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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1950.

THE OTHER WOMAN CAN STAND ON HER HEAD AND ALSO WASH BEHIND HER EARS

The crowds neglect Winnie-queue for Drumes.

Winnie-the-Plush outbears Brumas

London,

Two young females are at war in the Zoo. It

is the sort of war that arises when a new film star tries to rival an established favourite.

Favourite of the Zoo is]. Another trick is to plunge That Bear Brumas, rising wash her

her head

into Jer pool and cars with enormous five month.

Thousands flock to pee Brumas

on the Mappin Ter- rvers, stand up to an hour in

queue to get a glinipse of

furry paws.

A third is to stand on her head in her pool waving her legs above the water.

Winnle drowy shouts of

her. But only a few surroundį laughter from the children when the Other Woman.

This zivul

sho scratches in her pit and maker sand castles. She is in altogether n most

attractive

Bruman to

popular favour is Winnie, two-ttle bear. At two years she is year-ol Syrian bear, now on only half grown. show in the roumil pit near the

lion house, where Lien Ho, the But still the crowds negleet

| Winnie, queue for Irunas. dead #lunt panda, used to be.

Because the Zoo crowds are Winnic la an engaging and | swainping the Mappin Terraces, playful creature made appar | Zoo officials are doing their ently of golden plush. She is best to draw attention to Wisnie the living original of the mur. on a counter attraction, in an- sery teddy,

other part of the Zoo.

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thousands milling With catch even a glimpse of Brunas, only 25 people stood round the plt where Winnle gave them a

how of her engaging tricks.

BETTER VALUE

"I queued three-quarters of

an hour to see Brumas," raid Mr George Odell, holidaying in London from Daventry with his wife and children, four- year-old Paul and 12-month-

old Philip

*This hear do much heiter value. Soon she will draw the crowds like Brauns."

Big advantage of Winnie, the new attruction-you can Ste her at leisure.

Winule was flown to London 41st year from Persia, There a household pet and She was

learned a variety of tricks, which he loves to show off to Ber admirers at the Zoo,

BUILDS SANDCASTLES

She plays with anything. She threw a rag about and some-

ebased it like a puppy, times tanding on her hind legs

to take applause,

Hainan Entirely In Red Hands

Talpel, May 2.-Nationalist China today oficially annonmeed that Hainan Island, last major air and sea blockade base out- side Formosa itself, was con- pletely in Communist hands,

A

Nationalist spokesman. Chen Chang-huan, sald

three and a half page statement that Nationalist claims of a vic- tury on Iain on April 22 were followed immediately by a surge of Communist reinforce- ments that turned the tide.

He said that the Communista lost 7,191

killed and Inch In wounded pad 1,169 prisoners, and that more than 800 invasion vessels were sunk.-Reuler.

-{Lundun Express Service)

The other woman

Winnia.

Thousands Seek Away-from-it-all In Monastery

By Frederick Cook

Apprehensive over the atomic age, worried by the trond of the times, thousands of young New Yorkers becoming "weok-end monks" at a Passionist Fathors' monastery in suburban Jamaica, Long Island,

and

Nuvolari At The Wheel-Aged 58

By Basil Cardow

Palermo, Sicily.

Tazio Nuvolari, world's Number One racing driver, took me tonight on a 300-mile run through the heart of the Sicilian bandit country to prove

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That he has recovered] "Why don't you scream?” anid from his two-year illness, the grinning Nuvolari. "Mu

mechanics often do,"

He held the wheel with the

and

2 That Salvatore Giuliano, lightest touch, his arms almost the bandit chief, has only fully extended and his feet only the best intentions for Sun-Just appearing to reach the.

pedule. day's 670-mile road race.

The whine of his car echood Twenty-eight-year-old

mountain Among the

pases. tinno operates in a small area you enough. We go back."

.."I think I have shown

west of Palermo,

Glu-

Then

We drove up, to the edge of

AN AMBUSH?

WE swept back through Glu-

his parish and stopped to tell the Wos country, On a lonely

tocals we would

be back in an hour or so.

