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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH." FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1987.

ANITA THE PARROT IS WAR HEROINE

She Just Tries To Imitate Guns As Madrid Zoo Is Shelled

Keeper Drives

Through Fire

To Get Food

By A Special Correspondent

Madrid, Jan. 10.

THE Madrid Zoo is a place of terror and sadness- to-day. It is in a heavily bombarded war zone, and so the children who usually come to feed the animals have been forbidden to do so-even if they could get the food.

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I called in to see the effect of the siege and the bombardments.

Tony, the elephant, is rather hungry. When he saw me he raised his trunk hoping that I would throw him a bun. I did not, and he turned his back on me with a frumpet of disgust.

He is being fed on bread; bran and chicken feed--not at all the thing for a grown elephant.

And Pepo, the hippopotamus, has developed

a rash on his skin because the chicken' food dis- agrees with him, and the shell

that landed outside his house was not too good for his nerves, either,

But today the keeper, Pedro Campoy, managed to get him a lond of grass from somewhere out in the country, and Pepo will have a comparatively happy week-end.

LUCKY MEAT-EATERS The lions, the tigers, the hyenas and other meat-cating animals are the best off.

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The reason is that the human beings are not so hungry yet that they want dead mulc dead donkey, and there are still plenty of them for the animals..

But the monkeys have to

put up with thred fruit.

Sometimes Bedro's soldier friends telephone hilm and tell him of a horse lying dead at the front.

Pedro, who was wounded in this war while fighting in the October Battalion, then drives to the front, into the thickest shell fire if neces- sary, and fetches the horse for his tions.

Most of the animals are panic stricken during the bombardments, Only Anila, the parrot keeps calma,

Anita is trying hard to imilate the noise of anti-aircraft guns. But one of the zebras was frightened when the bombs dropped that he ran round and rnund his paddock, faster and faster. At last he ran into a tree. And now Zizi, his wife, is a widow,

HUNGER STRIKE

The only other casualty to date is Don Diego, the pelican, Don Diego was an aristocrat. In fact,-some-of- the other animale suspected him of

being secretly a o Royalist

Anyhow, when Don Diego could not get a special kind of fish he wanted he refused to eat anything else—and now he is dead.

If this siege goes on much longer I would not like to be the bison, nor one of the two inmas, nor even Pepa, the hippo, for when I was admiring Pepo to-day a militiaman stood by looking at him appraisingly.

"Pedro," he sid to the keeper. "Hippos are a kind of pork, aren't they?"

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Pinkettes are tiny laxative pills. They

neither gripe nor purge, but rently dispel constipation and cleanse the stomach and bowels, thus re- moving any irritant or congestion which is causing the trouble.

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Savage Gang Battles

Over Religion

"NO MEAN CITY" OF HATES

GLASGOW, JAN. 10. GANG WARFARE AND GANGSTER TERROR. ISM IN THIS CITY HAS SHOCKED THE WORLD THIS WEEK.

Two days ago four young men concerned in the death of George Stankovitch, another gangster, were sentenced to terms of from three to ten years' penal servitude, but Glasgow's leading citizens still will not believe that such things can happen.

The real story of Glasgow gangster- isin has never been told. It is a story In which religious feeling is coupled with brutality that borders On sadism.

The meaning of gangsterism in Glasgow can be summed up in two wards-Catholicism and Protestant-

jam.

Gang fighting may be a pecullar vay of settling ditierences in the

MAN IS FOUR-FOOTED

ANIMAL STANDING ON HIND LEGS

-SCIENTIST ASSERTS

Chicago, Dec. 30. Man is a four-footed animal stand.ng on

his hind legs, ac- cording to William

King Gregory of the American Museum of Natural History,

man

After tracing the evolution of and beast, Gregory con- cludes there is no great differ- ence between a horse and his rider standing on four feet, the horse resembles a grappling bridge, with skeletal stresses equalized while man is the same bridge up-ended.

"A comparison of the skeleton of 'home sapiens," he said, "with these of his nearest surviving relatives clows that he has longer legs and shorter arms and that his cranium bas become greatly inflated.

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The facts plainly indicate that the skeletons of both the horse and his rider, however much they differ in details, are but divergent modifications of the old grappling bridge type.

Evolution occurred because of solar energy, Dr. Gregory found, and animals developed their powers of locomotion to carry them "toward the re-giving food containing the vitalizing locked-up solar energy."

"The only rule has been, weize what you can and when you can.' The vertebrates, on the whole, have been one of the most successful clasica of robbers of solar energy, excelled perhaps only by the insects." -United Press,

name of religion. But the hatred exists and it is a deep-seated hatred.

BOOM IN EX-KING

FACING

SOUVENIRS

London, Dec, 24..

a situation without any sort of precedent, Britain has rolled up its sleeves.

A hundred fresh problems and a thousand freak jobs are now to be tackled.

The new Coronation looms largest. Whitehall wondered how much of what has been done already will stand, how much will have to be done again.

