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Comment More than a hundred perish in fishing village Of The TIDAL WAVE DEATHS MOUNT WIDESPREAD AFTERMATH OF A TORNADO QC tells of

Day

STEVENSON HAVOC IN

OUTSPOKEN PACIFIC

HE tumult and shouting

Tover the abortive summit

conference have died down.

Mr Macmillan has reported

of

to the House of Commons and President Eisenhower can have little to say that has not already been said. Mr Khrushchev has again made his point in East Berlin, but the tenor his speech seems to in dicate that most of the blame lles at the door of the President and the ad- ministration rather than at the feet of the American people. Apparently he has hopes that the new President when he is elected in November, might be of different calibre and that an agreement can be reached in a climate un- marred by international ill-feeling.

PRE

RESIDENT Eisenhower went to Paris under a cloud and the storm broke his head, and while one feels a measure of sympathy for his reception at the hands of Mr Khrushchev, -the necessity for an inves

tigation into United States policy making

an

and a

tightening up on the varjous agencies which either caused the U-2 In- eldent or made a hash of it is all too evident. The Democrats have already

demanded

inquiry, Whether this is purely a political move in election year is immaterial although the Republicans will endeavour to put it in that light. Vice-President Nixon is re- ported to have said that he is "greatly. shocked" by Mr Adlai Stevenson's attack on the Eisenhower administra- tion of blunders which led to the break-up of the sum- mit talks.

Mr Stevenson has been out- apoken and if he has jerked the ostrich heads out of the sand and cleared their eyes well and good; certainly it is not before time.

Itisans can draw him back-

TF, too, the Stevenson par-

into the political arena he should be in the front rank of contenders for the Democrat Presidential no- mination.

There will also be feeling of relief in international circles as his foreign policy background undoubtedly fits him more than any other nominee to lead the country In the trials which lie ahead.

AREA

Tokyo, May 24.

Savage tidal waves generated by the South American earthquakes smashed into sleeping Japan today and brought havoc and a swiftly rising death toll.

great waves

One hundred and fifty people As four

bore perished when a 32-foot wave down upon the islands, siren crashed into the northern Hon- warnings seni thousands of shu village of Momoishi-Machi, Hawalfans swarming from low according to an unverified police lying areas and kept the death estimate reaching the US. Air toll from mounting. Hundreds of evacuated Waikiki Force base at Misawa, 30 miles guests

Beach hotels in Honolulu. northwest of the village.

There was no immediate con- firmation.

The Japan Broadcasting Cor- poration reported a nationwide tall so far of 30 dead, 70 missing and 101 Injured.

HK sea level affected

Four

waves resulting from the giant tidal waves which have been sweeping. the Pacific, passed through the Colony this morning.

These were detected at the Port Works Laboratory North Point just before 10 B.DL. and continued until mid-day.

A Marine Department official told the China Mail this morning that the changes in the sea level showed very clearly on the tide guare.

The biggest

"They occurred very regularly at forty minute intervals," the Marine De- partment official said.

"We did not expert. елсе sudden waves Hongkong but rather gradual rises and the tide chart shows A smooth curve," he said.

in

He said the biggest waya to pass through Hongkong

at 9.55 which pro- Was duced a difference of 814 Inches.

Reason why

F

The official told the China Mail that the four main waves were preceed- ed by two smaller waves at 8.40 a.m. and 9.20 am.

Another Marine Depart ment offelal told the China Mail the reason that the effect of the waves Wis not felt severely in Hong- kong compared with other parts of the Pacific, was:

The Colony

WILS shielded by a number of islands which stood in the direct path of the wave,

• Hongkong is situated on the edge of a continental shelf and the deep ocean flour prevented the waves building up as they

proached land.

At the present moment Mr Kennedy is ahead in the primaries and while he is undoubtedly a capable man his immature years (he will be 48 next Sunday) are against him. It is incon- celvable that Mr Macmillan and General de Gaulle could look upon Mr Kennedy as their leader should he be elected to the White House. N the muddle over the U-2 Inline indident the Vice- few

President. did not enhance hia 'status and is currently a Kremlin target .for. his fatuous statement and a an international negotiator his value has depreciated, While there is no question of

Communications were broken and police could confirm only a

Washed away

Hundreds of fishing boats have been washed away, 1,500 homes destroyed and many thousands flooded

Severe waves, some as high as twenty feet struck the eastern coast of Hokkaido and northern- Honshu.

split in the Western"," alllance, elections in the various countries are now

watched with greater - Tidal waves, whipped up by terest than some years ago.

the severe Chile earthquakes, have caused death and destruc-

as the outcome affects the

whole more than hithertortion in widely separate parts

the Pacino seaboard.

