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scene of the railway disaster on Christmas Eve 1953 in which more than 150 people were plunged to death in the flood swollen Whangachu River.
The devico, Installed
days
before
by
The pylon is eight miles up- government engineers 11 few stream from the bridge-which
third means the
that there will be at of the disaster, least half an hour's
warning audible and visible before flood waters reach the
the bridge.
anniversary gives both
warning of any
rise in water level at stations on both sides of the river.
Confident
Q
11 consists of u series A | electrodes mounted en fall
Railways Department omelal concrete pylon in the riverbed, eight miles upstream from the are comildest that not even new bridge and connected
Whangacht cable to
by freak #tood of the mudible und visual could cause a repetition of the alarms in Waiouru station and Tongiwal disaster.
on audible alarm u Ohakune, north of the bridge, The pylon is 20 feet high.
Lead Domes
downstream side, at intervals from top
An offlcisi enquiry into the saster whitch plunged the country into mourning during the visit of Queen Elizabeth ji and The Duke of Edinburgh shortly afler 10 P.m. on December 24, 1993, showed that
S it was caused by a fracture in an lee-wall in the crater of the
On the twelve-inch to bottom, pairs of insulators Runpehu volcano, This allowed capped with lend domes as
water from the crater lake lo electrodes are sunk to the
without ellscharge pylon wall
warning 10 estape dang through on underground cavem from any possible flood debris,
into As
headwaters of
resulting wall of siit and debris hurled against the rallway bridge at Tangiwai and carried
Kopf electrodes Whangnehu. rach
Covered by flood
becomes
water, eicetrical completed and
are
the
The
elreults warning lights water, show at Waiouru station.
the
Was
The system is not affveted away the 70-ton concrete mali by weather conditions, even ied pier just as the express, carry-
u Now, alid any failure ofing hundreds of holiday-makers,
the electrical circuits results in sped on to it.
an alarm being wounded.
notion
Nor can
volcanle ashi
by
be put
out of boulders, nud or other
debris,
or by stray ride bullets.
Never Identified
The bridge collapsed, plung-
Evening the powerful KA locomotive
a power failure will not disrupt and six of the nine passenger
work, for it is battery- powered and the system is such ches into the icy water,
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NATIONAL FOOD RESERVES PLANNED
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES | United Nations, Jan. 15.
"CALCHAN" Damaged cargo ex tus veme! will be surveyed by dieses Paulson & Bayos-Davy at luft's Wharf from 10 am, on January 18 and 19, 1937, and are requented to have consigned their representatives present during the survey.
BUTTERFIELD & AWHILE.
Agenta
Hongkong, January 10, 1957.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
"BATAAN"
Damaged cargo ex this vezel will be marveyed by Meran Goddard Se Doniglas at Boll's Whorf from 10' kin. on January 19, 1937, and con- signees are requested to have their
representatives present during the
marvey.
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Ceylon today supported a US proposal to work on setting up na tional food reserves.
Ceylonesc delegate D. W. Rajapathirana told the General Assembly's Economie and Finan- cial Committee that while Cey- lon was in favour of the pro- posal, underdeveloped countries did not have necessary funds and equipment to build and operate national food reserves.
He considered that available TESOUTCCS should be devoted mainly to balance economic development. He cited in this connection China, which he said had a rice surplus for export.
Groek delegato Costa Caranicies said that while some developed countries had & food surplus, underdeveloped states had no means of acquiring mach surpluses. He said international co-operation was needed to har- mumise national food policies. He also endorsed the US pro- posal..United Prose,
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Madrid, Jan. 10. Allogether 34 persons have been arrested in Barettona in connection with the public's two-day bid boycott of the Municipal tramways in protest ogainst a fare rise.
An official communique an nouncing the arrests saki that 17 of the arrested persona belonged to Barcelona Undver- sily.
empty
Trans trundled through the city streets today. and the buses ami underground were also less patronised, than SIBUG).
Tracts "wore also distributed to the townsfolk, telling them
to keep away from football matches and theatres,
Barcelosta newspapers", today nitributed, the boycott student demonstrations of the past two days to “international pomaanlam"--France-Press.
was months
before the death-roll of 154
ฟรี established and several of the victims were never identised.- China Mail Special.
'EISENHOWER DOCTRINE'
تحار.
President Eisenhower outlines to Congress his proposals for filling the power vacuum left in the Middle East by the wan-
British. of ing
and French influence. The plan marks a radically new stage in the history of US policy toward the Middle East.- Express
Photo.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THE TRAIN'S-- FADING AWAY -DISSOLVING UNDER US!
