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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1959.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY MAIL FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK

Legend Of MALAYA GIVES

The Witch

GREEN LIGHT TO ACTOR TROUPE

Of Wookey FROM HONGKONG

London, Sept. 24.

British "cavemen” will soon] -

be pushing further into

the legendary domain of

From CORDON HUNG

Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 22.

the Witch of Wookey. The Movie Stars Travelling Dramatic

But they will have to go

under water--and under- ground-to do it.

The Wookey Hole Caves, In Ühe English county of Somerset, were the home of prehistoric martand prehistoric hyenas more than 00,000 years ако The series of fantasile caverns,

carved beneath the Mendip hills by the River Axe offered splendid hiding place for unclent Britons.

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troupe from Hongkong has been allowed to perform in the Federation. after being refused permission to put on shows in Singapore because the show would not promote "healthy culture.”

Leader of the 13-member cold shoulder" according to the

includes four Ministry of Home Affair wom troupe which

Anthony Young, "After careful investigations, women, Mir better known as Pak Won the the Ministry is of opinion that performancea of Amoy screen idol, sald when he the proposed heard the good news yesterday: the troupe here will not in any way help to promote healthy relations with neighbouring comirica.”

"AR of us are very happy. We have started rehearsing already."

But the story of the witch In the cave belongs to a later age. No one knows quilo how It began, but for generations At

They came to the Federation was passed by mouth from under the sponsorship of Shaw father to noN.

Brothers and they submitted An 18th century poem tells their script of a Chinese play how the witch's neighbours ob- set in the Ching dynaty to the Jected to this evil woman, until police, who voiced no objecitons

a tenned monk from Glaston-to the play. bury conveniently

into stone.

turned her

RE-DISCOVERED

Told To Go

The troupe arrived in Singa- pore on September 13, bu The legend lingered on long24 hours after their arrival the after the caves had been for troupe was told to leave. They Button. Centuries ago the сл trative tilted up, and it wasn't were supposed to open thera m

all the 19th century that the September 17.- way inta the weird and won-

*Not Our Aim

"It is not the Intention of the encourage Government

Private dramatic troupes from abroad to come here purely for Commercial purpose under the guise of promoting culture,"

After performing in Kuala Lumpur, the troupe, among which are Misacs Tong Ching, Pel Lan, Tong Yoke-ching and Kong Mei-yurn, will put on shows in Ipol and Penang.

When they were told to get, BIRTHDAY

derful Brolios Was reout of Singapore they, decided

to come to the Federation.

discovered

The Ard explorers climbed : The 39-year-old leader said down a natural rock staircase that he could not understand and Into a great cavern. There why Singapore had cuddenly

CARDS

#laring at the axrellys River decided to refuse line troupe SHOCK

Axe was the Witch of Wookoy permission to perform,

a huge chunk of rock He said the performances of

roughly hown by nature into the troupe were "strictly cul-

head and shoulders of

tural, historical anxt classical."

the

grotesque hag

Attic way beyoral the river dimppears through ₪ Low archway. In recent yours cave; explorers and divers have fol- lowed the course of the TTT through 15 chambers. With new and improved equipment

Not A Trace

There' Way not a trace of "yellow culture, strip-tease er the touch of politics" in 1 24-hour show.

"In fact we decided to visit

they hope to go sill further Singapore following recent ap- possibly to the source of the peals by the Minister of Cul- River Axe, 15 miles away inture to promote more cultural the heart of the Mendip hills. contacta with peoples of neigh

But portups there is Bone bouring countries,"

"We would definitely truth in the legend of the Witch

have

of Wookey after all. - Excova- not come to Singapore if we tions in the caves some years had been told earlier, that we ugo brought to light the sele-were not wanted," he added. ton of a woman. Next to her The Singapore Government's

VICAR

London, Sept. 24.

A Vicar is reported to have attacked the "objection- able suggestiveness" of certain types of birthday

Linda Goes Astray

Five-year-old Linda Kerr dot lost and ended up in Athens, 050 mlies away from hier frunile mother in Rome. · With her mother, Mrs Barbara Herr, Linda was on her way home after visiting her father in Ghana. At Itome the plane stopped to refuel and Linda wandered it. A four minutes later she was discovered missing. After a frantic pedrch Linda was discovered on zo airliner bound for Athens. Picture shows Linda at the London Airport after she returned from Athens-Express Photo,

Movement Of

Traffic By

Remote Control

cards on sale in his parish Remote

at Gillingham, Kent.

