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PENTHOUSE LUDWIGSHAVEN SCENE
MURDER ARRESTS
Canton, July 30. The local police have ar- rested four men in connec-
tion with the recent "pen- thouse" murder of a pretty Chinese girl student, Miss Lau Sau-ching. Two of the arrested men are said to be carpenters.
WAN
OF WIDE DESOLATION GRUESOME SEARCH
FOR VICTIMS
Ludwigshaven, July 29.. Ludwigshafen is a shambles. Today, 24 hours after the disastrous explosion in the 1.G. Farben chemical works, the scene is one of utter de- solation.
No accurate figures of the death toll can be obtain- ed but most reliable estimate is over 300 killed, with some 2,000 injured.
with
And
Earlier this month Miss Lau's father found hat dead in her roof-top room. The girl
Streets
strewn are completely naked when found tangled and charred debris of and there were rigns that she demolished workshops tan been bound. It was alleged houses, the ruins of war years that the girl had been molested. reinforced by the chaos of an I'er room was reported to been ransacked.
industrial accident, people are searching for victims under
have
The girl lived alone in her izolated "penthouse" room and it Is understood that several days before her death she had com- plained about come one having seeped through her window.
It appears that a neighbouring house was under reconstruction at that time
and that the in- truders reached the penthouse by climbing up the scaffolding.
completed her college education and at the time of her death was pl paring for entrance examina- tions to Lingnan Univerally are being .fcuter.
by
filled
town. spectre of death hovers over the
Districts close to the chemical plant suffered this wort The blast of the, violent'explosion completely razed all buildings within a radista of about 500 yards.
Rescue Work Continues
Grimy and dishevelled, grim equads of firemen and voluntary workers unrelentlessly, although they have been without sleep since the disaster occurred, dig away at the smouldering heaps of rubble under which victims
sorrow-
Sandringham Crash
Buenos Aires, July 29. A Sandringham flying boat crashed while landing hare today, killing all 18 pass67– and four of the five crow,
The plane had flown from Rosario, some 175 miles away.
The Bandringham modified 48 mont the British Sunderland flying boat Rauter.
version of
The Hong Kong office of BOAG point qut that the Sandringham Nying-boat was not one of the Corporation's aircraft.
New Finn Cabinet Announced
piles of rubble, still smoking and horribly, discoloured chemicals, hospitals are with injured victims.
Ludwigshaven has been visited by o tragedy in the midst of the treat German hagedy. It is a Rorrowing city mourning its dear -weeping women reading the
Helsinki, July 20. casualty lists, homeless people lie buried. Some are still alive. n:mlessly
bleeding hands wandering about the Feverishly, with The inte Miss Lau had just streets, stunned with the despair and form clothing, the rescue Social Democratic Government Finland tonight had a purely workers hack away at the ruins.the first break with coalition of those who have lost all.
And still the gruesome search
Casually stations and margues rule since the end of the war. for victims continues.
which, ⚫ Ale through Still more stricken people in search of missed after the
The new Government, form- unearthed from the
ing loved ones, have been set up elections in which the, Com- smouldering ruins. The
recent general grim
in the buildings spared by disaster.
munist group dropped from So far, over 1,500 injured peo-Brat to third place in Parlia- ple have been taken to
the ment, was announced by the Ludwigshaven hospital. Others, Prime Minister, M. Karl badly injured, ure walling in August Fagerholm, tonight. buildings in the chemical plant, Observers here thought it would to be taken away for treatment. bo short-lived as it does not cor- Doctora are attending them, respond with the parties' strength, Stoically, they lie there with all the Agrarians now being the nanner of injuries until they can strongest and the Social Demo- be removed to the hospitals
crats second. which are being made ready to receive them.
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Grim of countenance, bowed by sorrow, the familles af
The appointment of 36-year- old M. Aare Simonen as Minister of the Interior, in control of the widely criticised State police, was welcomed by all parties except the People's Democrats, who had claimed the post for themselves.
A dispute over this Ministry was one of the first events in the crisis which led to the generat elections.
workers are
cors are gathering at the M. Carl Enkell, Independent, entrance to the plant, where retains
Casualty Hats have Minister-Reuter.
the
been posted. According to chemical experts, it is possible that the explosion which brought lisaster
to the
town, was caused by tanks con- taining ethyl products. It is on these tanks and their contents that the investigators are con- centrating their search into the cruse of
calamity. the Flames from three
tanks, they Bay, must have spread in an in- stant to aliro-benzine containers a short distance RWBY But French experts helleve that the real cause of the disaster will never be ascertained as there are no living witnesses to give their testimony as to what happened when the first, explosion occur- red.--Agence France-Presse,
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WHEN DE GAULLE WAS UNDER SUSPICION
Washington, July 29. Secret Service guards of President Franklin Roose- velt were so suspicious of General Charles de Gaulle at the Casablanca conference that they kept him covered with their guns throughout his meetings with the President.
The story is told by Robert indication of the atmosphere in E. Sherwood in A Collier's which de Gaulle found himself at magazine article on "The Casablanca. Secret Papers of Harry, L.
"To me the armed Secret Ser- Hopkins."
vlee
was unbelievably funny and nothing in Gilbert and Sullivan
Hopkins was an intimate alde could have beaten it. Poor Gen- of President Roosevelt.
oral de Gaulle who probably did Gen. de Gaulle, now leader of not know it, was covered by guns the tightist "Rally of the French throughout his whole visits People," had been very reluctant sociated Press.
to join Mr. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill when they met in Africa In 1043. Foreign
Minister Aary
Elen had to argue with General de Gaulle in London for nearly
Fostering Mandarin
In South
a week before he agreed to go. The Frenchman was offended because he had not been fore- warned of the North African in- VRSIOT or of the Casablanca con- ference. Also, his relations had
Canton, July 30. fenti H. Giraud, whom the Allles Mandarin, the national lan- A step to foster the spread of not been cordial with General had chosen to be
the French guage, throughout Kwangtang leader in Africa.
Province has been taken here Describing the first meeting of with the issuing by the Educa- Mr. Roosevelt and diary:
General de tion Department of instructions. - Gaulle, Hopkins wrote in his to all schools regarding
employment of teachers.
A circular has been sent to all districts in the Province, stress- ing the need of employing Man-
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"In the middle of the con. darin-speaking teachers and set- ference I noticed that the whole ting out subjects such as geo- of the Secret Service detal! was which should be taught in Man
graphy, history and literature Behind the curtain and above
darin. the doors leading Into gallary in the living room
Each province in China has its predominant dialect, but glimpse Mandarin is the recognised off- in the hands of cial language. It is the language of high-ranking Government " left the conference and went officials and Di T. V. Boong, out to talk to the Secret Service Govenor of Kwangtung, speaks in Mandarin at all his press con- ferences.Reuter
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and
and found them all armed to tommy guns among the group.. the teeth, with, perhaps, a dozen
asked them what it was all about. They told me they could not take any chances
Moscow, July 29. thing happening
on any- M. Alexis Krutikov has been to the Presi-appointed Vice-Premier by the. dent.
Supreme Soviet of the US.S.R.. "None of this hocus pocus had the Tass naws agency announced gone on when Giraud saw the here today. President and it was simply an Presse.
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