1960-12-22 — Page 3

STRIKES Prospects of Christmas

in chaos

Brussels, Dec. 21.

More than 100 ships were marooned in Antwerp port, railway services were sharply cut and clashes broke out between police and strikers in Belgium today as the nation faced prospects of a Christmas in chaos.

Strikes have been called for an indefinite period against the government's planned "expansion through austerity" scheme to increase taxes and cut the budget.

Mercy plea fails

The main strike centres today, The second day of nation-wide stoppages, were Antwerp,

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1960,

HIT BELGIUM

Sea disasters

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The ship broke up Into three plocen before sinking. Three bodies have been recovered sa for, and it was feared that all aboard half been drowned. The violence of the rform prevented Tercur attempt, although the shit was quite close to land,

The Ellorio was homeward bound to Bilho.

The Miorin dashed the

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Sunday and should have arrived yesterday morning.

The vessel belongs to Mr and Mrs Marshall des Roches of Fort Lauderdale. They are be- Beved to be aboard with crewman, probably à Bahamita.

The friend who reported the boat overdue sald it is a once masled while cutter with shipauxillary power. He sold the onto the reefs Bear Galliano, er vessel did not leve e radio when it left Floridu for a business trip the Spanish coast.

to the Baham81.—All Agencies. FERRY BOAT

A lo de Janeiro report

sald that at least 39 people were

drowned when

ferry bozl carrying a bus serons a river capsized in northeast Br«ell,

The accident occurred on

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river between Porto das Pandras and Reelte, in

Province.

Pernambuco

The death toll was expected to increase as salvage work went

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Charleroi and Liege, where FOG COLLISION

Br

AUTHOR WHO

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WIFE 'NOT PSYCHOTIC

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American rammed Swedish tanker In dense for in the Elbe River entuary, according to a Hambure message.

ABS, electricity. water anil transport services nud schools were either closed or were int run by skeleton staffs. POLICE ACTIVE

Antwerp, 100 armed An eve-of-executive plea for policemen raced to the port to mercy in the form of a telegram rescue a dozen colleagues being from his parents to the Queenpelled by strikers with molteni

to save the life of einders from has falled

overturned, burg. Affihony Joseph Mflter, 19, due | braziers. to be honged here tomorrow for Police enarged strikers trying

Glasgow, Dec. 21.

murdering and robbing a shop- keeper on a Glushow recreation

ground.

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In accordance with con-titu- ional practice, the plea was re- ferred to the Secretary for Scut- land, Mr John Maclay. He said that after

careful very sideration hc "could nol And for advising Buflleient grounds the Queen to interfere with the dus course of the law."--Chin Mall Special,

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prevent workers catering

smelting and heavy Industry works in lege, and kirikers at

Namur stretcher themselves

aeros railway lines.

The Belgian railways said services in cen- "mumerous' trat and scuth Belgluin were wuspended and International to

subject were

exprcases "long delay."

In Brussels, authorities said that up to 95 per cent of municipal workmen and em- ployees in some districts failed

remained unemptied.-Router,

Jordan accuses to report for work and chustbins

UAR president

Amman, Dec. 21.

Jordan today charged Pres]-

Plane wreckage

St. John's, Dec. 21.

United States Lines officials ng the identified the freighter bound to New York from Ham- 8.228-tog American Importer,

The Sowdish ship was the 15725-ton tanker Frithiod. Both ships were reported considerably were no damaged, but there

ensualties.

CUTTER OVERDUE

Meanwhile search planCE

the swept

between Atlantic Florida and the Bahamas for al sailing culler overdue to de-

teriorating weather,

The 75-foot Selcor-Sed, with three persons aboard, left Nassau for Fort Lauderdalo on

BUS PLUNGES

INTO CANAL

Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 21. A bus plunged into a canal in The northeast city of Recife to- day and 30 passengers aboard drowned, press dispatches re- ported.

dent Nasser with responsibility The wreckage of a U.S. navy for a pint to poison the water of plane carrying nine men was Jordanian town and destroy found today in the Atlantic. 17

It was not known how many bridges and bulldings near Jorniles off the southeast of New- dan's border with Syria,

people were on the bus or what foundland.

crash through d All nine men on the P2V Nep-caused it to An offelal statement said the tune out

bridge railing.-AP. of Argentina, New-1 "plot" had been revealed by a foundland, were "believed dead. soldier of the UAR army based ¦ Several bodles were recovered In the Syrian province, who had by the U.S. freighter Amerkan fled to Jordan after his "con-clipper but the exact number selence prevented Irom carry was not immediately avaliable. ing out his instructions,”—AFİA ¡—AP.

New York, Doc. 21.

Norman Mailer, charged with stabbing his 35-year-old wife, Adolo, after a party last month, was "not psychotic," # psychiatrist told the court here today.

The author of the "Naked And The Dead" had been com- mitted to hospital on November 22 after a doctor said he had "an acute undengoing paranoid breakdown with delusional thinking, and is both homicidal and suicidul,"

been

REMANDED

he

was

The case wes resanded until December 20. This was Mailer's second appearance in court in two days; yesterday charged with disorderly con- duct when attempting to pay a nightclub bill with a credit eard, But the manager with- drew the complaint afler Mailer said he would send a cheque.

Mailer said yesterday that his wife had recovered from her wound and was "fine."

Mrs Mailer said oufalde the court today that she would.net sign a complaint against Her husband, who is being held on A police affidavit

Her lawyer said she intended Lo continue living with her husband and their two children. "She will do everything she can to keep her family whele," he added-Reuter,

KING SAUD TAKES OVER

GOVERNMENT

London, Dec. 21.

King Saud is taking over the Government of Saudi Arabia, following the re- signation of the Prime Minister, Emir Faizal, and tais Cabinet, Meoca radio reported tonight,

The radio broadcast a Royal decree announcing that the King, who is the elder brother of Emir Falsal, had accepted the Prime Mini=- ter's resination and that of the Cabinet Another deorce proclaimed that the King will sasINITIO the Prime Ministership. the radio reported. The radio annnocent

gave no details. Emir Falsaf, who la tho Crown Prince, also held the poste of Foreign, Do- fence and Finance Minister. King Saud had handed over to Crown Prince Faisal in March 1958, the ministries of Saudi Arabia's foreign, Interior And financial affairs. Some reports said

the Crown Prince had

assumed the real power in the kingdom to bring the country out of financial dimculties.

Early this year, King Saud Was reported to have toured the country to rally support among the tribes for A "Sizil return to Bower," But the โท dependent Beirut newx- paper A Hayat reported on June 20 that' the brother had reached n compromise under which the King would preside Occasionally at Cabinet meetings.

In 1958 at the time when Emir Falsal was reported to have been delegated the extra powers, there were reports that one reason for strained relations be tween the brothers WAY Faisal's disapproval of

King Saud's reluctance to accept President Nasser as the lenting Arab spokes- man-Renter.

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