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No. 34968
A European Summer
Earth Tremors, Rain, Hailstorms And River Floods
London, Aug. 9. Earth tremors, torrents of rain, hailstorms and river floods were Europe's summer weather today.
Floods killed 20 people in Italy and Austria during the last 24 hours. Villages and farms on both sides of the Alps took the brunt of the rough weather.
Here are the latest reports in Reuter despatches;
Geneva: Floods in Switzerland diverted two great continental expresses, the Rome-Paris and the Stockholm-Rome. The St Gothard route was barred and trains were diverted through the Simplon Tunnel by way of Milan,
Rome: Floods brought by heavy rain were reported to nave cost 19 lives in the Lake Como arco of North Italy.
All over the country cellars were flooded and vineyards took heavy damage in Burgundy around Bordeaux.
Better
weather is predicted
for the weekend.
Frankfurt: A sudden fall in temperature ended West Ger- many's 14th day heat-wave. Heavy rain fell last night and today.
3 INS OF RAIN Amsterdam: Three inches of rain fell in Amsterdam yester- day in what was believed to be the heaviest rainfall for over 20
years.
A 30-foot high wall of water and mud from the San Vinzenso the torrent crashed, through
Seventy-five pumping instalia- village of Gera,' smashing an
becauso inn. The owner, his wife and lions-necessary
level-were daughter and five guests were city is below
unable to cope with the huge swept away.
quantity of water.
11 DROWNED
olher people were Eleven drowned in two other houses and the neighbouring village of! Domasco,
The authorities put the damage at 110 million lire.
Fifteen people are in hospital with Injuries.
carth
Six slight
sca
the
Drains were blocked, paving stones' torn up and many cellars were flooded.
worked all night flooded basements.
Oslo: Over two inches of rain fall in Oslo during the past 24 hours, the highest rainfall re- corded in one day since 1922. Firemen pumping but
On the Oslo-Bergen rallway, tremors torrential rain washed away shook the Teramo arca in Cen- part of the track and the night tral Italy today. Several people trains in both directions had to were reported to have been return to their starting points.
More heavy min and thunder jured by falling masonry during cariler
tremors last night. Is forecast for tonight-Reuter. Villagers spent the night in the were felt Other tremors open. in Rome and Florence.
Rome Observatory said: "The the epicentre. al developed
energy
is esilmated to equal that of several ordinary atomic bomis."
on: Kaln Vienna:
and
thunder- storms caused heavy damage during the night in several parts of the Tyrol and Carinthia. One man was killed when the storm blew down a worker's hut -Margerilzen, near
Glacier.
the Pasterze Several small villages were
First Flights Completed
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TRUCE TALKS TO BE RESUMED
Admiral Joy
Suggests A Meeting This Afternoon
TOKYO, AUG. 10.
VICE-ADMIRAL CHARLES TURNER JOY TODAY (FRIDAY) INFORMED THE COMMUNISTS THE AMERI- CAN DELEGATION WOULD BE READY TO RESUME THE KAESONG ARMISTICE CONFERENCE AT 1.30 P.M. TODAY.
Admiral Joy's message to Lieutenant-General Nam:It said:
I have been instructed by Commander-in-Chief, UN Command, to resume conference on the basis that it is inconceivable that.. there will be any further failure on your part to comply with the agreement regarding neutralisation of Kaesong area as stated in the message of August 9 to General Ridgway from Generals Kim Il Sung and Peng Teh-huai. Accordingly, I suggest we resume the conference at 1.30 p.m., 10 August, Seoul time, if weather permits travel by helicopter."
The Communist High Command on Thursday night grudgingly furnished fresh guarantees demanded by General Matthew B. Ridgway as a condition for résuming the Korean armistice talks.
placed
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receipt of "satis- DESUrancea from the Reds that there would be no further violation of neutrality there, '---
Highly
Washington Chinese General Peng Teh-huni, ings pending sources expect the conferences send a second barbed reply to factory" to be resumed quickly.
the United Nations Comman- der. the
Was This bellef
expressed despite the fact that the Red message was in haughty langu- age and bordered on SATCASIN about Allied good int
Intention.
said they
the
were not going to once
make an issue of this. final The
decision remains
CAUSTIC ASSURANCE
United
When this States Navy fighter plane hit the Gulf of Mexico immediately after taking off, from the carrier Monterey, the pllot was picked up within
six
Koo Pleads.
