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Churchgoers Killed In Bus Accident
Weirton, Virginia, Apr. 29.
Five persons were killed and more than 40 others injured today when a bus loaded with churchgoers ran wild down a steep hill and crashed into a concrete retaining wall.'
Weirton police said the brakes of the vehicle, operated by the Pittsburgh and Weirton Bus Com- pany, apparently failed about half-way down the mile-long grade and it began picking up speed.
Joseph Kraini, 35, the driver, moved in and out of traffic, his horn blasting, as he attempted to bring the heavy vehicle under control. He was unable to make the right angle turn at the foot of the hill and the bus crashed into the concrete wall.
Kraini was killed in the trash accidén, used acetylene torches
m his bly was hurled · 300 to free passengers.
feet by the force of the impnel, | It was horrible,” said one of Most of the Larssengers were
the restue workers, "These Brown To the front of the crumpled bus in a tangled mass, people jammest in there in a big tangled mats, screaming Workers from the bus comand mooning. It all happened pany ghrage, logited on so quick ww didn't actually few feet from the scene of the
accident. see the
First we heard the horn blowing and then the scream of tires us Joe Then tried to make the corner, there
crash. It WIN a shook the garage.
He must
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Challenge
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Outflanking Threat To Seoul By
Communists
SEEK CITY'S CAPTURE BY MAY 1
Tokyo, Apr. 30.
Chinese Communists slashed southward to the Han River on Sunday in a 35-mile advance into central Korea that threatened to outflank almost deserted Seoul. Other Communist forces were surging down from the north and northwest toward the Allies dug in behind barbed wire ontanglements four miles or less from the capital.
Lieut. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, Commander of the international Eighth Army, said his men would fight to thwart the Communist plans to capture Seoul by May Day- Communist international holiday. He warned that the Communists were massing 300,000 more men for the new assaults, but declared that the
offensive at the cost of 70,000 casualties.
Menzies Expects To Reds had lost the first round of their week-old 300,000-man spring Win His Objective Despite Losses
The Chinese on the west central front 20 miles east of Seoul moved swiftly through the no-man's land created by the deep Allied withdrawal, and slammed 150-mm artillery shells into the United Nations positions on the Han-River.
Several sharp infantry engagements were reported as the Commu- nists made the deepest penetration into south Korean territory since the offensive started a week ago. The heaviest fighting was near the con- fluence of the Han and Pukhan Rivers, 20 miles east of the capital.
There was a lull in the im-
dug in for an expected siege of the capital city. Both land and scaborne artillery and planes were preparing for the Chinese
siege armies,
Melbourne, Apr. 29. After a day of counting votes in the Austra- elian General Election, the Prime Minister, Mr have been doing 70 miles an Robert Menzies, was tonight in sight of his objec- hour when he ploughed into the tive a majority in both the House of Representa-medlate Seoul area as the Allies
Father Thomas Carrigan,tives and Senate. The Prime Minister. M. pastor of St Paul's Catholic SOD feet away Henri Queuille, staked the Church about life of his Cabinet today on from the crush, heard the noise He then a Natiound Assembly vote of an to the scene, where he confidence on the contested ministered the last rites of the
number of electoral reform bill to clear Catholic Church to the rond for nation-wide Vadims. Most of the dead and injured were taken to the Ohio elections in June.
Stuenville Valley Hospital at four miles away,
Police sold loaded with suburban
By demanding the ente, M. Queuille cut short an all-night session sparked by catcalls and nst ghts. His move was inter- preted as a final warning to the Assembly that
the unless slightly
modified government bill receives the required con- stitutional majority, the Premier and his Cabinet would resign.
By moving a question con- lence, M. Queulile also scored a tactical success by preventing Communist manoeuvre for inan-by-man vote which would hold the bill from a final vote for a few days more. The vote will be
midnight tiken at Tuesday.-United Press,
a
no
of
Nothing To Say
Cannes, Apr. 29. Prince Aly Khun has received
word "official"
of the reported intention of his wife Rita Hayworth to get a divorce from hon and or separation therefore has nothing to say, his secretary said today. - United Proas..
Bad halted the service.
By last night his Liberal Country Party coalition seemed assured of majority in the House. Today, with four of the five million votes counted it appeared that he could expect to have 31 seats in the Senate to Labour's 29.
