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The Lunatik

THE Strabismus

Lantik.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1959.

DID IT HAPPEN? . another story in the series that keeps you guessing

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▶EVERENTLY the coffins were lifted on

shoulders of the pall-bearers. They marched slowly down the steps of the pagoda to the road where the gun-carriages stood waiting. Silent crowds lined the route, men and women dressed alike in shirts and long skirts of brightly coloured The silk, and beautifully embroidered jackets. men wore traditional handkerchiefs on their heads, the women had flowers in their hair.

As the military band broke into a slow march, the funeral procession moved off. I can see it still the gun-carriages with the flag-draped coffins, the British military mourners, the trustees and priests of the pagoda

enated with magnesiohydrosul- phanie. The vent-feed-armi operates under the snidges, Fibres of serpentine abertos leomorphous to an protect the nozzle, which is astonishing degree. The same may be said of the clamp-valves and suction orbels whdel are of axidic zoisite, and therefore orthopt-in

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their blazing yellow robes, judges, politicians, local officials..

We must have been a bright THE Egg Marketing Board, and colourful sight, though

suitably solemn and jls 3,000-zere research bust a 1 station at Henley, is said to be reverent one, as we marched the two miles to Rangoon cemetery. experimenting with a die! which will stop hens laying at is. I remember thinking that, in probably what was meant by the spite of everything, the event bard's appent in poultry keepers marked a new stage of trus! to take a sane view on pro-and co-operation between the Auction." As Suet has well said, British

MAJ-GEN. E. C. O. MORPHY

Madlerad in the

GENERAL, K.-.0. D.

Pur Bael for more than a third of Maaktury. Commissioned at 11 in the Leinator Flagiment. Ne frame- Barrel to the Fagian Army in 1918 and served in India, tużyna, and Maisya. On the inf at Singapore Sagan prisoner by the

Atlit THE O worked wily The Pakistan Army

"ščajor-Cloneral Meroky, in how vefired from the Army, hari, is a

Married, with my son, he lives al Ward MyRoer in Burter.

The secret of the

Shwe Dagon Pagoda

and the Burmese. As decided to make the honourable mention the doubts which began

"When a board. To which farmers long as no one found out are privileged to pay a band- some sum every year, and it- self in deulties, the obvious solution to appeal to the of its fames to get out | dilemma."

It all

Hitting the high desert

spots Modernity comes reen to the old caravan routes of the East. (A traveller.)

"O hunts, uchrafed old UR young pleasure-loving

Ahmed Ruis-Pood, "are ino fend of burning the camel both ends."

--London Express SerVICE),

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ACROSS

1 Dunmow award (8).

gesture.

came vividly to my

It was to be a military opera last mind.

year, when the tion, and, orders were sent from Dagon Shwe

pagoda

Was Army Headquarters, India, to gain in the news.

Whatever Major-general

F. Coningham, it was that Mr Khrushchev did commanding the Forces in for did not say in the

ABCE BUTTER.

He was to have the temple, he certainly made

no raves removed.

The bodies reference to the strange events were to be disinterred and given which took place there one hot, an honourable burini with full hurit Burmese night, 25 years military

Rangoon before his visit.

cometery,

A focus

honours in

to alfack both of us,

They got down to six feel, There was not one bone, not a sign that a single body had ever been

in DiRxt

the Eny of graves.

Seven feel eight feet... Dawn was breaking.

1 said to Husky, "You'd better call the coolies off while we discuss this.**

No point

Не agreed. The British troops took over, and the coolies to were

sent back to Rangoon Husky sald, "What are we going to do?"

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As the coolies dug up the graves by lamplight, the gold bella of the pagoda tinkles eerily in the beerre.

eye

coffins

aud

The absence of bodies

Was "That's al

very well," said bound to be discovered as soon Morris. "But ከሀ hocles, no as the graves were opened. It funeral." looked as if there simply lind

"I'm not ກ sure." I was 'worried about the repercussions never been any bodies there.

if the rungements were can- I watched the twelve Eventually we agreed on the celled now. The Burmese would boing lowered carefully into the only possible explanation.

The think we were trying to trick newly prepared graves. Husky dead must have been burled them. We had agreed to re- Morris caught my immediately after the battle in come unknown

move our dead, and end the winked. communal pit. desecration or the temple. Very Then, when the list of missing well,

we would do so. We Only he and 1 in that colour- officers had been compiled, the would keep our pledge.

ful congregation knew that the regiment must have put up the

Lieutenant Morris assembled rollas rontained nothing but a bendkatones us memorials and

the platoon of British soldiers Judicious mixture of earth and not, re everyone had assumed, to mark the spot where the after I had pledged

and gave them their orders, stones from the hill of the

them to Shwe Dagor pagoda. officers were buries.

how secrecy. I don't know "Is It any good looking for the many of those

The Last Post rang out its men are still communal grave?" I asked.

"Rest well, old alive, but they, Ilusky, one or sombre notes, "None at all," said Husky. "We two members of General Warriors," I thought. "Sleep in can't dig up the whole hill Coningtham's staff, and I are the pact-wherever your bones are Besides, the funeral procession only people who know

what ying.

Partly as a mark of respect to the disturbed dead, and partly as a token of their oppreciation Of those who still remember of the Government's good will,

ontv at the occasion,

the barest the pagoda trustees agreed handful know the were story of attend the funeral themselves. that impressive funeral. 11 hus And so is knportance grew until never been told before. Now became im event of consister- "I suppose there's not much that. Burma is a sovereign and able sqgnificance to Anglo- point in digging on," I said.

is due to assemble in a few happened in the grounds of the

WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED Independent State, I can do no Bunese relations.

