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NEW DELHI (CP)—Wild jet | battles raged all day and bomb- fers carried death and destruc- tion to Pakistani and Indian cities Tuesday in a fiercely es- ealating air war.
On the ground, India’s major thrust into West Pakistan ap peared stalled.
Air raid sirens howled for 10 minutes in blacked - out New Delhi early today before the all- clear sounded in the Indian cap- ital. There was no immediate
on ae lines cihdline tes successful. Mike Dearth, <s explanation. But Indian — length of the dock. Men bat- year-old West Palm Beach boy | Were expecting to be hit in ne thing high winds and waves entered the water to help with | es — ies ie
are trying to throw “ropes the ropes" but was biffeted by raid on aa ‘akid- around the Thasts to pull them winds and waves. tan's capital of gag - off the wires but-as of late (AP Wirephoto) Air battles swir' a
'Tuesday up and down India’s frontier with West Pakistan and —1,000 miles away—along sec-
Florida
Long Seige From Betsy.
MIAMI, Fla. (AP)—Hurricane Betsy slashed and pounded the ~farfied resort city of Nassau in the Bahamas for hours Tuesday, then aimed her ferocious winds toward the populous southeast Florida coast.
After stalling near the Baham-
jan_capital for more than 12! ADVISE
hours,..the mighty storm began churning inexorably westward
on Florida’s east coast to Fortjcially between Fort. Lauderdale said power lines were claimed to have destroyed 16) Pierce and around the tip of the'and Key Largo and persons on 'streets and roads flooded and) Pakistani U.S.-made planes and
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OTTAWA (CP) .— Creditiste
paign for the Nov. 8 election “Tuesday: : Liberal “party of doing more harm to national unity than Que- bec’s separatisis.
Mr. -Caouette, speaking on a National television and radio hookup shortly after: Prime Min- ister Pearson’s election an- founcement, said he thought the prime minister would hold off a national vote until after redis- tribution of Commons seats. j
“But we’ are ready for an elec- tion and we are willing to face one Nov. 8. I'll be campaigning in—Quebec—-with —-75-—Creditiste~ Candidates in 75 ridings.”
Mr. Caouette slanimed the prime minister for listing meas- ures. to promote national unity | as one reason why the current minority government wants to seek a majority.
“We all know, especially in) the province of Quebec, that the! Liberal party, which the prime minister leads, has done more to! harm national ‘unity between) Quebec and the rest of Canada! than anyone else, even the separatists in Quebec.”
tions of the eastern India-East Pakistan border.
Besides Rawalpindi, bombs fell on Karachi, Pakistan's chief seaport, and on Indian cities in Punjab, adjacent to long-dis- puted Kashmir, where the
Told To Expect
dians said they met heavy re- civilians in and“ around the ‘sistance is only two miles inside Punjab state cities of Amritsar Pakistan. Lahore, holy city of and Jullundur. Unofficial _re-
Moslems, is 15 miles inside ports said Ferozepore, 50 miles Pakistan. southwest of Amritsar, also was The Indians charged Paki- bombed and 14 persons were
stani planes bombed and strafed killed.
- Pakistan Gets China Backing
| PEKING (Reuters) — China istan proper Monday is not only \has pledged firm support for |‘'a crude violation of all princl- Pakistan in its conflict with In- ple«: guiding international rela- dia and poured scorn.on Usilted tions but also constitutes o Nations efforts to halt the fight- grave threat to peace in this ing on the Asian subcontinent. part of /sia.” - Condemning India as @B ag- The statement added: ‘Thm gressor, a Chinese gov Chinese government sternly con | statement published by New demns India for its-criminal ag- China news agency Y gression, expresses firm support said.the UN has again proved for Pakistan in its just struggle it is biased and a “‘tool of United | States imperialism.”
warns the
move- criminal and extended aggres-
Key Dates
Death And Destruction Carried {Xt 2a To Cities In India, Pakistan
OTTAWA (CP) -- Chronology of key dates for the Nov. 8 federal general election:
Sept. 7: Prime Minister Pearson obtains consent of governor-general for dissolu- tion of Parliament and nounces voting date.
Sept. 20 - 25: Enumeration of estimated 19,700,000 voters.
Oct. 12: Nomination day in 71 far-flung ridings.
Oct. 21-23: Revision of vet- | ers lists in urban areas Oct | 21 only in rural ridings:
Oct. 25: Nomination day ‘in remaining 242 ridings.
