Largest hydro plant opened By RALPH PARKER MOSCOW The world’s largest hydro-electric power station—in the Volga Valley — is now in operation. With its sister station at Stalingrad, the new installation will provide more power than the Grand Coulee and Boulder dams of the United States. Its creation has entailed the making of a new 350-mile-long sea—the Kuibyshev rs Kenya hangings | s=. y a g g The work was completed in the coldest December the Volga arouse p rotests region has known for many years. The temperature was throughout Britain LONDON An African has been hanged in Nairobi jail simply for being with a man who had a home-made gun. The man who had the gun was also hanged, and so was a man who was carrying ammunition. Six others were hanged with them. : The horror felt at such execu- tions has been expressed in the House of Commons and all over Britain. Altogether in three years of the war in Kenya some 1,000 Africans have been hanged, some for such trivial offences as possessing food down to 57 degrees below freez- ing, and terrific blizzards made it necessary for columns of trucks bringing up materials to keep their headlights on all day. i Pylons for the 400,000-volt AF high-tension _ cable which will BF take power from Kuibyshev to Moscow were erected while winds were blowing at more than 40 miles an hour. Electric locomotives could not continue working on the dam, and had to be replaced by steam engines. Young engineers fresh from their training schools accomplish- ed their tasks in spite of blinding snow, winds which threatened to carry them away, and ‘frosts Re this could be a sc2ne in the Cariboo country of British Columbia, ferry along the Kangting-Tibet highway. a Except for the buildings, ' Actually it’s the Kinsha River Alan Winnington in Tibet--3 Old religion thrives as new economy buds © and Panchen Lama are not shared LHASA, Tibet dustrialisation 1s naturally caus- ; | To get up to the top of the 13th, Dalai Lama’s tomb I had to climb with’ the laity. The monasteries are the big- ing intense philosophical discus- sion in Tibet and signs of a con- which police informers asserted, was to be sent to members of which froze the steel. It is five years since work be- gest landlords. and perhaps the biggest merchants. It is rare to find a family in which there is no monk or a room, however poor, without a shrine in thé corner. How close are the ties between the monas- teries and the people is self- evident. . Monks may not marry. They go to the monasteries at the age of three or four and poor ones find it hard to leave. Lamaism teaches that a per- son’s wealth and poverty and other conditions in this life are determined by his behavior in a former one. Lack of virtue may lead to rebirth as a beggar— ,gan near the 1,000ft-high Jigouli hills to dam the Volga and thus create the sixth step in the series of dams and power stations on which work has been in progress for some 20 years. Two months ago the work of | finally blocking the flow of the great river was completed. , Thousands of tons of stone and concrete were deposited in the bed. Since the beginning of Novem- ber all the water of the Volga has flown through nine sluices of the dam. The first two turbines ready are of 105,000 kilowatts each. They were built in Lenin- flict of thought. the African Resistance movement. Earlier it had been admitted that the 21 African women killed when buried in a sandpit had been engaged on forced labor for the British authorities. West German youth get 1,000 years’ jail’ BERLIN West Germany’s drive to rearm has brought with it persecution of all progressive forces as in the Hitler period. . Men and women, boys and girls, are thrown into prison for months three flights of slippery ladders. The great tomb is cased in a ton of sheet gold inlaid with jewels. Such jewels are a tiny fraction of the incalculable wealth of the Potala’s 1,000 rooms and in the countless other treasure houses ot Tibet's un- numbered tem- ples. At the Pan- chen Lama’s temple I clim- ded seven floors te reach the face of a 130ft. high Buddha An economic advisor to the Dalai told me that Tibet did not need reform because “if you be- lieve in Buddhism you can al- ways arrange your life satisfac- torily.” In the next breath he was talking enthusiastically about the new power plants, factories, and irrigation’ schemes planned for Tibet by the state council. The policy of the Chinese People’s central government is very clear. Religious freedom is protected by the constitution pricelessly built in bronze and gold. In the chapel below slabs of turquoise served as floor tiles. A fortune could not buy the contents of any chapel. A large part of the butter pro- duced in Tibet is burned before the shrines. In a normal day, 4,000 pounds of butter goes up in smoke in the Djokang temple here and each month six tons of barley flour is used to make images. Every religious place in Tibet smells of burning butter and all the ladderways are slippery and dangerous with centuries of its smoke. Lamaism, a form of Buddhism, is dominant in Tibet. A monk and a noble are appointed to each major post, the monk being super- ior. But the top posts of Dalai even a flea. giving not killed it.” A merchant who cheats makes the excuse that the victim must have owed him money 1n a pre- vious life. Lamaism is an attractive re- offering to the poor the possibility of attaining the high- est position in the next life, and the only hope of advancement, ligion, however slight, in this one. t xt ce China’s rapid advance to in- Virtue, especially money to monasteries, brings rebirth in a higher state. Taking life is a sin. Suppose the mutton you eat or the pest you destroy were actually your own mother-in-law ! Still, as one high monk said to me: “J would not kill an animal. But if an animal is dead and I eat some, I have and by the agreement which re- China. You have only to see the thou- sands of butter lamps, the end- less counting. of beads, people measuring their length hundreds of times a day before the images, begging for coppers while they twirl silver prayer wheels worth a year’s keep, to know that this agreement is being kept in the letter and the spirit. Splitters cost Labor seats in Australia SYDNEY Final results in the: recent Australian national elections show that the splitting tactics of the breakaway anti-Communist Labor faction resulted in the Labor party losing a number of seats in the House of Representa- tives. The Liberal-Country party coa- lition headed by Prime Minister Robert Menzies has 75 seats com- pared with 47 for labor and one independent. None of the splitters got in. In the last House, the govern- ment had 64 seats, labor had 50 and the anti-Communist labor group. held seven. Labor’s biggest losses were in Victoria, where all seven anti- | Communist Labor members were | defeated, but they split the Labor | vote. Nevertheless, taking Australia as a whole, Menzies’ Tories won their majority in the House of Representatives on a minority of the total vote, with Labor getting more votes. united Tibet with the rest of Soviet, British cadets meet and years without charges. Since 1950 the courts have sentenced 6,429 young people to terms total- ling over 1,000 years ‘on political charges. Another 15,000 have been ar- rested and proceedings begun against no fewer than 35,000 youngsters. More repression is in store, for 10,000 more cases are being investigated. When no evidence can be found, victims are sent to a men- tal home for “investigation.” British cadets at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth are shown welcoming Soviet cadets during the recent courtesy visit to Britain of a Soviet naval squadron. grad. It is planned to bring 11 more turbines into operation at intervals during 1956, by the end of which the power sta- tion will be generating at the annual rate of 1,800 million kilowatt-hours. At the present time the waters of the Volga are filling the great reservoirs to be known as the Kuibyshev Sea. Creation of this sea has neces- sitated evacuation and recon- struction of 250 villages, as well as of the old town of Stavropol, from which over 2,000 wooden houses have been transported elsewhere. The new Stavropol, like the city of Kazan and Lenin’s birth- place Ulianovsk, has become a {| modern port. Soviet Union to build 40 more TV stations LONDON About a million television sets will be produced in the Soviet Union next year, Moscow Radio reports, adding that a further 40 television stations would be built “in the next few years.” Baku, Minsk, Gorky, Tiflis, Stalino, Vilna, Kuibyshev and Tashkent would soon have trans- mitters, and the Moscow station was to have a new, 900 foot high mast. The first television theatre, at Moscow’s Hermitage Gardens, has a screen measuring 13 feet by 9% feet. Other similar theatres in the Moscow reception region are planned. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 6, 1956 — PAGE 3