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Tragic scenes follow explosion in Welsh colliery NO SURVIVORS IN MINE DISASTER
Death toll 45
Comment
as rescuers
Of The
Day
DIPLOMATIC DEEP-FREEZE
Communist bloc's
Tdecision to walk out of
the disarmament talks in Geneva has been widely hailed as a calamity. As a unilateral decision taken
find more bodies
Abertillery, June 28.
A searing blast of explosive gas ripped through the Six Bells Colliery today killing 45 men working 1,000 feet below ground.
Rescue teams hacked through a half-mile mound of debris tonight to reach the last eight bodies.
Shot husband:
without consultation there woman
is reason to deplore the
Soviet tactics, reminiscent
as they are of Khruschev's
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Ex-
sudden retreat from the summit. But it is hard to Argue that the collapse of £1 conference where pro- Mrs gress has been cruciatingly slow and un- spectacular, will be such a disaster 25 Home of the initial Western reactions znake out.
HE West has good reason to feel grieved that the collapse came before
same
claims self-defence
Chepstown, June 28.
Miriam Hill, 49, was committed for trial here yesterday accused of the murder of her 19-year-old husband nine weeks after their marriage.
The chairman of the three
Then stretcher bearers began hoisting the 45 victims to the surface where weeping groups of wives and children had waited hours for news of the trapped men.
Accounted for
Shortly after midnight a col- lery official said all the miss- ing men now had been account- ed for.
The dead lay in a mile wide pocket of lethal carbon mono- xide gas and rescuers wore oxygen masles to reach them.
Rescue teams found one youth half a mile from the heart of the explosion. They saw bodies blackened, with clothing torn to
shreds. Other men had crouched in refuge manholes only to die from choking fumes.
The No. 8 signal displayed by the Marine Department.
S. China
prepares for blow
TYPHOON OLIVE HEADS HK_girl
FOR CHINA COAST
Typhoon Olive, which passed the Colony 90 miles to the south at 7.30 a.m. today, is expected to enter the Kwangtung coast later today if she continues her present course.
A 1 pm. the typhoon was 140 miles south-west of Hong- kong and was moving west- north-west at 14 knots.
A Government spokesman said early this afternoon that there had been no reports of damage wimisoever.
!
Earlier this morning the Royal Observatory made the following statement on the typhoon's pro- gress:
Typhoon Olive was almost stationery during the early hours of the morning, about 145 nautical miles south-east of the Colony, but soon began
Signal No. 8
Gale (mean wind speed 34 knots and upwards) expected from the SE quadrant.
typhoon A JAL Bight scheduled to various to move again on E more leave for Bangkok at 7.50 a.m. Brens. westerly course and passed was delayed. about 90 miles to the south of the Colony at 7.30 sm.
Centre winds
"If this movement continues, the east-south-east gales are ex- pected to veer slowly towards the south during the day and frequent squally showers will bring a considerable amount of rain.
Royal Observatory and Wagian.
anchorage
After the bitter lesson learnt during Typhoon Mary, fishing
was not 'abducted'
London, June 29. Sylvia Kwik, 17-year-old daughter of a rich Hong- kong merchant was not "abducted" on Monday night from her Epsom home, a solicitor said to- night.
But because he objected to Sylvia's friendship with a 24 year-ol Greek Cypriot, ber father Richard Siong Kwik, yet- terday had her made a ward of the court.
And yerlerday there was no sign, of Sylvia Kwik and no siga of Pandelis Lazarou, her Greek Cypriot friend.
A soliciter for Lazarou said "They want to get married but he has very little money, I am instructed that she wanted to away. She told me she wanted to go with him".
Sylvia's mother said: We are Chinese. Naturally, we
A Boac Bight scheduled for junks returned to Hongkong would prefer outr daugh
Tokyo at 12 cancelled,
noon has been after No. 3 signal was hoisted
The Marine Police reported a quiet morning in the harbour, there being no sinking, capsizing.
or collision.
Most small launches, junks and sampans have moved to typhoon shelters,
yesterday.
Many of the fishing jumks have sought refuge in Mul Wo (Silver Mine Bay) and Ping
Chau
ter married to one of our own race. This young man is not of our race. We are fairly wealthy and he is not.
take a lot of girls out—until he met. Sylvia. I suppose he was really fond of her.
· COURT ORDER The explosion that brought
"So our solleitor went to Lon- Schools were closed today and dan today and asked for a court magistrates who committed Mrs the wall of the disaster whistle steep-sided
many social and sports events order." Hill, mother of four children, Welsh Valley row as 10 men
had to be postponed.
Sylvia met young Pandells uphold its submission that she worked on the morning shift..