Nationalist
.
minutes of the crash by China Cause
́an
accompanying
troyer. The pilot, a reser.
was
SUEZ CANAL DISPUTE
Attempt To Find A Compromise
It promised antw to observe neutrality of a five-mile
Gen. Ridgway "took a. serious zone around Kaesong, but then said:
view of the violation, but th These sources, in both
"It is inconceivable that there Reds termed it "accidental" and Red State Department and Pentagon, will be any further failure on minimised its importance. noted that, despite its tone, the our part to comply
outlets immediately with the propaganda Red message did fulfill General
ogreement, unless you should sold the UN was stalling
Gen. Ridgway's demand for guarantees deliberately fabricate incidents
Ridgway was not satisfied conference that the Kacsong
Ex- es an excuse to terminate the with the first official Red would be kept, neutral. DTCO
planation of the incident and armistice negotiations." .Reds In another message. the.
for tronetad, Allies also had we continue to hope that you Communist command.
broadcast note ended:asked on Tuesday The the
new guarantees charged that
from the top violated Kaesong neut
neutrality but instruct
your delegates to
The Communists waited until do resume the
cofi
Thursday night to reply, Ridgway studied the text to with General Ridgway, but the determine whether it would Washington fources clearly exserve as a satisfactory answer. In the Communist message to
hls negotia- nights, the
While he did so, the five- Gen. Ridgway the Reds polated- peeled him to order tors back to Kaesong soon. | announced today,
UN truco delegation ly said they had answered the was considerable man The Swift will be the first of There also
waited at Advance UN head-UN complaint on neutrality that the In Washington hape the now
wing swept-back
cision. aghters to go into production for Reds might yield in their in-quarters in Korea for his de-violations adequately on Mon- day, but added a caustic new the Royal Air Force under the sistence on the 38th Parallel as
The other Red message was assurance: This was La demarcation line.
addressed by North Korean the issue that deadlocked the
"On our part, we definitely Lieutenant-General Its performance and arma-
Nam to will not terminate the negotia- for the last nine the UN senior delegate, Vico tions rashly and irresponsibly, ment cannot be revealed except conferences Paris: More rain fell in Parks that it has a Holls Royce Avon sessions.
Admiral C. Turner Joy, BARBED NOTE yesterday than for the whole engine.
Gene u Nam alleged that two without going through the pro- of August last year. The nearly
Last night the two top Com- Vickers- are
Allied anes strafed a supply cedural steps of protest, in- leaders, Korean two inches of rain was the Armstrong Ltd., builders of the munist
truck belonging to the Red vestigation, consultation heaviest downpour since 1870. wartime Spitfire, Router,
| General Kim
a similar Il Sung and cease-fire delegation on August settlement,
should 7 while it had bore a white fate on your part occur." Reg on its hood.
added complication of Admiral Joy promptly re-neutrality violations obscured plied that the complaint was but did· not remove the baste "completely without validity, differences of the two delega
noted: The location of the attack to where to draw a cease
fire line in Korea. The Reds in- you alleged is considerably east sist it be drawn along the 38th of the main road between Parallel while the Allies want it present battlefront. Pyongyang (north of Korean on capital) and, Kaesong. This fact Resumption of the talks would
mind raises the question in my mean that this problem', again | ellort is whether your forces are the use of white parkings for would be uppermost Associ purposes other than serving your delegation."
flooded.
The International Jamboree camp at Bod was inundated.
Scouts' Ischi
rearmament programme.
