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ANOTHER SOVIET ATTACK Lands MIG Escaping
And UN ON US PLANE
FR Eden has very properly
Massociated himself with
majority opinion that Com- munist Chiun does not yet qualify for membership of the United Nations. The anomaly of China being represented in UN by the Nationalists over which Mr Attlee expressed concern in the House of Commons is one of Peking's own creation. In the same WRY the Chinese Communis!s refuse to take the proper steps to normalise diploma- the relations with Britain. The Peking regime has chosen its own course; t intervened in the Korean war and mule Red China: an aggressor against the United Nations. It Is inconceivable that such a wilful policy should be condoned by members of the United Nations by the admission of the People's Government into its coun cila. In truth, however, little aigns have yet been given by Peking that it 18 particularly anxious at this time to nasociate itself with UN; it appears to prefer to remain a Philistine, and to have J18 Ita unofficial #pokesmen in New York the! voices of the Soviet, Polish,) Czech and other satellite representatives. For the present. Communist China displays interest only in associating herself with
Nations
gramme
THE
E line of action which the Peking Government has chosen to
be pursue can deprecated, und even
Shots Exchanged
Off Coast Of Siberia
Anchorage, Alaska, Mar. 17.
The Air Force announced today that two Russian-built MIG-15s attacked a United States RB-50 reconnaissance plane flying a routine flight off the northwest coast of Siberia at about 2 a.m., GMT on Sunday.
Sea
The attack occurred within a few minutes jot flying time of Russian air bases rimming the Soviet Arctic coastline.
One of the planes fired at the US craft, The American plane returned fire. There was no immediate report of dam- age.
It was the fifth incident involving MIGs and western power aircraft in the last week.
The Air Force announcement was made simultaneously in Washington and at Elmendorf Air Force base here. The statement said, "A US Air Force RB-50 on a routine weather reconnaissance flight from an Alaskan base was fired on shortly after 9 p.m. EST on March 14."
Kuriles.
This instruction followed re- cent incidents over, Germany.in.
was shot down by one Soviet made MIC fighter.
A Polish fighter pilot, who is as yet unnamed, landed on Danish Terri tory recently in a "secret" Russian Built MIG fighter aircraft. It is the first aircraft of its kind to fall Into allled hands and it is being examined under close guard. The pilot claims to be a political re- fugee and has asked for asylum in Denmark,
London Express.
Naguib Causes
which one American jet fighter Coronation
BODIES FLOWN HOME
Hamburg, Mar. 17. The bodies of seven Royal Air Farce men killed when their Lincoln bomber was shot down by Soviet Mig-15 jet fighters over Germany last Thursday, were flown to Britain today in two RAF planes.
the Soviet bloc and sparns The announcement Identified | effort 10 improve weather the comity of nations, Nor the attackers as "Russian-built forecasting in Alaska and the is sho entitled to become a MIG-15s." It said the RB-50 was United States.
two MIGs, but American pilots who dy in- Intercepted by senior member of the United only one of them fred on the terceptor
patrol regularly so long ฟ
the Siberian she bomber. There were no further around
border insists on helping to prolong details.
He added that American pilots shared by the USSR and the the Korean hostilities and
United
have States The Air Force said the attack sighting MIGS often,
reported had been instructed not - tu making herself an active occurred 25 miles east of Kem was the first reported shooting American airmen must reply t but this attack. Hc sald, however, participant in Russin's pro-chalka Peninsula, a long stretch incident in the far north and attacked-France-Presse.
of international of land extending southwest from the first lo
оссиг near any Siberia toward the expansion through milltary Soviet
United States border. and political aggression.
The RB-50 is a 'reconnassance
NO DAMAGE Major Joe Jeffers, publle re- version of the B-50 bomber-u.
the Alaskan modified B-29. It is not a jet-lations officer for
Air Command, said there ap- powered aircraft,
The attack occurred in an peared to be no damage to the
which arca
of other aircraft in the exchange is 2 region most Americans. of fire. He said there la
also necessary
to Kamchatka extends south from ordinarity "about a dozen men "appreciate that it la-based Siberia toward the Kuriles, once aboard one of the B-50s onja” on a coldly calculated policy, Japanese-owned Islands which weather fight. They fly quite This is particularly were given to Russia after World long weather routes. It was our illuminated by the refusal War II.
