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No. 35289
Established 1845 .
MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1952.
[ Explorers' Dramatic Escape From Grotto
Attitude
THE wide chasm of thought
which exista between
Russia and the
Western
Powers on the question of the future of Germany Is depressingly emphasised by the Soviet roply to the recent proposals advanced by the United States, Bri- tain and France. The reply enn have only one effect- it rules out the possibility uf
Four uny Immediate Power conference. It also sets back Indefinitely the time when the Germana might realise their hopen and the unification for establishment, through free elections, of a central Ger- Other Parliament. man implications are discernible in the latest Soviet note. One is that Russia has no Berlous intention of casing the East-West cold war; another that she hus 110 help genuine desire
and free create a unified Germany. Ostensibly Russia remains at variance with
to
Bandits Slay
Two Men
Bots, Tunisia, Aug. 24.
The police today looked for three masked bandlis who late last night shot two persons to death with machineguns in a small bar in a suburb of Sousse,
Thren ma
masked men en-
ел
fered a small bar owned by Alphonse Dorel and began firing bullets into Borel and Noahar Ben Ahmed Chouchane, 40, nephew of
Kalas- of the Sheikh of Kebira, who were drinking coffee. Borol was killed immediately. Press.
—
United
RED DEAN SNUBBED
Canterbury, Aug. 24. Several persons tried to make themselves as
con-
CALMLY WALK
OUT OF
"HELL HOLE"
Stalden Aug. 24,
A Swiss schoolmaster and his three teenage youths walked tonight from their ten-day entomb- ment in the Hell Hole mountain grotto near here into a group of rescuers who had almost given up hope.
suddenly
four explorers appeared The through the normal entrance to the cave and, after. emotional scenes between them and close relatives waiting with the rescue group, they described how
they had tramped waistdeep through the flooded
caverns which the rescue teams only a few hours
earlier had failed to pass.
The explorers were 40-year-old schoolmaster Alfred Boegli, u student and two 19-year-old apprentice mechanics..
Earlier tonight the Swiss Radio commentators had "very weakened.'
the Western Powers over spicuous as possible as they summed up the chances of their rescue as
the precedence to be given to the insues which collec- tively comprise the Garman moblem. The West wunt Bratly, examination of the Conditions under which elections can be conducted, this investigation to be carried out by an inter- "It any more of you need to national cominisalon. The leave to catch trains or buses he Russians insist that dis- do not hesitate to do so,"
said:
walked out of Canterbury Cathedral tonight while the Dean of Canterbury, Dr Hewlett Johnson, delivered another of his sermons in praise of Communist China. But the Dean pretended to misunderstand.
cussion must
frat be
Argument Ends
But the four men walked into the hotel serving as rescue headquarters as if they had just come back from an evening stroll — except for the black mud coating them to the waist after wading through the flooded caverns.
could
at they walked be at Reuter.
which escape tempted.
A big crowd assembled in Stalden as the news spread like wildfire of the escape,
The four explorers sald their position had not been so bad and their chief worry had been for their own relatives.
DID GYMNASTICS Dr
never
into the hall.—
Texas Ravaged By Drought
Detalls were still lacking on The four men tramped own the incredible way in which the deserted corridor of tho the four "prisonera" walked out grotto towards the world out- cn- when 40 men, with full rescue side and found the iron
including rubber trance Hoor locked, equipment, rafts, failed to get in.
