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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1956.

BULGANIN WANTS WILD GAME American Jazz Not To Oust

REVIVED IN RUSSIA

Kabul, Feb. 20.

Expert horsemen from Northern Afghanistan may visit Uzbekistan and other Soviet Central Asian Republics to revive one of the world's most thrilling exhibitions of horsemanships.

During his recent visit to Afghanistan, the Soviet Prime Minister, Marshal Bulganin, jumped constantly to his feet in excitement at an exhibition game of Buz-kashi in Kabul. Buz-kashi can be described as a kind of rugby football played on horseback with a beheaded calf as ball.

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would like some players to visit the Soviet Union and revive the game in the Central Aslan Re- publics, where it was once popular. He suggested that Buz-kastu "Internationale" might be held.

Leather Whips

At top speed, ho heads for the eirete and drops the body with neat precision in the centre. rising in his stirrups in triumph as it is done.

In Kabul, Buz-kashi Is player on a field the size of a football pitch and with only ten men a side. But in Afghanistan's northern provinces of Mazar-l- sharif, and Kataghan, the fleld Duz-knshi,

may be live miles long and the which literally

teams number 150 a side. The means "dragging the goat" game may last from soon after belleved to have originated among the Mongol armies of Funrise until sunset. Ghengiz Khan

which surged

Top playerS win ndulation, across Asia

Into Eastern like bull-fighters, and at the end Europe In the 13th century. of a game young men and boys Now,

pinyed only in rush on to the field to surround Northern Afghanistan near the the winners and lead them in a burder with the Soviet Union. triumphal procession. Twice a year, exhibition matches are played in Kabul.

it

and

Bulganin Asked To Review Purge Trials Sentences

A group

of 16 well-known

Paris, Feb. 20. French left-wing intellectuals today asked Soviet Premier Nikolat Bulganin to review sentences handed down at the famed Moscow purge trials be tween 1936 and 1938.

Officers and men of Jordan's Arab Legion search for arms in a Jordan Valley refugee camp during disturbances in the arca-Express Pliolo.

Sound Lost

In Transit

Wellington, Feb. 20. The New Zealand Post Office, which is handling a mounting traffle of tape recordings by air. mail, now

wraps them all in tinfoil to prevent the "sound" escaping in the post.

Socialist Realism

In Czechoslovakia

Prague, Feb 20.

American jazz is not going to oust socialist realism from Czechoslovak dance music just because relations with the West are more friendly, according to Mr Karel Macourek, a composer here.

Local dance bands may add "good" Western compositions to their repertoire, he added, but they should play more Czech and Slovak dance music-and this must be "realistic" and essen- tially national in form and melody, even though the musicians may "swing it"

a bit. Mr Macourck voleed these jazz means-American vlews in a recent article en- music, "swing", or, as in titled "Are we afraid of jazz" Soviet Union, just any modern published in the Czechoslovak dance music. Mr Macourci youth organisation's newspaper, says. Mlada Fronta.

His own definition is "Dance

negro the

As a result of better cultural music... which has a certain relations with the West follow-syncopated rhythm."

ing the first Geneva "summi!” 'Be-Bop'-No!

CROCODILES against "formalism and cosmo-

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Vigorous anscious citizens krected un announcement by the mayor of Aucklatek, Mr J. H. Luxford, that 80 crocodiles and 25 alli- gators would be imported for the local zoo.

The

fears of those who Tape recordings, sent by post thought the country's rivers and are becoming a popular means

conference last year, he dc-

.He has this to say of Western clares

in the article, some people here say that the fightempositions: "If one listens to (Dake) Ellington's 'Solitude' or politanism" is nonsense and

Gershwin's (George) CL

'Lady. curtailment of the freedom

be good' or 'Summertime' of

one the arts.

is prompted to think that jazz excellent, realistie dance

Tactical Reasons

1s

music to which every attention should be

Hould be bold."

But "be-bop" has no future in "They are beginning to pro-Czechoslovaida, according to Mr claim, and carry out all kinds Macourek who describes it as of ideas about which they did "feeble-minded music

or

which not talk Auckland Feb, 20.

for long years for must be combatted." trotical

reasons,

which Nor do some local

composi- they said only to their closestions please him. He calls them co-fighters.'

"concoctions, instrumented in a the field of dance music. They only for financial effect.

"This is specially reflected in stereotyped way and calculated

Dance musle written by Czech say: Why these efforts for a new dance music?

American and Slovait composers should Jazz-that is the thing.

"picture in a realistic way the different sites "And taking undue advant-life," he declares.

of our present

in the past in appraising this that the music to which young age of some real errors made Exciting Spectacle

Western observers hero say The game starts with the

The group. In a cable to Bul- Leams fing on to the field, the

Buz-koshi was once popular anin, niso asked him to re-

so-called jazz, they are

now Czechoslovaks diance at the riders wearing Persian Tumball over Turkestan, but after the

establish the. reputation of

striving skull caps fringed with fur, and Bolshevik revolution It

fo introduce anarchy average Saturday night dance is into dance music. numerous old comrades-in-arms

a mixture of modern foxtrols, | carrying in their handa

short bunned.