Je routine flight for the to make any attempt to The United States-owned reciprocate Britain's recog. Aleu
Aleutian chain extends across Maj. Jeffers Identified the Bilion of the People's the Government. The conclusion Sea from Kamchatka leading to L-Col Robert Rich of the 58th to be drawn is that Muo the Alaskan mainland. It has Strategie Reconnaissance Squad
been fairly well established that į ron. Tse-tung and his associates the Russians have built elaborate An Air Force spokesman said have no desire or intention air bases on Kamchatka perlu- of normalising relations sula since the advent of the with Britain until they have) Soviet als power. completed their campaign
4.000-MILE FLIGHT An Air Force spokesman sald designed to remove overy vestige of British influence the American plane was "de-
roundly condemned, but it mystery
with
were
Four of the Lincoln crew were kilied in the clash and three died in hospital from injuries,
British and Soviet authorities exchanged protests following which crushed near the East- West German border-Heuter.
Plans Hitch
In Denmark Boat Runs
Gauntlet
Police Security
Security Tactics Give Londoners A Big Shock
London, Mar. 18.
Marshal Tito last night plunged into talks with
Of Bullets
Berlin, Mar. 17. Herr Bruno Winkler, tough looking skipper of the pleasure bont Deutsch- land, said today he "expect- ed bullets and was not disappointed" when he ran her through the gauntlet of East Berlin police yesterday to escape to the West.
Herr Winkler, 25, was the hero of West Berlin today for taking his East German craft full steam ahead through miles of Berlin's Intricate canal system.
**I had mictal sheets nailed up on each side of the bridge," he sald today, Ward
| baunerḍ oll armies, he sho
On board the 500-pultenger vessel were two East German shipowners and their families. The owners resolved to fee when the East German autho- rities threatened to expropriate the Deutschland, which used to run Summar excursions он Berlin's many lakes and canals. Herr Winkler told his story today as he snuffled along in a of people waiting to register as refugees.
queue
To
200-MILE TRIP
OF
rench West Berlin, 10 miles as the crow Alfer, the Deutschland steamed more than 200 miles through the winding canals,
As
the vessel approached
Oder, they
British Government lenders after a day which left London Fuerstenberg - on
from the north-West through
said.
"As we got nearer the point the tiller over I bent lower and where I knew I had to swing lower over the wheel.
awe struck and bewildered at finding its own easy going were challenged, Herr Winkler police force apparently adept in the use of strong-arm security tactics.
Flanked by-14. nimed policemen on motor cycles, Yugoslavia's 60-year-old President sped from place to place in a bullet-proof car and everywhere in the teeming streets were policemen keeping the crowds at a distance;
Detectives in plain clothes Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece and mingled with the spectators in Turkey. pollco state fashion, straining their
ears to catch suspicious words that might mean frouble from Tito's enemies..
At Buckingham Palace, where the visiting President went to lunch with Queen Elizabeth, a clerk in the crowd shouted "Go home Tito, down with Tito." Police pounced on him and
To
not
BUTC
(From Derek Marks)
London, Mar. 17. A bitch has been caused in the Coronation plans by the new deadlock with the Egyption Premier, General Nagulby, over the Suez Canal.
The Foreign Secretary, Mrrushed him to court, where he Anthony Eden, had planned to as ned £5 for "uding in
suling words.” cut the number of British troops in the Zone drastically and bring home four battalions of Guards -the 3rd Grenadier, 1st Scots, and 1st and 3rd Coldstream for the Coronation ceremoniats, This he was prepared to do General Naguib
agreed that America should take part in the but General Naguib turned
the suggestion. Mr Eden as a result shelved the evacuation plans and orders have gone out to maintain the
000 troops,
Was
"We came abreast of the point but instead
of following East German pollco orders, I blew the whistle. and bawled down
to the
tugineraom for full speed ahead.
