à 51- year-old civilian adviser to the Air Ministry, Said Harrison: "We discussed the idea over lunch one day In 1943. In Bush House, headquarters of the R.A.F. Bomb Disposal Organisation In those days, we often talked about playing a more attacking role.

"Our chief, Wing-Commander Jarnes Stevens, had a habit of laughing at the many outlandish schemes proposed -and then quietly thinking about them.

"

"Ho laughed when it was said this fuse short-circuiting might work. But a few weeks later he announced we were going to try it. "It Ecquired a lot of experimenting with captured Germun

fanos. But after some weeks we evolved á method. "We had to put the fuses together again so that they looked absolutely normal. We did quite a number.” No enemy bombera have been offlctally credited to the

R.A.F. Bomb Disposal Organisation,

But Harrison said: "The Intelligence branches told us a number of bombers brought down over Britain--and, in fact, elsewhere could be attributed to our work.”

A PATRON SAINT This ODD World

FOR

SPACE TRAVEL?

By ERNEST SAKLER

Vatican City.

HE WANTS A -JOB AT 96-

London.

THE Roman Catholic Church, which has just DOCTORS told Major Harold Gordon-Grahame:

given a Patron Saint to TV, may soon give another one to space travel.

In feet, there is hardly Catholics praying to n Smini eveni community or brauch of human if he is not their officially np-

activity which has not a pairon pointed protector or if he is

Saint or cannot obiala one by considered a patron Saint only sending a sufficient number of by popular tradition.---UP.J. petitions to the Valtean, And generally, the patron Saints are) very filing ones.

St Clare, the 13th century Italian founder of the nun'e order of the Poor Clures who was proclaimed the patron Saint of IV by Pope Pius X13, was in nway a forerunner of television Cathelle tradition reports in de- tell how she watched a distant church service by a vision from her sick bed in

a convent on Christmas Eve of 1262.

St Joseph du Cupertino, a 17th century Franciscan felar unoMcially considered by the Sacred Congregation of Rites an a possible patron Saint for space Hight is credited by tradition with foaling miraculously in the air, during his cestasies, For that reason, many US, and British Catholle Air Forte pilots prayed to him during the war,

ASTRONAUTS

Bicycle Derby

Not For

Minors

Under 50!

FIFTY

Bolzano.

- twa - yaar - old, Foderico Berta was first through the tapo at the "Rag-plekārs Bicycle Darby' here, but was disqualified for drinking too much wine before the final sprint.

Vittorio Bonrin, 72-year-old favourite to win the 10 lap peddle-and-drink grind, had to retire just before the finish line because "tremendous thirst" lured him off the course.

FORBIDDEN

"You have one year to live." That was in 1917. Last week the major who proved them wrong went job-hunting-at 96.

He walked into a Luton employment agency and said: "I must have a job to occupy my čime."

He'll got one. Said Dr Donald. Snellgrove. wird TOM the! bureau: "Ile's an excellent fel- low, mort modern in his ap- prusch.

"I have good hopes of getting him into a local nccountant's

office."

Odd man in

THERE'S

New York.

a bachelor at large

Bloodhound Loses His Way!

Blackpool.

ANNY the Bloodhound

may never live it down among New York's bachelor-he got lost last week and girls-the only registered malo

n man.

resident Dí the Manhattan had to be tracked down by YWC.A. club.

Frank 183-year-old Rellly, who has lived in building 17 years.

He

the

When the Y.W.C.A. bought it Reilly and five other men re- fused to leave and went to court about it,

Only Reilly was allowed stay-because of his age.

G-R-R, Hic!

to

New York, NIMALS' can become chronic

U.B. alcoholics, reports

Eight - month - ald Danny couldn't resist an open gate, and for hours padded and souffled happily among the thousands of Blackpool's holiday-makers and their thousands of exclting

scents.

But there were so many new smells he couldn't and his way home, and was looking more and-

eyed than ever when found by an oficial of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

A specialist Dr Maurice Pruitt. Its kindly owner said later, His "cose histories include "He still has time to learn to dogs that went from bar to barbe à bloodhound. He's' very begging for drinks and a dog young."--U.P.I.

IBCOO,

both dope and a addicts.

Even ants can become intoxi- eated on honeydew, he reports.

Some fall

If he is chosen as the patron of astronauis St Joseph da Cupertina would be one of many Saints protecting different cate- gurtes of persons. in Haly, he Is considered a patron Saint of students because tradition has it that he devoted his time so fully TTALIAN hotel proprietors to prayer that he did not study | The burlesque contest, one of are bewildered. They for priesthood-yet when be the most spirited annual events best to underwent examination he was of this region, was as usuni for- have done their

asked exactly the questions to bidden to "all minors less than modernise their premises in which he knew the answer. 50 years of age." "He was at 'e ballet the order to make them func-

The Virgin Mary holds, frat other week," he said worriedly.

Rules of the track were the "Sneaked up to the gode to sectional, only to find out that

place among patron Saints of some; 10 Ilmes around a one Les Sylphides. Loves the bright there are many tourists who various cities, nations and other mile track with a stop each lép lights.

do not like neon lights and categories, Fope Plus Xli alone at a "egntrol post" for a glass Mugsu proved that later by modern furniture.

has signed 62 Apostolic Briefs of red wine. snatching a photographer's flank

This is especially true in small during his 10-year reign pro- he hotels and pensions In eittes incluiming ber the patron Saint aggregate age of about 1,100 camera out of lis

hand as tried to take a picture.

Florence, Rome

communities and German tourists in particular do such as "Immaculate Conception

Under various names, not like modernistic hotels.

Americans like the good,

de for the U.S. and Brazil or "Our Lidy of Lujan" for Argentina, luxe hotels.

