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11 iXlJL Manchester Saturday July 8 5p Auction halted by Welsh protest Army ofiiirg freed unhurt by Berry IEA From SIMON HOGG ART in Londonderry Two British Army officers who had been kidnapped by the Provisional IRA' early yesterday in walked unharmed to freedom last night. They were named by the Provisionals as Captains R. Millard and J. Cornwell, of the Royal Artillery. Captains Millard and Cornwell strolled in plain clothes into their base at Victoria Barracks, Londonderry.

They had been detained about 18 hours. Shortly afterwards the Provisionals' issued a statement signed by the two: In it they said they had not been ill-treated in any way and had been given every comfort available. At no time were they given cause for alarm. The Provisionals said it had decided to release the' men after" careful consideration of the facts. "These two men who had violated the truce hive" been released tin fiumauicarian grounds.

two brothers shot dead in Be lfast earlier this week, walks their coffins at their funeral yesterday. between the hearses carrying Wallace back in fight ffth Ministers forced to delay inquiry By IAN A1TKEN, Political Correspondent By JAMES LEWIS What was to have been an auction of Welsh country cottages was abandoned in chaos and destruction at Caernarvon yesterday when members of the Welsh Language Society took over the saleroom. About 400 people had crowded into the town's drill hall for the sale but the auctioneer, from the. Chester firm of Jackson-Stops and Staff, had scarcely uttered two words when Gronw ap Islwyn, a 22-year-old divinity student, and chairman of the language society, interrupted and addressed the audience. The auction, intended to satisfy "the greed of people from England and other countries for second and third homes," could not be allowed to take place, he anounced.

Welsh people were without homes in their own country because the demand for holiday homes was pushing prices beyond their reach. "Our language and our culture are threatened." Stink bombs At a signal, about 16 members of the society marched to the front of the hall and the auctioneer and his staff hurriedly withdrew as the invaders overturned tables and chairs, tore books, papers and advertising material to shreds, and let off stink bombs. The audience, taken unawares by the speed and violence of the manoeuvre, stood spellbound, and only one voice was raised in protest, though a small group marched out muttering Bloody Irish, bloody Paks, bloody Welsh." The demonstrators, about a hundred in total, sat around for over an hour, occasionally bursting into song, while everyone eke simply stood' and Police reinforcements arrived outside but made no attempt to enter. The auctioneer's staff circulated discreetly around the hall taking the names of possible buyers and saying they would get in with them. The demonstrators adjourned victorious when Jackson-Stops and Staff made a statement saying that the sale would be held in some other place and some other form." Six cottages had been sold privately before the auction, and Gronw ap Islwyn said that members of the society would occupy them and any of the other 10 properties that were sold.

"Obviously we cannot say when and how we will do it," he said. Pictures, back page Presidency Miami Beach, July were green hospital curtains. Governor George Wallace olWe of Alabama toriav rfriifnpd in vlded President Nixon. Wal- ffhtil lace was attended by five a wheelchair to Mprida, the medical orderlies and spent the scene' of his greatest electoral whole of the two-hour Hight showing in the presidential from Washington DC on his and to a senior civil servant in the Scottish Offi 2. oacx.

prospect of a firm Pahinet decision next week on Laoinei decision next wees urhotw tn sot im an inauirv into allegations of financial corruption linked with the Poulson bankruptcy case seemed to be fading last night, in ministerial anxiety to clear up the matter quickly, Mr Robert Carr, Leader of the; told! oh Thursday that Ministens were sending for the tran- i. i 1 dated documents as a matter of urgency. It was implied fa 1 Bill. The 22-hcmr debate lasted until after 11 a.m yesterday th whicj, jy.flav's ses- rj- sion was due to start. The business on the order-paper for Friday, together with Mr Hamil ton's last hope of getting in.

was lost, Mr Hamilton, who is a skilful operator, is now expected to table Questions to Ministers covering not -only the Poulson case and-the more general issue of fife-outside interests of "MPS," but also touching on specific matters relating to tne awara md'1Llduual "nu iubsc nues- tirnc will Ha an annnirnimic tions will ba an anonymous letter which he received yesterday and immediately sent on to Mr Carr. The letter makes no specific allegations. But it heavily laden with unsavoury innuen does about a particular contract, ministers are wen aware tnat its arrival is precisely the kind of development which can be expected to continue for as long as the present situation remains unresoivea. it explains way tne Muvcxuuicuv uuiin-ciy iu siaiiu for any unnecessary delay in "tT WC1C oi vwm- Turn, to back pajje, col. 1 tnat a tiovernment statement De seen 10 act quicitiy in an could be expected next week, affair which has already stimu-But neither the transcript a cloud of rumour and nor.

the documents are likely to innuendo. Backbenchers on be in the hands of Ministers both sides are convinced that at least until next week, and the Government -will to there may therefore be some institute some form of inquiry, hofnro rtoicinn ic whatever the result of its own Mr Francis Orr, father of the Yacht crosses the line THE FRENCH trimaran, Pen Duick IV, was first across the finishing line at Newport, Rhode Island, late yesterday, In the Observer single-handed transatlantic yacht race. Earlier Vendredi 13, the French schooner, was thought to be winning, and Pen Duick's position was unknown. FOREIGN car prices, following effective devaluation of the will rise- by between 2 and 7 per cent BMW announced yesterday that it was adding 7 per cent to the price -of all its models from next Tuesday. Volkswagen has added 6 per cent to all commercial vehicles.

