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THEF CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 27; " 1959.

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

Scottish Shangri-la In Italy!

It All Started With

A Company Of

Soldiers Of Fortune

BY ALDO TRIPPINI

Gurro, Italy.

A GNARLED old lady with checkered petticoats and black cloth slippers SUGAR BABA¦ trimmed with tam-lake pom-poms handed a basket to a highland-fair young man in a Tartan plaid shirt and. burred:

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"Ay, checari, gheera Iago, found in a church register

by the priest. tuhmahtes."

There was no mistaking burr in the speech of the vill likers.

A yellowed church regis- ter

showed names Patrick and Thomas, McDonald and Rudelay,

An old man lamented the time GIANCARLO when he threw away his kilts the newfangled modern trousers of this century.

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Scurried Away

Sby blonde girls in head- shawn, embroidered blouters and corselets scurried away through the steep, narrow lahes of this village of 818 clannish

the Fouls clinging to

harsh rock with mountains rising to

dramatic helghts beyond.

I might have been in a remote village far into the Scottish Highlands, In ΤΟΠΙΑ other

réntury.

But this was Italy, 1960, and these villagers were allan for all their Soolish burr. This is a four centuries old Scottish shangri-la hidden deep In the Italian alps just two air miles from the Swiss frontler.

The forobekra of its habitants were Scottish, and this

A Swiss speech expert visited Garro not long ago and recorded 800 Scottish dialect word-rooja.

He also found 500 Gegman and 350 French word-roots..speculat- ing that the Scols were Joined by a few defeated French, and they German soldiers when fled from the Spanish.

But the Scots-Engilah is most noticeable, with these Italláns using "ay" instead of "" for "yes" and "ash" instead "non" for "no"

New Campaign

Take the slogari of a

of

new

of

campaign headed by Mayor Battista Porta, 75-year-old shepherd, to save Gurros Scots dialect from the thtrusion "outsiders" talion. In a pelllion to Italy's Ministry of Educa tion, he asked, "Let's save our dialect."

Spoken, it would be "savabl Inos dialett," about as far from

pure Italian as the burr of Glasgow deck worker.

Highland blood and the village's amazing history explain why one expects at any moment to hear the skirl of bagpipes breaking the mountain silence.

King Francis I of France counted a company of Scots mercenaries among his best when he met Spanish Emperor Charles V in battle at Pavue in 1523.

But even the flushing swords of the Scots could not mave, the doy and the Spaniards won, taking Francis himself prisoner. Broke Away

The Scols refused to surzen- the Spaniards, broke der 10

the from

victorious Dway

their way enemy and hacked 100 miles through hostile terri- tory to the shores of Lake Maggiore.

A

The worst threat to the dialect now is fiam, radio and the telephone, both réordi- mű- ditions to the tow faxurios craggy Gurro offers.

Otherwise, there is little everyday contact with the out- side world.

to

There are no cars in the village the widest "street" five feet and the only only to Gurro, built late last century, hax to

b negotiated in low gear for the four miles from a highway.

Kate

When the Scots soldiers sought their hiding place four centuries ago, they climbed up this hidden valley on the slopes of 7,190-Foot northern Mt Zeda until they came to the ruins of an old Roman hamlet.

The alps blocked

Tradition says they sheltered further retreat, but here was there for a year, then moved country the Briting Scots half a mile up the slope to build know, country like their own their new village of Gur, which hard-life rocky crass back later was Italianised into Giro.

home.

their

Kidnapped

Washing up doesn't worry Diana Powell of West Byffoot. She just loads up this new machine, pops in samo dotorgent and turns on the tap.

In ten minutes the dishes aro clean and Diana's hands are still dry, Tho machine was shown at the International Plak- tice Exhibitions at Olym- pla, London, during the weak. Routerphoto.

CIGARETTE

DENS IN

THE FUTURE?

THE

London. Royal Society of THealth predicted some bigve new world will offer cigarette smokors all the facilities of un opium den.

•

the

"en-

THE UNBORN-FIRST

LINE OF DEFENCE

AGAINST NEUROSIS

Atlantic City.

A PANEL of medical scientists heard it suggested that the things that can happen to people before birth might be the most important events of their lives.

of

3

The suggestion was made by and why don't selentisis. get Dr A. 6. Norris of the State more facts? University

Iowa. When He clied

number

of science knows more than I examples. One was the ability knows now, ba seld,

the of German mozales in a woman obstetrician will be able to during the first three monilis practice proventivo psychiatry of pregnancy to so change the on behalf of the unbom. In environment of the unborn fact, he will be "the first line child that it could be born ut defence against mental il-mentelly dolcient or blind. hess," Norils sald.