The interest, therefore, is heightened this year follow- Ing the summit debacle and

Cables today reported how A President such as Mr the huge waves swept OCTOM

the Pacife Ocean

Stevenson, whose capable

and mature mind brands They struck Howall, causing him as an international || 26 deathe, many injuries and Tender, could pave the way widespread destruction amounts to an acoord.

ing to $25 milion

Roar of train

In the words of one eye-

witness, the waves came in from the occan "with the roar of a freight train."

Chile, itself, took the brunt of the sea's force. Unofficially, 130 | persons were reported swept to their death when a 24-foot wave surged over La Arena, a small south Chilean village.

Three waves in succession heavily damaged the nearby Chilean port of Ancud.

In New Zealand, tidal waves swept the east coast from north Auckland to the Bay of Plenty two tonight, continuing for hours in scATE, pinces.

The phenomenon - occurred· cbout half-tide; Small boats broke from their moorings, some, were damaged, others capsized.

Ferry damaged

The passenger ferry in Auck- lond harbour Was thrown against a wharf and slightly damaged. Another furry was thrown off

while spproaching the ferry busin.

COUTSE

Auckland harbour har eight feet of water one minus and none the next, Each time the water receded to the low water mark:

Across the Pacific, the Call- fornia coast was hit from Los Angeles to the Oregon border. Three persons were reported in- jured at

City in Crescent northern California as a wave for three blocks pushed water into the town.

Flood-ce Currents swept back and forth in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area, tear- ing docks loose and reading them drifting aimlessly with many as 80 boats tied to them. -scene-of The harbour was 2

This scene of wreckage' bears witness to the fury of the tornado that whip- ped through the small town of Meriden, in the State of Kansas, on May 19. At right in the air view is a grain elevator which withstood the buf- feting wind while lesser structures around it were virtually flattened. The wreckage in Front of the elevator was all that re- mained of the town's train depot.-AP Photo.

Fined for playing rock'n-roll

COMPROMISE FOR BIG

FOUR' TALKS URGED

Resolution submitted at UN

United Nations, May 23.

Ceylon, Argentina, Ecuador and Tunisia tonight submitted a

compromise resolution to the Security Council urging the governments of the “Big_Four" powers "to resume discus- sions as soon as possible.'

19

FLEMING'S TWO SECONDS

Marcel Noel Andre Fleming would have had at most only two seconds in which to see two people cross- ing Queen's Road Central, his Coumet, Mr Brook Bernacchi, QC, submitted to the full Court this morning.

Fleming is appealing to the Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice J. R. Gregg and Mr. Justice K. R. Maefee, against his conviction of the manslaughter of Police Inspector Si Wai-ming, and the three-year sentence passed by Mr Justice. W. A. Blair-Kerr.

Mr Bernacchi submitted that Fleming's atatement from the dock that he was travelling at about 25 mph at the time of the accident, was the only evidence, before the court as to his speed No prosecution evidence as to the speed of the car had been given,

Beacons

He suggested that the flash- ing beacons In Queen's Road Central near the junction with Ice House Street would draw the attention of a driver to the zebra crossing..

must

"Your eitention automatically be fixed on that crossing." he said.":"

Counsel further submitted. that a driver would automaticsi- ly look for people crossing the street at that particular point, and, not expect to see people walking across the street è few feet further on.

Mr Bernacchi said he had submitted during the trial that Fleming would have had about two seconds in which to see Inspector and Mrs St after "he had travelled past the crossing.

His instructing counsel, Mr D. A. L. Wright had checked on this by calculations, using scale plans of the road, which had been admitted in evidence, Mr Bernacchi contiqued.

Calculations.

"He has made these calcula- tions on the basis of a car travel- ling at 30 miles per hour, which is equal to 44 feet per second.

"We found that at 30 mph the time it would take from the zebra crossing to the point where we (the defence) suggest the accident took place, would be almost exactly two seconda:

"It would take less than two. The draft also called on all Thus Mr Gromyka said, the Gromyko, presented his demand seconds to the point where the the accident police believe re-Soviet Union was warning "both | for condemnations of the United member governments "to Melbourne, May 25.

occurred, and only about one A magistrate today fined a man train from any action which the sponsors of provocations States for the recent U-2 spy second to the point which Mrs

and against the Soviet Union and 25 for playing a transistor might increase tensions":

urged continuing radio in a railway carriage,

efforts at their accomplices."

dis- Peter Graham Myers, 21, a reaching agreements on San Diego harbour also sut-

and post office employee, was stated armament and the prohibition fered extensive dermage

to have caused annoyance to 15 of nuclear weapons tests under ferry service

suspended was

fellow passengers qver a 20- international control. San Francisco escaped major

The demage although the tidal swell mile journey by playing rock'n horse race raised the Golden Gate water level a foot.

Fareway Alaska also reported feeling the effects. All agen

confusion as bosts ranging from 14-toot outboards to luxury yachts went astray.

cies.

rall musle and descriptions

The prosecutor, Mr W. G. Luke, said it was the first pro- soution, of its kind in Austra- lia. China Mall Special...

