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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29,
British swans frozen into
into ponds
ICY SNAP HITS EUROPE
FOR FIFTH DAY
London, Dec. 28.
Britain and Europe shivered through its fifth consecutive day of freezing weather today with no sign of a let-up in the cold snap for at least
24 hours.
Killer shark tears
girl's arm, mauls man
Mackay, Australia, Dec. 28. A shark tore off one 3rm and part of the other arm of on 18-year-old girl wading only 12 feet from shore today.
Margaret Hobbs, 18, 口
school-teacher
trainee,
olso suffered serious gashes on her right thigh. standing
Miss Hobbs was
with Martin Steffon, 24, in about 21⁄2 feet of water when the shark attacked. Eye-witnesses, who esti mated the shark
was
about 10 feet long, said it made three separate attacks on the couple.
Steffan tried to beat off the
shark while holding on to Miss Hobbs. He suffered severe gashes on his right forearm.
Another member of the beach party rushed into the water and helped drive off the shark.-UPI.
Picture shows
full-length
view of another killer shark caught off Noosa Heads in Australia recent- ly.
(This man-oater was caught after it attacked onother bather.)
off
Americans smoke
more cigarettes
Washington, Deo. 28.
Americans smoked more this year than ever before, the Agricul-
ture Department said today.
more than
However, It estimated that Smokers paid less snuff was dipped in 1901 $6,900,000,000' for their cigaret-
In Britain, hundreds of water mains exploded, many highways were impassible, ducks and Swans were frozen into lakes and ponds, rivers such as the Thames and Avon froze over in stretches, trains were delaved and plumbers were at a pre-
miam
Hundreds of workers were sent home from plants and Arma where furnaces had broken down or
Other pipes bursi. workers didn't wait to be sent home and walked out en masse.
An
it as aescribed spokesman "Britain ice" and said only six countries were not hit by ice, snow, frost or fog
Automobile Association
Dutch Air Force planes today opened an airlift between the Dutch mainland and Ameishd island, lying oxff the coast
ipulated by thick pack ice, as much of Europe shivered in snow, ice and freezing tempera-
Tune.
Isolated
Other islands eff the Dutch coast were nearly isolated, with ferry boals jammed In drift ce and unable to approach their moorings,
Most Canals in north-west Gennany were frozen, and in Western Germany, frost and mow seriously delayed rail and read traffic.
The East German agency ADN
reported that big fires had been started by people hying to 1haw frozen pipes with naked flames.
In the French Alps, a searcti party found the body of a 15- year-old French schoolboy, Michel Louren}, with his fox terrier, Bobby, dead at his side. They had been missing siNCE Tuesday and were killed in a fall while on an excursion.
In the French Pyrenees, B French test pilot, Jacques Foch, and his brother, Andre were found dead last night after be
in an avalance on ing caught the Pir de Cambales,
FLOODWATER
Floodwater following heavy rains wrecked a bridge at Isun- tercangelo di Romagna, hear Rimini north-east Italy, today and three people are missing. Near Ravenna about 100 people have been evacuated from Good- ed farins
Flods are also ravaging parts of the Congo, where the river Congo has inundated towns and plantations. Thousands of people have ded from their j homes.
Over most of eastern United
than in 1960, and about the les in 1961, about $1,100,000,000 States, cold rain changed to
of which went into federal, SDOW during today, while
same amount of tobacco was
chawed this year than last.
It estimated V.S. cigarette output and consumption this year at a record 528,000,000,000 cigarettes, 4 per cent more than last year.
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state and local excise taxes..
It was The fifth consecutive increase in cigarettes consump tion and more is expected next year--UP1.
Argentine Navy
iz
hand freeze gripped" the western
half of the country.
It was 18 degrees below zero
in Waukon, lowa, Chicago exactly
zero bad its coldest; December 28 since 1924.
In East Berlin, big fires have been started by people trying to thow frozen pipes with naked
Man about
town
Suddenly, almost Im- perceptibly. Prince Charles Accom- has grown up.
Princess Anne. panied by
Look 13-year-old Churles
a party of six to the theatre the other night, to see the Muste" "Sound of
the American musical. He was every inch "the man abert town as he ushored 14- year-old Miss Marilyn Wills (right) her mother Is the Queen's cousin-into a 30s. seat in the stalls of The Palace Theatre, Lon-
don.
It was the Arst outing of its kind for Prince Charles In the role of host and escort, London Express Service.