Nuvolari, aged 58, show- ed me, at 00 miles an hour, how he San Corner without touching the brake

He changes

down his ears

so quickly and cleanly that hig

back wheela Nuvolari nimost lock and

the car goes into a broadside he accelerates visiently out of kid. At the peak of the kid the corner.

stretch a group of men blocked the road. Our car serenmed to a stop. The men back on the bank- Ing. Ambush? No. Giuliano's men?-No. Just a levél-crossing.

Nuvolari told me how his two- year nes had been enused by the fumes of the alcohol fuck he uses in his racing cars.

For Grand Prix meing

ho

plans to use a minsk fitted with

rubber tube to draw in fresh

n

air.

the

We stopped for coffee. Soon coffee house was full of people seeking to shake their idol's hand.

young Stirling Moss, "n man Then on again, talking of our

with a great racing future"; and Lord Howe, "h great gentleman That, he said, in entled A driver"; and of the Italian, They observe the strict] They spend the time telling Christianin, a racing trick he French, and German stars he has rule of silence from the time

leir rosaries, in meditation Invented when his front brakes met and defeated. of their arrival each Friday receiving the sacraments

and prayer, attending Mass, | Jammed.

By long controlled skids at evening until sundown on Just strolling in silence, Only very high speed he showed how Sunday. No telephone calls an occasional trafe noise from he keeps another car from pass- are allowed. There is no nutside breaks the peace of the Ing him on benda and turns. radio. And no newspapers monastery.

Donkey carta, peasants, and |may be brought in.

were open to normal traffic.

SWAPPED TYPEWRITER FOR CAGEFUL OF LIONS

By Derry Moran

Dublin.

Lots of people hate their office jobs, but most only gripe about it. Ray Walker was different. Four years ago she swapped her typewriter for a cageful of lions. Today, slim, pretty and soft-spoken, Ray is a lion tamer known for her top-of-the-bill act throughout South Africa, the Con- tinent and Britain.

TRYING HIS LUCK

Back at Palermo his friends rected us wide-eyed. The great Nuvolari had shown the secrets of his technique to a strangert And the no-interview man had talked freely? Unbellovable!

Nuvolari just grinned: “I was

--(London Express Service)

Father Commas Shaughnessy said: "Our retreat is so taxed dogs flashed by, for the roads in the mood," he said.

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that we are turning score away Every week-end. We absolutely swamped. The men come here simply because they must get closer to their God.

A MONSTER

"These laymen know that selence has become a Franken- steln monster. Its growth utterly shorn of the commonsense Jaws of momilly. They know, too, that prayer and meditation can do wonders for one's peace of mind."

Some

50.000

"retrealants"

are

now

have already sojourned at the helping to raise funds to build

monastery. They

new and larger retreat house for others who wish to go. Retrentants

recent works

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Presbyterinn and

Ever since childhood Ray of nerves for the entertainment have Included 143 Protestants had a way with animals, but of the public, Ray says,

Nor does Ray belleve the

it wasn't until she was theory that a cat is useless once "bored to death" with an it tastes

Contact ministers.

So great is the pressure at human blood. She week-ends that many men have ។ office job in South Africa nows what it is to be manled- to sleep on the floors and In

that she handled a cat larger! and go home with the blood-corridors," than hearth rug size.

H. D. E. BARTON cheeks the rope aboard his five-ton sloop Vertue XXXV, in Lymington, England. Barton and a friend will attempt to cross the Atlantic Occan to prove what a well-designed, small yachɩ can do.

Only once before has so small a vessel made the

3,600-mile crossing. (Acme)

K.

TUCCI DEAD,EN?

CANNON

THE NAME RINGS A

BILL, USED TO RUN

A PLACE IN PARIS (2

ALWAYS HAD AN EYE

FOR THE GIRLS...