Volcano eruption adds new horrors

Bantiago, Chile, May 28, Shoshueco Volosan erupted today in South Central Chile, adding new horrors to a nation devastated by a series of exrthquakes, a-tidal wave and torrential rains which ham- pered rescue working wit

The government announced that 285 people were dend or missing in the earthquake and Hidal wave, but said this applied only to the major cities and that complete figures would not be known for days, Maro than 1,969 were injured, 100 of them critically,

VELA

The 7,140-foot Shchiusco, 24 molles esat nonibeast of stricken Valdivis was reported by the correspondent of El Meruerio to be sending a slæresan of Lava down his side. Landslides touched off by the vhicano left nine other persons

bringing,

A violent new quake hit the oily of Anend enity today "while heavy rains poured onto the earthqua

Bood threats and crippling, reactio aperational *Eng where 10-foot tidal waves followed the csrih“. # The government mald 182 personS * WRIS

ce peled and three known desk. 386 disappeared" In And Where the hear day registered, the maximum of 19/**

Lodge replies

flight over, Soviet (erritory. *

Sir Claude, who consulted privately with' Mr Gromyka, and the U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, declared it was Mr Henry Cabot Lodge, United the Council's duty to extumine draft resolution

was States

delegatoj....... spent only the issues fully but to do so tabled after a day during which about a quarter of an hour in with moderation, restraint and Sir Claude Corea, Ceylon's replying to the Soviet charges. dignity--Router and AP, chief delegate held a series of private meetings with the co- sponsors and also conferred with Mr. Andrei Granyko, the Soviet Foreign Minister.

Incursions

Mr Gramyko had earer tabled a Soviet resolution call-

He asserted that the presence Soviet air space of a single- engined unarmed one-man sem- plane was not aggression.

Tel "just this one plane" had caused all the fuss at Paris and now here in the United Nations, he said.

ing on the Council to condemn Mr. Lodge said the United The incursions of United States States could had it wished have aircraft into other states as brought up examples of Soviet "aggressive acts."

activities mich, as the presence The Soviet Foreign Minister of Long Island of a Soviet fabled his draft during his vessel which was "interfering speech in which he presented his

with United States naval government's case that United, States flights over Russian ter-operations and the presence of mimerous Boviet splen "on the ritory were "aggressive acts" threatening world peace.

ground space of the United Staten.”

"Mr Gromyko's statement was more restrained than many

Since the death of Marshal diplomats had expected and it stalin some 350 Soviet spies contained 210" surprises, ob had been arrested in various servers said..!

Expressed hope.

There was ille in it. which countries, he said, had not been stated before, since the Soviet Union brought down a United States high-altitude U-2 spy plane.on May 1.

Earther the President of the The question arose how UN. Security Council expressed United States foreign policy, hope that a formula could be would be trusted after this, 3 found to settle the spy-plane dispute in a way, to lead to early Gromyko said,SMUNA 7 He warned that the Boylet resumption of East-West nego-

[Hubs state: "and" that: “nobody will be allowed to test our patience whit continue provoca Hons in Soviet territory.

Union was a great and power Claude Corea, of Ceylon:

Prident of the 11-day cometi, spoke that befor Foreign Minister, Mr A

Test plane

explodes: four die

Atlanta, May 23. An ultra-modem, four-engine jet plume being readied for pas- senger service exploded in a training flight takeoff today and bum- "ad - four crewmen · to

death.

Delta Airlines, which plans soon to put a new 615-mile-an-hour Con- yair 880 in service, said no⠀⠀⠀ passengers were aboard for the training flight,

u-flight, u spokes«» man explained, was to, familiarise

crew per

sonnel with the craft's

i mentioned in her evidence." Mr Bernacchi said it had also to be considered, that there was a lapse of time between the eye seeing something, and the body taking action as a result of what had been seen. He felt that as a general practice, one second was allowed for this,

Counsel further submitted that if the speed were increased to 35 mph, the Ume left for a driver to take avoiding action was even

less.

Mr Bernacchi added that he did not feel a speed of 35 mph at that time of night under those conditions, was a speed which could be termed as showing s reckless disregard for hufaaz, Uze.

Prominence

"Had this aspect of the dem fence been put clearly to the fury by the learned judge, then they might well have taken a different view of the whole acci- dent Counsel suggested.. - Mr Bernacchi; submitted that the trial judge had given con siderable prominence to the pro secution's theory as regards the position of Mrs. Bl's handbag in the road, and had not given such prominence to the defence

theory.

Counsel" also suggested * that Mr Justice Blair-Kerr had used

a phrase out of context in his summing up. VERSE

He referred to a passage of the summing up in which the learned judge had gated the jury: Was be going along at 25 mph as he said or was he 'peiting along at a much higher pead as alleged by the Solleitor General?!? (Continued en back pare: