1959-05-18 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1969,

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In Marriage Ritual

Beethoven

Manila, May 15.

Letter Sold | Hongot warriors have beheaded two more Christians—both

London, May 17.

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A tetler written by Ludwig Beethover, The composer, In Vienna 1804 was sold si a London zaction for £2,200,

The letter, among musical manoscripla und

other documente relating to well-known musiclurin, was bought by a London dealer.

In the letter addressed to Friedrich Rochilia, founder and editor of » musical magazine, Beeth- oven said he was returning the Libretto for an opera which he regretted Mo could not set to musle on account of ke subjook,

He also said he had kad

old French book- ал Fidello-arranged for him and he had berun work on that.

The price was believed

record for

to be

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Beethoven

previous was said

£1,000.

letter.

highest

Th price #bout

Autograph musto for an Pianoforte

unpublished

by

Foto about 1350 was

£330,

The

young girls.

The constabulary has opened a full scale drive to

stem the rampage.

The deaths of 14-year-old Perlita Eugelo and 20-year-old Potenciana Alaman on Thursday brought to three the number of people beheaded by the young men of the fierce Northern Luzon tribe since the llongot marriage season set in on Tuesday.

I

Brig. Gen. 1ngoni V. Compo, Christian girls gathering cogan hend of the constabulary, I grass In a small village. launched 2 punitive drivo against the longot head hunters roaming the forest of Nueva Vizcaya province for Christian hends to be used in their mating ceremontes.

Gen, Campo said that with the coming of spring, frisky Itongot braves have gone out in search of Christian beads;

token of

Their undying love. The heads are brought back ter the longot village and stuck on poles and placed neor the huts of their fulr Indies.

They fired and hit two of the giris and killed them by be- heading them with long knives and spears.

The constabulary wald the Rongot braves who stapelt the ambush could be the same group that killed and beheaded a Christian former yesterday.

Gen. Campo said "Operation

to present them to their pro- Olive atmed at bringing the spective brides a

members of the rampaging Bongota to justice and to pre- vent further Ilongot ralds.

Gon, Campo niso ordered con- stabulary psychological cam. paign experts to start an educa- tional campaign designed to dis- suade the longots from per- sting in their barbarous tribal

Knives, Spears

The Liszt probably

Hongets also believe customs.

brods Christian sold for

ensure [A bountiful rive harvest the more heads the more rice in

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In the latest longot ambush, about 20 braves jumped on six

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ence used and spears but in recent years they have been using Japanese rilles, a rello of the last world war, and 12 gauge shotguns selved from farmers.

Guns are the Longol's only conversion to civilisation,

Other mountala tribes in the Philippines have succumbed to the ways of the modern century but the longo's still maintain i and cherish their ancient tra-¡ dislota

And when the fruition re volves around the universal, pattern of love, Gen Cumpo ald, "you've got a job on your hands."---UPI.

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Kidlington, May 17. Eighty cows at a farm here bed down each night on mattresses fllled with plastic foam.

This new sleep-easy plan for the cowshed has been evolved. by 50-year-old Major Anthony Bramley who has been applying dis- Belence and

army cipline to cown since he retired from active ser- vico.

He told reporters that he hoped cows all over Britain would soon to sleeping na com- fortably as his own herd

Mujor Bromley explained a mattresa that he patented covered in strong plastic for use Jn cowsheds because of the difculty in straw for bedding.

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Combine harvesting, he de- elared, had caused a shortage and put up the price of the long straw normally used.

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Cambridge, May 17.

Four undergraduates are training for a 2,500- mile canoe journey to Malta, which they hope to cover in three months.

They are led by Ken Rokison,

The Major added "People lle 22, a Jaw student at Magdalene

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at I thought, to College whose home i why not cows? Then I netPurley, London. He served as a about devising a suitable mate- Royal Marine officer during his til.

national service, The foam "singto bed" Mr Robison

"Two said: designed by the Major in five canoes are being built to our feel six inches by three feet specification near Cambridge.

