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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST · P, 1958,

IES ROMATHE SATURDAY MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEW DESK

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Sixty Cats Lived Among The CITY OF FOUNTAINS

IT

London.

was the atmosphere of the gaunt,-double- fronted house with its view of the Channel that turned one-legged war hero Harold Berry into a criminal. He went to the house' on the eliff-top in Broadstairs as a servant-attendant, salary £11 a week.

Gold And

Pictures

Ilis duties: To look after HOUSE CHANGED A

his 61-year-old employer,

Mr William Erskine Gul- land, and the 00 cats that

roamed the house.

For 18 months he never aaw Mr Gulland.

Gloomy Corridors

glopeny

only the

drawers!

WAR HERO

INTO A

CRIMINAL!

He would walk the corridors of the richly fur-

with nished house. scuffling cats for company.

He would pull open

When a cat died a veterinary and find now litters of kittens, surgeon would be called to the They would curl themselves house to perform a post-mortem round the heavy gold and silver as a check that I had not been etuuments that decorated the poisoned. house in profusion. They would prowl from behind oil paint- ingy stacked in batches against

the walls.

said: "You

wero ented, agreed with that descrip- | man Hon. Mr Gullend would be position of trust and it is

to pass over unable to give evidence he impossible mid; he was not capable of offence." expressing himself.

In a quite this

The sentenco WIS nine

Mr

Gulland, a bachelor, hay lived alone, except for the ser

died vanis, since his mother several months ago.

Benry had pierded guilty to months lo gaol. stealing valuables worth €739 from Mr Gulland's safe. He had found the keys on the gar- den path and opened it, and the prospect of the wealth: laid out before him had been too much. He had been at the house throo ycare and said Gardner, "hla judgment was stupefled and his conscience

Mr

'Every week the local store would be ordered to send eight numbed." dozen rolig of paper to the

Berry, who lost his leg fight- house because Mr Gulland ning with the Buffs in Europe. 10 Sisled that everything ha

away. and gambled" It touched must he cleaned with had sold the property for £100

dogs.

Mr Gulland preferred sleep outside the house-in his car. Berry was left thside with

the cats.

paper.

Grotesque

On

A stocky, powerfully-built man in dark lounge mult, he surrealist atmosphere," stood at attention as the chair-

Gard-

Occasionally Mr Gulland would summon a taxi and dis- appear towards the nearest roll- way line to watch the trains o by. Occasionally, Berry dis- commented Mr Edward covered. he would order the ner,

"A

who defended Berry at

taxt to rase a passing fro East Kent Quarter Sessions at engine.

Not Poisoned

Cariterbury.

The place was crummed fufl

of of paintings, stucited against 18) the wolla with gold and sliver lie and expensive ornaments and

But never, until those months hod porsed, did actually see MF Gulland. Their Jowellery, only contact was when he passed his meals through a half-opers

door.

He received his orders the some way.

The meals themselves were simple: Mr Gulland's favourite Was obice and milk with vitamin tablets.

"A grotesque and fantastic background." And it was that background, which Mr Gard- ner had painted for the court, that had led Berry into temp- talion, Mr Gardner sald

He described Mr Gulland asi "something

an eccentric."

Mr C. H. Goge, www

A Real African

prose-

Camel For Mountain Hermit

Rome.

HIGH up on mountain near the northern Italian town of Piacenza a hermit named Giuseppe Ceruti. Cerut! lives in an abandoned quarry. A little while ago he was incautious enough to say that his one desire in life was to possess a real African camel.

Ceruti is a 42-year-old ex- Alpine trooper who has retired into seclusion to study the Bible, He says he knows now the book almost by heart and can reelte tracts und psalms from memory, A tow hours a day, Ceruti tills a small ploer of land that was given to him by his relations in the district. For the remainder of the day he wanders around the mountain teaching the Isolat- ed mountain tamilles the Bible, He end he would like the camel for his travels around the steep mountain passes and men- tloned if to a friend at Placenza, Renato Caminni. A Jenl chemist.

Caminati thought about Ceruti's wish and opened a fund antong his friends to raise the money to buy the camel. fund now stands at 5,000 lire

(US$80),

No one knows what a come? really costs but it was "guted in the vicinity of 150,000 re (US$240) plus transport if there is set a spore one in some Italian

200,

When Ceruti learned, about the collections he protested.

"I don't really need a camel,"

THE BABY WHO GOT TOO LITTLE FOOD

London.

An- thony Howard died be- cause it was alleged last week---he was not given enough to eat.

FIVE-MONTH-OLD

His parents,. Leonard Howard, aged 23, and 21-year-old Mrs Marlene IIoward, were accused at Sutton, Surrey, of unlaw- fully killing him and neglect- ing him in a way likely to cause unnecessary suffering.

