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DRAMATIC FIGHT IN PLANE Two Killed In Mid-Air Gun Battle Finnish
ROUTINE FLIGHT ENDS IN TRAGEDY
Istanbul, July 12
Blazing guns and stark terror ruled a transport plano that brought 21 persons out of Bulgaria, a dazed survivor reported today. The plane landed crazily at Istanbul airport on Wednesday night with its radio operator dead, its pilot mortally wounded and its mechanic shot through the arm,
No official source would dis- Sortly after inking off from einse any information but one | Burgas for Softe a young man person who talked with the surfenly rose from his passen- mechanic reported it us a fran-er seat according to this source. tie-plot of six
He pulled out a revolver, then to Reven escape from their homeland at approached the control cabin and demanded that the pilot lura over any cost,
the controls to another passenger.
OF
Eight Dead Crash
In
Brussels, July Eight people, including four passengers, were killed when an Italian plane crashed and burst into Rames at Keari
Kearker- son, near here, today.
Four survivors were ก hurt. The plane was diverted because of bad visibility, and overshot the small tanding' trip.Reuter.
Atlantic
Flight By Jets
General Election
Helsinki, July 1
A record number of Finns voted today in the first day of the two-day Finnish general elections, officials estimated tonight.
The elections today were also one of the quietest and freest in Finland's history. The previous seves record was in 1945, when 74.8 per cent of the electorate went to the polls.
No hard figure can be given fcr toriny's vote until after 8,00 p.m. tomorrow, when the booths. close.
Police officials said no special security measures were taken "because we knew there would be no trouble."
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All the passengers were imme- dinitely taken Inta custody by the The role operator Intervened
Helsinki and other towns were police after arriving and divirted immediately and five other pas-
drenched in hol sunshine and had Into Communist and anti-Com-sengers urose produced guns and Oldham, Hampshire, July 1. calm lazy holiday look except munist Kroups, th factions began firing. The radio operu
The first Atlantic crossing by for the queues before the polling were nghting violently inside for dropped dend with several jet aircraft began this afternoon; booths. the plane as it taxled to rest. bullets in him and the pliot when six Royal Air Force Vam-
M. Paasikivi, the President, gave The mechank, who is so farerumbled over, portally wound-pires left their buse hero on ano guidance today to the voters. identified only as Papayol is re- 4. Another bullet struck the 5,540-mile Alght in Montreal. In the 1945 elections, he urged ported to have said that most of mechanic in the arm and so he The passengers on what was th- related, he fainted and upon be- tended to be a shutine commer- ing revived was ordered to as cind flight within Bulgaria, were alst the new pitoi no had takes holiday makers They bourefer
over the control, the plane along with the men involved in the lotut Varna and new to Burgo to pick up two more passengers.
UN Plane Was Fired On
Lake Success, July 1.
by
collaboration with
Lyche Vampires, which were de- them to "chose new men" uncom
several hours by bad wea- promised ther, took off in flights ot three,
Germany. accompanted by, two Mosquito. Marshal Gustaf Mannerheim, President, 10- one to satat navigation Finland's former aircraft, and the other to net as a com- turned to Helsinki by boat this The plane was then headed to-munication and airsea
rescue morning from his holiday in Swit- ward Turkey and other passen aircraft.
zertandi.—Reuter. gers who professed themselves as
Weather conditions Gre not Communists were controlled by guns until the plate approached
ideal, and the Vampires may not Istanbul. The source said it was
be able to fly the second leg from
to not clear but the men refused to
Stornoway Iceland tonight. Are when they were set
From Iceland they
to will fly Lo Cantly by the ther passengers
Greenland and then to Labrador. and bitter Aghting continued un-
The planes are to make a good- til airport police broke it up.
will tour of the United States and The plane Innded hazardously Canada, returning to their base after making six attempts to about the middle of August.-
Reuter. conut in.-Associated Press.
The United Nations media. WINSTON HAS NO
tor, Count Folke Bernadotte, today reported to the Security Council that a United Nations observation plane was fired on from Jewish soil as the plane watched the, unloading of the Irgun gun-running ship. Altalena, early last week.
Count Bernadotte told the Council that, necording to his evidence. Irgun forces "did land war material and regular Jewish forces took this material over
COMMENT
eapies denial by the Jewish Forcizn Ministen, Dr. Moshe "It was considered, however, that regular Jewish Mr. Churchill' observations could
the
considered
Shertok, that
torial from the Altalena.
London, July 2.
Security Transfer
Banned
New Delhi, July 1. The Government of India tonight issued on ordinance restricting the transfer of In- dian Government 'securities held in Hyderabad, the Deccan State which refused' India's demand for "substance of accession."
The ordinance provided that all
half of the Nizam of Hyderabad,
these securities held by or on be- his Government and the Hydera bad State Bank, would not transferable without the approval
bo
forces had acquired the war mabest be judged by India against/is in a position to judge the casement are being utilised for the
background of
purchase
materials which must inevitably lead to a
Mr. Winston Churchill, loador of the Conservative Party, today declined to comment on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's reported rejoinder to his observations on events in India during his
of the Central Indian Government. wook-ond speech at Luton, in Bedfordshire. The Government communique sald the object of the ordinance was Sardar Patel's reply was not, The true perspective of auchant to deprive Hyderabad of its following the surrender of the unexpected in London, where incidents la doubtless apparent to title to the Government securities Iratin forces.