Jet crashes,
explodes
2 CHILDREN
An
KILLED
17 HURT
Podua, Italy, Dec. 28. Italian jet fighter crash-
ed into a house today and exploded, killing two children and injuring 17. others in
densely
as
it
populated neighbourhood flames, the East German news
of nearby Este. London, Dec. 28. agency ADN reported,
The F80 jet grazed the big Embassy The Argentine
said collective farmer was cathedral in the factory town
16,000 London confirmed today that the killed in one such fire yesterday, of
residents Chamber of Deputies had and cattle died in another. plunged downward. The pilot approved the spending of Rail and road traffic has been balled out moments before the 22,000,000,000
(over seriously delayed by the frost crash and landed on a busy £100,000,00) in the next ten and snow. Most canals in street not far from the crash years fur rebuilding the northwest Germany were frozen scene. Argentine Navy.
pesos
A spokesman added that it was too early yel to say what ships were planned and in what countries
orders would
placed. Reuter.
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today.Reuter.
Church of England
out of date?
London, Dec, 29.
Firemen and volunteers where rumanaging through the wreck- age
minutes after the crash, searching for two buried child- ren, when an explosion rocked the house to its foundations.
The fuel tank of the plane apparently exploded, Four firemen and five other persons. were hurt-AP.
Woodrow Wilson
gets credit
Palm Beach, Dec, 28. President Kennedy today The Church of England is a marked the 105th anniversary "seemingly decayed insti- of Woodrow Wilson's birth by tution" which represents rent efforts to create a la
reminding the nation that car- Law- five per cent of the English abiding world order stemmed, nation, an editorial in the from efforts of the World War I Church of England news-
President.
"Every subsequent effort to paper said today,
create a stable work order has The other 95 per cent can gone back for inspiration to his hardly be blamed if they efforts end has owed much to classify the Church of England his vision Mr Kennedy sold with British Railways, the of Mr W-UPI trades unions
10 гр gramophone dieses Incredible survivals from
previous: generation the editorial said.
The railways and the unions sillearn,
bizeable daily grimble The Church of Eng-
and gets loss than that
Cold bill
Madison, Wine INC 18. Governor Gaylord Nelson's Press Secretary quipped today It has the exacting task not like It would be a cold day when only of adjusting itself to 20th Demogratia governör signied Century gorillons, but o lock-sales tax bill in Wisconsin
ing head to some practed A shpet Ume later, Mr. Nelson,
zero in the city m
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
December 28
Algeria killings
nine 16
least Algiers At persons were
killed and wounded in Algeria today AS the grim. march of terrorism and counter-terrorism con- tinued.
During the day, eight plastic bombs and one time-bomb exploded.
Two Europeans were slain in ambush yesterday near Bougle.-AFP.
Protest
London Albanis has pro- tested to Hungary and East Germany at the "decision of the two governments to recall their respective ambassadors,"
the Albanian news agency ATT re- ported today
It said the protests, delivered yesterday, also ubjected to the demands by Hungary and East Germany for the withdrawal of the Albanian Ambassadore from their countries-Reuter.
Young Castros
Key West Fla. Havana Radio sald numbers of Russian parents have writter. 10 Prime Minister Fidel Castro asking permission to name their sons after him.
The requests were
included.
the redio said, among messages pouring
in from the Soviet
1961,
MP predicts hard times
in 1962
Jo Grimond
London, Dee. 29. Mr Jo Grimond, teaser of the Liberal Party, said in a New Year message to supporters, that he hoped the coming year would
China's sce admission
the United
Nations.
The Liberal leader, whose party holds six seats in the House of Commons, forecast "a tough
31 year
home and inter- nationally."--Renter.
Piper Laurie to marry
New York, Dec. 28. Actress
und Piper Laurie New York Herald-Tribune re- the third anniversary of his reporter Joseph Morgenstern will
Union to congratulate him on
volution-AP.
Cactus wall
be married in Long Beach on January 21, Mr Morgenstern announced today.
New
Castro York The
I will be the first marriage Cuban Administration today was reported planting a "wall" of for Miss Laurie, who began her knife-sharp cactus plants, call-Hollywood career publicised as ed "bayonet grass." around the big United States navy base at Guantanamo Bay.
The report, from George Chit- ford of the Scripps-Howard i newspapers, was published in the New York World-Telegram
"The girl who eats roses."
The wedding will take place at her sister's home in Long Beach. Miss Laurie's real name is Rosetta Jacobs.
It also is the first marriage for Mr Morgenstern, a reporter
erd Sun under a Guantanamo in the lively arts department
Bay dateline,-AP.
of the Herald-Tribune-UPI.
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