Oct: 30 and Nov. 1: Advance | polls. Nov. 14: Armed forces vote.
Noy. 8: Civilian vote, 8 a.m, to 7 p.m local standard time
New Delhi ‘Is Bombed
From Reuters-AP NEW DELHT (CP) —
Pakis- against aggression and solemnly | tani aircraft staged a bombing Indian government raid on New Delhi ear'v today
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union, that it must bear responsibility’ and one Pakistani aircraft was China’s ideological opponent in for all the consequences of its shot down, an Indian- defence
night by" aecusiig= the" Tlie a song of Quebec in
| resort.
spreading conflict started a month ago. : | Jet bombers and streaking e world
iy , \fighters sought each other out to Florida peninsula and north| islands, keys and along beaches in combat over. wide sections of | along the west coast to Venice. | subject to flooding by tides six) both countries and with rockets, “The westward trend. during | to—10.-feet.above—normal should bombs ~ and ne-guns “hit at the past few hours -has markedly |evacuate at. once.’ | airports,—b s, -roads,- tanks. increased -the likelihood of Hur-| The hurricane left NassaulEach side charged that the, X@shmir. ricane Betsy striking the ex-|ravaged by towering tides and! other hit defenceless -civilians. treme southeast Florida coast,” | winds that went Screaming | the U.S. weather bureau said. | through the quaint city of 50,000 Indian planes destroyed, inc ¢_ EVACUATION ta€=150 miles an ‘hour. 24 in one battle over ‘High seas and tides will In- |
jerease during the night, espe- radio station ZNS in Nassau,! south. of Rawalpindi. India useful.”
DISCUSS WAR,
;some. houses in the | conceded the loss of eight Indian } planes. -
_city on ‘New Providence Island. He described damage as s@-
hore front Monday stalied. One point where the In-) \dia of
U Thant Gets | against Pakistan Set To Leave ve |
centre of the 590-mile-long }
‘the city went back into a black-
out caused by power failures. ening India-Pakistan war,
other islands in the north)
| from oe and at
The Creditiste Jeader said that | Bahamas chain that took a fear-| UNITED NATIONS (AP) —|
“the same song everywhere.” icati U.S. Ambassador Arthur J./ ‘Oi communications. blackout. _.-eseeeg and othe UN diplo- = Whfle still astride Nassau, | { ; mats before departure Tuesday } Betsy huried gale winds across - on his mission to end the | more than a 100 miles of ocean fighting between India and Pak-| to the South Florida. coast,!istan. where gusts reached 60 miles Thant will arrive in Rawal-| an hour and continued elimbing.|pindi, the Pakistan capital, | -, Thursday, then proceed to New) PREDICTS SIEGE Dethi. A UN spokesman said he) “Florida is in for a long a en — So ae iege.”” said Gordon chief |!em Pal and mainly ju : ; ara jeeunater at an audtner 08 that Thant, who is a Bud- Countries have agreed to throw
e | from el.|their full support behind U bureau here, “We thust be re-/Ghist from Burma, will be wel: 7) United Nations secretary
Confederation. I can’t see a (Continued on page 3 Col. 7)
Convention Postponed
OTTAWA (OP)—Prime Minis- ter Pearson knocked out the an-
BY HAROLD MORRISON LONDON (CP)—Britain, Can- ada and other Commonwealth
nual convention of the Young |conciled to a prolonged period |r Phent planned-—a~—brief- stop---general,-in-his efforts-to..halt. the and_Arnold. Smith, the Canadian | _«y-42.trapped~by-the -flood—~-in announcing a” fall” election. ~
Liberat~Federation™ of "Canada “of ‘Warnings and threats. Betsy. in Londoa is| India-Pakistan war, a high with his announcement Tuesday may be ‘around for several erie from New York. He wilt | Commonwealth official —_said night.of_an_election—on—Nov.-8.—-days."" go to Rawalpindi. via Karachi! Tuesday.
