1961-12-29 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1961,

British swans frozen into ponds ICY SNAP HITS EUROPE

FOR FIFTH DAY

London, Dec. 28.

Britain and Europe shivered through its fifth consecutive day of freezing weather today with no sign of a let-up in the cold snap for at least

24 hours.

Killer shark tears

girl's arm, mauls man

Mackay, Australia, Dec. 28.

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A shark tore off one Grm and part of the other arm όπ 18-year-old girl wading only 12 feet from shore today.

Margaret Hobbs, 18,

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school-teacher trainee, also suffered serious goshes on her right thigh.

Miss Hobbs was standing

with Martin Steffan, 24, in about 21⁄2 feet of water when the shark attacked. Eye-witnesses, who mated the shork

esti-

Was

about 10 feet long, said it made three separate attacks on the couple.

Steffan tried to beat off the

shark while holding on to Miss Hobby. He suffered severe gushes on his right forearm.

Another member of the beach party rushed into the water and helped drive off the shark.-UPI, a full-length Picture shows

view of another killer shark caught off Noosa Heads in Australia recent- ly. (This man-eater was caught after it attacked another bather.)

off

Americans smoke

more cigarettes

Washington, Dec. 28.

Amerleans smoked more this year than ever before, the Agricul-

Lure Departement said today.

And

In Britain, hundreds of water mains exploded, many highways were impassible, ducks and swans were frozen into lakes and ponds, rivers such as the Thames and Avon froze over in stretches, trains wert delaved and plumbers were at a pre-

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Hundreds of workers were sent home from plants and firms where furnaces had broken down or pipes burst Other workers didn't wait to be seni home and walked out en masse.

An Automobile Association described it સડ spokesman

Britain on ice" and said only six countries were not hit by ice. | snow frost or log.

Dutch Air Force planes today upened an airlift between Dutch mainland and Ameland off the coast Island, tying

notated by thick pack ice, as much of Europe shivered in snow, ice and freezing tempera-

Isolated

Other islands of the Dutch coast were nearly isolated, with ferry boats jammed in drift ice and unable to approach their

moorings.

Most Minals in north-west Germany

were frozen, and in Western Germany. frust and mow seriously delayed rail and road traffe.

The

ADN

East German agency Bres reported that big had

started been

by people trying to thaw frozen pipes with naked fames.

In the French Alps, a search party found the body of a 15- year-old French schoolboy, Michel Lourent. with his fox terrier. Bobby, dead at his side. They had been missing since Tuesday and were killed in a | fall while on an excursion,

In the French Pyrenees, a French test pilot, Jacques Foch, and his brother, Askbre were found dead last night after be

in an avalance on ing caught

the Pic de Cambales,

FLOODWATER

heavy

Dear

Floodwater following rains wrecked a bridge at isan Larcangelo di Romagna. Rimini, north-east Haly, today and three people are missing Near Ravenna about 100 people have been evacuated from flood- ed farins,

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Flads are also ravaging parts of the Congo, where the river Congo has inundated towns and plantaticos. Thousands people have ited from their! than homes.

Over most of eastern United States, cold

rain changed to SNOW during today, while 3 hand freeze gripped the western half of the country.

However, it estimated that Smokers paid more less snuff was dipped in 1961 $6,900,000,000 for their cigaret- than in 1960,

about the les in 1961, about $1,100,000,000 same amount of tobacco Was of which went into federal,

chewed this year than last.

I estimated U.S. cigarette output and consumption this year at a record 528,000,000,000 cigarettes, 4 per cent more them?

jast year.

HERMES

Bobu

Mom! Mom! Look,

no MISTAKE on my Hermes Baby portable

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state and local excise taxes..

It was the fifth consecutive Increase in cigarettes consump- tion and more is expected next year--UPI.

Argentine Navy

of

in

It was 18 degrees below zero Waukon, kowa, Chicago

exactly zero

zero-bad its coldest

December 28 since 1924.

In East Berlin, big fires have been started by people trying t0 thaw frozen pipes with naked flames, the East German news agency ADN reported.

Man about

town

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Suddenly, almost imm-1 perceptibly, Prince Charles

Accom grown up. panied by Princess Anke, 13-year-old Charles took

has

a party of six to the theatre Die other night, to "Sound of Music" the American musical. He was inch "the man about every town" as he ushered 14- year-old Miss Marilyn Wills (right) — her mother is the Queen's cousin-inte a 30s. seat in the stalls of the Palace Theatre, Lon-

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It was the Arst outing of its kind for Prince Charles in the role of host and

escort, London Express Service,

Jel crashes,

explodes

2 CHILDREN

KILLED

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Padua, Italy, Dec. 28. An Italian jet fighter crash- ed into a house today and exploded, killing two children and injuring 17. others in 0 densely populated neighbourhood of nearby Este.

it

London, Dec. 28.

