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Brest Harbour Disaster Nitrate Laden Ship Explodes; 20 Dead

Almost A Second "Texas City"

Paris, July 28. The Norwegian cargo vessel "Ocean Liberty," which (according to Lloyds, London) was carrying nitrates, blew up in Brest Harbour this afternoon. Twenty people were reported killed and 250 injured in the blaze set off by the "Ocean Liberty" blowing up,

The business quarter of the port is reported to be in flames. The "Ocean Liberty," which had 'come from New York, was carrying nitrate ammonja in her varied cargo of 2,500 tons. A French Ministry of Trans

port official said:

"At 1400 koarn GMT, a fire broke at in the 'Ocean Liberty.*

foreign ship. Efforts to maa- ter the tre did not, progress quickly tough, and the naval authorities at Brest decided to move the slip out of the har- Four:

Tugs began slowly to pull the ship along the quayside to wards the open sea. At 1630 hers GMT, as the ship was pansing a gensometer, a big ex- plusion took place.

"Since then we have been un. able to obtain any further in- . formation,"

In order to stop the ship's fre which was threatening an arsenal, a French Navy ship fed shots into each akle of the Vessel to flood the hull.

Fires In Brest

we heard during the war." United Press.

English Captain

Paris, July 29.

In the havoc

Fifteen died wrought by yesterday's explosion.. It was announced offcially here today, as tired-eyed people whe ded the city when dames licked their humes were trickling back.

This figure was given by the Ministry of the Interior, but un. uftleinl reports from the shattered Brittany port and neighbouring

towns listed the deaf at 25 with more than 100 seriously injured, and another

In. 1,000 slightly Jured.

TEXAS CITY CLAIM

Texas City, July 28.

The Toras City Terminal Railway Company torloy Mled U.S.$3,000,000 suit against 1100 insurance companies, whom they claimed denied uti liability to pay off • on the 17.S.$2,000,000 binurance policy after the April 10 waterfront

finuater.

The Railway contended that the policien protected from look by explosion, although it excluded fre resulting from such cáplaniuk, "whether originating on the premised of the canized or elsewhere." -Uulted Prcanɛ

Libyan

Demand For

Self-Rule

Pope Pius Issues A Warning

Vatican City, July 26.

Pope Pius today wrote to the Social Weeks Con- ference, meeting in Paris, that production was the most important problem of the moment, but warned against society or state created as a "pure and simple collection of workers.'

a

The Pope said that work t self was "above, distinction be tween employers and gmployeera" and "work la capable of, regiv ing form aml structure to a anclety which amorphous and without becom tener, and by that o 'hell gain the relations of society with the state".

London, July 28, One of the dead was the

A delegation repre- captain of the ship, stated to be an Eglishman.

senting the Libyan Poil-]

"When, on the contrary, one Fires which had broken out in tical Patriotic Front is wishes to make of society and petrol tanks, a gas factory and

other buildings in the port area expected in London of the stale a pure and imple

after the explosion were all out shortly to demand full collection of workers, one mila. understands that which con- as the evacuees returned. Firemen independence for Libya.itutes the easence of one and from Brest and several nearby it was learned from in- the other one takes away from Lowns had overcome thent after formed Arab sources to-work is true sense and the In. Pires were raging in Brest † several hours' fight.

timate power which, It has of City tonight while rescuers Several officials from Poris ar.day.

unity. One organizés, finally, searched for victims of the big | rived in Brest parly todny k The Patriotic front has not working men considered as explosion which partly wrecked open a full investigation into the already addressedl - a memoran- such but a gigantic sum of re- the port this afternoon: All disaster.

dum to the Foreign Office re-venues in sularles and awards. "The danger that the State

the general good is exactly as forres to the great detriment of

where, conduct of the state is grave in this.ense as

submitted to the prossura of capital."-United Press.

available means of transport Mr. Ta.guy.Progent, Ministerjecting all solutions for Labya was being requisitioned in the of Agriculture, arrived there over short of "complete Indepen may be dominated by economic neighbouring towns to remove night and vl^ted the wounded in dence." the wounded.

hospital.

The

memorandum expressly The outer of Transport, M.: Jules

opposes any United Nations or Moch, WW3 leaving further trusteeship over the former Brest early today.-Reuter,

Italian North African, colony.

