FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

JANUARY 22, 1945 A YouNG schoolmistress in North Scotland had just returned home when she saw a strange man standing outside a window. She went to the door and asked him who he was. He did not understand, so she asked him in Gaelic and French. Then she tried Latin. ‘Quis es?’ she said. ‘Germanus sum,’ the man replied. ‘Millia passum ad domum

ambulavi.’ (I am a German. I have walked several miles to the house). The airman had baled out of his plane. He gave the women his revolver and sat chatting in schoolbook Latin until an armed guard arrived. JANUARY 22, 1966 HIp-SWINGING Welsh pop singer Tom Jones was warned in Sydney tonight to tone down ‘suggestive movements’ in his show. A police inspector said he considered Jones’s act obscene and threatened to close the show.