Less than two hours after Mr... At least three times, Betsy/by commercial airliner. Ar- While Britain has been study- Pearson's broadcast on a na- had thrashed’ to a ‘halt’ in its|rangements for his flight to New. ing reports of the offer by Jomo tional hookup. Liberal party
ment, urged India and Pakistan sion.” stop military operations im- mediately , apd withdraw their troops beyond the UN ceasefire \line in the | disputed state of
The news a — Pakistan claimed a total of 46 ing the Russian plea from Mos- , Said the Soviet government 44. “always had an ill fame”
| ing ted .its good offices -to the Calsey Johnson, a reporter for godha, in Pakistan 250 miles two parties if they deemed it The spread of fighting in both \India and Pakistan proper is a,
Chinese Premier Chou Fn-lai| tween the, two countries received Pakistani Ambassador Kashmir. IN. A. M.-Raza Tuesday and dis- — But beyond the expression of»
° es = 8 . | : In the ground fighting, India’s’ the Indo-Pakistam con- Caouette Says Liberals =.= "S22 racers eo <* munications were disrupted ‘and | eanks aot, tnteairy ‘96: Ge Le. In its first public statement on ise any concrete aid measures. 2 the undeclared but. rapidly-wid- p the United Nations has once again
| Chinese government accused In- ‘proved a tool of U.S. imperial- “criminal aggression"
It said India’s attack on Pak, world,” it said.
the official said
aimless wandering across- the) Delhi will be announced later. ‘Kenyatta, Kenya's president, to’
headquarters announced an in- definite postponement of the meeting to free Young Liberals for... campaign. preparations.
The convention had — been scheduled for Thursday. Friday and Saturday of this week in St. Andrews, N.B. A spokesman said_an attempt. would be made | to reschedule the meeting for early December, not necessarilv at the New Brunswick seaside
Atlantic Ocean. This added diffi- | culty to the job of forecasting! 3 — the storm's movement. ; “a
“The hurficane is. moving) “7 4 iS we:tward about five m.p.h. and ks may accelerate,’ the weather 3 bureau said and added it now) appears the centre could reach; | the ‘Florida coast early this morning. '
The storm's peak winds were (4 clocked at 145 m_p.h. .
Seven Men Re
‘n Explosion At Bridge Site
TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. (CP);
Civi! protection authorites said |place in the caisson’s decom-
seven men were killed Tuesday in an explosion on a bridge con- struction project near Trois Rivieres
_At least eight men were tn- Jured in the explosion, which oc- curred in a caisson 85 feet under
the surface of the St. Lawrence |signed
River.
There wer- reports that other men were missing, but these were Hot immediately con- firmed.
Civil protection authorities
said 31 men were working in
the caisson.— an air-pressured j|by radio stations as far away the time of the blast.|as Montreal.
cell—at They were said to be working |
Gales extended for 300 miles, @ in ali directions from the storm's centre, tossing - six-foot waves onto South Florida’s! beaches. | =
In Cuba, too, hurricane prep-| — arations were under way. |
The hurricane brought drama at sea when a Dutch freighter! with 11 persons aboard it watin danger of being hurled) aground on Egg Island in the! Bahamas: is
A massive rescue_effort was, mounted, then called off when | the captain of the Sarah Eliza-| beth advised the US. Coast) Guard here he hgd made it _ safely out of the worst of the) ~ storm. |
INSIDE TODAY
ported Killed
The explosion apparently took
pression chamber.
The bridge, on its scheduled completion in 1967, would span the river from a_ point west of Trois-Rivieres to St. Gregoire on the south shore.
It is a $30,000,000 project, de- to extend 5,000 feet. Trois-Rivieres is 80 miles north- ‘east of Montreal.
The caisson involved had |three levels. Catise of the blast was not immediately known
*Helicopters hovered over the scene of the accident, sent there
The men in the caisson were said to have been wearing life- |
a er
ministry spokesman said.
The spokesman said the at- \¢acking aircraft caused rio dam age pare
SNEERS AT UN oat
As UN Secretary-General U Thant prepared to fly to the taiis of how the Pakistani air- subcontinent from New York’ craft was fe down or —
Tuesday—nightin—an_-effort- to—many planes were involved in|.
mediate the —bitter-dispute,the- the raid: i
Chinese statement. said the UN. The spokesman said Gorn reine also had been made on Haiwara airport in*the Junjab during the night but there was ho damage.
on the Kashmir question.