With the enemy ut their heels, they melted away into Some of the ancient houses, the Highlands, the mountain with the wooden walls of their The Current issue of nists closing behind them.

upper stories overhanging the society's journg) sald'an The valiant Scots and their narrow Innes, strongly resemble lightened" nation of the future descendan have the outside Pld Scottish architectural styles will provide a few smoking dens and bad.

from

desire

world by the mountain wildnings and their own clannish to be left alone.

Much of the story of the *priest Scots, told by parish Giuseppe Plombini, 55, may be There speculation or tradition. was no written rocord of their coming.

But there is no doubting the Scottish Botnes, surviving to the letter as late as four centuries

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KISS BEFORE DYING"

The Boots were said to have for tobacco addicts to enjoy kidnapped young girls from themselves. nelahbouring Hallen villages

But the Royal Society ad- during their early years at Gurkad, married them by mitted too many persons smoked force to start new familles." nowadays for a few public

smoking dens to handle. Until as laté us seven years ego, a steadfast tradition in the village was, for all marriages to be performed in the middle of the night.

NATION-WIDE

A PITY

----UPI.

!

"One might ask whether even lesser degrees of damage might occur which would be impos- sible to pick up clinically but Norris thought it a pity science has paid to litle niten-might predispose the patient to

CT montal illness

emotional tion to the influences of people's instability lator in life," he said. before-birth environments while making elaborale studies of how after-birth, exiviroments mould people into what they are, good Ha pointed to the situationa which before-birth environ- thepta rob after-birth environ- henta of most if not ail mould-

Some hurdLOJA, ing influence. beings die before they are born. Others tre born mentally' or physically defective. "cent" was on the bad-of-course)- because selenco is unorgat of the good which befor-birth

La

100 10

In order to cut the tobacco cnvironments create beyond the After the first Scottish settlers using population down to den fact that most people at birth had their families however, they size, the journal suggested a uro quite normal closed "Themsojvrs oft from the "mallon-wide scheme of pre- outside and Intermarried until ventive action which should be now there are only five "clan" launched forthwith."

names in the village Porta,

r

But people are born with bandsting endowments of body and mind, as well as with duteels, and science has böyer

Cerioll, Bergamaschl. Drești and The article said such an anti-been able to show beregly is

| Patritti. · · SAM

wrjaklog campaign would save It takes no word expect to lives, but it noted that it would

see the leat tub as the Dreamond lake a number of years" befons and Patrick In the old church any such campaign could show register. UPI.

results-U.P.I.

the FULL explanation. Nurria's complaint hasically was that thes litle which is known points to the importance of happeningį in

the before birth environments,

Off On Another Walking Jaunt

On His Hands Only

Lowestofl.

JAMES RUGHES 77, was off

on another of his

500 - mile walking Jhands Hughes Qua në lepus

He has spent most of his latter

Hrw touring England, walking

“It's not much a bad life.”, he

on walk up to five miles "day" vni 'kay-landa! Xi I Want, to go any further" in a day. ↑ tako a buk'or, frála♫

don on a round trip from Liverdoni, about 500 miles.! He holds wooden, blocks, Ein Kala hand as he walks to protect the skin. A thick pad flated

lower part et dis

Miglow sad kui kinopn trái thảo "Sono perpis see boogitable bat ump to five milde &"Any" on hik |~ open 2 Qountry," a

kuibway Booldent when he

Fined £5 For Asking

For A Date

Newcastlo.

EORGE Adamson, 42,

Gr was fined £3 for asking

a woman for a date, mana Adamsona taxi driver, and the person he tied to date was his porschger, Mra Cathering Thomas, 27.

"The only thing 1.am guilty of is asking for a date,” ̈ Adamson told the court."

The judge ogrod, but ruled that this violated a bye-low and constlluted a failure to conduct himself with propriety" to 8 woman' pasa¢nger--UPT.

BLOOD MONEY

Thieves who

Glasgow. broke into

Barholin Square butcher's shop were clever enough to find £25

4he proprietor had hidden in a sausage-euttier eaching"

But they cut themselves badly getting the money out that they had to break into a drug

50

store next door and steal br

ages and ointments for wounds, police sată. "Counters at both places; were coveted – writin bloodstains,-UPI,

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