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Rome, April 5.
Wing Commander Albert Jones, who is travelling from "England to New Zealand on horseback, has arrived in Milan.
He has covered 1,250 miles and has about 19,000 miles still
to RD.
"Bui," says the 47-year-old wing commander, "I'm in na hurry. The entire trip will probably take two and a half years,"
Wing Commander Jones, after retiring from the H.A.F., Jeft his home at Weybridge. Surrey, . 1st October to ride to his
native lan
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With ble two horses, Jumbo wo Chiko, he stood in a busy Milan virrel and sald: "How can ■ driver endoy the scenery from behind a wind- Kareen?
"Everybody Is so busy diving that the pleasure of a trip Is Spuiit,"
Sees Wife
He intends to pass through Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Pakis- 1on and India before sailing for Ceyken and Austraho. He will cross Australia from west to
east and sail to New Zealand.
Ho 提炼 met his wift
Dorothy in Paris and Toulon and_the_next meeting will be In Istanbul,
"People waving from the roadside make me feel I have friends everywhere,” he says. "To get this treatment you have to ride a horse, not drive a car"--Express Service.
Grace Is On
The Mend
Lausanne, Ayri 5. Princess Grace of Mortaco is making good progres in ber recovery from her appendectomy yesterday, her secretary, 51mm Phyll Blum, sald today.
"Her Highness responded well to the Bral modest meal yesterday and a few minutes out of bed, only # few hours after the operation," Mian Bistra said. "She was therefore per- milled another mesi and more ight exercise today. She is making good pro- greu."—UIL
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THE CHINA MAILĄ, MONDAY, APRIL 6,- 1059..
ROYAL COUPLE'S HOME PROBLEM
Tokyo, April 5,
Prince Akihito and his new princess, Michiko, will
have to settle down with a mundane housing problem after the pageantry that follows their wedding in Tokyo on April 10.
Like the Emperor and Empress they will have to put up with inadequate accommodation until new palaces can be built.
College Girls Get
A Warning
Vancouver, April 5.
Funds are being set aside for a new residence for Emperor Hirohito and a new Imperial Palace, both within the walled and moated palace grounds in central Tokyo.
The new royal residence will cost the equivalent of about
£100,000.
The new Imperial Palace which may be ready in five years, wili cost about 15.- 000,000.
For the heir to the throne and his wife there is to be a residential "palace" out-
new
Dowdy
Miss Dorothy Mawdsley, reside the Imperial Polace
grounds in Tokyo. Its cost will tiring after 20 years as
be something over £50,000. dean of women at the Uni- versity of British Colum».
Meanwhile, like his father, hia, has warned girls that prince Akihito must pul up they are in for a shock with an old, inconvenient, and when they leave college. rather dowdy home.
11 is well below the standards "We just can't convince them
villas
mansions and different of the they will take a far
Industrial the well-to-do then
leaders, path through life
Michiko's father, have zen," she said, "and when it like happens, it's such a shock to built for themselves in Tokyo.
The emperor until recently them."
resisted
that his propokale palace thould be replaced, He considered it improper to
heavy
expenditures prove white the Japanese economy is In trouble after the war,
The royal residence and the
unin- at best, palace ore, pressive.
explained;
Miss Mawdsley Here in the university they have perfect equality with men. And out of the classroom the co-ed has a wonderful tine, and a picked date life with three men to every woman.
"After graduation they dis- cover that sentor positions are not given 10
They củau dów to earth with a terrible bang.
women.
MARBLES CAPTAIN-AT 87
George Maynard, captain of Copthorne Spitfires marble team, is still flicking a pretty marble at the age of 87.
Above. George competes In the Good Friday char- plónships at Tinsley Green, Bussex.
He was making bla 23rd consecutive appearance in
the championships,
Wet sand covers the con- crele ring and the object of the game is to knock many as passible of the 49 elay markies from the ring. The player uses A glan marble, called a tolley. - Reuterphoto.
Young Student
Sees Own Birth
London, April 5.
A young student mid-wife has found a pleture of her own birth in a medical text book, the London Sunday Graphic said today..
Marguerite Ball, 25, was thumbing through a school book when she suddenly recognised her own mother in a picture of a woman giving birth.
The picture was taken by R. Minnitt, who
wrote the text book on chilla delivery and whose lectures Miss Ball now attends
Minnitt vald be remember-
Soraya, Orsini
Go Sightseeing
Rome, April 5.
ed taking the picture"But Former Queen Soraya of
I never guessed that one of my pupila was the daughter of the lady in the book." He said he also had n 25- year-old flim of Marguerite's mother being given anaesthetic and Marguerite "can see that too she kes."
Miss Dall was enthusiastle. everyone can be in at "Not
she told the their own birth," Sunday Graphic.
