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Canadians Escaped Miners with Assistance Oi Woman

TORONTO (CPl——'l‘wo Can’:- di.-rns reported to have been. taken hostage by rebellious tin miners at Slglo Veinte. Bolivia. gctuatly eluded the miners with the aid the woman proprie- tor of their staff house. it was learned here.

The story of their escape was brought to Canada by Herbert H. Cox of Toronto. vice-prcsi- dent of Prospection Limited. a firm that has been doing geo- logical and mining survey work in Bolivia since 1960.

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one of Prospection’a sub - con- tractors. Heath and Sherwood Limited of Kirkland Lake, Ont.

Mr. Cox said Brousseau and Faiardeaux managed to eiu the leftist tin miners for six days after their initial escape in

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the staff house. where the min- the

era three times sought them during the night of Dec. 6-7;

As Falardeaux related the story to him later. said Mr. Cox. Brousseau and he wer sought along with other foreign- ers as hostages because the miners became enraged at the arrest by the government of two leaders of their Communist- icd union.

MINERS ARMED

Falardeaux told how a num- ber of armed miners came to the staff house about 9 p.m. and asked the woman proprietor: "Where are the Canadians?" She told them the Canadians had left. and the miners went

away.

But they returned in a more hostile mood about ll_p.m. The. woman met them while the Ca- ; nadians hid beneath a bed. The: miners entered and flushed al

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light about the darkened rooms. but left without making a thor- ough search.

About 3 am. the miners. now drunk and enraged. returned to the staff house. shouting for the Canadians. At the woman's in- struction, Fa-lardeaux and Brousseau hid in a small attic.

Armed with rifles and dyna- mite. the miners forced their way into the staff house and searched it but did not go up to the attic. Falardeaux later told Mr. Cox he believed the miners were frustrated enough at that point to use their guns.

After their experience in the ;

_ staff house the two Canadians‘;

stayed hidden in three different ' places during the next days while making their way to Paz. Bolivia's capital. They ar- rived there Thursday nigfat. LEFT FOR nrzsr i Mr. Cox said he could not re- ;

they finally reached safety. The l pair left Friday for a rest ill Lina. Peru. ‘ Two other Canadians in 30- 1 said to have aa- caped from the miners. took 19 hostages. including foul‘ Americans. in the vi min- ing area lll0 miles southeast of La Paz.

Mr. Cox said that James Mc- Namee. 30. of Kingston. 0nt.. a geologist for Prospection Lim- ited. was asked by the miners

o them 60 miles from _ the Catavl area but simply : turned them down and made his way to La Paz. ‘

Robert Morrison, 37. of Tor- onto heard that the miners were seeking foreign hostages and ea- caped by driving away over« back roads. Morrison is a geo- -logist conducting a survey for the United Nations in the Ca- tavi area.

Norwegian Captain Recounis 8 Days On Rafi; Eight Die

NAMOS. Norway (AP) —— The

‘The last two men of the crew

captain of a Norwegian freigh- ihad died a few hours before.

ter told here how he sur- vived for two days on an open raft while eight companions! died in the brutal cold or were swept to their deaths in raging seas. * Badly frost-bitten when picked up Sunday by a fishing boat off the Norwegian coast. Capt. Ove Joharisen. 43. will recover. said octors at Namdal l-iospital.. Others of the ll-man crew arcl dead or m-lssing and presumedi dead. 1

Johansen said his 850-ton Jo-. nctta was hit by a giant wave: Friday. Deck cargo began to} give way and within minutes‘ the little ship sank. ‘

“'rhere was not even time tot think of using the radio." he said.

Eight of the crew made it to the raft with the captain but a Wave that night washed four men overboard. Two died of the cold Saturday morning. The survivors spotted several fish- ing vessels and some larger ahips but none saw them in the tossing seas.

BIIOUTE-D FOR DAYS ‘'1 shouted and shouted for own days." Joiiansen said. "1 can't see how I managed to keep it up. I can't see how I can still be alive." Sunday he saw a fishing boat.

FISH CANNERY HAS NEW ROLE

STEVESTON. B.C. (CP\.. Workers at the big Steveston Fish Cannery couldn't believe their noses.

It smelled morelike a bak- cry than a fish cannery.

The reason: Part of a 3.220- ton shipment of wheat which accidentally got wet had been brought in for drying under the caiinery's fish dryers.

The idea was that of flour miller Eugene Greczmiel. who brought th bargain price after it got a dunking when the grain ship Irish Rowan. taking it to Ja-

Dan. was ved in a - aion with another ship in Van- couver harbor Nov. 27. Water poured through a gash in the freighter’: side into her wheat holds. Explained Mr. Greel- miel here: "I-‘iah dryers seemed the most logical way

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"i don't know if they heard my shouts or saw the raft." the captain added. “But i hardly dared to believe my own eyes when I saw the vessel turn ward me

“When the rescue came. the raft was only 15 minutes or half an hour from the roaring surf off the Norwegian mast an certain death."

life Insurance Concentration l Highlighted i

OTTAWA (OP)-—The concen tration of life insurance busi- ness in Ontario and Quebec was‘ shown in figure ta-i bled in the Commons at the re: 1 quest of Maurice J. Moreaui ( 1.-'-York-Sc arborough) . . They show that life insurance} companies under federal con‘ trol——that is. companies claim about 95 per cent of the busi» ness in all Canada—have 43.36 per cent. of their total life in- suranca in force in Ontario ano 26.65 per cent in Quebec. ‘ Of their total investment iii‘ provincial bonds at Dec. 31 1962. 29.34 per cent of it wa.~ in Ontario and 27.10 per ccu in Quebec. Of their municipe bond holdings. 60.37 per cent were in Ontario and 16.14 per cent in Quebec. in addition 59.39 per cent of all their mori gages were in Ontario and 23.] per cent in Quebec. Dollar amounts were no- given. These were the percentage. fo

tia 'z.s9 per cent, New Bruns wick 2.05 per cent. Manitoba’ 4.29 per cent. Saskatchewan 3.2‘. ‘ per cent. Alberta 6.72 per cent I British Columbia 8.74 per cent ' Provincial bond investments

—-Newfoundland 1.37 per cent 0'

the total. P.E.I. .54 per ceni

Nova Scotia 3.80 per cent. New. Brunswick 2.58, Manitoba 8.30 Saskatchewan 4.21. Alberta 4.57.

Municipal bond holdings —-, Newfoundland .02 per cent all t

wick .54. Maiiitdba arm. saw, katchewan 4.37. Alberta 8.84; and B.C. 7.91. ;

of salvaging such a large quantity of wheat. The work began Friday and the results have been excellent."

The flour miller. who re- cently won a ss,ooo.ooo order for flour from the Soviet Un- ion. said the wheat-worth about 5225.000 before it was

human consumption. But it

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