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FOR DRIVERS: Show courtesy to other travelers. Consideration cost aut ing in time or elfout, it means a Jet to evelists, pedestrians and fellow motorists. It means still more to
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Labour Party Backs Bevin's Policy
ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
BOLTON TRAGEDY Soccer Stadium Collapses
EXPLOSION SHAKES BRIGHTON
HOVE, MAR. 19. HOVE AND BRIGHTON. THE SUSSEX COAST RE SORTS, WERE SHAKEN AND THOUSANDS OF WINDOWS WERE SMASH. ED HERE TO-DAY WHEN HAD MINE WHICH
THE BURIED ON HOVE
EX FORESHORE PLODED AS THE RESULT} OF OVERZEALOUS EF- FORT BY A NAVAL MINE) DISPO AL SQUAD.
LONDON, MAR. 14.
A THERE HAS BEEN A SHOWDOWN INSIDE THE PAR
LIAMENTARY
BEEN LABOUR PARTY BETWEEN AR ERNEST BEVIN'S FOREIGN
CRITICS POLICY AND SUPPORTERS INSIDE HIS OWN PARTY. MR. BEVIN PERSONALLY ATTENDED THE MEET- ING THE FIRST TIME FOR SIX MONTHS AND IT SHOWED THAT WELL OVER gon OF THE 32 LABOUR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT SUPPOR HIM IN GENERALL AND HIS UNO, STAND IN PARTICULAR,
The necUng showed at the same time thant certain gronjs were formine inside the Parila mentary Lahor Forty whe were either wholly or paritally eritival of its present oprigt jodies.
The must vocal nud netten of these Krompines is one
18
Just
Thief Poses
As "War Hero".
KENDAL MAR, 19,
After vain efforts to *if: the mine, which was submerged in the aunds near the former naval tanining establishment H.M.S. King Alfred, the squad drcided to place small explosive charge beneath It to bring it to the surface. After the charge had been fired electrically, the mine itself exploded with a roar which reverberated three miles;
ZUMAIAN.
A few persons were cut by
among others by Tom Driberg KENDAL MAGISTRATES flylog glass and all the windows and K. Billiaens. which holds
shattered in apartment 18 DAYS AGO PROVIDED were was mistalten that Mr. Bevin
RAILWAY buildings rearby on the front. from beginning to end and a DINNER AND
A petrol station 200 yards away | FARE HOME FOR A DE
was badly damaged. The former voenfes a policy which in its s
liada
indiainguishable FENDANT WHO SAID HE naval establishment buildings.
WAS AN from that of the Communists.
EN SURGEANT now returned to the Hove Cor- The striking feature, in the AIRGUNNER WITHE THE ·poration, were also damaged on whow of Labeler leaders, is tied D,FM. WON IN THE FDEK, the seaward side. in spite of considerable Parlia DAM RAID. mentary and surnalistic ability of its leaders, this group had, fart, made either impressi hey headway on the Faria tary Labour Party and remains essentially iscinted and without power sen to leail a minor re valt against Mr. Bevin. There
is no one amung them who has the standing enjoyed by arch rebels as Bevin and Shinwell in the last Parliament,
Yesterday
Bulldozers are in future to be man Alfen used to clear mines from Bri- Eliott, aged 26,
of Norfolk tish seaside rearts to make them Street, Lancaster, who pleaded safe for summer visitors, the guilty to the theft of bicycles. War Offee has announced mean- muths while. Felixstowe bench, where was sentenced Lo six
several mines are tying, will be hard labour.
the scene of the first expert- mental clearance-Reuter,
The Chief Constable said that at the last hearing the magistrates deferred judgment after Ellicet had said he had heen unable to obtain ala war gratuity,
for work was unfit "Then he exists another smaller
alse ad hael had to steal cycles 10 iz group which
wife and
threw mainly critical of Bevin's for support his
young children The Alt Minis eign polies particularly Greece and atthe U.NO. buty had since stated that Elliott does not necel the Russian view had never been awarded any de- No indiscriminately as does the oration or had he done any, operational flying. As a result Driberg Billiacus group
of the publicity given to Efhott's.
treatment meted
Bodies Piled Four
Deep
BOLTON, MAR. 10.