MARKET DRAYTON, Shropshire, was sealed off yesterday after 15,000 gallons of petrol gushed down a hillside from a broken Pipe. The' pipeline, from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, to South Wales, was accidentally hit by a bulldozer during construction work THjS AMERICAN world chess challenger, Bobby Fischer, last night had his own special chair flown into Iceland from New York for the world championship match against the Russian, -Boris -Spassky, rwhich begins in Reykjavik on Tuesday, night. Pawns in time, page, 11 A WELDING' engineer, Mr Toa Pretty, aged 44, escaped with minor back and leg injuries after being fired from a fairground cannoiv at Loughborough yesterday. He was half way down; the barrel of the 16ft cannon. adjusting the 'mechanism When it accidentally off.

THE acting-President of 'Pakistan, Fazlul Quader ChowdhUry, has been charged with murder and extortion in collaboration with the Pakistan according to thev Bangladesh official news agency It said Fazlul Quader- had -been custody since December in 9 prison In TV and radio 2 3 Finance Gardening' Home -Leaders Oversea 3 Sport Travel 2 Classified advertising reached on the case It was emphasised that Ministers, rather than officials, wil! con- duct the examination of the transcript, with the help of the Attorney-General's staff. Tho cfnrtu nf Hip wa! instituted i by the CaWnlt on Thursday after Mr Jeremy Thorpe and five otner Lioerai mp, -hart tahlpii a Commons motio? headed AllefflSf finnnmal. pnrrilntinn in mihltp life." anrt calline for an unme-' diate nnhlic inouirv. It pvnrosspii oravp. mnrpm ahnut allegations that Mr John Poul- son, a Yorksnire arcniteci, naa nairl siihctantial sums to two backbench MPs, to a charity named bv a Privy Counsellor, The Provisionals said they expected reciprocal action trom tne army.

The officers' signed state ment was read by a leading Derry Provisional from the steps of the house where the two men had been held. It read We, the undersigned, freelv state that from the moment of our capture we were not in any way, ill-treated, or1 subjected to any abuse, verbal or otherwise by our captors. We were given every comfort and at no time were we given any reason for alarm." An army spokesman said afterwards: "We are vers pleased with the outcome of this." ine officers had been at a party on Thursday night in Ebrington Barracks, the army headquarters on the east side of tne river Foyle. About 2 am yesterday they drove over the bridge to a car, park at. the, luaoumu nan.

ctiiuLucr miuy post They left-at 2 15, presumably Intending to walk the half-mile Refugees from each other 11 More barricades Back to their normal base In the Victoria Barracks. Their route would have taken them within a few yards of the Bogside dis trict. Presumably at some point tney mistakenly wandered in, The first the army heard of the matter was a telephone call from the Provisional IRA about saying the officers had been The army decided the safest course was to take ho action which might aggravate the problem. A Roman Catholic priest, Father Denis Bradley, was called by- the IRA to the house with a colleague to examine the officers. He said he had found them ''sitting on the floor, uhTfa-rmecT; and untied.

They deemed-, in 'good physical con-'ditionaha said they had been given three cups of tea. i army in Derry 'that the two were connected with military intelligence. A spokesman said they had been in civilian clothes and were unarmed. The Provisionals seem to have spent, yesterday in doubt about what to do. Last year the Official, wing of the IRA seized a soldier and were attacke- by the Provisionals for releasing him.

But this' year4he Officials caused' far. more anger by shooting William Best, a Bogsider in the British Army. A crowd gathered outside the house yesterday aorning, including several people who demanded that tht officers should not be hurt. Shortly after the' crowd two hooded men were bundled into a car and driven away. They were presumably decoys intended to make the- crowd disperse.

Residents in- the district said the area near the house was surrounded by armed men. They, warned newspapermen not to approach. Last right the army began an investigation. It is -understood' both officers were closely, examined on how they arrived the Bogside, no-go" -area after leaving their party. in the transla Italian, encburitered'; Rome and a -f or lori guality press only.

-with Hons i into, 'Contemporary. prr Pompeii -art "son the -tor and-" eunuch' Mr Castren reports that until tne; century most or the fBraffitik Jwerey in block after which-time Prom r3.r;.. W-iio- Texas tractor campaign, ana declared mat he would fight to enter, the White House in spite of his paralysis. He had arrived here (after a Sight to Montgomery. Alabama) Democratic, ..1 i.

a. uuuveniiuui wuicn is iu nominate its Presidential candidate next week, and said We are back in the fight" Political observers rate Wallace's chances of winning the nomination as extremely low, though they feel he could use the 400 delegate votes pledged to him to' bargain if Senator McGovern failed to. win the nomination on the first ballot and the convention Peter Jenkins writes from ji.i A flying hospital brought George Wallace home i to the "tar, u' wneeicnair ne-spoKe voice to the people of Alabama and millions Of. television viewers across the united States. He God for sparing his life, and vowed, "to con- Supreme Court recalled 2 Florida flam 11 tinue ln the future, as we have in the nast to represent the interests of the people of this great state ana tne people oi this great nation wb' feel as we do." His speech lasted less than ten minutes, but it cost him a great effort.

