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WELL REMEMBER":

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1950.

KASHMIR VALE IS LAND

OF SUPERLATIVES

(EDITOR'S NOTE: India le a troubled land, and in the midet

of the subcontinent is a fabulous spot called the Vale of Kasniir. A United Press reporter, who has been writing about the damper of war in that place, describes in the following dispatch how the people live.)

Europe learns to laugh again

Paris, May 6. Europe is laughing these days about sox, the hydrogen bomb, Coca Cola and local politics. This is quite a change from three or four years

ago. Then, European humourists were wring- ing as many guffaws as they could about hunger.

In the Vale of Kashmir, May 7, This is a land of superlatives. The mountains tower, the snows are deep and the scenery 'is the world's finost. It is also a land of can- trast. Shabby people live in filth and poverty in the midst of natural grandeur in a country of lakes, rivers and streams. The people are caked with dirt...Soap is an un- heard of luxury for most of them. In the famous Vale there is a gigantic castle and the hovels of farmers. In a country where Per-' sian was the Court language, more than 90 per cent of the people are illiterate.

Gorgeous white canopied River is the main artery of houseboats. floating on mountain commerce. Logs thrown in the lakes and the sluggish Jhelum] river upstream are floated down River, house some of the world's to Srinagar, where two-man The French, wealthiest persons. Thatched-suws laboriously rip them into turned even this into a joke about It seems that 200 pounds of rooted sampans and acows Use boards,

World War III, when every one is dead fish were found in a small the waterways #B highways,

Mountain roads, narrow and killed except one American and river near Madrid. Says poling upstream or drifting lazily winding, lead over passes into one Russian pilot.

a cafer plains through the 80 mile-long valley, the

They finally Spaniard to a friend at a below. Wor

has shoot each other down in flames "Did you know the biggest and Scows are the only home of the ruined the tourist trade, haiting

over an boatment,

fattest of the dead fish wax given whose life carnings the yearly Influx of thousands of

African jungle. could not pay a-week's rent for summer visitors who filled the An ape strolls out of the jungle mayor for the present and gave Every one in the world is dead, the Caudillo. Franco thanked the A housebont.

houseboats and resort hotels.] J. A country world-famous for Beautiful mansions once owned with his mate, looks over the it to his wife with instructions to woollens is clothed in tatters, by the British are now used as wreckage of the two planes and try it." The people go barefoot mast of Indian Army quarters and the sighs: "Oh, hell, now we've got to the year.

castles are dilapidated reminders start all over again."

go America, of the "good old days" before the In a sly dig at war,--United Press.

Terraces

The valley floor is 4,000 feet high and is capped by 20,000 foot peaks which are piled ridge: upon ridge and stretch hundreds of miles along India's Northern borders,

ers. Every foot of the valley and the steep rides of the mountain Terraces marks are cultivated.

till the

warn are

KMT China leaves Health

Organisation

Rationing has virtually disap-}|t would be a bargain at half the peared from most countries, but price of the catalogue. Europe's mood is now sombre, for When he hears that a large fish Europeans are In a sort of no feedia on sardines, he wonders man's land between the two how the fish can open the tin.

Russia and Amerlen, both In Spain, one of (the favourite with atomic

stories linka

the

record drought have and the Franco dictatorship.

240

and

107042" said Mrs. Franco. "No

oll."

her publie debate on whether to then,

begin work on the hydrogen

boint, n

two

French

cartoon showed scientists before a huge bomb. One says: "It is

is such

a terrible weapon that

those who use it will all be killed by remorse.

roast it," said

"Can't. No coal."

"Boll it, and leave me alone." "Sorry, no water because of the drought."-

"Oh, throw the thing back in the river," said Franco.

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IT NEVER

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This perii-filled

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the only witness to murder,,sione against the killers because nobody

· believed his storyl

PO preven

WINDOW

DORE SCHARY a Charge of Production

Ring BARBARA KALE ----

BOBAY DRISCOLL - ARTHUR KENNEDY PAUL STEWART – RUTIE· KZOLAJE

DARINGLY FILMED ON NEW YORK'S TEEMING EAST SIDE!

Produced by Frederic 12tmán. Dev Dinded by Ted Totaal » Screen Tiny by Mel Duet

SPECIAL

The Communist campaign to

ADDED bar the American soft drink,

"Viva Franco" Coca-Cola, from France

on the

The Ash, hitting the water, ATTRACTIONS ground it is polson, elicited a lenme back to life and lifted its picture of a Frenchman at a bar, head out of the water and cried;

"You want a Coca?" asks the "Viva Franco," bartender.

The Italians concentrate a lot "Oh, no, thanks," says the on the housing problem, such as ellent. "None of those foreign in a cartoon in a Communist

Such a dear

turns

the hills, each carefully irrigated and formed into shallow ponds

Geneva, May 6. for rice-growing.

Nationalist China withdrew Crude ploughs hitched to oxen from the World Health Organ-

earth and carefully- hoarded manure is used to fer-isation today on the eve of the tilize patches upon which fami- WHO's third annual assembly, lies depend for their livelihood The Nationalist Foreign Min-drinks, that upset the stomach. paper showing park benches full during the short summer growinter, Mr. George C. Yel, in- Give me a whisky."

of homeless people, and no room Ing season, Bad crops hero meaŋ} formed the WHO Director Gen- Another has a customer asking for two

Alcide de starvation during the snowbound cral, Dr. Brock Chiabolm, of the a bartender for a Coca Cola. "You Premier en standing sadly by.

