Carmen, 23-year-old daughter of General Francisco Franco of Spain, displays the gown which she wore for her wedding. to Dr. Marques de Villaverde. The diamond bracelet in the Spanish form of engagement ring. Spanish custom decreas that everything other than the clergyman's fees are provided by the groom, Including the wedding dress. The bride and her family buy only the bedroom suite, but Carmen's mother brake tradition and gave her daughter a diamond and pearl diadem for the wedding-(AP Photo).
AIR CRASH IN ALPS STARTS AVALANCHE
Schangnau, Switzerland, April 16, A four-engined British airliner smashed into an
Alpine peak in fog today, killing its crew of five and their only passenger--an Italian- and starting an avalanche. The plane was bound for Teheran.
Eye-witnesses who saw the plane crash into 7,200- feet high Hohgant Mountain said it skidded over the snow for more than half a mile and
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1980.
A JUNIOR MINISTER SACKED BY ATTLEE
Sequel to provocative speech on agriculture
GOVERNMENT'S DISCOMFITURE
London, April 16.
Mr. Stanley Evans, Parliamentary Secretory to the Ministry of Food, rosign-
ed tonight.
An announcement from the Prime Minister's house said that Mr. Evans had placed his resignation in the hands of M. Clement Attlee, who had accepted it.
Mr. Evans' resignation came within 24 hours of a slashing attack on him by the National Farmers Unions of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which accused him of making a deliberate attempt to drive a wedge between town and country
They
This was the second time in Usually when a Minister re- a few days that Mr. Evans had signs, letters between himself and angered
the Prime Minister, showing the the farmers. took issue, yesterday with a reasons for the resignation, statement which he made at published.
are
Tonight's Announce-
A Press conference on Friday,ant was a bare statement of the that no other nation feather- fact that Mr. Evans had resigned. beds its agriculture like Bri-
tain.
He expressed doubt whether subsidies to farmers hnd not reached lovel which neither consumer nor taxpayer could afford,
The Unions accused him of disclosing farmors' prematurely income figures and of selecting just those statistics which sup- ported his fallacious argument that farmers might be getting too much security.
Attlee angry
VATICAN DENIES
PEACE PACT
Australia to stay in New Guinea
Bydney, April 16. Austraila can never with. draw completely from New Guinea, said the External Affairs Minister, Percy Spon. der, who returned tonight from a Pacifio tour.
Australian authority must remain in New Guinea where many rest potentialities are yet to be developed. He met too many people who spoke about New Guinea only trust territory in which Aur- tralia had only,ilmited Inter- eat and from which Australla la expected shortly to with. draw. This was a dangerous point. If Australia did not remalo there, there are other nations that would.--United Pross
Battle
over U.S. aid bill
Washington, April 16. Democrats and Republicana sharp are preparing for a battle on the floor of the Senate over President Tru- man's $3,372,450,000 global | Aid Bill.
Vatican City, April 16. Vatican circles today denied all knowledge of a "peace pact"
Democratic Administration lesa- between Poland's Communist Government and the Polishers are confident that they can "Council of Bishops", reported defeat strong moves this week to blash the Aid money, and push an Juntor from Warsaw, although
the Bill passed without crippling agreement might be reached.
Amendments.
Mr. Evans' resignation which political quarters assum. ad meant he was sacked by the Prime Minister climaxod a week-end of Government dis comfiture over tno Minister's 'provocative spech
on British farmere.
the
The speech, taken in conjune- According to the official an- which came from tion with previous "coat-trailing" nouncement, utterances, was belleved to have the
"Joint Commission of the Government and the brought down on Mr. Evans' head Pulish the wrath not only of the Prime Episcopale", the agreement was The Parliamentary Secretary. Minister but other powerful Gov- signed on Friday and embraced who ranks as a junior Minister.ernment forces.
entire problem of State- had declared that farmers' in- The Deputy Prime Minister, Church relations. comes had gone up from £55,- Mr. Herbert Morrison, the chief 000,000 in 1938 to £204,300,000 party disciplinarian, the Food inst year.
Minister, Mr. Maurice Wobb, and An outspoken Labour backben the Agriculture Minister, Mr. are all believed to Ministry of Food as Parliamen- have taken tary Secretary in the place of Dr.
The President had sought au- thorisation to provide $3,100,000,- 000 for Europe's Marshall Plan, about $100,000,000 for Korea,
non-Com- $100,000,000 for the munist geheral arca of China, $27 ,450,000 to help Palestine Arab refugees, and $45,000,000 to The Bishops, the Polish Press launch its programme of technical agency said, agreed to recognise help to the world's under-deve- the Pope's authority in maliers loped areas. of faith and Church jurisdiction, Some Congressional sources ex- being gulded by the interests of peet heavy Republican-led moves the State in all other matters, to cut the European funds by
sher at 52, Mr. Evans went to the Tous 1th which the and pledging themselves to con- anything up to $600,000,000.
The
Edith Summerskill when she be altuation developed is seen as an demn underground enlf-State They consider that the recent come Minister of National In-indication that the Government activities. surance. He had been in offles for intends to deal summarily with 45 days.
ary of its following-whether Ministers or rankers who kick over the traces and thus increase Labour's difficulty in maintaining office with its tiny Parliamentary majority.
then was carried another 900 feet down the Moscow interest!
mountain slope on the sliding snow before coming to a halt amongst a pile of rocks. The plane's skid started an avalanche which thundered into the valley below.