But her mother took the offer cooly. "I definitely do not want to see myself having Mor- guerite," she said.-U.P.I.
building More Liquor
No Plumbing Outside the palace grounds there is another "They will probably marry
after the style And toughly and have children,
Buckingham Palace, they're smart, they reallat
Prince Edward, then
· nothing bores a man more
Wales, stayed at this palace than
woman
when he visited Japan in 1931. about women's rights."
Dut no Dut Miss Mawdsley remains
adequate plumbing
screaming
む!
was put in when it was bullt
Peking, April 5. The output of mao-fal, obe
China's best alcoholic drinks,
of
Iran and Italian Prince Raimondo Orsini today rode to nearby Tivoli, favourite sightseeing spot of lovers.
The beautiful
green-eyed cream-
Soraya drove her own coloured American convertible.
Last night Soraya and Orsini dined together at a restaurant.
Today the couple were ac- companied by Princess Soraya's mother, Countess Eya Esfandiari and Prisco Oradal's friend and secretary, Ignazio Leidas,
Stayed Apart
The party strolled the wooded grounds
through Bround the ancient town of Tivoli and Hadrian's villa, where ancient Romans bullt their summer
Is to be more than doubled homes.
Pago
China Says Junks Were Looted In Paracels
JAPAN, SOUTH VIETNAM ACCUSED
Tokyo, April 6. China has accused South Vietnam and Japan of encroaching on the controversial Paracel Islands in the South China Seas and looting Chinese fishing boats.
The New China News Agency said the Chinese Foreign Ministry in an official protest also charged that a South Vietnamese aircraft violated the air space over the Islands.
The agency said it was' the second protest made ngainst South Vietnam. The earlier was a charge of kid- napping of 81 Chinese fishermen on the island on February 27.
Yesterday's protest said a Vietnamese gunboat entered the walors of Shenbang loland (one of the Paracels) on March 25 and Inunched a small boat carry- Ing 16 South Vietnamese naval
men.
These ravat men looted the Chinese fishing boate Juan Man', 'Hai Fui L', and 'Chiung Yu' and took away wrist watches and personal belong- ings of the Chinese fishermen. broke one of the
They also
ship's compasses.""
Threats
The 18 Vietnamese seamen
then landed on the "searched
Paracels
and cross-questioned the Chinese fishermen," the pro- test said.
They
also threatened to shell the island to destroy the fishermen's houses,
It said earlier in the same day South Vietnamese airerati "intruded into the air space near Shenhang Island and clrcled over it for reconnais-
sance.
in the charge against Japon, the protest said a Japanese 19th- ing bont, which
Couple,
Called
Sinners,
Separate
Florence, April 5.
The couple who sued a hishop for calling them concubines and
public sinners are separating. The case of Mauro and Loriana Bellandi became A OBUSE celebre in Hiały two years ago when they sued Magr Peltro Flodellt for 'defamation after ho denunced them for re- fusing to be married 13 church. The Bellsadis were married in
'civil cereMOBY, "Mra Bellandi walked out on her husband on Easter Sunday, wish her the son born of the marriage," * the husband's lawyer Mario Bocci, who plended the couple's brief in the famed "Bishop of Prato caso."
and took was not iden- led staged a "piratical sur→ prise attack on Peh Island about 1000 hours
on March 12," U.P.I.
University Race Bill 'Shameful Outrage'
Tho
Johannesburg, April 5,
Reverend Right Ambrose Reeves, Bishop of Johannesburg, tonight described the South African Government's proposed universities
bills да apartheid "shameful outrage upon the universities of our
aaten defender fun beginning of the year, New Chins. News Several photographers rushed country.
cducation opportunities for women.
"Every women should
century,
It is impractical as sidence and is now used
Agency reported today, Mao-tal,
a speciality of re-Kwelchowy Province, southwest na China, was arst introduced into the district about 250-yours
be able to provide for her own livelihood" she said. Hope the DID (paid)euter,
Old In-Laws Are
Serious Problem
London, April 5.
An old person who lives with relatives is a real and serious complication in the lives of many younger families, says an article in The Medical Press,
Dr G. F. Stamp of the of Department
Geriatrics, Orpington And Bovenoske Bromley Groups of Hospitals, writes:
"Grandfather is no longer a rather dim and distent figure seated in the chimney corner,
He is one of the crowd around the television set, and⋅ ho occupies » bedroom
the which is regarded as rightful 'property of one of his grandchildren,
Left Alone
The tempo of modern life is such that the house- wife and mother has time to devate to the enter taiment of the old porsan, especially if she does » Job as well as running her house. so that he in left aloase for » largo, pari of the day.
Is" particularly un- fortunate that the positions
·lu ́an', often onmpliosted by, the old perene being' dif
Very often, the relatives unwittingly adopt an atillude to the oid person which ng- gravates his dificult state of mlad.
