European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday May 30,1990 surplus sales Wiesbaden West Germany defense re utilization and marketing office officials have announced a property auction for tuesday in Kaiserslautern. The Public is invited to the auction which will be held in area 100 near the former Auto strip Yard. Bid Der registration begins at 8 . With the auction starting at 9 . Vehicles up for bid include Mer cedes Benz Volkswagen and Dodge trucks carry All vans an ambulances. Also available will be jeep trailers engine steam clean ers gasoline engines and assorted Auto parts. Other merchandise include forklifts Drill presses welding torches table saws lathes Genera Tor sets drafting tables Micro Scopes Hydraulic jacks and As sorted plumbing and electrical equipment. Also available will be compute equipment film projectors video disk players tool cabinets hand tools air conditioning units an Kitchen items. Interested people May inspect property today and thursday from 8 . To noon and from 1 . To 3p.m., and on Friday from 8 . To noon. No inspection will be held on monday which is a German Holiday. Payments May be in dollars or Marks. Items will be sold new or As is and All sales Are final. Customers will have eight working Days to remove purchases. Additional information is Avail Able by calling ets 483-8691 or German civilian 0631-40307. Demo employees and their family members Are not permitted to take part in this event. Dutch offer $52,000 Reward in Ira slayings of australians Roermonde Netherlands a dutch police alerted Border guards offered a Reward and investigated dozens of tips tuesday but they were unable to determine the identity of the Ira killers of two australian tourists. The Irish Republican  claimed responsibility for sunday night s shooting of the two australians saying it tragically mistook them for British servicemen. The victims were driving a British registered car and the attack took place in a District of this Southern dutch City frequented by British soldiers stationed i nearby West Germany. Investigators said up to 20 people witnessed the shootings but no one has been Able to give them a Good description of the killers of Stephen Melrose and Nick Spanos australian citizen who lived in London. National police spokesman Lou Ssteens said about 40 tips had come in since police offered a $52,000 Reward late monday for information leading to arrests in the slayings. In Australia prime minister Bob Hawke on tuesday condemned the killings and denounced the Ira s description of the two As accidental victims of War. This sort of warped logic of War casualties adds insult to a mortal injury Hawke said. Although dutch police immediately alerted Border guards it is Only a 10 minute drive from Roermonde to the nearest belgian and West German Bor Der Crossings and the belgian Border i virtually unguarded. Steens told reporters at National police Headquarters that investigators believed it was sheer coincidence that the australians arrived just As an Ira hit squad was seeking a target. Roermonde s cafe District was the site of another Ira attack in 1988. Melrose 24, was shot As he was pre paring to take a picture of the floodlit town Hall. Spanos 28, was shot inside their car. Melrose s wife Lyndal 29, and Span of Girlfriend Vicky Coss 24, were uninjured. They fled screaming for help according to eyewitnesses. Steens said the two women had re turned to London and their condition instill very  they Are in heavy Shock he said. He refused to provide certain detail about the attack such As the number of bullets fired or the weapons used. Roermonde residents Laid a Wreath and attached White and Pink carnations to police fences surrounding the shooting site in their historic Market Square. A Chalk out line of Melrose s body was still visible. There Are far More eyewitnesses of the shooting than in 1988, when the Ira killed three off duty British servicemen in coordinated attacks Here and in nieu Bergen 30 Miles to the North said teens. But witnesses to this attack Dis agree on the number and description of the Ira gunmen he said. Mine exploded prematurely  says off rpt a d to via i la nor a q. It a i i i t. Vii corps Soldier killed by High Speed train Forth West Germany a Vii corps Soldier stationed in Herzo Genau rach was struck and killed by a High Speed German train Early sunday a Community spokesman said tuesday. The 22-year-old Soldier was apparently walking along the tracks when he was struck by the train travelling More than60 Miles per hour. A companion notified military police of the Accident which occurred near William o. Darby Cavern. The victim was assigned to the 5th in 17th Field arty. His name is being with held until his family is notified. German and american authorities Are investigating the Accident. 