The Sunday Graphic sald the Vicar, the. Rev. Donald Mills,

wanted to buy some of the cards

print as evidence for

Washington, Sept. 23.

Cruising Around In Space On Free Fuel

Washington, Sept. 23. Spaceships some day may "cruise almost Indefinite- ly on free space fuel.” The American House of Re-

Committes presentatives Science and Astronautics saya the most that this le "pertraps Imaginative idea of 137 for future space travel,

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It would make use of energy bells found in space. One of these belts in the Van Allp radiation belt, around the earth.

Data on the Van Allen bet has been gathered by Instru- ment bi Boveral explorer satellites.

"By Judicious navigation from one such energy belt to another, it may some day to possible to cruise almost indefinitely on free space fuel," - a committee report said,

But this is an idea for the for futuro. Within the next dve years the major problem will be to improve the • chemistry of liquid end

solid propellants. Theoretically, the eiergy-carty- ing ́espaolty of those fuels con be upgraded 50 per cent,

tho Committee said.

Withinten, years the Com- mitter expecta'that some head- way will be made in harnessing nuclear and electric power. A less - conventional propulsion matem might usa free radioRĀS -highly reactive parts of broken molecules.

The report listed as needs for The future:

⚫ ways to recover and re-use large rocket engines that, have been Jettisoned; and

⚫ development of upper- stage liquid rocket engines using high-energy propellants such as liquid Oxygen and liquid hydrogen, or storable propel lants,

This will mean that "payload can be increased by anything from two to ten times.

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an article published in a recent Traffic control here has entered the age of The Committee lasue of his parish magazine.

electronics-via a roll of pink paper tape.

Bu! he found them so indecent

that he was too embarrassed to

tants.

called upon the Advanced Research Projecła decision Agency (ARPA) T The idpe is the heart of a new

"We can do everything but soon on how man is to go to the "It is possible," the re- was a round cryplal ball.-UPL reason for giving the troupe they them from the girl ossis system that provides remote crack a whip at pedestrians and port said, "that the drit manned control over movement of tell them to move faster," he Aighte the moon-and later It quoted him as writing: “T

Punched with a code, sald. However he speculated

to olher planets in our solar was disgusted to observe the

the tape contains orders trons- that a tape recorder with verbal

space platforms already in earth which a birthday card can sinks.quency to tramo ghts scattered installed if necessary.

orbits sonte 300 nautical miles "In the eyes of same people, throughout the city.

above the earth--UPI, apparently, ven a birthday

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Traffic.

low standard, of morality 10 mitled at an ultra high fre- i instructions could probably be / Breton will originate from

During emergencies, the curd has to be associated with It's all designed to give light cycles of niternating green some objectionable suggestive- | motorists A continunl green and rod can be changed by ners both in pleture and word.¦ light,' if they travel at the post- | punching buttons at the master

What is to be the effect of ed speed limits, and to accom-control room, located in the Bar.. As In Barber'

this on our chlidren when, in | modate different traffic patterns department of highways bulid- all Innocence, they go to buy a daring different times of the ing. birthday card for someone they | day. Jove."

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TAPE RECORDER...

Similar radio controlled sys- During normal cond lilous, According tax the

through Sunday tems will be installed soon in the tape is threaded Grapide, some of the cards for New York, Scattle, and Los one of four metal cabinets com which the Vicar referred Angeles.

prising, the sending unit. As it depicted shapely, undressed

travels through the sprockets it dris-China Mali Special.

automatically tells the trans- mitter which signals to broad- The radio controls save the cast to which traffic lights, expense of digging up streets,

Sullivan laying new cables, and then re-

assures Wa paving. Also, said District of shington motorists of something Columbia traffic engineer else. If the Radio Bystem Charles Sullivan, the musical breaks down, the lights work rounding radio signals allow independently as they did be- engineers to send out up to 30 fore sprouting radio antennas. different kinds of orders, Only Ho added that if the tape six could be handied by cable, breaks, the city has plenty of under the old system.

extra taps on hand.--UPL

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