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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes february 1953 More zone copters sent to Holland Eisenhower Minn on order water purification teams to ravaged areas 4 More ground and communication Mobile snack bars and pcs today moved to assist in Rescue operations in flood ravaged areas of the eight additional army helicopters were slated to Fly to Gilzer Ijen to join the seven helicopters four additional helicopters Are from 7th army flight two from the s55th engr up and two from Vii two Light l20 one from Vii corps and one from 7th were scheduled to augment ing the 17 Light planes already Aid units Roll in the Rhine engr depot sent 000 sandbags and compressors and generators were ready to Western area come units rolled into stricken areas today on a mis Sion of aiding in the reestablish ment of communications and purification of drinking included among the wac units Are three full combat equipped water purification units of the 17th army engr one water Purificati Tion unit of the 293d engr Tion a 56vehicle unit of the 17th Sig operations the 795th engr dump to co of the 311th an 18vehicle unit of the 317th Sig construction and 43 members of the Usa eur photo Center at 7th army units move seventh army ground principally labor and maintenance began moving the Lith engr c up has dispatched two Engineer truck service companies to join the main body of american troops at the from v 35 water Purifica Tion teams and the 43d Ord Mam co have moved to the 35th Taam co is in route to Gile risen to service Light yesterday seven enlisted men dutch islands ravaged by flood Leiden the Hague of zoom f cd x Vul under x Antwerp map shows worst flooded areas in the including the islands of Schouwe Nord Beveland and Rotterdam is Relief and refugee it Gen Manton Eddy has established temporary american military Relief Mission Headquarters in the new storm Breaks dikes and one officer of the Frankfurt municipal det 709th my in left for duty at four checkpoints to be set up on the Netherlands Frontier in connection with troop Mobile pcs dispatched the Frankfurt District yes Dis patched a Mobile snack bar and two Mobile pcs today two More snack bars and six Mobile pcs were to leave for the dutch town of the designated Assembly area for Aid and also scheduled to leave soon Are four trucks of one Mobile refrigerator one maintenance truck plus a gallon gasoline the Mission will be attached to the 1279th engr c in of the 39th engr construction clothes and other supplies were being collected in the zone for flood the Frankfurt and Heidelberg women clubs and citizens in Weinheim were gathering supplies and the Netherlands offered to transport All contributions free direct to the Netherlands red Cross in the continued from Page 1 from several communities As the winds began to shoot Okilj orders against looters were issued at Graven Deel in Beverland where seven were More than Federal police were hurried to the flood area to maintain order and prevent the mayor of Steenbergen in Bra Bant sent an sos for huge mat tresses with which to Stop Dike gaps and the mayor of nude Tonge on the Island of Goeree Serflak Kee reported that the dikes protect ing his town were he said he had 12 dead but 260 other reports have spoken of about 200 dead in a barn near nude 6 Munich flu deaths up Bavaria toll to 142 4 More persons died from influenza during the past 24 hours in health authorities Here announced bringing the Munich death toll to 76 and the toll to authorities postponed the scheduled reopening of Munich Public schools until Avo americans have succumbed in the More than three Days after the worst flood in five centuries dutch despite unprecedented help from British and belgian ground and sea were still trying to lift the threat of death from some dutch radio said people were in danger at Abbenbroek on Doorne that a group of marooned on Goeree Over Flakker that it was trying to learn the Fate of 400 people who were on Philip land Island when the flood another group was isolated on the remains of the Dike near Den Bommel on  is land where Waters Tore a 100foot Gap last Queen Juliana named sunday As a National Day of mourning and special prayers will be offered in churches of All the Queen will broadcast to the the age old enemy of the scored one Complete Victory when it engulfed the Little Island of Tien gamete Between  and where the Island and its handful of houses stood there is now Only the of copters Rescue dutch from roof tops 4 two air Rescue service helicopters have rescued scores of hollanders marooned in Trees or on roof each of the h19s is capable of airlifting six survivors at a time from their perches and removing them to safety on High the refugees Are being picked up by two air Rescue service sa16 to safety at Valkenburgh Airport hear Amsterdam or to the Gile capt Henry assistant operations officer of the 69th air Rescue is directing the Rescue services Field the albatrosses arrived monday and the two helicopters flew in one from Wiesbaden and one from Sculthorpe Raf station in a Mobile radio manned by air Rescue was flown to the stricken area us continued from Page 1 Home told the House of commons that the impending Spring tides 10 Days away posed More danger for the nation plagued by six months of fog and Maxwell warned notwithstanding the strenuous efforts that Are being the damage is so extensive that it will not be possible to Complete All the work by the time of the next High begin Ning and there Are areas of special difficulty where defences Are still under he said the country must be prepared for the possibility of fur ther in some at the next High