According to first reparts, the
The beavy tog and the snow piled up by the avalanche made the work of the search parties very difculi. It is believed to- night that all six bodies had been recovered and are being brought down the mountain side.
plane did not catch fire. The crash took place at 6.30 this morning and word was brought to the local authorites from the mountain farms. Relief parties miles North of Interlaken, immediately' set out for the wreck.
Hohgant Massif Is about 13
Other crashes
The plane which was a Halifax- Haltan, owned by Air Carriers, The crash was one of five alt Limited, of London, left Schiphol acetdents widely-separated Airfield this morning for a char-parts of the world today which ter flight to Teheran.
cost 17 lives.
The area of the crash was re- ported to be rugged. The passen- ger's name was given as di Giulle, a representative of the owners, who was on his way to Brindisi.
The Swiss Federal Air Office said in a communique that the accident appeared to be due to faulty navigation, The communi- que added that the plane struck the North parapet of the mountain and was completely destroyed. --
In thick fog
Debris was scattered over a wide area, the statement said, much of it being engulfed in the avalanche. The wreckage did noi, burn.
The others were:-
At Moron, Cuba, a local air line plane crashed on take-off burst into flames and killed all eight persons aboard, Including two Cuban Congressmen.
An RAF Vampire jet fighter brushed a bomber of Britain's Dorset coast during manoeuvres and went out of control. The pilot got out with his parachute and was picked up at sea, but dled of injuries and exposure. The bomber made it back to base safely.
At Webster Field in Maryland, Navy Hellcat fighter plane crashed, killing its pilot.
a
At Winnipeg, Conoda, дл RCAF Vampire jet plane crashed in a residential district, kliling and injuring two one · person
All six occupants of the craft others, including the pilot-Beu- wern bellavad to have died In-ter and Associated Press. stantly. A relief party arrived
at the scene in about an hour after ths седат.
San Francisco, April 16.. A brief, sharp earthquake was widely felt in the San Francisco
in Philippines
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London, April 16.
State Department announcement, The Agency did not define the that it would seek tariff reduc- "Council of Bishops."
tions on 2,500 items imported in Observers here link the War- the United States, would provide saw reports with the arrival in ammunition for a force of "pro- Rome on Thursday of Cardinal lectionist" Senators who have Prince Adam Sapicha, 82-year- been expressing concern at Euro- old Archbishop of Cracow, first pean competition on domestic In-! Catholic Prelate from Easterndustries. Europe, to obtain permission to The global Aid Bill, as passed visit Rome during the Holy Year. by the House of Representatives, cut funds to be authorised by $270,000,000.-Reuter.
Questions in House Some Labour Party supporters agree with Mr. Evans that far--Reuter. The Soviet Army newspaper,mers get "feather-bed" treatment, Hed Star", has declared that activity by guerillas of the Army' "People's Liberation bas now spread throughout the Philippines, according to a Tess nows agency report received here today.
The newspaper's commentator,
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but his remarks were aimed at which the Government is anxious section of the community with to stay on good terms.
Labour hopes to win more agricultural support at the next general election, claiming that policy has done more than any other to help the British
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in an article on the "Intensifica- farmer. tion of the national liberationThe departure-of-Mr-Evans is struggle in the Philippines, expected to. provoke questions in claimed that during the last few Parliament, but not to stir up any days the guerillas bad add
new party crisis. several attacks against strong- holds of Government troops.
They had also launched bold surprise attacks in the outskirts of Maulla itself, it sald,
SCHUMACHER'S FEARS EXPRESSED
Osnabrueck, April 17. Dr. Kurt Schumacher, the West Germaan Opposition leader, said here today he feared that West Germany's entry in the Council of Europe would lead to her participation in the Atlantic Fact and consequent rearmament.
Her
would mean
hean recogn ising the "annexation of the Saar, he told a Farly meeting of the Social Democrats here.
Mr. Evans, commenting on his resignation, said: "The National Farmers Union have my scalp
Dr. Schumacher, who has re- under their belt. A healthy in peatedly opposed acceptance of quisitive public opinion will know the Council of Europe's invitation The- "People's Liberation how to assess the results of the to Germany to associate mem- Army" had the support of the coming form price review ne-bership, sold ho feared acceptance
Soviet population, the
gotiations." newspaper claimed. The Govern- Production at any cost would atlons for a revision of the Oder- ment Army's деш offensive kill this country stone-dead, be Neisse frontier with Poland."- against the guerillas-launched declared. Reuter. with American tanks and planes -had failed to crush the move- ment, the newspaper said.
entire
"Despite reprisals and terror the guerillas continue to struggle against the double oppression of American colonisere and the local bourgeois and feudal land- owners."—Reuter.
PERAK OUTRAGE
Singapore, April 13. Eighty terrorists attacking the Narborough Estate in Perak last night murdered a labourer and destroyed buildings and estate
They seized identity cards from
The accident occurred in thick Bay region this morning but in-produce worth £1,400. fog, according to the communique, dications were that it caused no Reports from the scene of the damage.-United Pass.
crash state that the remains of the plane were caught up in the avalanche, which the crash start- ed. The wreckage was sweat down about 300 yards from the actual place of the crash.
.
Famers heard the plane roaring overhead early this morning, "Al- most immediately there was tremendous explosion as the plane struck the rocky Northern parapet of the Hohgant Massif. Parties from surrounding farms set off at once, but it was an hour be- +fore the first group reached the
scene.
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