Gasperi winter

withdrawal by telegram.

got a prescription?" snarls the to n

to a member of his cabinet and Two-storled mud and brick Without giving any reason, he bartender.

- 50ys "Look at those two poor houses line the river, Crudely sold that China would continue

fellows without

a home. Put up woven blankets

by to adhere to the purposes

and

two more benches." everyone, thrown Indian fashion principles of the organisation and

The rlois in the Italian Parlia- about the shoulders, while heavy to co-operate to the fullest pos- The rabelaisian character ofment are also a butt for jokes, as

orarments dangle from wible extent with than organisa- French humour is typified by alm

a cartoon showing a man tion as a whole and with members cartoon of a woman showing off a asking his lawyer what one gets women. This jewellery is their of the organisation in the field new coat to her friend. "Oh, my for taking part in fights. Replies

That a dear," she says the streets, up to 40 days in hat depends. In Jawyer: Health.

husband is WHO constitution The in their

con- "Every time he buys his mistress stalls, puffing water pipes and tains no provision for the with a fur coat he buys me one, too." geol. At Montecitorio up to 150,- plending for sales. The Jhelum drawal of member states.

The Western Germans go in 1000 lire a month (a deputy's Nevertheless the Soviet Union heavily for the semi-subtle type pay and six of its satellites have of humour, like two spurrows The Yugoslavs go ințfor double- walked out during the past year staring at a bulge in a telephone barrelled political witsometimes claiming they were dissatisfied line. There

another big aimed at the West-ns in a car- with its work.

word," says one of the birds. toon showing a North Atlantic The Communist countries left Also good for

a chuckle in shark in Pacific waters, or one the organisation without paying Germany was a cartoon showing showing a blustering Russian membership subscriptions

a crowd of apes solemnly milling walking out of the United No- since established in 1948. The Chines around the box office at a Tarzan chinese Communist to get in

tions, but leaving no room for a

Associated Press.

Eliver the Cors and necks

Insurance in case of the death of their husbands.

Shopkeepers squat

Romulo leaves for Manila

. San Francisco, May 8. Brigadier Carlos P. Romulo, President of the United Na- tions General Assembly, left here today on board a 'Philip- pine Air Lines plane for Manila where he will help in organisa- tion of a Union of South East "Asian-nations:-

26.

The conference is set for May

1

The General sald: "The meeting is not against anybody. I repeat, it is not an anti-Communist meeting.”

General

Romulo

of

the organisation

WOD

ist government to leave WHO, government, first non-Commun- also owes subscriptions totalling US$310,000. Associated Press.

Mysterious

- new Czech

Army

goes

film.

German political

cartooning Frankfurt paper showed a ring of gets earthy, at times. One in a

the

small dogs sniffing each other RED CHINESE TRADE suspiciously. They circled #

castle labelled "Bonn." Soys the ENVOYS RETURN caption: "Who suspects whom?"

British humour stays just about

the same-a slick play on words,

sort of humour,

ས

dry

sketch of the editor

~London," MayTM 6.~| The members of the Chinese as in a Communist Government trade of a gar-mission which went to the Soviet

chief dening magazine reading a letter Union for talks on foreign trade

Prague, May 6. Informed sources said to-

that asks:

"Can you recommend anything according to a New China News have now returned to Peking, for my cauliflower car?"

The Swiss borrow most of the

London tonight. Agency message received in

He said the conference is to be held "to preserve our free- dom."

day that the newly appointed laughs from American and Bri-

While in Russia they discussed After participating in the con- Chief of Staff of the Czechos-ish magazines, but do have one the Chinese-Soviet trade agree-

original ference,

ex-lovak Army was and may Poldi, the monocled ignoramus of and a protocol under which the cartoon character named ment of 1950, a barter agreement, pects to return to the United States the first part of June. Mrs. still be a Soviet citizen. They the weekly "Di Weltwoche." Poldi Soviet Union is to supply China Romulo is accompanying him on said his appointment fitted in always finds life a mystery. When with all kinds of industrial the Philippines Air Line fight with the Kremlin's campaign a friend tells him that a painting equipment and materials for the They expect to arrive in Manila to increase its control of half the catalogue price, he thinks said-Reuter.

at an art gallery is for sale at next three years, the Agency at noon on Monday-Associated satellite forces.

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ESTHER WILLIAMS RED SKELTON HIGARDO MONTALBAN

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Dennis Morgan ReViveca Lindfors

THE VICTOR

The appointment of General Jaroslav Prochazka was disclosed by Prague radio 'Friday as four top Soviet leaders, including two generals from the Politburo, ar- rived in the Czech

capital to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the city's liberation.

The sources said Prochazka has

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in Prague since the end of the

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PERSIA, TO BURY FORMER SHAH

Teheran, May 6, All Persia began donning mourning clothes today for Sunday's ceremony to bury the mummified body of the former Shah Reza, who died six years ago. All, military garrisons were to lower their flags and radio programmes throughout the land were devoted to eulogies of the former Shah SASTANKARA The body is due to arrivE tomorrow from Ahwas, where it was flown from Calro It will be interred in a magnificent nisu= soleum" erected; to commemorate the Turner rulers who died in elle in Bouth Africa in 1946 three Yours after abdicating his throne. He had reignodą

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