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*London, Sept. 16.
The British welfare state has brought the mass of the people everything except freedom, a church conference was told here.
Canon M." T. Dunlop, Director of Religious Education In Manchester, submitted a paper which was, read for him to the modern churchmen's union conference here. Ho is at present out of the country.
"The makers of our welfare, benevolence and condescension state, by the giving of their] that d dangerous number of fortunes and lives, have secured | thom have come to 'regard ever everything for the masses except | better pay and conditions es a freedom," ha gald.
self-evident right."
"From the fount of pity have flowed rights but not duties, claims but not obligations, benefits without sacrifice. The welfare has been taken, the State ignored, because the iden of natate with high respon- albilities has not been shared,
Canon Dunlop sald: "Most seriously the foundation of government by consent lis been washed away with the crosion of the independence of the individual to consent or to refuse.
"The workers have been for to long at the receiving end of
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
1. "TAIPING" Arrived 16th September, 1834
Canon Dunlop anid: "Self pity is an occupational disease of the miners and dockers, and is now infecting the rallwaymen. Few of them stop to ask whether in a planned economy with full employment the function of the trado union has not changed, so that, like a mediaeval gülld, it should be as concerned with standards und effelency as with pay and conditions.
"In other quarters the machinery of trade unionijum, proceeding by delegation and card votos designed for the sudden stresses of in- dustrial war, is used in the attempt to shape high domestic and foreign policy.
Striving
To Revive Marionette Art
Rangoon, Sept. 16,
A group of cultured Burmans is making great efforts to revive the art of the old marionette show in its pure and traditional form.
Whalers Wage Burma due, many people here declare, to the lack
There are only a very few shows left in
Demand
Rejected
CTOWE
of interest during the British Occupation.
In the days of the Burmese kingdom, the performers enjoyed the exclusive patronage of the rulera and it is hoped that the Burmese Government may be persuaded to give their patronage to restore part of Burma's national and cultural heritage.
Oslo, Sept. IB.
Even those shows which..can, passed a resolution calling for British
and
Norwegian
still occasionally be scon at a ban on all ballroom dancing Antarctic whaling
do pagoda festivals Or privato in Burma on the grounds thaḥ mands for ten per cent wage
are criticised by parties increases were rejected today by purists who say that
the it leads to immorality and le the pro-against all Burmoso custom. the International Wages
ducers are pandering to modern Arbitration Tribunal which has tastes when they should be been considering the claims hore
tradiummal this week.
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"This year's congress of operatives, in speaking for million people, decided by card, vote majority of six five lens for the unilateral banning of the hydrogen bomb and
preserving forms.
the
CUT-
NO LOVE SCENES
In the 17th and 18th centuries aven stage plays laboured under
The puppets were thus first used to by-pass this difficulty
No to
was not violated
Mr Ingvald Haugen, Chair- man of the Norwegian Seamen's Monkeys, which once repre.|this restriction and there were, Union, speaking on behalf of sented the inhabitants of the therefore, no layo qceries, the six British and Norwegian heavenly forests, are now given scamen's organisations
con-coloured jerseys and made 10 cerned, at once protested against ride bicycles, while one the tribunal's Judgment, but respondent writing to a local without offending anyone. Co-
said it would be
could take exception respected
by paper complained that he had the organisations members. been horrified to see
puppets, beautifully "stately Wooden The British and Norwegian and majestic elephants with dressed, whatever their capers, whaling
and morality organisations howdahs on crows
their backs, in demand for which had based their
richly gold-braided by their love scenes. wage increases
on the
fac! European officials sat wearing yet it may be doubted
ceived the same wage increases luces representatives are request shoppers had
many as 11,000 of co-operative
received
and by piffcers ever seriously ed to be present during survey.
were men of the merchant navy in weighed these matters or BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
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period. They oven aware of what was done Agents
prices had increased In their Australian-Orimtai Line L.ta.,
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per cent since 1950, while Special. China Navigation Co, Ltd.
whaling men had only received wago increases of 12 per cent. -Router.
Damaged cargo ex this veo win be surveyed by Mess Goddard & Dougins at Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf Godown at 10,00 am, on Monday 20th September and Tues- against rearming Germany, that whaling man had not co-spiked sun heimots,"
day, Zist Beptember, 1954, and con-
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
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SO WE GOTTA WORK YOU OVER/ LET HIM HAVE IT/ Hey--
FERDINAND
NANCY
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CHINESE FOR CZECHS
The originator of the art of Burmese marionettes belleved to have been Wungyi U Thaw who wa Mialiter for Court Enter- tainment to King New-Sin- Gu in the latter part of the 18th century.
From the start, the great- est akili has gone into the construction and dressing of these figures so that they will appear us lifelike a possible.
The puppets, when comploted, are to Western eyes the best and easily the most beautiful examples of indigenous Bur- meso art.
It is not known how he got the idea but it was perhaps
A special trick puppet... will suggested by a traveller from sometimes have as many as 60 Java, where puppets have been strings attached, and this used since the earliest times,
for those especially necessary which are made to do Burmane In the days of the Burmese
dancing which seemingly 4 mon and a woman aures of the use of every faint
act together in league for the first time since public unless they were man
** and muscle in the body, Some It was established in 1848, the and wife. Public displays puppets even havo separato
lat
The
London, Sept. 10.
Prague is to teach the Chinese would never Charles University in kings.
At the
same
of strings for each eyebrow.
The craft
Czech new agency Ceteka re | endearment were quito un- ported, 5th a chair for the Czech language
time, known and, Indeed, unthinkable.
This reticenco
of making these still 6th has been introduced at Feking in parts of Burma today. Re- families
prevalls puppets is handed down in University-China Mall Special,cently,
and the BATTA mert a meeting in Rangoon show uncanny skill in operating
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the, dolls while at the same time remembering long passages,” of difficult dialogue,
In the traditional form, there are 28 figures and, though they Ihave boen added to In recent years, these still form the basis for all puppet shows,
The figures include a king, princes and princesses, ministers of state, necro- astrologers,
mancers
Jesters, nata (spirita), ogres, tigers, elephants, horses atid always throng of chiting« 'ing monkeys.
Unlike
other' marionetto shows, which are usually garded as light entertainment, the Burmese lock on their par formances as classical art, pre senting full-length serious drama.
KNOWLEDGE NEEDED
The shows last all night and are divided into two parts. The first serves in much the same way ds the cartoons and short. Alms which precede the main feature in a cinema. It is DTO- vided to amuse the young and to attract an audience by giving some idea of what will happen in the second half-the classicat drama.
The audience if it is to un- derstand fully the
play must have some knowledge of the techniques and customs of the marionette drams. Little scenery is used and much le left to tho imagination, helped by the dialogue and the incidenat music of drums, cymbals, flutes, songs and clappers,
A few leaves held in bamboo sticks represents a forest; while one stick in the middle of the stage shows the boundary.. bơm tween two kingdoms. Winds, sforms, and the noise of the sea bro represented by the music.
At its best, the play shows all the beauty and elegance of |Burmer court manners and
customs, and it is for its hing. torical interest as well as for fia cultural value. that' efforis are being made to preserve. It in its best and traditional form. ---China Mall Special,
Geneva, Sept. 10, Swiss Dr lows, Thutter (left [ here: joday) don - Ghigor na: the représentative of the Red Giron Bocieties of 18 - naticja to ördinate' wallet supplieà - Córdo hundreds of thousands", oFAUCET fugees from North Vlatkami.
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