The opening of Shell's Race when he was working as a nurse "An aircraft reported surface There was a fierce flash, a
Drean-going vessels have Course service station, scheduled at Dearby St. Eoba's hospital. One they could introduce shot Dennis Albert Hill, L
colossal roar and death struck
“London, June 28.: winds of:75 knots near the cen- since yesterday. afternoon for 5.30 this afternoon has been of his trends kid He used to their own proposals and bourer, la self-defence in a second through the dark-An emergency warning "tre" of "are stemmat sistemibed out of their berths for postponed,
Auburn-haired Mrx Hiu they have every justifica-
about Typhoon Olive by Local gusts at up to 68 knots tion for accusing Russia pleaded not guilty to the murderness of the mine shafts.
Many men died where they
have been reported at both the charge and reserved her defence.
the Kwangtung provincial of failing to give the
She will be tried at Stafford stood; great falls of roof barred Western
the proposals
for survivors. Then committee of the Chinese Assizes which open this week, escape fair consideration
Communist polson gas swept through the
Party has QUARREL that they have always Mr David Hopkin, prokteuting, extended the Soviet plans.
As those away from the blast sent people, in the South told the court that the His area were brought to the sur-
China province going all But judging by the pro-married on April 7 this year and face, rescue teams with breath- out to gather crops, raise gress of these talks over a they lived together in Mrs Hill's ing masks hurried below.
dykes and strengthen period of years, it is a safe bungalow in the grounds of a
dams. bet that the most imagina- house in Chepstow called St tive Western plan stood Maur, which was divided into
left early la little chance of success flats. Hill after the fallure of the Big ter a quarrel. Four to meet to issue specific directives on how negotiations should con- tinue.
June
mine.
They carried canaries, still the surest method of testing for the deadly pit gas.
Hopes fade
"Between midnight and 10 am. one inch of main has been recorded at the Observatory
"Local typhoon signal No. 8 was hoisted at 9.30 am."
With No. 8 typhoon signal The New China news agency holsted, the Star Ferry severely today reported that tens of cut their services. thousands of workers, govern- ment functionaries and people's
On. June 6 there was a dis- Hopes for the trapped men bungalow and as a result he was as soon as they reached the bot-sants turbance caused by Hill at the faded as all the canaries died liberation armymen joined, pea- the Kowloon terminus of the bound over to keep the peace. tom of the pit.
to
At peak hour this morning, prepare against the ferry was jammed with hundreds typhoon in the Swatow-Fatshan of people waiting to cross the area in the South China
pro- harbour. vince.
that
The agency added typhoon Olive "will strike the arca between Lukfung county and the mouth of the Pearl River between late tonight and
For about a week before the But helmeted miners squatted Indeed, it could be said that incident on June 13, Mr Hopkin outside the pithead waiting to the failure of the Geneva continued, Mrs Hill had kept by help in the work of evacuating disarmament talks was in- to one of her sons.
her a loaded shotgun belonging the bodies,
By midnight only ten bodies evitable and that
had been brought to the sur- CORNERED
face, Stretcher bearers were progress can be expected He said that on June 13, ac- until Mr Khrushchev ex- cording to Mrs Hill, the husband Waiting to bring more up during tomorrow morning
no
the night.
"The wind at the centre will no reach to hurricane force, The announcement of survivors was
will follow."--Reu- rainston made at the pithead ten minutes after mid- ler. night by a National Coal Board spokesman.
periences 4 change of climbed through a window, heart about the American cornered her, and would not let president. This may mean her go. waiting until after the He quoted Mrs Hill as saying presidential elections. in a statement: "He looked awful, Similarly the talks which I was frightened to death so I have been taking place on kept quiet...I underground nuclear gun. He came through the bed-through rock and rubble in the
ex.
grabbed the
Rescue teams had been bur rowing feverishly. for hours
plosions which were also wards me. I said if you come
room door, he kept coming to faint chance of finding survi- waiting on summit direc- any nearer I will shoot.
vors.-AP and Reuter, tives may shortly fold up! "He seemed to make a lurch --to make the diplomatic towards me. I pulled the trig- deep-freeze complete. ger. He fell to the ground
knew I had shot him but I did
Y taking the disarma-not think I had killed him.”—
By the unitar cott Mail Special
Nations the Russians make
clear their intention
to
break awny from the:
in
Tel Aviv, June 28,
Killed by church bell
Brest, June 23.
British trawler boarded
Reykjavik, June 28. Icelandic Coast Guards today reported they had boarded a British trawler discovered fish- ing inside the 12-mile limit off Iceland's north coast, but a Bri- tish naval vessel hindered its arrest.
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A church bell pealing for a The Coast Guards sald that A frontier guard' was shot present limited conference dead by automatic gunfire near baptismi. broke loose in it the trawler
of more the hope
today and knocked than 10 British vessels inside of finding the Syrian positions southeast of belfry greater support among the Sea of Galilee, an Israel the bellringer, Sexton M. the 12-mile mit which Iceland those nations which have army arokesman announced to-Pherne, off the church four to claims but Britain does not ne
his death in the street.-AP. cept.-Reuter. no far taken no part in night-Reuter.
formal discussions. An- other reason may be that
Rusgin is manoeuvring to bring China into the talks and she may try to do this by insisting on no further negotiations with the West until Peking is représent edy The West would do well not to flap, however. Russia's exceedingly petulant and childish performance must be tolerated, with dignity and patience. The best that Britain, America, France and their allies can do is to stand, on
Many had to wait as long as half-an-hour before they could board a ferry.
Suspended
The Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company suspended all its services to out-lying districts after the 6.10 am. direct sailing and 6.45 am, roundabout sailing to Cheung Chau,
The company's cross-harbour passenger and vehicular services are still normal,
All three HK-Macao ferries, MV Talloy, MV Fatshan, and SS Takshing, have been stranded in Macao.
They will not sall back to the Colony until the typhoon is over. Airline flights were disrupted this morning.
The one arrival expected at 7.50 ama JAL from Tokyo....... has been delayed up to late this: morning.
Cnly two departures, both CPA fights for. Prompeth and Vientiane at 7.50 a.m. left on schedule.
MR KELLY LEAVES A HUMOUROUS WILL
Philadelphia, June 28. Prince Rainier of Monaco WAR cut off without ány money at all in the will of his mile Itonaire father-in-law-John B. Kelly. But it wasn't a snub of Rainier or two other sons-in-law and no hard feelings should result; Me
The will, written; hutoourousky. In lay language by Mr Kelly. himself, basically, leaves the bulk of this vast estalo to` his wife, his three daughters, in- cluding Princess Grses the former movie quoɛn, azid his
John B.
Kelly wrote in the will which For: plakat Version Kelly made the unpausi - obser-
was made public today.
Bonal
their The father of Princess Grace || : MDW ONT:80,000 'this ovation that he was of sound.
joint declaration express- wrote;
does not include his ownership of America's largest brick
ing yeadiness to resume 'I don't want to give the ba-
time.preason I'm Against sons-in-onntracting fight, race track
law, if they are the right or biber corporate holdings. Lype, they will provide for My Kelly, an atymple rowing themselves and their familles champlan in the 1920s, dió- tated the will on April 14 He died at week of aLLIOGR at the age of 762 thuy cousins As they have He said that for slaried out, under the tutelage
business at any Meanwhile a serious at fempt should be made to determine how and when Peking can be brought into the discussions, This is widely regarded in the West as Inevitable. It is nów time to define the Inevitable more precisely,
and what I am able to sive
my daughters will help pay
the dream shop bilis which, if
of their mother, will be quite
considerable."
been unable clearly white
own with the hope, li ́ would į family employ “sa long as he be understandable and legal behaves himself well, making "Kids will be called “klig and dae allowance for miner
not ‘Ingue' and it will not be
errors of the flesh.” cluttered up with 'parties of His widow get a third of the the Bext part". .
and a lot
estate, in trust, with the of other terma'that I, 'sis #EDO. frustees --- a bank and his son are only need to "confuse
to see that she can liye lu those for whawʊ'benefit it WAN
the manner to which she has. written."
And become accustomed. "emergencies", like, meeding n new fur cost or ear should be .... handled with thle in conalders.
His silpulation on the sous-in- Taw provided that when one at
•his, danghters dies, ber share will go to her childres. If there 32. nosa fi reverts back to -- the funds of their brother nud revealed: that its were known to the
mind and added:
this when thay read my will;" Some lawyers will question however, I have my opinion - of some of them. ...so "thef
makes it even.” Princem. Grade, was referred tod "In the will, playfully,ska tika
Serene Highness,
| Gesso,”!: this lapt he' had understand | And Mr Kelly' lit)
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"A month ago, Sylvia was es corted by Mr Kwik's lawyer from Cyprus where she filed with Pandells. Her father made ap- |plications for her to be made a ward of the court but said Pandelis's salicilar: "This ap- plication was not carried through. The order should have been fol- lowed up within 21 days and last Friday ended the 11" days-Lon- don Express Service,
Interfered in Ceylon
Colombo, June 28.
The Ceylon Foreign Minis- try has called for security- service reports on the movements of Soviet Am- *bassador Vladimir Yakov- lev, suspected of inter- fering in local politics, it was learned here today. A local paper called his ac- tions а #stupendous against democracy.
plot!
Mr H, E. Tennekoon, Perma- ment Secretary to the External Affairs Ministry, ordered sur- veillance of the Ambassador's future activities, and has called for a report on a meeting he is said to have had recently with certain Tamil political leaders,
Mr Yakovlev was summoned to the External Affairs Ministry yesterday, but excused himself on health grourids—AFP.
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