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Mid-Air Explosion Believed Princesses On Holiday
Be Stopped Cause Of Comet Crash
TONGKONG has enough
Havoidable domestic
*
problems to Worry nhout without having to suffer un- necessary afflictions. Which is why it is high time the Authorities took steps to keep the centre of the cly clear of begging children Jul touting pimps when American warships visit the Colony. The already over- crowded thoroughfares are made almost impassable by importuning children--boy And Kiri -- who pester American Servicemen while they are shopping or sight- seeing in the city. Our visitors are extraordinarily tolerant of these youthful nuisances, yet they must wonder why, in 14
pince which prides itself. on its fine appearance. Its law and order, no official action is taken to keep them from being pestered, physically and verbally, by hordes of uncontrolled youngsters in Pedder Street and Queen's Rond Central. It noticeable yesterday that the number of children bex- ging for or rather demand- ing-cumshaw" (and at the same time obstructing the footpaths for everybody else) was larger than ever. More- over, they are not merely intolerable nuisancet
Death Of Former Statesman
Lord Simon, one-time British WILS
politician and statesman. who died yesterday at the age of 80 after a brief illness,
they are a dunger to them- selves and to vehicular traffle. We observed a nent tragedy yesterday at the corner of Pedder Street Lad Queen's Road when a sma!! boy, with a baby strapped to his back, and in pursuit of អរព American Muilor, dartel neross the road in
**Guerilla
Strikes
Union Boss
Shouted Down
London, Jan. 11.
DOCTOR'S STATEMENT
TO BE PUT BEFORE INQUIRY COMMISSION
Porto Azzurro, Elba, Jan. 11.
A mid-air explosion caused the crash of Britain's trail- blazing Comet jet airliner Yoke Peter, a medical report on 15 of the 35 victims suggested today.
Dr Bellina Delfino examined the bodies-those of four men, seven women and four children-in a white-washed hill- side chapel in the cemetery of this tiny fishing village.
He said: "All the 15 men, women and children, whose bodies 1 examined, must have been dead before they struck the water."
The doctor said that the disaster was "definitely" the result of a mid-air explosion. The explosion ripped the clothing from the lower parts of the victims' bodies before flinging them into the sea.
This medical evidence is going before an Italian Commission of Inquiry which began assembling here today.
The Commission will examine the doctor's evidence together with wreckage and debris recovered by Italian naval and fishing craft.
The airliner crashed yesterday un a flight from Singapore to London with 20 passengers und a crew of six aboard.
The search for bodies and wreckage still continuing to night, 32 hours after the crash, miles south of this island. 10
Elban
(In London tonight a BOAC spokesman said there is no rea- son to believe that the cause of the accident was anbotage but he said every possible theory will be considered).
Defenes
1ish Consulate in Florence, had Inspected the bodies.
ruth
In Switzerland
"We Cannot Give Up Atlantic Alliance"
WARRA
EDEN
London, Jan. 11.
Mr Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, declared in a broadcast tonight that the West need never abandon its defensive arrangements as price for agreement with Russia.
a
The Foreign Secretary said that had an Atlantic
Well wrapped up are Crown Princess Beatrix, Princess Marijke, Prin- cers Margriet and Prin. cess Irene, daughters of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Nether. lands, when setting off for a ride in a snow-car at Grindelwald, Switzerland, during A wintersports holiday.
Ex. - London
press.
Kenya Police
Alliance existed between the two world wars the second Officer Fined
one would not have occurred.
"Whatever happens we cannot give up this Alliance which is the foundation of our safety and threatene no one," he stated.
as
The search is now entirety in the hands of the Italian Navy. The corvette Fentee and smaller aircraft are still searching the Niediterranean, south of Elva, for any further traces of the air- liner.
fishing Craft which spent most of yesterday and sil wreckage today searching for called off their almost hopeless Electrical workers called quest at sunset tonight. front of a car. Only quick
They had assisted in collecting, out by their Communist in skrm-whipped scus, a mas and hard braking by the
lenders walked off three of for tragic relics of the disaster motorist prevented an
the Commission cident, get the child earried Britain's key sites in which may ald
nation's first in the: immense task. 011 with his importuning cluding the
included These mission while dozens of his atomic power plant — in a
ja radiator, undercarringe Associates cluttered up the series of guerilla strikes 10-mechanism. cushions, ruined
BOAC in London of the tem- path, seeking and worrying day.
mail and some passengers' be-
the disaster which overtook aporary suspension of its Cornet BOAC Comet airliner in the air services, American sailors with their But at one site the men refused longings.
