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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1958.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY "MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK

'Sir John' Hoaxes Famous Club

Drinks, Dinner &

I'M THE COP!

A £20 Cheque For WHERE'S

A 'Gentleman'

НЕ

By JAMES REID

London.

[E was slightly unsteady, but he looked a gentleman as he mounted the steps of the Reform Club, in Pall Mall. He showed that essential touch of informality mixed with good taste which marks the man of breeding as he entered the bar and ordered a drink.....several drinks.

Members of the Reform Club don't usually put their feet up on the heavy leather settees and sleep soundly and noisily.

GIRL WITH

I Love Men'

TATTOOS

GOES

TO GAOL

By MICHAEL CHARLESTON

London,

But the distinguished mem- bers of the Reform, the ligh Court Judges, Cabinet Minis Kons M.Ps, magistrales and barristess would never dream of complaining.

So the man who called him- self Sir John Fletcher elumber- ed through the afternoon and Into the late evening.

Soon after nine one of (1:0 livered attendants louched the sleeping figure on the shoulder and informed him of the time.

"Sr. John was any. He rated the waiter for his "im- pertinence." Then he went to the dining-room and ordered dinner.

After an excellent meal, with wine and liqueur, Sir John made his way to the secretary's

oflee.

CALL AGAIN

Flourishing a book of travel-

NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD, darklers' cheques listed by a bank

with

Yvonne in Austridin, he said: "Perhaps Clements went off in a police you will be good enough to cash car last week To start & Elx- This for me. I find, I have little tmonth prison sentence-blaming | money

me." It was her troubles on her tattoos. cheque for £20.

She had tile tattoos done 11 It was explained that 11 is a year ago "Just for fun," Among rule of the club that a member them are the letters Kiwi on one

mury not eash a cheque for more hand, the skull and crossbones than £10 on one day. Perhaps on the other, a blue star on her Sir John would seerpt £10 now forchead and a downl design on and call for the remader in her chest,

the morning?

10

She Regrets

But the one she regrets most fs on her lent. It says: "I love men." Because of that, she told police, she could not get a job.

Last week Yvonne, of Trehan, Cornwall. appeared at Saltosh accused of stealing £5 from her mother and of a breach of u probation order.

Yvonne," in a blue reefer coal nd skirt, dd: "I am very sor- ry. I would like to say at home," gaol, But the sentence was where she hopes plastic surgeons will remove the tattoos.

Their Craze Her mother, Mrs Pearl Clements, was not in court. She said the home: "It should be

a criminal offence for anyone

to intino n girl under 21.

"I didn't know she was

gel-

with.

St John accepted the

[ and agered to return next day. Next morning he strolled up to steps of the Reform, nodded to the doorman, and collected the rest of the money,

NOT A MEMBER

Somie days later no official at e Reform was told by the Lesl that the feveller's cheque was one of a muider- £780-worlti-which bad atolen from an Austridion visi tor, Mrs M. B. Allen, of Bal- gowlah, New South Wales, ki la London hotel.

that

THE ROBBER?

TEN-MONTH-OLD Ginn Also

of a child for toys and dolls she makes a bee-line for

home

Dute of unford, Essex has never been much but whenever her policeman daddy comes his helmet and whistle.... This is the result. -Keystone.

They're Off To America -In A Little Red Bus

London.

Northampton, Mass, is the destination of a bright red Eng- lish village bus that is going to take the Chudley family of Northampton, England, on a holiday in the United States next month.

It was then discovered

Fletcher" is nest a "Sir John

Club. member of the Reform

Mr Michael Chudley, the 33-| "The holiday would have cost And he has not been buck to

year-old representative of the club since.

least £2,000," said M:3

Yard

30- Chudley, "If it hadn't been for Scotland

delcetives packaging factory, and his

They were given n descrip-Penelope Yvonne was brilliant us ation of "Sir John" which has Joanna schoolgirl. She became a student been circulated to every policeTimothy (2). nurse, But she threw it all up siation in Britain,

us at

for i dune. I was n craze went to the club and question-year-old wife, Diano, are taking il the offers of help we've had. their six children: Nicholas (1). In fact, I will probably cost Orang some girls she mixed ed the stair."

(U), Philippa (0),ttle more than the. $200 for (5), Robin (4) and the bug and it fuel. We'll do about, 1,000 miles at 10 miles to the gallm of liesel fuel oll, They have a letter of good that's less than £20. Yes, peo- will to deliver to the Mayor of ple have really entered into the Northampton, Mass. from the spirit of the thing." Mayor of Northampton, Eng-

and got into bad company."

Mra Clements was in tears t

she said: "I shall go to see her

and tell her that there is n home waiting for her."

Wanted To Open Letter-Box: .FIRE-BRIGADE TURNED UP

Peter Pan Loses His Pipes Again

KENSINGTON

land.

JUST FOR FUN

A stunt? "No, Just for fun-

we've

The "people," I learned, included the head of a bus

сотрапу, manufacturing

the chairman of the German Line

It's just part of our holiday," who has given them and their bus free passage from South- Fald May Chudley when I called ampton to New York ("he was nt their 17th-century farm-

the 11th shipping company I house home at Hackleton.

tried") acd Lho Brins who London.

"For the past three years supplied such little items as the gono caravanning in refrigerator. But especially, the Gardens England and France but it was tocal village craftsmen, statue of Peter Pan is rather a squash. So we bought missing its pipes again, bus for £200 from a friend of real Police discovered last week. friend to make into a

home-on-wheels for a six-week

"It is really a village bus," tour of America. We shall drive said Mr Chudley The cabinet Athlef had wrenched pipes from the hand of the little about 1,000 miles."

marker did oll The tricky inside Inside the bus, a 20-year-old qurgs for a nominal fee. He single-decker, cre bunks for the took huge pride in the Jobmy She waited patiently for

family and their 10-year-old husband was only allowed to while, Jong

expeeling the Pater's trials began in 1928 German nannie, Hekli Petzkę. bung in the falls. "Jefter-box" to open so he could when u cynie turred unh Tea- Venetnin buds pulled from

Aalborg.

