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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1957.
CARNIVAL NOT EXCUSE NEW FRENCH JET
FOR SCANTY
CLOTHING
Bonn, Feb. 20.
The West German Carnival Federation wants women revellers to return to the centuries-old traditions of the Carnival this year, rather than make the merry- making an excuse for too-scanty costumes.
"The
whole purpose of the protect the city around 1780. Carnival," says Herr Thomas According to popular tradition, Liessem, president of the they soon merely sat on the city Federation, is to dress up not walls and knitted, to get undressed. The point of Bande,
made
up largely of the parades and fancy
drums, accordeons and triangles bails LA Lo
wear fantastic accompany the procession, costumes antt masquerade as Large
Boats
caricature topical someone you are not. If you events or prominent persons. get undressed, you are more The next day, Rose Monday, yourself than ever."
dress
An
bigger even
procession blares is way through the cft. about 700,000, tradi- | Apart from the populate
sushe 1,000,000 visitors crowd lato Cologne on that day.
The Carnival, which tionally marked the last days of merry-making before the rigours of Lent, will this year
teach ita climax in the three "foolish
daya" from March 3 to B. On March 6, Ash Wednes day, merry making gives way to the austerity and fusting of Lent.
LOCAL SOCIETIES
The Catholic Rhineland is the real home of the German car
Pedestrians are often swept. along with the procession or eddies hither and thither. carried with the crowd as it
toss
The flose Monday procession in Cologne stretches for about three miles and takes more than
hours to three
It is pass punctuated by floats, from which camival personalities
adly sweets, flowers, or bottles of scent Germany and Westphalia, For and elude, about 30 bands. centuries, the festivities have Ax
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These met iti private and public sexdona hear comic songs and impromptu speeches In the broadest of local dialect, making fun of local dignitaries, their weaknesses and failures. The
societies
awarded also "carnival orders" consisting of
medals to
anyone who, they considered, had helped to bring some fun into the drab routine of everday life,
large cardboard and Lingel
In 1833, these local societies linked up in the Federation now led by jovial Herr Liessem, who explains that the stop was taken because carnival traditions were being forgotten.
"One town would simply copy the customs of another if it took a fancy to them," he explained. "Women, perhaps under the in- fluence of the WRT, were com- fancy dresen balls and festivities in practically no clothes at all."
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In a programme of guidance, drawn up in 1954, the Federa tion laid down that "the dress of people at festivities should at all
says that the
times be decent.
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Liessem
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that he has now reissued the warning to make sure that It is observed. "Not that we ob ject to a woman's pretty leg," he adds.
SHORT SKIRTED
A shart-skirted
drum- majorette, for example, 15
ssential
wwery Carnival procession.
10
Strictly speaking, Carnival begins in November, on the eleventh day of the cleventh mouth at eleven minutes past eleven o'clock In the evening. This is because eleven was con- sidored the "number of madness" and camival time Is the season
when normally stoild citizens pride themselves on their mad abandon to fun and foolishness,
On the "eleventh in the eleventh" the carnival societies meet, wearing jester's capt, élect "His Foolishness, the local Carnival Prince and his Princess, and plan the son's activities.
The festivities on
45
this day were cancelled at the last minute for this
season, however, because of the situa→ tions in Hungary and the Middle East
Then all is quiet until after the New Year, when the ball season opens and the Camiyal societies meet again to hear the carnival Bonga and speeches, delivered from
B barrel rostrum
On the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday, there comte the "Women's Carnival." Bottles of wine, spirits or beer are smuggled into shops and offices, Chinese lanterns dangle from the lamps and festoons of gar- Jands are put up everywhere. the
normal business of the day is replaced by revelry and dancing
A man entering a shop may be asked to dance by the first shop girl ho moots.
If he i lucky, he then gets what he came in to buy,,
FIRST OF SEASON During the last days of the Carnival, the Mayore of Cologne and other cities hand over the keys of the city to the focal Priner Carnfýbl. Prince Car nival's Town Hard "storms" the local
in Cologne, the fint big pro cession of this sensor takes place on the last Sundiny before Lent. Up to half of the popula tion
may like part in it. The ken watch.
Costumer are komic, grôléeque or Just colourful One group regularly, done liberodunt. Torm of 100 pont Cologne civle guard which used to
Merry-making and dancing usunily go on all through the night.
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On Tuesday morning, after a few hours steep, people returns.A., 0 p.m. to the streets, milling aimlessly, until the evening when dancing drinking and fon start all over again.
On this day, however, festivi- les slop at inidnight, For the Carnival is over and Lent has begun.
People living near the Rhine sometimes go then to the banks of the River to wash their
purses which, in the true spirit of the Rhineland Carnival, aro supposed to be empty by that time.Ching Mall Specint
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Express Photo.
'KRUGER MILLIONS'
BOERS SAY BRITON'S
QUEST
Another search
HOPELESS
Johannesburg, Feb, 20.
is being made for the "Kruger millions" in spite of warnings by two prominent Boer War veterans that they exist only in the imagination of treasure hunters.
Many unsuccessful searches Smuts later agreed that the idea have already been made for that President Kruger had this hoard of guld reputed to buried millions was fantastic." have been buried, on the orders Mr do Wet added that it was of President Paul Kruger before probable that President Kniger he went into exile in Holland took a substantial amount of after the British victory in the gold bullion with him to Holland Boer War
to pay for tl.o maintenance of muh who was lu
close la entourage, and the upkeep of touch with the Boer command the Republic's representative et at the time when the Kruger the Hague. millions are said to have been hidden gave his version of the story in Pretoria recently.
