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THE WEATHER
Moderate to frosh gusty Northerly winds. Becoming cloudy and cold again tonight. Temperature at 1 pm 59 degrees Fahrenheit, relative humidity 29 per cont.
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Men telephoned families of impending danger
of the U.S. RADAR TOWER DISASTER
Little hope of survivors Put in-laws in picture
day
STAMPEDE TO
SAFETY
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We
to Buy someone who has lost No words, everything? however Rympathetically expressed, seem adequate, Individual tragedy is an experience most have felt At one time or another. Multiply this by the 11,000
homeless
the
rande
word
Hlunghon fire yesterday morning and the disaster assumes a mean- ing that is at once
ppalling and horrible. Scated in upholstered com
fort and air-conditioned warmth we find it hard to sed in true focus the pic- ture of panic which gripped this ill-accommodated. im- and wretched
poverished Tut we can
try to imagine the
silence
of the night being shatter- and cries, ed by screaDIS
the alurm and pandemonium which im- mediately gripped the en- tire aren. Sleep is brutally Fear and stripped away. horror, feil by
vivid imagination at the hour is human resistance when lowest overwhelins reason. There is rush to grab screaming, terrified child- ren and snatch a garment to ward off the sharp chil) And
of the predawn air.
then begins the nightmare stampede to safety.
E aftermath is another
Texperience again;
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vival in a poor consolation for having lost everything. There is no bank account to fall back un, no insurance to claim, no sympathetic relatives or friends to put up with. There is not meal
temporary shelter for today and to- morrow begins the task of building a new life out of the rain of the past. The intrinsic
value of their! possessions may be trifling but they are the hard-won gwina acquired from the Time of their last memor• Į nble stampede that ne from oppression or sturva- tion in the land of their birth to haven of hope called Hongkong. Perhaps the squatter who has found refuge here still reckons life worthwhile despite his misfortune. if he does, he la more to be admired than many of us who so easily succumb to self pity and despondency in the face of tragedy. COME may feel that
Swords
110
in stormy Atlantic
Now York, Jan. 16.
Cryptic tapping noises 100 feet below the Atlantic waves, making "a kind of coded message that could come only from men", today caused a brief surge of hope of survivors among 28 men aboard a radar tower demolishad in a storm 80 miles off the coast here last night.
POLE DENIES
STEALING CONSULATE FUNDS
Sydney, Jan. 16. Dr Ryzard Zielinski, the former Polish Commercial Attache here who has been granted political axylum, denied tonight that he had stolen £3,000 from the till and all the books which ure the property of the Polish Consulate.
Aus- Shortly after the Iralian Government Jast that Saturday announced
Zielinski, Dr
with wife and two childrèn, bad the been granted asylum, Pottsh Consul General, Creelaw Kasprzak, allered that the attache has stolen £A3,315 trum official funds.
A photostat copy of a written stalement by Dr Zielinski denying the charge was produced night by an Australian Government spokesman.
10.
With R was a copy of an audit of Consulate funds. Reuter,
New protests marches in
Some
Belgium
Brussels, Jan. 16.
3,000 Socialist sympathisers, headed by red flags and a band play- ing the "Internationale,' marched through Brussels today to protest against the Government's terity bill.
aus-
al- There was
no violence though shopkeepers on the route
can adequately clanged down steel chutters and their sympathy. heavy polles detalls guarded key
The march broke up peaceful-
convey Their contributions in enah points. and kind will be welcome. Others will wonder whether fre precautions in this and other squntler areas are
ly to shouts ut "Eyskens to the Callows,"
adequate, even though none Some 6,000 strikers staged
the
will blame the Brignile for extent of the destruc- tion. The untimely arrival of high winds was doubtedly to blame for the tenacity of the flames and the wonder in that the toll of dead and injured was an low. All those who Look
another demonstration at Char- public services lerol where unlana order that continuation of the delled a government
walkout would result in suspen- sion of workers without pay.
The Christian woriters unions, the Socialist-led cloof from strikes, admitted that heavy in- Liege, Charleroi,
dustries
part in the operation have central Belgium and part of the eamed the community's Mons region still were
gratitude for service given bound,--UPI. spontaneously and whole-
heartedly,
It is to be hoped however that
bronks
strike-
FIRST STORM
OF YEAR
Tokyo, Jan, 17.
squatter control officials as, well as the Fire Brigade will hold an inquiry to nea whether there are any im- provementa that can bc mado to minimise the dan- ger of similar conflagrations
This year's first tropical atorm in the future. Smaller
Rita wis today moving towards squatter areas, bigger fire Kintilla, and lanes, reduced congestion, the segregation of aquatter industries from homes, communal or con- tralised cooking facilities, more effective supervision and administration and bot- ter publicity to drive home enfety lessons are several idous which need to be considered.
among
Divers were rushed to the scene by helicopter but tonight Rear-Admiral Allen Shinn, aboard the aircraft car- rier Wasp, reported the tapping had become weaker, then stopped. He added, "I am very pessimistic that anyone can be recovered. Right now the prospects are not good at all, The water is very cold and the air supply if the men were trapped in an air pocket--- may be gone."
Skin divers had gene down but failed to reach the wreckage. Heavy diving equipment, necessary for any rescue effort, was not expected until later tonight and, even then operations might have to walt till morning, he said. Meanwhile, fog was coming up over the scene.
Tapping
The Admiral ruit the tappings could have been "the sound
of wreckage scraping against the bottom", but that the commander of the destroyer McCaffery which Brst heard them was positive that they were made by humans.
The McCaffery said the remains of the structure were entirely below surface depth, and urgently requested "all possible salvage equipment.”
The three-legged tower, 80 miles off the New York const, dis-. appeared after reporting by radio that it was "breaking up due to heavy weather."
The Navy ship supplying the tower reported last night that its rudar image disappeared about 10 minutes after the first dis- tress message Winds at the time were from 50 to 70 knots and waves 35 feet high were battering the concrete pllings.
Damage
The three-docked $750,000 tower was mansed by 14 servicemen
and 14 civilians.
It had been temporarily evacuated last November 17 after the discovery of damage of the concrete supports, caused by
Hurricane Donno.
TOWER UNSAFE
Hours before the radar tower disappeared under the stormy Atlantic, mon aboard her wara telephoning their families of their danger.
One was Raymond J. Martel, 34-year-old father of three boys, He telephoned his wife at Biddeford, Maine, a few hours before the tragedy and told her the tower was unsafe. unid he would be evacuated shortly.
Не
Like 27 other airmen and civilians working on the hurricane-
damaged structure, Martel is missing.
A stellar telephone call came to Mr and Mrs Sanders H. Jones, of
Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Heavy seas
It was from their son, Airman 2/C Leland H. Jones, 23. a plumber from Otis Air Force base who had put in his 45-day tour on the tower and was to have left for home today. Young Jones told his parents on Sunday that he was afraid heavy
seas would engulf the tower and it would go down. Fear of the tower's condition was expressed by S. Sgt. Kenneth H. Green of Elmira, Now York, even before he returned to duty on the structure on January 4.
Mrs Esther Green, wife of the 27-year-old sergeant, sald Green had spoken to a superior officer about his fears and the officer "ngreed that the tower was very shoky."
"He (Kenneth) didn't want to go bock,” Mrs Green recalled.—AP.
Munro-Smith tells
of accident
Bruce Munro-Smith, summonsod on traffic offences following an accident in which
a boy was killed, said this morning that ho had "no fooling that his car had run over the child.”
pleaded
Ile cadd he hack the impres; to answer on the charges of dan- sion that after the impact, the gerous driving and driving a car boy way icoockext cway from with defective brakes. hár car....
the beginning of the Ab He also said that the coty sesala, Munro-Smitht
of The United States. Lir Force on why he had not stopped guilty to another summons weather office here yesterday immediately after the recent driving without a valid licence afternoon located Rita-750 miles was that he intended to lock through Mr J. C. B. Black, of southeast of Manila. It was for a sndtable phmo to stop his Mestrs Deacons. moving north-northwest of five car so that the traffle would not In answer to a question put miles per hout.
bo structed, '
to him by Mr Slack, Smith earl neither the child mor 1 was to Munro-Smith was testifying | blano- that unfortunate ac in his defence at Causeway Bay client.""
Ilearing continues. this after Court ofter ME 7. T. Morris bad ruled that defendant had a case
Winds within the storm wOTO 40 miles per hour.
Storm 10ta, was expected to be 084 miles east-southeast of Manila today--Icuter.
noon.
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When the Rosse family posed for a souvenir picture, it was Princess Margaret, who with her husband, Mr Antony Armstrong-Jones, was itaying with them in Etre, who arrang- vd the grouping. Here, in biting wind and rain, the Royal "in-laws" pose on the steps shows: Front row: of Birr Casile, the Earl of Rosse's home in County Ofaly. Pleture Princess Margaret and Mr Antony Armstrong-Joner, with the Countess of Rosse (hla mother) on the left, and Lord Rosse. Back row, L to R: Lord Ormantown (Mr Arm- (Mr Armstrong-Jones's strong-Jones's half-brother), Viscount de Vesel, Lady de Vesci sister), Lady de Vesci being obscured by Lord Rossc.-Express Photo.
NEW BOOK PUBLİSHED BY GOVERNMENT
chief's warning
triad
Police on HK
triad menace
The Commissioner of Police, Mr H. W. E. Heath, has sounded
Russian warning to U.S.
Moscow, Jan. 16. The Soviet Government fo- day warned the United States about "the serious responsibility" it assumod in "continuing to intor- foro in the internal affairs of Laos," Toss reported.
The protest camo in a verbal representation by Soviet De- puly Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetrov, who received the U.S. Avacador in MoscoʻN,
Mr Llewellyn Thompson,
The representation was made
in
| in cochection with the use of
American military, planej Laos, the agency said..
At The Thom, in Central Laoa, Bruce Russell of Reuters reported that leftwing rebel forces, filtering through Jungle mountain passes, were within sight miles of the town, the inst Government-held airstrip in Xieng Khouang Province.
the
Russell today landed on little airfield set between two sheer mountain ranges 30 mües southeast of the town of Xieng Kho DEDI
Government forces are using this airstrip as a supply point lu bald-up for an attempt to retake the town which fell to leftwing forces on January 1,
CUT OFF
The commander at Tha Thom, Major Kavyphorn, said, "We are
almost completely surrounded.
a warning on Triad societies in a new Government hand-our retreat in the mountains be- book.
EUROPEANS INJURED
IN KENYA
·
RIOTING
Nairobi, Jan. 16.
Pathet Loo guerillas have cut oft
hind hero and now Pathet Lao and Vietminh forces are attack- Inje us from the front."
Counsor Kham khong direct
In his ward 15 *Triad He said in 1847, when the Societies in Hongkong" written British garrison in Hongkong Ing operations om Paicsane, by Delortive Sub-Inspector W. was depleted by providing over the mountains to the south, P. Morgan, Mr Heath said that troops for un expedition to sald that "Tha Tham can hold out although individual and factional Canton, local societies attempted as long as the Pathet Lao do not differchees and ambitions have to exploit that weakness and bring up heavy artillery."
carry out armed attacks on the led to the breakdown of central control, a nucleus capable of township of Victoria. referm and reorganization still exists.
"And such is the potential within Hongkong that outside interests may well be tempted to najat or encourage such reorganisation for their own
strength of a unified society
purposes."
1941 RECALLED
*
Two European officers word
Mr Heath goes on to say that injured when police were posible reorganisation is stoned in a frosh outbreak' danger which we must acknow of political rioting in ledge and prevent with all the Nakuru in Kenya's White, measures at our disposal." Highlands tonight.
STRONGER
his
Major Kavyphom said the left wing forces could reach the airstrip with a day, but he did bring Mr Heath sala Triad societies not believe they could were today numerically stronger artillery through the jungio so
quickly. than at any other time in their
He has 400 troops under history. He said legal enact-command but desperately needs ments alone cannot destroy an reinforcements, he said, orgonisation of such magnitude. Four Laotian Hephazard arrests of Individual plines went members carmel seriously rocket strike today. weaken the societies which con- inually recruited new members. "All available resources must be concentrated on curbing Its potential for evil and assisting to speed up its own process of self-destruction.
YO trainer out on a second
ALTERNATIVE
The Government are making alternative preparations for an airfek at Paksane to try to hit the rebel drive which could cut Laos in two at its narrow central neck.
"In particular, it is neces- Mr Heath recalled that In sary that action be directed
against the controlling off- Colonel Khamn Khong said the The police baton charged 1941 "only extreme vigilance on crowds of Africans and forced the part of the authorities pre- clals and pressure maintained fall of Tha Thom would not vented the societies from carry- until such time that organised threaten Pakane Immediately them to disperse.
Triad activity collapses from as rebel forces would have to ofces of bothing out their declared intention A rald on the
lack of members willing to march eight days over The parties dis to assist the Japanese in their African political
accept positions of respon- mountains to reach the town. closed armouries of clubs, iron Invasion of Honkong."
He also recalled more recent xibility that will automaileally Ho said the Pathet Lao has bars and slicks, police sald.
political
two expose them to personal at
planes in operation-a When the ghing spread to history. In 1050, o
Kowloon was
a singto tention by the forces of law Dakota and
engine six people disturbance in the market place,
developed by Triad member and order."
Benver--and are using them to including one Woman were Arrested. Three other arrests into a period of anarchy and In his book, Inspector Morgan direct artillery fire-AFP &
necessitated and the Trika stiú exercise| Reuter, were made outside the office of bloodshed which
the control over the livelihood of a Arearms Unicy the use of
by (KANU) when an African Iried authorities before it could be farge cection of the community. But he holds out hope that their to hit a European inspector with brɩught under control.”
Me Heath said that trlad i activities can be curbed:
"It the authorities societies, who today were be- loved to have a membership tinue planned and deteurined
Paris, Jan. 10. of one in six of the populs. | cction," he writes "against the
Two men wore killed ond ane tion, had been a feature of the more troublesome and powerful
societies and offeinis thero is na wounded in a Paris suburb to- local scene for 116 years and for 113 years special ordin reason why the Triad merce day when Moslems fired
legislation should not be reduced within a groups of other Moslems in two ances and related had been created in temple | few years to an increasingly separate attacks, police said. - to deal with the problem. (Coat, on Page 4, Col. 0) Reuter,
the
Кепув African
& stick.
Police cleared the main sirest and order was later restored, BAN ON MEETINGS The rioting followed inst night's fighting in Nakuru's main street between supporters of the KANU and the Kenya African
Democratle Union. This had Inga in the district. outside
led to a ban on African meet-
Crowds had gathered tonight
bota
offices, party ignoring an appeal to dksperta from the District Comunizioner, Mr John Howard.
Both parties are campaigning for Kenya's general elections. next month, which will give Africans a majority in the Legistative Council for test time.----Router,
Train hits truck
Tokyo, Jan. 17. One person was killed and 18 were injured, five seriously, to day, in a collision between an inter-urban train and a gravel truck. One railway coach was derailed and plunged off a 20- foot high bridge,—AP.
can con-
1,000 police and
TWO KILLED
firemen
arrested in Brazil
Sao Paulo, Jan, 10. Some 1,000 firemen and police officers were under arrest in thole barracks today after marching on the Bap I'valo provincial governor'» · «paláco last weckena demanding =
· pay' inorvaEE. ·
the federal Although
which quelled the uprising. was mineter of the situation here familles of the arrested officers marched · · In · protext.] · through the city mirveja today
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bearing placards - Announcing order is re-esiabibshed but we are hungry.
matineers The arrested
fashion marched in orderly up to the palavo of Governor Carvalho Finto disarmed. She' guard and reached the prisno. gardens.
The Governor gave ika order to open fire on the first man who eet food) am the prison steps ang appealed to the federal army for help..
Ork
Tragedy who just xverted as a regiment of foderal cavity arrived
tho sad” · herded . mullacers 'Back to their bar- ricks, · Governor Pinto mada -- niti Chowo, Impliosted sign a - conformon of guilt.
The Weldon grew out of the refusal of Bao Paulo provin- plat authorities to align the imiseles of the pollon Sored with those of the Civil, Quard.