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COLOURFUL CEREMONY

Bangkok, January 24.

A ceremony of extraordinary pomp and colour tho cromation of a king-will take place in the near futuro in Bangkok,

Plans are being formulated and scaffolding of a to- wering funeral pyre is being erected on a vast parade ground adjoining the royal palace for the first cremation in Bangkok of a King of

Thailand in a generation.

uffair with

Coronation

GERMANS STILL WAR-MINDED

Ashford, January 24. Brigadier Deamond Young. author of a biography of the Inte Fleid-Marshal Rommel, says that the Germans are still the milltary-minded.

nol

The date has not been set. be a private but with the expected return publié affelal

1931 from Switzerland in March of taking plaer until perhaps

when the king will return per- the present King Phumiphon

namently, werd it believed he the ceremony is expeled ไป

Switzerland will go back to

to follow shortly. The young king

continue his studies for another will offeinte at the riemation of

year his brother. the lote King Ananta

Subarquent coronation of present transet: in expected

the

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EUROPEAN MOVEMENT PROPOSAL

London, January 24.

The European Movement, an unofficial organisation of which Mr. Winston ChurchiB}, Britain's wartime Premier and leader of the Conserva. tive Party, is President, to- day urged the Council of Europe to create immedinte- ly & European body with its own political authority.

Through this stiliority

her States of the 'oeil would! deende un 11 cmmon poker of the of Math Fights, ex- relations

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King Anata died in 1940 of hoftes in the head. The Trial of the men charged with conspiring assassination has bem dragg-

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ang up fo. about two years. an SUD far from coeludo,

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AB 11s fome, the body of the Taking has rested i ຕ royal turk in o palnee grounds temple. It regularly visited by Siamese and others who karci on a carpet before the well-fighted altar.

When the day of the errina tion atives, a spectacle of planegetitel Oriental splendou

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Is 40 store for the vast throngs expected to attend

Under Thal Buddhist sites, the cremation of a king or 11 mem- ber of the royal family of high est rank takes place Within peetally-built pavilion called "Plan Meru

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Flights of steps to each side the square pavilion reach tu The enlin where the furerral assi

mocnf The tea need roof se shoply to a spur and the whole Lucitre glows with colour. mostly, gold Nearby are other pavilions fut the monks, chict Hauts and high personages

The royal vrn is of copper.

sheathed with

detachable layer of gold, heavily embossed

with and studded

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The meeting was attended by representatives from Aliated Danisations and national bodies Movement in of the European Belgium, Norway. Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. -Reuter.

ISRAEL

MINISTER

IN LONDON

London, January 24. Mr. David Herowtiz, the Israel Director-General of Finances, has arrived in London Al the

Lead of delegation of eight

for a series of talks.

three

The discussions cover subjects: the transfer of Asses and liabilities of the Palestine Mandatory Government to the

Israel Israel Government,

dc- posi amounting to about £30,- 000,000 now blocked In London, and oll questions.

The first two will be discussed al Governmental level, but the o talks will be with private in- terests. They will not cover the opening of the Halta pipo-line.- Reuter.

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a high terraced delicately carved and

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with gold, Surmounted on it wilt be the cat falque which shields the urn.

The ritun sometimes coils for noble to die in state in front of the gruvesion, seatlering rice as on offering to the spirit of the riend. Then comes a monk of stanzas of high rank reciting The Dharma A broad, white ribbon connects the chair of thi monk with the urn9,

he two men There may even aning elephants in the procem- sion. A hand of red-clad musi- cians playing ancient instrumu: ats th. and drums accompanies march. The musk is shrill, weird and funeral,

Scentod torches

Detachments of soldiers, com- panies of men dressd In medi- and eval costumes with shields

mourners, spears, and countless both men and women, also walk the funeral path.

At the cremation grounds the ura is borne three times around the Phra Meru and then pinced within. on the raised platform

then Relatives and close friends circle the urn three times in the tu- "uttaravatta" (left shoulder

This wards the centre) fashion. circling is deemed an admonition of the three worlds--earth, hea- ven and hell-unless they follow

break the precepts which cycle of rebirth.

the

The procession arrives in the late afternoon at the Phra Meru to permit the ceremonial lighting of the pyre in which all partiel- pate. Each person brings with torch of him, or is given, a scented wood which

been has cut into long, shavings or ribbons and arranged loosely on a central stem together with a few slicks of incense,

of

Now, the person

highest rank, the young King in this case, lights, his torch at a lamp at the foot of the stairs, and as- conds to place It among the fag- and gots of wood neatly glided varnished, under the urn. Other mourners follow his example,

Midnight ceremony

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All this, however, is purely seremonial, The torches quickly extinguished, That night, usually about mid- night, in the presence of only the closest of friends and of members of the family, the actual crema- tion takes place)

At the actual cremation the outer casing of gold and gems i removed and the top of the top- Fr urn taken off to permit the flames to go up Uirough it s through. 'Duc,“

The next maming” the nshes aro: collected' and placed in small decorated urn which

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The late king will then 'Lean' cremated and the new king Avlll be ready for his coronation,"

Associated Press,"

have

"I think they are much more

were military-minded than they offer the Orat world war," he declared in a talk at a buok show here yesterday.

"You are certainly not going

that, to change

certainly not while the shadow of war

banga

and

over Europe. And If they arc

Kenerals going to admire soldiers, they should admire the gxt ones rather than the bad.

"Since you cannot remove this military spirit from the German ace, you had better see if you can build on their soldierly vir- fue The best Germans have it," he saki.