The mall came chiefly from
near Elba yesterday morning. The British decision was for- It is commonly to join the alrike, shouting "Gel attentions.
which Singapore red horse"
the Malaya and off your
" should be
and very grateful it warded to the French known that youngsters are
Union bass, the Comet left
scheduled Your Excellency would be good Canadian governments, France employed
by pimps vnd Electrical Trade
morning on an extra-scheduled enough to convey to all those Presse Frank Foulkes, others to accust visitors to
Italian naval and air forces In compiction of an examination pl...ich we can get a representa-
at
The Communist president had fight. the Colony, especially per-made an overnight dash from sonnel from American war: London by road to Scunthorpe. ship. It is a rotten and Lincolnshire, to try to force the disgraceful business and the rebels into strike action. time is long overdue for the Authorities to clamp down
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practice which
Comet Disaster
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on
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the search for the Comet.
said: The Ambassador have learned of the magnificent Italian services, effort of the
both naval and air forces, in
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wheel,
the attempt the search
WEDDING DRESS
The passengers baggage In- cluded two sultcases, a wedding They shouted him down when dress, a woman's overcoat, in- he erjed: "I order you to strike," funts' clothing
Tonight, the Union-backing Christmas cards the trikes for more LMY...
outs.
JUBILANT
telegrams.
anel
and greetings
will be
under the
of the
ald
British
and in at rescue for the victims of
concerned my heartfelt appre- clation of their
less
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co-peedy and self-
planes their
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"White Death"
government
Other
Ministers
is
com
Three Fighter Planes Crash
"Two of the pilots have been
Die third
sard
Nairobi, Jan. 11.
A Kenya Police roserve officer, Philip Tynarle Smith, was fined £50 by the Nakura Supreme Court today for failing to keep ammunition in safe custody.
that
SERUM SAVES A
BOY'S LIFE
Innsbruck, Jan. 12. Rome, Jan. 11.
Michigan Serum Rown from The Island of Strombol!
off in a 4,500-mile emergency life- const Italy, he that almost failed, stopped where the volcano of the the uncontrolled bleeding of an same name is located,
boy tonight and rocked by an earthquake to he was
mediate danger.
No
were
points made by Mr Eden in his survey of interna tional affairs were:
ONLY WAY” "THE Korea-the ending of the Korean fighting had been "the most heartening feature" of the day. past year. He remained con- vinced that "the only way to bring about it Korean peace" was through the political con- the ference provided for by armistice.
Persla the resumption of diplomatic relations was
"on- other item on the credit alde," He hoped Anglo-Persian oli talks would start soon.
Presse.
was eight-younounced out of im-
casualties or damage
reported. France
"I belleve the be has been saved," said Dr Peter Dietrich.
United Press.
The consulate representative said that as soon as the bodies had been identified the next of kin would be cake: for in- body structions, only one By tonight seemed to have been identified In Rome BOAC officials and umong the 15 recovered the they hoped by air reconnaissance
other hostess, Miss or alr 23-year-old
menna to be able to Clark. Jean
She has been pinpoint the main body of the identified by scraps of the blue Canet, about 10 miles south of her Elba, where the depth of the sea uniform stilt clinging to
is 80 metres (280 feet)—Reuter. body.
AIR FRANCE DECISION LETTER OF THANKS
Paris, Jan. 11, the British Am- In Rome
Air France. which
Mr Eden said the West could bassador, Bir Ashley Clarke,
letter of thanks British-bullt Comets on several also never abandon its stand on tonight sent
all-German elections to Signor Paolo Emilio Taviani, routes, tonight announced that free
"the first essential if Germany Kalinn
He was acquitted of two other it would temporarily ground all Minister,
charges, of stealing 128 rounds for the part taken the Comet jet airliners pending the is to be reunited."
by
"For that is the only method
of ammunition deposited with. the Polles for safe custody and the planes.
