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STORM DEATH TOLL MOUNTING Dulles

New Move TO HUNDREDS The Empress Of Canada On Fire

TN the absence of any denial

must bo DNAimad that President Elsenhower in tends today to inform Con- gress that the United States will deneutralise the Stralia of Formosa by withdrawal of the Seventh Fleet. Whether this netion will produce any beneficial results

H}

open

to

speculation. Mr Truman applied his neutralisation policy in 1950 because he believed it would help to prevent the Korea war from developing into a bigger and more (langerous conflict. The action. undoubtedly. discouraged the Chinese

Dramatic Stories Of Flood Disaster

SHIPPING IS HARD HIT

Comununists from attempting today

a conquest of Nationalist- held Formosa, and to this extent made a contribution to the policy of containing

Communist aggression in the Pacific. The argument that it falled to prevent the Chinese Reds from giving

was a

London, Feb. 1.

Gales and floods ravaged five West European nations in Europe's worst storm disaster in centuries,

The known death toll neared the 400 mark and hund- reds of persons were missing and feared drowned.

High spring tides driven by the mighty storm breached dykes in Holland and Belgium, flooding the lowlands, and des- troyed seawalls along France's northwest coast, where the raging waters of the North Sea gushed through the breaks.

In England, savage gales with gusts up to 115 miles an hour drove tidal waves as much as ten miles inland along the stretch of the East Coast from the Thames Estuary northward for 150 miles. The lowlands there resembled vast lakes.

A An American Embossy spoke- | mkan said the Dutch Defence Ministry had asked for help from United States engineering units based in Germany.

Police Superintendent, directing rescue operations from "The whole of the here, said: area is in a state of tidal flood. The sea is washing in and out. in unhindered."

Troops were called out Belgium and Holland and parts

In the lowlands

In many places the great sea wolds rising

to 20 feet-have

a

• Flames consume the trans-Atlantic liner the" Empress of Canada while alongside 'dock at Liverpool. Firemen fought. the blaze for more than 15 hours, but in the end the ship was declared to be a total loas. This -disaster occurred last

week. Fortunately

were no yes lost.

crumbled into loose bould een hoi

active assistance to the Vietminh rebels in Indo- China falled also to pre- vent the Chinese Com- munists from invading Tibet, is not particularly impressive. Both enterprises Blizzards hii Germany. The represent part of a long-known death toll by each coun- torm plan of aggression try was: which would have been effected with or

Britain-121 today and 133 in without the sinking of the steamer neutralisation of Formosa. Princess Victoria yesterday. Nor is there any foundation Hundreds missing. The popula. for the suggestion that Mrtion of 460 on a Thames

island were, believed drowned" of Britain. Hotels became tem- walls-thick concrete Truman's action

porary hospitals, Holland 85 persons missing. geature of appeasement. It

The Amsterdam was sincerely conceived as feared the death toll would

of Holland authorities and Belgium lang streams a measure for restraining reach

hundreds" in people moved away from the "some the Chinese Communista Holland's greatest flood disaster at in scenes reminiscent of

their

don flight from the German from direct military expan-in more than 500 years. sion to Formosa and from

armies in 1940. proventing

One of the - many deaths re- the Chinese nissing and feared drowned. Nationalists from embarking leved drowned when a car

Gemiany 10. Four bo- child П Invasion enterprises led or uns fey rond into the which might well have Booded Rhine River. proved disastrous as well da-

Twelve thousand residenis of embarrassing.

Canvey Island in the Thames Estuary were being, evacuated by floodlight. The authorities said: "Very heavy casualties feared and many missing."

THE WORST-HIT

PRESIDENT Eisenhower

based

on

Belgium10.

on

Many

there is

more

fat

Belgium.

land

of

Ambulances, buses, lorries, pŝivate cars'aped east from Lion-" to evacuate the 19,000 population on Convey island in the mouth of the Thames.. Many

Britain's

was that of an 18 people here were reported iss New Jet

In-Ostend, | ing

pows agency,

Refugees packerà schools, turited |

there

into rest centres, in the nearby Air Limer

mainland town of Benfleet. Man, women and children), ran from place to place seeking heys, of relatives.

:

In one area rescue workers

As darkness fell, reports of bodies found mounted swiftly. They included: Forty people drowned at Hunstanton Thir- teen dead at King's Lynn.”

Twelve bodies recovered Felixstowe," And so on.

at

A gigantis wrive swept over the breakwater arid dashed the child to the pave dan ment from its mother's seins,

Hollend gave back to the sea lange stratches of agricultural appears to have gained for

three centuries.

reclaimed during the past himself a completely

The great Dutch city of Rotter- were reported to be leaving bodies different appreciation of the

dam was partly submerged. Boating on the water while they situation. His Apparent

The 0,726-tom Danish steam-concentrated on

getting the conviction that the Chinese! Communications were chootle, ship Annan, 25 miles west of the hiping to eatety, Nationalists are now strong The worst-hit area lay

of Holland, today called along Hool London for help, saying she was drifting enough to intervene actively the East coast from in the struggle against Com northward to Lincolnshire over helpicossible, according to the munist aggression in the distance of more than 150 was appossible, according to the

Netherlands Far East is, presumably, miles. The land

The

8,024-ton Panamanian and low. military

motor tanker Barbara Ann intelligence. Those of his At least 10 ships sent distress. ported a "bad leakage" in her advisers who so enthusiasti- colls saying they were beached and unprice and out of her NARROW ESCAPE

asked for rescue ships tanks, cally endorse deneutralisa-cr in danger of rinking in the Lion of Formosa are con- North Sea and the waters off to stand by, a message picked up

At the Thameside marshes vinced that this will create Scotland and Ireland. Hundreds by the same news agency said.

over 100 people, most of them NIGHT ON BOOFTOPS of Emall shing boats diversion Bufficient to

caravan

dwellers, had their who had spent the homes washed away. wrecked and Scotland's herring Families reduce Communist China's industry hard hit.

night thuddering un rooftops Four policemen in a car near military resources in Korea, and that this could hasten! communities were

In Britain, the hardest hit while the waters rose below the marshes ran for their lives Felixstowe them poured into the Lincoln- when they saw a soild wall of the end of the Korean war.

in Suffolk with -17 dead and she town of Louth today as water advancing : towards them, The validity of this theory King's Lynn, Norfolk. London refugees. Many ind only dress-Seconds later their car had has to be proved. Similarly has had one death.

ing pawns over their pyjamas vanished. because the rapidly.

floods, striking left them only minutes At Felixstowe, a Royal Air in which 10 excape.

Force station was completely cut The floods, caused by gales eft from the town.. which whipped the North Bea

#

the

were

waves

re-

It has to be shown whother, Gales drove sea waves against after Formosa has been the dykes In the Netherlands deneutralised,

and: Belghem, causing breaches Communist China will be content to and flooding the lowlands,

Wind-driven tidal awat commando raids on surged as much as a mile in- into its greatest fury in living Soldiers with radio trans- mainland from the land on the East Coast of Eng-memory, stretched from the mitters rowed along the flooded Nationalista, or whether and,

river Humber to the mouth of streets looking for survivors. the Thames, they will not feel themselves

Rescue "squads 16und horsea The Thames, and the Rhine

Constol defence's were torn standing up to their necks, in atrong enough, despite overflowed their banks and in down. Rivers overflowed their water. commitments. In Koren, to some European areas thousands banks. Thousands of tons of launch an invasion against were homeless.

At Yarmouth, in Norfolk, water roured through peaceful Formdea. Whatever

The two-day storm. which villages else

and

seaside dead cattle were swirling bi Uttle brought gusts of 115 miles per resorts, crushing houses like the waters. happens, the United Staten hour screeching down from the match boxes cannot permit Formosa to Orkney..

sweeping Islands,

hampered away

With telephones out of ac- become a Communist rescue work but its main fury darkness.

their occupants in the tion, news of the dead and

· bastion; wherefore

trickied she was spent in destruction.

in slowly. Poller, firemes, might very well find herself

saldiers and missing Uncounted thousands of per- sailors went to the

Eight or nine wère known to in a shooting war with the sons were homeless aftor the

The have perished in Lincolnshire, anything that could: float. Chinose Reds for the con-gales drove the churning waters Army brought out amphibious Seven, including three children, trol of the island, President of the North Sea into the low- Jeeps, and Air Force men died in the small village of Eisenhower. can be credited

Belgium and paddled in rubber dinghies to Palling, Norfolk Unlied Press

Forty-fivo with having taken into full British and American familie the ald of stricken communilles and Reuter.

clinging to their chimneypots.

CREWMEN DIE ducing A policeman who reached, the

coast village of Islay, Argyllshire, Feb. 2.

lands

Netherlands.

and

rescue, on

וי

Skipper Went Down With His Ship At

The Salute

Arrives In Paris

Lauds The French

Paris, Feb. 1. US Secretary of State John Foster. Dulles, arrived by air today from Rome and told the French that their "creative and constructive planning" on European unity "has caught the Imagination of the Ameri can people."

He arrived with US Mutual Security Administrator Harold Stassen, who is accompanying the Secretary on a 10-day tour of seven. European capitals, Dulles spoke in a radio

cast just after his arrival.

broad

"Now as we plan for lasting

pence, we salute your leaders who, since the end of the second world war, have inspir ed such constructive imaginative

effort

and

220

Schumin Plan der/o coal and sicel community not the Floven Plan for a European Datenca Dulles sald (in.

his b

Community,"

broadcast. Then he added: "Such creative planning has

*

thinking and imagination of the American caught ", the people and we want to know more about your purposes and pices for Die duturg so that we can take them into cocount in

our own plarming."-

Mr Dulles said he and M Stassen had been sentito Europo

by President Dwight D. Ele hower #primarily to listen and to learn and you may be cou fident mon that we shall do so in the most sympathetic/spirit

WANTS TO DE SUBL Dulles

Donghadee, Ireland, Feb. 1.... The skipper of the ferry steamer Princess Victoria, which sank yesterday with a loss of 188 lives, went down in the tradition of the sea with his hand at the salute, a survivor said today policies of his new administra

Captain Ferguson of the Victoria made no attempt

aster,

of

owce wants be sure that the said, resident Elseve

take account of French viewa tion will, from the beginn

The new American Secretary was me at the airport Georges French Forei

ignarister Bidault,

General Matthew B. Ridgway, Supreme Malcolm Commander of Alled Fowen in and US Ambassador-

of

to save himself after ordering the passengers and crow to abandon ship shortly before she sank in a snowstorm on the 86-mile run between Scotland and Northern Ireland

! In London, the Minister

One crew member, Transport ordered a formal in- Mackinnon, 31, who launched vestigation. No women and and then drifted in a lifeboat all Europe, children were saved in the dis-by hansekt, said he saw another James C. Dunn.

Britain's worst since boat crowded to the gunwales His stay in France will be world warnin

with passengers, many of them four days durations It is the wamen, tosset up by the waves longest of his stopovers in his on the ship's side". He added: assess and broken in half ikea radish flying 10-day tour of Europe to scntinent on European Their bodies dew through the unity air into the sea."-United Press. His talks here are believed to

plans bo... particularly-significant in the light of French hesitation over the treaty for a European Defence

Community H pected to make clear that

young men. Of the six bodies Many of the survivors were found, four were women."

:

..

London, Feb. 1. Britain is going into pro- action with a new 150 seat Jet liner capable of crossing the Atlantic three times a day, Sir Miles Thomas, Chairman of British Over- seas Airways Corporation, announced on Sunday

Planes and ships criss-crossed the-gale-whipped seas. ThD|--- ships were picking up bodies. Powered by four Rolls Royce One lifeboat reported it had Conway Jet engines, it will be found 14 rafts, and empty. Men the world's first commercial gathered on the shore in the plane to: use a revolutionary hopes that some bodies would fuel saving by-pass system. be washed onto the beach... has tightened security measures without Previously Britain like the

has used turbojet or propjet A survivory Angus Nelson, and naval establishments,

engines.

US

Tighter Security

Sydney, Feb. 1. Eisenhower administration is The Royal Australian Navy anxious to see the treaty passed

to prevent sabotage of warships menden hindering amend➡ who had served on the Princess

Tho The planethus

French

Parliament hab far known Victora since she launched in

The detion followed suspected placed the long delayed Euro only as VC7-was designed by 1047, said: "During all those sabotage on HMS Warrior and pean army treaty on its acada Vickers Armstrong, builders of terrible hours Captain Ferguson HMS Triumph in British ports but several of this nation's latest was grand.

it envisagen a.protocol. warplanes.

Everyone would | recently,

16. which would permit them to. praise him this seamanship, Guards have been doubled at withdraw troops, for service The design was worked out to think. my shipmates did all all Australian naval depots and overseas, notably Indo-Chin co-operation with BOAC and they could to obey him and tra workshops.--Reuter. probably will be that airlines to save the passengers,

Associated Press. successor to the Comet jet. | Ilners,

VERY LITTLE PANIO "The VC7 promises to con- i solidate the lead which has been stewardesses to wrap

Tho men helped tha established by the De Havilland and children in blanicets, Comets," Sir Miles said.

Vickers also

wonten I

pante.

lifeboat

the

Junt

did not say how long I would cannot explain why none was take to service the new plane inte saved. I did not see them in. the boats. I believe I was tho is going ahead last to leave the ship alive, with a military version--Vickers There

vers Was

little when, the

ordered /captain 1,000-as a long-distance trouge carrier. It was - described here abandon ship I' ran to er the world in arst let, propelled and tried to launch it. It troop

carrier. med. Other

members Press.

crew tried to help me. Iva never seen such huge seu. It seemed a

the bont certainty would be swamped. I las on the bottom of boat and saw the great waves drive over us, and pound into the good old Princess. She was awash,

STOP PRESS

Plane Crashes And Explodes At Kai Tak

abe heeled over consideration the implies were removed to safety Coast. little Norfolk

the rain, I got a and: Inst. glimpse of our-kipper. tions and dangers” of the night on the

He grabbed the rail with one dencutralising the Straits United States airmen from Cley, population 685, said: "It Two members of a lifeboat

hand as the ship slipped under of Formosa, and it must be Sculthorpe air base near Stanton, was a horrible.sight. Buildings crew collapsed and died yester

him and put the other up at the assumed that be and his north of London, joined the had been enhed and sucked day after searching, vainly, in

salute. into the sea, Many.

One

boath people rough, seas and a blizzard for

of the rescue colleagues. are prepared to cue operations.

Rescue workers sped to the must have been swept away. deal with any eventualitles

the 282-ton trawler Michael

eventually picked up Nelson a TIDAL FLOOD which may materialise." It disaster area in air-sta rescue

* Grifin, missing since Baturday An American DC-54 military bont. An ell tanker, stood by boats and amphibious craft. An One of the worst hit areas

transport · plano), crushed · on a and discharged all to calm the cannot be said; however, amphibious. A craft carrying] repogred to be a stretch of the/ With a crew of 15%

runway.nu Kal Tak about 12.24-waters. thật, we in Hongkong view American airmen and British Lincolnshire coast where .......a Two crow members of the this afternoon as it came Into Among the passengers, mill the proposed move with any police overtumed; the men swam chain of small town and Toby lifeboat were dead when land, exploded, and was bumi unaccounted for whre ? Major feelings of exuberance.

villages were submerged;

M.- Einclair 46, Northern- their little boat reached nearly out within ten minutes. Colorsay Infter, racing to part The plach come in from Kow- Ireland's Deputy Premier and

medicalnésistance: 262-

Bay to land, but a wheel Finance Minister and Sir Waller Miles, The Fleetwood (Lancashire) hit the sea wall and

09, Ulster Uniqulat trawler

90

Member of Parliament, out slammals on Saturday saying she

almost

The destroyer FMJ Comest and

pho was bringing 20 bodies. Sixty Vietminh, have been from the Red River area.

ateszi. She, gave her position became a mass of flames. 7 killed and 10 captàred in violent The is on the French Union

as between

and eight Eyewitnesses ald (hey raw nounced that these were 2. sure Off the crow 2 54, teri milos Aghting in the Tonking Delta forces' mainline of communica-. Communist-lod-rebels, the

off Baira head, in the seven people jump, clear of the were invede areas the French Army reported tion from Hinot to the southem communique sald, released their Hebrides a preponded wreckage but's it is not yet when the steiner started on tonight.

part of the delta.

hold of Ankhe, 17-milcewek It is the second time in renown whether there were any how: regaine, run, to friend whe northeast of Hung Yen, about 25 occupied the post of Doo Mang, Qubion, after the Trench trawice · ham completely dla miles southeast of Hanol, said north of the part of Quintion landings at the port on Jamary appaired with us aika Kande

to safely,

Violent Fighting In Tonking Delta

Saigon, Feb. 1.

•„radló 'distress | the pláne, hverturned-

aiming to clear the 'Vietminh, Salgoti, 'Where › French troops / wag' full ' of water' and had nonly made to Belfast."It" was 'afidaky, an-

landed last week,

communique on the Aghting Other French forces re-northwest Of the port of four years that a Fleetwood casualties.

columns were abolit 3033 miles northeast of 29-Beater/

was inver/out, óf díght of lind ENG GOTET Mora than might miten tham ofthen the soottish de trab

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