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RELIGION IN OUR AGE

Potent force

From Robert Shearer, Rome.

many Danes go to church only i four times, when they are confrihed, marrlod, baptised, and buried,

Some 110,000 children attend

On Stalin's doorstep

By ERIC SEWELL

Good Morning!

gün,

Local policeman robbed of his

Police believe me, this never hoppened Befor

It is a few minutes to nine "King Farouk wins £20,000 at o'clock. The early Bavarian brecaret,

Nice work: but I still prefer the mountains and already the twilight has swept down from ot

lights of the village hotel are like twinkling

lonely beacon in the valley,

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In the Christian Church a spent forcet Or is it more vital than In Roman Catholic Italy, erer? Light ta thrown on this much debated question by our the churches are filled re- correspondents in various coun. Denmark's Sunday Schools, and gularly although the con- tries in the following article.) young peoples church porades gregations tend to consist

are well attended, although in the towns the churches are los- largely of women. In the

ing hundreds of members to the small towns and villages the means that they actually go to cinemas. An indication of the feligious needs of the chil- church at least once a week.

The Roman Catholics claim the Denmark can be gathered from future influence of the church in dren are particularly well largest following and number 24 catered for, so that they often millón. Next come the Baptists the fact that theology students go to church three times on a followed by the Methodists with the students at the University of with 15 million active members, comprise only seven per cent of Sunday. HK$88.00

10% million. All the major Copenhagen. The most important youth or churches, however,

oro in con- ganisation in Italy is the juvenlie stant and lively competition with Small congregations All news contributions to be section of the Catholic Action each other.

Movement, the militant socialj addressed to Editor-In-Chief.

From inside drifts the Jovial) under the sun, All of America's youth organ- From Ian Stanbury, Hamburg, Business arm of the Vatican. The young lsations and Advertisements

The end of the war brought a murmur of after-dinner conver- people belonging to this move- tendencies, and

huve marked religious

to communications should be ad-

Germany satión. Cigars weave contentedly many of them religious revival 50 steeped In Roman EUSINE dressed to the Company CHINA|ment are

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auffering the Germans mingling pleasantly with the tang church parades arc considered prisingly well attended. superfluous and are seldom held.

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are no compulsory church parades In Italy's fighting services and women preachers are unknown in the country, save among the small Baptist, Metho-} cilst and Waldensian groups.

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BRITISH TROOPS

FOR KOREA

In his second report to the Security Council, General MacArthur appealed to mem- bers of the United Nations to send him ground forces lor Korea as speedily as possible, This appeal was made public during the week-end. A Washington despatch about the same time indicated that Defence the United States Department might request Britain to send ground forces to Korea "if the concentra- Northern Korean of tion troops becomes much greater in the next few weeks than had been estimated."

at

response

to

A family rule

From Stephen Coulter, Paris.

The Church flourishes and is still a powerful social force in France. During the last half century, it has not lost nearly so much of its popular appeal and influence over the people as in some non-Latin countries. Apart from its spiritual uppeal, the Church in France continues to be a socially nctive element in hundreds of Church schools.

Only four visits

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A warm week-end brought out many sunbutners in Britain.

.There Was something nude

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Communism is not doing very

"English lassics necd take in the world, which, of course second place to no one anywhere includes Hollywood."

And there Hollywood was right out of this was I thinking world.

Nor is turned to the Christian Churches, of the pine-woods. The tourists state emphatically: Stalin is not there any tack of student minis to Spiritualism, Anthroposophism. British, French, American and the Bosphorus.

search of Swiss-are gay, well-fed, enjoy ters. Women preachers, except and Buddhism In

Ing life and each other's company in some of the low and Negro spiritual peace.

Now, however, this post-war with peaceful relish. churches, are rare.

They are, as it is said. "Away religious phase has ended, and, although in the Roman Catholic from South

Then sound the strokes of ning and in the Rhineland, the churches are still full, the Pro- o'clock. Someone switches on the คุนม From James White, Copenhagon, testant congregations are

far radio. The movement is being re- In Denmark, 97 per cent of the smaller

In Britain, and peated in hundreds of shnilar people belong to the State Buddhists and Theosophisis arof hotels throughout Bavaria and (Lutheran)

• Church, although hard to find.

