Show ANCIENT GODS GOBS GODSIN IN CHINA CH NA COMETO COME COMETO ENDa a TO VIOLENT END SHANGHAI March C G United Press Press Gods Gods Gods before whom S of Chinese have kowtowed and idols which havo have had the reverent Worship wor Wor- sor ship of ot generations are being ruthlessly ruthlessly ruth ruth- lessly torn from their temple altars in many sections of the province of ot South China according to reports received here The dethronement ot or the idols is' is is being carried on by provincial troops at the order of ot Li Lt Tsong- Tsong yin In new military governor With Wills the exception of ot a favored few the ancient gods have inet tact with a volet v o let end in all an of the tho large centers centers' of ot Some of the idols were thrown into creeks and rivers others oth ers ens were decapitated and still jothi ers era were stripped of their robes and and anS left out In the streets to shift t fog for r themselves t I In some of the smaller towns however the gods were more kind kind- ly II treated Hearing of the ord orders order for tor their destruction their devotees hastily hid them in mountain ca caves Yes St The temples which housed the now deposed lords of ot the upper and n nether regions are being used lor for fog other purposes Most of them hyl haq been converted into market places and in one town a temple which formerly housed a realistic model of ot hell now flow houses a a. market second-hand second clothes old iron and junk are bartered Missionary Informants attribute this fall of the tho gods to the rap rap ly growing Influence of ot the red in in South China Chin JL |