They had to force the doo Dr Boegli said they had taken which has been kept shut pya measurements
water of the
the police, before they could Whereupon 30 persons, sud- level.
the anally get to freedom.. His experience of applied to the preparation denly remembering about their labyrinthing Hell Hole, which They walked down, the rocky of a German peace treaty.
trains, got up and walked out. ho has previously mapped, track to the hotel rescue, head- The Issue may
appear to A large congregation remained enabled him to be sure of the quarters unseen by anyone until
as the Dean be trivial; in fact, however, to listen
praised carllest possiblo moment China for emarcia it is of
fundamental Communist
pating its women. importance. No peace treaty
The Dean has been assailed would be of any value un vigorously, and repudiated by less it could guarantee the many Church leaders, for making country free and properly charges that United Nations conducted elections leading forces are waging germ warfare to the establishment of n in the Far East-Associated unified nation under one
Press. Parliament, And there are -good-reasons for believing that existing conditions in Eastern Germany would allow anything but free and above-board elections. Moreover, it is contrary to the Communists' concept of clections to encourage or permit free-will voting. For
The negro husband of an ex-were taken to the dining room this reason, among others;
pectant mother Japanese war of the mountain hotel serving Russia can be expected to
bride was shot to death here last as rescue headquarters, where has cost Texas 18 human continue to reject and resist
night in the culmination of a they were besieged by about 100 lives.
journalists of many nationalities. any endeavours on the part near-accident in traffic. of the Western Powere to The victim was
Lothar Kaiser, 18, Hans Gygax Cpl. Haywood
Burkhalter, both have created an impartial | 3
stationed at Fort Custer. aged 10, looked wan but happy. commission for the tla. Turner, 22, of East St Louis, and Walter
Two men, also negroes, who Several relations who had paration and supervision of escaped in a car, and a third who been
been waiting anxiously outside German elections.
trace of green tures for some fled on foot are being sought, the grotto gopod at the men as
IZ
féod nobody they had come back from mate.
ventured to e- No Easy Proposition police said.
Police said they learned an the dead.
These figures are for August. The the
stunned rescuers thought Texas been in of Sir Rob Lock-angent stated between
might have been due to opera- Conservation Service said, and tions carried out on the moins parts of West Texas have
been tainside above
dry for seven years. the grotto to-
It's the worst since the 1917- night.
1918
P. drought, said Louis
In Shooting
Battle Creek, Mich, Aug. 24.
Boegli said: "We wero afrald. We divided the food carefully, and ate twice a day. There was enough for a month. We did gymnastics to keep warm. We sang to keep up our spirits."
Dr Boegli and his companions
18 LIVES LOST THIS MONTH
Texas City, Aug. 24.
A drought and heat wave
In the low-burning death to and crop, it had cost farmers
Jeast $00,000,000 ranchers at but what it had cost in live-
Price 20 Cents
LYNMOUTH HOPES
DISASTER
Two pictures which vividly illustrate the Lynmouth flood disaster...At top, residents who have been driven from their homes, wait to be evacuated, seated beside a -sign which, in the circumstances, had an ironical twist. The other picture shows what the force of the flood waters did to one of the houses in the inundated village. -London Express photographs.
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SABOTEURS TERRORISE
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BY REDS' REPLY
London, Aug. 24. Unification of Germany was as remote as`over to- night after Russia had failed to meet the chief... Western conditions for a Big Four' conference.
First reaction to the latest
handed to Soviet noto
the Western Ambassadors in Mos- 'cautious. cow yesterday, was Foreign Office spokesmen ita London, Paris
dom
clined to
and Bonn cominent, pending study of the note and consulta- tion among the Western powers. But authoritative quarters in all three capitals pointed up the fact that Russia had put at the bottom of the proposed agenda for a four-power
meeting the very subject
the Westem powers' want at the top.
The West agreed last month to a four-power meeting United to discussion of establishment
of an impartiol commission to study the possibility of free elections in both East and West Germany;
The United States, Britain and France feel there can ba no negotiation on the formation of an all-German government .or discussions of
a German peace treaty until free elections aro held throughout the divided country. They believe there can be no free elections until an.im- coes what partial commission goes on behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany.
PROPOSED AGENDA
Teheran, Aug. 24.