result of the 48-year conflict be-
“= More Hikers Reach Safety
ZION NATIONAL PARK Utah (AP)—Tired, wet and hun- gry, 16 more hikers trudged out of the muddy Virgin River in Zion Narrows Tuesday after be- ing trapped since Sunday by a \flash flood in the narrow south- ‘ern. Utah -gorge.——
“If there was
firm support for Pakistan, the Chinese statement did not prom-
“In the Kashmir question, the
ism and its partners in their attempt to control the whole
anybody
a o ‘ leader Caovette fired his first while his party will ‘confine its fyi beating from the hurricane, |Secretary.General _U_Thant held 9. k ities ssaelncacaslls SES) there wie didn't betiewe ine God, + 4shot_-+0f..- a~Quebee-only--—cam-~-activity-to-Quebec~ it will tave""* Their fate was hidden by the |last - minute conferences with fl ain f lhe does now,” said Les Frazin
Supporting U Thant
=tot-Los Angeles, one of five Cali-[ fornia outdoorsmen earlier |isted | '
The five stood on a ledge with jwater up to their knees, clung to trees or hid under a water- ‘ fall during the flood’s fury. : mediate the spreading conflict, | Nine other Utah holiday hik- | the bulk of the |ers, including four men and five Commonwealth feels Than t | children, still were in the gorge. should be given full support ni|One man had an injured leg; his appeal for a ceasefire. ithe others were reported in
Both Prime Minister . Wilson good condition, but low on food.
ie ‘missing.
born Commonwealth secretary-| including 17 who walked out
general, conferred with the In-' Monday — were accounted for. ¢housande—will_be—disfranchised..
dian and-Pakistani~high~com-|Wost, are from Utah, the rest missioners pleading for an im-|¢om California. mediate end to the tank-and-| ponsining behind
in the (Continued on page 3 Col. a Saale was Iron County Sheriff
|Otto Fife, a veteran ‘of many trips down the narrow’ canyon }which rises_as_high_as -1,500-feet- » \and as close together as a hand's réach in places.
.| Zion National Park officials f sent help to Fife and his eight- * | member party who began work- * jing down the canyon in swift | ; water that was up to the arm-
pits in. spots.
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‘| OTTAWA ‘CP)—Social Credit leader Thompson accused |Prime Minister Pearson Tues- j|day night of political opportu-
8.
| He said in a television broad- |¢ast the politifal strategists without regard for the interests of the country have been lis- tened to by Mr. Pearson Not one of the prime minis- 5: | ter’s arguments in favor—of—an election holds water, he said. In . |fecent weeks. Mr. Pearson .: |“poured so much political blar- | Mey and dish water into the ‘sink #1 be had no alternative but to pull the plug.” : He said Mr. Pearson will face | some rude jolts. He had man-
nism in calling an election Nov.
Majority Gov't Said Necessary
OTTAWA (CP)—Dissolution of
Parliament for a federal general, ~~ +> os election Monday, Nov. 8 was an-| me Oo nounced Tuesday night by Prime c Minister Pearson. walt
Mr. Pearson said he does not, | 4 think the govérnment can follow | : any steady course if there are! day-to-day uncertainties about-it having a majority in Parliament to get things done.
“L-believe that this decision is in the national interest. I be- lieve that the Canadian people want to solve the big problems; to get on with the important tasks facing them; to get on with the job of building the new Canada.”
The prime minister told a na- tion-wide television. and radio audience that he has asked Gov- ernor-General V>nier to dissolve | Parliament immediately so that: there can be a general election ‘Nov. 8. =
| NEED MAJORITY “For this high purpose, they can best. be served by a govern- ment at Ottawa which has the confidence of Canadians in ‘every part of the country, as cepresented by a majority . of supporters. in the House of Com- mons.’* The prime minister saved the
MR. PEARSON
an election only after long con | sideration of what was best for the national interest.
Mr. Pearson said the election will be conducted on the basis of present constituencies. before redistribution alters them.
He said he had been informed | by responsible officials. that the
date until the last sentence Of | would be October, 1966, and then his ‘address. i ‘only if everything went _ —“The- ‘sentence said: '“‘There- smoothly as possible. = fore, there = ef a federal 4“ more- realistic date under election on Nov. 8. ; istributi ld be earl Commons standing at dissolu- Sos en . | tion was: ‘ ; | ; ‘ ta Mr. Pearson said many im-. ah IM, Comets portal proiems remand Creditines 13° Social Credit.-9: | ReW_ones have developed since | tadeiieadent --2,~ vacant 4-totat/ the Liberals took office. The 265 ‘Liberals had policies to deal The Liberals have two fewer. with these problems. . seats and the Conservatives five, Nomination day will be Mon-
- jday, Oct. 25, in 242 of the 263 | fewer than on April. 8, 1963, date f ‘ ; j a ef the last. election. federal constituencies and Tues-
: : day, Oct. 12, in the other 21 rid-
The Nov. 8 election will be ings The latter is on the Tues- the fifth’ general electign im gay hecause- of the Thanksgiv- eight years. ing holiday on Monday, Oct. 11. WILL DO MORE _ Erumeration of the estimated
10,700, lect ill, start Mr. Pearson said he is confi- nae = heat oo Sept. 25, re- dent that more will be done in| Chief, Electoral Officer | Parliament with a majority _gov- Nelson Castonguay:
ernment. Polling hours will be 8 a.m.
