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SATURDAY JULY 29, 1933.

WHEN NAZIS CAME TO OBERAMMERGAU

JEWISH PROBLEMS OF THE FAMOUS PASSION PLAY

attached to the household of the VILLAGE IMPERVIOUS TO HITLERISM

President of the Republic..

This officer, a General of the old- fashioned type, has a cordial 'dis- like for the journalists accredited to the Elysee, and this feeling is as cordially returned.

began to snore.

(By G. E. R. Gedye.)

Oberammergau." village. No, no; I am a good Ger "Criminal outcasts from the most man, and I believe something like

came what is happening now in Germany

Recently the General accompanied desperate of peoples once President Lebrun to Rodez for the together in the desert under the was inevitable. The Nazis will be unveiling of a monument to the local leadership of the law-giver Moses, inclined to help forward, this 300- poet. While the brother-poets of and formed the Jewish people." So year-old tradition of our village."

I had read in the Nazi organ, “Der Herr Georg Lang, the producer, the deceased bard were declaiming

Sturmer."

spoke at his woodcarving bench. their verses to the attentive Presi

There came to memory a tiny, "Herr Hitler himself," he said, "at- dent, the general fell asleep and world-famous village, hidden in the tended the performance in 1930, and

Bavarian Alps, where I had once was exthusiastic." The journalists in the entourage geen walking shamelessly in the of the President seized their oppor-streets the most perfect examples of It was the man who at the last tunity. The sleeping general was the criminal outcasts from the performance depicted, and surely in photographed in a ludicrous posture, most desperate of peoples" that the the next will again depict Christ, and the photographs were subse-modern world can show, with their Herr Alois Lang, who revealed the quently exhibited to the martinet. long hair, high foreheads. and actual effect of the Nazi revolution

Since then the General has adoptaquiline or slightly hooked noses. on the Passion Play.

Press.

Nazis Chose Actors.

new

system

of

ed a more gracious attitude towards

By tens of thousands people have "This summer," he said, "we are the representatives of the French flocked to this tiny Alpine village to play a two-and-half-hours' rell- with its painted house-fronts, to see gious drama of great. force, which them. Oberammergau lies not three shows how the Passion Play arose. hours journey from Munich, We should have already started re- Clara Zetkin The lavisible. Only three weeks before my own'hearsals, but politics have interven- visit I had heard Julius Streicher, ed. The actors are selected by a The veteran German Communist, the Nazi high-priest of anti- committee based on the Municipal Clara Zetkin, has just died in the Semitism, announce that "Be mar-Council. Owing to the political former country mansion at Archder of Golgotha, which had gone change, a new council has to be

The unpunished for 2,000 years," would elected. angelskoy-once the most splendid in Russia-which has for some years been employed as a rest home be visited upon the Christ Gleichschaltung (equalisation) pro- murderers." How, I wondered, vides that every municipal council for revolutionary workers.

would all this have affected the vil-shall be reconstituted according to A dozen years ago Clara Zetkin lage which lives by its depiction of the relative strength of parties gave more trouble to the police of the "Christ-murderers" of Golgotha? after the elections of March 5, when Politics Come Is.

the Hitlerite victory swept the the world's present state, dare half a dozen European countries The China Mail

Not at all, was the first impres-¡country." give up its own wheat production than the most audacious bank rub-

"Adn how does that work out in and rely wholly on foreign sup-ber or international confidence mansion I gained at Oberammergau In

She had a talent, remarkable in the bookshops there was an absence Oberammergau?" Hong Kong, Saturday, July 28, 1933. plies. The larger considerations

"The National Socialists," he re- of-national safety and prudence a grey-haired, motherly old woman of the big photograph of Hitler forbid. But European countries who looked so docile a German which is an obsession with the shop-plied quietly, will have a majority Restricting Wheat must contrive, if possible, to pre-hausfrau, for making a dramatic keepers of Munich. There were the of one on the council. The counell vent increased home sowings as appearance at a public meeting, all same pictures of Passion Players as will elect the Mayor. Then we Production.

prices tend to rise, while the ex- the doors and windows to which of yore, the same carvings of the select the players, and

at full pressure with porting countries must see that were vigilantly guarded by police. Crucifixion, of the disciples, and of ahead Yesterday's cables announcing the results of a restriction of She accomplished this feat some jovial Bavarian peasants. Doubtless hearsals to make up for the time that the prospects have improve acreage are not offset by an in-years ago as successfully as a music-this village was too remote from lost."

the main trail, of politics to have. "And the Mayor will be a Nazi ?” ed for reaching a restriction creasing intensity of cultivation. hall magician.

