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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1960.

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

British Spook Spots Leave Tourists Haunting It's only the new boy who

Are No. 1

Industry Memories doesn't

In Italy

Rome.

If you plan on spending a vacation in Italy this year you will become a member of a pretty Important fraternity. You Brid your fellow tourists will be:

• Six times more im- portant than all the fruit exported in a year,

Three times more im-, portant than the annual ex- port of automobiles,

• And four times more important than all the foreign currency that all the country's emigrants world- wide and home to mother in the course of a year.

Important, that is, economical- ly speaking,

Those who dislike being com- pured in economic importance to a jufey Gorizin peach and or Biellan blood oranges, сал take heart in the furt that keep foreign tourists help to 500,000 Italian citizens constant- ly employed and Indirectly pro- vide an income for more than a million others,

London.

Haunting memories are being offered American

tourists in Britain this year,

The British Travel Asociation is pushing tours of ghostly places, along with stately homes, pubs and literary landmarks, for the record 360,000 American visitors expected in Britain in 1959.

The association promises a wide assortment of spooks for the tourist who has seen every- thing else.

Shrouds being offered this Aceson fange from "road ghosts," such DS a band of plumed cavaller spectres gal- loping along a Sovitish rond, to the reigning haunt of theen all- and Queen Victoria, herself at Windsor Castle.

A lucky ghost seeker may see Anne Boleyn's apparition riding around London in a terle midnight coach some with her head in her lap, a red-haired spook shrieking through Macbeth's old digs at Glands (pronounced (lahms) Castle In Scotland, or a friendly but entirely Invisible fellow who breathes down the necks of visitors roaming #

lately old home near Hood's Sherwood Forest,

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Edmund Antrobus, a lending The annuaf Invasion of authority on shrouds, haunts and foreign tourists to Italy; so-

various other scary phen OLYÆRA, cording to the country's now including billows of smoke and ministry of tourism, has be-wall tappings, outlined what he come the No. 1 industry of the thought would make a delight- nation, reonomleafy valued to | fully spine-tingling tour of Bril- the benefit of foréian currency | ain."

at

estimato of

300.000.000.000 lire.

I is the equivalent of the amount of money the Italian Government annually spends on $is entire education and public instruction programme.

Also It is an income for this country which

estimated officially to

about 05 Italian irada

cover

per cent of the balance deficit.

First Time

The Italian tourist industry's economic importance was fully realised by the nation only at the end of the last year when the number of foreign visitors fotoiled 15,280,000, an increase of 658,000 Over 1857 und an all- time record

For the first time the great annual invasion of foreign tourists was felt in a tangibly noticeable uplift in the nation's economie welfare,

Until a few years ago tourism Italy was a Santa Claus con- ined to a score, of famous his- toric cities and seaside resorts and considered of marginal

Importance economic

to nation,

tho

Bui in 1057 the influx of tourists swarmed into every nook and cranny of the country, For that year the increase of foreign visitors over 1056 was

"More Ghostly"

anywhere else," he said, "It "England is more ghostly than lends itself rather nicely to the subject."

London has a trio of anticous female ghosts-two of them wives of Henry VIII and ane a

YUTBC.

In For Tea

Other places along Antrobus" shrouded roule include:

The Little Abbey ifôtel, Great - Késkéndén, Trucking- hamshire, where ghosts et 12th century occupants neare the hired, help Mit out their wifs by Joaning in the public lounge at tea lime. The Coach and Horses Inn, Aubota Bromley, Staffordshire, where a team of white horses, supposedly owned by Mary Queen of Scots, gallop whenever the moon is full.

In Nottinghamshire, where a rond ghost carriage careens pleng between Langley Mill and Bulwell, menneing traffle.

about

At the Chapel of Nine Altats, Fountaine Abbey, near Ripon, Yorkshire, where there chants ghostly choir of monks.

At the Ferry Boat Inn, Itel- well. Huntingdonshire, where the ghost of Sullet Tewalle, who hanged herself 550 years ago, turns up periodically as a white-clad lady.

Andrade tai thai Scotland

V

NO ONE WANTS A

DIAMOND FLOWER

New York.

Anyone want to buy a prize-winning diamond clip,

the exact replica of a carnation?

It's only U.S.$35,000, in-

cluding tax, but its de signer, Nadja Buckley, can't find a taker,

Mrs

clip

Bucitley made the for the Diamonds USA awards

in 1954.

and Cornwall are especially One of seven of her winning hoopkable 10 apparitions, designs, the clip has 100 carate probably because af their of diamonds set in platinum and spooky moors. The Ghost of can be worn as a "pin or 011 a Outstanding shroud of this fik. Bodmin Moor, in Cornwall, is on necklace. he said,

"At twilight," he continued, "there is en odd presence that Antrobus, whose family's įcauses walkers to have on urge home near Stratford-on-Avan | to look over their shoulders to boasts a ghost that looks like ace if anyone is tollowing them. one of cartoonist Al Capp's The ghost of wicked steward famous schmoos, keeps John Tregougle also gads about extensive file

of haunted He is chased by hounds across places in hils office at the the moor every night."

British Travel Association's U.S. headquarters in New York.

Rare Raw Materials

Rochester, NY.

He recommends the haunt ca- thusiast should warm up to the subject by visiting a few_gʊåd ghostly places in London. There is what ho calls a warm, friend- ly ghost of an unidentified 18th In a single year, the Eastman century Actor haunting the Kodak Co purchased more than balcony of the Drury Lane one million dollars' worth of Theatro and kibitzing the per- each of the following silver, wood cellulose, coal, alcohol, coton inters and animal hides Kensington Palace, on Hyde and bones.

fovinces.

Each point of the carnation is set on ball bearingi so that the flower can be closed sus trad or opened to a full bloom,

"If works like on umbrella," Mrs. Buckley explained.

For more than four years, the designér har tried to sell tho pln

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Dáglevére át Löwritófi, England, organised a road- wafety clang for their pets.

Note how tho. dogs are all looking to the left du command exdopt, a FLOW

012 member that terrier

who the extreme right, appears to be getting a good

BY Laiking-to wily black Labrador.

FESTIVAL

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Of

She contacted customers, ad- vertised, and got 妇 list

| "billionoires" from a business

magazine.

She wrote letters and sent pictures of the elp to

every name on the list.

"Almost aft answered--bai they said they weren't in the market for "Jewellery," Mes Buckley sald.

Mrs Buckley owns

Park, boasts "a good reliable It also bought such items as in Manhattan

skeletons, fresh frozen

#bost," Identified by ecto-plastic plastic experts as the shroud pig skins, beef-cattle gallstones,

of William II's wife, Mary, prime steam lard and food for who died of the pox.

Hampton Court Palace, on the

les, all of which were used to develop the company's photo- graphic and chemical produels.-

more than 4,500,000 rising from River Thames, 10 miles frata UPI.

-10,000,000—10—14,000,000——-

Italy, admitted, most reports

of the country's tourist bureaus,

was completely unprepared for

the surprising increase-U.P.L

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