Government with
Frankfurt, Jan. 11.
of
of ammunition possession The action was taken follow- tive German
Three
United States Air of the
BOAC which the four powers can dig- Ing the crash
No Force cuss a German settlement.
F-86 Sabre-jet fighter without a licence.
The Comet in the Mediterranean on
Judge remarked planes crashed south of Frank- between East and Sunday with the loss of 35 lives contrivance
furt today. First reports said accused was the first officer he and
West such as u bry the the notification
provisional Imposed by the that all three pllets parachuted had ever heard of being charged with possession of arms without to safety, occupying powers could fulfi this riced."
a licence.
Smith had belleve
been in custody Referring to the forthcoming reported safe and we
one also got out," a eight weeks.-France-Presse. "Bg Four" Foreign
the Air Force conference Me Eden sald: "The spokesman for essence of all successful Inter-Air-Sea Rescue Squadron national
at Kaiserlauten.-United Press. negotiation NOT GROUNDING
promise. I hope that this Ottawa, Jan. 11. A spokesman for the Royal spirit will be present on both Quake Rocks Island Italian
were Canadian Air Force-operating idea at Berlin. mainland the only two Comets in Canada returning to bases tonight
the southern Sir Ashley said today there was no rea- Clarko's message was being de son as yet for grounding them. No information had been re- livered to the Defence Ministry.
One aircraft reported: "There ceived so far about yesterday's equally revolting and dis-threatened that action would be The Commisston investigating Is longer any hope of Anding crash off the Italian coast, the tregning to the people of sleppert up tomorrow, It said the crash
survivors
But the planes were spokesman stated-Reuter, general ordered to stand by to continue Hongkong as it is to our there would be "Indefinite direction of an Italian
are made its stoppages" instead of brief walk who reached here today in an their patrolling tomorrow. visitors who
Italan corvette with three other
Both the British and Italian target and victims.
service officers.
investigating bodies adjourned Six British experts will
their work tonight. Employers resisting union the Commission. They include
The British Investigators had examining mail demands for more
spent the day pay-were representatives Jubilant last night because so Ministry of Civil Aviation, the picked up by fishing beats. few men had
Airways Cor- come out. But British Overseas
They said that they had not yet neration and the De Havilland fished this
task and claimed the unins
"complet Aircraft Company,
makers of continue it tomorrow. support" from the men who had been ordered to strike.
the Comet,
Vienna, Jan. 12. British Union leaders said last night!
NOT GREAT HELP investigators on a pre-
claimed that by Thursday 2.000 of their spent this afternoon
Mr B. A. Morris
The "white death" examination ot "guerillas" will have abandoned Jiminary
the Accident Investigation Branch at least two more victims to
avalanches thundered 20 key
Jobs in few pieces of wreckage construction
of the British Ministry of Civil day
Alps, covered from the sca.
Isolating various parts of Britain.
Aviation build: "So for all I have down Monday, Then, next
40,000
Commission's biggent had to go on are the aircraft villages and cutting the main with these countries" of the task will be contracting electricians
establish 10
the wheels,
a radiator and a piccerall line between Austria and unlon's 203,000 membership will reliability of reports by locali of undercarriage.
Switzertu The
of massive nationwide fishermen that the
much in
rumblo "They do not help
the strike to support their demanda ploded in the air and plunger trying to determine the cause of snowsdes choed through
the accident."
mountains 19 slowly-rising for three-pence an hour more into the sea with black smoke
(Contd. on back page, col. 4) trailing from it.
Other wreckage was reported temperatures brought a med-
"But the amassing of arms is to have been unloaded at Genoa sure of rellot to most of Europe the product and not the pro- the Italian coastal steamer after a week of blizzards and ducer of tension in the world. Persia,
one of the first on the icy winds.
