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THE CHINAR MAIE, TUESDAY OCTOBER

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Seductive Voice Lures Troops

Manoeuvres

On

Boeblingen, West Germany, Oct. 22

The husky, seductive voice of a pretty American girl is one of the weapons at the disposal of one unit of the United States Seventh Army which uses words and pictures as weapons.

Fifth the Known

15 The

men of the comforta of Loudspeaker and Leaflet Com-, home, a warm bed and a fire, pany, this unit does not give¦ end the fate of their loved ones, much away Generally referred¦ er It may be to try to spread to as "the 6th L, and L.", it is ¦ punte, undermine morale and

the only psychological warfare rap the will to resist by telling ย! with the United States the men how hopeless their Army in Europe

position is.

Bed at Bochtingen, known Should the unit ever have {{ Americans usually 13 to go into notion in real war, "bubblygum, irt southwest

It staffed with men who Germany. all its 0 mm Ge

speak.

between them,

nearly specialists and technicians: every language In Europe expert psychologists, linguist, Several of them arc former oritts, writers, printers. Bitho-refugees who have escaped graphers and mechandes

from countries now under a Communist regimo,

Midnight Marlene

But the stor member of then stad in, or rather was, u 20- year-old American girl who is knowIt

to all and sundry as "Midnight Martene." Her real identity

closely-guarded

י

men have their own These inobile 1wo-coloN* printing press, which can turn out about 84,000 leaflets an hour, The same truck aiso contains complete photographic labora- fory machine.

And 0

û

King Enters Priesthood

Bangkok, Oct. 27. Adulyadej, Phunúphol

28- year-old King of Thailand, to- day entered the Buddhist priest- hood after three hours of reli- gious ceremonies.

Hosurewife Mrs Dorothy Taylor has once again been chosen to represent Britain at the Olympic Caties. She has set up a record in this. having deen chosen for Berlin (1930), Wembley (1948),

Helsinki

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and Melbourne (1953). Dorothy, the wife of sei ill-

коде plate-making

Seventh Army troops Speed And Accuracy family, and

When ate in the Beld on an exercise, **Marlene** brundensis AUKKOS- five, insasilovas

propagando to the opposing forces over the Company' Foudspeakery half an hour around midnight.

It

for

On

While

the

troops BIG Cuvres shiver

their namp-foxholes, the men of this are working overtime in their air-conditioned trucks and tallers.

Their campaign to underming the fighting spirit of the men usually begins with a day-long barange of illustrated Wallets showeredt Into the **CBCMY" 1100pa porition from low- flying aircraft or by carefully fused shells which explode in the air and scatter their load uf paniphlets over a wide area,

Th pamphlets may, example, give wurning of "mud typhun, an imaginary disense, ur tell the

men that they are Furrounded

they

ard

may

comot

spread

for

hold

mise

or give misleading advice and suw mistrust of their

14ers

Blood-Curdling

When

darkness

Bouth China Sunday Post-Herald loudspeakers

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While in Macau, stay at the

POUSADA INN,

Praia Grande.

Cable: Pousade,

Parasitic skin disease, itching -tegema etc.

"Mitigal

OIL & OINTMENT

» Bayer » LEVERKUSEN GERMANY.

TaxOblivon

THE WONDER-DRUG

THAT DANISHES

FEAR AND NERVOUS

• Safe,;, non-hable), Newing, {as "hung÷aver), la ren-than

takr

falls, the over.

Mounted on jeep, they move up the "defending forces usually within rifle range, and uničush a 15-minute

recording Late

of blood-

(*sitions,

uniling noises,

REICH Ba the

Recompanied by

sound of maesat lanks rumbling

Into netion.

firing and onfused shouts and

Tla

CRB throw the "defending" Yorces into a pante Hanuso They think an attack is imminent. When order is Fuslored, the next 15-minute ipe is run through, producing the noise of an artillery bar- rage. machinegun, rifle and mortar lire, Intended to unaerve the soldiers.

About midnight FDA the climax

the show" op- of proaches,

Loudspeakers the change to playing gramophone records of sentimental, some- times nostalgic, songs,

Then "Mariens" comes "on the air and speaks to the men hurdled in their faxholes, She talks to the soldiers about how cold and wot and uncomfortable they must be, the attacks they Ive had to face and the worst ones yet to come. Sho tells them how well off they would be if they just crawled out of their foxholes and came over for a bite of real good, hot foot,"

Warm And Dry

"Come over for a drink," she purry. "My tent over here is

and dry.

