1960-05-24 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1960.

Death toll rises in Chile Gaitskell wants China,

NEW DESTRUCTION FROM ANOTHER QUAKE; TIDAL WAVE WRECKS HILO

Santiago, May 23,

Another strong earthquake rocked southern Chile today after its weekend of terror, adding new casualties to a reported toll of 350 dead and over 500 injured.

New Bres were started in the partially-destroyed city of Castro on Chiloe Island, and Are fighters lacking water had to use dynamite to control them.

Ancud, in the north of the Island, where 100 people were belleved swept away in yester- day's tidal wave, suffered anew. So did Puerto Montt, 300 miles south of devastated Concepcion, about 60 people are reported missing and at least 100 severely injured there.

Massive aid by ship and plane is being rushed to the thousands left homeless by the weekend quakes, fres and tidal

waves,

The army provided tents for the panic-stricken population of Concepcion, town of 180,000 people 280 miles south of here, who fled the woods and

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fields when the second quake

struck the already city last night.

battered

Many trying to escape were trapped in their crumbling homes. Bridges, roads, railway and telephone lines were cut, and the desolated city was cut off from the world. smaller communities were do- vastated, in an area of 70,000 square miles between Santiago and Chiloe island.

A mercy

Many

By Ed Engledow

Frogs owned by

Frogs

2 brothers take

“Olympic' titles

Angels Camp, Calif., May 23.

The following is an eve-Two California brothers aged nine and seven and

on the tidal witness report

their two American bullfrogs took top honours waves which struck. Hilo yes-

in the annual international jumping frog con- terday).

test here over the weekend.

Hilo, Hawaii, May 23, A tidal wave kits with the roar of a freight train. I stood

on Kamehameho

Brian Basalar, a nine-yea?» old in blue jeans, yesterday won the event billed as the "Olympic Frog-jumping Championship of

Avenue half a block King Mohammed the World" with his entry. Tube

from the Walluku rivar

bridge and watched the third and strongest wavu come in.

caravan is moving An earlier wave already had southward from Santiago to the reached just over Kamehameha stricken area,

@ ship of the Avenue

and disabled a sewer Chilean Navy has sailed from pump station. Valparaiso with medicine, food, and clothes, a Peruvian warship Is bringing more from Callau supplies, and anti-gangrene serum and other aid are being flown in from the United States.

HOUSES SMASHED

Other places reported affected yesterday were Valdivia, which is between Concepcion and Puerto Montt, and Osorno in the Both Valdivia and Osorno reported dead and in- jured while 40 per cent of the houses in Valdivia

were amashed.

Top reached same area.

Katmandu, May 23.

A Japanese expedition Lo 25,810-foot high Himal- chull has reached the top, acording to unconfried reporta circulating here.

Sources quoted a sherpa who arrived here today from that part of the Himalayas. Official con- firmation was lacking.-- AP.

He tackled five with bare fists

Nairobi, May 23. Five Africans erned with bangas (bush knives) and other weapons who burst into the home of Major and Mrs H. W. Clarke at Lessos in the Kenya highlands on March 29, and re- treated after the major tackled them with bare fists, have been sentenced here for attempted robbery,

Saturday's quake also affected Chilfe, Coronel, Lota and Chillan,

Across the bay you could see the lights of sampans. They had left the Wallus Dock a little later than most of the boats and hadn't got outside the breakwater.

As the wave rushed into the bay, I saw the lights of the boats rise. The rising lights and the roar-that's knew it was coming.

how you

Someone from the Coast Guard had told me the water level had dropped five feet on one side of the harbour. The water level always drops

a tidal wave, Just before was 1.05 a.m.

It

The wave came in and I had to run to my car, which was a block away.

The search for survivors in Concepcion uncovered the The worst. i saw was Mamo bodies of two nuns and five Street in the centre of the girls at a convent, some in downtown area. tight embraces,

All of the downtown area is

Soldiers moved in to cordon | chaos. parts of the city, including the A long, wooden building one- university, which was un-storey high was picked up and damaged and used as a hospi-set completely across Mamo tal, and which contains radio- | street. A lot of cheap hotels active research materin?.

were wrecked.