/DUI, M'SIEU. HE WAS

A BAD LOT.. FEW

TEARS WILL DE SHEO)

FOR ZUCCI!/

/

INSIDE TIPS

stained cut across her torn Anees in a taxi. Such was her Sire was fresh out of the Cxperience In downtown Cape-

A ship's bell starts the day's British Women's Auxiliary Air town, when a lion she had made

At discourses pet of turned savage.

routine at 6.30. On a Force, looking for adventure on shopping trip with Ray his leash during the

week-end, Father small gratuity but getting no tangled in a lamp standard and the problems amicting re D11

Commns probes all manner further than another office job-ne thought she was stranging

of

Then she saw a circus and him. Only the collapse of the the "outside"-business dimeul- fear of decided to try a lung shot. To standard saved Ray from a ties, marijal troubles.

mental or physical liness, war her amazement the found her severe mauling.

and the rest of war. [self in sole charge of 10 lionesses !

and a tiger, a fresh from the jungle,

on the

understanding DUAL PURPOSE the "Retreat League,"

Jihat if she could train them she

was in the elreus business.

Six months later she had her! own act on the rond. For two years she toured South Africa, Then she met a lauky Aus- frallan vaudeville actor named Michael Lane, whose aversion for lions was overcome by his feelings for their trainer. Find- ing marriage a whole-time job. Ray disposed of her lions and went to Australia for a year.

BACK IN LONDON

Then, back in London. she begun touring British music halls and variety theatre with a team of lions someone else had trained.

After a tour of Germany, Ray handed them over and came to the circus's winter quarters in County Dublin to collect and train her own team of lion cubs,

Now she is on the road agnin with a team of five Irish-born tions whose numes were chosen from the pages of Irish history -Red Hugh, Owen Roc, Sars- Beld, Finbar and Kevin

Ray is proud that her act is different-no cracking whips, upraised chair or phoney force-

DCAS.

No on-tamer worthy of the note will work cats into a state

A NEW ADVENTURE-WITH WHISPER

My Dear Wife

me for taking THIS WAY out, but it is "Forgive the ONLY one for ME! I can no longer fact up to the FINANCUL MESS I am m You lov

TELLS CANNOY RUIN HE FOUND THE BODY OF ML, BUCCIAI

IT SOUNDS 50 UNLIKE „ZUCC

TO KILL HIMSELF..HE WAS

A TOUGH BIND¦..TOD TOUGH → NOT TO GET MONEY BY HIS

OWN MEANS. WHAT DO dam, YOU SAY,VIDOLQ?/

SHAPELY Marie Wilson went down to the beach at Santa Monica, California, to try this cartwheel hat for size.

Designed for beach wear, it also can be used as a shield against the enthusiastic stares of male passersby who may not be interested in just millinery... (Acme)

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Mr D. J. Askin, chief of a: Brooklyn Jorry firm, is head of "The movement."

ement," he said. "is nation wide.

There tremendous upsurge of interest in closed retreats, It is the inost interesting phenomenon in American religious life-a very healthy sign,"

-(London Express Service) ·

GRAVES OF

BRITISH

SOLDIERS

Annual report of the Im- perial War Graves Commis- sion for the year ended;

TAKING

IT

EASY

MONIELE Goddet, French showgirl, bares her shoulders to the sun at Sestrieres, Italy, and com pletely relaxes amid the beautiful snowy background of the famous resort. The dark-haired girl takes her sunshine standing up. (Arme)

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March 31, 1949 states that BRITISH MADE- among cemeteries completed) during that period were Acroma (Knightsbridge) in Cyrennien, where the build- ing of Tobruk and Benghazi cemeteries is' well under way.

Cemeteries were also finished al Catania in Sielly and Dieppe (Hautot-sur-mer), which con- teins the graves of many killed in the Dieppe raid of August 11042.

There had been a great in- crease in people visiting wor An offer of the cemeteries. Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to maintain permanently free of British war graves in

bourg had been accepted, i

By the end of the year the Commission had recorded 332,000 British Commonwealth graves

the were in of which 78,000 United Kingdom. It was estimated that totai casualties approximately 300,000 and the total graves 340,000,

To the lots of civillan war ceod had been added the names of internces, who died in captl- vity in the Far East, and these brought the total to 05,000.

were

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