Serenely the Office of Works said yesterday: "Work on the Coronation has not been held up. We are proceeding normally.". But it was admlited that plans retalters, wholesalers and manufac- for converting the Abbey for the turers a lot of money,” sald Mr. H. ceremony will have to be "ro" B. Southam, secretary of the Bir- adjusted" since a Queen will now mingham Jewellers and Silver- be crowned, as well as a King. amiths Association. Similarly the Import Duties Ari- "It will be a tremendous relief to visory Committee was considering the Potteries if it keeps up," sald the 100 per cent, duty which Parlla- Mr. S. H. Dodd, secretary of the ment has imposed on foreign Corona- Pottery Manufacturers' Federation. tion souvenirs and flags. This duty begins to operate next Tuesday.

HE SOUVENIR MAKERS The order issued by the Treasury makes dutiable:

"Articles of all kinds suitable for use for... the Coronation of His Majesty .. which consist of

bear a

a representation of His Majesty, any member of the Royal Family, or other Coronation ein-

or

blem.

A public demand for the "rele- gated" souvenirs would save every- body.

Dressmakers and tallors were hall-

ing the end of "a slump as severe as the period after King George V.'s death."

Mc. E. II.

NEW QUEEN'S INFLUENCE Nobody has been buying clothes in the last week: hundreds of fit- tings have been cancelled. the Duke and "But So portraits of

sald now,' Duchess of York would be covered. Symonds, president of the British British souvenir makers raised Fashions and Fabrics Bureau, "we tronic smiles yesterday at the thought are looking forward to a brighter that dealers here who have accepted jern. huge stocks of cheap Coronation goods from Germany. Japan and Czecho-Slovakia, rushed in to escape the duty,

will now be "Innded high and dry.

JEWELLERY TRADE HIT

I bellove the new Queen will be

a tremendous influence on the side of British fashions.

The Hotels and Restaurants As- sociation and most of the Ticket Agencies were rejoicing in the belict They were not smiling about their that the Coronation will be on May

12, Business own position.

is flowing normally

Hardest bit, it seems, will be the ingain. Birmingham metal and Jewellery trades.

Tens of thousands of pounds worth of dies and press-tools bear- Ing King Edward's likeness and name are possessed by nearly 100 firms which decided months ago to specialise in souvenira,

The dies will be useless. Or stucks, Anished and half-finished, all but precious metals will be sold us scrap. The silver lining shines only for the die-sinkers, who expect a rush of new orders.

8,000,000 MUGS AND BEAKERS The Potteries do not know yet how Bayonet as Weapon

they badly

have been H. An estimate is a loss of £100,000. They Gungeters are particular in their were working on 3,000,000 mugs and choice of weapons. The latest is the beakers. Those which

bore the bayonet. It is Atted into a specially official design were being printed in Poltery Manufacturers Federation made pocket down the trouser leg.

There are others the leather belt with barbed wire twisted round one end and swung round the head in a charge.

A popular weapon is a potato into which used razor blades have been insericd. Hurled among crowd, its effects can be terrible.

eleven colours-an expensive litho graphing process needing expensive blocks, and there are busts and pla-

ues of King Edward.

On Monday the Federation is to meet to decide what to do. Some unemployment is inevitable,

Some

firms in Lancashire have been printing flags and bun- ners with King Edward's likeness ore worried.

who

Another favourite is an ordinary and the Potteries, yesterday pr

But for them, as for Birminghuni

cap into which has been rivetted one duced a phenomenon which nobody or two ruzor blades.

Snatched off the head It is one of the most effective means of slushing. Many of the modern gangsters have razor blades rivetted into the toe of their shoes for use in fights.

The secret of the gangster's fight melhoas is that he is trained in the art of inflicting terrible injuries that do not end in death,

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had foreseen; and it lightened their spirits.

From all parts of the country camo reports that

were people rushing to buy Edward VIII. souvenirs from the shops. Twd great London stores were sold out of medals and mugs by early yesterday afternoon.

IF IT LASTS

"If this trade lasts long enough to clear out finished stocks it will save

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How to be Happy

"IF you want to be happy though married go hiking if your husband wants to hike, and go fishing if he wants to fish. Don't let business get inside your house."

This is the secret of happy mar-| rlage given by two people who are

"A REEL WOMAN"

"And then Rod is interested in still happily married after 10 years trout fishing. When he told me -though both are film stars.

Vilma Bonky and Rod la Roque told me that they were never happy If they were parted for any length of time, says a London correspon- dent.

"Rod is definitely different from most Hollywood folk. He's a hus- band first to me, not a flm star," Bald Vilma. ·

- "Quite suddenly he'll say, 'Put your old shoes on. Let's go for a hike in the hills."

"I like to tramp on the hills-in rain and wind, and off we go.

about it I was fascinated."

"And now," said Bod, taking up! the conversation, "she throws as pretty a fly as anyone I know, and she can light a wood fire, clean flah and grill it in the embers quicker than many a real backwoodsman. "She doesn't mind handling sh not Vilma-she's real-not artificial," sald Rod.

The two plan to live in Britain for a year or thereabouts.

"And we will catch some of your famous trout up in the hills of the North, won't we, Vilmo?" said Rod.

"Sure," replied Vilma.

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