13 Dec 1956
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 13, 1956
Page
1
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Reports from Vienna via United Press describe Budapest as gripped by a nationwide general strike and warnings from Premier Kadar that counter revolutionaries will face no mercy. Moscow Radio says tram lines are blown, workers are arrested, and police with Soviet troops fire to disperse gatherings as Budapest authorities crack down.
Rioters clashed in Warsaw with militiamen after an arrest of a drunken person sparked a failed attempt to approach the Soviet Consulate. Demonstrators included students and workers aided by a new workers militia formed amid Soviet moves in Hungary.
Belgrade reports that Western correspondents are excluded from the Milovan Djilas trial on charges of hostile propaganda against the state. The secret hearing and attendance rule limit access to Djilas family and public workers, amid political tension around Yugoslavia’s foreign policy.
Lieutenant G Moorhouse of Leeds, a national serviceman, was seized at gunpoint in Port Said. Reports claim he may be dead per AP and Reuters quotes, while Gen Stockwell questions certainty and presses for hostage status amid nine Egyptian arrests.
A group of Sydney University students dressed as spacemen entered the Civic Theatre foyer at interval with a robot and abducted a young woman who accompanied them quietly as patrons watched in confusion. The show featured Forbidden Planet.
A. Sneckkus, leader of Lithuania's Communist Party, admitted that the Hungarian revolt increased nervousness among Baltic State Communist leaders and blamed reactionaries for rising opposition. He acknowledged serious mistakes in Lithuania's national policies under Soviet control.
In Paris NATO ministers conducted a second day of talks focused on Soviet penetration fears and Middle East policy. Key discussions involved US Secretary of State Dulles and Britain's Lloyd and France's Rene Pleven, with planned talks on closer NATO Baghdad Pact links and Suez Canal policy.
Sydney reports on union ballots and ALP influence amid AEU and Commonwealth Council contests. Figures like Arthur Horsburgh and J T Kane are noted, with warnings of Communist gains and industrial lawlessness implied by 1945 49 tensions and Evatt ALP actions.
Pan American Airways DC-7C flew 3,450 miles from New York to Prestwick in eight hours and four minutes setting a new record. The previous mark stood at eight hours and ten minutes.
A scaffolding collapse on Harris Street in Bonds Junction injured three, including Thomas Werry 67 Cecily Neal 70 and Hi Agnew 43. Werry reportedly tried to shield pedestrians as beams fell. All were treated at Fastern Suburog Hospital and discharged.
Raiders believed to be Irish Nationalists attacked an army barracks at Armagh and damaged a BBC relay transmitter in Londonderry as part of coordinated strikes across Ulster. A constable was wounded and four raiders were arrested after exchanges of fire at the Armagh site. An explosion at Londonderry blew the roof off a radio station building three miles from the border.
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