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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH ~ 24, 1981.

"Would you mind asking Mr Jenking if ho'd mind asking Mr Wilkins to ask Mr Albright to return the lawn mower I leaned you?”

THE DEVIL'S DOCTOR

THE year was 1943. A

typhus

epidemie Now net closes on

threatened Birkenau, the "woman's wing" of

the notorious Auschwitz another of Hitler's

extermination

camp. Crowded together in derelict barns like sar- dines 30,000 women were easy prey to infection- and 350 women. dying every day.

Tion

were

Was

horror

camp men

From WILLI FRISCHAUER, Munich,

The doctor who ordered the extermination of the 400 women Dr Jusef Mengele, what, is after Eichmann's capture. now Number One on the list of wanted Nazi war criminals.

The SS guards were appre- hensive. In spite of inocula 1on, some of them eaugil the disease. Their leader pressed the camp doctor to take rapid action against a spread of the

Now in the House of Com- epidemic.

Without a

monsa question has been asked moment's hesity-

who

dis- about Di Mengele the doctor ordered 400

from Barilocke, Ar- women, occupying one barn to appeared

after the West Ger- be reat to the gas chambera. #antine.

The The barn was disinfgeted,

tan government had issued a women in the next barn werE warrant for his arrest in June,

1059. de-louse, bathed in disinfec- fant and moved to the empty barn, and so on. Instead of building new barracks, hapless his own' name. Since 1850 there women prisoners were con- has been no trace of him, but it demned to death.

bas been suggested that he has

Dr Mengele had been practis- ing in Bariloche openly under

NOW THAT THE CRISIS

TADDIE

EDI

IS OVER FOR LIZ

gone to earth in a neighbour- ing South American state.

Mengele's concentration camp activities are being studied by the public prosecutor of the doctor's native town, Freiburg.

From

Typical

these depositions

FISHER talked to me about the future of his merges a picture of a typical

wife Elizabeth Taylor.

Just a few weeks It is now since she reached the high crisis point in her less and it was feared that she had one hour to live.

Since then she has steadily got better until now it is pos- sible to talk with some degree of certainty about what happens next. Eddie Fisher discussed it quite calmly. I have been tak- ing stock," he said. "Maybe I should have done before...but now is as good a time as any.

"I have decided that what- ever happens-infter this miracle what is of overriding import- once in my wife's good health.

"Nothing else matters and nothing else will be allowed to stand in the way.

"She must have a good cli- mate and she must have the *un. She thrives on sun so 1 have decided that wherever she works and wherever she lives there must be sun.

Obviously.

"At the moment our home is in New York, but I expect that we will sell that.

"I don't know yet where we will go-it could be Arizona or Calfornia or Jamulca or any- where so long as the sun shines.

obviously moans Eli hat zaboth will not him again in England-ever.

"And for the same reason, she will not film again in New York or anywhere else when the wea ther is bad,"

by

DAVID LEWIN

ing a Alm Cleopatra has become on International Incident.

Eddic

Fisher clears the air directly. He said: "Cleopatra can a wonderful Alm-but the be overriding thought must be my wife's good health.

If she wants.. .

Nazl exterminator, cold, cynical, "practical," utterly impervious

to the ordinary man's natural sentiments and reactions.

Dr Mengele, who is now 50, welcomed the opportunities for "scientific studies." His chief interests

mutters of were

into experiments questions of multiple birth

twins) and midget growth,

He issued strict instructions that no twins in the camp were to be sent to the gas chambers without his special permission. He was jubilant when, after a Gestapo swoop on a circuз, family of midgets was brought to the prison camp. They were at once taken to his taboratory. A few weeks later they were dear.

a

"She will only do the Alm- But his favourite experiments if at all--where the weather is were concerned with attempts warm. I appreciate what Spyrus to change the colour of babies' Skottras has said-No Liz, no eyes. When he came across one Cleo-but without good weather young mother hugging beau- there will be no Elizabeth.

Ff,

fair-haired blue-eyed "All these problems about baby he asked her;

"How would you like your this particular film are not im- purtant. What matters is that baby to have dark eyes with Elizabeth has made it →→ she got her fair hair?"

over the crisis, she getting The terrified mother tried to better and it la my job as her protest. But Dr Mengele started husband to see that she stays his experiments and soon the well in the future.”

baby died.

In the village where the Duke met his bride

Hovingham.

THE

HE village school is decorated. String after string of blue and yellow and white and red and green flags on Yorkshire sandstone. These, along with a Union Jack, wre last seen in Hovingham, Yorkshire, Coronation Day.

on

Someone was talking about a bonfire. Otherwise the village. doesn't seem to have changed. Mr David Davis, at the post-office stores, listened to the music of the bell on his shop-door and went on selling stamps and sweets and shampoos.

The customers stood on polished floors and taliced about the wedding and Miss Katharine and the Duke and how all of them knew that it was going to happen and they weren't a bit surprised.

And Mr Davis stood listen- Ing, smiling a little because he hark seen the letters pass through his hands at some time or another.

