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For The Sultan
Rabat, Mar. 28.
Five hundred hand-picked negro bodyguards are to be partly motorised to provide Moroccan Sultan Sidi Mohamed ben Youssef with a crack “private army” in newly-independent Morocco.
The bodyguards form Morocco's imperial "black guard," a military body founded in the 12th century to defend Moroccan sultans against the Christian Crusaders from Europe.
Ben Youssef has given orders
whipping.
il
Guardamen can be sentenced that the French-ofeered guard to anything from prison to a inust "at all costs" remain separate from the new Moroccan national army, whose nucleus is
to be shortly
formed with French assistance.
According to French officers, The
pokrdsmen, nearly all re- crufted from primitive tribes.
are to be taught to ride molor- cyrles and to fire automatic weaponis
nitel
Possible Attack
10
14
Once, many years
Ago, Ruardsman was tossed into the Ilon pit of on carlier Sultan's private with one of the Imperial cor- cubines.
for
ZOO
for
misbehaving Peasant Finds
For the first seven years, no guardsman is allowed to marry, 11 is considered that a woman might detract from his loyalty to the Sultan. Later the body. guard may marry with the Sultan's permission.
Ancient
Temple
་
Corinth, Mar. 28. Heavy ruins have uncovered
an ancient temple, believed to of the Hellenistic period. Just outside the Corinth canal.
be
The bodyguards are engaged 1 provisionat period of six months, which is extended Into Arst four-year contract if their work
satisfactory. They may The black guard”
stay a muximum with its
of 15 years, elaborate green-braided, scarlet although this period may be uniform, multi-coloured turbans extended with the Sultan's per-
white
galters
one misston of the most
colourful sovereign's guards in the world today.
its duties in recent years have geta escort the Sultan on ceremonial occasions, and guard his cream-walled palace is the heart of Rabul day and night against possible attack.
The bodyguards 10 this day wear the uniform designed In 18BD by a Scoltish captain called Harry McLean who was hired by the Sultan to reorganise the guard
and give it a new, at- tractive
uniform Many of the giant guardsmen wear belts with the original steel buckle. inscribed,
After the rain had uncovered al McLean's orders, with the motto
the foundations of the temple, "Dieu et Mon Drok," the same twenty
non-commis. two peasants reported the find 03 on Britain's royal cost of sioned officers.
to an archaeologist in Corinth, Some NCO's are also recruited
who from the
will shortly conduct a guardsmen-China Mail Spe- detailed investigation on the
spot.-China Mall Special.
aring
When
the unit was first funded,
guardamen were re cruited from the Gold Coast, shipped to Murocco in chains as slaves, and sent to fight the Sulton's waru. Screaming, and flushing sabres over their heads, they abruptly ended the career of many
A stalwort
young Crusader.
140,00 Force
Only the biggest slaves were used, the rest being put to menial tasks in the sumptious palaces of Fez and Marrakesh.
Early in the 18th century, Moulay Ismael, one of Morocco's greatest sultans, expanded the
"Post maturity" in post-slave body Into A crack,
poned to 3rd of May 1956 in
stead of 29th March, 1966.
C. H. KUAN, (Sd.)
Hon. Secretary.
H.K. Chinese Medical
Association.
140,000-strong force.
When Marshal Louls Lyautey pacifed Morocco in 1912, the guard followed the Sultan to a new palace in Rabat, where he would be safer than in Fez, which was considered to be too close to the traditionally anarchical tribes of the Riff and Atlas mountains.
Marshal
Until
Lyautey's
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES arrival, the guardsmen were all
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Since 1912, however, recruit- ing has been carried out only among Morceans.
Physical Condition
Each year,
a roving com- mission of French officers, and senior native non-commissioned officers of the black guard goes Into outlying country and moOLLET- tain districis in search of tall, black-skinned Moroccan youths, aged at least 20.
The bodyguards are recruited because of their physical con dition and the colour of their skin.
