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NINETY-ONE MEN TRAPPED IN NORTH AMERICAN MINE DISASTER RAF VULCAN
Of The LITTLE HOPE FOR MINERS DESTROYS
Day
Hope For Addicts
TF there is one fault
in
Government's new plan to establish a special institu- tion for drug addicts, it in that it is to be administered
exclusively by the PrisonB
Department, when it ought |
In
Attempts Made De Gaulle
To Reach Survivors
Springhill, Nova Scotia, Oct. 24.
Contact With
to bo an institution coming There is little or no hope of rescuing 91 Rebels?
under either the Health or Social Services Department --or perhaps all three, For essentially it should be in
addition to place where a convicted man is imprisoned,
hospital and a centre ul reform and rehabilitation. We sold recently convicted addicts could not be proper- ly treated during a short prison term and many are short-termers. The need is "at Her to detain them
Majesty's pleasure" Bince they are a menace to them- selves and the community and constitute our biggest social problem.
But by urging unspecified detention, we do not suggest
mine workers trapped since last night in North America's deepest pit here, a coal company offical said today.
SUPPORT FOR UN POLICE FORCE
London, Oct. 24.
that an addict is no more Mr Selwyn Lloyd, British
sary
CS-
responsible for his crime than the insane (though there is no reason why he should not be treated in n similar way), or that the convicted addict should cape punishment (for he will in fact serve his sen- tence at the Institution),
value The
of unlimited detention, followed if neces- in by "local exile" romote Lantao or elsewhere be is that the addict may
society kopt away from unth he is fit to return to it and fortified physically and morally to resist this terrible temptation when he again encounters it. The authorities may reason-
ably fight shy, of any sug gestion of assuming arbl-
but trary powers recommendation of special treatment at the lustitution
Foreign Secretary, said tonight it had been sug gested that a permanent United Nations inter- national police force should consist of 20,000
The miners were trapped in three levels of the colliery when a violent tremor shook the arcu, sealing galleries where They were working a night shift. Mr K.M.C. Gordon, Vice- President and General Manager of the Dominion Coal Company, announced with emotion in his voice that there was no hope for the miners still trapped on und two levels
the "only slightest glimmer of hope" for thuse on the third level.
The 'Bump'
The
Paris, Oct. 24. French Government and the Algerian Insur- gent leaders in Cairo are in confact through un- official intermediaries, it was learned from usually reliable sources here to- night.
But so far no word has been to indicate whether received the insurgent leaders are pre- pared to accept General Charles come to de Goulie's offer to Foria In order to organise a ceasefire in Algerin,
The insurgent camp was re-
A specially organised rescueported here to bc fiercely were divided. It has appeared that the third the Nationalist leader, Ferhat
Icam of about 700 men
ttempting to reach level from two directions,
Pall
Violent Protest In Russia Against Nobel Prize Award
Moscow, Oct. 24.
A violent protest against the award of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature to, Soviet writer Boris Pasternak was carried by the Russian weekly Literatournaia today, Moscow rádio reported.
NEW U.S.
CHINA POLICY?
Washington, Oct. 24. Mr Abbas, is in favour of aban- lias the United States embarked
doning the armed rebellion buf
un new Chins polley with Gordon said.
Examination revealed that that some milllary leaders want
emphasis on the independence of Formonat ho "bump"
extended to fight to the finish, through all three levels, and
The End Whatever the insurgents in had shattered the two lower levels, damage in the third Cairo decide, the Government
R
still undetermined, ho
here belleves that the end of went on.
the samed rebellion The Nations Day In a United
described by Algeria is in sight. "sump," citizens
this disaster- broadcast he told there was
hardened town as the worst they "considerable support" for the idea of a force permanently had ever experienced, ripped up
the Sbors of the 13,400 and 18, available to keep the peace.
000-1001 levels, ramming con- voyors and other mine mathinery up against the pit roofi
men.
Mr Lloyd added that two questions of principle arosa. "Is the employment of this force to be subject to the veto? Is the force only to bo used in a particular country Atti the consent of that country?"