WHAT
IS THIS?
FERD'NAND
NANCY
NANCY-- YOU OUGHT TO COME OVER AND LOOK AT MY HOUSE
WHAT FOR?
JOHNNY HAZARD.
SO THAT'S YOUR PLAN/ "TO RIŚCREDIT || MY CASI BEFORE THE 10.1. BY BLACKENING MY NAME IN THE NEWSPAPERS/
I PATCHED
MY ROOF
WITH BUBBLE GUM YESTERDAY
ERNIE BUSHMILL DEPA
ONLY IF YOU FORCE ME TO, MR. JARAKI HOWEVER IF YOU LEAVE THE STATES TONIGHT AND RETURN TO YOUR COUNTRY I Will DESTROY THESE PHOTONI
Coal Miners Strike
Brussels, Jan. 15, 'Most of Belgium's 23,000 coal miners are now on strike, the Central Omee of Social. Christian (Catholic) Miners rald.
AND IF I SAY TO YOU THAT NOTHING YOU CAN DO WILL KEEP ME FROM
FULFILLING MY MISSIONE
SHEPILOV
ATTACKS
DISCUSSES ROME COLOSSEUM
KASHMIR
Rome, Jan, 15.1. Rome's famous ancient monuments are being Moscow, Jan. 15. ́ ́ inoculated, bolstered and braced against the most The Kashmir question, insidious enemy they have had to face in their soon to come up before the United Nations, was
centuries of existence-modern traffic. the
once
the
main topic discussed by the Cam, lorries and other motor a rejuvenated appearance Pakistan..Ambassador in vehicles are belleved, in fact, to the worst La completed," Moscow, A. Hussein, and have caused more damage 10 specialista declare. the Soviet Foreign Minister,
Buch monuments as the Internally, the ruins are being Coloracum and the Arch of reinforced with lengths of steel Dimitri Shepilov, in their Comalantine than all the inva- drilled into the blocks of traver meeting last night, it was sions of vandale, Goths and
other barbarians put together. learned here today.
Shepilov reportedly expresses Sevk disapproval of Pakistan's membership of the Baghand and Southeast Asia Treaty Or- ganisation pacis,
were
The
Pakistani Ambassador pointed out that these strictly defensive pacts and that Pakistan had refused to allow any foreign military bases on Its territory.
Shepiloy also received the Indian Ambassador, Mr K. P. S. Menon, yesterday. They re- portedly, discussed the Hun- garian situation in the light of |Ambassador Menon's recent visit
10 Budapest-France-Presse.
Dulles-Greek To Discuss Cyprus
Greek
Washington, Jan. 16.
Minister Foreign Evangheks Averoff is expected to confer here this week with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the Cyprus question, diplomatie
sources fald duy.
10-
Averoff was scheduled to are rive in New York today to head Grecce's United Nations delega- ion. He is expected here to- marrow or Thursday to give a Arst-hand explanation
of his country's attitude on the Cyprus problem as that subject will the come up for discussion in United Nationa General
no the porous rock of which the Colosseum was largely one built.
Parts of the Colorum, of the world's most majestic Fellow of the Roman Empire, are
behind today screwed
Biraw malting and iron
scaffolding while specialised workmen. In- fect 200 more years of safe life Into the gaunt ruins of the huge stadium.
CRASHING DOWN
Blocks of stone crashing down from the top of the 187-foot high eastern curve of the Colosseum, warned Rome some time ago that something
must be done. Experts decided that the vibra- tions caused by the thousanda of vehicles which every day roar round the Colosseum, rising in what is today one of Rome's busiest cross-roads, were loosen- ing its
mighty
Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns,
Unless these
were
RESTRICTION
men-
Another precautionary sure is the restrlotion of heavy, traffic in the immediate vicinity \ of the Colosseum,
This amphitheatre, started by the Emperor Vespasion in 75 AD and opened by his son and Gor, Titus, five years inter, was used until the 0th century for gladiatorial games and mock naval battles. Legend has it that Christiane were also thrown to the Hons in the arena.
Its name was changed from Colosseum in the 8th century the Flovian Amphitheatre to
partly because of its size partly because a huge of Naro stood nearby.
and statue
Earthquakes gravely damaged some parts of the building in dhe 14th century, and avaricious Romans almost completed its destruction 150
years later, when churches, including St Peter's Basilica, palaces and villas were built with blocks. of travertine, marble and from rods plundered from the disused Colosseum.
columns immediately strengthened, they said, there was grave risk that the Colosseum would collapse.