To counter charges of press- gonging commision members retort that there are often as many as 20 or 30 candidates in each village, of which two or three only
can be picked. The on in rd today consists of "platoon" of 300 cavalry breeds of Syrian and Moroccan Allas horses, cach platoon with its own colour of horse.
Some horses are donated to the guard by admiring tribal chieftains.
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The guards
even have their own artillery, three 70- millimetre horse-drawn French guns, which are used to fire official salutes, and to announce the Remmadan, the Mosiom's an- nual fast period.
Each
Friday, a
column of mounted black guardsmen draw their subres and, swinging the weapons over their heads, clear. a pasange among the surging cheering crowds for ben Yousef to travel from the palace to the white-washed mosque in the palace, grounds, for weekly
prayor.
The Sultan dispenere justice personally, as the guard how no written code of disciplinë,
Seven Officers
Guardsmen are encouraged to marry the daughters of senior colleagues, because this w[l] produce dark-skinned children who can one day be recruited into the corps.
The guard is commanded by seven French officers, and
cial..
French
A first Inspection by archaeo- logists indicated that the ruina of the temple are about 10ft by 6/11
On the left side of the temple there is what La belleved to have been an altar in a separate buliding.
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Five-Power Conference
Editor Invents
Fire - Power alsarmament talks between Britain, France, the USA. Canada and the USSR, opened last week at Lancaster House, Pictured is a general view during the in- augural ceremony showing the Soviet delegation, left, the US delegation, facing camera, the British delegation, right, the Canadian
right delegation, fortground, the French dete- Eation, left foreground. ---- Ex- press Photo.
Amateur Pest Exterminators
Wellington, Mar, 28. Opossum hunting in Now Zealand has proved a profitable pastime for weekend funters:
The Governmet pays a bounty of 2s 6d per token strip of skin to encourage extermination of the opossum which is regarded In this country as a pest.
Matsumoto Reporting
Mr
On Talks
Mythical Town
TEACHING SWEDES TO LAUGH AT THEMSELVES
Stockholm, Mar. 28.
The paper with the steadiest circulation in. Sweden today is Groenkoepings Veckoblad, the news-sheet which teaches. Swedes to laugh at themselves.
The Veckoblad is the chief news organ of the tiny town of Groenkoeping (literally "Green Borough"), and its immediate surroundings.
Groenkoeping is purported to, growing too fat, the Veckobiad be in South Sweden, but it can-pleaded with its readers' "to not be found on any map.. Its abolish stoutness bizarro inhabitants aro all Beti- people."
lous, although often strongly town doctor reminiscent of very important persons in the capital;
That many Swedes follow events in Groenkeeping with unflagging interest la due, says the Editor. Mr Seth Beemberg, to there being "Groenkoepings almost everywhere."
Satirical Forum
The
our
that
among Groenkoeping, escalators and lifts should im
proposed
mediately be abolished to save the nation's waist line:
Although Groenkoeping prides self on being founded 300 years ago, clocks stopped thers in 1000.
Photographs of the inhabitants show them
tha wearing dignified dress of the naughty ninetica, Their language is a mixture of stately speech and slong. Editorials are written This never-never town was in a special Groenkoeping style, invented at the beginning of the satirically similar to that of century by a group of Swedish official Swedish documents, humourists, who used it as a
Like most respectable weekly satirical forum in their efforts newspapers, the Veckoblad bas to liven up the Swedish press, its poetry corner.
Paris, Mar. 28.
The Veckobind Shunichi
Matsumoto, views, editorials chict of the Japanese delegation sements like at recent Russo-Japanese peace nowspaper. talks in London, left here by air for Tokyo today.
who arrived visit last
Mr Matsumoto here
on a private Sunday told reporters at the air- port he would make an im- mediate report on the Loadon to his Government when he arrived in Tokyo.
talks
He smBed
to declined questions.