Good Use
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of
Eight Hours
In
The French Army is carrying out very energetic operations against the chief remaining rebel strongholds, especially in the Kabylia roglon of castern Algeria,
General de Gaulle himself is credited with the hope of belog the Mr Gordon told reporters he able to bring an end to would return to the mine short-lighting before the middle of of being in a ly to keep check on the con- December and tinuing rescue work. He had position to present himself for already spent about eight hours election as President of the Sixth Republic as the man who underground. The Foreign Secretary said
has completed the two tasks for There were 160 miners and six since the present government wok action as Jordan last July supervisors in the pit when the which a look power last June he believed
United rest upheaval occurred inst-that of reforming the govern- ment system and of saving Eighty of them were night. Nations has been making good
-Reuter.
ihat "the
The paper denounced Poster- nak's work as "a foreign body in Soviet literature."
The paper said: "Pasternak has made his choice, he has chosen shame and infomy." The paper added: "The awarding of The Nobel Prize is an ideological rally of international reaction. Boris Pasternak has slandered our country and long ago forgot how to tell the truth,
Literatournala Gazeta is the offelal mouthpiece of the Union cf Soviet Writers.
Hailed
But the Soviet Minister of Michailov, Many diplomats here believe culture, Nikolai they have.
falled Borla Pasternak, as an The statement issued after Mr "authentic poet" in the dest Dulles conference with Prestofficial Sovint reaction to the dent Eisenhower again placed prize. emphasis on
Mikhallay said at a reception General Chiang Kai-shek, to at the Kremlin last night in uring about freedom on the honour of the Vice-President of Chinese mainland through the United Arab. Republic, that peaceful means and not or the use of force.
day
the
of desire
"all Soviet citizens recognise in Pasternak uri, authentie poet and an exceptional translator,"
Nevertheless, Mikhailov said
the him
Gazeta
Communists
Give Confucius
'A Party Ticket'
20 HOUSES
IN DETROIT
Detroit, Oct. 24.
A Royal Air Force four- Jet bomber, carrying six men, crashed into 8 group of homes near the Detroit river today, sel- ting 20 houses afire. There was no report of Bur- vi, ars, and part of the body of one viriim was recovered.
Five homes were nearly des- troyed, and 18 others were dumaged by fire..
Survivors
#
A Detroit police boat, patrol- ling the Detroit River near the crash fouled its propeller on a parachute, and "began an im- mediato. search of the river for survivor or victims,
A check of hospitals in the Detroit area revented only one person, a woman, brought in for treatment of buma from the Bre that swept the homes. Mrs treated Emily Ewald, 15, was for severe burns on the ans and face.
route
The plane, an RAF Vulcan. delta wing jet bomber, was en
Goose
Bay, from Labrador, to Lincoln Air Force Base, Nebraskn.
There was carly confusion as to whether the plane might have been a Canadian Air Force plane.
But an RCAF spokes- man at St Huberts, Quebec, sold the RCAF had noʻplanes of, that typo,
Sac Mission
He said British RAF planes
United States on misionis
Singapore, Oct. 24. Singapore's Chinese Chief Minister, Mr Lim Yew- hock, today accused Com- frequently make flights to the munist China of dra conjunction with the United gooning". Chinese culture. Slates Strategie Air Command, The plane, struck ona bouse Two days ago the Govern-and exploded, spewing fames
to
CHILDREN.
RELEASED
by a panel of local doctors use of the time gained by our brought out alive, and the body Algeria from war and accession.ed to envisage an independent and Leonid Leonov, reproach-the Communist party in power.
would be adequate justifica- tion for the action we urge.
It is not our intention, how- ever, to criticise the iden
of a fatally injured miner was
netion, to develop a United No- found. About 16 of the rescued
tions presence in the area."
"Its purpose is to influence men were injured.-Reuter.
events and actions in such a
way that the good neighbour.
behind the project which we | policy which the Arab countries
and
expressed in the resolution of August 22, can be carried out in fact."--Reuter.
New Premier
feel in commendable
It may be long overdue. argued that with upwards of addicts 100,000
in the to Colony, ita contribution the overall problem will be small. This, of course, is 80,
Primate Dies
of
Sydney, Oct. 24. Australin Brid Archbishop of Sydney, the
but here is an attempt to Tho Anglican Primate got to grips with the prob- Jem in a new way. Its pro- gross will be watched with Interest,
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Most Reverend
HWK. Mowll, died here to-
night, aged 68.-Reuter.
