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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1946.
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ALL CRASH VICTIMS RESCUED
Indian Princes To
Brilliant Exploit By Two Swiss Pilots Confederate?
You Did A "Son, You Remarkable Job"
(By Reginald Langford)
Meiringen Airport, Switzerland, Nov. 24. The Swiss pilots, Major Hitz and Captain Victor Hug, flying a daring "shuttle service" in which they landed perilously on soft snow a few yards from gaping Alpine crevasses, carried
all 12 survivors of the stranded United States Dakota back to safety this afternoon in one of the most thrilling and brilliant rescue feats of recent times.
In spite of their five days and nights in the sub- zero "icebowl" only two of the survivors were
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stretcher cases.
Among those rescued "mystery" passenger whose name) was given as "George Harvey of Detroit." 1 civilian petroleum officer for the US. forces in Aus- tria. He had not previously st- the people in the damong Dakota, the total Vaboard hitherto been given as eleven.
All the survivors were taken at and ambulance to once by ear Interlaken where a United States hospital train waited to
ed
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MORE PERFORMANCE CAIRO
Tri-Axiv, Nov.
Four masked gunmen of The Irgen Zvai Loui (Jewish terrorist organisa- dion last night forcibly, en- tered heo crotoded cinemas in Rehovoth, near kete,' and at pistol-point crdered operators
in step formances.
Switching off the machines the operators were then com- pelied to show on the sercen
L'
the
per-
RIOTS
Cairo, Nov. 24. Anti-Government de monstrations in Cairo continued today when for the second day run- "Jain the runks of Irgunning police and students fought pitched battles in the streets with guns and stones.
slide printed in Hebrew,
Zvai Leumė," The guamen then made off and the per- formanera continued. Reuter.
He said the
touched down on the show 15 metres from བ huge crevass There were crevasses to the right Young Tate ran his hand over and left of it. Also remarkable his bearded face and said, "I was the fact that the cabin was have not shaved for five days and intact. enabling the people to Ave nights." malu
comparatively shelterti
Asked what caused the forced during the snowstorms. No less landing on the glacier, he an- astonishing and deserving of swered, "down-draft caused it." praise was the deliberate landing
plane's food sup- of the morey plane in this wilder- ness of inged peaks.
plies-bax lunches-were Ex- The first of the ground rescue hausted on Friday and the food parties to return to Meiringenation was fixed at one penny bar -Forces Headquarters
described the feat of saving the per person per day. European Theatre.
survivors as "tho most difficult They mixed petrol and oil The land
party had receue operation on record," revue
form a fuel oil and started a dirt spent the night on the ice with
Ja short distance from the plane. They said the occupants of the Over this Bre they melted snow afternoon Dakota had enough foil and have to use as drinking water. To aug
in made a wood fire were ablement the fuel supply, they tore mountain ground.
of the scrapped after a Fieseler Storch once they knew they had wrecked plane and put them on
ruineve
them to Vienna, United States
The
the Dakota survivors whom they i reached reached yesterday
Morale Good
The casualty list so far re- ported is one policeman killed, and four students seriously in- jured. More than 30 students were arrested,
Yesterday more than a dozen police and about 20 students were hurt during a four hour struggle in which students
Meerut, Nov. 24. Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya, President of the All- India States Peoples Conference, told the In- dian National Congress here that he had seen a confidential document indicating a move by the Indian princes to form a confederation to negotiate with the future Central Government. Speaking, during the seven-mittee, consisting of the rulers hour plenary session, which to and their Ministers, will dis day concluded the Congress, the cuss the Constituent Assembly's President was moving a resolu- terms of the states' participa- tion
on the Indian states tion in, the ultimate 'All-Indiar miopted two days barlier by Union. the Subjects Committee.
·Nehru'.* The resolution declared that the struggle for freedom in the states was an essential part of the larger struggle in India the efforts of the peoples of the and expressed sympathy with states for the establishment of civil liberty and responsible Government.
