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...rail line to Mandalay and the Burma Road's stump, one army approached the black ruins of Toungoo. Another went forward along a rail spur and highway toward Prome (home of one of Kipling's famed Ladies), an unhealthy town of 30,000 in a bowl of pagoda-topped hills. Beyond Prome were the oil fields of Yenahgyaung. The British were tired. The somber phrase, "delaying actions," popped up in dispatches day after day. One day there was action near Nyaunglebin, south of Toungoo; next day the Japs had Nyaunglebin. One day there was action near Tharrawaddy, south...
Thousands of yellow-clad priests escorted the jar through the streets of Cambodia's ancient capital, Pnom-Penh, to a towering, shining new pagoda. The body was placed in a gleaming gold-&-silver catafalque. As plaintive music sounded, the new, handsome young King Sianouk of Cambodia, Sisowath's nephew, lighted a fire under Sisowath's bodily remains and incinerated them. An elegantly robed and uniformed audience made obeisance. Among them were French Indo-China's Governor General Admiral Jean Decoux, who used to rule over Sisowath, and a Japanese General representing Emperor Hirohito, who now rules...
Before Peiping fell to the Japanese in 1937, two hallowed objects were smuggled out of its ancient Forbidden City. About as easy to smuggle as a couple of dentists' chairs, they were an eight-foot, ten-inch white jade Buddhist pagoda (largest jade piece in the world), and a gold, lacquer and mother-of-pearl teakwood Dragon Throne on which Manchu emperors had sat from the 17th Century to the close of their reign. In great secrecy the pagoda and throne, (together valued at $3,000,000) were spirited out of China by coolie cart, mule train, river junk...
Last fortnight the pagoda got to Mrs. Roosevelt safe & sound, but the Dragon Throne failed to show up. She pottered around a customs warehouse looking for it, finally notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cabled Director Loew-Beer. Presently she received a reply. The director, still in smuggling mood, had addressed the throne to a friend in Oakland, Calif., which he innocently assumed was a suburb of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt and Holland America Line officials looked some more, found the imperial seat, not yet forwarded to "suburban" Oakland, in a crate on a dock in Hoboken, N. J. Last...
...riot against Hindu immigrants, and you could hear police sticks chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay. Twenty-four persons were killed. Last summer there were more serious Burman-Indian riots which killed 200 and wounded nearly 1,000. They were caused by: 1) the rifling by Hindus of a sacred pagoda which contained one of Buddha's teeth; 2) the distribution by Hindus of a pamphlet containing passages insulting to Buddha. Burma's Legislature last week concluded that Premier Ba Maw had failed to solve the prickly problem of Burma's Indian minority, passed a motion of noconfidence...