1950-09-29 — Page 8

Assam Reeling Still From Quake Havoc

Calcutta, Sept. 28.

Today, more than a month aftor Nature's mighty hand staggered a million square miles of the face of the earth with the greatest quake in half of a century, smitton North Assam yet reels from the impact of that colossal blow.

Abor

and

Mithmi

turned and cvilized Stomachs heads grew dizzy during tribesmen, in the vast thinly neral administered populated those stupefying minutes ferritory of India's northeastern on India's inauspicious In-up, signs are visible of what dependence Day anniversary might yet prove to be the Inva from -minutes that seemed like ewing of red-hot eternity. Few could have vitals of the earth.

While Reologists and selsmo visualised the trail of death Logists" wrangle over the and devastation those sick-siblity of an unsuspected

lying dormant for ening waves would leave Involcano

$52 hundred centuries having their wake.

belched again into and denty

activity, OVAT un the horl- zo snow-clad mountain-tops

Stupe walls cracker timbers creaked. Terrified etli-

zens, pulling out of momentary gitter scarlet and tow-hanging paralysis, fled screaming out of clouds dully reficet the mysteri dows. Few must have guessed jeus phenomenon below. these were but minor evidences HAZARDOUS FLYING

faress even

of the powerful then at work altering the very

ronfiguration

In the Up

rarched

nimo.

of a large pur-spiere above the stricken Hima- Jayam foothills, reconnaissance

hon of the world's surface.

and are, violently

The earth groaned and yawn-places drop nelplessly into deep ed at hapless believers in their pockets Nately of the great open spaces ituffeted by plunged headlong to a horrible that

swirling currents

ny init extremely

safely

over

the

make hazardous. "Cruting frontiersbronutra's lont Valley of

Ja the bleak mountain reglan far northeast, at the crossroads

TH three culate

one is enabled to com- more completely the peaks magnitude of the disaster that

where the phenomenos had its pretend tirilt.

capped ennw

trembled. Wild brad-hunting has ravaged this once peaceful. teibesmen on the lower slopes prosperous, beautiful reglen of stazed Kazed upward petrifled

whole hillsides

upon them.

ayalinched

as North Assam.

The

moved - the benefit of

Girst mountains

without the

Some rew

homes,

uuake-wrecked subterrancong rumblings, the earth, swallowing! faith, moving mountains, the tumbling

in stature, others bill, and the erupting volcano shrank into comparative insight. do not exhaust the list of terrorE

band woe. fleance,

AMAZON OF EAST

Its

In the upper reaches of the ighty Brahmaputra and

les impressive several hardly tributaries Nature bullt up dans in fewer minutes than the years it took mun to construct Bar- India's malve Sukkur rado.

At one

Not all the death and destruc-

ton immediately and directly

used by the rude August 15 shake-up and its intermittent after-shocks can together com- are with the watery havoc that

its trail. as followed

Brahmaputra, The majestic swollen by the raging torrents unleashed with the shattering of the Nature-made dams across neveral tributaries, has at points overflowed its banks, dive directly at miles apart, and is sweeping of its lushly fertile, well-

time it was feared "The Amazon of the East" had reverted to its prehistoric and was flowing

th

bed

debouch into the China Sea down over thousands of square

Instead of double-right-angling

south

and west into

Since then it

has burst ite

turn dam and returned to

Intented valley,"

its

in its inexorable advance

It

Nothing

normal course of modern times carries all before it. -with a vengeance, More than an stem the 20-foot walls of one miner waterway, however, solid water before which wise to have been dien flee and the unwary are are believed

verted permanently.

Up beyond the onee happy hunting grounds

of scarcely

engulfed.

FLEET OF FOOT

Women and

children share

the fate of their menfolk, the

Sir Owen Dixon old or the young. the rich or

Won't Talk

Sydney, Sept. 28.

the poor, the high-caste Brah- anin or the untouchable cobler. are swamped, with their All

their of hovels, homesteads

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Whitesand Bay

Diversionary In Korea

Made

Raids

(FROM FRANK GOLDSWORTHY)

With the Float, Sept. 28.

Obstruction Expected By Truman

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"That this conference

and closer unity and integration they are Intended. views with President Truman at his with great alarm

Empire administrations We will forward reption to the continwards mutual harmonious the stated address if the ad- press conference today ex-ted unrest and declining stand-

well-being in all of ordered administration pressed the hope that the ards Korean war would be a peace wound

up with satisfactory to everyone.

The President said that he had no Information regarding peace feelers rumoured to have been put out by North Korea.

Mr Truman repeated a state- ment that he made last week that the United Nations would have to act first on the question of their forces proceeding north

of the 38 Parallel,

A State Department spokes--

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London, Sept. 28 Britain today decided to "go slow" In its vast multi- man explained today that million sterling plan to

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There are 19 down for discus Government agency MacArthur found It

for the controsion in the third session, versial programme. announced the that it would stop planting at Kongwa, Tanganyika, one its biggest centres.

Korea

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General

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continued.

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The Corporation acte Korea and not just south

mediately after the experts en-taken by the South China New the 38th Parallel.

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The President warned that there should be no ict-up United States defence efforts the end of the Korean war.