pig raising ban asked 4 motions to ban the raising of pigs in Israel were proposed today in the Knesset israeli planes Rescue 200 flood victims continued from Page 1 was reported that it Hac grounded on dry two amphibious transportation truck companies with 66 Dukes arrived at Steenbergen last night and began operations throughout the array Liaison planes acting As spotters the water Points Wilt also be established on these various is lands by army the Airdrop personnel of the 557th pm Aerial Supply operating out of c119s flying boxcars completed three drop missions Over the stricken area it is estimated that pounds of sandbags and life raft were dropped by this joint army air Force Eddy advise that by tonight most of the armed forces scheduled for the immediate Emer gency needs will be in the area and logistical support for the forces has this includes daily Gaso medical pos Exchange facilities and other necessary sup Brig Gen Raleigh 7th army artillery spent the morning being briefed at the Juliana Cavern he of the Amer ican military Relief fourteen american students of Netherland universities in utrecht and Amsterdam offered their serv ices to work with the amphibious dockers threaten to join tug tie up Harbor new 4 longshoremen have threatened a Complete tie up of the port of new starting in sup port of the strike of tugboat Crew the Al International longshoremen which both the longshoremen and tugboat Crews the tugboat men will establish picket lines at All piers before the Start of work the longshoremen will be expected to Honor the picket a Union announcement said last the tugboat men so far have refrained from picketing the allowing longshoremen and truck ers to handle All ships Able to Dock and depart without a contract dispute Over wages and other issues led Crew members of local United Marine division of the to strike the walkout has idled 450 Harbor including Coal and Oil barges As Well As tug the which had hit the ports of Philadelphia and from the spread yester Day to to 7th Fleet 4 president Eisenhower today maintained secrecy on what action he has or will in his orders to the 7th Fleet opening the Way for chinese nationalist raids on red China from White House press Secretary James Hagerty told reporters they could expect no elaboration on details of the order or its stance at the present time or i the Eisenhower told Congress monday in his state of the Union message that he was issuing instructions to the Fleet ending the policy established by former presi Dent Truman in june this policy not Only protected Formosa from communist attack but also chinese nationalists from the Fulbright urges Supply Chiang planes 4 suggested today that the sup ply planes to the chinese nationalists on Formosa to bomb red China just As soviet Russia is providing aircraft to the reds in Fulbright proposal was made in an interview As other Congress members defended against British criticism Eisenhower order to the 7th Fleet to free the nationalists for attacks on the chinese John Cooper said he fears the United nations will not do anything effective to end the korean the British do not like but we have to act for ourselves in this Cooper presi Dent Eisenhower action is the least dangerous step we could take right now that promises some re Lief in the British Are Only trying to save Hon Kong and their Commer Cial interests in said rep James Richards for Mer chairman of the House foreign affairs the sooner they realize this is a de Lusion the Surprise soviet move seen by Mansfield 4 ins Michael Mansfield said today the communists May make a Surprise move somewhere n the world to offset the Deneu i realization of a member of the Senj ate foreign relations described president Eisenhower action As psychological warfare on our and added we must be prepared for sible counteraction on the part he chinese communists and their russian might come he far East or in some other of the Clark assails limitations of appeals court continued from Page 1 Sellate court to pass upon and make uniform sentences whether by Way of increase or he Moore died in a Regensburg army Hospital several hours after a mid night Brawl Between soldiers and germans in Dorfner tavern at Burg Leinting during the Moore was hit on the head with a and carried out while Moore Lay on the Dorfner kicked and beat him with a rubber the High court wryly noted it is not surprising that the poor Corporal Dorfner was tried under a Ger Man penal code violation and under amphibious and flown i a h1cog violation for the lower court gave Dorfner two years under the German code charge and three years under the h i c o g suspending one Hico court of appeals Felt constrained to reverse the conviction under the German penal code but gave Dorfner the full three year term under the Hico As Sault sentences compared Clark pointed to two contrasting sentences meted out in Germany in illustrating the softness of Hico one took place in a Hico court and the other in the British zone of a German National stabs and kills an american Soldier because he objects to his daughters marriage with the our trial court gave him six Mirable just received an Appeal in the Clark a British Soldier stabs and kills a German National because the for Mer objects to an indecent assault i the British occupation army ords show that an army court tial condemned him to be Clark 1 if we had the Power to increase sentences we could remedy such in bring about a sound and improve the is ration of Clark c1 i Justice Marc Robin Soto Canh curved in the results of the Clark but he did not concur the protest against the Lack of ability to increase  
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