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Show Buddhists Are Not a Success As Jailers in Far Off Burma r IT appears that the warders In Burmese Jails are nearly always men from the Punjab and northern India. They are large and muscular, but the principal reason rea-son for selecting them Is that they are not Buddhists. The Burman Is sometimes employee em-ployee as a warder, but his Buddhist education edu-cation often causes his prejudices to come In collision with his official duties, as in the case of this warder. Afthoonpucc, or Buddlst priest. In Jail for stealing, had been placed In solitary confinement con-finement for disobeying the prison rules His Influence as a priest had persuaded a Burman warder to procure him some betel nuts, which, being discovered in his possession. posses-sion. causi his punishment. The stone cell In which the priest was confined had a plank supported at both ends by Insertion into slots In the walls. The plank served as a bed. and at night the priest Jumped on It again and again. In order to force the ends out of the shallow sockets. The Burma n sentry peeped into the aperture of the door and asked him to desist. The convict replied that he was a priest, and as auch was forbidden to sleep on a ra.seei oca. By this time he had got the board fre-e. and to disarm the sentry's suspicions lay down upm 12 and feigned sleep The sentry returned to his post, but a few hours later he wis Hl.imed to 4 e tbe phoonovrr walking walk-ing softly down the passage. He had used the loard as a lever to force out two of tbe bars in the door, and had managed to squeeze hir elf through the aperture. Tha se-ry. a Buddhist, was embarrassed. To jut violent hands upon the holy convict ry ''t of the question: to allow him to ..-o woutd bring punishment upon him self. As the passage doors were locked H and the priest safe for the present, the 8en- H try ventured to remonslrate with his charge H oi the impropriety o. his behavior B The tramp of the relief guard was heard ffi outaldc. The sentry knelt and Implored the !&l Priest to return to his cell. The door opened 9 upon the tableau a uniformed sentry In an 'jte altitude of supplication before a convict H Tho Punlabese wno form ,hc p guard, not being Buddhists, had no reapeCt M for pheonuven. The convict priest was V promptly bjndled Into a new cell gfl |