The F86 jet grazed the big The Argentine Embassy in

It said a collective farmer was cathedral in the factory town

residents, as London confirmed today that the killed in one such Are yesterday, of 16,000 Chamber

plunged downward. had and cattle died in another. Deputies of

The pilot approved the spending

Rall and road traffic has been based out moments before the 22,000,000,000 pesos (uver seriously delayed by the frost crash and landed on à bitsy £100,000,00) in the next ten and snow. Most canals in street not far from the years for rebuilding the northwest Germany were frozen scene. Argentine Navy.

A spokesman added that it was too early yet to say what ships were planned and in what countries orders would placed-Reuter.

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Church of

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date?

London, Dec. 29.

crash

Firemen and volunteers were rummaging through the wreck- age minutes after the crash, searching for two buried child- zen when an explosion rocked the house to its fourdations.

The fuel tank or the plane apparently exploded. Four firemen and five other persons. wene hurt.--AP.

Woodrow Wilson

gets credit

Palm Beach, Dec. 25. President Kennedy today. The Church of England is a marked the 105th anniversary "seemingly decayed insti- of Woodrow Wilson's birth by tution" which represents rent efforts to create a law- reminding the nation that cur- five per cent of the English abiding world order stemmed nation, an editorial in the from efforts of the World War I Church of England news-

subsequent effort to a stable world order has The other 95 per cent can gone back for inspiration to hir hardly be blamed if they efforts and has myed much to classify the Church of

England his vision Mr Kennedy said with British Railways, the of Mr Wilson.-UPL

paper said today.

trades

unions

and 78 mp gramophone discs as incredible. surgivals from a previous generation, the editorial said,

The rallways and the unions

earn.

still

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Cold bill

Madison, Wise. Déc. 38. Governor Gaylord Nelson's Press Becretary) quipped today tits it would Be & cold day whom .4 Demineralia gover or sigand

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NEWS MP predicts

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BRIEF

December 28

Algeria killings

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Algiers At Icast nine persons were killed and wounded in Algeria today the grim march of terrorism and counter-terrorism con- tinued

During the day, eight plastic bombs and one time-bomb exploded.

Two Europeans were slain in An ambush yesterday near Bougie-AFP.

Protest

London Albania has pro- tested to Hungary and East Germany at the "decision of the two governments to recall their respective ambassadors," the Albanian news agency ÀTI re- ported today.

hard times

in 1962

Jo Grimond

London, Dec. 29. Mr Jo Grimond, leader of the Liberal Party, said in a New Year message to supporters, that he hoped the coming year would Bee China's admission tu the United Nations.

It said the protesis, delivered yesterday, also objected to the demands by Hungary and East Germany for the withdrawal of The Liberal leader, whose party

the Albanian Ambassadors from their countries.—Reuter.

Young Castros

Key West Fla, Havana Radio said numbers of Russian so Prime parents have written Minister Fidel Castro asking

permission to name their sons after him.

The requests were

included,

the radio said, among messages

pouring in from the Soviet

holds six seats in the House of Commons, forecast "a tough at home and year nationally."-Beater.

Piper Laurie to marry

inter-

New York, Dec. 28. Artress Piper Laurie

and

Union to congratulate him on New York Herald-Tribune re- the third anniversary of his re-porter Joseph Morgenstern will

volution.--AP.

Cactus wall

New York The Castro | Cuban Administration today was reported planting a "wail" of knife-sharp cactus plants, call ed "bayonet grass," around the big United States navy base at Guantanamo Bay.

be married in Long Beach on Morgenster) January 21, Mr announced today.

I will be the first marriage for Miss Laurie, who began her Hollywood career publicised as "The girl who eats roses."

The wedding will take place

at her sister's home in Long

The report, from George Clif-Beach, Miss Laurie's real name Cordi of the Scripps-Howard is Rosetta Jacobs, newspapers, was published in

It also is the first marriage

the New York World-Telegram for Mr Morgenstern, a reporter

and Sun under a Guantanamo in the lively arts department Bay dateline-AP.

of the Herald-Tribune.-UPI.

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