Dief Declares
| Pearson Afraid
OTTAWA (CP) — Opposition assured of this majority by the Leader Diefenbaker said Tues- three smaller opposition parties day night Pr&me Minister Pear-’
has aboin ical disre SAYS PM AFRAID | ea oe rR agag e Mr. Diefenbaker said Mgr.-
gard of the rights of Canadians lattes oil Hament to answer questions about the the Dorion. report on government corraption. He would have to face a no-confi- dence vote on a scandal that has reached into the high levels of government: é
Mr. Diefenbaker said he be- Tieves what is being dene is wrong. He urged Canadians to stand together against what he termed the ‘improper chal- lenge"’ issued by Mr. Pearson. ‘Mr. Diefenbaker opened his: briéf ~talk with the comment that _‘‘now we know after days and weeks of hesitation’’ the
Mr. Diefenbaker said many by casting votes in ridings that will later be altered in electoral redistribution.
The fall election meant. that for the next four or five yeavs representation will be on the— ‘basis of obsolete riding boun- dariés. : bia
The prime minister had said he wants to build a new Canada with a majority government. But, Mr. Diefenbaker said, he has been assured of a majority all along in Parliament:
In recent_weeks, \ne had ‘been
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He said Mr. Pearson knew he would have to face questions m the Commons about taxes that are higher than ever.
The prime minister also feared questions about the ris- who .think’ they can capitalize + he vetueeiia: be ae ae ae on political opportunism without, ing on fixed ineornies ns a baa regard for the national interest. ' position.
He’ said it is-clear that’ neither :
: In the 2'2 years the ‘Liberals Mr. Pearson and the Liberals ‘in. office. there had been
nor Mr. Diefenbaker and the . ; Bae , ae _ division ‘and dissension in Can- Conservatives have the alterna- 34.” i, Hikes st‘ whieh. jaa
tive needed by Canadians re In the next Parliament, 180 ee been seen. 3° members would represent con
stituencies which. will disappear U.S. Suspends
in the redistribution of Com- S mons. seats. Mr. Pearson should ‘ “have waited until that redistri-- Military Aid bution now being’ worked on, ' had been made. ? But the “party politicians were more interested in pre- serving a political machine than
But the prime mifister had listened to - inopportune and wrong advice from strategists
WASHINGTON ‘AP!-— The United States was reported Tuesday to,have suspended mili- tary aid~shipments to India and
* tne earliest date for an_election un- _ . There—were—no-immediate-de-+*2nouncement of __an__ election! der-new-constituency—boundaries
He-had- made -his decision ot: to-7- p.m: local-standard: time; ~~
rederal Vote Is Called — Nov. 8, PM Announces |
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Ambulances were standing by. Some were picked up by surface Summerside .. 3 cane Warnings have ie Jast located 120° miles east- | Mr. Thompson said he had cide whethe. to go along-with man told a press conference _Amb & by P 5 of hurricane Betsy during the r been rai : ; : a One hospital in Trois-Rivieres vessels which rushed to the Kings. Queens, City ...... tatoo’ storin ed north to Fort Pierce on the south-east of Miami and mov- jbelieved Mr. Pearson realized <-> this--political approach ‘‘we are cencerned that United said it had received eight men | scene. Prince County f= — Mn east coast, scuthward around — ing toward. the west at about that in the interests of national to eountry or have a differ- States-military equipment is -be- who-had been injured in the One body Was said to have , Finance, markets ~---.- % + swung through the Bahamas, ¢he Keys and up the west coast 7 mph unity an election was not in the ent one based on responsible ing used by both sides” in theig blast ibeen recovered from the river. | | gmashed Nessau and turned to Venice. The Weather Bur- ___ ‘AP Wirephote Map) best interests of Canada. __4i government. «_ sijeidibiacee i spreading. war. piaconil
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