More suldiers prowled the streets with orders to fire at looters, while doctors operated continuously on injured people in the hospitals.

the toll of cannot be for some

PEOPLE TRAPPED

takes over

Rabat, May 23. King Mohammed V of Morseco

to- annotinced night that he would take over government of the country.

In a radio message to the Moroccan people the King said "It is difficuli to form We will a government, take the government in hand and preside over it”

He announced Crown

Prince Moulay Hassan would be

Prime *Minister. depuls --Keuter.

Queen Mother

visits

Pele.

The huge frog covered 15 feet 24 inches in three hope brut failed to approach his world re- cord of 17 feet 10 inches nobley- ed the previous day.

Brian'

brother. younger Tommy, gained second place when his frog. Tule Jack, leapt 12 feet 9 inches.

10,000 PEOPLE

15-year-old

A

Californin schoolgiri,

Voltich, Carolyn took third place with Ur touchable, who cleared 12 feet one inch,

About 10,000 people jammed the 19th century goldinining town to see the event,

Britain's Master McGrath. owned by Mr Nyles McSwbuey, was the only one of the dozens of foreign entries to get through

to the qualifying round terday's final, which was re- stricted

But to 20 frogs. Mastern McGrath jumped only eight feet four inches-Reuter.

tobacco land Maltreatment as

Fort Jameson, May 23. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, today flew into Fort Jameson, the oldest Northern town in Rhodesia, It is the centre

of an extremely fertile Peuple

landscape were trapped inside

strewn with them. Many people were farms left derelict by carried out of these hotels and

failing tobacco prices. other buildings.

lack

Several hundred Africans and Aslans and a few whites amet the Royal visitor at the air. port,

put the Unofficial figures injured at 3,000 and the home

There is heavy debris on the less at 50,000, but

streets. Big things like furni life and property

ture and refrigerators litter the accurately known

streets everywhere. time.

The

of Sunday's There isn't any power and epicentre

Urion Jacks Huge

were of lights hampers quake was established as same- the

around the control stretching rescue operations, that and the draped where in an area

tower at the airfield when the miles rain. from Los Angeles, 50 south of Concepcion, to Castro, One man running from the Queen Mother's altcraft landed # 818-mile flight from wave climbed a utility after Imposing terms of imprison-Chiloe, about 240 miles further angry

Lusaka, pole. The pole started to fall ment ranging from 3 to 41⁄2 south.

and he leaped onto a building. years, the magistrate, Mr K, S. Few, said if i had not been for the magnificent courage and quick reactions of Major and Mrs Clarke the accused would be faced with more serious charges-China MaT Special.

Reports of towns, cities and hamlets affected by the week- end quakes were still coming in early today. New names added to the two-day terror included Linares, Talca, and Temuco.- Reuter

A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

1 A herb easy to find? (6),

5 Wounds, (5)

8 Keen to agree, possibly. (5)

é Monsteress? (6)

10 Where one might find nudes

by the seaside. (5)

11 The sergeant-major swallows.

his tea and develops power. (5)

12 Dressing in the garden. (4)

19 Jobs of work. (5)

10 Like a tan? (6)

dound kitchen. (6)

18 Batsınan

In

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1 Don't work, boy, it's a

strike, (8).

2 Wild Mr O'Carte, whose

projection was a map, (8)

a A minor word, this." (4)

4 Great railway once, (7)

5 More sober. (7)

6 Harry S., not Freddie S. (6)

Natural Interval? (5)

14 Storing hose. (8)

15 Clearly a lake above the

ordinary, (8)

cause of

death alleged

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India admitted to Geneva conference

Yarmouth, May 23.

The Labour Party leader Mr Hugh Gaitskell today called for the admission of China and India to the 10-nation disarmament conference, now stall- ed in Geneva by the summit breakdown.

deadlock over He told a rally of trade i plete unionios there was little point Western and Soviet disema-at all," he said. in negotiating an agreernentment plans, Delegations on

both sides had hoped the sim mit leaders would find some now there is way out and speculation the talks will no resume on June 7 as scheduled. DISAPPOINTMENT

MR HUGH GAITSKELL

which left out the world's two most heavily populated states.