Dr. Pattabhi referred to the other scheme for the merger of a number of these states and said this attempt was in no way in the interests of the people. It was not being made with their consent, but merely in consultation between the princes themselves.
this kind of merger would He warned the princes that make the problem more intract able,
The President declared that the states' people would never recognise the negotiating com- tives were included in it. mittee unless their representa- It is believed that this con-
tried to march to the Royal Palace to ask King Farcak to dismiss Premier Sidky Pasha's administration and call off the Anglo-Egyptian treaty talks,
Today's rioting resolved into the Fund el Awal University. a series of skirmishes around The first clash occurred when students set fire to two trams near British Army Headquar-studenta, hurling stones, advane-
ed For bedding, the crash victims
across the 100-yards "no- Later four students used blankets, seats, and parts of badly hurt by police fire as 200 the University. Reuter,
were man's-land” in the street near the upholstery --Associated Press. Sheer Luck
Arrangements Lo carry the party? to safely over the hazardous
Falous to do somic cooking. Morale was the wooden
route
were i
light aeroplane, piloted by Major Hitz, managed 1o make a mira culous landing on the snowfield near to the crashed plane,
Eight Trips
The Swisa pilots, flying Meseler Storch slow-anding planes with both wheels and skis, made eight round "trips in about six hours today.
His
1
bern
Arrived
When the rescue party
sighted.
at the plane they set up bivouaes under-the wing of the plane asing Their
rerens highs and eninou. Bage canvas tests which form part of the Swiss soldier's standard
pinent fur Alpine fighting.
made by waV
the fire.
parts out
Upwood, Nov. 25.
der A. 3. Kennedy, yester- Royal Air Force Wing Com-
Two of them left at 6am. the next morning to blaze the trail for the descent. It had been deday credited R.A.F. personnel at cided that the return should be stres, France, with shifting the
to the of Innertkirchen, search
area where the miles southeast of Meiringen. Dakota was Bially found. The first person they met on An R.AF. Lancaster was the their way down was Victor Scholl first piane to sight the wreckage. from France yesterday.
of Reuters staff in Zurich, who Back
observer in also Lancaster, which
ters.
Tragic Discovery In
French
Canal
Paris, Nov. 24. › Nine bodies-those of a miner, his wife and seven children-were recovered from a 'canal at La Bassee near Lille, tonight after the family had
speech, refuted statements that Congress had not supported the states people.
Paudit Nehru, in a vigoros:
The President of the
All-
India Congress, in the conclud ing address, reiterated the Par ty's adherence to Mr. Gandhi's creed of nor violence.
He declared: "If this country is to rise it will rise by non- violence and, no other method," and added: "We are divided in- to so many
groups-political economic and religious-that if; we use violence against a for- eign enemy, we are sure to use
safe from war or strife us also. The world will not be against each of
bloodshed." -Reuter
that violence
Engineered?
01
Meerut, Nov. 24. Addressing delegates from Indian states separately after the close of the Indian National Congress tonight. Pandit Nehru declared: "Possibly engineered by the political department of the British Government in In- dia, some states are wanting the Constituent Assembly's postponement and others are threatening that they will not participate, but in spite of these dilatory tacties, the Con- greas proposes to make the best use of the Constituent Assembly. to form an Indian Republic." -----Reuter.
Varsity
mysteriously disappeared from an outlying Exchange
Scheme
They brought down to Meiringan the first survivor, Brigadier General 'Loyol Haynes, Chief of the United States Forees A- visory Board in Austria, at 11.40 a.m. and the last one. Captain Ralph Tate. the Dakota pilot, at had climbed all night along the Kennedy, who was 4.46 p... Slight and boyish. ants by which the reseve narty another i had Bandaged
was expected to deseend. He flew over the wreckage, said. "it head, but he wa laughing as he left the plane i trened with the two men, making
hamlet of La Bassee, leaving no clue but the confront journalists and photo the descent 16 Meiringen in the ever-discovered.”
was sheer luck the plane was smoking ruins of their house. He Eraphers.
was welcomed. by record time of three hours.
