Concern About ‘Nessie’

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32360, 28 July 1970, Page 17

Concern About ‘Nessie’

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, July 27. Pollution will kill the Loch Ness monster if it is not already dead, according to Mr Douglas Drysdale, a lecturer at the College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy, London. He told reporters that he had analysed water samples from the rivers and streams that run into Loch Ness, and found the water polluted to the point where it must reduce life in the loch. “I am a firm believer in the Loch Ness Monster," he said, “and I don’t think it could survive this level of pollution. The loeh waters are always murky, which is one reason why most visitors never sight the monster." But the Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau, which keeps track of official sightings of the creature, described the pollution theory as nonsense. A Spokesman for the bureau said: “If the pollution is as bad as Mr Drysdale suggests, why, have the fish not died? Besides, Nessie was sighted again last night" Fatal Blast A South Vietnamese soldier accidentally dropped a handgrenade in a theatre in Ban Me Thuot a provincial capital in the Central Highlands, killing seven people, including himself, and wounding 30 others.—Saigon, July 27.