Ignored
"They do this by earnCE= iing, quite unnecessarily, his animportant lapses OE memory and lack of concen- iration, by scolding him for minor errory much as mis- takes in dressing and eating, by showing impatience at the natural slowness' of 'bjs nav, and by appearing' toʻ ignore bila presence altogether in -conversation and it makIDE
Iamily arrangements' plans.
and
Dr Blamp magents that embers of the Emily must be encouraged to 'play their part Helping the old people by way of encourage- ment and interest in their kutividen-Chips Mall Spe
ago.
Workers of the man-tal dis- tlliery have launched a produc- tions drive, intended to improve
No Reason
The lawyer sild he did not know what led Mrs Bellandi to take such a slep,
The Ballandis took their logul action in November, 1987, after Msgr Flordelll Jened a parish letter in which he call- ed them "canoubines and pubilo sinners.”
The case was given world-wide publicity and caused a cation- wide
that uproar
turned relationa prob-
church-state
Ian.
Paralysed
first instance court found Mar Flordelli sulity of de- famation and fined him 40,000 Hire (HK$384).
bishop appealed
The
a
*Dycel
the
round the foursome during
In an address in St Mary's their promenade,
Cathedral here tonight Boraya and Orsini took Bishop sad the result of the bit phylons paina nok to aland.ion:
institution
and sa the
court горсткой declston, souuliting the bishop and ordering the Dellandia to Digibo_posts.
Shortly" Delore "fun" sảão opened
Belland!
TEILE truck by paralysis and h been 1 _semlalnyaltá even sinon
come to end wuother daring guldot only be that every Lawyer Bocet said everything
for higher education the much-photographed stroll. would be completely segregated It was the third time in four between
whallo
and
had been done to persuado Mr Bellandi to return home with the child but that sho refused to do so.
black, days that Princess Soraya and Orsini have appeared in public for Africans would be restricted He said steps were being taken coloured, but every institution
the quality and output of tha] together.—U.PL/ drink-France-Presse,
Sabotage Trial
Vienna, April' 5.
to a particular tribal group."
Ex-King Speaks separate
Ex-King
to obtula a legut soperation.--- U.P.L.
that will delude INTERVENTION COST
.. "To pretend that iriba! colleges will be able to give and · equal" higher education is entirety false -- a Paris, April G. hollow sham Peter II of Yugo- nobody who knows anything Fiva members of an active slavia came out of political re- of both the capital needed for sabotage group operating deep Urement today to reassert his establishing the universities
Washington, April 4. in the Ukrainie went on trial right to the Yugoslav throne.
The and the running costs of such
United States milltary recently in the Soviel Union In! He told п meeting of 700 insitutions," he said.
Intervention in Lebanon and the the Cloverment's latest crack- Yugoslav refugees ho still.con- "Here, if anywhere, a reckless Formosa Sirait region last year down against espionage groups, sidera himself the only lealth- waste of publle money is con- cost United States taxpayers according to reports reachlog into ruier of Yugoslavia, — templated In obedience to $192,820,000, 11 was discloped bere,.-U.P.I.
|raciālistic idcology,”--Reuter. today.-France-Presse. *
U.P.I.
MASS TO MODERN MUSIC WAS
Norwalk, Conn.,
April 5.
A progressive combo dis-
“THE MOST”
tion from the record throng that
next monthly meeting
turbed the Sunday Rhythms - ranging from waltz would be discussed at their quiet of this New to ragtime got a mixed recepe England town today turned out for 9.30 an, sorvice with a jazz mass at a at St Paul's Church on the Protestant Episcopal Communion service.
greeti
MIXED REACTION
A teenaged siri tionghi sha syncopated Lord's Prayer Wis *the most.*** A. llilla'eid lady liked the Jazzóð-up ́hymatu, but the saxophons tootles save her a throbbing -head- +scho.
was not up to their idea of American jazz standards.
They sold "the 20th. Century Folk Mass," by Father Geofrey Beaumont and Inst performed under his supervision in an English pub, was "coeny."
The Bi Bav. Walter Honry Gray, Proteatani. Episogal Bishop of Connectioni, 'mkla- tained a "hands-off' pe toward the mass.“
I know nothing about it,”
Officials of the National he mid in Hartford. ""The mundo
The presentation immediato. The congregation appeared
to be sharply divided on both Counell of Churches" and the of a parish is undoy the dique- ly set off a controversy the merits of the music ark the National Comell of Protestant tion of the roctor. I bave po over whether that kind of propriety of mixing the zibis Episcopal Church, attending the comment ip maktAMENTE
tho Blura ``` musle should be played in with
Several service od "obaorvors," "worn all
The jari mase was written trymen indicated displeasure for Jets to church. But thats to put ancient liturgical rituala. over, bringing jasa lalo the surest) that the muajo come into javayday lang march and mild the matter | posed by a4Bylish clergyman, | UP.I.
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