German by the

"Presumably that will be 60." agreement between the leading Russia, again, is another unac- There was a sudden stir in the been touched

"And the same committee," 1 wheat-exporting nations, and the countable factor in the problem, hall, the doors were locked, and the upheaval.

When they After dinner a call at what was observed, "will select the players news that the United States Gov-for Russia thinks nothing of ex-lights switched off. ernment is taking drastic action porting wheat, if financial exig-were turned

there was obviously a popular village inn par- for the next Passion Play of 1934, to enforce President Roosevelt's encies compel, even when whole Clara Zetkin on the platform, her lour. The plump landlady seemed so that in the end it is the National. acreage reduction scheme indf-provinces are in the grip of fa-arm upraised, ready to harangue hard of hearing, for she threw up Socialists who will decide on the cata that the outlook for wheat mine. In relation to wheat the audience.

her hand to her ear as if to catch allotment of the roles in this Pas farmers is not altogether hope-dumping President Roosevelt's After her speech the hall was my greeting of "Gruss Gott," the sion Play of Jewa?"

A Bavarian abbreviation of "In the Alois Lang smiled. "Well, yes, it less. One of the few practical re- Minister of Agriculture recently lagain plunged into darkness. sults achieved at the World Eco-threatened that the United States few hours later she had been smug-name of God, greeting." It seemed can be put in that way. But nomic Conference was that the might dump its surplus aboard if gled across the frontier in a car. four great wheat-exporting coun-the other wheat-growing coun- tries have come to "an agree-tries did not co-operate in a crop- ment in principle on the policy reduction plan. That threat will of temporary adjustment of pro-now be unnecessary, and there is duction and trade to world de- every prospect that wheat prices mands," Canada, the United may be restored to more normal States, and the Argentine had levels. been near agreement for some Itime. It was Australia's objec

tions which have been hardest to

The Mist Of Space.

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Facts You Did Not Know.

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strange that she was so keen to sure the members will choose, as in catch 8 mere formal greeting, the past, the men, best fitted by though. And what was it the talent and character to play the parts. Soine changes there will gesture. reminded one of?

Behind the bar stood the youthful have to be. We shall need a new 800 of the house. What was he Mary Magdalene, for the last one Nearly 80 per cent. of the 18,300.also hard of hearing? For he flung has married, and therefore forfeits 000 residents of Yugoslavia engaged in agricultural pursuits.

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up his hand to his ear also as the her right to take part in the play. door swung open again to admit-But that we shall give a minimum young, man in brown shirt and cap, of twenty-eight performances be To prevent food burning or stick-breeches and leggings, the black-tween May and September, 1934, is overcome, since she has been burdened by no large carry-over,

Only a few years ago inter-ing a perforated false bottom has white-and-red Swastika armlet on already settled."

son were deaf-they were Hitler- The last "notable" to be question- like Canada and the United stellar space was supposed to be been invented for cooking utensils, his arm. No, neither mother: nor Anton Lang's Belief. ¿

ites, according to every comer the led was Anton Lang, probably the States. The idea, therefore, of empty a perfect vacuum. The restricting acreage was the theory of the expanding universe Bituminous roofing materials are conversational" version of the most famous "Christ" Oberammer-

salute. Hitlerite

(Continued on Page 12). roughly repugnant to the Austra-has made it necessary to re-tested in an English laboratory by

was not exempt. lian wheat-growers, and they are examine that assumption. There exposure to artificial sunlight.

The Jewish Parts.

BABY BOY THOUGHT to come into the scherne on dif-are skeptics who refuse to believe ferent lines from the others, in a space that is being blown up

More than half the weight of Next morning I asked some of TO BE GIRL. Australia, in fact, will not de-like a soap bubble and still less,

some silk textiles is composed of the famous personalities of the crease her acreage, but will re-as Eddington holds, in a cosmntin salts with which the silk is Passion Play how far the Nazi re-

Nurse Makes Strange įtreated. strict her exports, and she guar-that has exploded. Far-distant

volution had affected the prospects

Mistake. antees that any surplus shall be nebulae rushing away with speeds

of its performances. To each I put denatured. It therefore will not of 12,000 miles a second and thus

A government radio control board the question:

"Will the anti-Semitic wave, in

Cologne. enter into the reckoning of the confirming the doctrine of expan

take over world's supplies. Mr. Bruce, who sion what business have we to has been appointed to so stoutly supported the Com- believe in them. We are on the broadcasting activities in New Zea- Germany react to the detriment of The ponderous wheels, of the law your play, either through officialdom have had to be set in motion at monwealth view, is to be congra- earth, sitting in an observatory; land.

frowning upon this representation Cologne to change a boy into a girl. of Jews by the Oberammergau. It is all due to a remarkable mis tulated on finding an acceptable our instruments are on the earth; way out of what threatened to be our observations are made at dis

Slightly larger than a book of peasants, or by the German public take on the part of a nurse. She an irapasse. This new policy of tances of millions of light-years restriction of acreage and con-expressed in long trains of cl-matches which it holds, & pocket ash being reluctant to witness it, or by told a very young father that his Have we any right to receiver for smokers has been in the players themselves being reluct-wife had presented him with a son. trol of export is only "temporary."phers.

ant to play the Semitic parts of The father, without further in- That removes a formidable set of say that this and that occurs far

the disciples, of Mary, Joseph, Mary quiry, rushed on to the registrar of objections, When the huge out on the confines of observable carry-over of surplus wheet that space? Let us look for dust, the French Indo-China maintains & Magdalene and of Christ Him- births. has killed prices is worked off skeptics argue, the kind of dust radio telephone service linking two self?" Among the interesting things Two days later the father again and it is currently believed that that accounts for our red sunsets of its cities to 11 countries in I learnt was that it will depend upon called on the registras this time

the Nazis' choice who is to play accompanied by the nurse. Christ, Mary, the disciples and all The nurse explained that the boy this may be done in two years-The dust has been found, al-Europe, restriction will presumably be though not wholly of the expect

other Jewish roles

was a girl In all her 20 years' abandoned. After all, the wheat ed kind. Dr., Struve at Yerkes experts are agreed that there is and Dr. Trumpler at the Lick mic dust, act as scattering "We don't believe," a municipal experience she had never made such no permanent over-production of Observatory, to mention but two screens. Just as dust in our air officer said, "that the new movement a mistake wheat, and that the alump. In of the more assiduous searchers, scatters sunlight and gives rise will at all harm us. Why should The registrar replied that in all

he had never heard such a story. prices is mainly due to the bump-leave no doubt on that score, to our azure sky, so the dust of anti-Semitic principles induce any his 40 years of registering births

"Is there any Jewish blood in the

Bome time will elapse before the er crops of 1928, and 1929, fol-Calcium and sodium there are a these nebulae causes them to ap-hostility to our Play lowed by reduced world con-plenty among the stars, and other pear a little blue. The astrophy- sumption owing to the universal Particles, too. A cubic light-year sicist is almost sure, now that villagers, so many of whom are the formalities necessary to change the depression. At the same time of the mist through which the they are composed of particles of living images of what we Imagine legal sex of the baby are completed. most of the wheat importing stars shine weighs about one sep-all sizes from elections to the Jews of Biblical times to have Renter and producing countries of Eu tillion tons, a number with grains, Eddington is convinced been?" I asked rope hurriedly thrust up their twenty-four ciphers. The figure that the cosmic cloud is the prime "As far as we know," came the duties to protect the home farm-is deceptive. A puff of smoke val stellar stuff and that nebulae reply, "no real Jew has ever lived ers. What will happen now? from a pipe would have to fill a are but the first steps in the here. We are just Bavarian moun- The official statement bluntly space of a thousand cubic miles formation of Milky Ways with tain perzants." saya: We recognise that the to produce the filmy haze observ millions of stars and solar sys Herr Stuckl, guardian of the Isolation of the wheat problem do ed In comparison, the so-called tems. But the calcium cloud will Passion Play Theatre and depicter Magistracy yesterday with the pends on the co-operation of the vacuum of our electric lamps is not account for the apparent red-of the "Public Prosecutor of the theft of an envelope" containing European countries. Certain thick with matter. Strange redening of the outermost nebulae Jews, the Priest Nathaniel, said: 81,500 from Chan Luen, an em- roles Queen's Road Central, on July 20, ly, the overseas wheat producers sults follow from this discovery, the only evidence we have of "We shall none of me feel the least ployee of the Sun Ye Bank,- 188 have a ri to expect practical The nebolae, which may be but an expanding universe. It is reluctance to play our le

Our Judas Isas fine a Christian was discharged owing to insul co-operation No country,

cloud-like condensations of eps not the right kind of dust.

man in real life as we have in our ficient evidence.

News In Brief.

Leung Kau, a cabbage hawker, was charged at the Central