'The makers
COMMENT OF THE DAY
Suez Canal Blockade
AMONG the several Middle East
problems
the now occupying attention of the Western Powers, in particular Britain and the United States, the Egyptian blockade of the Suez Canal has its own special signi- ficance. Although apparently trivial, the blockade in fact, is having serious repercussions. Ostensibly it is aimed at preventing strategic supplies reaching Israel, but its most damaging effect is the strangulation of the movement of British and other oil tankers to and from the refinery at Haifa. The ban which Egypt has placed on these tankers is causing not only consider. able
inconvenience but heavy financial losses. Moreover the restric- tions add to the general political upheaval now plaguing the Middle East. Egypt argues an interpretation of the Suez Canal Convention to the effect that she possesses belligerent rights Inasmuch that though an armistice exists between her and Israel, a state of war remains. It is a point in inter- national law which makes for nice debating but, as Sir Gladwyn Jobb,' Britain's, representative to the United Nations has pointed out, the conduct of Egypt should be guided by the armistice agreement concluded with
great many other countries who are in no way connected with the Israel-Egypt dispute. The all refinery at Haifa is of key importance to the Western nations and any enforced restriction of its activities must have serious effect. It is apparent that Britain, the United States and France are keenly alive to the political dangers of the blockade. This is underscored by the fact that they have felt it necessary to frame a resolution for consideration by the Security Council, Action has been post- poned for the time being, but the sub- ject is bound to come before the Council unless Egypt quickly announces a change of policy, at least to the extent. of modifying the blockade. Whether or not sho possesses belligerent rights, it is essential that Egypt should not employ them in a manner prejudicial to the interests of countries other than Israel. Unfortunately that is precisely what is happening at the moment and it creates an intolerable situation. Observers appear to believe that Egypt is prepared to modify her attitude and it is suggested that this is the reason for the postponement of the Security Council meeting originally scheduled earlier this week. Egynt standa "to"
tions against Suez Canal shipping, but while they are being applied Egypt arouses world opinion against herself! and she forfelts the goodwill of the Western powers. She is committing an injustice, and creating an anomaly, but. both can easily be removed by appropriate action on the part for the Egyptian government. A wise decision during the host few days
Israel two years ago. And, it can be relose nothing by removin the restric called, Dr Bunche, as the United Nations mediator in Palestine, clearly reflected the will of the UN Security Counci When he stated that all restrictions which had developed from the undeclared war should be done away. with, and that no vestiges of the war- time blockade should be allowed to remain. The restrictions which Egypt: Is imposing on shipping in the Suez -Conal le not noticeably affecting Terhol but it in doing considerable harm to a
a valuable contribution to the Middle Eas
and
Gen. Nam sald the strafing
took place six kild incident metres north of Sibyon while the truck flying a white Bag was on its way from Kaesong `t0 Pyongyang
GRAVE PROTEST
Gen. Num gold' the vehicle was incapacitated by the air at tack, but made no mention, of casunities.
the
ated Press.
Briggs
and
Wave Of Child Murders
Parents Terrified.
Bath, Somerset,
Aug. 9.
"An unnamed man was held for the murder of nine-year-old Cecily Bat- stone, who was found in a. field near Bath today, the fourth victim of England's child murder waVO.'
Cectly lived only 200 yards from copes where: six-year- vid Brenda Goddard was found strangled on July 15,
Terror is gripping thousands of parents who no longer daro let their small children go out unwatched. Many working mothere are staying at home. to guard their children. Fathers have formed
selves into
security
and parties, ready
them
squads to hunt down or maniacs if the given huge-scale
the maniac faintest clue is given,
Manhunta
on a
combed woods and copses,
rivers and meadows, Scotland Yard have taken hundreds of statements.
Police all over Britain inten- sifled their search for several " crimina lunatics
who have escaped from asylums,
In addition to the little girls the headmistress of a school found battered to death with the aid of a tin of sausage pen-knife
למען
meat and stuck in
with
4
her throat.
A 20-year-old soldier, was due to appear. in court tomorrow in connection with this murder. was discovered on July 10, when The first of the child murders
the
strangled and
and ravaged body of
seven-year-old Christine
WOS:
vist, was completing his
Washington, Aug. 9. requalification cruise and ...The. Chinese Ambassador,
"homeward
bound Dr Wellington Koo, today when the accident hap-called
on the Assistant pened AP Picture.