The Libyan Political Front, whose leatler the famous

Idris el Surushi, [n]

An eye-witness of the explo sion said that around midday, a loud explosion was heard and this was followed by huge clouds of smuke, orange in co-│·

Amsterdam, July 28.

revented remarkable tones

suggests that a representative of the Arab Lengue, "even if only as an observer," should and accompany an enquiry comisaton

lour, rising over the harbour. Riks Museum here where Rean Sheikk

Пecord crowds are visiting the Smoke came from the fifth dock brandt's fumous picture "Night of the harbour in the vicinity watch" is on view for the first of the arsenal. ·

A Ministry of the Interior time since is cleaning, which has official roughly estimated the colours previously Hidden. More of the Big Four to investigate damage at 100,000,000 frunes. This was considered "less seri-than 3,000 persons are daily visit the wishes of former Italian Ing the museum, compared with { colonies git suggest a solution ous" than at first feared, nl-

their an average of 500 before the war. about though the casunities are -Reuter, "rather high."

Communications with the port area are still difficult. Telephones have been interrupt-

ed and rail traffic is being stop.

ned at Landerneau, 14 miles outside.

Worst Ever

Official reports are reserved,

Preas.

future.

Balkans Be Kept Before

Crisis To

United

NEW BOAC SERVICE

in that

London, July 28. With the departure of a Handley Page "Halton" plane from London airport today for Lagos, West Africa, British Overseas Airways Corporation began their first test fight on a route

crossing the Sahara Desert.

UNO They intend to operate pas-

Lake Success, N.Y., July 28.

but the latest news indientes The United States, Britain and Greece have agreed

that the disaster is the gravest ever to have taken place in peace-time France.

The fires were reported to- night to be "under control and about to be extinguished."

The "Ocean Liberty" is own- ed by T. S. Bendixen of Litle- sand, Norway. It was built in 1943 and has a tonnage of 7.176 1008.-Router.

Towed Out

tentatively on three emergency steps to keep the Balkans crisis before the United Nations if Russia vetoes the present American pro- posals for a long range United Nations Bal- kans Commission.

The first step will be for the the United States to reopen debate immediately in the the Council under Security punitive section of the United Nutions Charter, thus officially branding the Balkans strife a threat to peace.

If Russia vetoes this action, What might have been an-

Greek other Texas City disaster was British, American and harely avoided by Admiral Rene officials will proceed with plans

Prefect of to establish a commission Robert, Marine Brest, who had the ship towed Greece outside the United Na

in

services with "Haltons"

on this route within the next few - months. The present route to Lagos from England is" viu - Lisbon and along the West African coast. Today's pioneer plane is flying by way of Castel Benito in Tripoli and Kanos in Nigeria to Lagos.— Reuter,

EIGHT GLANDS control your destiny.

and Gland Regeneration Is now within your power

tavater

docks and tried to tious to watch for signs of med-A much demanded pre-war line? dir sink it by gunfire before the diing from Greece's Commun-

from the

blast came.

ist-dominated northern neigh makes welcome re-appearance...

The fire started at noon. boura. The ship had been sitting since daybreak with its explosive cargo under the hottest record- ed sun at Brest docks.

Marines quickly put Grefight ing crews aboard and Inshed the "Ocean Liberty" to n tug. Continuing to fight the fire, they towed the ship outside the harbour, but decided the blaze was becoming too dangerous to so further, They abandoned the ship off Saint Marc banks and returned to port.

The Goal

The third aten will be to lay! the findings of the Commission before the September session of the General Assembly with the goal a debate which would throw world opinion against the alleged Communist attempt to dominate Greece and perhaps produce a majority condemna- tion on Yugoslavki, · Albania and Bulgaria by the Assembly,

Meanwhile, there is no uppre: *• clable hint from the Russian delegate, M. Gromyko, whether') The blast came at 5.30 p.m. he will veto the American.pro- blowing in windows in Brest | posa's.—United Press. and shaking buildings for 50 kilometres around. Waterfront

London, July 28, The first post-war Congress of buildings were damaged in the port, and the gas works ickly, the Esperanta Movement, began burning. The fire spread Į tended by 1,380 delegates from 34 rapidly to the city's centre, countries was opened In Borne which was lovellell during the over the weekend, by M. Edouard' war and had since been rebuilt von Stolger, the Swiss Minister of In wood.-United Press:

Felt To England. -

London, July 28. The explosion shook houses along the South Coast from Thurlestone, South Devon, to Penzance In Cornwall,

at:

Justice. Among those~· present; was the widow of Dr. L... Zahmen. hoff, who invented. Esperanto as |a universal language in 1887.—

Reuter.

London, July 20.

A Parliamentary delegation of four or five members will arrive In Japan at the end of Septem... At Plymouth and, Bodmin, ber for a 10 to 14 day visit, Mr. people' ran from their houses Christopher Mayhew, Under and a woman at Polpere des Secretary of State for Foreign cribed the cambilng noise „ilke Affairs, told, the House of Com- thunder for gunfire, - but, far mons on Monday in written re mure terrifying than sinything, ply ---Associated Press; §

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