Communist Party leader

the spirit of Geneva should be goes, sambas and rumbas ་་་་་་

"This of course is not how quicksteps, leather

slow foxtrots, tan- whips through which

Vladimir Lenin who fell into short nalls are 'driven.

Now Marshal Bulganin's in disgrace as a result of the trials.

understood. The demond for old-fashione waltzes and terest in Kabul may bring about

music, its revival and "Buz-kashi In-

zoo has still one im- realistic

Including pollons. The French

The Post Office decided that portant fact to group included allve

national dance music, learn about realistic the Surrealist Poet Andre Breton magnetic effects from the air-ligator-how

Loud And Lively fernationals" keep

to exist and Central Asian horsemanship to leaders Marcel Plvert and Jenn blame, wikt, traditional splendour of writer Jean

to tell

their continues Cassou, Socialist craft engine in transit were to sox. An alligator imported a assertions to the contrary

and claim that tinfoil year ago is called "Arthur-or- amount to advocating allen and portion Many of them look fierce and provide one of the most exciting Rous, and Clara Mairoux, wife wrappings will prevent recall the great Central Asian sporting spectacles in the world, of

this Martha" because no one knows hostile tendencies." writer and art historian from happening. China Mall whether it is male or female,--- armies among which Buz-kashi-China Mail Speelal.

Andre Malraux.-France-Presse. Special.

Different people have differ- China Mall Special. originated.

ent Ideas of what the

They ride as though the sturdy horses are part of them, and with the slight swagger of men proud of their skill and physical Vigour,

The players line up to salute any personality presiding at the game, and, At the referee's whistle, take their places in circle round the calf's body which is placed in the centre of one side of the field.

Charge Body

The calf is beheaded and dis- emboweled, and the legs cut off below the knee. A "light" body may weigh between 80 lbs and 00 lbs, a "heavy" one up to 120 so it is uo mean feat and for

a rider to lift it with one hand from the back of a horse. even without meleg of horses and men which

the

struggling usually surround it,

the

The whistle blows and horsemen charge on the body. The dust flies as the horses Jostle and men try to grab the body. A rider pulls his horse | back and up on its hind legs. Then with front hooves taiting. he plunges the horse again into the scrum.

At last the serum breaks.

One of the riders has hoisted the elf's body ant, leaning right over the opposite side of his saddle lo balance the weight, and with his whip held in his teeth, he starts A wild dash fowards the first stake at the end of the field. To score, a team must get the "body round siakey at either end of the Beld and drop it back in the circle where the game storled.

As the rider dashes away 'bis apponents gallop alongside wrest ling for possession of the body. If he drops it, there is another serum until someone manages to get hold of it and make another break.

Top Speed

The horses enter thoroughly into the spirit of the game for, like racehorses and polo ponies. they aro specially bred and trained for the Buz-kashi. They arg sturdy and well-built.

Sometimes a rider will gallop straight into the man and horse The shock earrying the calf causes them to recoll yards but | seldom does anyone lose his seat.

Once round the first stake, the team which has possession of the body sets off for the far end of the field and the second stake.

Sometimes o rider manages to got clear, hoists the heavy body acrom his saddle and gallops ruund the final stake.

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Music for the modern dances generally includes

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Somo Czechoslovak "swing" word numbers are as loud and lively as their western counterparts and dancers usually plunge into them with some abandon, al- though "jitterbugging" and' "Jiving" are strictly aboo."

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The most popular Czecho- slovak dance tune of the mo- ment is a modern waltz called "a song for Kristinka (Chris- tine)" which begins: The yellow crocus flowers have the same scent as your hair."

Love is the theme of most lyrics but at least one current slow foxtrot combines it with peace in a couplet in which youth sitting under the stars with his girl says:

"I always have

only one wish-no more wars,

"Only love and peace should sing to us."

Politically Favoured

Others, such as "The song of the slacker" who likes "many talks, less work, many meetings, no objective," are political in flavour. This foxtrot ends with exhortation to drag the slackers from their corners by the hair and advocates "lots of work, tower talks, greater tasks, so that life can become better and better." China Mail Special.

1,000 Scientists To Meet In Toronto

Toronto, Feb. 20. More than a thousand of the world's leading scientists, in cluding Russians, are likely to meet hero. next year for А сот ferenço described as "the most important over hold in geophysics,"

Dr E.WR. Steacle, President of the National Rescarch Coun- cil, announced today that 47 countries would be represented at the 11th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy

and Geophysica

Toronto University next. August. It will probably be the only gathering in 1957, where scien- tists will moot tó discusS - the work undertakers in the world- wide International Geophysical Year.

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London, Feb. 20, The British government le sponsoring experimenta into the possibility” of - generating “ electricity by wind power on a commercial scale, the House of r Commons was fold today,

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