"Kurt, the engineer, gave as much steam as possible.
"I heard shouts and bullets
Marshal Tilo, wearing evening dress, a dark overcoat and black Homburg, attended a dinner lasi night at Mr Eden's official re sidence in Carlton House Terrace | began whining overhead. I --London's "terrace of aristo- crouched over the tiller and crats",
kept the crati heading straight As he left the Yugoslav Em-for the West Berlin shore.
"We made 12 knois over that kept at a distance by nearly 200 never thought bassy about 50 sightseers were stretch-about a mile long-I the 'old girl' had it in her," he grinned. Marshal arrived 50 policemen minutes."-Reuter.
For nearly an hour before the "It was all over In 20
police.
the lower neck of the Boring } pilot of the American plane as the shooting down of the plane talks on the future of the Zone this in a city accustomed perisniffing in all the shrubberies In
the American plane
waters."
was rew
down
US DEMAND
Washington, Mar. 17. ported to be 25 miles off, Siberia The United States today de- strength of the garrison at 80,- when attacked and was "do-manded that Russia and Com- fuitely over International munist Hungary pay $037,894 plus interest for "unlawfully" He said that according to in- seizing an Air Force C-47 plane ternational
its Law,
four-mon American and
crew in planes can go anywhere up to Hungary on November 19, 1951. three miles of Russia without violating Soviet territory. The Russians dispute this.
They claim that Russian territory extends 12 miles out.
TO BE REPLACED
Only battalions which have completed their three-year tour of overseas duty will be brought home but they will be replaced,
Tho now
precautions have been ordered because hope of satisfactory agreement will Egypt is fading.
for
of State, Mr
ANOTHER ESCAPE
surrounded Mr Eden's house,
No one without a special police Londoners, whether to be exasperated or pass was allowed within 100
~Berlin; Mar:"17. thing out of a gangster, fum amused, it all seemed like same. yards and a cordon of poller thrown across the road stopped
An East German fair show- Mostly-on
all other traffic.
man and his family escaped this first day of his five-day
to West Berlin today with two offcial visit-Tilo A police dog, a golden - a shadowy
went into brador called Karl,
caravans, a merry-go-round and igure scen through protective glass, and action 45 minutes before the joy wheel packed up in two Marshal arrived, searching and lorry trailera, West Berlin bor-
der officials said. haps more than any other to
He
the had parked and cheering
four tinguished visitors at close up.
Its dis the area. seeing
Senior officers of the Metro-vehicles on a desolate spot in
Police politan When Marshal
zéctor near toured police the Soviet
the Tilo visited the headquarters
Special Branch | American sector border. This positions and of the County Council, passes indon men walked up and down the morning we drove to East Ber- terrace scrutinising the small in with two hired tractors colours had to be shown be-groups of people hoping to from West Berlin tied on the tore anyone was allowed througs catch a gimpse of Britain's vehicles and a double ring of guards,
Uniformed police lined the approaches to the hall, and 100, others guarded the entrances.
Similar precautions were Marshal Tito's whirlwind sight- taken at all other points on
seeing tour.
Anitely OVCT International from China. The sequestra-
waters." He said he slid not tion of British properties know where the two Red jets and undertakings in Shang-| came from, but assumed that
The sum included a $123,605 -hai
and Canton are they
were coming from
"ne" paid by the United States manifestations of this Kamchatka.
to win freedom for its flyers on policy; similarly the refuso) The spokesman sold the Air
December 28, 1951. The United to deal commercially with close to Soviet territory. The Force plane was not unusually
The spokesman, however,
| States demanded that the "fino", Mr Eden thought the United the Council on the rostrum be
He sat through a session of British and other foreign US plane was
which branded a "term of States Secretary said it is the Air Force policy barbarous extortion or ransom," Foster Dulles, would be able to side the chairman and presented on a 4,000-mile firms still existing on the non-stop round trip flight from
ram not to let planes go closer than
be returned with interest at six take 25 miles of Russian borders on
part in Obviously the Alaska's base.
the talks DS D mainland.
a cheque for £1,000 to be spent The Air Force
"big brother," offering Egypt, | on war orphans. Peking regime intends to raid landed on a base in the routine fights. He added it is per cent,
"routine" for them to approach In six notes to Moscow, and United States
through Mr
Іп д Jefferson Caffery.
short peech to the pick its Own timo for Aleutians after the encounter.