1x incher and tapers la thickness from three inches to one-and-a-half inchoe,

But Major Bramley's own cows steep in multiple beds, 30 feet by 18 leet, to hold six or

more.

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told reporters that the minttresses brought about an important saving In labour, with no raw to remove and Et

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May 17.

A pastoral letter rend today in Roman Catholic parishes in Communist governed Kerala State cailed on Christians not to send their chlidren tu school until "injurious provisions" in the state's new Education Act were delatod.

Roman Catholls are opposed to provisions in the new act pro- viding for a govemment-drawn

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ELEPHANTS

High Wycombe, May 17. A frm here said they had been asked by Beriam Mis

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the possibility of manufacturing mattresses "strong enough for

elephants,

"They aro -costing us £30 ench, and we hope to sell them on arrival at Malta. We plan to set off from Westminster Bridge, on June 22

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Washington, May 17.

Plaza for five-Yehr 40 million dollar expansion programme for the Voice of America were revealed today.

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ready established overseLS. Why is the Journey being The exact locations being done? Because their planned considered were kept secret, fell through when their fishing the permission of overseas gov expedition to the Sahara coast!

The expansion plan requires ketch foundered oft Yarmouth emmenta

establish the stations of their territory and in March.

for the money to be appro- priated by congress.-Reuter,

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All four were in Malta during their national service. They hope to hitch-hike "back from _Malta_in=ting for the October. term at Cambridge,Chiloa Mail Special.

Little Girl

Kidnapped From Church

A

Hattiesburg, Miss.,

May 17,

10-year-old girl was kidnapped from her Sun- day School classroom here today.

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Police said a man described has about 40 years old, ave fect, 11 inches tall and stabbilly dressed "got the girl out of her 'classroom" in the Court · Street

Methodist Church,

Officers said the iman Was seen taking the girl, Barbara i Louise Dut, in a late modal auto An Unidentified wOrgan drove the girl and man away in the cat.;

A WATERt was fied at the (Police:"alation here charging the two museoła, well falonians kidnapping of the

Otpor aid: they thought. It mlufit be “a funity affaly” Sirbu girl'an falbar, Odia DUI, divorond Hill, wito in 1960. The (mother) mrline Tamelia, 36))) at Midi- Howwrary Duch, who re- mauried, usined, custoity, of the

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нал. bride." Mrs Jean Pierson. returned to London from Chicago with her two children after being left penniless through her husband's imprisonment for burglary.

Her fare home had been MA paid by her parents, and Mr Harold Pickfor who met her at London Airport and took her home lo Beanthorpe, #hire.

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Mrs Pierson's husband was gooled last year and from October until Decem ber whe

wilbout Was money, she said at London Airport.

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They took us about the town and gave food and лодет for the children," she said,

Pierson la due la be re- leased on parole in July.

Ho tas signed on for a further six years with the American Air Force bazk Me Pierson sate sho hoped he would come to Britain wheɑ tis seniemon I finished.

She did not know if she would return to the United Btater-China Mall Spo cial

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New York, May 17. Dancers of the Bolshoi ballet visited the Now York stock exchange and

came

away puzzled by American capitalism.

They watched the brokers scurrying about the floor of the exchange and saw stock prices change every Iow seconde un à'glant indicator -board.

"Curious."

murmured prima hailering Galina ...." Ulanova. "Bo much noise, so much kaste. What does it all mean?"

"Just like a big rallway sisilon,"

remarked Profemor Georgi Orvid, the Bokhoi's director,

("It is bewildering why must there be all this Rates and confusion? But it in yery in- teresting. The danding the men are doing down there is vory original" mid Batalle Sadovskaya, a pretty blonde ballerina.

The dancers wore the gtests of Mr Robert. Blowing, pre- sident of the Cly Investing

Company and chairman of the American National Thea- tro and Academy. Ha bad invited there to visi the "air of the honest-to-good- news explfallsife sharks" whils they were appearing in New York,

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