Beigailler Young sold that some German generols and admirals hr had me "struck me as the best Lype

Germans." Assoclated Press

POP

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WHAT DO YOU

Yugoslavian warning to Rumania

ם

Delgrade, January 24. Yugoslavia today charged Romania with

-hostile polloy in sovering rail And mall communications with hor, And warned that the consequences of thie act would full on Rumante,

in a bristling note, Mar. shai Tito's Government sald Rumania atopped ali rall and mall services for one day. added: "In undertaking such споту And anil-Yugoslav acts, Rumania did not healtate to trample on her Barcelone And

ob. Goneva convention

ууда noto

to

igations." The

the handed

the Legation by Ministry --Unitod Prosm

Rumanian Foreign

BRITONS TURN

TO LEMONADE

London, January 24 The curse of strong drink -Its 13 driving the British 10 soft drink,

21

The National Association} Soft Drink Manufacturers report- ed today that the nation waked up 223,000,000 gallon of lemon- ade oni sticly in 1849.

This In twire The pre-wor isverige. So in the cost of bett and whisky. Associated Press

"THINK OF

BOBB#0 HAIQ

COLONEL

MANDRAKE THE MAGICAN

THE KID GLOVE KID IS SOMEWHERE

AROUND THIS HOUSE, CHIEF/

RIP KIRBY

CHICKIE,

JOB! HERE COMES SNOOPY

I BET EXE ONIICHED

ON BOTH OF US TO

MIES FAINE

POLICE WHISTLE? THE COPS ARE COMING! QUICK, VANCE, HIDE MES TURN ON THAT REDUCTION RAY!

DON'T BE SO HARD ON

HER, VAL...I LIKE MISS

MITCHEL

JOHNNY HAZARD

I'M NOT UNDERESTIMATING VELVET, PAL.....ONLY I KNOW JJUST WHAT "THE LITTLE LADY

IS GOING TO DO MA

JANE

IT'S CRAZY, BUT I BELIEVE 'You've GOT SOMETHING THERA, JENNY,

IM BURS

'1' HAVE,'

JAND?

OKAY, KID.

ITALIAN REDS' CAMPAIGN PLAN

Romo, January 24, With the year of the "great peasant revolt” behind them, Italy's Communist trado' union "chiofa have entered 1950. with a cortain fooling of satisfaction at past progross.

But they have a plan by which they hope to obtain more concrete results in their "fight for the im- provement of the condition of Italian workers" during 1950,

He brushed aside both na use- Burly, black-haired Signor

Vittorio,

had been one off lesa. Masa emigration Gluseppe di

and was still being tried, he said, the lending Italian Communis“

But what country, he asked, "in deputies and chief of th

tako millions willing to Italian Labour Confederation workers?"

which claims a membership of about 5,500,000, announced un "Economic Plan" to salv: Italy's dangerously bad cm- ployment situation.

Drawing a picture of the ex- treme poverty of workers in Italy, whone level of life can be describ- ed

as the "lowest in Europe," Signor di Vittorio stated that there seemed to be no solution to the country's unemployment problem.

Unemployed in Italy today total "without count- sono 2,000,000,

ing the thousands who work only part of the year and the old and Invalida meagrely pensioned or completely without means."

Two solutions, he said, had been suggested:

1. Mass emigration.

2. The "take solution" of re- Briament.

AM I GETTING SMALLER CAN'T FEEL ANYTHING-- BUT YOU SEEM TO BE GETTING BIGGER--

of

"Now oountries" like Aus- tralia, Canada, New Zealand had taken thousands of immi- grants, but they could not be expected to open their doors to the many other thousanda of unemployed and others un- able to get work in Italy.

Rearmament, he declared, might mean maximum employment and niso a return to the "bitter- ness of Fascism.

In these circumstances, Signor di Vittorio declared, the "Econo. mic Plan" drawn up by the CGIL (the Labour Confederation) and based on expanding existing Industries, opening new ones, re- claiming and at present unus- able and providing modern form machinery for the peasants, the only “insting solution," Reuter.

Game and set

I HAURNT TASTED

BUT 1 UKE

IT JUGGED!

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

IT'S WORKING,

KID. THEY'LL NEVER FIND

YOU!

WHY--HE'S DISAPPEARING JUST LIKE THE CHAIR! SHRINKING TO GERM-SIZE! IT'S INCREDIBLE

SORRY TO BREAK UP THE GAME..BUT YOU'RE LATE FOR CLASS NOW, VALERIE. AND JOE, MISS FAIN THINKS YOU'D

BE BETTER OCCUPIED WITH YOUR RAKE...

BY ALEX RAYMOND

GER, MISS MITCHELL, I DIDN'T) MEAN TO GET THE KID IN DUTCH.......I'M SORRY FOR HER...

60 AM 1, JOE.. AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT

I WANT TO TALK

TO YOU ABOUT

YOU WERE

GER

tas! WHAT I

MEAN

GAVING, MR HAZARD 3/

By FRANK ROBBINS

STRICTLY NOT

E-EXCUSE...MME!!

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YOU KNOW MY FESLING. FÖR BİLES 'WAS MORELY TRANSIENT, WHILE. I REALLY # LOVE PEAR, OLD' GEORGIE. PORGIE

INSPITE OF HIS MADDENING WAYS......

... BUT WE CAN'T HELP " CLASHING, BECAUSE WE'RE

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FOR INSTANCE, IT

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