23 JANUARY 1932, page 9

By Peter Fleming.

t IHE Shwe Dagon Pagoda dominates Rangoon. It -I- would dominate most places. It is taller than St. Paul's Cathedral and covered from top to bottom with pure gold. It is visible......

Poetry Gold

A DOMESTIC DIALOGUE " Au. gold is fled," I hear you say, From this poor realm of ours to-day Rapacious men from foreign lands With systematic sinuous hands Have borne it off......