66 Pthe sign.

ESS the button" read

elderly lady did.

of the kine happened.

the

So the boy from Never-Never innd for

the second time in eight years,

VILLAGE BUS

get rid of her letter. But nothing thered m. In 1950 'n Jazz the celling divide it into three "The odd-job man was always lover' stucc A saxophone compartments at night, A sec-ready to lend a hand. And a

coach-painter Instead, the local are brigade his free hand. In 1952 the tion is convertible into a dining- 70-year-old

painted the out- arrived in answer to the alarm. pipes were alolen for the room. There is a kitchen with a Norihompton

She said she was new in town Brst time after an axelive refrigerator, a toilet und wash-side that lovely red It wil and that she had been certain it attempt had merely left them basin, and a hanging cup-board-certainly be something unusual was a letter-box.-U. P. 1, bent.-U. P. I.

cum-20 gallon water tarik.

MAD DOG FRIGHTENS SPINSTERS TO DEATH?

Whitley Bay.

TWO eccentric spinsters, were

WO

of

believed to have died fright when thair large dog want mad and stormed through thale manalon here In Northumberland.

Folloo, now. Investigating, the deaths, had to shoot the dog before they could antor tho понек

The mansion, filthy and in. feated, contained an organ, a harp and rellos from dogs which the woman had kapt. Margaret and Florence Mit- shalt livad ka raotuses arid refused to allow evon gas or alectricity meter men. Intą tha house.

fn their garago stood a small' grey car which has not been moved 'since 1887.

on the American highways.”

LISA MOYNIHAN

Spinach-Eating

High hedge surrounded the

Foreham, Hamps. house and huge biblos could

Nothing could persuade Rosie, dirty ho son through the

the. Rhole Island-Sussex hen, windows. Nolghbours sald the slators had to lay more than one egg a week -spoken to no one since be- und Mrs Annie Dale started fore the war, But in the fending her spinach. Now Rosio: 1939's they had talked of loya a chruble-yolk egg every one of them having a day. Mrs Dale now is feeding romance with George her atter hens with spinach and

production, Bernard Bhaw-China Matt has doubled Special.

UPL

Stamp Collecting Is A Man's World-But A Woman Started It!

London.

Do you find it hard tolieve that anyone would

gladly part with £10,000 for a 1d. stamp--even if it is the rare Mauritius Red, spoken of in hushed' voices in philatelic circles?

If you are a woman, you more than the cost of two air- probably do. Because most liners. stamp-colleclors today are men. The famous Caspery collec- But the first stamp-collector on has already feiched £178,- on record was a woman000 on the maiket with seven Victorian who advertised in 1842 sales still to come.

estrig-roem,

for uned slamps lo paper heri But even if you see unable to buy your hands on а враго tuken million, philately has still got a

lot to biter.

are

In 1950 slamps more seriously. Philately ranks as the most popular hobby in the world, and since prices follow the law of supply and demand, raze stamps are expensive.

Satisfaction

"Many people get just as much antistuction out of collecting a

Les! year the Burs colles-apicte issue of stamps which tion was valued at £3,500,000 are neither mire nor valuable." mid stamp expert Mr Alon Bosworth. "And it does happen that if sufficient demand is created, the stumps increase in value. Collectors nie always looking for suething new.

Birds Use

Sun And

Stars To Steer By

MIGRAT

London.

"One of the newest Ideas is collecting postal history material, letters which were posted before the use of poslayo stamps as we know them.”

Even the schoolboy hobby of stamp-collecting where the plan is quantity rather than quality

is not to be despised.

"It' promotes an interest In geography and history and some collections of this type have become quile valuable," said Mr Bosworth,

st, if you think there are aleady to many philatelists, why not become a kurnismatist

collector of rare coins?

IGRATING birds ap- pear to lose their sense of direction over the sea when they cannot see the

Again, if you are after the sun or stars, It is suggested

mary, prices are high-anything in the magazine "Nature". up in £3000 for a perfect speci- Dr David Lack, of the Edward men. The most valuable one, a Grey Institute

coin in the Brussels of Field Greek Ornithology, Oxford, telin of Muscum, is world; about £10,000, researches made by plotting

Uniqueness starlings, blackbirds, redwings. But there is plenty of choice and chaffinches en radar 38 around the £4-10 mark. Since they left England in the early uniqueness and not age are the spring.

are the deciding factors in pricing coins, it is possible to pick up one of the oldest wins in the world an Geping stater of 500 B.C-for £0. A Common wealth stilling from the time of Oliver Cromwell costs about £7, and a silver Tribute penny from Bibilcal times can be bought for less than £10.

EVIDENCE

mdar Tho evidence from height finders and other sOUTECH indicated that, over the sea, the birds maintained a constant heading by means of their sense of direction, based on the position of the sun or stars.

But, adds Dr Lack, they dld not "correct for wind drift."

Dr Lack says: "Provisionally, the radar evidence suggests that migrants, meeting fully (ver- cast skits

the se, fly around irregularly and in- decisively, in which case their eventual direction will be that of the wind at the

time." China Mail Special.

over

And thero is always the chance, if you know something about stamps or coins that you night happen on a freak Issue of Imperforale 3d. stumps - worth about £300-or spol s Roman coin while planting seed- lings in the garden. li has happened.

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