The Archive · 1934

THESE MONSTERS

Some Comfort for Scotland To the Editor of the "Nowr-Cuwa Dany News" si it possible you never heard 'Tue inter-provincial long distance telephone service between Honan, Hupeh, Shantung and Chibi has been inaugurated and is now in excellent working order, according to a Chine message from' Kaifeng. of Well, La Tarasque is a ferocious monster, dragon-like, which has its habitat in the southern course of the Rhone River, near the small town of Tarascon. A life size likeness of it is triumphantly carried in procession every year in all towns and villages having a claim to any importance 'n Provence for the merriment of the local children and their elders and also for the edification of all. people from the outside. (Between us, only French Meridionals can pronounce the monster's name with the proper accent)

Anyway, according to local annals, La Tarasque was born or discovered good many hundred years before the canny Scots had their frst glimpse at their Loch Ness uncanny monster and the new Lake Eamon (or is it

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