QUEENS AND EX-QUEENS COMFORT VICTIMS
North Sea Terror CONTINUED
QUEEN MOTHER Elizabeth consoles a woman
from Canvey Island where 13,000 were flooded out.
QUEEN JULIANA, booted and muffled to inspect
damage, walks along dike road with village officials.
PRINCESS WILHELMINA (center), Juliana's
mother, talks to refugees from island that vanished.
QUEEN ELIZABETH LOOKS WITH CONCERN AS HUNSTANTON COUNCILMAN POINTS OUT DEVASTATION
Two queens and their royal mothers went
among the stricken to give what they could of
help and encouragement. When her car got
stuck, Juliana of the Netherlands got out and
pushed. In the Hunstanton area where 67 Brit
ons and 18 Americans were dead or missing,
Elizabeth of Britain singled out for praise a
U.S. hero, 6-foot 2-inch, 22-year-old Airman
Reis Leming, who, pulling a rubber boat in the
neck-deep tide, rescued 27 people by himself.
There were other heroes, mostly unsung
amid chaos, as the victims, many reluctant to
leave their homes, were plucked from attics,
rooftops and whole marooned towns. The U.S.
was quick on the scene with planes, helicop
ters and soldiers and help was coming from a
dozen other countries. It could not come too
quickly because the whole storm area, defense
less behind its broken dikes and sea walls, lay
open to the nextand imminentspring tides.
NAVY SALUTE honors body of Northern Ireland
Deputy Premier John Sinclair, found after ferry loss.
CIVILIAN CARE helps revive U.S. Airman Reis
Leming who collapsed for 2Vi hours after sa\ing 27.
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TOSSED OUT OF SEA by wind and tide, the 2,700-ton French motorship, which w recked shoreside pavements here on the fringe of Holland's flood area are
Carthage, lies high on the beach off Dutch resort town of Schcveningen. Waves still turbulent, though sightseers have ventured out to stare at stranded vessel.
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