The Allled tro:ps were be- hind barbed wire entangle- ments that would slow up the Communists' "human sca" tactics, witle. a ring of artillery would Inflict enormous losses en the Reds.
Key state in the election was The deputy leader of the other five Labour Party, a former Foreign Queensland. The states all locked like sending ve Minister, Mr Herbert Evati, was Labour and five Government today very closely challenged candidates cach to the Senate, by his Liberal opponent for his Communist vehicles, flooding the bus was From Queensland, if the present old sent at Barton, Sydney North Korean ronds with sup- Mrs Nancy Wake, Australian-ply traffic received the greatest residents of the trend 53 maintained, six Govern-
heroine of the French blows of the war community en routement and four Labour Senators bern
from Allied Resistance Movement, was only night-flying aircraft on Sunday to various Weirton churches and will go to Canberra,
It was because 2 Labour 232 votes behind him. was on a regular run when the
Three night, a Fifth Air Force/sum- the Senate could thousand votes were still to be mary said today. majority in brakes apparently
Ulock the Government's bills that counted. United Press.
failed.-
LATEST CASUALTIES Weirton, West Virginia,
Apr, 29. Six persons were killed and 51 others injured today when a
bus carrying may churchgoers ran wild clown mile-long hill and crashell-into a concrete retaining wall.
Mrs Elsie Ulizio
the Prime Minister asked for the dissolution of both Houses.
MUST POLL 54.56%
The Secretary of the Labour
British Troops' Heroic Action
On The Korean Front,
Apr. 29. The first clear reports of how the Communist armies in Korea crashed and broke against two British brigades beran, to filter through tonight.
TOL. 11434
Stranded Crew In Danger
Stewarts Point, Calif, Apr. 29. Preparations were mada fonight to remove the crew. of the grounded Japautse freighter, Kenkoku Maru; by breeches buoy as high winde and Jieavy ROAM threatened to break up the vessel. The breeches buay equipment was dispatched from the Point area, after the Coast Guard received a`l radio message from the akp's master. There were 54 Japanese crew members aboard.
Efforts by two Cont Guard turu and two com- mercial tugs to free the stranded ship at high tides on Saturday might and Bua- day were not successful The tugs were to try semiti later on Sunday, but the Coastguard expressed fears that Sonday night's, ligh lide, expected to be only 2 feet higher than the 4.7- foot lide on Sunday morn Ing,
would be Insufficient
to free the vessel, - United Press.
Vietminh Rebels Defeated
Saigon, Apr. 29. French forces killed 120
moved in force into the vacuum created by the Allled with- drawal.
Of the four patrols ranging Vietminh guerillas, captured ahead of the new line,
three 70 more and captured tons.
made contact with sinäll Com-
munist groups, East of Chun- of ammunition, armament chon, an Allied patrol was fired factories and supply depots on by an estimated squad of during a four-day sweep Communists. While the
patrol
was engaging the Communists, across the Plaine des Joncs about 30 miles west of Sal artillery fire fell into the area.
Another patrol saw an es- gon, an Army source claim- timated 300 Communists easted here today.
and northeast of Churichan,
in
Two strong infantry
de with amphibious vehicles and artillery, alr and naval forces took part in the operation across the mosquito- ridden, marshy area.
The sweep had four objects: They were
There were some women this group. The sky over this tactaments front was clear today and the drone of Allied fighter. planes almost constant. It had three rained during “Ninth
the last days. United Press.
Major-General Willem Hoge, American Allied fighters and light bom- Corps Commander, today Party, Mr J.A. Ferguson, said bers flew more than 100 sorties
described the British 27th night. Sighting a Brigade's action in plugging tenight that his Party expected during the
new election at an early record-3,860 vehicles on the
a 10-milo wide gap in the of Com-
United Nations line north because To gain six of 10 Senate seats date
of the Governmove in all parts
planes munist-held Korea, the "Inability to managebombed and strafed more than
of Kapyong last week as in any state, & Party must poli- ment's 54
54.50 of the total vote, Of affairs of state.""
"superb", 1,000 of them and
claimed at It regarded as significant the least 240 destroyed or damaged.
