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REMARKABLE RESCUE FEATS IN L.N.E.R. EXPRESS TRAGEDY Tearing At Wreckage With Bare Hands Casualties Rise:
23 Dead
Berwick-on-Tweed, Oct. 26.
Only remarkable rescue work by survivors in the rear four coaches and by golfers, who aban- doned matches and raced to the scene, pre- vented even greater fatalities in today's derail- ment of an L.N.E.R. express.
bankment upright and then turuch over so gently that only light ist.
cased.--United Press, juries were
and Renter.
Tearing at the splintered wreckage with their bare hands, passengers and golfers succeeded in freeing many perilously trapped travellers and in giving first aid. Casualties in the derailment of the traits (or the Flying Scommute, previously reported, but the Sunday replacement for the famous expres which only runs on week-days) rose to 23 dead and up to 70 injured.
Thver railway coaches Bird with Injured were despatched from Cis- wick-scene of the erash, six miles from herr-to hespins in the "itis tric. Others were treated in private home-
es and in emergency words set up at Glowwick gulf course, abungside which the accident resteerd,
Emergency calls for all vehicles brought ambulances, Acuy vehicles ased trucks, and cars crowding to the wreck, and villagers opened their homes fut the injured.
Driver Injured Several doctors who were aboard
the rain led the rescue
wurkers.
ing turn-up clothing a handagys and pieces of wreckage as splints
token arms and legs
for
At Berwick Inliomary, where many
GETTING OLD AT 37
New York, Oct. 27. Hector McNeil, Britain's
delegate 'United Nations
aged 37 getting old, he Bald in New York.
"1 am getting old tos fast," he told the New York * Post. "I am getting all out of condition. I am not playing Games. That s why I am getting ton fat."
He was suinming up for the newspaper's benefit his aims and Interests in life- Associated Press.
Afridi Tribesmen Launch Raid On Kashmir
New Delhi, Oct. 26.
An Indian Government official said today that 2,000 or more Pathans from Pakistan's rugged northwest frontier province have invaded sec- tions of the princely state of Kashmir and looted, raped and killed.
injured were taken, duc}{TN and V. were Say that wisen Murses reporter pin phone rall he was answered by one of the crash victims who said that the hospital was fully necupied -in-coping with conergetick
cases.
Troops from neighbouring bar- Back- joined with ambulance workers and firemen in extricating injured by Ithe light of flares lure in the nigh
The engine driver ኀ ነ among the injured.
Hollywood
་
Stars Want Showdown
A
Washington. Oct 27.
of group
Hollywood natables, led by Humphrey Bogart, headed for Capitol Hil today with the avowed alm of trying to abolish the committee investigating Communism Hollywool.
In
Ar-
The star-studded party rived by chartered plane Inte on Sunday night And held n mhinight news conference, Director John Huston cm- phasised that members had no Intention of creating a scene before the Home Un-American Activities Committee, which is starting the second week of Ha Reda-in-fullywood henringa. They intend (Huston anid) to talk to individual members
in an effort of Congress "correct the abuses," they claim, have been inherent in the Committee's investigation.
to
Noto of the group is among the two-score movie figures sub- poned for the hearings, but members and they would he available as withcines if the committee chose 1: call them. Otherwise they plan to attend
Hunton asid. as spectators. Associated Press.
UNLAWFUL
BOARDING
P. Menon, India's Secretary of State, returned by plane from the Kashmir capital of Srinagar with the report. He said the 'Moslem invaders had laid waste to the mountain border town of Muzaffarabad-80-miles-west-of-- Srinagar, and were striking against Hindu and Sikh families. A Northwest Frontier official said the Pathans had also crossed into Gilgit, which lies a short distance from the Soviet border, and engaged in similar tactics.
surrounded Other published reports here Srinagar, was
by day when seven offenders faced The train left the line just afte
is rehim on a charge of being on passing through Goswick Station. sald treeps of the Dominion the invaders. Trouble
As. "Sangola". on The engine ploughed half its length India had. clashed with theported to be during in Poonch, board the
subsidiary into the ground at the side of the forces of Moslem-ruled Juna-a
state to the Sunday without permission, kankment, Three of the conches
Kathiawar south. This follows a Kashmir The men pleaded they were gadh state, in the Avezn literally splintered, while
Six Junagadh an- protest to Pakistan that the licensed hawkers and went on peninsula. athers ovenmzard.