"None at all. It's perfectly hours. We shall have to call it Shwe Dogon pagoda as the sun

-(London Express Servic@}, hann to tell the truth at last.

that we shall And off." The GCC was not

to obvious able

came up over the II. nothing." person. was played out against attend

He deputed

The funeral procession reach- DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

was not background of growing me I was a captain on his staff

od the cemetery. It nationallst agitation. The Brig at the time) to represent him

only the Burmese heat and the two-mile march that made me tish authorities, far from treat as chief military mourner. The ing the Burmese as savages as assignment did not fill me with

"We can't too I rejected this theory ps

do that," I raid, sweat in my shirt and shorts Mr Khrushchev diab (or did delight, Indeed. I looked for-

too much at stake and tepee as the padre read the not) allege, made every possible ward with scare dread to the improbable. Had they done so, "There's

of a slow, two-mile have known trusices

certainly The whole thing was decided at funeral service. concession 10 their leglumate prospect

and would not Government level. It's to be u Hard We done right! I sentiments.

march in the oppressive heat of have persisted with their com- great wymbol of Anglo-Burmese thought we hod, and I stil Kangoon.

plaints to the Government. Triendship."

think so.

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7 Algerian port-but not wine

(4).

9 No stay-at-home (2).

10 In the dark? (5).

11 Gels on in years (4).

13 It's just nonsense (10).

15 Top of the bill (4).

16 Vchlele to catch (4).

19 Man-of-wAT,

(10).

for example?

22 A vessel of the new era (4).

24 Water wensel (5).

25 No longer fresh (5).

20 Mean foundlition (4).

27 Geuing thirsty? (0).

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DOWN

2 On a par (5).

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3 Condue in a better sence

4 Follows the dogs (8).

glves

5 Doctor

treacle! (8).

the

The famous Shwe Dagon padoga was a focus of much of the unrest. Loftler than St Paul's Cathedral, and covered with pure gold, it is the centre

Dismal

of Burmese religious life. In it have the opportunity to visit my Nevertheless, I was glad to Buddha's hairs are sold to be friend "Husky" Morris, who enshrined.

was in charge of the somewhat

where

I remember some ugly inci- bizarre task of exhuming the dents when tourists, ignorant of bodies from the graves

the correct procedure, entered they had rested for 45 years. the precincts without first re- moviny: their shoes, Some of }them had even been attacked.

An arsenal

Morris was the Garrison Engineer. He was a lieutenant in 1930. The last time I heard of lin, he was a colonel in Korea.

I arrived at Mingaladon on Years before. the

British the day before the funeral and Azny hat built an arsenal stayed with Mortis at his along one of the walls, without bungalow. Fu toki mo the reptising The offence it would rangements he had made for cause. According to the Bud- the exhumation.

dhist religion, the pagoda must

The coffins are ready," he

be accessible from all points of said. "We shail take them

the compass, And 50, when

10

the pagoda in lorries tonight,

new military cuntonments were I've laid on two working parties (5). I built at Mingalarion, some 10

miles north

the

of Rangoon, girls arsenal was transferred there.

The game's over, chum (4). R for this? Correct (5).

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-Indian coolies and a British The coolles will dig platoon. until they reach the first sign of But there still remained human remains. Then the long-standing grievance. Dotted British will take over. The the hill on which the bones will be put in the coffins, Pagoda is built. were the graves and I shall leave them with t of a dozen or so British officers, guard of honour on the pagodo They had been killed when the steps until the funeral tomorrow encour-Pagoda was stormed during the morning."

13 Not much of a fight (5). 13 Get into hot water?

usually (5).

14 Dead and gone! (8).

17 Givos under-cover

agement? (5).

18 Looked rudely (8).

20 Have a go (5).

Not

.

21 Shape of a number of things

(5)-

23 Did it give the Ancient

Briton a ft of the blues? (4), YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Ashore, 4 Pasty, 7 Jumper, 8 Adorn, 10 Dirt, 12 Siorras, 15 Irale, 10 Sent, 17 ENSA, 19 Aglow, 20 Satiate, 21 Nare. 23 Burst, 24 Seldcm, 25 Lead, 20 Tender. Down: 1o Adjudges, 2 Humorist, 3 Beel, Anderson, 6 Tar-tan, 9 Siege, 11 Tralpsed, 12 State, 13 No- warded, 14 Streamer, 18 Nature, 22 Dene,

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about

thurd Burmese war in 1885.

Husky invited me to accom-

It was strange, as one walked pany him, and we set out in the

on that exotle hill, to come upon lorries just before midnight. It

a headstone bearing the name was dark and dismal, drizzling Ensign Kelly.

of a Captain Brown, or

with rain. The moon flickered occasionally through the heavy

For years the trustees of the clouds. had complained that pagoda

the coolies, having re- these earthly remains desecrated moved the headstones, dug up the holy place. The Government the graves by the dim light of of India was polite but regretful. hurricane lamps, the gold bells The priests peisisted, however, which are festooned round the and negotiations dragged on topenost structure of the Funtil, in 1930, the Government pagoda's spire tinkled ocrily in

the slight breeze.

CHUCKLES

HAT

Husky Morris and I walked from grave to grave during the night to inspect progress, The hours passed terribly slowly. As the coolles dug deeper and deeper, we did not at first

CHESS

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"How do you account for 117" "I suppose the Burmese haven't dug up the bodies them- selves at some time?"

the

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