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QUEEN'S

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1961.

THE MAN WHO REALLY TALKS

TO MONKEYS

from HELEN MASON, NEW YORK

WHENEVER he can spare the time, Mr.

Ernest P. Walker talks to his friends the monkeys, And he has produced two Monkey-English dictionaries.

tho

Formerly Assistant Director of Barro Colorado Island, Washington Zoo, Mr Walker's biological station and wild life one regret in the waste of years preserve in the Patioma Canal when he could have heen zone, to eavesdrop on monkey | furthering his understanding of talk.

monkeys,

With a chuckle understand- He learned

Mr monkey ble

Rhy Janguage. Innguage 10 years ago when he Walker told me of his original

when he took home

irled to Muriel a

baby difficulties

that Douroueoul monkey from South persunde the ins{{{ution America as a pet,

inonkeys can talk, They were polttely sceptical for a long time Fund explained to him exaelly

why this was impossible.

Isolated from fellow monkeys, Muriel had to talk to someone so she taught her owner to speak her language.

Since she had not spent long enough with other monkeys to be taught herself, Mr Walker deduced that monkeys have o bulli-in vocabulary--which makes them smarter humans.

thru

When ht

mastered had Muriel's banguke he tried it out ah other Douroucoulls. who understood every syllable he chaltered.

He tape-recorded his conver- sations with Muriel, and recently hus the satisfaction of seeing his theories developed by the Smithsonian Institution 1 Washington education research organisation.

The Institution has asked Dr Marlin Moynihan, ils expert in

Nurses bring charge

Johannesburg, Aug. 8. Eleven non-white student nurses who were allegedly eaned at the King George V Govern- ment Hospital on Thursday decided to lay accusa-

have

flons against the white woman

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responsible for the caning, spokesmani for the Darban Non-White Hospital Workers Unlon said in Durban, Natal,

today.

The nurses-nine African and two Indian alleged they had been caned and set to work in the hospital garden because They were "not too bright" al their studies.

Another nurse had been ask ed to resign for being "cheeky."

Reuter.

He told me: "Eventually I ployed my recordings to them and convinced them in 14 minutes that I was right."

Gratified trill

Mr Walker, chirruping and chattering and translating as he went along - gave me my first lesson in monkey talk.

I will now be able to tell

Submarine Montgomery will

sighted off. Brazil

A

Maceio, Aug. 8. Ceraldo Cerqueria, flying instructor at the Maceio Acro Club, and today he sighted an un- Identified submarine yea- terday about 300 yards off nearby Lagoa Azoda Beach. Cerqueira said the vez- sel submerged when bis plane approached,

In Rio de Janeiro, the Navy, Ministry withheld comment on the report.—- UPI.

Seal handed down from Lord Nelson missing

Dartmouth, Aug. 8.

A gold filigree fob soal

which once

belonged to Lord Nelson is missing from the captain's house at the Royal Naval Cof- logo, Dartmouth.

An Admiralty spokesman said the seal was "thought to have the next monkey I meet that been mislaid."

I feel friendly-or, if I don't,

I can tell him to go away. The seal is hexagonal, abou!

If I give him something to eat, one and a half inches long and

I shall wait anxiously for the one, inch across, and bears Nel- gratified tril which Mr Walk-son's coat of aims.

er assured me is monkey, talk for "This tasten fine."

"But although they arc courteous little crentures never did hear one say "Thank you," said Mr Walter. The monkeys, it seems, have NO word for it.

Admiral It belongs to Rear Horace R. Law, Captain of the College, having come down to him through Nelson's nicce Charlotte, the first Duchess of

Nelson and Bronte, who later married Lord Bridport,

Police have been called in to

visit China as

guest of Mao

Fiold

London, Aug. 8.

Marshal Viscount Montgomery, former deputy commander of Nato forces in Europe, said tonight he will travel to China next month as a per- sonal guest of Mao Tse-tung.

Lord Montgomery, now retired from the British Army after an illustrious career, said he will go on to Japan and Canada after his visit to "Peking..

The purpose of his trip, "19 entirely my business," reporters acidity.

In

he told

Lord

years recent Montgomery has made private laits to the Soviet Union and Ching and come back with favoumble accounts of conversa- tions with Premier Kruschev and Chairman Mao,

"Monty", as he is known to the British public, disclosed his plans while visiting an exhibi- drawn by of paintings lon British

Thrale artist Charles while a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.—AP.

Normal traffic

resumed in Cuba

Havana, Aug. 8. Cuba was opened

to normul International sea and air trafe esin- a three-day today after plete shut-off from the rest of the world, during which the old currency was exchanged for new bills.

The money exchange is de signed to stop the legal dow

on American territory.-AP.

Mr Walker, who has retired help search for the fob seal of currency from wealthy exiles from his zoo job but is working China Mail Special, on animat research. told me: "All monkeys do not speak the same language but I am able to converse with many of them.

"Often shy and frightened monkeys have been brought to my office. When I tell them in I am their own language that pleased to see them and feel friendly. they brighten up and chalter

Jranedlately back

to me."

If he tells a joke to put a monkey at case he can tell if For the joke is well received. fun-loving monkeys can laugh.

The monkeys always seem aurprised when they find that Mr Walker can talk to them.

¡After years of thicklog humans are uneducated, maybe they consider me to be the first intelligent one they have met," he said.

NOW SHOWING

at

ROYAL

UNEXPECTED GUEST

IN THE CHURCH

Marseilles.

The village priest is the hors of St Yrieix in Southern France, He captured single-handed a thief respon- sible for scores of local robberies.

said, on a Sunday, let alone a week-

day."

such bad

"I only caught him," Abbot Vignaud, "because my parishioners ur church peers.

"When I

ค man leave my church

a weekday I would have liked to think he was there to pray. But I know my flock too well. It is difficult enough to get them into church

sow

on

The abbot quickly checked on the church's treasures. Some were missing. He gave chase and caught the thief.

"But I'd rather be robbed and have parishioners who are not afraid to come into church during the week," he said,

STATE

Lord Montgomery

India told of U.S.

concern

over Berlin

New Delhi, Aug. 1.

Mr Chester Bowles, Bulted States Under-Secretary of State. discussed Berlin and other world ipstics with Mr Nehru at a one- hour meeting today.

The US was understood to be anxious to win the understand- ing of countries such as India for the Western position on the Berlin question.

There was no immediate - dication of Mr Nehru's reaction, Mr Bowles sald later that he thought there was better under; United standing between the States and Indla aver Berlín.

" explained our dimculties and concern over Berlin and Southeast Asia, and over the | broad developments in Africa,"

he said. It 13

understood that

Mr

Bowles assured Mr Nehru that there would be no increase of American

10 arms supplies Pakistan as a result of the visit in Washington last month of the Pakiston President, Field Mur- shal Mohammad Ayub Khan.— Reuter.

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