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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1958.

A CRACK

America's New Small Car WORTH

Unlikely To

Undercut Foreign Models

Washington, Aug. 12. Smaller American cars, when they are built, will not compete in price with foreign cars which can be bought here for US$1,400 to $1,600, (HK$8,120-HK$9,280) the magazino U.S. News and World Report said today.

LONDON THEATRICAL AGENT

-TAKES HIS OWN LIFE-

Major Alfred Barker and his wife-Keystone.

London, Aug. 11,

Major Alfred Edgar Yaro Barker, well-known London theatrical agant married to a French countora, shot himself with a double-barrel sports gun fast Thurs- day, an inquest decided today.

Sunspots Sighted

Rome, Aug. 11.

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It said the best guess the price of the new care would be between US$1,800 und $2,000. (HK$10,400-$11,000).

The magazine mid final decl- sions on smaller designa hơà not been made, but it was certain that the chief economy features would be higher petrol mileage. simpler mechanics and over-all austerity,

Tentative pions call for the new cars to be introiuced in Inter 1959, the magazine said.

In a report from Britain, the magazine sald British

car

| makers were confident that as long as American manufacturers stuck to their big models, Bri- tish core would continue to sell well in the United States. 'Great Year'

Barron's, the financial weekly, in a lending arilele enilijed the "Challenge to Detroit," checlared that 1998 had been another great year for foreign cars.

These ears, the weekly sald, were cheaper to buy and to operate theni their American counterparts.

720 GUINEAS

London, Aug. 12.

A crack in a cup was worth 720 guineas to a contestant on the Independent Television pro- gramme "Can Do," The contestant, Michael Cotton, who was reluting to the game to go for the 800 guineas target, had to decide whether author Wolf Mankowitz could lead a Hereford bull through a china shop without knock- ing off лny crockery and without breaking anything.

Mr

Cotton decided that Mr Mankowitz could not do this. Mr Mankowitz then took the bun through. One or two pieces were knocked off but

did not break. So Mr Cot-

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only 10 puinens 10 per cent of the total prize he was aiming for.

he won

Five minutes later, however, it was discovered that one cup had been cracked. The programme

was

Inter rupled and it was announced that the decision ind been reversed. Mr Cotton had

hus won 80D guineas and the right to return nexl week to deelde whether he wants to go on for the 1,00 quinens target.-China Mail Special.

Eton "Bills".

Retires

London, Aug. 12. Mr E. Bendell has retired "The record now suggests from the post of school clerk at unmistakably that in Buying Eton College After 25 years. transportation, the pubike these Before being appointed school days is persuaded not only by clerk he was in the library and power and style, but also by has completed nearly 30 years' price. In 1958, at any rate, service at Elon.

economy has scored a remark- able comeback in the new-car feld."

Barron's' added That the seemed United States industry

Major Barker, aged 59, Sghter

He was known to the boys by with the war-time underground

the nickname "Bills" because he redistance in Greece, fixed the

took the various notes, called | 45 12-bore zun at an angle of

bills at Eton, from the house degrees on "the towel rail in ure

masters to the headmaster, bedroom of his white and for

The Faenza observatory said to be in dead earnest aboul de-

He also was responsible for rottage in fashlonable today a quois

large number. of sun-veloping # new light cor, boys due to be logged turning Chelsen, West London, and p-

aluminium up on spots had appeared, the main powired

time for their appoint- parently placed the end of it in

one measuring some 40,000 illa-engine and built to a smaller nient at the birching block, his mouth,

Chinn Mail Spcelni. wheelbase.-Router. metres in diometer.

Ile left a note clearly in- dicating his intention, the coro- ner said.

He married last August the Comtesse Raymonde de Gooffre de Chubrigancy, member of the

FTCE French forces in London in World War II. The widow, who is expecting a baby in October, was staying with her parents in France at the time of his death.

This giant spot, which crosses

by an

the sun's equator today, will be Sultan's Ultimatum (continued)

accompanied by various effecta tel 04 earth including disrup= world's ratio com- tion of the nunications, the observatory's scientists said.-France-Presse.

IMMODEST DAUGHTER

Chinese Lions SENDS PEACE OFFERING TO HER ANGRY FATHER

London, Aug. 12.

A pair of Chinese stone guar- daan lions, ght of Sir John Ramsden, have been set up in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Bir Arthur Barker, publisher, told the court that his brother ruffere:l recurring fits of heavy They are believed to be of depression when he took " 18th century origin, although very much more gloomy view experts say "Ming" dale- of Cairs than

over 1369-1644 cannot be ruled juslifed."China. Mall Special. out-China Mail Special.

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London, Aug. 12.

The pilot of a Selent flying boat which crashed near the Isle of Wight last November with a loss of 46 lives faced two frightening choices, according to an in- quiry report published here,

His two harboard engines hajor stolling and crushing-and cut out, in plich durknes und turning to starbound.. int low allude, swinging the

plane around to starboard.

He could only keep a straight course or turn to port by Increasing his speed-and that meant losing height,

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The aircraft turned 10 el then turned again to starboard, crossing the isle of Wight coast. lost height and crashed.

"Had he been certain of his

position he could hurve throtited back his port engines while over the Solent and glided down to make a landing on the water, and in daylight, there was Ittle doubi this would have happened," the report stated.

The report found no cause to criticise the pilot's actions.

The plane crashed because the two starboard engines stopped. But the real сливе of this and must re- disaster le still, main unknown."--China Mull Special.

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London, Aug. 11. Beautiful Shari Mahal, 20-year-old Indian singer who says her Sultan father summoned her home because she posed for a pin-up picture, rushed one of her recordings to Bombay today in an effort to make him change his mind. The sony is called, "Going Her manager, Mr John Ken- home for Christmas," but Shari redy, who arranged publication hopes it will convince her of the pin-up shot of Shari in father, the 58-year-old Sultan A swimsuit, said: "When he of Dovji, to let her stay away hears that record ke must from home and Build a career change his mind,"

show business. The beautiful

singer, whoso Mr Kennedy has hopes of a molker is French, has also television series for the sultry booked a telephone call to her singer. home tomorrow,

Sharl suld her father was about the pin-up

"I shall tell Daddy that I "furious" cannot go home, If he insists, when he telephoned over the Le will have to come and fetch me she said today..

She is a Christian and her father is a Moslem.

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