Last Survivor
The conclusion of Mr N. J. de Wet, 83-year-old former Chief Justice of the Union, was that those who search for the Kruger treasure-trove "might Just as well go searching for the man in the moon."
Mr de Wet was on General Louls Botha's staff as Military Secretary from after the fall
Pretoria, in June 1900, until the end of the Boor War. He is the only surviving member of General
Botha's last Cabinet and General Jon Smuts first
DENMARK Cabinet,
AGAINST
SANCTIONS
in-
It was possible, however, that private hoards of sovereigns were buried for satokeoping in the Transvaal during the war by farmers and others.
To this statement is added the story of
Maarten Spies,
Mr
former acting private secretary to President Kruger.
not exist," he said here,
The "Kruger Millions just do
"It la silly of people to think that the President should have Africa when he left the coun- burled the money in South
ry."
Out Of Country
Mr Spies belleves that most af the money was sent out of the country before the outbreak of the South African Wor. Some loft the country in 1900 in the care envoys set to Europe to Persuade France, Belgium, Ger
to help the my and Holland Boer's in their fight against the British. The rest was taken out South Africa by President Kruger when he sailed in the
On June 10, 1900, a few days before tho
British forces reached Pretoria, Mr de Wet, then Assistant Siate Attorney, and General Smuls were ordered by General Botha to clear the banka in the town and the mint of a coah and bullion.
"The cash we collected from Gelderland. the books and the money from the Mint, including heaps of un-
"Apart from a31 this." Mr
Copenhagen, Feb. 20. Denmark will not join in ony military or economie sanctions against Israel, the Danish Pre- mier
and Foreign Minister, ninted sovereign blanke, could Spies saith, 'money was also Hans Hansen, said today.
not have amounted to more thand to help wounded and dis- The Danish delegation to the several thousand pounds," Mreased BOUTS leaving South United
has been Nations
Africa to go to Holland." de Wet said. "There were to to vole structed
against the millions in Pretoria In those deter a 75-year-old retired Bri- But these explorations do not application of any sanctions days." against Israel,
Hansen sald
The
used to pay money whs "The Danish Government be- commandos which had retreated lleves the state of Israel has the cast of Protocis and to buy right to demand that mea urgently needed supplies from sures be taken to ensure free Lourenco Marques in Portuguese navigation without bindrance East Africa. in the Gulf of Aquba and to
the prevent
continuation numerous guerilla attacks," declared-France-Presse,
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
NOW, WHAT'S ALL THIS?
By Mik
72-13
By Ernie Bushmiller
GOOD
TO BE BACK IN HARNESS AGAIN, EM 2.
IM SIRKI JARAK REACHES FOR THE MIKE FATALLY RIGDED WITH A POISONED KERPLE IN THE ON-OFF: BUTTON?
By Frank Robbins
1 AND THEN AS JOHNNÝ ŽIŠNALO SNAP WITH HIS KNEB,
BOTH BOYS SWING INTO ACTION A
"If anyone should have knowe of about the Kruger millions," Mr he de Wet said, "It was General Botha. Yet both he and General
There's More than Maait
about CADBURY'S...
HONG KONG Favourite Chocolates,
CUTEX
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AND
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DAIRY BOY
with the wonderful centres
this situatian
calls for
San Miguel
tish Arthy offler, Major Harold Herbert Vincent, who arrived here recently by air, to start a 'new: search for the Kruger milliare.
Major Vinlocat with the Anuncial backing of an American lawyer, is one of three partiers in the expedition Special in-
including strumenta
Geiger countere will be used in the search
Before setting out for the easiera Transvaal Major Vin- cent, sun-tanned and sony, de clared: "From information given me while I was serving during the South African Wür billion is hidden in a cive on a farin in the Lydenburg dis trict."
Has No Doubts
the
He is working on a statement by a man who told him that ho had helped to hide the Kruger millions,
"I have no doubt that there is a cache of gold coins in the area we intend to search,” he sald, The
glod is valued at between £4,000,000
£5,000,000," — Chíná Special.
and
Mol?
Counsel Asks
Charges Be Dismissed
New York, Feb. 20, Counsel for Jack and Myra Soble, charged with spying for Russia, Bled motions la Fedein! Court today asking dismissal of most of the charges against them ori
government evidence.
RECESS
George Wolf asked for 'dis- [missal of the first count of the spy indictment, which carries the death penalty on conviction, on the grounds that the cspionage statute was phrased in language "50 vague" and uncertain and
it violated indefinite that i Fifth Amendment. Ha axleed for dismissal of all but one of the other
the
counts of the six-count bill on the grounds that they did not stalo sufficient facts to cod- stitute an offences against the United States.
The one count to which he made no objectión, charged con- spiracy to acquire· US üblerièn secrets and to Induce theirs to do so,-United Prèss,
Japanese Mission
Peshawat, Feb. 20. A four-man mission fron the Japanese textile machinery manufacturers association, ar- rived in Peshawar today on a five-day tour of the Northwest Paklatan frontier.
Tho
Japanese group will ombr expert technical assistance - to bextile milis in the region which davo installed Japaniso. má chinery.
During their stay they aro ex- pected to vilt the Khyber PAND
herboauty
France-Presse,