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From Mandalay in the central plain to Moulmein on the Andaman Sea, Burma burst into flames last week, the spark provided by protest and bloodshed, the oxygen by rumor. In Sagaing, a city of 70,000 in the center of the country, security forces opened up with shotguns on a crowd of 5,000 that was converging on a police station, and 31 people were reported killed. In the suburbs of Rangoon, the capital, three policemen were reported to have been beheaded by enraged mobs. Word of mutinies by military units in the north and east flickered through the country...
...healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide." Shooting an Elephant (1936) portrays "the dirty work of Empire at close quarters." A rampaging elephant in Moulmein has killed a native, and the people expect the policeman to do something: "Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd-seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed...
...leftist agitators, barricaded the gates and staged a sit-in. Bulldozers ordered out to smash the barricades were beaten back with hurled stones, and fire hoses failed because of insufficient water pressure. Finally, tough riot police with tear gas dislodged the students. Three other universities at Bassein, Moulmein and Mandalay were padlocked by the government...
...little teaser ads that spoke cryptically of "transmogrification," the news was broken gently to San Franciscans. After 40 years of looking more like the inside of an old Moulmein pagoda than a retail store, S. & G. Gump Co., the pride of Post Street, was Westernizing itself. On its temple-quiet second floor, the famed Treasure, Ivory, Porcelain and Lotus rooms, which had ranked with the Cliff House and Chinatown as S&iA Francisco tourist attractions, were ruthlessly torn out. Gump's was spending $150,000 to streamline one of the Occident's richest treasure houses of the Orient...
...bell in the Kyaikthanlan Pagoda in Moulmein has this English inscription: "This bell is made by Koonalenga, the priest, and weighs 600 viss. No body design to destroy this Bell: Moulmein, March 30th, 1855. He who destroyed to this Bell, they must be in the great Heell, and unable to coming...