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Evening Star, Issue 19412, 22 November 1926, Page 15

A thief who thought he was breaking into the house of a family on holiday let himself into the Marseilles (France) office of the Secret Police, and walked irjto a room where there were five detectives. For the first time in fifty years the London Zoo has on exhibition a healthy young hippopotamus, very round and fat, and taking after his mother. He swims about the pool with her. and spends much of his time restfully beside some hot-water pipes. At present his mother is rather suspicions of strangers who approach the infant, but that will wear off. The infant, by the way, does not object to watered milk, for when he drkws his nutriment from what Mr Micawber called “ Nature’s founts,” he itog g*> while swimming jmda? sreteto