British, French and Scandina~ the is the patron Saint of 19 ney. "We called him Mark vian tourists look for "inexpen countries, ranging from Ports the final inp cried out for wine. Steal, please Anthony when he was a puppy, sive" hotels and pensions. But gal to Hungary, the Philippines His particular wine car had but Mugsy seems to sulf him all these tourists are beaten by and Basutoland. Under the driven off the track. Seventy- better now

Immaculata" the Germans who are specialists name of "Virgo

two-year-old Boorin followed "We could puper the walls in Anding the cheapest places to she also protects the U.S. Army the scent and was disquaiided. with tickets the police have slay. given him.

He casually pushed me into a settee, thee picked up his play- mate, a deaf, white cat colled Titten, in his teeth,

"Quite a lod," said Mr Wat-

"How much do you bet ho turns up for My Fair Lady?”

And

SPECIALISTS

Venice.

ct different

Clups.

The Germans are specialists,

and an "Our Lady of Loreto avintors of all nationalities. As our Lady of Folgaria she is the putron Saint of Italian sklers.

The 20-man puck, with.

on

botes before u cheering crowd yents, was off with a creak of of youngsters ranging up to the mid-century mark.

Boorin took the lead but on

LAST CIRCUIT

That loft Rico Scremin, 50. and as Our Lady of Lourdes she | Gluseppe Cerutti, 54 and too, in another aspect of tourism Is prayed to against bodily Ills, Federico Berto,. 52, Nighting on

Camping. Many of them know

the last circuit, the country intimately from the

THE BOY WITH Steund War and they come with

MATCH-STICK BONES HAS

ell their equipment and set up. camp.

PARACHUTISTS

51

an

Louisville, VETERAN parachute Jumper.

Torn Kirtley has made descents without a seraich.

Last week he cancelled

Kontucky after slyping on the exhibition drop. at Louisville, back-door step and breaking a leg.

►

London.

b

THIEF who broke into garage at Cheam, Surrey, stole the wheels from a bicycle.

The owner

of the cycle, Pamela Hennessy, 15, put this advertisement in the window of

loent shop:

"Will the thief who stole the Several hundred yards from wheels of mu bicycle from a the finish line, Berta, stopped for patage his Cheam, please atta! Another popular saint is the

two glasses of white wine. He the frame-it's a nuisance)”

the This thief obliged her The island of Elba, off the Aichongel Michuet

then sprinted first through the patron of

same night. const of Tuscany, the diminutive Italian parachutlets, policemen drinking out-of-turn.

tape but was disqualified for

And lett this note: "Where's empire of Napoleon during a and radiologists;

the belt?" few months in 1814, is now

flooded with Germans. Among Not all patron Saints apply

once lonesome bays and shores to the entire world; for instance, i sre wholo Germon families, St Bernardin of Siena Is the

Scremin won.

followed 个

minutes later by Cerutti.

A long time later, 17 other

29th FRACTURE under canvas and equipped with | patron Saint of Italian adver- survivors wobbled over the fin-

Barnsley.

FOUR-YEAR-OLD Tony

with "match-stick" bones, wES Imek in the hospital — with his 29th fracture.

This time K's Tony's left shin - broken for the ninth time.

Specialists hope to make it well again, by grafting a pięte of his mother's thighbone to the shin-but it will not strength ch the rest of his frail body.

His mother,' 26-year-old Mrs Fayllis Ekin, said Tony has spent most of his four years

everything kitchens, folding sets, but not of advertisers at ht Ine followed by a Red Cross beds, gos lumps and just about other nations because they have ambulance. every other convenience needed not asked for it. The Church, There were na by the camping tourists.-U.P.I. however, has no objection to casualties.-U.P.I.

Business-Monkey

Londoti

ATEST trainee assistant in a LA Kings Lane, Norfalls, ze wz genuine agent's shop is a monkey.

Eight-month-old Scoop is be .........................Ing fought to sit on the counter

and sell morning papers.

THE FARMER CARRIED THE BOMB

The Army Said It's

Londbh.

The Army reported 11 nad disposed of the lipkriti that bolhared farmer Bam Holmds' seeding.

It was a Woria Wie Two, German bomb thist

flied to explode.

"

thvelling to and from lospitalsgdoh a fus," said Holmes, after slight accidenda fracturéd his brittle imbs.

"""Terry Richards, who was driving my tractor, ran over it three times before we folleed 'ft.' Farmer Holmes, of Thorne, near Doncaster,

But his two-year-old platef Angola is free from his bout defect--although she's already hid, two "normal". bóna' trues turar-UP.I.

"didn't want to waste thon (wlille ho wai woodlar, so he picked us the bomb and

Dangerous!

dairind it 40 yards to the edge of the feid. Then he knelt down, but his ear to it and Elslanáð, st

“It wasn't licking #ó 1 loft lí there and teles

phoned the pöllee," he said, Polloe and an Anky tromb disposst unit serived while Holuits wie back siɛding his field. The Ardy experis decided -15 was too dangerous to move. Police held up trame for a hair agur while the bombs aquad Inspected th

The experts then exploded the bomb. 'Halles carried on with his seeding,United Prom.

· And every time • customer comes in Polly, an Amazon par rot, shrieks; "Read all about It"

C'est La Vie!

London.

were two admirers of 1 41-year-old Liliane Nico- Georges Handl and Bernard Guillot, both 60. Gdorges saw hẹp on even days, Bernard on odd days.

But then Georges got to think jog the atruhigemónt was : Defair because Bernard had two days running the dies of one month and the first of the next.

It ended with a fight and laat wopk both tivals were in a Paria hospital

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