Austria. And in each lounge is most of them are only nominal But in Western Germany, spreading the, saine chilly hush. members. During the

The valce of the announcer last 20 there are mere divialty students years, there has been a growing than at any time since the pre-reading the news bulletin from infference to religion, so that Hitler days of the early 1930's.

than

"Give us back our

arms," say the Japs

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Lighthouse offered for sale. Should suit a tall thin man. fond of seagulls, and allergic to other people's Rediffusion.

Profit here.

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Most of our buying is now done on the higher purchase system.

"Escult fortune whitiled away by taxation."

Wouldn't "nibbled" have been a more appropriate terin?

Lontion jogs the holiday-maker back to reality. For, in the heart of Europe, the Korean wor as- eunes so inmediate a significance that its events cannot be heard without a sense of panie.

The tourists are neither mill tary nor diptomatic experts, but they do know that Communism is on the fighting offensive and the European borderland of Russian territory is not more than 10 Master of the detained British minutes by fighter plane from ship in Taiwan says the UK. has where they are sitting.

ignored the capture. have just returned from What's the matter? he wants to Former leaders of the Im- the new Japanese constitution. Bavaria and Austria and I know know. Caduceus from so for perial Japanese Army are now Despite the current reverses he that at least once each day the away?

voiced complete confidence urge to cut short the holiday and openly and vigorously urging ha

By Richard Hughes

Attendance at church at least) once on Sunday is still the rule in most families, and in hundreds of towns, vilages and hamlets all over the country there are re- gular week-day attendances as well,

Thousands of French students

church-goers, are regular

and Roman Catholic recently French priests have been visiting pits, factories, and workshops and, by taking jobs among the workers, the re-establishment of the in ultimate victory on the present return to Britain makes itself fell,

United I have tried to set examples of Japanese Army to help fight Stales reinforcements.

cent, honest living in the toughest the common menace of Com-

"Patriolic" Japanese, however, munism."

were jubilant at General Mac-

The morose interest shown in Arthur's recent order to Prime They argue that the existing Minister Yoshida to create a new the Korean war by the nationals ban on a Japanese army is now National Police Force

of those two countries docs. unrealistic and that the demo-men, which they hailed as tacit nothing to alleviate the fear of a eratie

sudden Western eruption. the new constitution is ridleulous, approval for the building-up of philosophical passivity is in steale

new "democratic" Japanese It is known that soveral of

vaguely frightening. Army.

conditions:

Competition

From John Jarrett, New York.

Five out of every 12 Americans arc members of some church or other, and for the Roman Catho- Jics, and .more

vigorous

membership church people, this

low wher

lic

ronunciation

MacArthur's

of war

and thrown into the

"Maybe

in

battle

Arthur's appeal. Many Bri- no indication whatever of any A GOOD WORD FOR

CASTOR OIL

use, and that an unpleasant one,

put.

schedule of

promised

of 75,000

30.

Ing.

Morose interest

Their

thorities very much for troubling about evacuation scheme-and sends his wife and kiddies to safety AT ONCE

Chorus girls pant in Paris heat

Wave,

Yes, Myrtle, I suppose you could say I was talking about French kickers.

The body of a elephant which dies near a river, says a local report, Boon disintegrates, and the ground, highly fertilled, is covered by a dense floral

"If a man steals, no matter

"Well, you beard what I said.”

BUS STOP

FRANK WOOD

"I'm glad to get out of those silly clothes one has to waar at the seaside.”

The

French tourists and soldiers growth, making detention almost military

impossible. privately share the pub-

"We're patriots" ore voluble in their apprehen- I should have thought the It was officially announced

opinion of

alons; of General Eichel-

Swiss console and

the Former Major-General Take themselves with the comparative contrary, yesterday morning that in

berger, formerly General Mor- Maisuda, who was Comunander response to the request by plans have been changed and Arthur's deputy and now in the in the New Guinea

proximity of their border; tho campaign

British holiday-makers rumble the Commander-in-Chief of British_relaforcements are to United States, that at least five where 98 per cent of his forces the United Nations Forces in go to Korea as soon as ship should be enlisted as "volunteers vigorous open proponent of a new or try to fill the following even-me before we were married,"

divisions of Japanese

said Brown. died or were killed, is the most nearly for 10 minutes after the what, he will live to regret 12" news bulletin and then forget it—

"You used to steal kisses from Korea, the United Kingdom ping is available.