They reminded the City Council of the Venerable Belle's dark prophecy in the Middle Ages that when the Colosseum collapsed, Rome would collapse with it, and when Rome fell, the world would fail with her.
At a
4 cost of approximately about £57,500 sterling, the first morniment phase of an extensive reinforce-stopped by Pope Benedict XIV ment of the monument is now (who reigned from 1740 to 1758). progressing rapidly. Huge Iron He declared the Colosum bruces, fitted to the walls of the sacred ground in memory of the Colosseum in the 19th Century, Christian martyrs believed to which give the monument an have tied in its arena. appearance of being safety-
Successivo Popes carried out pinned together, are being care fully removed." Instead steel extensive repairs to the ancient braces are to be fitted to the | amphitheatre, Interior of the walls.
The gradual stripping of the *WDS eventually
;
In a communique the office chile on all miners to continue the walkout which is in protest
This, apart from strengthen-- Until comparatively recently. against working, pension and Assembly either towards the ending the walls, will improve the the Colosseum was cushioned
Belgian of this month or in February face of the monument. security, conditions
from the ravages af motorisa- mines-China Mall Special. United Press,
think the monument will have tion because it was hemmed in by old houses and narrow, cobbled roads.
LOOK-THERE GOES
THE TRAIN-NOT
AT ALLI
WRECKED
· THEN I SAY YOS YOU THAT NOTHING WILL KEE ME FROMA PREVENTIME YOUR ARPEARANCE I
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
TURN
16
BUT-WE SAW THE DYNAMITE -GOOFF-FOR PIP WET
WHAT HAPPENED
HERE?
CONTINUED
By Mik
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By Ernie Bushmiller
--AND YOU KNOW HOW DRAFTY MY : HOUSE IS
(FI REJECT HIS {BLACKMAIL DEAL, HE WILL KILL MB OUT OF HANDZ. BUT IF Z REMAIN ALIVE I MAY QUINIT--
HIMA
By Frank Robbins
"I-I ACCEPT YOUR: OFFERS ON CONDITION THAT THE PHOTOS ARE SVEN TO ME WHEN I'
BOARD THE PLANE
ABKKEDÍ ÁNO I WILL SEE YOU SAPELY ON THE
PLANEZ
There's More than Magic in
CADBURY'S
It is Parfection
Couldn't be fresher!
Libby
PRAS
FROZEN PEAS TODAY
ROWNTREES
TEA TIME TREAT
...this situation
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MORE DAMAGE... When Mussolint tore down this old quarter of Rome buill a wide thoroughfare, the "Imperial Way." Ancient Roman Forums, he provided Romans and tourists magalfirent, undisturbed
with
11
culting
the
view of the Colosseum in all its grandeur. But he also exposed the venerable minument to the deep wounds inflicted by intense trable.
This traffic has also damaged another great monument "of Roman civilisation-the Arch of Constantine, or Arch of Triumph, which stantly in the centre of a wide thoroughfare next. to the Colosseum,
Built in 318 BC by the Em- peror Constantine to celebrate. a great victory, this immense nach, covered with bas-reliefs of battle scent began to show ominous cracks about a year ngo.
*To reinforce it, perpendicular ankt vertical holes were drilled into the columns and led with steel bars and mollen lead and bronze.
Anthon celebrated patient suffering from straffle disease (? is the 104-foot high column of Antonius in the business heart of Rome. This marble column. built between 170 and 108 AD to commemorate the exploits of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonimas, has a spiral bas- relief depicting battle scenes.
RELATIVELY EASY
·
Traffic vibration has had such a devastating effect on the column, the experts discovered, that it requires a new skelaton This work will start abortly. Steel and lead plates, hek to- gether by bronze clamps, will be rotted into the 29-inch thick blocks of marble all the way up to the statue of St Paul on the summit.
An internal staircase leading from the base to the gumanit makes the job relatively easy The 190 stopa to the top give tourists a stupendous view over the city wekil "traffic disease" jeopardized. Em', sifoty,China Mall Special
JORDAN LOOKING FOR ASSISTANCE
Calsky Jan. 187 A Jordanian mimions hendesi by Education Minister, Shank Archidat, Jett Calro for Stri Arabia today to confer with Saud Amblan lenders on the Arab states financial assistance to Jordan.
Arab james reportă did. Rihr Hussein of Jordan and King Bout of Saudi Arabia worn ei“ pooted in Cairo on Thursday. The Erkmales of the two countriesád, the, vint- Win possible but declared they wreço umable, to confirm the reports,li
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