THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1949.
Spots Before Their Eyes
PREPARING FOR CHURCH-STATE STRUGGLE
Prague, Aug. 9.-The Church authorities here reported today that they had completed plans in expectation of an intensified Communist campaign against the Catholic Church in September. Six thousand priests loyal to Rome and the Czecho- slovak Church hierarchy were said to be ready for prison in preference to appeasement.
was pre-
rent there appears to be a lull while the Government and the pensants are concentrating getting in the harvest.
Churchmen expressed con-¡ continuing in Slovakia, where fidence that they would be some peasants took up arms in June to protect priests from supported by the majority what they believed of the clergy as well as by threatened arrest, but at most of the 8,000,000 Czech and Slovak Catholics who form the largest group with a non-Communist ideology in uny East European country,
Church sources here reported
carlier today that unrest
was
W. Union Defence
Lord Montgomery's Statement
announced
or
In preparations for expected contingencies, the Church has made sure that pricals will not suffer materially after the pass page of the Government B minking priests Into civil sCT- vants, to be paid only if up- proved by the Iny authorities, the spokesman sold.
A highly-placed Churchman told Reuter that the Church people would see that the priesta were fed, clothed and sheltered it penalised for supporting the polley of the hierarchy and the Vatican.
TOUGH POLICY
Herbert Harrie, 11, (left) and Sally Brady, 9, dis- play the myriad freckles which won them Ütles as "King" and "Queen" of a freckles contest conducted during Children's Day at the Chicago Railway Fair. (AP Picture),
Voodoo Tomtoms Throbbing Again
are
London, Aug. 9.--The voodoo tomtoms aro throbbing in the jungles, and ritual murders again terrorising primitive tribes in widespread re- rions of Africa, according to District Officers' reports reaching London.
cannot person,
Madagascar POCKET CARTOON
Slaughter Denied
Parla, Aug. 9.-France's reply to an allegation that Colonial troops "alaughter- ed" 60,000 Madagascans in 1947 will be sent soon to the United States Govern- ment, it was learned in official quarters today.
The French statement donies the allegation, it was learned from a usually reliable source.
Dr Liston Pope, Dean of Yale University Divinity School, made the allegation.
"While I was in Africa, native feaders from Madagascar
toki
me of the sinughter of 00,000 natives in revol! against French colonial administration," Dr Pope, who is a world nu thority on
relations, declared.
raco
It is understood French reply will say:
that the
French 1. It is untrue that Colonial troops killed 80,000 people in suppressing the re- bellion.
2. More than 100 Europeans killed by Madagascar
were
rebels.
3.
Several thousand Franco
phile Madagascans were killed
and tortured by the rebels..
4. Between 10,000 and 15,000 Madagascans were killed by
They women
French troops or rebels during the operations.
5. About 00,000 people perished in the revolt, but about 40,000 of them died from hun ver and disease, mostly old men, children who sheltered in
the outbreak. forests
French G
troops food and medical
they rebel-held territory.
7. Madaguzenn nembers of the French Parliament and others were declared responsible the revolt and sentenced for leading i-Reuter.
Police authorities in the personal motives: thirdly any An who having hired districts various
the moves assassin, must join ment himself.
Detection of ritual murders Is
The bill, which the Central Action Committee has nude ready for approval by the No- Assembly, when it re- London. Aug. 9. The tonal
sumes in September, vests.com Western Union organisationplete control of all denomina-
that tonight
tions, their property appoint- Field Marshal Viscount ments and Anances, in the State. 11 specifienily provides for Montgomery, British chair-
cutting of support from priests man of the Western Com- who dispfense the Chacrament understand why this blood manders in - Chief. fully The spokesman added: "I lust should be prevalent agreed with the statement the Communists reply, as we again after years of civil- Ducted by fico mur mes
may expect, with # really made yesterday by his Land tough polley, then the Church ised behaviour, and the Bri-for-reaching and sinister 10- Commander, the French
is confident that the priests tish Government is sending luence. It is impossible to tell General De Laltre De Tas- will choore prison rather than experts to probe into the who may or may not be a men- bur. Winesses, facing death, signy.
appeasement."
terrorism which has in- The Church's strongest supcreased in areas
give false evidence because far they believe that voodoo na the furmers, port war among he said. For the last month, apart as Swaziland, in the never forgei-even after death.