Come over and ste me sometime,'

Worm

Some of the troops always succumb to the call of this honey-silk volce.

Bul recently. "Marime," who in real life is a echoolteacher, Jeft Europe to return to the United States. Only tapo recordings of her voice are left. Now the Fifth Loixispeaker and Leaflet Company is looking fo 2 replacement,

S

The unit's work is planned by "expert" payrÉologists, who know.

to -now

Members of the Thai Royal high government ninth officials, witnessed the

die Chakri king of

Dynasty walking barefooted and with head from the Royal

LIN inspector and the mother of two boys, is among the world's best high jumpers. Picture left shows her with Barry and David and their pet rabbit; picture right shown her with dancer David Drew-dancing provides Athletio cellent

training. -- Express Photo.

Copenhagen, Oct. 22,

The average length of life of the Eskimo people of Greenland 13 only 21.5 years, compared

Much of the success of their work depends on the speed ond

of their information shaven accuracy about the enemy. Sometimes the psychological shock of And-chapel to the Temple of Bona with 61 in Denmark, according

side nives. ing

out that thi other kalows exretly the latest moves which a man's unit may have made, or, better still, the moves intends to make, suffices to Induce him to open his mind to propaganda. China

further

Mail Special,

The King, who was mafering yesterday from a high fever, had recovered sufficiently morning to take part in ceremony.-France-Presse,

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

I SEE-FEED UNE

BROKEN HYDRAULIC

FLUID LEAKINS-

FERDINAND

NANCY

YOU THINK

YOU'RE SO

BRAVE

JOHNNY HAZARD

OH, MR. AXIOM, HOW NICE! BUT I-I DON'T [HAVE THE RIGHT PRESS WITH ME FOR A NIGHT · SPOT AND I DID WANT

Tom

SEND

to the Danish Weekly Medical Journal

A Groenland woman has an | average ago of 82.3 years and a this man of only 28,9. About the third of all deaths are due to the tuberculosis. Chinn

Special.

ROBOTÍ NOT CREEN BLOOD-HYDRADZA/C

FLUID!

I'LL BET YOU'RE AFRAID TO › SQUIRT

THAT AT A

GROWN-UP

NO FORMALITY WITH LOUIS AXIOM, KITTY GIRL!

· ́WE'LL HAVE A QUIET

DINNER AND SEE THAT, - YOU'RE HOME HARLYZ.

NO, I'M NOT

LAST TIME, THEY TOOK FOREVER TO FIX YOUR NECK. TELL THEM TO HURRY WITH THIS JOB.

WHO ARE THEY WHERE IS HE GOINGT

Aid Offered

Satellites

Washington, Oct. 22. The United States has con- forred with the Governments of Rumanda

and

Czechoslovakia on possible American economic ald to those countries, informed sources sold today.

Such aid would, however, require the approval of Con gress which does not reconvent until next January.

Visitors Will See New Art Gallery In Catacomb

MojPato Rome, Oct. 22.

Visitors to Rome will next year be able to see wall paintings in a newly discovered underground "art gallery" which has been neglected for the past 1,500 years.

It lies 40 feet under a modern, Christian

monuments through...

!

housing-estate in the suburbs of out Italy, decided to investigate Rome, near the historie:"Latin | the site. Gate", where one of the oldest roads, of ancient Italy entered the city.

Father Antonio Berrua, Jainsit Secretary of the Commission and huinself one of Italy's lent- Tho paintings adorn the ing experts on the subjack galleries of a newly discovered began work near the ruins o catacomb, where Christian the Basilics erected, in' memory familles buried their dend 1,000 of Saint Stephen; the first years ago. Archaeologists will Martyr, who www stored, to work all through the winter to | death in 30'AD restore them which have been

described by experts as one of

the richest collections

of art

VERTICAL SHAFT

dating back to the days of

early Christianity ever brought

World

to light here.

htt

sank d vertical down through tho Unknown artists covered the solta blocks of the mid walls of

Latin the burial chambers

Way (via Latina) | into

puu

with Bible acces, stories from the so volcanio rock below. the myths of Greece and Rome, At a depth of 50 feet, they came

hundreds of

of aporative upon the central chamber patterns of flowers, peacocks, the catacomb and cherubs,