At the last moment his wife Cornelia, the once beauty queen, leaned down to him and whispered Honey, if you can't make it, I can do it." But after his emotional words of thanks to the people who had tared for him in the hospital, and the people who had prayed for him back home, the fighting political spirit in the man proved stronger than the flesh. He lapsed into his old campaign routine but without the sneers and the Jokes; -The Democratic, Party, he could, win ln November If It would recognise that' its strength lay in' the ordinary citizens of America; the average wage earner and the average This average, citizen was fed, up with high the higrh cost of welfare, and the riig-h cost of administering the Government. He was fed, up with giving, billions of, dollars In aid to countries who spat on America in the "United, Nations. average man wanted -a defence programme which would prevent a Third- World "War," and. the; only way fo it was for the US to be he j.

strongest, in V. the wanted art, end to 'the war, inf.Vletnam. but he; wanted a Government which do whatever was necessary, to-protect -the remaining American average 'jman'i was fed up Walter AlleWi Alabama's Director of, Public' Safety said THe'-ir stay iddedfdrtKe benefit of tha.Br.ltiTMder.:, "'Fbr'rtts- to support'jHcGbvern woniaibe- like the Jrovis ohal. At this airport the band lnsUtenttyfplayed "Hanjr Days merited a BhOUIlSH occasion." A wo Burs- die aii aiucii. Eoberts (Labour) and Mr Jonn cordle (Con).

The Privy counsellor is Mr Maudling, the Home Secretary, and the civil gcultetM office. All four have issued statements denying any imprp. their Mr Poulson ine delay ootainmg iran- oninfo v.inhitr immiiuinm tn the Government. Ministers are a most desperately anxious to study 01 tne tacts, oniy in allay PuMic anxiety. One Labour backbencher, Mr William.

Hamilton (West Fife), was at Westminster yesterday in the hope that' he would have 3" Opponunil 01 raising U1B whole question of the private errs SP nL notice to Mr Carr that he would seek to debate it on -the ttujuuiiiiiicui. Backed by "ock of Civil Ser- vice advisers, Mr Carr was ready to replv to. any interven tion. But, in the event, Mr tiamuton iosi uis. wglluuu to raise tne mauer ucuausc ui an all-night sitting on the report stage of the Local Government the company was reported to have exceeded its borrowing limits under its articles 'oi association.

Sir' David continued as chair- man, but early this year his chief executive lowing a difference of opinion over policy In February, the corporation sold its loss-iriaking Aston. Martin Lagonda, to a consortium. Though substantia1 redundancies had taken Aston Martin, the subsidiary minion a year. was still Said to, be losing. 1 uavia -DeomS Brown Tractors.

The division ernys 3 500 peoe at two S5SSyTSStt, Huddersneid, and iign. nepon, page i "All thieves vote for Cassius Marcellus," reads one, and redit. or who on of so much filth." claims firm the belt The national anthem was played as the plane touched down. The crowd was. led in prayer by 'a Presbyterian minister.

Wallace's wheelchair was carried down ramp, and pushed slowly towards an armoured -rostrum draned in flags with white dahlias and red carnations. He waved and blew kisses to, the crowd, at first rather-nervously. The, crowd- was kept at a 50-yard distance from the podium over which the Governor was visible from the chest up. Only members of his family and senior Alabama officials were allowed anywhere near the Governor: there was no this. mother-m-Iaw.

time. His Big Miss sister of a Alabama Governor, was ln ampie evidence on the tarmac 6ft tall. drinking ShW.ftr&iSYniVifib nD a1 son-in-law "nnlv crihed her, son-in-law as dealt a Setback Senator JcGovesh's' chances of winning the presidential nomination on the first ballot by-. jreversing a lower' court decision that he could retain "all California's delegate votes cat! the national convention. The high court granted 'iffie Democratic National' ComrriTt- tee's petition for an staying ine ruling oi tne court of appeals that had restored to Senator McGovern 151 dele- gates taken from him by the party's -credentials committee, The action effectively adds more than 100 votes to Senator Humphrey's total, JVliaiTIl F5eftCrl MJOMIM convention NEXT WEEK the Uemo-cratic Party will, select its candidate to challenge President Wi'l the 1 party break into factions? Will the dlehards finally stop McGovern? In a year of surprises the fading of Muskie, the shooting of Wallace, the tips downs -of McGovern the 1 Guardian': Washington team, PETER JENKINS and ADAM RAPHAEL, will report from, Miami Beach on the Issues, the people; and the struggle for In Monday's Guardian Peter Jenkins plots the political 'currents, on the opening day of the convention.

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