He made no formal charges of "Indin's sensitiveness to publië | those" close to the contreTMof affairs or to affect its right to collect in-
-references to her domestic in India. It is appreciated here terest. Jewish truce violations and his affairs is known
also that they are calculated lo The cominunique added: "The and, under- to the Security Council in- stood.
urouse resentment and to assume Government of India also hos an exaggerated Importance when evidence that all avaliable re- transmitted to the other side sources of the Hyderabad Govern the world, where only a minority
03 warlike from personal knowledge, " Under truce terms, importation United Kingdom polley, over- The overwhelming moss of confict. The Government of In- of arms is banned throughout the whelmingly endorsed by a British public opinion, it con-dia therefore has been reluctantly Middle East for the duration of House of Commons and with tinues to be demonstrated, en compelled to take appropriate the armistice, which is due to ex-. certain reservations and expres-dorses the Government's polley measures to protect its own in- pire-a
-week-from-tomorrowsions of anxiety by largo towards India and Pakistan terests.”—Reuter. (Friday).
number even of the Opposition. through the steps leading to the Dr. Sherlok said. "We were
transfer of power and since. sutlaßed that ne war materials; The tendency in politieai quar-
Excepting #
PROBLEM small minority, | COLOUR have been unloaded, and that the ters was to interpret the Chur- whole cargo was on the boat chill remarks as mean, not as an political opinion, Irrespective of the
Johannesburg, July 1. when it came to Tel-Aviv and attack on the new Dominions but party, acknowledges that
course of events was Inevitable, Writing today on the colour was consumed by fire."-Unitedafone of his occasional outbursts and there is great satisfaction in problem, Dr. W. Nicol, Moderator
against the Home Government.
the knowledge that today there of the Dutch Reformed Church lationships between this country in the Transvaal,sold—that,—if and the two great now dominions possible.--a solution should be Bg Lord Mountbatten, declared found which will receive the sup- only yesterday-are better than port of the great majority of vat- ever before.-Neuter.
ers so that it-will-not-lightly be revised."
Press.
ANTI-RED DRIVE ON IN SIAM
Bangkok, July 1,
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im
Parts, July Premier in 1940, strongly attack
M. Puotitéynrua, who was
among the 64 Chinose taken into custody by the Siameso police in recent surprise raids, ob- -servors:hara baliove that the action was taken in an effort to prevent a Communist outbreak] ed the French Government's mili- hore similar to that in Malaya.
tary policy when the National Assembly today resumed its dix- Siamese police said that 1 work of the Communist Party cussion of the Budget estimates treatise called "Soviet Demo- | in Slam were
thefor the Armed Services. among cracy" and a report on the
documents seized when arrests "The French Army still fune- were made:
tionis today according to out-of- date instructions dating from Charges of illegally soliciting August, 1930, in which the words funds have been formally brought armoured divisions' and 'attach against 51 of the Chinese suspects | aircraft' are not even mentioned," and déportation action will be M. Raynaud said.
British Lease To Argentina
"The Colonial Office
an-
sought against them. The rt- He also asked that the Com- maining 13 will be prosecuted on mander-in-Chief who would lendi charges of Organizing secret the French armies in time of war socletins,
should be chosen immediately,-- Reuter,
Siamos newspapers have seized upon the afrosis to cry out the existence of Chinese plot to swallow, up! Siam."
Countering this," the Chinese
nounced tonight that it had Information Service issued the granted the Compania Argen-following ataloment.
tina de Pesca a 21-year lease "Representatives of the Chinese
privileges.
ILLEGAL ENTRY CHARGE
Durban, July 1.
on South Georgia, for whaling Government in Siam are astonish- The magistrate here, postponing Led at such reports, Inasmuch as cazes against two Indians, charged hate the Chinese and hinder good with illegally aiding and abettung relations
between the two counadians to enter
this might lead the Blamera to
the Transvaal
The lease in retroactive to October 1947.
A spokesman sald that the new tries, which it is the committed against the provisions of the 1940 lease followed the lines of the
duty of the representatives of Land Tenure Act, said today he wished the Indian organisations in gentine company, which is one preserve, Mr. Chun Ping-chlanı, of four whaling stations on the Chinese Consul-General in Bang. presentations to the Union Gov- barren ley Antarctic island.
kok, called ол Police Major ernment.
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He sold that Argentina never General Luang Jattrakalicosol, ག -am-not-prepared-to-carry-on dispulcu** British sovereignty of Director General of the Police these cases and cause unnecessary South Georgia because it was in Department, in order to ascertain disturbances in the country among habited and run by the British, the facts about this plot to certain communities when there He said Britain granted whaling swallow up the Blamese nation.
hope of. an amicable rights to Argentina as far back."The Director General em settlement to the problem." he us 1000. The first lease ran for phatically stated to the Consul said.-Reuter, 21 years, but 'subsequent ones General that the police had die had been cut down to five and covered no plot to swallow. up |to two-year perioda.
any nation. He, added that if The spokesman explained that there were any such plot the the new lease had. lengthened police, would not wait for the focause of the Argentine com- newspapers to report the news, pany's large scale expansion pro- but would forthwith destroy it." gramme.mUnited Prasan
|---United Press,
1
Manlia, July 18- The Philippino, Association of University Women his approved | resolution opposing the resump- tion of trade relations with Japan, It was learned today Haulery N
In the official Church organ, Dr. Nicol appealed to Afrikaners for moderation towards the English- speaking community. It was the duty of those in authority, he said, to protect jealously the rights of the English-speaking peoplo- Reuter
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