Japanese Army. had decided to despatch an Only a short interval will against the Reds.

He claims that with Japanese The American attitude is the said his wife coyly, infantry force from Hong elapse between the departure "Tacit approval” official records of demobilisation most positive. Travel bureaux Kong to Korea immediately. of the two battalions from

cfcicnt the. South Koreans 10

Japanese divisions are filled with U.S. tourists alter- The two battalions to go from Hong Kong and the arrival wouldn't like to see the Japanese could be

remobilised within aing their itineraries to make their

Bavarla a here will be replaced almost of replacements. There is back," said one staff officer with work on a "volunteer" basis, and stay in Austria or

So that three to four months' trat short as possible. Were it not fo once by the Wiltshires, no need, therefore, for any long combat experience.

The South Koreans are ing would bring officers and men the assurance that they are in. what?" about this now on their way out from special anxiety

back to combat ability.

company with thousands of fellow! Britain,

and by certain move. Many months have 20 more our allies than the North By that time, he says, the Unii-¡ countrymen--all taking the same)

Koreans are our real

enemies. Statca

ed

could have shipped risk-they would stay away al- Gurkha units of fully-trained passed since the People's There is only one enemy for us

knows who it necessary arms and supplies to together. fighting men who have been Liberation Army took over all, and everyche

Japan--"unless, of course, the As it is, the Americans make undergoing engineer training the adjoining province, and General MacArthur himself occupation authorities permitted sure they know the time of the in Malaya. An armoured the crisis in a local sense has has expressed no opinion on the the Japanese also to relieve the next plane to Paris or London.

The U.S. Decupation Forces car squadron is also being sent passed. Many of the best possible use of Japanese "volun-Americans of that responsibility from Malaya to Hong Kong. troops under General Lin Piao teers," but it can be assumed that by reopening our closed arsenals" have already decided the position action. he would be reluctant to beginMost of these troops, have, al Families who came out to Bavaria

18 serious enough for There will be widespread have been transferred to the changing the pacifist clauses in ready had hard combat experi- to be with their menfolk are daily gratification at Britain's swift | North-some of them back to

ence," said Matsuda, aged 50, General Mac-Manchuria. There has been

now a square-shouldered bullet-netting off back to America.

There are more than 50,000 of headed farmer in a village out- side Tokyo, "and we could select these women and children in the American Zone. The authorities, tons have been feeling dis- desire to create a crisis here.

from the wide range of Japanese with an eye to their possible dan- tinctly uneasy during recent Indeed, the reception accord-

ex-staff officers who have had ger, have mapped out a ¡Vasil weeks, as

on the ed in Peking by Government

betual experience in Korea and evacuation pressure

Sixty. programnie, American troops became more leaders to the industrial and, Castor oil, to many small Manchuria

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seater transport planes are stand- know that there are and more heavy,

stilling by to take them to safety ok at the commercial mission which children at any rate, has only one ten thousands of patriotic a moment's notice. absence of definite

word toured China and Manchuria Ritchie Calder tells of new and fice their lives for the defence not satisfied. Mindful that only a

Japanese

nese noble enough to sacri- But the American soldier '· about the despatch of British was markedly reassuring. So much nicer uses to which it may of Japan against the Soviet. If few miles away hundreds of Rus-

betraying troops to Korea. It is true far from

shortly be any

Calder, who is Science Editor the Emperor would Issue a call stan jet fighters are lying primed that we have been fighting hostility to Hong Kong, the or the "News Chronlee," recently for volunteers, recruiting offices for action, he thanks the our own jungle war with the Government leaders express- visited the Negev Desert in Israel, would be besieged." Communists in Malaya for ed a desire for the fullest co-At the Weizmann Institute at Air force, too the past two years, and that operation in trade between Rehovot the Director, Dr. Berg- Two former Bir officers our defence commitments are the Colony and the main mann, told him that by ferment Colonels Rin Horf, aged 48, and

ing castor oil plants they can! world-wide in scope. Perhaps land, consistent with the provide the basis of a great Muneo Kono, aged 44, who are that is why action has not policy laid down,

plastics industry, including nylon, neighbours of General Matsuda, which is at present produced supported the General, arguing been taken earlier.