3 gunmen grab Antiques from shops near louvre Paris a three armed robber stole $900,000 Worth of antique jewelry sunday from a luxury shopping Arcade across from the louvre Art museum police said. The robbery occurred about 11 ., As Many of the 240 antique shops Art galleries and jewelry stores in the Arcade known As the louvre Des Antiquaries were opening. The masked gunmen surprised the owner of one of the jewelry shops As he arrived for work completed the robbery within a few minutes and fled without firing shots. Correction Stuttgart West Germany is an anti personnel mine that detonated monday injuring 10, exploded be fore the soldiers had time to take cover a Vii corps spokeswoman said tuesday. The Accident occurred at about 2 .at the Wil Flecken training area while soldiers from cob 9th engr in were conducting demolitions training. The initial indications Are that thymine exploded after being prepared for destruction but prior to the Soldier reaching the Safe area Hilda Goodhand said. The mine had a 33-Yard casualty Radi us she said. All 10 soldiers were hospitalized two with serious injuries. The injured sol Diers were taken to military and civilian hospitals in Frankfurt Fulda Schwein Furt and Wiir Burg Goodhand said. The two most seriously injured sol Diers were identified As staff sgt. David Evans 30, of Earlville n.y., and 2nd  Nataro 24, of los Angeles. Goodhand declined to describe the extent of the soldiers injuries. The battalion has stopped training soviet Admiral admits Accident on nuclear sub near Norway on that Engineer qualification area said capt. Anda Strauss another corp spokeswoman. The incident is under investigation she said. Other soldiers injured in the blast were pfc. Radish Baldeo 22, Kissimmee Fla. Pvt. 2 Alan Cote 18, Woon socket . Sgt. Joel Ellis 33, Killeen Texas sgt. Dretsel Johnson 28, Bato Rouge la. Pfc. Patrick Montplaisir 21, Fargo . Sgt. 1st class Wayne Pas qua 34, Ewa Beach Hawaii staff  Rios 28, Watsonville Calif. And staff sgt. Frank Thomas 26, Detroit. Oslo Norway a a nuclear submarine suffered a mis Hap near Norway last december a soviet Admiral confirmed on tuesday but he denied reports that the submarine leaked Radia Tion. A soviet youth newspaper re ported in february that a submarine spread radioactive contamination after a reactor or atomic missile Accident. I can confirm that a nuclear submarine was involved in a mechanical failure situation but it made it to land under its own Power. There was no danger to the Crew and no danger of a radiation leak said . Alexei Sorokin at a news conference inthe soviet embassy. Our youth newspapers some times sensationalize things said Sorokin speaking at the end of a we Klong trip during which he toured norwegian military bases. He said the mishap occurred345 Miles from land in an area Between the Barents sea and the norwegian sea but he gave no further details. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Sigrid rom Undset said Norway asked Moscow to explain the report published in the Komsomol Skaya pravda Magazine two months after the incident. The soviets replied that a ballistic missile crashed into the White sea dec. 5 after failed training launch. The submarine was undamaged and there was no Radia Tion. Norway a member of the nato Alliance complained that the soviets failed to Issue adequate warnings after three other accidents aboard nuclear submarines last year. But rom Undset said the de Cember incident was probably not serious enough that we would expect to be  in the worst previous Case a submarine Sank in the norwegian sea on april 7, 1989, kill ing 42 soviet sailors. Heidelberg journalist Dies after struggle with cancer Heidelberg West Germany the  s top civilian print journalist for 1989died Friday after a yearlong fight with cancer a Heidelberg Community spokesman said tuesday. Shaun Gearo had been a staffer on the Heidelberg her-1aid Post and med com examiner news j papers. He was 42. A graduate of Britain s Hull University Gearon enlisted in the . Army in 1978 and served at what is now the 1st person Shaun Gearon Nel come in Schwet Zingen West  leaving the service Gearon worked for the  s printing and publications office in Hei Delberg before joining the Herald Post in 1983. He is survived by his wife Elfriede of Heidel Berg his Mother Eleanor Gearon of Odiham eng land and Sisters Mary Rose Gearon of Florence Italy and Katherine Kitty Gearon of London. Funeral services will be held in England on Friday. A memorial service in Heidelberg has not yet been scheduled. Go killed in collision of car tractor trailer a unit identification was wrong yesterday in a photo caption accompanying a Story on Slang. The soldiers were Mem Bers of 5th in 1 7th Field arty Mannheim West Germany a 24 year old Soldier was killed last week after the car he was driving crossed the Center line of a Roadway and collided with an on coming German tractor trailer. Spec. Jeffrey m. Perry assigned to the 202nd support in at Coleman Barracks in Mannheim died May 22 in a Mannheim clinic after being flown there by a Rescue helicopter. Perry a native of Chicago was driving a military Volkswagen bus be tween Lamper theim and Hutte Feldon May 22 when the collision occurred. After the Lamper theim fire depart ment removed him from the vehicle with Metal cutters he was flown to Mannheim and treated for severe head injuries and internal trauma. The truck Driver and a German woman who collided with the rear of Perry s bus were treated for minor in juries at the Hospital and released. Perry is survived by his parents Elinor and Jefferson Perry of Chicago