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Guatemala, October 20. The mounting toll of Guatemala's rainy season flood disaster was officially estimated today at approximately 4,000 dead and at least $50,000,000 property damaged. Seventy thousand or more people are homeless. The Foreign Minister, Gonzalez Arevalo, an- nounced the totals, on the basis of for from complete reports, and there was every in- dication that the disaster would assume even greater proportions.

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London, October 19. Does it look. like Britain is to begging when official letters other countries are stamped for "Britain Says Thank You Food Parcels"?

You'll have to make up your own mind. The House of Com- mons could not decide today. It left the question hanging after a mild storm between the Food Minister, Joha Strachey, and several angry Members both Labour and Parties.

from Conservative

Mr. Strachey said Britain has received 70,000,000 food parcels mainly from the United States and

Commonwealth countries like

Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. So be asked the Post Office to begin stamping letters from his Minis- try. "Britain Says Thank You for Food Parcels.”

But, said MPs, some of these letters went to Italy and Ger- many.

This, cried Conservative J. A. Britain Boyd Carpenter, makes "appear to beg for presents from our defeated enemies."

"Would it not be less humi- liating for British subjects not to beg at all?" he asked.

say to

"I cannot agree that to thank you for something is beg," Mr. Strachey said. Be- sides, he said, some food parcels really had come from beaten Italy and the Italians deserved thanks.—Associated Press

Czech Purge Extended

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Albion Safe In Rosyth

Rosyth, October 19. The damaged "alroraft cur- Fler Albion reached the shelter of Rosyth dockyard tonight after a 20-hour fight against raging seas and ad- verse tida

The carrier had shipped so much water through a hole in the stern that offelais bad feared she might go ashore or capsize: if she were not brought to dock soon.—Unlt. ed Press.

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Senor Arevalo received that 1.000 homeless-children have „been collected as Esrintta thele

sta, October 1975 parents apparently dead.

Norway's first atomic plant to Coffee producers say at least be constructed at Kjeller Aerod 30 per cent of Guatemala's $33-rome, near Oslo, is expected to 000,000 coffee crop has been des be in operation in 1951, the Nar- troyed Senor Arevalo said it wegian news agency announced might run as high as 50 per cent tonight

loss.

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A rich grazing belt, from 20 to 40 miles wide and stretching than 200 miles along the Pacific coast, was hard hit, many ranchers losing all their livestock. Destruction of roads and com- munications makes it extremely

difficult to appraise the extent of the disaster.

Rains Continue Many villages are entirely isolated, foodiess and lacking medical supplies.

Cuba, the United States and many neighbouring Latin Ameri- can countries have rushed aid by plane to the stricken area.

A planeload of Cuban military engineers left Havana.

The Guatemalan Government set up an Emergency Belief Committee and gave it a $6,000,- 000 fund to start

Scattered rains continued, but Bone compared with the cloud- bursts of the first 15 days of October. when 30 inches fell in Guatemala city.

Other parts of Guatemala re- ported even heavier rainfall. Associated Press.

Communist Propaganda In Bengal

Calcutta, October 19. With six weeks left for the har- vest, West Bengal Communists are reported to be intensifying their propaganda among the peasantry,

Their slogan now is all the crop for the cultivators, contrasting with their previous demand for a 0-50 share-out with the landlords. If they are successful, the pro- wince will be faced with a grave to the food situation. Owing

the peasants' present hardships, Communists believe they will be successsful in whipping up anti- Czechoslovakia's Communin- | Government agitation.

Prague, October 19.

the

controlled Government today ex- The Communists are also re- tended its purge of "political un-ported to be turning their attention

again to reliables" to the management o

where prepara- city its own nationalised industries, tions for the general elections all over the province are being made throwing out a score of factory

by Congress.. directors in one swoop.

This was disclosed by the Goy- ernment's official gazette.

A single issue the gazette reported the expulsion of 20 Di- rectors of nationalised enterprises. rge industries Eight of them large including heavy machinery.

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The Communists are believed to be contemplating an underground election campaign not expecting success but as a base of a future rising to overthrow Congress Associated Press.

LITTLE ASSEMBLY TO CONTINUE

It will cost at least 15,000,000 kroners. A research director con- corned with the project said: "Norway has neither the scien- tiffe nor the technical nor the economic capacity to make atom bombs"

The plant will have a capacity of 100 kilowatts and could not compare as a power source with large-scale plants which generate many hundred-thousand kilowatts. It will however, supply large quantities of isotopes for medica purposes and scientific research.

The uranium needed is to be mined in Norway-Reuter.

Confiscation at these smal: businesses for nationalisation was úsually accompanied by the ar rest of their owners, who were generally shipped off to forced labour in work camps or mines.

The gazette reported that more such enterprises ranging from pharmacist shops to smal mills were seized for nationalisa- The Interim Commitice will tion. Where any reason was meet when the General Assembly stated they were "too big" They is not in regular session and will were to

on matters be incorporated into consider and repart large national-owned combines referred to it under the Asse Associated Press.

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CHURCHILL HOPEFUL OF PEACE PROSPECT

MR. CHURCHILL

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TO BRITAIN

London, October 19. The Berlin al- lift cort Britain £10,250,000, the Foreign Under- Secretary, Mr. Christopher May- hew, fold Parliament today.

The air lift started at the end of June, 1948. The British section finished on October 6 this year. -Reuter

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

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Bristol, October 19, Winston Churchill said today that the world must not despair of the prospects for peace. "But we must be ready to give all we can to main- tain the honour of our country," the wartime Premier said in conferring an honorary degree on the U. S. Ambassador, Lewis Douglas, at Bristol University.

the

"I earnestly home that we may have done that somehow be spared further catastrophies sunshine does not seem so genial ́and that all we have achieved in

as one hoped when one marched the past will not be thrown away towards it but will be enriched by all that

"Victory, am afraid, is less

science is achieving. Mr. Chur-pleasing when possessed. But

chil continued.

"We 'must not despair." He pleaded for clear and fear less thinking.

"Unless the intellect of a na❤]

-improvements, the society in

which

it petrs is no longer pro- Eressing. We must not fail to in- culate clear-cut thought about the things of government and society.

IME HANY CONTACTS, KEY DEAR AND NATURALLY

WE CAREFULLY. INVESTIGATE ANYONE WHO JOING THE WHALEBONE PLAYERS...

"All kinds of formulae mouthed and repulsed and re- peated again, bandied to and fre through the country."

Clear Thought

"But--let-there-be-clear. thought and let our young men and women go aut inte the world having an instructive

without victory you do not have a chance to continue in your country's life and work."

Cripps Absent

Vis- degrees on Field Marshal count Alanbrooke, Sir Alexander of Penicil- Fleming, discoverer lin, Professor C. D. Broad. R. E.

Moore, headmaster of Harrow and Sir Richard Southwell

Bristol University had decided to confer a degree on Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exche- quer, and Member of Parliament for a Bristol District.

Sir Stafford notified University. authorities that other engage ments made it impossible for him to attend the ceremonies today. Some play

sections of the British Press did suggested that Sir Stafford not relish the prospect of re- ceiving a degree from Mr. Chur- chill, who has attacked the Chan- cellor's financial policies.--A350- ciated Press.

and informing light to` upon life and their part in it" Mr. Churchill said victory won in war often leaves much to be desired.

"When victory comes you are often so exhausted by what you

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