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CZECH

WOMEN FACE Demonstration Of Britain's Artists

Largest Colour TV Picture

Artists Must Find Own Way

TRADITIONAL

‘WHIPPING”

Czechoslovak

Prague, Mar., 27. women are light- heartedly bracing themselves for their traditional annual Easter "ordeal" by whipping and water.

According to an old custom men have the right to whip every woman they meet before midday on Easter Monday. In the eastern parts of Slovakia, they dash buckets of water over their womenfolk instead.

the

The origin of the two eus-for other pigeons to eat. This is toms is obscure, but some ex-supposed to ensure that perts say

the whipping pigeons will stay on the farm Intended to throughout the year.

"more swift |

that

was originally make the women and agile."

days are harmless with paper "thongs."

with

but

TIE UP TREES

it is a Good Friday custom

for village girls to wash their

Twenty-five-year-old Elteen

faces in a river before sunrise. EX-CAMBODIAN PREMIER Oatridae provided the largest

arc

ENCOUNTERED FRICTION

United States dollars given to Cambodia to Implement Sihanouk's programme.

The traditional whip, called a dynuvachka, la made of eight to twelve willow twigs bound Together

molding sure to face the stream and decorated brightly-coloured ribbons,

when they do so. If there is no the whips on sale in shops and

river they must wash in threo klosku all

wells. these wells. over Prague

Inside The "weapons"

houses nothing should be washed and no dough made. Suits and clothing

Bangkok, Mar. 27.

Sihanouk nired in the farm courtyard. At PRINCE Norodom midnight farmers, clad only in

told the United Press in an nightshirts, go into their gardens exclusive interview in Pnum tying straw bands round their trees so that they will be fruit-

Jinancial offlcers Penh today that he resigned | Certain

in

Prom as Cambodian Premier

Penh bad and

opposed ful.--China Mail Special.

the presidency of the Council spending the money while the of Cabinet Ministers beesuse

Premier argued that the funds he was not able to secure the

were given to be circulated to effect constructive programmes. cu-operation necossary to

This view was confirmed in- implement his ambitious p:o-

formally by American barby officials,

a

CONCEAL WHIPS The men

usually carefully conceal the whips the previous VEN that at Extraordinary night and the women in turn General Meeting of Share-try to hate themselves in

the holders of Elte Company will morning. The beating continues be held at St George's Build- until the women "buy off" the

BEATTY WI

gift--usually ny, hater Bond, 2nd Boor.

kiss or Easter egz. Hong Kong, on Thursdies, thr 26th day of April, 1956. 12:15 uk fork in the forenoun of no sop Thereafter as the bar

The of

Thirtieth *hdinary Yearly Meeting of

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purpose cal

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Company

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Ordinary

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country

distilets

girls tude.

in the gardens. their homes while parties boy march for them.

When

they catch her two boys usual- ly hold the girl's arms while a thurd "whips" her until she names her sweetheart.

to

PICTURESQUE

They make their colours from plants and flowers, using saffron the stigmns of the autumnal crocus for yellowish - red colouring, parsley for green and

for onions

rusty-red. With special small knives they carve decllcate shapes and figures on the eggs, which are slightly waxed, and paint them with tiny brushes,

Smoother Train Ride

gramme

of reforms for the advancement of the country,

Vice Premier Khimi, o strong supporter of the Prince and a rapable administrator, niso said to be leaving his office.

"I I

was

considering

cannot accomplish the

responsibilities of the position, I should turn it to someone else," the Prince said.

1

one- off the

The

Prince's resignation IC- portedly sprang from internal friction over the use

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

MOVE QUIETLY. YOU SOUND LIKE A HEAD OF ELEPHANTS. WANT THEM TO HEAR YOU UP THERE!

Boru, Mar. 27. West German railways have put into operation a special train watch "polishes" two miles of rails per hour. His aim is to luded.

give travellers a smoother ride. Kishandler" | 143 anal, of thought

Then she KITEN ber chosen and reduce the wear on rolling boy frienet an Easter VER fit, passing the Following Re

with stock from worn

and dented 118 stell richly decorated

by lines. det

intrante, hand-painted patterns 100

The trala has three coaches, Relation:

designs. Somethines

she each with eight polishing wheels. pounds or rarves a message "That

to Each wheel, driven by its own is desirable to i

the buy as well.

motor, rolates 1,720 times mapatabase a sum of $2,mx,- |

minute, grinding about Hand painting of Easter eggs hundredth TR0 being the Reserve fo

uf an inch an age-old skili hunded down Building Development and

ralls-China Mail Special. [F1FK mother

daughter that accordingly a special through generations of Slovak expital bonus of 32,008,000, | peasant families, free of income tax, be de elared and that such bonus be applied na behalf of the persons who on Thursday, The 26th day of April, 1950, are bolders of the 1,000,000 fully paid-up issued shares of the Company in payment in full for 1,000,000 new shares of the Company of $2 each, and that such 1,000,000 new shares cre- dited as fully paid be ac- cordingly allotted to such persons respectively in the proportion of one such new share for overy

issued share then held by anch persons respectively, and That the shares so allotted shall be treated for all pur- poses as an increase of the nominal amount of the capi- tal of the Company held by ench shareholder and not as income and further that such now shares shall as from the 1st day of January. 1956, rank for dividend and in all other respects pari passu with the nlready issued shares."

