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N. ambulance man with three of his ribs broken pulled a critically sick girl from his over- turned vehicle and started running with her in his arms through crowded streets towards the hos- pital for which she was bound.
After 50 yards a car gave him alift the rest of the way.
He entried the girl up the steps, hunded her over to the doctors and collapsed.
Later, 33-year-old Raymond Lesile Thompson, of Leicester, was also in hospital recovering fers lajurles,
It happened amid the busy crowds in afternoon whopping Loughborough. Leicestershire,
Pneumonia
The ambulance picked up six-year-old Shirley Greene. critically I with pneumonia, from ner home at Sileby to faku h to Laughbourough (Teneral Hospital for emergency trecitat.
Thomason, who lost a young trom a a year ago daughter similer illness, gave her, arti- Belal respiration during the five-mile run.
At a crossroads 300 yards from the hospital the ambulance was in collision with a car and turn- ed over,
Shirley, one of a pair of twina. was almost unconscious from fier iiness. Thompson grabbed her in his arms and started his rin to the hospital.
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Hig wife Jacqueline "When I saw my husband in hospital, he kept asking the nurses how Shirley was.
"He would not talk about his own injuries. I think was the memory of our own child's death that kept him going.
"He said he did not notice the pain from. his injured ribs.
"My husband lovas children and is devoted to his ambulance work.
"Je gave up his jcb as a pain- ter because medical care has always interested him and at- though the pay is less be con- aiders 1 more rewarding work."
The bulletin "Quite satisfactory."
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A rickshaw and coolio hat were all laid on to groot the arrival in London of Bob Hope who has returned to Britain after two years to star with Bing Crosby, and "Joan Collins in a new KOADthe seventh, in the serion film The Road to Hongkong. A topical note in the new film Bing and Bob aro two unwitting astronauts. Picture shows Bob Hope on arrival with coolie hat in a rickshaw pulled by a station porter.
|BIG GROUP
OF TOURISTS
One of
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the largest tourist groups to come to Hongkong, numbering arrived fast
night by
PAA from -New
York for a six-day visit in the course of a tour around world.
The group Included membera of the American Society of Editors and Commentators,
The four, is, being conducted by Mr and Mrs_Fernando Turiaux of the Hemisphere Travel Service, New zork. They were met at the airport by Mr D'Arcy Yap of the Penin: suin Travel Service.
The group will leave Hang- kong on Aug. 11 for Talpol.
Punjab action
to curb Sikh
agitation
Chandigarh, 'Aug. 6.
The Punjab Government yesterday banned publication for the next two months in newspapers of this State any news or articles concerning the Sikh demand : for a separate Statoi
This is interpreted, as a first step by the Punjab Government to meet threat of a fast. unto death by the. veteran Bikh leader, Tara Singh, beginning on August 15thg Itis anniversary of Indian freedomati
An officiat annuancement said ' tlile slop was being taken to pre- vent acts prejudicial to com- |munal harmony between DIN
nexel Hindus in, fiio Punjab,
The Sikhs are demanding separate Blate out of the Punjab where 6,000,000 co-religionists would be in the majority>AP:!
Ronald G. Lawrence, of Colnay Hall, Norwich, who has just bought, for future development, 3,200 acros noor. Nassau, on the island of Now: Providence, forming a substantial part of the Oakes family holdings in the Bahamas. Mr Lawrence, who is 48, and started in‘business on his own when he was 16 - yours, old,"delivering goods and people in an old vehicle to Norfolk markets; has bought the land fram the Ookes Trust. This was formed by Sir. Horry Oakes, the Canadian gold-mining Industrialist; whose. murder at his home in Nassau - In 1943 was: never solved. Hie widow, Lady Oakes, will continue to live: Ir the Island, "where she has retained a considerabla acreago. The price paid by Me Lawrence is not dis- closed, but, the cost, including roads and services which are to be put in by him as a fint move in the development is estimated at £10 million. The development will embrace hotels, apartments and public buildings, as well as residentful and shopping" areas. Included in the deat is the famous':Bahamas Country Club and golf coune. Mr Lawrence is forming a company in Nassau which he proposen to coll Oukkinds. Estures. The project will be spread over the next 10 to 15% yaAYDEN
Miss Molinda Blanchard of the Office of Civil and Defence Mobilisation in Washington, DC, posen at home, (bottom) with a radiation detection kit designed for family use.
She wears o detector tuba, pinned to her, slove and at lower right: is another port of the equipment · which houses a rodiation rate counter and a charging .unit.
In top photo she holds a face mask designed for civilian use in cose of enemy attack.
With increasing East-Wast tension, civil defence preparedness has been stopped up in the United States.AP. Photo,
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TN one of the greatest field days any nation has ever experienced, the U.S. routed the world in the Olymple Games today, re- taining her supremacy in the running broad-jump and regaining the 400 metres hurdles and the 800 metres.
Jesse Owens, winning his second title, laid the ground work for a win of the 200 metros tomorrow, In the event that he succeeds, he will be the first since Paavo Nurmi (Finland) to score a triple.
In the broad-jump trials and finals, Owens exceeded the former Olympic record five times.
A later report said Owens won the running broad jump with a leap of 8.06 metres. Lutz Long of Ger- many was second with 7.87. motres, Naoto Tajima' of | Japan was third' with '7:74
metres,
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Athens:
Martial law has been pre- claimed throughout Greece following the general strike. The Government, finding itself confronted with a grave move. ment by Communiste,. threa tening bloodshed, obtained the consent of King George to the emergency measures,
The Chamber has been dis- solved without a date being net for the elections.
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THE first batch
European residents of Kwangel, mostly mission-
| EXPERTS PLAN TO SAVE TOWN aries and their familles
Bid to blow top
off volcano
From SABA RATNAM
Singapore.
who evacuated. Wuchow because of the danger of fighting, arrived in Hong- kong yesterday afternoon by the Hongkong-Wuchow steamer Kong So. The party numbered 17.
During the past few days because of the Kwangsi Government's war prepara-
AMERICAN experts brought out to duce tions, most foreigners ro-
nesia. by President Sukarno have produced
a plan to "blow the top off" Merapi, the country's most dangerous volcano.
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siding in the endangered zones of Kwangsl went to Wuchow, the principal Kwangs seaport on the from West River.
the
Mr Hugh Ruttledge; leader
of the 1936 Mount Everest: Expedition, arrived in London
today.
to Indonesia This, they say, is the way to called prevent Merapi blowing itself America say they have up and angulsing'. Djogjakurtà | answer to the problem. city of a million people.
Merop!-the
They want to blast the cone "mountain of Are" does not from ita foundation in such only spill lava. Hourly way that it would drop out
side the crater. throws up burning sand,
The sand, thousands and As American success would i Interviatoad, Mr Ruttledge. thousands of tons of it,' has bea great boost to their stated that he would not lead hardened, to a red-hot cons | prestige. "Russian scientists who suspended over the mouth of have had a look of Merapi have any further expedition, but he was confident · that Mount the crater.
salt that nothing can save the Everest could be scaled, given Now this cone has begun to volcano from blowing itself up. tilt. Experts say that should If the Americans' plan is used favourable weather conditions. it collapse Anto the crater It will have to be soon. Dally Mfr Rutledge added that Meropi would go up in a evidenco grows that Merapi is this year expedition was tremendous blast that would gathering Itself for a blast beset by bad secather, the wipe put nearby Djogjakarta. similar to that in 1031, when monsoon breaking earlier than
After, studying Merapi for the death rolt ran some monilis, the volcanologiala! sands. "
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