"It is said that China will Lave to be brought in later," he declared, "but how can you expect the

Chinese govern-. ment.... to, come and sign an agreement which they have taken no part in negotiating?"

The disarmament Conference adjourned on April 29 in com-

Malay prince leads land

movement

Kuala Lumpur, May 23. A' Malay prince of the Royal house of Kedah State is leading a band of 80 vil- lagers 20 miles from here in a move to acquire land against Government orders.

Dakar, Senegal, May 23,

SOUTCOS Unofficial French

kore reported

that a French citizen convicted of revolutionary activièles in neighbouring Guinea

He is Tunku Abdul Hamid died in a Conakry prison cell of possible maltreat-bin Tunku Ismail, a son of the

Malayan ambassador in Paris.

ment.

The alleged victies, identified as M. Rossignol, a pharmacist, recently had been sentenced to 15 yours hand labour for taking part in a revolutionary plot against the Guinn, government. Sources said there were two The prosperity of the arc Then, the building was knock-depends mainly on

tobacco versions of Rossignol's death ed down under him and he farming and in the past eight that he died of a heart stack had to swim to safely.AP.

years the number of growers and that he had died of has fallen with falling tobacco maltreatment. prices-Reuter,

Valiant flight to Singapore

London, May 23.

of

DEATH SENTENCES

Tunku Hamid, who described himself to newspaper reporters as unemployed, said he had directed the villagers to cleat land for settlement in a Gov- ernment forest reserve.

He said he might lead a de- monstration to the Kurada Lumpur airport to protest to the Abdul Prime Minister, Tunku Rahman,

when he returned from his London visit.

Tuku Hamid saw the Mentri Besar (Chief Minister) of Previousity, A Lebanese Selangor State. prisoner, sentenced in ong- The Chief Minister, Inche

Isle of Man action with the same ose, Abu Bakar Baginda, said: "He

pubs open

A Vickers Valiant Mk1

Douglas, May 23. RAF Bomber Command' will take Hotel bars and public houses off from Marham (Norfolk on on the Isle of Man opened their Wednesday to By non-step to doors to the drinking public Singapore a distance of 8,110 yesterday for the first time miles in just over 16 hours. in 100 years,

Captained by Squadron Lead-

An net permitting, drinking er J. H. Garsün, aged 35, who was born in India, the Valiant aces to open on Sundays was, recently persed to accommodate Island

will be refuelled in the air by visitors to the holiday tanker aircraft.

The purpose of the non-stop, in the Irish Sea.

But the act forbids "live" flight is to demonstrate the in-

bans sing- creased mobility made possible entertainment and by flight refuelling.

ing or dancing only tele- vision and radio transmissions

The return flight on May 31

from Singapore to Britain will are permitted. China Mai

also be made non-stop.-AFP. Special.

Pakistan says note to

U.S. was protest

Karachi, May 23.

maltreatment.

died by what was officially des- should stop misleading the cried as suicide. Sources here, people. however, claimed he died of "How can he do such a thing? The land is a Government re- The Guinea Peopley Court serve."

"Obviously he is misleading sentenced 10 persons to death in connection with the re-the simple village people. Ï valutionary plot, eight of them have warned him in absentia, twenty-one other stern action were given 16-year prison terms against him if he disregards my and one was given a 20-year | warning." term.-AP,

Gambling Cypriots

that very wil be taken

Turiu Hamid: "I am not perturbed at the warning. I will finish, muy mission.

Who dares stop_me_helping the people get land for cu tivation."

The Selangor State Secretary, Inche Kashim Mat Dris, said Tunku Hamid had distributed notices to his followers saying they could clear the Pard and London, May 23,

reg- Twenty-nine Cypriots were that he would take the brought before a meistrate ponsibility-Router. bere today to face charges of gambling following

police

raid yesterday Оп a North *** | London enfe.

Pakistan has instructed its ambassador in Washington to tell the State Department to treat its recent note as a protest against the use of its bases for hostile or spying flights against any other country, an authoritative source said here today.