The disappearance followed a The police were called in father and Karl Kobelt, Pre- The main resege party was not
"We went in and looked, drop-netice from local authorities to later to investigate the remains sident of the Swiss Federal Connen eted to reach Inertkirchen Ped some supply cannisters and the 35-year-old miner, Dumor of the house, which had ap ell, who had arrived shortly he
before midnight tonight-Reuter, blankets, but it fore in a special plane.
was difficult to tier that the seven children, rarently been set on fire with » Remarkable Job MTH
Ralph
see how they landed because we ranging from twɔ to 15 years, petrol.. As no trace of any graduates as assistants" Tate, the pilot's j
Unterback, Nov. 25.
couldn't get closer than 500 feet. would be taken mother, was suffering from shock
from their Captain Ralph Tate, Junior, When we left the area, there were parents, on and was unable tn return the
the ground, the welcoming smiles of her husband lot of the. Il-fated Dakota. anything up to 15 aircraft of all authorities
said, that buth Brigadier-General Tate,
about the types flying back and forth."- parents Deputy scratched and bruised
were confirmed Commander of the United States bend, were a bandage, but dis-Associated Press.
drunkards. Forces in Austria. She was lift mounted from the rescue plane Taken To Vienna
When told of this, the two ed by stretcher from the rescue with a broad smile.
parents declared they would plane into a waiting ambulance.
"all disappear together." A Miracle
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He said. "My feet are so colu
I can hardly stand up."
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-Frankfurt, Nov, 25. The Public Relations Division of United States Army headquar Of all the members of the
His father, Brigadier-General ters announced last night that party, Mrs. MacMahon and her Ralph Tate. Deputy commanding j12 passengers removed from the
- 11-year-old daughter. Alice, an-general of the United States Airwrecked Army plane near Inter- peared to be in the best cundi-Forces in Austria, sald "Son, you laken, Switzerland, were being tion. They were able to descend did a remarkable job." from the plane without aid and Then he introduced his son to smilingly posed for photograph President Karl Kobalt of Switzer-
Another jured' brought back in
ers.
man wand. their rescue:
plonen Swiss soldier who had! "I am very grateful to you and been one of the guides of the your country," said Captain Tate second rescue party and was into the Swiss President,
vi jured on the way un.
Captain "pantake"
his
Down Draft Tale, in making 3 General Tate then asked
landing amidst the crevasses, was praised by Major son, “Did you see that B-17 flying Hitz, the rescue pilot, who aald around over your plane?"
it was a miracle that the party
taken to Vienna for hospital treatment instead of to Munich as Orst planned.
The report of the change in plans came from the United States Military Altache In Switzerland, the announcement said,
Mast of the plane's passengers were stationed in Vienna, where
the flight originated last Tuesday.
The Swiss authorities at Meirin-
Captain Tate replied, "I did and gen expressed concern after the won saved" at all. The pilot. I certainly knew who was in "' (Continued_at_foot of next Col.)
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Was found, it was thought that the family had gone to another part of France. The first intimation of a mass suicide came today when a bargeman discovered a hair ribbon and a small girl's under- clothes on the canal bank.
London, Nov. 21. The exchange scheme for
British placing
university
Freuth schools and Freneli graduates in English schools is to: to be extended next include university students in their second year, the Ministry of Education announced today.
year
About 130 young men and women graduates have been ap- pointed to French schools un- der this scheme for the 1943- 1947 scholastic year.
Dragging operations led to the discovery of nine bodies tied to each other with a thick
The "assistants" teach for laboriously rope. They were drawn out by a team of barge-half the normal time table and are paid an allowance to cover men and civil engineers and
their expenses. identified-Reuter.
During the same period, over 300 appoint- ·
TERRORISTS' BOMBSets of French graduates to
DOMINATE, THE LAND OF PEACE TODAY
English schoola have been made. The Ministry also stated that the scheme will include a few pests in Swiss schools both in the French and German spenk- Ing cantons, By Christmas this year about 12 Swiss teachers with German as their mother tongue should have taken up posts in schools in England.- Reuter.
