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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 14, 1957
Page
1
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Article reports shock over Macmillan’s cabinet selections sparking broad debate in Britain. It notes opposition from some Conservatives and Queen involvement in appointing the prime minister’s team. Foreign Secretary Lloyd go into new post as part of the shift and Max Lerner criticizes imperial decline.
Fire roars east of Goulburn threatening Jingonia and Marulan as volunteers and brigades from Griffith, Piton, Oakdale, Tahoiwer and The Oaks form firebreaks along the Nattai River. About 250 acres grazed property destroyed near Kula Station seven miles from Griffith while winds shift, hampering containment in Tumut and Nundrota districts with risks to Picton Oakdale and Urragorang Valley.
Fires raged across Willunga Muponga Enddleworth districts about 50 miles from Adelaide and were reported under control. Ten acres of low scrub burned at Montacute before volunteers halted it. Elliston on the West Coast still had a fire burning since Wednesday with control not yet achieved.
Sydney beachgoers aided by lifeguards at Collaroy as sand collapse and undertow sent crowds fleeing into the sea. Surf life savers reported multiple rescues at Dee Why Cronulla and Bondi with two shark sightings and a capsizing incident injuring a lifesaver. Temperature reached 54 at 2 15 pm.
Pilot John Trendtell of Bankstown and passenger Thea Van Der Meer of Matraville escaped serious harm when their Tiger Moth ran out of fuel over Lithgow. The craft clipped power lines, struck a roadway, and narrowly missed several houses before crashing. Both men were treated at Lithgow Hospital for observation.
Foxes are believed to be increasing in numbers in the ACT and have killed poultry recently. Some grazier groups are organizing shooting parties to reduce the fox population as a suspected cause is a decline in rabbit numbers from myxomatosis.
In Belfast and County Armagh police arrested over 100 men believed to belong to the outlawed Irish Republican Army. About 30 were interned under the Special Powers Act aimed at stamping out the organization. Bridges were blown and roads blocked on the border as engineers sealed routes.
Eyewitness accounts cite about 50 militia and 20 Russians dead in a Tatabanya clash near Budapest, with reports of other confrontations around Bakonybal and Lake Balaton. The unrest follows Soviet warnings to miners to resume work, while police cordon areas and militias confront partisan bands. Demonstrations in Budapest leave at least two dead as mines reportedly appear along the Hungarian Yugoslav frontier. Reuter reports eight university student leaders arrested on the eve of a planned Hungarian Students’ Federation meeting.
Yemeni officials urged the United States to stop Britain's aggression in the Yemen Aden area. British officials denied the claim, stating Yemen launched the aggression. The State Department planned to discuss the complaint with British authorities as fighting neared 100 deaths, including foreigners, amid troop reinforcements to Aden.
Three men died on Victorian roads over the weekend. Trevor Flynn, 36, of Kilmore East, died at Kilmore Hospital after his car overturned on Kilmore-Lancefield Road four miles from Kilmore. Passengers Robert Allan of Kilmore and Henry Fot of Box Hill were treated for injuries. Walter Reginald Howard, 26, of Geelong, died in a collision with a truck on Princes Highway near Winchelsea. A motorcyclist was killed when his machine lost control on a Dier Highway Fairfield.
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