The position now more than

or coal particularly for either from petroleum The transfer of some of the ever depends on the evolution by-products. troops from here arfd Malaya of high policy, not upon any There was one use for nylon Two or three months would was in fact mooted within a attitude" peculiar to Hong in the desert which interested rub the rust off our former Ja-

Calder very much-that of com-panese Air Forco, crews," week of the North Korean Kong. The Peking Govern- bating the excessive saltiness of Hori. "I could personally recruit invasion. It was generally ment has hitherto maintained the ground. He explained that hundreds of enclent plots at a felt at that time, however, a policy of restraint in regard desert springs contain A small week's notice." that it was unwise to reduce to Korea. There is nothing fraction of salt but under the

Intense sun evaporation is a would be delighted to fly again. the forces here or in Malaya really new in Mr. Chou En-rapid that the salt la deposited "Farming was never an ambi- without immediate replace-lat's messages to Mr. Malik and accumulates in the soll. This tion of mine," he said dryly. "I ments. China's attitude was, and to the Secretary-General polsons useful crops, with the have been trained, to fly to say the least, enigmatic. of the United Nations, pub- just ignores salt and fresh water

exception of the date palm, which fight."

Colonel Korio, a former Hong Kong's garrison had fished in the pro-Communist coming up through this salted fehter pilot, emphatically agreed. been cut down appreciably papers here yesterday. The soil becomes salted in turn and He made it clear that he had by the transfer of two bri- criticisms of the United useless for drinking or irrigation read and studied every textbook gadcs earlier

to Malaya. States are sharper, and Peking cover a method of sweetening this band in Japan-on jet fighters.

Israel scientists are trying to dis he could find-officially contra- Moreover, substantial rein-1 has proclaimed its concern salted water and on method: Colonel Satoru Horita, aged 61, forcements were on their way in the ultimate settlement of they are trying is to, cover the former officer in

In the dread Kem- from the United States to the Korean problem. There brackish solf with sheet nylon in paital (Secret Police), urged that South Korea, and it was as is no suggestion, however, af rays evaporate the water through

if the sumed they would be suf- armed intervention in the the nylon and condense it on the officers in the old Japanese Army

the purgo on ficient to hold the bridgehead Korean conflict either by rolder top surface of the material holding, ranks lower than major. around Pusan till the time China or by the Soviet Gov. The water then drips into the

officers Thore! young furrows and there they can, have came, some months later, to ernment.

responsible for Japan's fresh wall and grow crops. turn to the offensive.. Mean- The more

effort," he said.". "If : ro-| representative] Another: problem that is being War while a British Brigade group the United Nations forces are tackled is the rapid evaporation stored they would comprise an was being organised, to be in Korea, the better. As of-reserval water. The scientists posed officer cadre for the pro

ard suggesting that, tiny flacken posed, new Japanese police force, sent out to Korea later in the General MacArthur himself of nylon should be used to float an eventual new Japanese year.

sald, the International charac-m and cover the surface of Army " During the past week orter of the operations in Korra reservoir to prevent evaporation Basic factor

„Like“ all other Japanese (offi- two, however, it became clear has received important am- for nylon can be sped either to produce or retard evaporation. that the Northern Koreans phasis, since the preparation in the first case the transparant cera, Horite reverently stresses were getting more reinforce of the last report to the sheeting admite the boat rays, but the vital mood for identifying Hirohito - with any ments than expected, and un- Security Council on the offers in the second, the ranules voluntary" enlistment of a

1. the counter attack this of combat forces. The more opaque, they reflect the heat rava baste factor, which raised

nylon being pure" while and

to fight the feds. wook-end were launched the International: the effort, the of the aun and so prevent the mamorale of Japanese in: thè position became somewhat shore will Soviet attempts to evavoration from reservoirs. Jan anxious. No doubt as a result concentrate suspicion and this is just to show you what Imperial Army was the Bas of this emergency, and Gen. propagande on the United you can do with the demirs when peroshe said.Demoursty

you show, momententia immos yet strom moth to bothe

a war-cry-in-TEORIA eral MacArthur's appeal, States be thwarted.

agination,” aski Calder

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the

panese air force.

A reborn Ja-

sald

Hori admitted that he himself

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