1959-07-11 — Page 7

Some weep and pray

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1959.

some sing

some are brave

some are not

·

'The Ile de France is here -and despair turns to hope

(Continued from Pago 0).

When Mrs Cinnfarra asked

him bla name, he said, “My name, what does it matter? Don't worry, I won't leave 700,"

It was by using pliers from the radio room ond o vicious- looking carving kalfo from the kitchen tha Rovelli and Peter- son finally hacked away

which

mattress under Clanfarra was pinned,

Cry of pain

the Mrs

When Dr Donati returned to the cabin be found her wrapped In a blanket lying on the floor,

Нег

face was

1.15

AFTER THE LONG WAIT...

The rescue ships have arrived.

Now

there is a busy trame of lifeboats to and from the listing, sinking Andrea Doria. But In the midst of disaster, not all is sadness. Near the bow of one lifeboat (top right) a young couple sit holding hands as if on a bench in a sunlit park.

paired no far as the eye could

But all went right for the French ship. Everything was ready before arrival: the life- food, blankets, spare boats,

Captain de Beaudean had an something his- Impulse to do rooms, hospital beds.

10 COM- de trionic. He wanted AL cut, her hair

Captain n.m.

on the those waiting matted with blood. She had Beaudean had seen In hip radar fort been trapped for two hours. scope the cluster of ships 15 Andrea Doria, to call out into

away. mile

Twenty-two the night, "Patience! I am here Ile de France is later and eight miles

of course, he re- gazing through at the listing

►

Mrs Cantarra was lifted in minutes

ship,

the

the blankot to be carried up nway, he reduced his 22-knot here," but, She cried out as she was joalled. speed for a safe approach, and mained silent, It was the first scream or sign he prayed sllewly and fervently his binoculars of tears since her ordeal began, for the fog to lift, "I think my leg and arm are broken," she ld in a quiet volce by way of explanation to the doctor,

Calm

He manoeuvred his 44,500-

And eight minutes later, at 1.45 am, the weather com- into piled. The fog broke patches and disappeared, un- veiling a summer night res- plendent with a million stars, ton liner towards the starboard side of the listing ship, drifting full moon, and a calm Aca

that only 400 yards to a halt Two miles away, Captain de separated the two liners. Beaudcan lett his radar scopa and with his own

WHA eyes picked out the Andrea Doria among the four ships abend of him. of

The doctor bent toward her end zaid, "You are a very biave woman, We will take care of you now." Mrs Churferro, numb- ed by shock and morphine, was carried in the blanket to the high side of the Promenade Deck,

in

Rovelli again · went search of the jack to free Mrs Peterson. But he was near at hand when Mrs Cantarra was taken to the ship's side to be put in a boat. He again offered his services. Mrs Clanfarra hung on his back with one arm round his neck as he carried her down to the walling boot.

The arrival of the lle de France turned the emotional tide of the night. Word of the arrival spread throughout the Andres Doria and changed despair to hope and hope to certainly: xercue was at hand.

The Ile de France was the reinforcement single, staunch which in battle changes chaotic retreat into advance and victory.

For the Ile de France it was a night of glory. So many things could have gone wrong and ull of them worried Captain de Beaudean, for this was his first bea rescue.

Floodlights

"Turn on the lights, all the lights, and let them know we are here," he told Pettre, his chief innte, as he manoeuvred the Ile towards the listing ship.

the lie shielding the Doria from the direction of the waves, the water between the A two rhips was converted to

lagoon, a calm harbour heavy with oil sticks and perfect for the operation of the lifeboats.

It was 2 as when the le de France came to a stop. Five minutes later the first French reboat was in the water and healing for the stricken ship.

Floodights on the Sun Decie, Ten other feboats hit the spotlighted the vivid orange oil-sllek water in rapid suc- nid black colours of the ship's cession. two funnels, Stretching between the funnels in 101t-high block letters the name Ile de France was lighted Rice a white mar- against black back-

quee

Chain-smoker

de

Beaudean ner- Captain ground, proclaiming the arrival vously chain-smoked as he of the ship that symbolises watched his Heboats draw un

beneath France on the high seas,

the listing ship and begin to take on passengers.

