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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1960.

THE FLOODS.

.by Giles

PLEASE!

"Count me out for the Smithfield, lads. I want to finish my ploughing."

Britain is best for

Ghosts.

BRITAIN'S old country mansions, houses and

ancient castles seemingly abounding with supernatural manifestations of such variety and number as to make Britain the most ghost-infested country in the world-if all the claims are to be believed.

for the etherial Yuletide spirit

by J. W. TAYLOR

His face was that of a dead

ven tingal protago stayed white beard sitting by the fire.

The Castle away from

for 30 fiteratast

han. And that very night a muratling daughter of Lord Castleton was occupying the Blue Room. She awoke suddenly to see the very beurdet spele of the other

· Inchy dream. -----

Kommata 2 Mb Memory.

-Glamis - Castle....

Some surprising facts emerged from the Inst. 17 ghost rensus, Compiled from hundreds of careful- ly documented stories of ethereal phenomena giv- ing what was claimed-as “a rough-cross-section of..... our phantom population." One was that "the ghost density was more, or as even throughout the country, but that the county of SUSSEX seemingly the most ghost-ridden.

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It A claimed that several

im hosis of Was the of the

Blami Ch.4le at Angus, The Bensons White Lady, reputed to frth-head spirit of a

Liv

hugs at Royally have seen

There appears to be quite

a sprinkling of ghosts of the

blue lona.

burned

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It also covrgel that about per cent of all gli are daylight and 30 per com

The apparaten. moolight. De themselves, 60 per cent oggend to be over 4a (by hamton Ma

Audi Maid aggwar tout all ardy), & per cent are chirigy, He Sa Te oletati in Cantanh and two per cent caps. Store- KLM thour totalkie PRARAS. over, it was indicated that only Wander Corte Bouding 1 : 15 per cent of the plutotus at wille total of 23 ghost it w transparent.. ind that ball of end that rive plidontici bo Britain's

els: appel Gospe 11 till wander adde wilds through

for jestly indo

tapestada! matter mit half apartmet!!s. ground, whilst the other seemed to vanish into tim nir, fly. Bogomento state that figure of

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avy metal Peak, apart from changes into

2nd at the hairpin bends.

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peelre of the Cams Blue Rodinu. It is said

a fruiner Archisishop of York's win, who was it. Theydoni at Glamit, was staying in nother Scottish haze when vis Cam of entering the Glamis Hem and seeing a giant

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· Drury Lane Producers of show; at Drury

-BUT,

by Donald Cameron

SERIOUSLY..

:

YOU CAN'T BLOW RASPBERRIES AT A RIVER TN the mud on the parlour windowsill, an eight-year-old girl gleefully traced her name-Sandra Parr. She ran into the front room and prodded a sodden picno, its soaked innards bursting out. "We couldn't get it upstairs: the steps are too narrow," said Mrs Florence Parr. "And somehow it didn't the trouble."

TOILE

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This was one home in one water from the street and with street in one town watery surgeirs Purr's down England the other day,

stairs room!. Okehampton-street, Exter.

The family sat upstairs, eath; 150-yard-long stretes el 4 d cold joint of bimb and breal and looking out of rick-ferrage houses backed by and butter

remulle genite Exe.

But window at bales, plaules and Fr 181

in is debris rushing at express speed wrcks tie Exe turned into

down the Exe. savage river-pending a lorrent And Betening to the dreadful slapping, aloshing, undermining down Okehampton-street.

"}} was about six in the water in the downstales rooms. of the 1700%, a three-cornered morning when the policeman Pat and Mword by his side, Į knocked and said the water was friding In bigh rithing boots | coming again," said 44-year-olt from one side of the theatre's] Mrs Parr.

Theatre would welcome the appearachee during the rin "The Lane's" famous ghost- quiet. burily and well haved #gure in powdered wig

il

seem worth

bad this time-only about '£200 of stock gone west,

...

Further down the street, sth

water, 11. awash with muddy year-old Kelle Carter said in "Last. flood it was about £500

nearly worth."

Joseph portantly: "My cat was

coalman "Yes," said the drowned. I. kept going to bathroom window and shouting Sudall. "I've lost everything. He is to him and I could hear him everything, everything."

loft him shed, 01. and the loss has

manbed, apathetic. misowing in the garden The water was nearly up to the

His four-room, ground-level reef of the shed, you know."

fat was an ineredlik, irrepar- "a grim," said his mother.

able shombles. pretty

The walls were like sponges, Mrs Phyllis Carter. "It's well our life savings gono

papers the accumulated Her husband Sidney had

generations peeling and redecorated the passage and stairs

last after the

flood. were hoping to get promenade to the other before "So there was plenty of lim» "We were scaret," said Mr They

down and he straight inatly vanishing through the get the furniture upstairs. All Parr, "This house is 140 years carpets

for Christmas. wall. The gentleman has never the furniture that didn't go weal oli. We thought it might col-

Now the flood-level shows had six p. And we only manifested himself when a stage in the fast flood, ...

tidemark in a dirty lture has been indleated, but Sandra and her sister Kathy little bits of candle to sue the like the

bat, a brown line above the the night through." it appearance just before or leen. 23, helped carry up

chairs and tables uring a production is all to burrowed

Mrs Parr and! Kathleen, mantelpiece, below the big mir-

For on the wall. pella successful run.

