The Archive · 1939

Old Legends

About all of these and a great many more there are quaint legends, fairy stories or folk tales. The monkey for instance, figures prom-mently in.a Buddhist epic, which recounts the activities of Sun Houtze, the monkey that won immortality and became a god. The fox is be-Mieved to be a spirit and to have the power of transforming itself into a beautiful woman to lure men to their doom.

Mr. Sowerby's lecture will deal with the animals that thus appear in Chinese legends, as well as recounting some of the legends and fairy tales themselves. It will be illustrated with lantern slides and works of art depicting some of the animals and legends discussed. The meeting is open to the public.

Public Rickshas T" on on January 1, 1938 was number of public ricshas in Police Disperse Ugly, 105 vehicles reported lost in "War areas were replaced by new Crowd in Rangoon rieshas during January and wary 1938, bringing the number Rangoon, Jan. 31.

authorized maximum of 9,500.

Police here today used tear gas. 947 pullers were prosecuted for buckshot and batons to disperse a us breaches of the Traffic Recrowd attempting to prevent the in the congested Central and Burmese-owned motor-buses from Louza Districts as against 25,967 in plying the streets of East Rangoon. Nine persons were injured by tear New Model Ricshas.—2,240 public gas and three others in a baton new model were charge. Mr. A. W. Tydd, Assistant Commissioner of Police, was injured when the crowd began to throw

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