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ZUM4859492: Jul 07, 1953 - Czech refugees capture army recognition-car and crash Czech-German border: On 25 July 1953 at approximately 0430 hours in the morning, eight Czech civilians succeeded in escaping from behind the Iron Curtain, when they broke thru the frontier with an army reconnaissance because they had captured by themselves. The crew of the car were two Czech soldiers, two Czech civilians, two women and two children. The refugees asked for asylum - for political reasons. At approximately 0430 hours on 25 July 1953, Bavarian Frontier Police watched a Czech army recognition-car breaking thru the barbed-wire fence, at Haselbach, rural district Waldnuenchen (Bavarian Forest). Alarmed Czech guards on duty made an all-out effort to stop the car but they failed, owing to the high speed the car attained once it had crossed the frontier. The Bavarian frontier police alarmed the US Military Police, and in less than 30 minutes mechanized M.P. ' s were around, picked up both refugees and car, and sequestrated the car immediately. Afternoon-reports issued by wire from the US-High Command stated” that the refugees are in US hands. Already at 2200 hour the military authorities stationed in Regensburg, Upper Bavaria, allowed German press reporters a conference held in Regensburg, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4858959: Jul 07, 1953 - CORONATICH PAGEANT OF THE RIVER THAEF... VIET FROM HUNGER FORD BRIDGE.. “SIGNING MAGNA CARTA” KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: The scene as the cavelade passes along the river - during the Coronation Pagenet on the Theme - watched by N.K. The Queen from the Benth Bank Festival site., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4859353: Jul 07, 1953 - Young New Zealand Naval Lieutenant to sail 39 ft Yawl back to New Zealand; Lieut. Benjamin Pester, aged 29, of the Royal New Zealand navy has been on a couse in this country and is going to sail to his home in a 50 year old 39 ft. Yawl “Term II”. Special leave has been granted to him and the journey is expected to take about nine months. His is taking one assistant with him, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4859860: Jul 07, 1953 - Village of Beautiful Girls- Girls Outnumber men by Four to one: Bramber with a population of 400 is decreed in guide books as one of the most picturesque villages in Sussex. But it isn't one of the most romantic. The reason for that is because there is only one eligible bachelor for every four of its glamorous girls. Mrs. Peggy Glenie, manageress of the Castle Hotel said, “The shortage of men is terrible”. Every evening groups of two or three girls go into Mrs. Glene's her just to pass away the time. Their other sources of amusement are nearby river, a ruined castle and a hall - and a deserted Lover's Lane. Some of the young man of the village are lured away by the towns when they start work, but return to claim their childhood sweethearts. But with that four-to-one ratio there are a lot of girls without sweethearts to return. The reactor, The Rev. Ernest Street has about 25 wedding a year in Bramber and adjoining village of Beeding, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images