Australian troops the votes. so far countext...__in Queensland the Liberal
Canadians who bore the and Government losses of seats"
Most
brunt air crews, however, said Country Party
time in have polled "nier such a short
the. Chinese they knocked out many more office."
onslaught in that sector could
not confirm them be-
had in his opinion killed us cause of darkness,
many Chinese Communists #as the combined strength of two Commonwealth battalions",
a
54.5 per cent.
the
of Weirton lied the Ohio Valley Hospital
raising in Steubenville, death toll to six. Three others were reported in critical ecadi- Lion
Press.
AL
A State by State position of the parties was:
New South Wales:--Govern-
at the hospital-Unitedment 23, Labour 22, Doubtful 2. Victoria: Government 18, Labour 15, Doubtful 2.
LORRY BITS' BUS
Mexico City Apr, 29.
A gasoline lorry crashed into *second-class bus on the Cuernavaca highway near here, injuring 10 persons.--United Press,
COMMENT OF THE DAY
South Australia-Govern- ment 5, Labour 5, Doubtful 0.
Western Australia-Govern- ment 5, Labour 2, Doubtful 1.
Tasmania: Government 3, Labour 1, Doubtful 1,
Newspapers And The Law
NOVERNMENT has decided to intro- duce an Ordinance to consolidate existing legislation controlling news- papers and other publications. That
the need exists for tightening up the law is recognised. In this instance, however, the Authorities seek the power to suppress or suspend-u some- what dangerous privilege. Govern- ment has a right to feel apprehensive certain behaviour of about the vernacular newspapers, who only too eagerly seize on malicious rumours and publish them in authoritative form. Moreover, a growing-tendency is dis- cernible of vernacular publications with distinct political leanings making use of their freedom of expression to wage a polemical war, the effect of which is calculated to inflame those sections of the population which read the journals. That the Authorities should possess substantive legal powers to deal with publishers who substitute licence for freedom of the press will not be dis puted. The doubt that remains, how- ever, is whether suppression suspension is the correct sort of action. A tremendous onus will rest on the Crown, the magistrates and the judges in applying the proposed new Inw, especially when it comes to proving that a newspaper or other publication has failed to verify a story, or the facts on which, a comment la based, which, by its publication, is deemed to be maliciously false news. Elsewhere in
or
the democratic world the suppression of a newspaper, except in times of great emergency, is not a method employed to shake a journal out of its irrespon- sibility. There are less drastic but quite effective measures designed to achieve the desired result. Heavy fines and the imprisonment of those are the responsible for the offence most acceptable. This does not appear to be provided for as an alternative in the new Ordinance and it would be interesting to hear Government's
reason
for the omission. We are
The Government took office in 1949-Reuter.
W. Germans
At least 1,000 of the vehicles wire sighted in buildup areas immediately behind the battle- lines with the largest concentra- tions
in the west.
where the battle
Is just begin for Seoul ning.
About 200 were sighte" Vijongbu
and about the somo number across the Parallel at Namchonjom In the same high- Frankfurt, Apr. 29. way net. At least 350 vehicles West German voters went the roads from Binuiju to Sari- were sighted farther north of
Go To The Polls
near
11-
1mm
the
to the polls today in two of won and another 500 were be- the Federal Republic's 11tween Sariwon the
and mediate frontline area. In
In day- States to cast ballots expect-light
on Sunday, sorties el to show a further de- Fifth Air Force, in its first good cline in popular favour of day since Thursday, claimed Chancellor Konrad Adenau- approximately 900 enemy troops killed or wounded. Six hundred er's Right Wing coalition sorties were flown on Sunday. government.
of
Human streams of refugees crossed the Han on home-made ferries from Seoul or balanced precariously on floating wooden footbridges. The moaning of women and the crying of bables on their backs were common around the bridges.
of
anu
This ild not include Chousands of Chinese Com- munista wounded by the Brigade and by: New Zealanders and Americans,
General Hoge gald that the Chinese Communists probed for a weak spot the United Nations lines, found it north of Kapyong and punched bard,
Reports reaching here showed that at the cost of very heavy casualties the 29th Brigade stopped the full weight of the Chinese attack down the
main corridor towards Seoul.
North of, Kapyang the 27th Brigade
was rushed Info action to stop a dan- Forous breakthrough where the South Koreans had collapsed.
alro
The 27th Brigade suffered but like the 201 stood firm and fought the Communists to a standstill before self withdrawing
with the conformity tactical plan of the United Nations Commander.
