European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday october 18, 1967 the stars and stripes tanks or very heavy artillery log 3 hooded shapes in red rail Yard Puzzle . Washington a .intelligence experts Are puzzling Over mysterious shrouded shapes spotted in a communist chinese rail Yard just above the North vietnamese Border. At first some experts though the shapes might be tanks Cov ered by tarpaulins on rail Flat cars. But sources say there is growing belief the objects May be heavy self propelled Artil Lery possibly bigger than any guns yet used by the North Viet namese. . Marines at con Thien Al ready have been battered by communist artillery from North of the Boundary separating North Vietnam from South Viet Nam. About eight Tarpaulin covered objects Are among the mass of Materiel which . Authorities said has been been building up in the big rail Complex of p ing Hsiang which lies on the important train line Between Hanoi and Nanning in South China. Officials said the chinese obviously have been stockpiling supplies and rolling Stock at ing Hsiang in preparation for the extended period of bad weather now closing in. Under cover of this heavy rain and Clouds the communists can Hope to move supplies Over the b a 11 e r e d but repaired rail line to Hanoi while foul weather badly Ham pers . Bombing. Sources said self propelled artillery has been reported being unloaded from soviet ships i chinese ports. Some government source said there Are indications the soviets May be bypassing the port of Haiphong with War material and Landing it instead in red China for shipment by rail and truck to North Viet Nam. The shapes which appear . Reconnaissance photos Are of the dimensions of either tanks or heavy self propelled artillery sources said. As always they would not discuss the Ori Gin of the pictures. One source said it looked although the guns under the shroud might be somewhere be tween 140 and 160 Millimetres. Marine authorities in Washington have said the biggest guns known to be firing at Conthier Are about 130 Millimetres. Such guns could reach about 18miles South of the Ben Hai River Boundary Between North an South Vietnam covering much of the important Marine front and extending to a Point just above the City of Quang Tri. Recently Pentagon officials said somewhere around 70 communist artillery pieces have been bombarding these Marin positions. Ordnance officers suggested the mystery weapons possibly awaiting movement South from ing Hsiang could be 152 Milli meter soviet heavy assault guns. These have about a 20-Milereach and hurl a heavier projectile than the artillery the communists now have trained on con Thien. Ted Kennedy Pentagon clash Over data Washington up m. Kennedy a mass said monday he had secret de sense department data showing the Viet Cong were having in creasing Success recruiting guerrillas in South Vietnam. The de sense department denied it. William p. Bundy assistant Secretary of state for far East Ern affairs also said Kennedy figures were inaccurate. He said another study nearing completion indicated the Viet Cong actually Are finding it harder to recruit in the South. Their Exchange came during hearings before Kennedy s sen ate subcommittee on has charged the United states is not doing enough to help vietnamese refugees and civilian War refused to make his recruitment figures Public. He said they still were classified by the Pentagon which would have to give permission for their publication. In a statement later the Pentagon said the footnotes on the charts provided to Kennedy clearly pointed out the infiltration data for the last three to six months is needed to assess in filtration accurately. Therefore the figures on these tables for the last six months cannot be used to indicate any data about Viet Cong Kennedy said the figure showed that Viet Cong recruit ment was returning to its High Levels of 1965 and that the United states was losing the other War to win the allegiance of the vietnamese. That much sweeter sure a spoonful of sugar or ice Cream helps the Medicine go Down and a subscription to is makes the Day that much sweeter. Stripes delivered to your Home everyday Early including holidays is the Way to read the news in a most delightful Way circulation office phone numbers Germany Berlin Civ 739368 Bremerhaven Civ 45341, Mil 7661frankfurt, Civ 06108-20-17, Mil Offenbach 755 Kalaea lantern Civ 5117, Mil Vogel Weh 7050mannheim. 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Mrs. Krupp recently sold her518-acre ranch near Las vegas to industrialist Howard Hughes for a Price that assert edly ranged from $600,000 dollars to$1.1 million. Mrs. Krupp had been encouraged to buy the ranch As a diversion. She brought the prop erty in 1954 and sued Krupp for divorce. At the time he report edly was Worth $250 million. The ranch was the scene in1959, of a Well publicized Rob Bery. Three men bound and her Foreman and escaped with the Krupp Diamond valued at $250,000. The Gem was recovered in Elizabeth n.j., by Federal agents. Seven men were convicted in connection with the theft. Present alms bunnies hop for salvation army London up the Salva Tion army has ventured boldly into Bunny land and has emerged party to one of the year s most original management of London s Plush Playboy club obligingly agreed to put its entire staff of curvaceous Bunny girls to work for the salvation ers during the army s newest Charity object to raise $2.8 Mil lion for 28 new social project throughout Britain. Despite raised eyebrows Sal vation army representatives said they saw nothing in 26 planes destroyed by fire in Brazil Sao Paulo Brazil a Twenty six Light planes were destroyed by a fire which swept through the Sao Paulo air club Over the were no injuries in the Blaze which reportedly started when a student Pilot lit his cigarette lighter in the cockpit Ofa plane. Damage was estimated at several Hundred thousand dollars. Toward in the working partner ship with the Alliance was sealed officially monday afternoon at a news conference held in the Dee Blue carpeted inner vaults up stairs at the Playboy club in London s fashionable m a y f a i District. Representing the salvation Nersas Captain Joy Webb Leader of the Joy strings the army s official pop group. Under the plan Captain Joy guitar strumming group which some time Back made a splashing the pop world with a revivalist Type pop hit will give three performances at the Playboy club. They will solicit contributions to the army fund from the Well heeled Joy at the press con Ference and looking proper forthe occasion was Bunny Marta Norgaard. More bunnies dressed in surprisingly non mini skirts and baggy sweaters circulated Toad fro handing out multicoloured hippy Type badges on which we reprinted the words be an Angel give one