All of them pleased. They know Miss Katharine well, they tell you. She used to buy hair- pins in this very shop. And ask Mummy for an ice-cream.

Drive into Hovinghem from Thirak and the woods on the left are led with crocus and daffodils in buc..

town.

by DENIS PITTS

Eight miles from the village, it feels like 40 In number 81 red Weat Riding bus. Hovingham goes there on Saturday mornings.

York

the nearest elly Delter shopping there, they say, but few go more than once a month. And they stay on for the pictures lo the evening.

Colonel Starkey is the county councillor. Mr Wainright is the rural rouncillor and you will find him, some evenings, drink- Ing half pints of bitter in the Malt Shovel talking to Tom

The village is

Huggins the landlord. delightful. Keep driving along this road and see the big house on the left in parkland. See the cricket Reid, the finest turf in Yorkshire, they say, where Le Hutton played for Sir William and charity and where the local team plays every week in

summer.

Time-stained

Pass through two 10ft.-high pillars where the gates of the Worsley estate used to shut people out-and You are in Hovinghani as sure as you are In Yorkshire. -

The houses are of old, time- stained stone. Red pantiles, rose bushes at the doors. Walt for the primroses. You have a feeling that everyone else is.

Councillors or not, they know that Sir William Worsley is the boss and if anyone is going to get them main drainage, better lighting, improved bus services or a railway line it will be he whom they ask drsl.

Sir Wiliam's children are Miss Katharing, Mr Oliver, and. Mr Marcus.

Mr Marcus farms the home farm and Mr. Oliver was the county councillor volil Colonel Starkey defeated him. They are clearly Tory. The village is clearly Tory.

And you the Malton Co-op shop in Hovingham does 槑 with Mr Davis and thriving business in competition #t Iow cornern and □ general store which opened a short while ago.

Roman villa

Ask about history and they will tell you at once that the Hall stands on the alte of B Roinen viita.

The hall was planned by Thomas Worsley in the time of George III, who gave hún After all, he owns most of statue by Giovanil,

"Samson Hovingham. He is the president slaying the Philistines." The of the cricket team and the value is astonishing. R stands landlord. Strangely, In that in the grounds by the tulip beds. order,

The Hall is Georgian, local stone, lovely. Like the sort of Most of the farmers-average place Evelyn Waugh revisits. holding about 250, acres, mainly The other villages near by are Duke's car going in and out of mixed agriculture-who pay him. rent speak well of him. There is litle in the way of obsequious- ness in their approach to him to his face or behind his bark.

are

They knew

The women are good church- Slingsby and Stonegrave, and the Hall, The entrance is goers and the Mothers' Union Stonegrave people have to walk opposite the pub.

mecis weekly. So does the W.1. Into Hovingham for 7 drink, Which gives Hovinghom a slight more interested in the success

Really, they have been much Lady Worsley is the president.

Population 400. Turn left to edge on Stonegrave.

of their darts team which plays Malton, turn right to Heimsley, there once a week while the Only the He Is Sir William. They are

youngsters go to the sit along Bill or

two regulars Jack or

Fred or Mr

Malton at night. They drink Sinith TE they

wooden benches and order their 10 new

coffee. beer from the bar which is only Hovingham. There are larches and beeches

four feet long.

There is talk of a coffee around the village green, suc- They watch the cricket and

Mr Marcus held the licence har for Hovingham. But it cessful-looking farmers drink listen 10 the opera at the

for a time. ' Apart from the beer on most days, whisky on Hovingham Festival which takes

Worsley Arms and the small is unlikely. market daya and take their place now and again at the ball

British Legion club there is wives to the cocktail bar in the with, top performers. Not quilo In the bar of the Mak Shovel nowhere else

It doesn't seem to have to drink. But Worsley Arms un

doesn't Saturday Glyndebourne. But you wear a they will tell you that they Hovingham

drink a changed at all. knew nights. Malton is the biggest tic.

because they stw the great deal anyway.

-(London Express Service)..

HOW THE WEST SHARES

PRICE OF PEACE

DEFENCE EXPENDITURE Out of every £100 of each country's national income

Except that the walk Is delightful with soft Yorkshire all around you and you know when it's going to rain because the moors seem closer.

HANG-IT-UP PIT

'LUNG? WARNS OF DUST

London.

and a

LITTLE metal box with one "lung"

"nose" will soon be safe-guarding Britain's miners against chest diseases. It can be hung

The World of Science

anywhere in a mine and warns when too much gical operations, to have an dust is flying around. Six have been ordered for Kent collieries.

U.S.A.

£11 2s.

U.K.

£7 14s.

A

France

Canada

£6 2s.

Sweden

£5 18s

Netherlands

Italy

Germany

£4 14s.

£4 6s.

£3 4s

CHART DESIONED BY MICHAEL RAND

London Express Bervice.

Just Fancy That!

The box has been developed by scientists at the National

are nimost work. They Coal Board's mining research simple to be true. establishmen! at. Isleworth Middlesex.

0

of

It will enable Мар "black spols" In each plt to be drawn up.

audience. The more nearly unique you aro, the moro students will gather round. Or, if you OTO "typical," too you

persuade tho may masses to look in while you The Brat is telescopic.

are cut open on television. square red. Four feet long when

Does an audience ever do YOU closed, it slides out to a total of

It 101. Even a not-so-handy man any good? con-in OTIL κάτι road oft

the distance instance, at least. That is when any measured to

an accuracy of you are lying in a sealed room inder bombardment by power- Inott. The second is a rustless steel tape measure with two "extras" -a lock to stop the tape spring-

Recognising this. Guy's H03- ing back, and a small glass win- dow through which the handler Pital have installed a window reads off his exact measurement, beside their cobalt treatment The sag error is already worked out to allow patients tho out for him, and the corrections "great comfort" of being watch- ed. It is one of the thickest in overprinted on the glass.

or

Miners suffering from kind of breathing dimculty infection can then be kept away from these areas.

Once a minute The box Is, in effect, a minia- ture miner-sampling the air continuously and recording how many particles of coal or rock are in it.

Its "hing" is a small piston, driven by on lectric gramo- phone motor ar, i powered by a It miner's cap-lamp battery. breathes in and out once R minute.

The "nose" is a mechanical replica of a human nose, with the same filtering characteristics. All the miner has to do is to hang it on a nail and switch on. Measurements of the density of dust in the

later mine are examined by scientists above

Where will that future be? At Birkenau medical supplies ADVERTISEMENTS for the next show by Winchester's drama ground.

Dr

And what will it be? I put to were in short supply. Eddie Fisher the key question: Mongelo gave orders that only "Will Elizabeth Taylor retire?" young ond basically

strong

This is what Eddie Fisher woman should be issued' will said: "For some time work any form of medicine. just for the sake of making Mongole winw quite frank motion pictures has not been about his reactions to the ex of overriding importance to her. termination programme which "Recently Elizabeth has made was carried out under his ilms for the creative excitement | supervision. Ho regarded his she gets from them,

duties as a bit of a bore. "Instead of making one pr They kept him away from his

One of the first extermina-

group are pinned, on the swing doors of Hampshire Assires divorce court. The production is Oscar Wilde's "An Idegl Husband."

A

BRITISH ARMY 303 rifle bhileved to have belonged to a soldier returning from Dunkirk-was found by workmen clearing a store at Ramsgate Harbour. It was still in good working order.

evan, two films a year, the win experiments and he resented it. TTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Ernest Sayers was no £30 or make one in a One a

months" jall' In Piotermaritzburg, South Africa, for A week of crisis clears the great while, in fact.

tion doclor to escape from driving a slescoroller while under the influence of drink. A air and simplifies the thinking. "In perhaps a mattor, at Germany, Mengole set himself. policeman said he saw the steamroller sig-zagying tawnada Kalsta. Thore is, of course, the question years, it sho wants to retire, up in practice in the Argentino. of "Cleopatra," which has be, well,,,she will.”

But his freedom may be come no complicated with Insua- That is the stocktaking at | short-lived. The Imaeli avenger anco claims and outdoor sets at the moment. As Eddie Fisher | wlio trucked down Elchung Pinewood studies, and script said "Maybe it should have may soon reveal Dr. Mengela's complications and hold-ups and been done before.”

whereabouts, Ha charges of directors. From be

=-(London Express Service).

-CLondon Express Hervigej;

Exact measurement Ait-yourself,

1/32nd of

of an

fal X-rays from a radioactive cobalt "bomb." A terrifyingly lonely experience,

-(London Express Service),"

Trials have shown that the Britali. Three feet of glass dovices san save up to one-third keep in the rays. of the time normally taken, For example,

surveyor must usually htt around with spring balances to calculate sag on his tape.

Doth devices will go into com- mercial production shortly.

Stay-sober beer BEER

DEER that does not mako

you drunk is now on salo from slot machines In America — at about 18. a carton. "It looks, smolls, fooms and tastes remark- ably like regular beer," say of the vendors.

dr .any

ar-

or

Sony disciple of "do-

builder,

surveyor or chitect knows, the, Job

It is the product of scientists measuring up a room

who found a way to use the more building is not cary.

mal ingredients of beer in a Tape measures always 88 process which kept the alcohol Flexible rules zip back at you content down virtually to aero. before you exi rend off the Lect

Sometimes I wish reiontists and inches. Inaccuracy is hard would leave something just as it to avoid.

Not any more. Two scientists at the

Research

13.

LOQULIT cricices will be played in a Pais park with the sur-Station, Watford Mr Johna Eyes on the patient

prishur monuincitant that the French invented the game than Ripper and Mr Donald and axported is to Britain in the 18th century. But 22 Boglehmen | Bishop-bave invented devices will. play. Star: Godfrey Evang,

which should revolutionise this

· hor · always been fashionable, insur-

arths

"Just think of murdered 000,000 years ago. Africa must haya been a troubled.

land in those days.".

London Express Aarvion..