Opposition Welcomed
(Continued From Page 4) 58,000 doctors in Britain Turkey) and portions of Syria and in the Services over-lying to the west of the districts of Damascus, Hama, ind seas on the Govern-
Aleppo." ment's national health Though widely circulated and service was launched, discussed, the correspondence yesterday by the British was not made public until 1939. Medical Association.
Voters
advised that although the broad lines of the scheme were now clear many important matters under the National Health Service Act dence. had to be settled by regulation. These included the doctor's terms and conditions of service, Balfour, Colonial Secretary In 1917 Lord (Mr. A. J.) the amount and method of his had written.bo Baron Edmund remuneration and the composide Rothschild, one of Zlonism's out forgery, transgression, or tion of the regional hospital patron saints, a letter to be
boards.
Meantime: both the author and Winston Churchill, who Was Colonial Secretary in 1922, in- terpreted. the pledges of Me- Mahon as excluding Palestine from the promised indepen-
Balfour Letter
Baghdad. Nov. 25.
Sald Pasha, told a press confer The Iraqi Premier, Nurl es
ence that he welcomes Opposi- tion parties and pledges a fair and free election.
will be free and fair and with
He declared, "The electionis
the use of Government influence
“1
come known as the Balfour in favour of anyone agninat "The plebiscite," stated the Declaration, which stated: "Iis anyone else." P.M.A., "is a straightforward Majesty's Government view Nuri Pasha said that a attempt to obtain a mandate with favour, the establishment Parliament will be called at an for oz. against participation in
In Palestine of a national home early date -"with a majority negotiations with the Minister, for the Jewish people, and will Government to secure the estat Mr. Bevan, on the regulations use their best endeavours to lishment of stability." which alone will make, the Act facilitate the achievement si The Iraqi leader added, operative."
that object, it being clearly will welcome, the Oppuestion understood that nothing shall which is necessary, to direct the be done which may prejudice Government, will release · párty the civil and religious rights of and Opposition newspapers, existing non-Jewish communi- allow parties to establish bran ties in Palestine, or the rights ches, and secure freedom" ful and political status enjoyed by everyone to participate in the Jews. in any other country." dictions."Associated Presa:""
A negutive vote will imply rejection of the scheme out right. An affirmative vote will mean that the representatives of the doctors are empowered to discuss terms before doctors are required to make up their minds whether to enter the This, in the Jewish, view, Service.equest
supporta Zionist, aima..... ao. ex- Replies are requested by pressed 30 years before by Nov. 30, but, it is added, "re- Theodore Herzi, an Austrian Litioners overseas may need a Jew who couched in terms of little more time."
a political programme Jewry's contention that it had a spiri.
SALVAGE OF U.S. PLANE
Trieste, "Nov, 21. An American salvage party completion of the resque for the tual, historic, and legal right to headed by Major Ellen Morrow afety of approximately 70 Swiss a Dome in the Holy Land.. of the United States Army Aly civilians and military personnel,⠀⠀ In the Arab view, the Me-, Forces in Europe returned to members of the rescue squad, Malion, Correspondence, plus Gorizia today after four days who race the task of getting other. documents since recur in Yugoslavia bringing with | down the glacier.
nised their own historic and them part of the wreckage of The descent is more dangerous, spiritual rights to Palestine and the two American planes which thon the ostent.A
made a promine of its tode were forced down in Yugoslavia Many of the rescue squad were pendence last August: Major Kenneth Ured, and not as surefooted as Britain a political, economic, Zell of the Headquarters staff they were when they climbed to and military foothold. In the | of the United States 88th Divi- the Gauli glacier in an eight-hour Middle East may well depond sion, who accompanied the trek on Saturday--Associated upon the successful reconcilia party anid the Yugoslava:"Co-
Press
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operated fully-Reuter.
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