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(COMMENT OF THE DAYS

Suspicions At UN

N January 1 the McCarran Committee will resume investigating the American officials of the United Nations. Its right to do so has been upheld by the three International Jurists appointed by Mr Trygve Ile to advise him on the relations between the.com- mitteo and his staff. "In our opinion," they sny, "there is no immunity or privilegeį enjoyed by any member of the United Nations staff behind which ho could shelter It brought to account on any charge of his taking part in subver sive activities against the

United States." Does this

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Shipwrecked Passengers 23 Tourists Killed

In Grim Danger

DOOMED UNLESS

IMMEDIATELY RESCUED

Beirut, Dec. 22.

An undetermined number of passengers and crew faced death tonight aboard the French liner Champollion, fast breaking up on the rocky, wind- lashed Lebanese coast.

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open the door 10 the The British 8,000-ton, cruiser Kenya was McCarran Committee inves- speeding tonight from Port Said to the rescue of tigating non-Americana na the vessel; whose captain sent a message ashore well as American citizens7| 'It is a serious matter. saying bluntly that all aboard were doomed unless Because of the peculiar they could be "iminediately rescued" and all ideas and methods of the rescue attempts so far have failed. committee its inquiries are widely detested. It seems to Assume that if it can show that a mature and respon- sible official moved in his

It is not clear exactly how many people are still undergraduate days in circles from which Com- on board, but the Champollion was carlier reported to Of these one munists were recruited it be carrying 500 passengers and crew.

has proved him to be a bad security risk and has given adequate grounds for his dismissal. A question of principle is involved and has to be oxamined.

ONE

immediate

The liner appeared to be fast grinding to pieces on a sandbank as waves three metres high lashed her. hull,

boatload of 20 sailors struggled through ashore this afternoon, hauling a thick cable. But the cable broke and hopes of rescuo faded.

The officer said

people were injured on

Under heavy rain a second making it imposible to use the cable connection was made later engines, he said. with the ship, but with the

about ten Board question raging er I was a precarious raised in whether the coun- contact.

through broken glass.

From the thore it appeared try which is the host to the At 7.30 p.m. local time, the United Nations has allner again rent, out a boat to that the liner had broken clear yards reasonable claim to control make the second attempt to get into two pieces, come the staff of the United A cable ashore. This time in- apart.

Some experts believed stead of trying to cross directly, Nations 00 sa to ensure the bout's crew allowed the car-break may help to stabilise the they do not abuse their rent to carry it ashore,

two halves, because the ship was position and try to subvert Lebanese rescuers awaiting it reconstructed in 1936 into separ the institutions of the host on there immediately tied the gte watertight compartments.

Mr Lie's three cable to on army tank to secure country. jurists seem to suggest that.

the way to harmoning the Experts ashore said they have American interest and the no other means of rescuing the interests of the United Passengers, but are anxiously British awaiting the promised Nations is for the Secretary-naval plane General himself to purge Malta. the Secretariat of Com- munists. But would America

be safer if American Com-

to arrive on

TENSION HIGH

Tension was almost at break-

the

With darkness and rain, ΠΟ other boat dared to try to reach

the shore from the Cham-

and pollion, late tonight further operations were expected to be postponed until tomorrow,

The Lebanese Army hopes

to bring the crew and passen- of the liner to safety

gers

Siamese

Twins Problem

across the cable to the shore Doctors Considering

if it holds.

Operation The liner is carrying a crow munists were dismissed ing point aboard the Chumpol-

of about 400 and 12 passengers

Homberg, Germany,. from the United Nations lion, and one report said arms bound for Beirut and 60 bound

Dec. 23. while Polish or Bulgarian had been issued to ship's officers. for Jerusalem. Communists remain? And

Lotti and Gitta Knnek, After grounding she lowered Only one fatal casualty has so

five laden lifeboats. One-cap-18 months'-old-girl-Siamese

if Amarica is allowed to far been reported from the ship

separate them. The twins,

daughters of

Gaol-Breaker Recaptured

Five men carry Russell Ford, 30-year-old, two hundred pound. escaped convict back Into Somer ville, NJ. gaol following his capture. Eight police. men were required to subdue Ford, who had escaped twenty-four hours earlier. London Express.