In the French-Zone state of Rheinland-Pfalz, about 33 per cent of 2,015,500 eligible voters braved occasional showers by noon to cast votes for the new -100-enember State Assembly. Twenty-seven per cent
The Eighth Army heid strong- 1,700,000 eligible volera in the British-Zone state of Schleswig-ly prepared defensive positions Holstein turned out by noon to along the entire 85-milo front aleal 1,362 new Municipal Coun- and Gen. Van Fleet's announce- cils and 21 County Councils. ment indicated that the Allied Results in the heavily Catholic withdrawals had come to an
least
_for_the_present. Pfalz will be particularly closely sak, weched for indications of a I won't stop him (enemy) trend away from Dr Adenauer.north of the Han. But we are Although the Sociallet Opposition in
оп positions leader, Dr. Kurt Schumacher, defensive terrain in the Seoul back to the United Nations lines task force on Sunday has worked hard to make the area." Schuman Plan as burning an Major-General William Hoge, morning. Henk the patrol in the aren counted 900 Communist dam today as rearmament was Commander
United the
head.
perfectly satisfied that it is not the aim-1-|sine-growing stato of Rheinland-ey can't say I will or
of the Authorities to suppress news- papers in Hongkong, but to..possess legal powers for applying deterrent punishment. First action, therefore, It is suggested, should be to increase substantially the maximum fines and terma of imprisonment which magistrates.can impose under existing legislation; to apply those powers. vigorously where there has been a successful prosecution, and to establish whether or not the punishment' is an effective deterrent. If this fails to achieve Its purpose, then it would be right and proper for Government to widen the scope of the law to provide. for suppression or suspension of an offending publication. We feel Govern ment should give fürther consideration to the subject before committing itself to legislation which may have unhappy repercussions.
Food
of
Turks and Belgians Joined in actions which --will-make-regimental.hk............
good
lay
tory-Reuter.
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SHARP STRIKE
In the Stato elections six months State Ninth Corps, pointed out ngo, the growing well against to new men that the Chinese Dr Adonater is believed to so far ind committed only part express more reneral dissatis of their force and that the United Press correspondent faction with the government's holding of the Han River line William Burson reported from Loitering oconomic poller.
“depends on what is thrown the west central from that the at The Socialists, campaigning The Seoul area was quiet as Communist troops struck sharply on a platform opposing German darkness fall on Sunday evening north bank of the river. In one 05 at the Allied forces dug in on the reprmament and the Schuman except for the thunder of artil- hour-long battle 40 to 60 Com Plan to pool Europe's coal and lay and the howl of big shells munists were killed as they tried sieci held the lead in the load into Communist positions to storm Allied positions with Rheinland-Falz returna as ex-by the big guns of the heavy rides, machineguns and grenades.
cruber, Toledo,
20 miles Chinese mortars and artily from 551 precincts away.”
also harassed Allied-lines, gave the Socialists 48,112, the Sunday night's
Army Christian
Allled patrols Democrats 47,814, communique disclosed & fire fight
probing out Free Democratic Party 20,103 near Soul on Saturday
night
:|north of the new United... Na- and the Communists: 3,311. The 34. said; that two friendly com- tions positions contacted" the showery, cool, weather; kept|panies 5 murrounded by the Communists, oast of abandoned many, of the allegible voters Commmmdata northwest of the Chusschon on Sunday, but found hame-United Prem
city were resoíed: and brought | no-lijdicúlloh that the Reds had
WES
British Papers To Cost More
tad
1.To destroy น Vietminh regiment armed with heavy weapons which was entrenched- in fortified, villages.
2. The establishment of new French miliary poses
in the region, hitherto ̈overnin "by: guerillas.
3--To Improve communica tions to West Cochin-China.
London, Apr. 28. British national and London. evening nowspapers, which have so dar cost one penny per copy 4. To free important com- since before the war, will cost mercial waterways im the three half-pence from Monday, Plaine des Jones from May 7.
The
threats.
rebel·
ak
the nowspapery fave been A communique said that forced to increase their prices by French
forec
achieved a new increase of £14 per ton these alms despite the stubborn In the price of newsprint, which resistance · by"
numerically how costs £60 per ton, nearly stronger Vietminh unlis double what it was a year ago In North Vietnam, French-
Vietnamese and six times the prewar price.
forces
continued The Times will stay at three sweeping an area bout 20 miles pence; but the Daily Telegraph southwest of the supply port of will go up from three hall-pence Haiphong, anti pushed
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