Despite his many years at sea the sight of the Andres Doris caught Captain de Beaudean emotionally unpre- pared. The Italian ship ap peared still so beautiful, her modern, rounded lines uniza

JACOBY on BRIDGE

TEST'S

W opening heart bid is the lend and after cashing hle

to give did not do him any good, North South two heart tricks for his and South had no trouble getting 16 game against it,

not recommended and it two high clubs he had

NORTH

30

Q10 9 Q

AKJ 1098

WEST (D) AJ85

RAST

4K62

VK4

+974

SOUTH

4A743 ❤A2007

+63

J86632 02. AK

#Q7.3

1080 42

North and South vulnerable

West North Kari South

1.2

Paz. 2 N.T.

Pass *N.T. Poss Fam Pam

Opening lead-♥8

and diamond

South took East's king of hearts with the ace promptly lost the finesse. The four of hearts re- turn accounted for South's nine and West's jack and for want of anything better to do threw dummy in with a

West dia-

mond.

South ron, the diamond sult and discarded two spades and two clubs fruin his hand while Wert lol two hearts and two apades" "go,

South had a pretty good count of West's hand by this time. West was marked with two hearts, two clubs and a pade. South was pretty sure that West'e spade was the king so he simply played his ace of stas disappointed spadon and when the jack and not the king appeared.

contract,

♥+CARD Sensen.

Q-The bidding has been: North

East Bouth Weat 14 2+ Double 2❤

Pazs

24

You, South, hold:

7

$35 $75 Q1387 4AK012

What do you do?

A-Bid three spades. You only have two trumps but your clubs are two tricks for your partner and you only have a doubleton heart.

TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding two spades your partner has bid two no- Trump over West's two-heart bid. What do you do now?

Answer on Monday

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

ERO, E640)

With an electrically powered megaphone he called to his nen, "Be careful," and yet he realised they had little if any

own safely control over their

Doria capsize If the Andrea the lifeboats at her starboard sido

would be crushed and thrust under the sco by the huge.ship.

Seven minutes after the Be had arrived the first Andres Dorla lifeboat tied up at her side. The Stockholmy's lifeboats 100 began to discharge their passengers to the Ite

availing. But long after nearly all the passengers and trew had left the doomed ship tovell kept his pledge not to abandon Mrs Peterson, Peterson found tim un an

The distraught artress cream- ed for the lifeboat to return, and her young son in the boat were the wilted But much vicissitudes of rescue. Passen gers were passed from hand to

side of the hand to the high Promenade Deck and helped up

ladder to the Bout Deck.

almost deserted deck, clinging to the faint hope that an Ameria can officer from a rescue ship who had been aboard the Doria

would remember Rovell's re- quest and send a jack from his sulp.

In so much confusion, with there seemed so much to do, slight chance of this one plea being remembered.

More than enough lieboots were now at the side of the Andrea Doriu. But the rescue was illi not without its perils and heart-break.

Exch boat seemed to develop fis own self-appointed swim- ming expert to rescue survivors from the water. Jean-Pierre Gulou, a 15-year-old mossboy on the Ile, dived in to rescue a small chlid, and Armando Gallo left the security of an Aadres Doria Ilfeboat to leap a Breman, into the sea after Fortunato Spina, whose girth equalled his height.

Separated

Roman Actress Ruth

nild across the sloping deck in a Bale, sitting position, splitting her party dress.

She handed her young son to Omer Cadet Giullano Pirelli, helping the children at one of the rope laddiera.

to

was carried

The boy was iiecl the young cadet and piggy-back down the steps of the ladder to a lifeboat which, during its long.wallowing stay beneath the ship, had been filled with about 120 persons.