FAMILY OF

FOUR

In Bus Disaster

BURIED IN AN AVALANCHE

Bregenz, Austria, Dec. 22 Twenty-three foreign tourists, 19 of them be- lieved to be British and four French, were killed when an avalanche swept a bus from a bridge into a river near Stuben in the Vorarlberg Province this afternoon.

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Only seven people in the bus were saved. First re- ports said they were all more or less injured.

The bus, the regular Post Office bus, between Langen and Lechon, was said to have been swept inta

M. PINAY

the streata by the air pressure caused by the avalanche, FRENCH

and then buried by the snow..

The bus was caught just when Tho snow carried away

it was entering the bridge. Hnd power lines and isolated some It been only a few metres to mountain communities. · Ava- either side, it would probably lanches dogs found the body of have escaped, Vorarlberg Pro- a skler entombed by snow near vincial

south of Lucerne,

torament

officials saldi Stabruck, Austria: Storms

It fell six metres from the bridge Info the frozen Patuerro- bel stream, but most of the bodies showed symptons typical of death caused by air pressure,

of hurricane strength swept the Austrian Alps, already rumbling with avalanches, plling up fresh masses of snow.

SEARCH GIVEN UP

PREMIER

RESIGNS

M. France's

Paris, Dec. 22. Antoine Pinay, “save-the-franc"

Most of the victims have not

Rescue teams were forced by Premiér, fed his Ministers yet been fully Identified. To the

wenthes

to give up the to the Elysee Palace tonight night, they were laid out in the search for an Austrian student lo hand in their resignations little church of Langen on the believed to have

been buried by Arlberg.

to

..

...

the snows on the Beefeld Loch to President- Auriol They were all young people, Mountain in the Alps.

This dramatic move by the Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on some of them children, on their

border head of the French Government Way to winter. sports centres in the German-Austrian

Arikorg

Austrian and, German moun-came after Popular Republican The

bus was the Inst vehicle taineers today gave up hope of deprtles had voted to abstain in the confidence ballot on the use the road finding alive Sve men buried by Budget thus making his position bo

to allowed between Langen and Stuben. It a glant avalanche en Mount

withal. • was to have been closed im Zugspitze on Saturday, mediately aftermath of

best covered the Zugspitze,

blanket of snow The Popular Republicans hava. of the

Ger 88 deputier, including Foreign great avalanches,

many's highest peak, making Minister Robert Schuman, and The police RESCUE

climbing almost form part of the Government

majority,

The

It is

driver of the bus, who

walable.

and

Floods were also reparted in

guns only slightly Injured

M. Pinay told deputies: "I brought first

of the Northern Bavaria, where the Tows

River Main cut, the have taken note of the defection 'disaster to Langen, at the swollen

from Frankfurt to of part of the Government western entrance to the nine-highway.

Munich

(the Populär" · Re- and examped port of majority kilometre-long Arlberg tunnel.

~~publicans). is only a few kilometres from the town of Kitzingen.

Trier, in the Rhineland:

"Without waiting for tho Stue and nearly the entire Hundred from their homes in ministers to seven pany up to

were of the vote I invite my. adult population of Langen about 30 villages in the Mosel the President." (population

about 700) helped River valley because of floods. He and his Ministers then left In rescue work. They took four The township of Zell was com- the Chamber for the Elysee to seriously injured and some pletely cut off.

the hospital af Bludenz,

of

President,

slightly injured travellers to Brussels: Widespread flooding tender their resignations to the

were partly cut by the Luxembourg after ieavy snow.

Lanche

the imposed a total now

Provincial authorities

blackout on the disaster, pend-

to

"was reported in BelgiuITE and

Reuter.