Russla gave the following pro- Saboteurs on bicycles posed agenda for a conference were reported tonight to to be held in October or earlier: 1. Preparation of a German be terrorising villages in
pence
treaty: Western Persia by setting
of 2. Formation.
an all- fire to much needed crops | German government. stored in fields.:
At the same time the seting
3. Holding of German elections,
free, all..
-Minister of Health, Dr Farmiento. Selection of a commission
Farmyan, told newspapermen
Gerrian
amounted
the fire which destroyed. a huge quantity of drugs kept in Wester
election conditioner
quarters said that to rejection of the that free proposal Propos
the Finance Ministry building elections be discussed first. on Saturday may also have been French sources said that, in the Brst Soviet note on March 10, sabotaged.
Russia proposed that reprepen- estives of a German central
attend the four government power conference,
Dr Farman-Farmyan said the fire caused 200,000 rial worth of damage. (about $74,000 the present legal rate of ex- change).
at
In the new note, Russia rug- gested that representatives of He added: "Experts have told East and West Germany meet
fire was with the four powers to discum us it is possible the deliberate. Further investigation the first German peace treaty, will be necessary" to clear up the mattor."
Those sources wandered if that meant Russia had abandon- ed all hope or desire for Geriman. The usually reliable news-unity United Press. (paper Etelaat said: "Unidentified persons riding, bicycles have.set fre to 78 stacks of wheat, barley and rye stored in villago flelds around Kerma Shah near the Iraqi border during the lust three or four nights,”
On Saturday it was reported that unidentified persons blew up a store of gunpowder at the South Persian oll city of Aghajari while a young boy set fire recently to the entire village harvest near Misinch in Azerbaijan.-Asso-
Casablanca Aug, 24. Professor Alain Bombard, French scientist, clated Press. stocks which ranged the pas set out alone in his 15-foot rubber dinghy today to
cross the Atlantic.
There was, 'however, a brief delay before he sailed. At moment he had forgotten
G-hart has expressed the quartet after a near-accident in there must have been a sudden drought for two years, the Soll charts at the Yacht Club, but these were soon ovunt out to
parknig
lot
of the 50th Casual Detachment at from one of Fort Custer.-Associated Press.
caverns,
Senate Finds General's
Report "Misleading"
state.
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him by Giselle Vallerey, one-time 100 metres breast stroke woman champion.
In the Mediterrancan lack of fish thwarted their proposed experiment, and the pair had to ask a passing ship for food after Di days at sea.
that Mr
to a opinion that the terrorists Turner who have made their to renew the argument. As the
second car pulled appearance in Sarawak can
away, police
Bombard and his dinghy were said, a
a chot was dired. be more effectively tackled
Workers, went up with shovels Merill, Regional Director of the Atlantic by a yacht. Turner and his Japanese war
towed eight miles out into the than those in Malays. It is bride cume to Fort Custer last to clear the mud away from a US Soil Conservation Service.
Unable to And a a viewpoint not without ring from Japan, where he had mountainside spring which was
suitable an outlet On Saturday, Governor Allan Aound basis. The terrain been stationed, He was a member suspected of being
Shivers asked President Truman navigator to replace the Pana- the underground
At Tangier unfavourable and other physical features
to declare Теждя, а
drought madla, Jack Palmer, from of Borneo suggest that it is
disaster area in order that for whom he separated at Tangler, weather blow the dinghy into a Ideal country for banditry
mera may secture cheaper hay for Bombard in sailing his dinghy, creek, and Mr Palmer became und guerilla operations,
starving cattle. He had, in fact, named the Heretique, alone. But sceptical about the venture and and in many respects offer
been getting such requests from he said his partner may join decided to quit. But Professor similar advantages to that
farmers and ranchers in the him later in the Canary Islands. Bombard disclosed.
