SEPTEMBER 19. 1962
29 East Gernian Refugees
Tunnel Under Berlin Wall
BERLIN! •Twenty-nine
East,Germans reached. _freedom
through the longest tunnel ever
.bored 'under the Berlin wall, West
Berlin authorities announced yes
terday.
There was no indication the
_Communists -had uncovered the
underground escape route.
The group which 'escaped last
Friday night was the largest mass
flight through_ the- wall since it
Was built • 13 months ' ago. The
previois high was the. escape of
28 thnaugh a tunnel last January.
SqOads bf West Berlin young
sters toiled for weeks to bore the
elaborate tunnel into -East Berlin
under Bernauer Strasse, scene of
many 'dramatic escapes. Only
Monday night three youths es
caped througli - a cellar in the
'same area.
Exisience'l3l the tunnel was
,kept secret—even after the week
;end escape—because it Was hoped
more refugees could take the
same route to the West.
' But heavy rains flooded the
funnel on Monday. Efforts ' to
pump it dry were fruitless, and
the plan to bring more people
thrOugh it under the; wall was
abandoned.
Heinrich Albertz, the West Ber
lin senator for interior affairs.
disclosed the mass escape at a
news conference. He described the
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tunnel as the longest ever built
under the wall. But he declined to
give the length or many other de
tails -because he said he did not
want- to help the Communists find
it.
The East German regime has
denounced tunneling under the
wall from the West as a provoca
tion against what they call their
state border.
But Albertz repeated that the
West Berlin government does not
regard such enterprise as illegal.
Red Propaganda
-Put In High Gear
i MOSCOW (AP) --- The Soviet
government shifted it propaganda
campaign on Berlin into high
gear yesterday with a charge of
military collusion between France
and West Germany 'l7 revision
iaf the results of World War II."
A statement issued through the
official news agency Tass said
results _ of the recent - visit 'of
French President Charles de
Gaulle with West German Chan
cellor Konrad_ Adenauer show an
urgent need for "the conclusion
of a German peace treaty and
normalization on -this basis of the
situation in West Berlin." No dead
line was set. •
McCormack Concedes Race to 'Ted'
BOSTON (AP) 'Edward
(Ted) Kennedy, the youngest or
an amazing clan, won hit fight
last night to bid for his Presi
dent brother's former Senate seat
in the November election.
Edwath J. McCormack Jr., ne
phew of House Speaker John W.
McCormack, conceded his defeat
by his 30-year-old opponent. He
pledged himself to support Ken
nedy and the Democratic ticket
in the general election.
TAKING THE LEAD in primary
balloting -from the start„-,the 30-
year-old. Kennedy walloped Mc-
Cormack in a convincing display
of vote getting in Boston and
other Democratic strongholds.
Kennedy thus won, in hi s
, first
bid for elective office, the right
to contest with a Republican op
ponent to serve out- the two re
maining years of - the Senate term
President Kennedy vacated in
1960.
At the point where McCormack
conceded, the count from 351 of
.the state's 1,988 precincts stood:
Kennedy:96,9BB; McCormack 51,
638.
After a close early battle in
which the lead was exchanged
several times, Rep. Lawrence Cur
hacked out a small, but ap
parently growing lead over George
Cabot Lodge for the Republican
nomination.
The count, from 492 - of the
state's 1,988 polling plaOs gave:
... wins primary victory
Curtis 23,466; Lodge 19,604.
Earlier, President Kennedy and
Speaker McCormack had canceled
out each other's ballot In a pri.
mary that seemed likely to tote
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up more than a million votes on
the final tabulations.
After a 28-minute helicoptter trip
from Newport, R. 1., where they
had been watching the America's
Cup yacht race, President and
Mrs. Kennedy voted for Teddy in
the Beacon Hill district of Bos
ton.
Speaker McCormack was out
early to vote for his nephew.
A parallel race for the Republi
can senatorial nomination be
tween George Cabot Lodge and
Rep. Laurence Curtis reached the
final countdown stage with less
fanfare but with indiction it
would provide a close
Cosnold, the first town' to re
port a complete vote in the state,
gave Kennedy two votmand Mc-
Cormack one. In tS,e Republican
senatorial contest. Curtis collected
nine votes and Lodge tit r e.
THE BERKSHIRE town of
Windsor, in the western part of
the state was the second to report.
It gave Kennedy Il votes, Mc-
Cormack 8.
In the Republican contest, tha
count there was: Curtis 30, Lodge
24.
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