PRISON BREAK

Presse.

Earlier ex-Premier and Foreiga Minister Georges Bidault, a tad- ing member of the MRP, who voted to support the Government In the group meeting,

portere afterwards "The

looks very bad for 101

The

walis, France adjournment because M. Pinay

was not present-Router,

insist on excluding Com--one man, og woman jumped sized and the five people in it twins, lay happily in their MURDERED munists will other cout from the deck into the sea at swam to the shore and were ree white enamelled cot here to-

scued. The other boats were tries, even though not in about midday and disappeared.

Mau Mau Strikes Rain which fell in the late baffled by the high waves and day while German medical the position of hosta, begin afternoon quietened the sea asubmerged rocks and were re-experts debated whether to to demand the exclusion of tle, but experts said the ported unable to get naress the attempt an operation to

Nairobi, Dec. 22. their particular black situation was “very grave.” 450 fect of water:

Africans CRUISER ON WAY

with ing an official statement. armed hensta? It is a bad outlook.

Che Provincial goverfunera

Washington, Dec. 22. General

Lebanese

M. Pinay's Government faced Shehabi

The British cruiser Kenya is The hest hope of avoiding Amy Commander-in-Chiat, is

Seven Inimates of the Walla three confidence votes the first reach the Cham-emberg postman Kurt Knack, Spears, knives and a riileomcals at once went to Langen į

Walla State Benitentiary escaped on the controversial clause about trouble is for the United directing the rescue personally, expected to

Austrian Chancellor Leopold today through a tunnel over 60 the transfer of contributions. Kikuyu Nations to recruit only An officer who came ashore with pollion just before midnight, were taken last week to the strangled and beheaded four to make an investigation.

University clinic at Bonn where members of a И

has sent Fig

a telegram of yards long. The tunnel began

French National Assembly," those

are the first boat, 2nd Lieutenant GMT, tonight, according to officials who

Seiller, fold kim

announce they were examined by Pro- family in their hut in the

the Vorarlberg in the prison courtyard near the meeting again at 8.30 pm. GMT, that bad, London Admiralty

condolence to take seriously visibility was the cause of the ment. rendy

fessor Dr Peter Rovettgen, one Nyeri district, north of Provincial Governor, Mr cinder heap and ended outside decided on a further 30-minute their oath, not to be the accident

Earlier Israel naval vessels of Germany's leading brain

Nairobi, last night, police Ulbricht g, asking him to the .prison

tho instruments of any national! Currents offshore and the high picked up the Champollion's specialists.

convey his condolence in Like the Brodie twins in the reported tonight.

fume of the Austrian govern- Government.

waves took control of the ship, distress signals and sailed out

ment to the families of the vic United States the two Halfe, catering Lebanese

little

tims and do his utmost for the territorial waters, a Jerusalem girls are linked at the head.

"We want an operation but

survivors.--Reuter, only if we have every assurance

SNOW AND FLOODS

London, Dec. 22. humanly possible that it wilt

'Raports of, snow or foods-- Commission, succeed," Knack told the United that in accordance with Inter want Lotti, the weaker one, to Prees, "We certainly rio not

some countries had both came, today from six countries. national usage her rescue vessels would disregard

Lebanese crificed to save her sister killed on his way home last

be

France, Switzerland, Belgium, night. sovereignty.

Mrs Knack confirmed that she

Luxembourg, Austria and Ger- Eleven Kikuyu

tribesmen many. The 3,737-ton French tearner.

sentenced to death by Reuter cables gave the follow- Syrie was also reported to have and her husband have applied were

for a travelling showmau's per- hanging today for the murdering picture: arrived off Beirut and to be it to enable them to show the of a European farmer, Mr Eric Paris: Avalanches isolated the standing by to help.

During

Val Disere, winter resort in the the day President twins publicly if an operation is Bowyer, last October

Mr Bowyer was found back-French Alps. They blocked the Camille Champun of the Lebanon Impossible.

