CONVINCED THERE IS A MONSTER

Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1947, Page 5

CONVINCED THERE IS A MONSTER

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,±v6CGlVeu xVlOllClclj y i .U p.iil, . LONDON, Alay 5. - . - Standing orlers were suspended by the Inverness County Couneil while the coiinty clerk, Mr. J. W. McKillop, deserihed how he saw the Loch Ness monster on Good Friday. Mr. McKillop said he had been sceptical about the presence of a monster but these doubts were dispelled by what he had seen, "l am firmly eonvinced there is something c|uite abnormal in the depths of the loch," he said: ' -It is capablc of extraordinary speed and it creates a disturhance in the water which suggests it must be oi' immense proport-ions. "' The Rev. William Graham, another memher of the council, said he also had seen the monster on another occasioh and was glad to*have Mr. McKillop 's confirmation. There could be no more trustworthy witness. "Nobody would believe me," said the Rev. Graham. "They wouldn't even believe nie when I said I had seen it from a tearoom and not from an hotel." Yet another clerical member of the council, the Rev. Dr. Alexander Mackinnon, said he too was certain of the existence of a monster and felt sure that the testimony of the conncif's chief execntive officer could not be doubted. 11 There is a cneature in the loch despite all the seorn scientifie. men pour upon it," he said. A lighthearted suggestion by another cbuncillor that the monster should be made an hpnorary memher of the council brought • the feply from the county clerk that -there was no provision for coopting monsters under the Local Clovernment Aet.