Pirelli ellmbed back up to the WITH Mra

Cianfarra Boat Deck and Miss Roman to the W safely away. Rovelli had started over the rall

climbed back to the ship. Its ladder, when the lifeboat pulled search for a jack was un- away from the ship.

Curious Characters: No. 8

His advisers were

two idiots

RICH Irishman Adolphus Cooke did not think

much of ordinary people's advice. On all matters that required serious consideration, he consulted two idiots, whom he employed for that purpose.

Strangely, his affairs were not deners to gather wigs and harmed.

weave them into nests.

But this was only one of Mr Cooke's foibles. He had a huge room built under the lawn of his estate, installed a marble armchair and bookshelves, and ordered thut when he died he was to be buried there, allting in the armchair.

Nests

eccentricities

He was bliterly opposed, to all forms of hunting. For he sa convinced that when he 'died he would turn into a los. The siat of a hunt Kled him with anger and dread. With's-cudrel and a stolgan, he drove

away di tunting parties on or near his pro- Forty,

When he did dio, near the

end of the last century, Mr Hla

were Cooke was mourned by his. -Here is a problem by. H

servants, who Ahues (B.OF.. 1959). Waevident in all parts of Mr neighbours and to play and mate in two moves

Cooke's house. Ho and the win- liked him well, despite his odd Solution No. 504E1-QXPF dowa reconstructed to match behavioura BXR (1 ; -, PXQ; 2 XL- 80 ch the shape of some curved chairs Soon after his death, fox, However, it made no rent di- KARI: JR=R? instel; # Q-Q that had taken his fancy. pursued by the: tuni, took res fervace. Bloce West did notch, K-R1.12.

Mr Cooke was a great lover of fuge in the kitchen of his house. KI-RIS); 3 KUBI)—K16, animals and birds: In that The huntamen and, thoir: doga- hold, the spado king he hath to

were entered, and killed, it spring, when the birds hald the ace and king of clube. | Resigns (threat Q-R3-R7},

nating, he ordered his · ger- Poor Mr Cooker The quein of clubs put West in

RBZ:

The long slide

Each person was then seated and pushed off for a 45ft, allde across the deck into the arms of one of the crew waiting on the low side of the ship, and to one of the from there Ied ladders.

Children were carried down rope ladders piggy-back In-

late its handle, but Peterson chopped down a section of a zowel rail bar, which they used as an linprovised short handle.

At last

While Peterson held the base of tho jack in place, Rovelli started to pump the handle.

At last, the dead weight of wreckage began to move,

Suddenly Mra Peterson spoke. think I'm going,” she said. Rovelli saw blood "Are you the fellow who was coming from her mouth. fants, perhaps the most dificult to get off the ship, werO in looking for a jack?" Neither he discovered balanced pre- nor Peterson ever

"Doctor," he said softly capes many

Peterson after a moment. carlously across the forearms of which rescue ship sent It.

A line was thrown up to the think your wife la'dead." men climbing down Indders.

With lifeboats ][hing up at deck, and slowly. Rovell and

Peterson crawled to her side. stern and the

side Peterson hauled up the 100th. He too thien knew the struggle at the ladders, oficial word was Jack with a Ort-long handle.

passed to the muster stations Even more arduously they lug was over. Kneeling there amid for the first time for the ged their massive prize along the the wreckage, he made his fore- abandoning of this ship, children sloping deck, down a fight of well to his wife. Then he and first, the disabled and elderly stairs to Cabin 50 (next to Cabin Rovelli covered her small, trall body with dushions and left and finally 50), where they sat for a while, Cabin 60 for the last time. next, then women

men.

*

DOVELLI, waiting

with

little hape for the Ameri can to full fils promise of ald, was hailed by a voice ΣΤΟΥΣ Lifeboat below).

exhausted.

Then they hauled the fack! under the wall partition and net it up in the wreckage,

They encouraged Mrs Peterson to "hang on" while they strug- gled to get the jack in position. There was not room to manipu-

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