"We have made application."ed to pieces in

his bath on mmin road up the Isere Valley. and members of his Government vent to the shore near here to she said, "but have not yet re his lonely Kinangop tam. Two for almost half a mile, damned supervise the rescue efforts. dived an answer. But we don't of his African servants were the river and cut selephone Reuter

them at small also found murdered. A twelfth and high tension cables. intend to show " ̈ÑÒ RT CONTACT town fairs or in peep show but Kikuyu, who had also been on

trial in connection with only at regulable fairs." Pario, Des. 22.

the The French Postal Ministry

IN GLASS CABE

murder, was acquitted.

SERTIE

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of the

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wish you a Merry Christmas

and a

New Year

of Peace and Prosperity

said.

Israel was said to have in formed the Lebanon, through the

Mixed Armistice

she

They also murdered a fifth person in the same district.

The body of a Roman Catho- lle Mission schoolteacher, Joseph Morice, was found today, near his home at Kasagina, in the Nyeri district.

He was believed to have been

lines

Snow lay 23 to 20 feet deep in parts of the valley, Moro avalanches blocked roads far- ther south.

The government of Kenya appointed Colonel Geoffrey Foods disorganised life in the

the children for East Africa, to "co-ordinate ; and Lower Loire Valleys.

the forces of law and order" in the fight against the anti-while secret society, the Mau Mau.

SPECIAL TAX:

Col. Rimbault will be on the are of Kenya's, Governor, Sir. off⚫ key. Their Evelyn Baring.

· Old and sick people · were i

from evacuated

flood- оле

La threatened town,

France, while. troops and volunteers In other places battled to hold the waters back.

Dags were caled out in the Austrian Alps to hunt people "white swallowed up by the death" as the tumbling, snows are callet

said tonight that; the Champol- Nro Knack said that she and llan. could not be reached by her husband hoped to get to radio-telephone from France.gether enough money to buy a Rimbault, Bow Chief of Staff Ardennes and the Upper Seine Messages were piling up from trailer in which the owners to the captain but would be exhibited in a glass there was now no hope of send casein hygenic conditions," ing them.

sold. A. Ministry spokesman said it

Gitta can already Lotti and was beloved the ner had say "Papp and "Mamm to abandoned zhortwave

radio their parents and their lile trammission in order to keep her German nursery rhymes batterier for meditamwave trans- somewhat mission to nearby radio stations. parents said

A Greek tug, which had set upppy desplet they were quite overnment today also

their ability to proposed a Bill to apply out to help the Champallion, had move around,

fas special tax of 21 a year for been unable to reach her

The two heads are completely period of two years, radio, the, spokesman said fused together at the side and This tax will help to pay for Reuter

face in the samo direction,. At the anti-Mau Mau campaign. a casual glance it is impossible Members of the Kikuru trite to distinguish the dividing line chief cources of Mau Mau between the two skulls.

strength-who helped the gove Medical experts have not comment fight Mau Mau terror divulged whether the brains are sm will be exempt from the connected,

o and military!

Factory Explosion

by

When one child len on.

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a

a

in

New Jersey, Dec. 22., About 20 people were injured today when a terrific explosion shook the Union Carbide and Carbon Company's bakelite back the other has to be placed Kenya have ordered all their factory at which 2,500 partly across it. The merging forces, to remain, at their posts workers employed. No deaths of the two heads make it:im over Christmas because Mau had so far been reported as possible for both to be laid on Mau terroris's are likely to be remilt / of tie explosion their back at the same time France-Presse.

* United From

"particularly, dangerous. ficu«

as

snow

Search parties said conditions a some places were, "enost beyond human": chdurance"! flere gales piled up the many feet thick.

Firemen Dá rafts. werd evacuating people marooned in the villages around Bordeaux.

- More than 1,000 people have been driven from their homes.

Genova: Avalanches in Valais district of South Switzer land have blocked roads, and warmer weather may thaw the scow and cause further, snow

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