Father

Ferrum had "himself Old pilgrims guide books, lowered into the caverts OUS DE compiled in the seventh century rope. Making his way along AD made no mention of this the main corridor, to catacomb because it did

not original entrance, blocked for contain the bones of any Saint centuries by a landslide, and was therefore not a place entered of pilgrimage for the devout chambera Christian tourist,

TREASURE HOUSE

the

Om

or the uide Immediately ant realised that he had stumbled upon a series of paintings "the like of which, both to quantity and quality, has never before been round

early Christian burial place!!

in an

Until fast year, this rich treasure house of frescocy was

On walls glistening with the to unknown

scholars

But, damp of 1,000 yous, the colours. down the centuries, robbers had had faded to a mere shadow of broken into the tombs and in their former brilliance. But be their search for loot they did was able to distinguish paintings Irreparable

damage to

remarkable for the novelty of crumbling plaster upon which the subject chosen and the officials may form part of a the ancient artists had worked.

vivacity of their execution, general revision of American Reports of the existence

galleries economic relations with countries the

the On one wall at the chamber, kely to loosen their ties with Pontifical

for the artist had depicted the Moscow, these sources sald.

Szered Arhacology when part of drunkenness of Noah. Noah in

The ald envisaged by American

sources

sold

reached Commission

At the same time, Washington the foundations of a house but shown reclining on one elbow, large wine fur, in that reports of over the catacomb, subsided at clutching a American plan for big-scale the end of inst year. The his left hand and raking a goblet. Mall assistance

Poland were Commission, which has charge hi his right hand. "premature",--France-Prese. of of catacombs and early

to

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

„MASTER.

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By Ernie Bushmiller

“RNIE BUSHM

AT A SECLUDED RENDEZVOUS FIOT WERE.

O SEEK QUIET PRIVACYAN

| OTHERE

HARRY, LOOK L ITVE KITTY AND

*ED ITIS, GINGERİ. BUT WHAT'S YOUR ROOMMATE DOING OUT WITH LABER

By Frank Robbina

HUMY YOU ALWAYS BE ABL SHOOPING REPORTER, HARRY PLARBE LOUIEN INDEED! THAT'S KITTY'S NEW BOYS, MR. AXION

HEAD OF AVIATECH CORALS

ÁRATECH CORRÈZ SO THAT'S WHERE “LARES LOUIS HAB

HOLBO, UPÉSZ

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

Admiral

| AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REFRIGERATORS

TRY

If we were

any frosher wed still be on the vine!

Libby's

FROZEN STRAWBERRIES.

TODAY

ROWNTREES

AIRO

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Miguel

DRAMATIC REALISM

In an arch of the vault, poes – trayed simply and directly with the dramatic realism of a

fresco

from Pompell, · Father Ferrua sàw the acthes depleting the deception of Estur by his brother. Jacob.

by

He was astonished not only the vividness of the 20- presentation, but by the chaśco of episodes which, do not appear among the subjects "of any other emily! Christian painting...

Passing through. more chambers opening off the two minin corridora, which form roughly a letter the longer measuring some 160 fast, and the shorter 88 feat, Father Ferrus found on another wall a portrait, totally unexpected in a Christanı burial place, Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt. She is seen clasping to her bosom the poisonous asp which' she used to commit suicide; in order to avoid being taken to Romo as a captive,

chose to

Why the artist deplet this scene in a Christian catacomb is not clear. Ono suggestion is that he wanted to point the moral of the penalty of sin by means of a well- known story.

FAMOUS SURGEON

Father. Ferrum went on down the central corridor, the. filcker- Arig light of torkkua, revealed a· alx-sided chamber with vaulted ceiling supported by air '- columns It contained до tombs. Part of its roof had been destroyed by piles driven through it for the construction. of houses above.

Here, the principal picture shows an old man talking and pointing to a body lying on a. table, while a group of young men

stand sterndrier. ↑ Tatter Ferrun believes that this 'ropée- bents" a fummods · murgeon of this Joustinį century, giving m Zentaire to medical lascientmi nedáv

Although he admits that the |presment of characters

from yagan : mythology Is" "puzzlibg, #Father) Terrus considers that, u fourth century Christings could "with a good connaclence??, havo chosen, dxamples of. virtus, tróm) non-Christian," "sourong,"

BEPICTORIAL CYCLES

But he adds, raised by g espècially by. It will be disKA

a long time before a solution is found fed)

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