LATE NEWS All Occupants Of Flying-Boat Reported Safe

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1947, Page 7

LATE NEWS All Occupants Of Flying-Boat Reported Safe

(Rec. 3.10 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 14.

The 62 passengers and seven crew members of the flying-boar Bermuda Queen, which made a forced descent in the Atlantic today, are now safe aboard the American coastguard cutter Bibb after tossing dizzily in life-rafts and small boats when they were taken from the huge aircraft. The Bibb N-arung as a weathership stationed; 500 miles oast of Newfoundland,...

AU the rescue work hafl-to be carried out by the Bibb because, the seas were too rough for .flyingboats or seaplanes to operate. STRIKE ANDTHREATS CAUSE SERIOUS TROUBLE IN FRANCE

Rec. 3 p.m.) PARIS, October 4. Although French motorists ’are officially without petrol because of the Government’s rationing restrictions, private motor-cars today jammed the city centre in solid blocks carrying workers who are without public transport owing to the underground, transport strike. ’ The Government requisitioned 450 vehicles and summoned 1200 .military lorries to Paris in an effort to provide alternative transport. . ..

The Premier, M. Ramadier, is faced with an epidemic of new wage demands and strike threats. The Railwaymen’s Federation issued-a statement emphasising the “urgency ;ofi-its demands.” The gas and electricity workers demand higher pay. The whole public service is unsettled. About 6000 officers and 25,000 men of the French merchant navy will begin a strike on October 20 i* their demands are not satisfied. Ships at sea oi’ in foreign ports will not be affected, but pilot services will pot be available for any ship entering a French port.

The French Cabinet is holding emergency meetings.