Palmer phoned him last night enjoyed by the Communist
The 27-year-old professor is from Tangier, adding: "He has terrorists in Malaya. One
seeking to prove that ship-told me that as soon as he can' important distinction
wrecked sallors can live on sea satule family matters in Tangier exista in trying to aprend
food-catching fish and drinking he will go to Las Palmas to join terroriam in Sarawak tho
water obtained from their in- me in the Aliantle crossing. I am toiland.
very happy that he has now Rods are inviting trouble from the loyal and intensely
Some cities, of North Texas
Profes Bombard is also agreed that we can succoed,"
Reuter, because nono fierco Dayaks. They are not
cach could temperatures
bo found sufficiently Ilkoly meekly to accept the
weatherproof for such a smalı Intimidations
afternoon above 100 degrees. of the
Almost all Texas cities learn- craft, terrorista; nor can the Corn- Investigating complaints of people export from their toped their lesson in the brassy munists place any high waste and inficiency in their officiais." hopos of enlisting the construction, the committeo sald The report said that much of fun of last summer and en- sympathy, active or passive, the army engineer in charge of Colonel Derby's umo was taken larged their municipal water of these natives of Boraco. the work, Colonel George Derby, up in negotiations with French supplies before the hot, dry If the terrorlats decido to
was responsible for the depar officials in Morocco, but added: weather set in this summer.
COTTON LOST .-.-. try and follow the pattern fure from specifications, the use "We do not feel that this wr
of sub-standards construction adequate excuse”
the consequent The cost of the bases
State Agriculture Commis
Washington, Aug. 24.
A Senate committee today recommended "appropriate action" against the Chief of Army Engineers, General
The current heat-wave began earnest the first week In August and has been undaunted by only tantalising showers that fell in widely scattered points. of the state,
Lewis Pick, because his report on the construction of have gone dry for 22 days with without radio,
maximum
American air bases in North Africa was "misleading".
Was
Bornecție has lent him a;boom.
DESTINATION CUBA
In addition his yacht is fitted with' a ́sall and paddles and carries a harpon, fishing rods, Pastrimin for getting water from fish, a filter and small
Drummond Murder: New Trail Starts
Poyruis, Aug. 24, The French police, trying to solve the three-week old Drum mond mystery, today set off on
new trail in search of a cyclist, They say he was twice Loon near the scenie on the night of the murder but has not yeE His destination is Cuba.
come forward,
The police believe the cyclist Profertior Bombard, and Pal-wag albeat man and they were mer, 28-year-old Scottish-born today questioning every ha cluzen of Panama, not put on bitant in the villages of May 25 from Morinco, on the brillane and Poyruls to see if south coast of France, where M. they could fully account for Bombard is Professor at the their movants on that night Ocean Geographical Museum,
of the Malaya campaign, materials, and endeavour to establish head- poor quality of the work." originally, estimated at $300,- aloner John C. White said that quarters in the jungles, and Colonel Derby and bis 000,000. But the report said quarter million bales of cot-tanks for water,
witnesses belleved the ton had withered in the field browbeat the Inhabitants deputy, Colonel Hareman, were that into submission, they will removed from the project earlier eventust cost might be up to during the last two weeks of
hts almost cortainly, discover
August and about four million result year as i
of the $830,000,000. committer's Investigation.
havo questioned the bushqla of grain sorghums. that they have"· ·bitton; off!
The report maid of General wisdom of forming a combine of died in, the burning sun. more than they can chew Pick's
Loss in crops during August evidence that ho "did large, contractors for any future The campaign will be not make the full frank and projects, as was done by the alone, White astimated, has doomed oven before it is comprehensive statement whith | argiy to get the bases built been some 800,000,000, and the launched.
: (Conta, on back page, col.. 3) Congress-and--the American quickly. - Tieuter,
The report
L-
Ship Refloated
Manila, Aug. 24. The freighter Fhassa (7,285 fona), of Panamanian registry, which has been aground off the Wakefield Shoals in the central Audust 18, Philipppines since was refloated today by two tugs, after unloading part of her cargo.
The Phassa was en route, to Singapore with 10,000 tons wheat for India when she went aground-Reuter,
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