Mr A. G. Flavell, prosecutius, salt underfeeding fed directly to

Hospital

Jast

His valet said, "He is In- disposed and cantiol see anyone."

Bearded Mr Gulland was sit- ting the back seat of on old black car, parked outside the front door.

Handle With Care: IS GOING DRY

They're Explosive!

London,

HE college magazine of Southwest Technical

T College printed aur following chemical analysis

of a substance it identified only at the end, as "woman":

race.

Thought to be a member of human Accepted at 120 pounds although known Isotopes vary from 80 to 125.25 poutids.

Extremely Active

"Seldom found in natural alate, Surface usually coated with solution of paint. Low boiling tempera- ture and freezing point varies. In highly explosive and dangerous except in qualified hands.

"Extremely active when in vicinity of opposite member of species. Chiefly ornamental, probably the most powerful reducing agent known.

"It is illegal to own more than one specimen. although a certain amount of exchange is permis- sible."-U.P.J.

It's A New Delicacy: Smoked Hippo Meat

Rome.

IT may seem unbelievable, but Rome, the "City of Fountains" begins to be short of water, Experts say the reason is the increase. Ini· its population.

Issue once

lot of

to

anti for they

As the end of the last century | duced, its now causing a Home had a population of hardly protesia. Furthermore, the 300,000 people but little, through municipal authorities closed the

during immigration from the rest of the fountains

the early So tourists country, the inhabitants of thỏ [morning hours, eternal City have steadily - ih- {missed one of the most fascinat- creused and now the Rome foun- | Ing features of Flame, the lains which were described, th❘ chanting of its fountains in the poems, novels at even'in music, stillness of the sight, run the risk of becoming silent. Contronted with the big throb- UNABLE TO COPE

lom of increasing the cupply of In 1938, it was already clear water, the Italian Government that Rome was hending towards i and the Home mincipal-- great increase in the number authorities decided to improve of is population. In that year the flow, of the Peschiera Rome already had a population aqueduct, but experts reported ut 1,300,000 prople and a supply that that would not be enough. of water carried by the five old and that Rome would be dgnin aqueducts of Ave cuble metres in trouble in 1000 when the per secem, which were already Olympic Games will be going on unable to cope with the ever and the inhibliants of Flomme will growing number of the people. have naturally increased. Repito Mussolini when The SOLVE THE ISSUE was thinking of a World Fair for Therefore the Government 1942 Instructed his experts to and the Commune thought improve the flow of water into solve the Rams. The Ministry of Public all, and early

this year Works and the municipal od-ordered their experts of the ministration of Rome went to Ministry of Public Works and of work and decided to carry the Commune to study the new Rome the water of a pool of fresh plan, bearing in mind the water, and good drinking water, near Rome may need at the crib Riedl, 100 miles north of here. this century, The new aqueduct took the The experts went to work and name of Peschiera, after the in these days they presented name of the pool through which their report in which they say the water flows.

that Rome will have a popula- The war and all the mishaps tion of about 3,300,000 people which Italy went through, and that to aksuro a steady delayed the construction of the supply of water more aqueducts Peschiera aqueduct which was should be constructed: öns completed only in 1949 adding carry the water of the lake of five more cuble metres of water1 Bracelano, 30 miles north of The victims will be hippos swarming like rabbits. Each left with the corpses to dispose per second to those already flow-Reme; another from the Alban trek miles Inland, of. Six hundred tons of deading into the capital. But in the Hills 20 miles to the South, and from the shores of Lake Edward night they

to make meantime, the population of another collecting the various in the Queen Elizabeth National spreading devastation into the hippo are calculated

Rome had continued to increase pools existing in the "Campagna ground Park, where hippo herds 14,000 home

of elephant, their presence felt or smell.

so that the problem of waler Romana." strong. LYC destroying the buffalo and buck,

Some of the bodies will be shortage for fierce is an urgent According to their blueprints, vegetation and turning the

construction of the Aqueducts delivered to scientists who are countryside into desert

wjuld call for an expendi studying the breeding habits of FOREIGN TOURISTS

ire of 88,000,000,000 hippos Others will

Lo Experis point out that Rome ture virus research today has a population of acarly (HK5554,400,000). According to Veterinary and laboratories The local tribes 2,000,000 people and that during the project the new aqueducts. man will be appeased by gifte the summer hundreds of thou would be ready by 1980; Government at the The as much fresh hippo ment as sands of foreign tourista arrive they can swallow and the rest in Rome, making the supply of municipal authorities have ap-

booked for sale. Those water inadequate.

proved the project and work on who enjoyed whalemeat caring Trils summer the municipal the new aqueducts will "start

re-soon-U.PL the war would Hite 11-UP.I. authorities to spare water

Kampala.

