MISSING PERSONS IN FRANCE

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28463, 18 December 1957, Page 16

MISSING PERSONS IN FRANCE

18,000 Disappear In Year From Paris (N.Z. Press Association—Copyngntt PARIS, December 16. More than 18,000 persons disappeared from their homes in France in 1956, according to the Ministry of the Interior. Each Tuesday and Friday the French National Radio network broadcasts the names of missing persons. The Ministry said that nearly 12,000 of the persons missing last year had been found. The Ministry divides the missing persons into several classes.

Husbands and wives who have run off with new partners. Children and adolescents. The adolescents gravitate mainly to the Riviera and Paris. Frequently parents receive telephone calls from girls to say they are safe and are living in the artists’ quarters of Montmartre and Montparnasse but that they do not want to come home. The tendency, the Ministry says, is for girls to run off in spring and boys in autumn. Persons suffering from loss of memory. Civil servants, bank and insurance employees who have made off i with their employer’s money. Potential suicides. Persons lost in mountaineering or swimming accidents. Persons who have been murdered.

Cargo Unloaded at Little America.—The last of the 2000 tons of supplies and equipment came ashore from the United States Navy ship Greenville Victory late on Sunday night, according to a news release received in Christchurch yesterday. The Greenville Victory and the icebreaker, Atka, are now on their way to McMurdo Sound to unload cargo there.