AT LEAST 34 WERE CRUSHED OR TRAMPLED TO DEATH AND SCORES WERE INJURED IN BRI- TAIN'S WORST SPORTS DISASTER WHEN TWO RETAINING BARRIERS COLLAPSED IN THE SOC- CER STADIUM GRANDSTAND, TUMBLING HUN- DREDS OF SCREAMING SPECTATORS FORWARD UNTIL, BODIES WERE PILED FOUR DEEP, THE BARRIERS COLLAPSED SHORTLY AFTER THE START OF J CUPTÌE SOGGER MATCH BE- TWEEN BOL, PON WANDERERS AND STOKE CITY „ÆTTENDED BY A GRÓID OF MORE TILIN 70 000.
At Bolton morgue
34 bodies to hand above their heads. All thisi
the restarted were counted but there were
game ports the death toll might be 38. being Bercely fought out on the pitch by twn of Britain's leading Two of the dead were women,
The retaining barriers sudden- trAMA, enver LO decide which ly collapsed under pressure of the should win its way into the semi- tightly packed crowd. Spectators, unle of the cun. toppled from their slanding posi-
PC-
in one grandstand tier onto persons standing below the "cheap
seat" side of the stadium.
As
victim fell
VICTIMS' STORIES
WAS
they were
nestator tambding through the broken barriers. Some swept aver the retaining wall and unto the playing fel
theered by waves of ribs were being crushed and i
KILLED OUTRIGHT
Despite the necident, the game was suspended only 26 minutes while ambulances, unlice, fire ve-
EXPLOSION IN MINE SWEEPER
Dover, Mar. 10.
A conforon occurred to
201 the minesweeper "Steadfast" while at ancher in the Chamet off Parer,
the rating was killed and more than 35 of the crew utjured.
A hre betiered to have horn enused by alvetrient faxing broke out on one of the TRA decks. A naval inquiry will be held.-Reuter,
hicles and private cars removed" the casualties.
One of the spectators · told a) renorter: "When the crowd beganj to move forward I felt that my
lost consciousness. When I enne round 1 tound my self being carried over Diles of prople four deen."
gradually
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MARCH 11,
1948.
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British Note To Moscow.
Lunden, Mar, 10.
Britain, joining the United States in its protest over Min churia, has delivered through the British Charge d'Affairen in Moncoin, M, Frank Roberts, a note to the Soviet Government, against the removal of Japanese plants ara hatullations from Manohuria,
The United States complaint, with which Britain in now associated stated that Japanese machinery in Manchuria must be regarded as part of Japanese reparations, the distribution of which must be dooiled by all Allies jointly.
The British protral, however, Riffers from the United States Note in that it does not make reference to the presenc of Russian troops in Manchuria in spite of the Soviet promise to withdraw by Fobruary 1, saya Reiter's Diplomatic Corres- pondent.-Reuter,
Strong Criticism In Soviet Press
MOSCOW, MAR. 19.
OUTSPOKEN COMMENTS IN THE SOVIET PRESS TO- DAY ON "THE ENTIRELY INADEQUATE" BRI- TISH-FRENCH-AMERICAN DECLARATION ON SPAIN AND THE "FIERCE ECONOMIC CRISI 5" IN EGYPT, FOLLOWED LAST NIGHT'S RUSSIAN FOREIGN OFFICE CHARGE THAT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IS INFRINGING THE "BIG THREE" AGREEMENT ON BULGARIA.
Paris Pole Kidnapped
The main feature of the joint, declaration on Spain was that there was no intention of inter- fering in her internal affairs. Thle is described to-day by "Pravda," organ of the Russian Communist Party, as the "ok! spectre of non-interference." Another spectator said: "I was abited off my feet and flung on
"The principle of non-inter- PARIS, MAR. 10. to the heads of the neonly stand-
ference has entirely suited PARIS POLICE ARE IN. France, both in in front of me. I saw people
the pant and THE AL now in the present," adds the henies on the ground with others VESTIGATING sweeping over them but nothing LEGED KIDNAPPING OF A Pravda, could be done to keep the crowd MAN NAMED NICHOLAS
It continues: "There must be. buck."
directed at the BAPCHINSKY, DESCRIBED real measures
of In another eye-witness account. AS
General A POLISH STUDENT, overthrowing ane reporter said: "As the Impe- FROM A FLAT AT 33 RUE
Franco." tus of the driving mob was spent, ERLANGER IN AUTEUIL, Potadam
70 nolleenex pushed their way through the crowd to begin PARIS. heart-sending tack pulling neopte from the heaned pile. It
was
The paper recalls, that at the conference, Russia proposed that the United Na- They have spent the last 1 tiras break off relations with quickly discovered that #1 people hours checking the identity of the France Government and si immediately the proprietress of Number 3 the Spanish democratic forces almost had died crushed in the head and chest, whose name was given as "Prin- and Spanish people in creatingt Workers
cess Galitzine." were still frantically
Police at first a new regime, aving to cope with the mug of believe she was the same that the acceptance of the So- "It is hardly possible to doubt Indured when the umpire's decis
sun to continue the cane sobered the crowd sufficiently to allow re-tunes to brenning their work."
500 INJURED
18
Princess
Olga Galitzine against whom together with viet proposals would have con- Madame Borotra, wife of the tributed in many respects to the tennis star, a warrant of arrest liquidation of Franco's tottering for interrogation into alleged regime. But they were not ac- SABER RATTLING!
Over 400 persons were treated collaboration with the Gestapo cented."
BRITAIN AGAIN! at the cround as minor casualties in Auteuil during the Occupa- Philadelphia, March 10,
Calling for concrete measures In a similar accident in 1902, as both spectators Mr. Winston Churchill's specchi
and afleials, tion was issued six months ago
"without further delay," arging an Anglo-American alliance during an English-Scottish cham- helped to evacuate the more ser- but never executed.
pionshin match 25 were killed Gusly
by ambulance.
"Pravda" declares that it is cb- Injured was "plmest declaration of war
Tonight police established and 517 injured, against Russia." Senator Glen
Noises from the bir prowd were the identity of the proprietress vious that the three power de- Emergency
for doctors stilled into a hush that swent the as the
claration will not 52-year-old Princess
persunde Taylor, Democrat of Idaho, said He asserted thal
were sent throughout the Lan- ground when ambu-nce men be- Lydin Galitzine who is now a Franco to leave his "cosy place" yesterday.
will
Thirty-two of the ran to move the castattles fro be "ninitely
cashire
aren.
ing questioned in connection in Madrid. world nene:
victims were reported killed out under th wall and collapsed. Most with the alleged kidnapping more dificult" due to Churchill's right in the crush.
main grand
- The Soviet Government-or- where "saber rattling."
The crash was not heard neroas of the casualties. were taken to REMAINDER GROUP
"Churchill's aim is to preserve the field and it was not until am- the Bolton Roval Infirmary.
The problem of identifying a "Izvestia" today blames British economic policy for On what might be described statement of supposed shabby the British Empire
the Princess was summed up by
the "ferce, economic out to a gal-}
and recover bulances started arriving that the
causing a police spokesman who said: his lost glory." Tavlor said.-As stadium brennte quiet and play
"There are so many as strait Communist issues on
crisis" Princesses
in the valley of the at airman by Service author sveintid Press.
Nile. ceaned.--Associated Pres. received 7ð undj ties, Elliott
Galitzine in Paris It is very dif ficult TRAMPLED UNDERFOOT
to sort them Out." many gifts,
Reuter, The dead and injured were trampled underfoot as the crowd surged forward on to the playing pitch. Extra: polica vero rushed
foreign policy. Mr. Devin has,
to
gont-
with the Just D bined opposition of most of the 32 opponents cemprising these two groups but this is the sum total of the strength of the all- out opposition to Bevin.
There is a third group of eri. ties which supports Mr. Bevin, in his stand against Russia and his general policy in Europe but is critical of the delay in carry- ing through the reform of the foreign services and of the re-, -assignment of old officials to
new posts. In general this is! no more than remainder group and has by far a larger follow- ing among the Parliamentary Party.
he has more
He claimed he was unfit for last year The Chief Constable a crash landing said his information was that Work due to and had received grants from Elliott was seked for laziness the British Legion and from by twr employers and his wife Service charities after his com- spent the money grants in public passimale discharge in October houses.Reuter,
U.S. Glider-Bomb Chased Target
NEW YORK, MAR. 19.
AN UNIDENTIFIED HERO RODE ASTRIDE RADAR EQUIPMENT FIXED TO THE FRONT OF A BLIMP'S GONDOLA ON RESEARCH TESTS WHICH ENABLED THE U.S. NAVY TO PERFECT "THE BAT"-A GLIDER BOMB USED SUCCESS- FULLY IN THE LATE STAGES OF THE PACIFIC WAR.
to the ground and an 8.0.5. was flashed to the ipwn for doctors to cope with the casualties. Ambu- lances and police patrol cars car rice, the wounded away while pri- vate automobiles were
impressed
to help transport the injured to hospitals which had already been
warned by war-time emergency
sivnal to "stand by",
keted by
ather.
stand
The first signs the vast football crowd had of the trouble were the swaying and sounds of alarm an enormous section of the crowd ¡Continued on Page 6)
"Sabotage" Warnings Sent To Liners
The main factors, said the newspaper were: Firstly, Bri- tain cannot pay her debt, to Egypt because of the state of British Industry." Secondly, Britain has forced the inclu- sion of Egypt in the sterling bloc."
• The situation in Egypt, cd- served the paper, is “tense."
TENSION INCREASED
London, Mar. 10. The Diplomatic Correspondient SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 9.
of the Independent newspaper WARNINGS TO WATCH AGAINST POSSIBLE SABO- "The Observer" says that dinlema-
tie tension between TAGE WERE FLASHED TO-DAY TO GREAT
Western The disaster
the entera astor occurred 15 min-
powers and Russia has increased utes after the start of the game LINERS ON THEIR WAY HERE AS BRITAIN'S
remarkably dig the past week. when two barriers near a stand.
LEADING ÅRSON EXPERT WENT ABOARD THE
"Positions have hardened or Kave way, send me thousands of
"QUEEN ELIZABETH" TO CHECK THE THEORY
both sides' and it looks as if the The only issue on which this
Lightly packed spectators surging
THAT SHE WAS MALICIOUSLY, SET ON FIRE. Security Counelt of the United forward. Choera turned to screams group appeurs likely to join
Nations which reassembles s Now with the others in criticising
Du the heless crowd began
The "Queen Mary," due to the "Elizabeth" again. Police York on March 21 will have so Bevin's policy is Spain, but on
atumble and fall and to be blaa berthi in Southampton to-night, made a thorough search but dis- deal with even graver tries and this issue also Mr. Bevin
& fresh wave of people
sharner dianutes than at the firet strongly defends himself before
moving irresistably forward. In was warned by radio that all covered was a false alarm..
New precautions against fire meeting in London," he writes: the party and the general view
B few moments bodies were crush people moeting the liner at the ed and piled four deep on each quays should be closely watched, raisers are bringing the great indirect Russian reaction
The correspondent thinks the before the meeting was that the
to two minutes police Another warning wont out to ports of England and Scotland United States notes about Man- 20 After Foreign Secretary's position was not impregnable with his own discicued the feat yesterday in mother plane, the nose gends radar tu
✔onie wis restarted while from India
the British and Ameri with returning tions. The authorities are pro- can notes on mon, doctors party, and that
and troops. Her captain was hand-ceeding on the assumption that in the sudden Ruman note support now than after his first reporting how the bomb with impulses to the target and picks ambulance
are reflected nurses dealt with the casualties, ed a sealed letter telling him of saboteurs are at work and or rotest saainst Amorlean apeech. Any suggestion of a radar in its nose, automatically them up as they
the "Queen Elizabeth" fro and ders issued a Southampton in-recognition of the Bulgarian Gow tracked enemy warships and back. The nick-up automatically tearing Improvised bandages eriais le said to be utterly merchantmen for miles, twist- find the noso wolchs about half a supplies on the groun; save ont
guides the glider. The bomb be their clothes when the limited urging all the strictest precau- clude extra guards to be out en ernment and perhaps also in the all liners. Deckside patrols are Russian poliav of trying also to Police marshalled the crowds ing and turning with them; until ion. The pro-Communist groups
rom Britain and After consulting Sir James to be increased and no visitors nesurate Francs back from the scene as wounded are, however, parading hard in it hit the target.
the United gam
about the In early taste the big problem The "bat"which got, lts name and dead were passed from hand Bissatt, master of the "Queen aro to board incoming ships
Elizabeth, the Labour Foreign Affairs
and the Southamp-without special passen.
Sonnish etention. The thetics of Committee. At a meeting yes was to learn what went wrong because a bat in flight in some-
ton Chief Constable, Mr. J. S.
and diversion terday, they are believed to have with the "bats" which falled to what similar manner cuides itselt
Every ship now entering Bri- canter-revealed in the note on Firth, head of the Home Office's tiah docks is met by polica eff Bulearin and the publfelty given
which ars function. The unnamed hero's in by supersound waves, in lieu of presented a memorandum pro- struments told what was happen, radar went into action in 1945 plane carries a radarscope 50 Forensic Service laboratory, cers who go aboard and warn to it expecially sugur in for any
(Continued on Page Ú)
ing in the automatic controls of and crash dived
many..
toha of whatever hor "bat sighted was donned a boiler auft and began the master of the ship of the Russian readiness to seek com- the nearby fylt "bata" as they Japanese shtoning.
visible to the pilot.
his investigation of the glant; need for fire precautions-Roubininta of hor, allies over Pornia LAHORE. RIOT
tracked their targets. This lod. The only actual “bat” combat Doveloment' of 'the deadly wea to adjustments and improvements. report released by the Navy was pott began in April 1942. Teste liner's blaze. New Delhi March 10.
SMALLPOX ON ORONTES Firth took churgo"bf a num- The "bat" was another of the one of the Brat, when two mother on an old Liberty ship were made Two college students
pollo Bred on counterpart of the proximity fuse, trovers at a distance of 20 miles. bata" were dropped. One score examination from a store where port medical officer, condrmed
were war's secret weapons. It is the planes sighted two Japanese des in the Autumn of 1944. Eleven bor of articles for microscopic wounded when Aghting Moslem and Bindu stud watch exploded American shells From beyond, the range of ante gee, fous immed overhead broke out yesterday. He spent of wall-box board the
skip-bombed the the "Queen Elizabeth's" dro ente in Lahore yesterday. There when they were within 75 feet of aircraft guns, the mother planes tareet,
fatalities. their target. The "bat" differs in dropped their "bata": One elided harmlessly, three fell short and some hours in his examination which doceed here recorder, with were no reports The Achting developed over the taving guiding range of several straight to the destroyer and blew one ed to the unidentined hero's and late to-night was hurriedly 1000 troops and divillame from
wild fin Crosswing. laube of Fakistan--the separate miles and exploding when it hit off, the ship's bow. The Ints of This mate proposed by Mosioma The men weapon is a glider, the other destroyer, was not told. daring fight and perfection of recalled when the fire alarm India, Alevel was conc
clanged through the corridors of H sociated Press.
about 12 feet long, with a wine For night work the motheri
Beil telephone laboratorios aprend of 10 feat. Dropped by a) and offklaja cleared the pitch and the liner "Orontea" just back back almost to wartime cond.churla and Persia "may be reen
moto.
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COMBAT SUCCESS
tions.
tar.
****Southampton, March 10. Dr. H. C. Maurice Williams,
20,000-son -Orient Uner, “Orontes"
and Manchuria Reuter.
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