1959-02-12 — Page 2

BRITONS-RACE OF HYPOCHONDRIACS

London, Feb. 11.

If the current "ballyhoo" about health does not stop, England, island of hearts of oak, will become "a quiver of hypochondriacs," the Medical Press says.

The magazine, discussing last year's controversial BBC television series, "Your Life In Their Hands," says that interest in disease, unless professional, Is morbid.

Communes A Natural Growth

London, Feb. 11. The Chinese communes are

a natural development of the agricultural -operatives, not something

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An editorial states that there

100 tins been much ballyhoo about health during the past 15 years, "thanks Targely to the politiekuna."

"We do not think it ir healthy that a society should be preoccupied to such, an extent about its health, for the healthier an individual is, the less he worries about R,

**There is no reason wi people

bo should not

In- terested to know how their bodies work and how to keep A it and well, but that is very different matter."

forced from above, a Bri-! Interest in disease is aroused it tish educationalist, said in London today.

He is Mr G. C. T. Giles, former president of the British National Union of Teachers, who returned a couple of months ago after spending eight months Chino,

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Mr Giles said three facls had Impressed him since the growth of the communes of China:

© Increased production in

a collective fashion.

A tremendous growth of political consciousness and a wave ut enthusiasm,

o A growing shortage of labour.

The last paint was an answer to those who expressed anxiety increasing the rapidly population of China.

Free Food

move-

co-

Some other remarkable lea tures of the communes ment included free food, wages voluntary on a monthly basis, home guard, and better operative effort, Mr Gile: muld. Ito estimated that 80 per cent of the villages of China would soon be covered by co-operatives Mrs Ella Winter, an Amerl- can journalist who also re- recent visit turned from from Chi naid that the re- the thing markable

about feeling of

country Was

V

complete self-reliance and friendship between

of the community.

She

members

added that everyone

felt that he or she was leading a new life, having thrown off a the life of oppression, under oid regime.

The editorlatmaya that once is nuch better satisfied by per- sons highly qualined to do su "rather than left, as so often in the past, to alumists and charla-

their tans with grindl."

OWIT xer to

"Alarming"

Commenting on the results ci

British Seaman-

Gaoled By Reds Returns

London, Feb. 11.

A British seaman, who was guoled in Russia after he was alleged to have been involved in

an incident with a Russian sator in Odessa, arrived here last night.

Dermond Farr. 2, was er- rested in Odesso after a dock- side brawl,

He served five weeks of on 18-month sentence. Fart was

an inquiry into public reaction palefaced and unsmiling when to the television series. cane arrived wearing a Greck ducted by the BBC audience, weed sult raincoat and brown research group. the magazine shoes.

seemed to says that the team have estimated the proportion of persons who normally worry about their henih s one in four.

ta

An airline oMelal raid he was "feeling very upset."

When the airliner landed at Parla on its way to London, Farr told reporters that his term in prison had been hard, but that there had been no brutality.

Fair

"Thi terms, frankly, alarmingly high figure and it is important, if disquleting, have some positive information

He said: "I suppose my trial on the subject, even though the

conducted was fairly

on the basis on which the Anding was reached is by no means immune evidence they had before then. to challenge." it adds.—China | They accused me of shiging in Mail Special.

Teenage

Pain Cult

Sydney, Feb. 11. some Australian teenage girls have evolved a new cult which sears some of them for life- burning themselves with

that cigarette ends to prove

tough and able to they are withstand pain.

Police sold a blonde 10-year- old girl who appeared in court here today on a vagrancy charge had adnilited being a member of group of girls who sat round table pressing burning ends gainst their

She added that every Chinese 4, person had one ambition; To cigarette conquer the common enemy of arms. poverty, ignorance and disease.

France-Presse.

NEGRO ADMITS MURDER

Philadelphia, Feb. 11. Leonard Jobuson, 18, the third of ne negro youths to be tried for the slaying of Korean student In-ho Oh last April 15, ended his trial abruptly today by pleading gully to a general charge of murder.

It would de no harm. It might recently been in Teheran to

had been on trial offer Persia

Johnson at 50-year noa- do pond.

Quarter a jury in if Perla left before Aggression puct

for the Scasions Court

past the Bagdad Pact,

seven days, during which the

contended prosecution welded a blackjack during the fatal beating of the student in a fruitless robbery attempt.

ATC

But according to Teheran re- ports the Persian Government has turned the offer down,

The sort of Soviel argument that Mr Macmillan might ex- pect to meet would be that in

Statements from Moscow solving East-West disputes both

have urged the establishment sides should seek agreement on

of least

"zones of peace" in the those issues which

Pacific and in the Baltic. Controversial and require the Seat number of concessions-- an a non-aggression pact was an obvious example of this.

J Mr Macmillan tuck the line that pacts were only scraps of the

would not by Reuter.

But it was thought that if Mr Macmillan regarded this as too wide an issue, Mr Khrushchev would be prepared to draw up a paper which

to be The first defendant tried, Alphonso Borum, 19, was

der with convicted of first degree mur- death penalty. 17. later Franklin Morabait, a visit to

states.- wis convicted of second degree

murder.-U.PL

It was expected Mr Khrush- chey would raise this suggestion it, as has been forecast in some quarters, be makes

Scandinavian

like

Laos Hits Out At Communism

Saigon, Feb. 11.

The Laotian Government dealt international

Communism suffered a severe setback in Southeast Asia today.

Communism a major blow when she renounced the restrictions of the Geneva Accord.

estimated

Today's selton scaled the door against their return.

The first one to cry out was "chicken."-China Mail Special.

Unqualified

Memphis, Feb, 11 Memphis Muyor Eirund Orgill was turned away .IN the poll in a special game and Ash electar.

Be was unable to produce a state hunting-fishing licence, voter registration card or cur

his rent tax receipt to prove residence in the clly U.P.I.

restaurant putting my feet on the table and striking à Russion

seantort.

For cold he received no news from home while in prison. Dut when he was released, he was given two letters which had been waiting for him. The last Bri- the Consular cffletal who attended his trial.

He said he was

sent to to prison in Odeizi at Arst and then transferred to a camp 400 mües from Moscow. Food consisted of soup. Prisoners were 12 to

hut-China Mall Spedal,

ton he saw was

PIGEONS ARE FOG VICTIMS

Liverpool, Feb. 11. Thousands of wild pigeons and starlings found

dead

on Mersey beaches were viellms of fox, a report to Liver- pool's R.A.F.C.A. sald.

They were forced down by lung congestion caused by fog and smog, reported the Cambridge animal pathology and school of veterinary medicine, who

were asked for an analysis an a number of specimens sent to them.

Starlings were the worst affected. All the Virds forced down perished in river oil and sand.

The

beaches had been found ilttered with the

Read birds.China Mall Special.

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Prime Minister, The Geneva Accord profluited

11 WAR Sannanlane, entering into military alliances Phoul introduction of any rein- officials were the

bold with other countrice.

move by the head of a the Geneva anal country bordering known to be highly pleased by forcements of troops or militery

By renouncing Laotian Government's personnel from mutalde Laotian

Govern- Accord, the Lala

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the International Control Com- | effect on future events in both the military uses was prohibited.

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try and pertipps would send 26,000 men in uniform facing a

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