Ec

the United said that 12:31 2 tremendous job for whead in i preparation

States

Tho British frigate, Whitesand Bay, it can now bo rovealed, carried a mixed American and British raiding force to make diversionary landings near Kunsan, on the wast Korea coast, two nights bofore the main amphibious force defence, landed 100 miles furthor north at Inchon.

When some of the mem- with

wartime night landings.

experience of

He said fit there would, of be an efTurt by some course, people to block the whole pro- granite but he hoped that they cattle and crops, their goods and bers of the raiding party They trained together under would not succeed, th-were left behind after with great secrecy in Japan.

tu latte questioning he made enemy fire, Whitesand Bay,

commanded clear that he was referring druwal under

Lieut-Commander J. V. to his political opponents in Con- the Whitesand Bay sailors by went to the beaches twice Brothers, was sent to a Japanese grey-Reuter,

to port with in the ship's motorbent pick them up.

For Owen Dixon, the United Nations Bedintor for Kashmir, their chatteis would make un comment on his For the fleet of font the reach- fatture to find an acceptable ing of sanctuary in highlands, solution to the deadlock between in the tall roofs of sturdy Juda and Pakistan whin be re-lags or in the tree-tops. It is turned here yesterday

not journey's enrl. It is only the All he would say was " was beginning of new expericures

terrifiedly

watching the of terr received with courtesy by ha

rise of His creepint

the muddy and Pakistan

of watching for the

The 111ixitd forre tepunt is in the hands of the waters,

from plone which volunteers United Nations Sip Owen will food-dropping

his duty Australian High Couri Bench Reuter.

now resume

leaders."

included Amerivin

indication of her mission. Not until the troops Jcame up the

stangway did the

officers or crew know they were Four-Power Group

Elu aid in the landing operations. |

trigl the ship

crept Report Denied

At va the might provide the wherewithal Army units and from the Royal

the gnawing pangs Marines, and crews of British through shallow channel. T appease of hunger, or watching for the ships in the United Nations fleet boat-borne rescue squad that

Lovell Rejoins Marshall

ny never come.

Meanwhile, the

turbid flood waters hurry past, heavily laden with bloated corpses, uprooted trees and the debris of wrecked homes.

The

extensively in. nost A former Under-Secretary of State, Mr Robert A. Lovell, was undated area is the 5,00 square Subansiri chosen by Presiden: Truman to-miles between the

Washington, Sept. 28.

day to be Deputy Secretary of and Dilang basins north of the

Delence.

Brahmaputra, of which the hordest hit portion in turn is of worth 1300 square miles

1e succeeds Mr Stephen Early, who is leaving the DeLakhimpur Sub-division. fence post on Saturday to re-

It has been olleially estimated that knowIL fatalities to date property damage

Unicial rupeca.

turn to private business.

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IN CEYLON

Kunsan and anchored a mile off shrines, The raiding party were paddled silently in by rubber boats.

A

London, Sept. 28.

Office British Foreign poitesmais denied today a report Powers that th Big Western had suitgesled to Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia and Italy that they should "join together to promote prosperity and rein- force their defences against the Russian-led Cominform".

Commenting a press report,

They were

the already on beaches when they came under fire from machine-gun nests.

COLONEL LEFT

on a

It was never intended that he said that so far as the Bri- they should hold the beach tish Government was concerned indefinitely, so a withdrawal the report was quite untrue. was ordered. One officer, one Reuter. Colombo, Sept. 28,

one corporal, all Sergeant and The Ceylon Government American, were wounded. has ordered Thomas Fulton

The corporal was carried back McWhinnie, who arrived to the ship, where he led, of the Secretary of Defence, will amount to thousands of here by air yesterday, to Shortly after the withdrawal General George C. Marshali, milions under whom

he served as opinion is that it will be months leave the country by tot was realised that an Ameri- can colonel had been left on Under-Secretary of State, He before anything like my exact morrow morning as his pre-shore, There was no time to

sence is undesirable" banking toll of life and property can be is in the investment

the present time. business in New York-Reuler, computed.--United Press,

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Centenarian

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London, Sept. 28. at send

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A Yorkshire businessmanı, boats. Sub-Lleut J. A. Craw Theodore C. Taylor, who tord of Whitesand Bay and

cently celebrated his 100th birth- Mr McWhinnie, said to be volunteer crew of sailors with day, welcomed over 100 guests

ju British subject, is an employce Bren guns for protection went at a luncheon in his honour at

of the Press Division of the in the ship's motorbaut and the Savoy Hotel today. World Federation of Trade found the colonel on a neigh-

Unione

bouring island.

A wool manufacturer, Taylor

A Fergeant is known to have is u pioneer of sharing profts with workers in the Industry.--- A spokesman of the External been led, and two officers are Reuter. Affairs Department said that in missing. Commonwealth citizens who had From the beach came the fashi valki passports did not need of an emergency plek-up algnal. visas for Cusion provided they | A motorbool went in again to were genuine tourists.

rescue un American offleer who and stayed behind in a desperate effort to carry a dying fellow pinced before the Prime Minis-enteer down a cliff to the beach. ter, Mr D. S. Senanayake, before only to ind that the last rubber

Mr McWhinnie's

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