Menon nald Moslem Dominion w with-board the ship to seek the Chief hawic permission to Passengers crowding the dining earliers were killed. had an almost miraculous escape the invaders of Kashmir, well bolting vital supplies such as Officer's catapulted 100 yards along the em armed with automatic weapons, petrol-Associated Press.
came from the vicinity of the Khyber Pass.
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Kuhmir's Deputy Premier, R.L. Batra, said on Saturday the invaders included Afridi bermen, Pakistan soldiers on leave "and desperadoes in nearly 100 trucks. Other in- formants declare Kashmir's army of 10,000 is engaging the invaders and is expected to drive them back.
unlawful The penalty for boarding was reduced to $100 fine or one month by Marine Mugistrate Neill Garland yester
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Nothing Novel To Be Expected
In Wedding Gown
Unconfirmed reports said the invaders are battling Kashmir state forces within 35 to 40 It nules of Srinagar. An authori lative New Delhi acurce pre- dicts India will dispatch ald to help repel the Pathans.
London, Oct. 27.
was all but official today that Princess Elizabeth,-
easily the bride. of the year, will offer cold. comfort to fashion faddists now concentrating on the disputed low hemline. Persons close enough to
tho
If the Princess should
wear
Kushmir, whose beautiful mountains and! mitrer like Royal family to know wint the the long skirt it is pointed out, takes have made it an Asian women in it are thinking, agreed hordes of women would resolve playground for centuries, is that a compromise is the limit ruled by the Hindu Maharajah of novelty "which anyone might Sir Hari Singh, although most reasonably expect."
Conservative taste, custon and of its 4.000.000 population are Moslems. It has acceded neither patriotic feelings are all against to India, or Pakistan, where Elizabeth's adoption of a greater
Dominions length, these sources
emergence as new
asserted
in the British Empire has been adling, "There has been a lot of plagued by costly Moslem-loose
Hindu warfare,
Six Killed
it
to follow her lead at any cost of money or coupons.
When Sir Stafford Cripps. Minister for Economic Affairs, the sald recently, "The shorter skirt the better". he made qulte plain how official opinion regarded the long hemline..
rumoured talk about the matter, Meanwhile, it is largely no doubt, because of chiefly from New York that mil wishful thinking on the part ofllons of dollars are hanging on of Elizabeth's certain
who the hush-hush dress designera
"going away" skirt, Londoners fully
are hearing that fortunes have been invested in American
the length set by Princess-Associated Press.
appreciate that what wil
Butra said! Muzaffarabad was burned the sight of Oct. 22 Princess Elizabeth wears
gel the style in Britain-and signs which presumably with the apparent aid of icenl citizens. On Oct. 21 the Pakle- quite a few
other places--for follow
tan government issued a com-some time to come", muntque saying Kashmir alate troops hud attacked and killed eix Moslem refugees cn. the Pakistan-Kushmir "border near the Punjab town of Sialkot.
Batra was qucted by Lho "Delhi Statesman" na nying that the town of Uri, halfway between Muzaffarabad
U.S. Trade With Japan
and
Washington, Oct, 27. Controls over exports to Japan, Korea Germany and former Jap. anese mandated islands will bo relaxed on Nov. 1.
To permit Increased private tending with occupied preas, authorities said,
по export licenses will be required' excipt for shortage gooda - such as steel and petroleum products, which can not be shipped to any foreign country without license. AREA Importa. permits must be ob tained from the occupying au thorities, since the inflow will continue to be, restricted by type and volume.---Associated Press,
Sofin, Oct 2017
Mr. Donald Hoath, now Unit-
ed States Minister to Bulgaria): → and former political adviser: to the United States Military Government in, Germany, as rived, in doing todager iguler,
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