Mr
broadly
answer
but further
Matsumoto
was accom-
rung
Sometimes in the of
World Politics
verdes inter- it publishes
version and adverti-Groenkooping
Esperanto Transpiranto." any other Threading their way in and out of its reports are such characters as the worthy mayor, the pompous policeman, the pro- fessional bad boy and the spinster poetess.
Their names and epithets, the latter always written in capital Sweden. letters, are household words in
The most frequently, queted Transpiranto Hine is a transla- Swedish national anthem. The tion of the opening of the translation sounds just as silly
in Swedish
as it looks in
EnglishVa paj, va paj, va farsipaj
Veckoblad
the th
no soon as a major event occurs in Stockholm, which the Veckoblad incidentally refers to dy "the Royal Capital,"
hostens to report the reac- paper tions
of the "Green burgers," Thus when
American Kinsey report on sex behaviour reached Sweden, the Veckoblad
for her views on sex..
Following up a report in the national press that Swedes were
the
One hunter has bought a motor-car with the result of his panied by Mr Tsubin Takahashi urnod to the Oldest Inhabitant bounties, and periodic colice- tions of up to £100 are not un- of the . Japanese commun.--China Mail Special, Ministry Reuter,
Foreign
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
A'DOGFIGHT" ATOP THE MEGA-- WITH THE GANG'S BOSS WATCHING FROM A SAFE DISTANCEL
SURE
STAGE
WHILE ON THE GROUND
TE HIM UP WHILE
I DO THE SAME TO, THIS
WILDCAT/
DOOR
KNOCK THEM DOWN!
FIGHT # FIGHT!.
By Mik
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MAGICIANS
Cana Carlsberg
If we were
any fresher
wed still be on the vine!
Libby's
TRY
TODAY
By Ernie Bushmiller
FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
Whizza
By Frank Robbins.
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WE'LL TAKE 'EM UP TO THE | THE ATTICS THEY WON'T TROUBLE US WHILE WI [COMPLETE OUR TRANSACTION
●WITH THE SPY KINGJ
it
the
deals in domestic news, t makes an occasional excursion into world politics.
Areport that the Russians had found the oldest mummy in the world was published s have found a mummy at least follows; "Soviet archaeologists. 3,000 years older then any his- belleve it or not, it has clearly torian can possibly imagine, and tattooed on its breast one word -kominform,
The
Two Days
mán. behind ino Veekoblad is 57 years old pro- fessional humourist Seth Brem- berg, who has run it since the twenties. Although Veckoblad meang weekly," the paper, true to type, only appears once
a month.
Mr Bremberg docs practically all the writing. himself and generally finishes the two-leaf sheet in two days, Speed, he
is essential as over
menco in Groenkoepingese
tends to take up his time and impede him in his other
The circulation of the Veckoblad is secret, Noedless to say, the Groenkoepingers them- selves read it to a man, hum
To be Groenkoeping-like is a Swedish Expression
nowadays
for
at impracticalness and
of
Despite all these
or perhaps because the inhabitants o Grekening. Have.
en d'etred. themselves to Swedes all over the world.
Some still beljeve that Groenkoeping really exists in some out-of-the-way corner of Sweden.
"Real" Applicant
: 30
ROWNTREES to have known in her youth.
MILK --CHOCOLATE WITH ALMONDS AND
· RAISINS
this situation
calls for a
Sau Miguel
At least Mr Brèmberg, sweats - that a Minnesota Isdy once wrote to him asking for the address
the Oldest Inhabitant, whom she claimed
And
when the
town apothecary advertland for an assistant Bremberg received a "real application addressed to Groenkoeping, South Bweden China Mail Special.
ABORIGINE DIES
AT: 110
Sydney, Mar. 28. Charles Dennison, an Austra Han aborigine reported to be 110 years old, died at Goondiwind today!
Ho leaves, 72
grandchildre
and 99 groat-grandchildren. His oldest son 14 84, his you barn to his four United Press,
PRISONERS RELEASED
Jordan Premier Sumár, today, ordered the
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