Communists
hnd been southeast, and Nigerin. in talding no risks of a repetition the northwest of Africa. or the disorders in June, when
Grim details of the swift an defence task with shnilar views. priests with staves and scythes, voodoo murders have been given rallied behind their silent sloughter enacted at the peasanto Lord Montgomery saw statement before it was issued, forcing the government to de- in the police reports.
last reparto
apparently divided into three
General De Tassigny's state- mient said that while "varying conceptions had been brought to light, the Comman ders-in-Chict and their chair- man had always regarded their
the
the
weeknumber of areas.
tonight's announcement sald. clare a state of emergency in a The dreaded voodoo men are alleged thnt Field Marshal A heavy importing programme classes-firstly, the professional
Paris
conception of from Russia and ftumanin was murderer who kills anyone for Union defence
a price; secondly, the private en believed to have given the
Westernry'
a tine involving possible Government a reserve of some-killer who practices voodoo for encritice of French territory.
General
Laitre De
Treigny's declaration
thing Uke 300,000 tons of grain, Do mainly whent, but care hud spect-been taken to ensure that this
fically stated that the Western renson's harvesting operations Unlon Jenders unanimously re- were nat interrupted.
their Lusk no the
farded achievement of an effective de- fence of all the territories of the ve nations.
Tumours
The Paris reports were 'coupler with
of per- onal differences between the two men which, London DERVEYS Laltre De Tassiguy's
ران
IDEOLOGICAL TEST
good The harvest had been
10 everywhere, with yields up 20 percent above the average.
The i these
reasons,
For
deelna beginnbog
test between
the
talks with the Western Union believed to be an imminent
leaders In Parks last week
Reuter.
Tried Bribe
To Get
the side of the State, with its
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The Ekstrabladet sald that unlimited ability to wield the the arrested Dane has given the authority of the police and the following description of "the new leral system. But what mysterious foreigner". over material success might be
MYSTIC QUALITIES
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men
One police report suggests is due that the new spate of slaughter the influence of "foreign agents" who have told the Voodoo men to Anish Their killing before the British im-
perialists make a law against it.
But experts in London have They be- a different theory. lieve the voodoo cult is in-
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EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH
Geneva, Aug. 9.A Soviet attempt to get the 60-nation Geneva Red Cross Confer. ence to ban atom bombs and chemical warfare failed spired by an age-old conviction today. The conference, which that certain parts of the human is drafting the "Rules of body have mystic qualities. Warfare," decided by 36 Pathologists who have votes to nine, with five examined
the remains of abstentions, that the Soviet victims vooduo
have mar- proposal was out of order. velled at the
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Church believes that Septem- Copenhagen, Aug. 9. putated, but noted General De ber will be a crucial month. Police arrested three Danes which tion did not deay.
The Loday in Balborg, Jutland, in geons. ideology of Moscow and The reports gained pro-ideology of Rome.
connection with a white minence when the United States Western-diplomats here--re-slave-traffic-gang said to be reporis showed that in many Oficial reports and observers Chiefs of Staff had defence viewing the chances in what operating in Denmark, theses of voodoo ritual, the vie-ntional convention
It also called for an Inter- Reports from "Quito" said un
to outlaw told hundreds are buried alive Ekstrabladet tims' heart and lungs must have these forms of war.
In rubble
seemed and most clash, said that the 8,000 priests, Copenhagen
been removed through the neck The
upheld delegates
the doomed. Great chunks of con- with their bishops and a stront reported today.
after decapitution.
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a letter from. 15 nations, includ- the earthquake trapped them, minded group
"This operation is apparently ing the United States and and only mechanicnt *x* to appear in the arrested Danes confessed to to any part of the having acted us assistant to “A routine ritual but how the Britain, to the President of the cavators would opposition Community policy sin they mysterious foreigner" who had witch doctors perform it amidst Conference that the resolution there are not available.
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moon for light is an enigma 10 Colonel W. R. Hodgson, of towns where roads are blocked, Materially, the odds were on the girls out of Denmark.
Western surgeons.