Secretary of State, Mr Dean Rusk, to plead the right of Butcher was found in a Windsor the Nationalist Government meadow.
Next to participate in signing Goddard, aged six, who
to die was little Brenda the Japanese peace treaty, strangled la o copse in Bath.
On August 211-year-old After a 45-minute talk with Sheila Attwood's body was found. Mr Rusk, Dr Koo told reporters in a garden near her home near that the failure of Britain and Birmingham. A 30-year-old the United States to invite Na-man has been charged with her. Lionalist China to the confer- murder.-Reuter. ence had "created a
a siluation - for my... govern- very difficult. ment to explain to the Chinége people, who feel very strongly have registered United Nations, N.Y., about It and
Aug. 9. many protests".
Geneva, Aug. Da The small nations' delegations
Thomas Redil, a sergeant- "We feel we be to the United Nations Security an equal footing with the other major in the Swiss Army, was Connell today opened new In: Ailies, no matter
drowned last night near Splugen bow fortune formal talks with the Egyptian may have turned against us."
when he went to ride his cycle delegation here, with a view to Не added that, under the over a bridge which had been
Washington ascertaining whether there was
of swept away by the storm. declaration possiblilty of arriving, at a
January
19, 1942, signed by On
Swiss Austrian compromise formula in the Suez the nations who, later, formed frontier the Rhine, swollen by Canal dispute.
the United Nations, we have rain, has wrecked the narrow Last-minute mediation not only the right, The
butan gauge railway bridge at Kriess- (Contd on back page, Col. 0) chen-Reuter.
almed
at hverting Middle Eastern situation, which further deterioration of the Is 1kely to follow. Harpt Council rejects the proposed resolution, chiding it in publie for blockading the Canal and
to lift i
Plan ordering Egy
Succeeding
These dalegations, which last night moved for postponement of the Counch session scheduled for today in the course.
of
which Britain, France and the Singapore, Aug. 9. United States planned to sub-
It was officially announced mit their draft resolution, ex today that 300 bandits were pressed the belief that there However, he, lodged a "grave killed, including 14 leaders with was not enough time and op- protest" and expressed hope rewards of $10,000 (Strails) on portunity given Calro to study that the UN delegation would their heads, in the southernmost the situation. guarantee against "recurrence of part of Johore In the first 14.
any such violation of the agres-
Haft
Brazil, Turkey, Yugoslavia months of the Briggs Plan. and Ecuador also indicated that The new drive, authorised by they needed further instructions Sir Harold Briggs, from their governments before
anti-bandit opera- they could fully
the endorse
of
triod
mendmiral Joy pointed out that Gen. the agreement called for the Reds to give advance notice by radia telephone on the move-ons, was aimed at clearing the tripartite resolution. A spokes ment of cease-fire personnel over state of terrorisis by the State man for the sponsors said they Insuring non-infiltration and spreed "reluctantly to the the Kacsang Pyongyang main blockading the flow of medicines postponement but added, that highway. An Allied
P officer warned the Reds three and food to bandits. It began they had no other choice, zinco they did not wish to offer the times that without such notion June 1, 1050.
Council a resolution not as- fication" exemption from at- The statement claimed many dured of passage, a tack could not be guaranteed. bandits died of starvation and
Admiral Joy Informed General illness - In-the, jungle due to The spokesman said the Nam that his protest would be effective cutting-off of supplice Western powers had.
If a terrorista
If sald 67; badils everything possible in the past surrendered in the same period., to cbtain agreement with Egypt current interruption of United P
Pres
on the question of shipping restrictions and were convinced armistice talks is the third and
Calro already had been given langest since the Kaesonist meet-
every opportunity to arrive at inge began on July 10. The two
They said Sir previous suspensions, one at the
a decib Gladwyn
df Britain had request of the Rod tidlegation
outlined in detail the steps and the öttrar, by the UN
laken by the Western govern- throo; days nach.
mants to delegates gathered in The
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[his office yesterdayUnited 10 Press troops, machine-guna and
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Madrid, Aug. 0,3 was killed, and550 Sindured when;
Aullan:de. Camipo
Soldier Drowned
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