Budapest, the United States
Ambassador In Council, Tito spoke of the adjusting fts
The plane has a range of more up to 25 miles. diplomatic
The Air Force said it is relations
a accused the Russians of trying to Cairo, material rewards-arms courage shown by the citizens than 8,000 miles and can fly above thoso
on get these almen "to desert the and cash beyond Britain's of London during the last war Western Powers who either 40,000 deet and has a speed of standing policy for planes
weather missions in the far north United States Government and to power.
and sald the Yugoslav people to be armed,
In return have already, or are willing, more than 400 miles an hour.
have indoctrinate them with In bomber versions, it can
Pilots
these and welcomed the cordial relations anti propagando", to extend to it official recogestry 10 tons of bombs with on standing instructions given to American
1 Britain's agreement in principle that had been established with nition. Withdrawal
Britain. by additional four tons carried all Air Force planes to defend charges Hungary with "pitiless" to evacuate the Zone Egypt
of the airmen of would be expected to join Π Late in the afternoon Tito went Britain of its acknowledg. under the wings. Several years themselves it fired on, but not questioning ment of the Peking Govern- ago, the B-50 bomber "Lucky to provoke incidents. United attempting to obtain espionage Middie Fast defence pact but to No. 10 Downing Street, the General Nagulb now insists Prkne Minister's residence, and confessions from them and c around the Press ment would achieve nothing world non-stop, refuelling in the
Lady
trying them secretly on "trumped" | that Britain do her own talking" settled down to talk with Mr useful, but she would be air at four points.
up charges"-United Press
and on one subject only--im- | Churchill, Their Foreign Secret- mediato evacuation, acting foolishly if at this Kamchatka is approximately.
arles, Mr Eden and Me Koca Mr Eden is now considering Popovic, were present. time she adopted Mr Attlee's 2,500 miles west-southwest of
sending new instructions to the Diplomatic quarters believed proposal for sponsoring Anchorage and Elmendorf air of the American Air Force In
British Ambassador in Cairo, that the main subject discussed Communist China's admis- base, Air Force headquarters for Europe, told the press tonight Steel Bill
London Express Bervice, · was Me Georgi Malenkoy's ́nue- cession to Stalin and the other changes in the Kremlin. As a onco honoured guest in Moscow bafore he broke away drom, the Cominform, Mashal Tito was believed able to give the Brillih leaders much Inalde inforination about the now regimo,
flew
PILOTS INSTRUCTED
Wiesbaden, Mar. 17. General T. H. Laddon, Chief
that American plots had been Alaska. slon to the United Nations.
closer American bombers, equipped instructed not to come Public opinion is Britain no virtual flying laboratories than 10 miles to the borders, of would never pormit any take regular fights over the the Federal German Republic such action.
open sea of the Arelle in an and to avoid any hostile action,
Given Approval
London, Mar. 17. The House of Commons, by 304 votes to 271 tonight finally passed
a bill to sell the state owned steel
BUILDING-UP FOR BIG SHOWDOWN antes back to private owner-
in-
Mountain Climb Begins
guest.-Reuter.
raced back. His
name was not released-Reuter.
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between carry supplies to troop centres, alise read transport, has already
been passed by the Commons_and] ing up a showdown battle In the Red River delta, ang Lai Northern Indo-China.
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adicate Red China has increased the Steel Hill will now ga... try in Northwest Tonkin", They said the Reds had mass-high-ranking officer sald From its military aid to the Vietminh
our infantry divisions, one an official spokesman for the in the past 106 days. Vietminh become law by early May.
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