Foreign

Ofice

The Pakistan President Field, Pakistan Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, scarves sald today the U«X

widely the 18 Roof-top features

seen these days, (7)

20 Ingredient of a Shakes

perean comedy. (5)

22 Pain Rachel always has, (4)

23 Company boundary? (5)

25 Feminine rame. (5)

26 It provides but little con-

cealment to its wearer. (6)

27 Really smooth, (5)

28 Swear words used in court.

(5)

29 Account-book. (6)

17 It indicates a certain amount

of polse. (7)

19 The culture and refinement

of a Central European, (6).

aki a protest against such use incident was "bound" to

of Pakirlant bases had been up during the Stajo Ministerial made to Washington on May 17 Council Meeting opening in

State Department Washingtoni on May BI.!!

But

21 She could easily make a spokesman fest denied that any

hoard (5)

24 Yorkshire terrier? (4)

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD,-Aaroms: 3 W-am, 7 Lathe, And, Piers, 10 Boraper, 12 Bert, 16 Trans (rev.); 18 Trot, 10 Halis, 21 Alien, 23. Seer, 23 Enter, 26 Tize, za. Extable;

do Levi #1 Dial (rev.); 82 Légal, 82. A.CORE. Dowar 1 Match,

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protest had been received and The Forsign udinister, Air then said an aide memoire-not Manone Cadey in due to leave protest had been handed here for Waldkrigen, by wat to Tead over by the Pakistani envoy, Mr London Aziz Ahmed.

| Pakistan's

the meeting:

DID NOT STOP Pakistan has stated that the th At tha inquiry has shown that the further clarify United States U-2 jet soy plane which; recently shot down in Russia did responsibl

not stop on its way at a base at and that

* Theatre, 4 Alarm, 5 Pass, 6 Pler, 9 Blest, 11 Prone, 13 imir. Peshawar on Pakistan's north- |'from k 14 Fast, 16. Sheet, 17 Safe, 18 Tigr, 20 Aereiss, 22 Stay, 24 west frontier as the Bovist Union | of Russia, Never, 25 Float, #7 I«x]s, 23 EIGH

ملعلم

Mutapha Sulleyman, 25, waj Ained £10 with, cosły dos, keep ing a common gurning horse st his cate and he and 27 of the others were all bound symp

good behaviour for 12 months, The 29th man was diandssed. Gaming machines at the cafe were ordered to be destroyed.

China Mall Spediat,

Actress weds

New York, May 23. ⠀ British actress Joan Green-

wood was married last Monday at Discovery Bay, Jamaica, to actor Andre Morell,

The disclosure was made here by Bay Wall bar American ant He arrived in New York later in Wek and leave for London

-mid, the "'egupla

Miss Creinwood, 19, is a lead- ing,dimand-slave- nctress, Marwil, 50, is swell known on the London stage and on. tény vision, but has never restormed

rival, were not going to talk to Russia

""I would like to‘see the governmeals of the Wert quite unperturbed by events and esare suxious to put forward positive proposals for peace." leader is often The Labour pressured from within his overn movement to advocate unilatoruj | British disarmament and with-

drawal from Nato.

Mr Galtskell said: "I feel myself that we should, ever now, propose to the existing powers that both China and india be admitted to take part."

Mr Gaitskell described the summit breakdown as a great disappointment and said ar- ranging another one would not be easy.

"But nothing could be worse for the West than to say they

Rejecting both these courses, Mr Gaitskell said the Western alliance should be strengthened,

at weekend.

"We bellero that if Western Europe does not stand To gether azid

with stand Americs, we should each one of us be hopełenly weak, in the face of any Soviet (hreat,” he mid-ság,

TRAMPLING ON PAINT

IS LATEST ART

Madrid, May 23.

A new "stomping" school of painting has been born in Madrid with artists spreading paint on canvas and then trampling it into what they call "expressive” form,

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Twenty-three art students, to intervene to protect among them two Britons and a heavily daubed canvases on dis-. Greek, opened in a downtown play,

Madrid street yesterday the first Five of the canvases sold in ever outdoor exhibit of "stomp" less than five minutes for a total

of about £120. paintings.

Not one critic dared call the

It got off to a running start and was so successful police had paintings pedestrian.—AFP.

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