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This backed up the statement in the joint communique issued in Talpel yesterday following Ho agreed entirely with the the Secretary of State's three-judgment of the Soviet Union ment banned the works of 55 over other houses in o
conference with General
Pasternak's against
novel publishing housed in China, and area. It, then plunged into the Chiang.
"Doctor Zhivago," which won Hongkong. These
included ground, ploughing n. furrow 50 the That sald
Nationalist
Nobel Frize for famous Chinese classics, andfeet long and as deep as Government, belleved that the Literature this year. The book come translations of Shakes feet,U.P.I. principal means of restoring is banned in Russia. This work peare. freedom to the mainland lay the dispatch seid, had furnished
Today, in a statement, the not in the use of force but in the West with a pretext for Chief Minister said: "Confucius, the minds and hearts of the anti-Soviet campaigns, and bad like the Chinese pensant of to- Chinese people.
been the subject of a letter by day, must join an intellectual The Secretary of State appcor- the novelists, Contantine Fedin comune in subordination
"mad 16- Formosa when he talked of the ing Pasternak for
and "Free China" dividualism and mystical' existence of
GREAT CLASSICS in his which would "sustain the minds pessimistic tendencies"
Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 24. and hearts of the mainland work..
"Confucius, and all the great The Malayan Government Chinese so that they are uncon- Soviet writer Boris Pasternak classes, are reprinted in China announced today that it had querable"-Reuter.
told Western journalists today
34 school that the award of the Nobel With Communist. Imprimatur, decided to release.
from among people Prize for Literature had brought with Communist editing, with children
introductions, and arrested in, security ralda on him "great joy,"
The sold he wanted to
sald "The statement Chinesa classics Minister of Defence sold it was see the great published in Singapore or in clear from investigations made publishing houses "in that the school children realised Hongkong: "Free from political they had been subjected to cal- contamination - of the Com-culated indoctrination by secret munista, who mitsat give Con-{ society leaders who were orga~ fuel a party ticket before he nising study ceils, and thereby can leave the chores of China." seeking to further the Commu- -Reuter.
hist cause."-Reuter.
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Communist
He said that it had taken him with Communist morals drawn." October 1, Mr Lim
Melbourne, Oct. 24. Ships and planes are searching Karachi, Oct. 24.. President Iskander Mirza of the South Pacific for
Nicosia, Oct. 24. Apla in Pakistan today runstituted a 12-ketch missing between
The advance party of British nearly 10 years to write "Doctor the FI Islands and Suva in the and member central cabinet
but added that the Islands, with an troops from Jordan, about 100 Zhivago," appointed General Mohammed Samoan
couple on board. paratroopers, arrived in Cyprus work had often been interrupted. "free" Ayub Khan as Prime Minister. American
-France-Presse. this evening.-Router. Repter.
Reuter,
Italian Cardinal To Be Next Pope?
Valican City, Oct. 24. Emerging by car from the The silver-bearded Armenian Palace of the Congregation for Patriarch Cardinal Peter the Propagation of the Falth, Gregory XV Agagianian peered he made the sign of the cross in astonishment through his big over the crowd who had ap-f-day. round spectacles at a crowd of patently already decided in Rome citizens when they greeted their minds that he would be last daily meeting before they him today with shouts of the successful candidate, "Vivaohal nuovo Papa"--LODE live the new Pope.
'Ile was driving to a meeting of the 52 cardinals who will tomorrow night begin ibe papal election in secret conclave. /
The
The last time a non-Italian Pope was elected, the Dutchman Adrian VI in 1322, angry crowds stoned the cardinals as they emerged from the conclave,
Vatican experts estimated to secure the necessary majority of
Catholle two-thirds plus onc. cay that the Roman Church, would probably have a cardinals will vote twice each new Pope on Monday or Tues-morning, beglaning on Sunday,
and twice each evening. The cardinals today had their Vatican are.walled up in the Palace with 200 attendants to But
general impression remain cut off from the world from
they agree emerging
preliminary until secret consultations among the Pope. cardinals is that they will first Vatican experts predicted to try to agree on an Italian car day that it will take between and a dozen ballota to
dinal
the
eight
on the new
The crowds cheering Cardinal Agagianian today indicated that the Roman citizens might now welcome a break in the 400- year-old tradition.Reuter,
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