That is why we are continually scene of the crash. She re-
Almost 100 persons were dead trying as a first step to remove near down or missing in mishaps caused by the causes of tension. mained there until today,
"That is why I welcome Pro- the storms. In Italy the known Shortly after nightfall gleam- death toll was 27, Sweden resident Eisenhower's proposa)." ing walnut collins had been ported 22 dond
missing. Mr Eden hoped the Russions the villago car Britain 20, France 18, Austria at Berlin would find it possible prepared by
13 bodles TC Kix, for the penter
Switzerland throo and to meet the West on the essen- Germany onc. The four representatives here discussing the site for covered.
tial point of free German elec- The bodies were moved from
Avalanche ·warnings were lons-Reuter. the forthcoming Foreign Minlaters' conference and other
mortuary in the sounded in Switzerland,
Aus- technical arrangements adjourned their talks until com
village cemetery to the village tria and Germany as thaws Wednesday after an 11-hour session which ended early church where they lay in their softened mows at the base of this morning.
towering peales and brought tons Lyttelton In They were covered in carna- | of snow down on homes, towns
Northern Rhodesia and roads and ralí lines. The meeting ended at 2 a.m. munique on the latest meeting tions and roses brought by a
since the held at United Sintes Head-stream of women and children The crack International Ari-
Lasaka, Northern Rhodesia, Longest was the
who came to pay their respects borg Express was marooned: at
Jan. 11. tour Power representatives, the quarters.
The communique made no to the dead,
Innsbruck, Austria, when cascad- The British Colonial Becretary, three Western Allied Command-
WOMEN WEEP
ing snow ripped up tracks near Mr ants of Berlin and Mr Sergei reference to the possiblo site of
Oliver Lytteltop i mat manufacturers - the de
Many women wearing shawls the Aciborg mountain village of European Heeted members ci Berlin representative of the conference. Dengin. Havilland Company - nor the Soviet High Commission In Difference of opinion con-over their heads were weeping Firsch. The village lack was the North Rhodesian Legislative
they lald flowers on
the raved front burial, by the pro- Comell today and · decuered BOAC, who had the courage Germany, started their prepara- tinued among the four repre- as
tective forests around 11.
constitutional changes for the to place orders, for the tory talks on the forthcoming sentativos, an Allied spokesman small children's coffins.
Behind the row of cons At foust. 16 new avalanches territory said. Comet from the drawing conference,
He drained further comment. stood a huge wreath from the were reported.. the region Two previous meetings were
After the meeting It war board, need loso faith in A
said the, Municipal Council of Porto where Zour parsons, era. knows learned that about two-thirds of machine which has done held at British and Soviet head-A reliable source
Western delegates had made Azzurro.
to have died in a heavy mow- the agenda had been dealt with. Sarlor in the day. Dr Peffers tonn that brought falla In The Colonial Secretary has more than anything else to quarters respectively last week.
Wednesday's meeting will be "big offórta" at the latest comelon
decision on the of the BOAC, médical branch | depths up to sit fest-United agreed to half another meeting revolutioniae civil air ser-held At French Headquarters, to achieve a
on Wednesday-leuter... * vices.
according to the joint com site for the conference--Reuter, and a representative of the Bri- "Prais.
SUN
JUNDAY'S Comet disaster was both shocking and tragic, yet it would be an- fair and completely out of perspective to condemn jet airlines as an unsafe form of travel because it (C- curred. What precisely caused the crash may never be fully established, but it does appear likely that the plane exploded in mid-air, Buggesting n mechanical Nevertheless, the defect. flying record of the Comets dentes any iden that thero might be n fundamental weakness about the con- struction of these airliners. The Comets have flown over 80,000 hours in serviec, which is equivalent to 12 million miles and 236 million passenger
stage
miles - R fine record of anfety flying. Ob- viously there is nothing in- herently wrong with the Cometa. They are tho ploneers of civil jet nir- liners, yet their safety per-
with IL formances .compare anything put up by propeller machines. Neither the
4 anc-day
Tho
The
Comet ex-
11-Hour Session Trying To
Arrange Big 4 Talks
Berlin, Jan. 12.
by
cofino in a row,
would
of the
Claims Two More Victims
the
UT
or
Was
The Middle E-"The_grow-" ing force of nationalism probably the most powerful influence in this area now and we have to "like it or not accept this fact in our relations
President Eisenhower's plan- for on international atomic bank-Mr Eden hoped the world would one day bari atomle wea- pons and agree to all round dis- armament.
THE
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