Australia, said: "This conference the Ecuadorian Government is is concerned with alleviating the considering dropping them by VICTIMS WARNED
suffering of the victims of war- parachute. Reports added that fare
increased the not with the methods of drenching rains Victims are always warned of waging war." He described the misery of the 125,000 homeless their impending doom. A carved
resolution
" backdoor in the earthquake 70 miles Manchester, Aug. 9. won by the Communists, it "A dark-complexioned Ameri- wooden snake placed in his method
of getting this con- south of Quito.--United Press. students ad- would be at the cost of increased can who drives a big American path in the lonely bushland is
ference Two Turkish
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which mitted at Salford, Lanca-8,000,000 members of the Catho-hat, is well
is completely unacceptable provided with denotes he is ambushed. Petri- to other international organs that shire, today.
they lic Church in Czechosolvakia. dollars and always carries a fled, he awaits the fatal blow-whose competence it is."
small pistol,"
skewers him offered £40 to a girl clerk
spear which
General Nikolai Slavin, the NO RELATIONS
A divorced woman put the through the neck.
chiet Sovlet delegate, cald that Then follows the ritual dance ja ban on atomic and chemical police on the scent a few days
to the throbbing tomtoms. The warfare would be "the logical ago when she told them that man had offered her 300 kroner. witch-doctors walling chants end of the conference's work." Police arrested the man, who rise to shrill screams of frenzy Ilo accused Colonel Hodgson climaxça the of being "a known enemy of told them today that he would as decapitation have got the lady drunk and
progress in the Atomic Energy The heart and lungs of the Commission of the United No- would have abducted her.
The arrested Dane claimed he victim are sacrificed to the tribal tions Reuter.
put the foreigner in contact voodoo, which is a six foot heap rewith four
bones Danish girls, of akulls,
and feathers young the
Но
their with human tissues, Gennaro
did not remember
and d'Affaires names
ild
Voodo sacrifices end with a no; know whether they had been sent gruesome cannibal ritual,
heads are boiled in The only Vatican representa- abroad to the "Invourable jobs" victims'
foreigner lind promised crude iron pots and the con- them.-Associated Press.
cbction is drunk by celebrants. New members of the London, Aug. P.-Sir Alfred cult are initiated by drinking Duff Cooper, former British the murdered man's blood, and Ambassador
papers.
See
at the Salford Royal Tech. nical College in an attempt |
It was learned In Vatican to get advance copies of City today that diplomatic re engineering examinationlations between the Holy
and the Czechoslovak Govern- ment have now practically cens- Henu Ozuran, aged 35, wased to exist. fined £40, with £8 costs, and The Czech authorities have Faud Özmim, aged 32, was fined so far refused to grant a visa to £20 under the Corruption Act. Monsignor Paolo Bartou, to take that cently appointed The prosecutor Ozman came to England under place of Monsignor
nald
a Turkish Government scheme Verolino, as Charge
but failed in his examinailons. His allowance
for the Vatican in Prague.
had
was withdrawative remaining in Prague is a the and lie was ordered home, but secretary-Reuter. he refused to go. He become
friendly with Ozuran,
Turkish Government-sponsored student who had already failed in one examiration and was due to sit dgalri.
#
Uzman called at the home at Zias Megan Lloyd, Jones, clerk, at the College to whom he was unknown, and asked her to obtain advance copies of the examination papers. She re-
ported this to the College Prin- cipal. Osman bald that he was prepared to give £60. When ho met her outside the College the police found two envelopes on him, containing £40 In notes. Ho said that Ozuran gave him the mancy-Reuter,
India-Nepal Treaty
New Delhi, Aug. 9.---OMelal sources said that the Govern- ment of India is at present-no- gotiating a treaty, of friendship and commerce with the indepen dent Kingdom of Nepal, which is expected to be completed: this month.-Asociated Press.
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He will keep in touch with British Embassies and Legations Oncial reports said even to in Europa and, where necessary, day the primitive tribes believe visit various capitals, the com- the soul of a man or woman pany announced today. His ob- hms the power to leave itsject will be to improve the dis- human form and enter into other tribution and earnings of British bodies Human flesh is always films-Reuter, believed to have "magical" pro-
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British Influence tan curtail- ed open activities in recent years, but the reports indicated -that--voodoolem - is being-prac-. 'tized on on Increasing scale "underground."
Heat Wave In
Now York
New York, Aug. 9.--A heal wave with temperatures in the. The voodoo men are relue-high nineties covered the entire tant to cede their power, and eastern half of the United States voodoolsm is a profitable busi- today,
ness among tribesmen who be. Although a cool mass of air lidyo.. In the elimination of is moving towards the Midwest, those who incur their disappro- no relief is expected for at least. val and the assimilation of those two days. The temperature in they bellove to possess quali New York at 4 p.m. was 97 dow ties of strength and power.. --~grees, breaking a77-year ro- United Press,
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