Soon the landing was pited Hk2 Sandra, and a tail-less, black- a warehouse.

syed mangret called Judy eat- hopped in one room among the

That beautiful car

sumpli

rong and

the

long riistance

On some steep sinches along its strength

-enclosing. Peak roads 2id gear showed Lecals the its versatility and power when has from rolling speed it could plek Footed up and accelerate to 40 mph

that

Chort distance,

very stable at raul

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get up to 40 mpg.

In all, I found the Volvo to be about the best value of any car I have yet tested. 11 would

be the cheapest sports saloo

car of its capacity without anya of the luxury filings includede as standard equipment.

in to drive and sayc.m brakes

and fad E res are

hould

and

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141, King's Road, Hongkong

Showroom open till 9.00 p.m. including Saturdays and Sundays

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The settev was too big and heavy. It was hauled on to | dining-room table in the parlour 102 and an easy chair. put a or it.

@fhought they'd be safe," said Mrs Park, ingering the bubbled, ruined Jacquir of the table and the soaked, already moulding hide of the seltes.

Soon

water

Desolation

Jurniture,

Recently they ventured down- stairs. To see the new wall- paper peeling in the parlour,

And the utter desolation of the rest of their home.

"There's nothing tra do, nothing.” said Mr Parr. "It's a lifetime's work gone. We shall after lunchtime the just have to leave and go some from the river and the where else."

Along the street Salvation Army giriş served ten. Like the blitz, people say.

ing.

Aftermath

ni

swell-

smashed He picked over wicker basket with a doll inside bought in 1914; a casket of trinkets: medal ribbons blurred by water.

מאי הידיי

things are quite valuable-more valuable than you think," ho sald half to himself..

auch sodden the

rest ut Okehampton-street. And In heures in Cardiff and Taunton, Tiverton and Hereford, all over England and Wales.

are There valuabica

But without the to-heil-with- Hitler cheerfulness. You can't blow raspberries- of anything so hearing us a river. And now the exeltement and the rescues are over, only despair is left.

Hosing waterlogged chocolate. boxes out of his grocery and The aftermath of a night sweet shop, 30-year-old Geoffrey when the Utlle. tome, tabby cat Blackwood said "It wasn't so rivers went wild,

Markova, middle age and men

LICIA MARKOVA waited for me to stup feel- ing like a carlitorse in fairyland. She helped by opening a door to let in a large white-jowled tabby cat called Mocy,

By SALLY VINCENT

Traditionally a ballerina is a self a home and children. But Her to Markova the problem to not lithographs, the indaty sud unti'solitary woman.

na simple as that, grey-green colours, the papery tragedy is in her total dedica- pink flower arrangementa, RTC Hon which must exclude life ifice the possessions ot а away from the fantasy, and phy- Titania.

sical exhaustion of the ballet.

Many boilerinin, have

After Mocy, 1 nolleed other visite ching awon, the Chuden 1 of 10:mality. Like e ballet mountains of clixolates wat terad hospitably, around, untidy heap¦Ã of parcel and papers, looking f

self coretons me the collection I keep under my bed.

Nuisance

Meeting Alicia Markova, af cour, is meeting a legem of the bulle. But she is also 1 woman who is

live.

Somehow

"It is not merely that I am a ballerina," said Markova, I an woman in a professioh- and any wornnu, in any pro auditlenly fession, has a problem with her relationship with men.

on their

When she talks about being 50, she is tlking about a mhior retirement, nusance d shu Is mature found themselves regretting

enough to cope with. "I can't the loss of lives they might have The fear

quite realise it, she said had, dently. “I feel just the saine Markova has no such regrets. as I cild before."

"don't piggon-hole things. I just want my life to flow along,'

he said,

**131 then never think about things and analyze them, very much I just want to live and be."

It is necCWEKUŁY

and ther

unfair. for her

have

to

lo ackrowitzge

her #foth birthday, weil t

Hobgoblins

my

"I realise how narrowly life could be channelled and I I read any. sht ngalaid it.

"A man, for summe reason, Is frightened of a capable woman. Ho cannot see in her a feminine, weak person, da much in need of "masculine guidance as a woman

with no profession.

more

this, I love talking to people,

"For me, this problem is even hrt to look into their lives. I

complex. Men see me go out and look at things dancing, and they, see someone An though she was referring watch and think and take the ethereal and fragile. They just commotions. And, it is utterly to a linnd of hobgoblins who

outside life into myself.

don't know what to make of Levikerling to look at her and live outside a wood, she said:

"I am happy with my Ike, me." think of middle-uge,

"My ductors tell me I should and happiest of all with hor Markova, engrossed'in the un- Morkova is a "persion of rest and take thlings more sony in my life. 7 lke overy attached woman's theories on In lastening fragility.

tally Tut I want to go on th to 10 right. Even a men, began to smile lepa | enig- Serene, enormously brown. doneitig.

simple thing like 'entebing a matically, She "grinned, eyed, warmly chigmatic, "There is niwaya something I trin. I want the procesato

wald. "Heron a socrat," she Watchful, the scent to "hover, want to accomplish next. I

Ho smoothly. I work at making "On the day of the great. dellcately poned, over a' chair. can't imagine myself without myself, a harmonibus life:

tragedy. On the very day I was that, need But there. Perhaps

Markova ban often admitted 80 years old I received two At first sight, her home. they все right. Portups I she. In hurry she never married. proposals of marrisgo.... And I'm shiten hur own unreality. The shouldnt leapt think about It is not surprising that a going to think about both of tiny furniture, the cxquisite some surt of retirement."

great ballorina has to deny her them.”