A NEW delicacy-smoked hippo meat-will soon be ap- pearing on Uganda tables in an attempt to get rid of 300 two-ton corpus delicti.

Shooting is strictly prohibited in the park,, but the hippes are

Credit Squeeze In A.D. 300

THERE

Eroded Areas

Το decide just how much damage is due to hippos ond how much to other game

the park authorities have decided to slaughter all the hippos in two of the worst eroded areas. Guards will then prevent any more hippos from Invading these *reps, although other game will be allowed in.

If erosion

ocuses and Worthing,

grazing recovers, the hippos credit will

year

was the baby's death. He was born prematurely in

squeeze in the October 24, and not discharged A.D. 300. Evidence to prave until December 15 because he it has been uncovered by was under-weight.

workman digging a trench in Mill Road, Worthing,

Between then and April 3,

when he died, no medical assis tance was obtained, although it must have been obvious that something was wrong.

DUST-COVERED

Dr David Haler, pathologist, said the causes of the dealth

were chronic malnutrition and bronchial pneumonia.

About the mainutrition he said: "It would take a month,

he laughed. "It would be niee | and possibly six weeks, to reachi

to have one. But I think the this stage." money should be used for buying Detective Sergeant Kenneth Bibleż for those who cannot | Thompson said when he sailed afford them."

at the Howards one-room home

But the issue has become big-¦ in Paridhurst Road Sulton). ho ger than the hermit. The people found three ting of vegetables of the area insist on giving him and bottle of orange Julee a-comel.

covered in dust.

another

Nearly 5ft. down Corporation employee Henry Hayes struck a pot with his shovel.

He called the foreman.

To gether, gently, they reverest the pet. And out fell about 1,900 small bronze coins, each about the size of a half-penny.

Along to Worthing Muscum went Henry. The coins were de- clared to be of the A.D. 300-400 period.

COPIES MÁDE

But the coins are not original Roman coins of the period.

the

be proved gullly and a drastic thinning of the fest of will ring the death knell of an the herds will be begun. This other six or seven thousand.

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"Operation Hippopot" is pro- posed and directed by American zoologist Dr W. M. Longhurst, who is studying Uganda's game Fulbright problems

It has caused scholarship. bitter controversy in the Nu tional Parks hierarchy. Between those who hold that wild life is nered within the park boundary and those who believe in ve- of nature aturing the balance with a helping bullet.

Repercussions

Says Mr Gordon Lowis, a

It is likely to cause political The Park museum oficial: "During that repercussions too. period Britain was cut off from was created against the opposi- Rome on several occasions.

on of the local tribesmen, who "As a matter of necessity, resented the restriction of their were hunting. Now the white men caples of Roman coins child in made in this

country because will be slaughtering available. Most of these are touch, coples,

It was a legal way round an unavoidable credit squeezO.”

the game

"Most of us gave money for Howard and his wife-she is the earnoj because many of us expecting have never seen one, "It's our | October-sald in alleged state not enough of the originals were they have been forbidden to only chance," they said.

ments that the baby seemed all | So, sooner or later, Ceruti is right until the day before he going to have a real African died. They were sent for trial camel.-U.P.I,

and each allowed £20 ball.

A. Swimming Pool in Their Courtyard!

rgo la wifat happened when' (103k) Inchak (of: ruins tell contłow Dghi bị 24 hourane consu THI elty experienged the worst, dosdd In living memory, and at pas pinge the water was 30 fuar dhópar ↑ Twalvė" people · gled, sonte," in the Tuins of collapsed, houses some by electrocution — sime By BMWFZ. big na: the fouli mycket than! Ihid: open manholes

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Parks director, Rene Bere plans to keep the slaughter us sectet 05 possible. There must be no publicly," he says. "Visitors will be excluded from the killing grounds. Photo- graphers of any sort will be expressly banned,"

Even if he succeeds in clamp- ing an iron curtain round the killing, however, he will'atili be

TROUBLE WITH

WHAT SHE DIDN'T WEAR

OWN

Allerson. Councillor Sally

Tackson is in trouble

for what she doesn't wear.

In fact the toivo clerk is go- ing to have a ilttle talk with hur about it.

The trouble in that 25-year- old Sally rehmen to wear the blue robes trimmed with brown fur which, eldermen and; coun- cillors wear at council meetings. She said that, “Ibellave coun- clions should be the same other citizens. That duit is Just dressing sip-like little boys wearing cowboy, Bula."_UPL

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