At Easter, peasant women in picturesque national costumes. with frilly, white lace collars and cuffs, coloured headscarves and short skirts over layers of petticoats, come to the towns to sell the eggs, strung from bright ribbons.

with

Ko

FERDINAND

In the villages children round the houses singing a carol and asking for eggs. Afterwards they play games

them, rolling them downhill. owner of the egg which rolls the farthest without breaking is the winner and collects all uther eggs in the "race."

LEFT BY FOX

The

Other Czechoslovnic Easter customs are a blend of religious rites and ancient traditions to welcome the coming of Spring.

On the night of the

fourth Sunday Lent farmers' wives in some Slovak and Moravian villages baked pretzels crisp, AND NOTICE IS FUR- knot-shaped biscuits Savoured THER GIVEN that the Share with soli-and hung them in Transfer Books of the Com-trees next morning. pany will be closed from the look for them after

Children were sent out to being told 5th April to 26th April, 1966, that a fox had left them there both daya inclusive.

during the night.

By Order of the Bourd,

ERNEST SAHMET,

Secretary. Hongkong, 27th Mar., 1958.

YOUR DESIRE

THERE IS

"ONE DESIRE”

4

at the

KING'S & PRINCESS Commencing TO-MORROW

Old superstitions said that the pretzels were protection against Loothache.

A more modern version is to hido chocolate eggs, sweets, toys, socks and handkerchiefs in hencoops and baskets in the garden saying that a bare has left them for the children. In cities some families hide tho gifts in their homes.

Another traditional ceremony is for village girls to carry an cffigy of an old form women re- presenting winter out of the village at the head of a pro- cession of singing and shouting [youths. girls and, grown-ups and then drop it in a river or a pond.

DIED. OUT

the

Then from the rear of procession they take the top of a fr or birch tree, decorated with ribbons and painted entus and representing summer. This they Carry

buck to the vlüzge

at the Head of the procession, singing a national song: "Sum- mer, summer, where have you been so long?".

died;

Many old customs have out in the villages of Czecho- slovakin but some are still kept: One of these, is for farmers to give, pieces dr'brend to their cattin on the morning of Maundy Thursday, so that they will be benjihy,

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Sono farmori" also kill, a' pair') of young pigeons and sprinkła their blood “on grain"scattered

NANCY

WE WERE PLAYING COWBOY AND THE KIDS.

LEFT

ME TIED

UP

JOHNNY HAZARD

ALL RIGHT.

NOW!NO

STILL NO URANIUM-BEARING

OREZ STRANGE--BUT

WE'RE GETTING

MORE CLICKS

FROM THE

COUNTER-

ME HIT SOMETHING!

Em-

Further friction among top ranking Cambodiau officials

from possibly resulted

St- hanouk's enforcement of res

duced privileges for govern- ment officials.

calour TV picture-8 by 6 ft-ever to be seen in Great Britain, when she rp- peared on a newly developed colour TV projector, which has been described

S TV Auswer to the "fying bed-

bad"--because

In- triezoy and complexity. Apart from its potential

DI

tho

use for teaching purposes the colour

will projector

bo probably useful in cinemas. The do monstration of the new equip mont Look place during a lecture by Mr B. J. Edwards, Technical Director of Pyo, to tho Radar Association The

his lecture subject of "Colour Television, past, pre- and future." Picture shown: Eileen Oatridge scen with the newly developed colour TV projector, and the large screen, — Express Photo.

scot

Says Ehrenburg

Moscow, Mar. 27. Famed Soviet author Ilya Ehrenburg said in an article published today that an artist must be allowed to find his own way oven if tho masses have difficulty in understanding some of his work.

Ehrenburg, who recently re- Uurned from a trip to India, made the statement in a letter published in the review Soviet. Culture, in reply to the charge of ono critia that he was trying

to restore fcrrhalism."

DID NOT DETRACT

Ehrenburg,

a former winger of the Stalia Prizo for Born- ture, said the fact that certain flims or popular music were more accesible to the masses of people did not detract from the fact that the symphonies at Shostakovitch or Prokofiev, or the drama of Goethe, were

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article

He said that the experimenta tion of Pablo Picasso, the painter, enriched art,

The letter was printed beside written by A. Guerassimov, President of the Academy of Flue Arts, which declared

on the contrary that "art has no value unless it is in the service of the masses and the Communist Party."--France- Presse.

How To Handle Ma-In-Law

.

Copenhagen, Mar. 27. The Danish Young Men's Christian Association has or ganised a popular marriage course for engaged and newly married Copenhagen, Mar. 27.

dealing with everything The Icelandic

couples, Government from courtship Many of them living in state-

and household owned villas have leared their resigned today, Radio Copenhagen economies to how to handle

homes for extravagant reported tonight. Icelandic mother-in-law. rentals to Americans hard Premier

Mr Soeren Nielsen, YMCA Thors today Pressed for housing. Such

minny saw President Asgeirsson to in-secretary, said that too profiteering under Sihanouk's

newly wods had little idea of reforms were ended.--United form

Cabinet's the costs of setting up a home-- China Mail Special.

own

Press,

WE'VE FOUND SOMETHING/

NOT ORE=" BUT SMOOTH

METAL!

I'LL BE

RIGHT BACK

AH, HERE SHE COMES

WHILE IN THE AIR

SNAP'S SIGNALE, THAT MUST BE THE STOLEN CAR [HOW MAKING A GETAWAYEX ÎNÒ TIME TO PICK UP SNAP AND BROOK NOW. THEY'LL | FE ALL RIGHT TILL. LATER!

Olafur

hlm of the decision.-France-Presse,

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

HERE'S A WIRE COIL

ATTACHED TO IT. WHAT IS IT? LET'S DIG IT UP?

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

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