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COMMENT OF THE DAY
Caution Needed MFoster Dulles appeal
"united action” to
to
nast further participation by the Chinese Communista in the Indo-China contiict PUROS
How political problem for the nations whom this call is addressed, Whitehall, it in mak, is chiefly concerned about the timing of this latest move by Mr Dulles, and curtainly thero is cause to wonder why the American Secretary of State has chosen particular moment
this it-
troduco what IN quite clearly
position.
a dangerous
p
Is it because be
tion at Dien Bien Phu is so critical for the French Union forces that it
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Air & Sea Search For Comet TODAY'S RACING
Victims And Wreckage Atomic
FISHING BOATS
RECOVER
MORE BODIES
Naples, Apr. 9.
Ships and planes battled against strong winds belleves the military situa and high seas today in search of bodies and wreckage from the Comet which met sudden, mysterious disaster while climbing into the sub- possibly only be saved by stratosphere outward bound from Rome last night. giving notice tu Peking Twenty-one people were aboard the Comet, that future
military operated by South African Airways, on the successes by the Viet- minhese rubels will be met recently resumed London-Johannesburg run. The with concerted Betion by Comet fleets had been grounded after a Comet the free world? Or is it crashed into the sea off Elba on January 10 with convinced that nothing can the loss of all 35 on board. Now they are grounded emerge from the Geneva | again.
because he
is
already
Britain's Technicians Baffled
Only tew
weeks ago, they
Control:
Anti-Communist Britain's
United Front
Siani Accepts Invitation
accepted the American in-
Proposal
new
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request
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New York, Apr. 9. Britain today proposed to the United Nations that the Big Four powers-Britain, France, United States and Russin -- London, Apr. 9,
plus Canada be Britain's most brilliant
established B.S
sub- Cirrus 窺 Aircraft technicians
committee to try to find a Four Aces were
Washington, Apr. 9,
approach to atomie Peachums completely baffled tonight by
State Department spokes-control and the reduction of the big mystery of the jet age-why three apparently man Henry Suydam today maments.
Britain further proposed that foolproof Comet airliners disclosed that Thailand has the Sub-Committee meet in have met sudden disaster. vitation "to join In arrang- the Disarmament
New York and report back to Commission stripped the whole of Brishing" for T united front by July 15. Overseas Airways ficet of against Communist ag- The proposal was made by Comets, examining every nutgression in Southeast Asin." Sir Pierson Dixon before the 12- and, boit for any sign of design
nation They
That Ambassador Pote Sarnsinston, of structural weakness. failed to find anything wrong. called on Secretary of State session
Yet
Lonight they were faced John Foster Dulles this afternoon Britain, France And the with the realisation that some- and informed him of his gove
United States. the higher altitudes, ernment's acceptance of the US Commission take up the
had They where in
to eight miles obove plan to build a united non-Com- from six the earth, sudden and terrifying munis: front in Southeast Asia.
postl which the General disaster can overtake a jet air-
Assembly made last year, that Italian fishing boats tonight recovered more bodies craft
for reasons
The spokesman added: "It is yet beyond
it set up a sub-committee of re- Bearch
Massimo their knowledge. area, Italian Admiral
understood that the two govern- presentatives of "the
continue The British technicians tried ments will
in close principally involved." s his Givesi's headquarters announced here,
of safeguard
consultation with each other would meet in private and try every kind
they utterances and
solution of the long Comet to find a of after the Elbe with reference to this matter." British aircraft regulation concerning night fly. could think nothing
Eisen-carrier President
deadlocked issue of atom con- Rebel II crash and a destroyering across East Africa.
January. 10-03 Mr Suydum said "1 cannot hower sald at his press picked up six bodies from the
trol to meteorological modifications aimed at protect-
and reduction of armaments | According
Hurry On conference this week jotliner.
reports, the Comet was probably ing the plane against even the say" when asked whether Thai- and armed forces.
land was the first government The General Assembly further offered enlightenment. In Rome tonight, British and flying through a storm at the most
Improbable to accept Mr Dulles' proposal.suggested that the meetings happenings. United action by the free Hallat
avlation officials time it vanished.--Reuter. civil
7 IN ONE DAY
Sir Miles Thomas, Chairman
take place in the capitals of the a detailed check
However, no announcement world seems to imply some wore making
of British Overscus
countries concerned. Airways, of any other of the fight
London, Apr. 0. records of the
acceptances hos thing more than attaching
Tho today to the lines' been made,
meeting, the first the At least 88 people have died gave a clue which in the last two Comete
Commission had since last year, to
chiding signatures
three months have both met in seven uir crashes in scattered aviation experts. note addressed to l'eking, disaster soon after
In statement, he pointed "I wanted Mr Dulles to go to opened with an air of drama taking off parts of the world since, yester and if for no other reason, from the airport.
day morning,
three big Comet Europe with some support and caused Including the 2 out that the
by
world-wide a British Over disasters have all followed I would like to stress that there concern at the effects of the it is well that Mr Dulles is Throughout today's big people aboard
Airways
Corporation certain_pattern="on to search, rescuers were hampered seas
renching were no conditions attached to recent United States hydrogen which crashed ar
maximum our acceptance," Ambassador bomb tests in the Pacific. was Comet airliner ex-by bad visibility which
power"
the United Sarasin told
Prese YYSHINSKY PROTESTS sometimes down to a few hun-on a flight from Rome to Caird altitudo his
Most serious of the air dis Scientists were pondering
Mr Andrei Vyshinsky the dred yards,
10 later. In the upper
Soviet dregate, heightened the Then a British European Air-asters was the collision yester night whether
He said he was delighted that tension a Trans-Canadi air" pierced by jet aircraft there
Immediately declar- by airliner re-day between wars Elizabethan
and Airliner and a training plane
his government's acceptance of ing that Dr T. F. Tsiang, the unpredictable ported sighting bodies
phenomenon which either the United States Invitation to Nationalist China delegate, was thrown a plane temporarily out foin in a united front against illegally" occupying the Pre- of control or bulkis up stress aggression In Southeast Asla sident's chair. and strains that no man-made had arrived here before Mr
Dulles departure. structure can withstand.
conference that will con- A great three-nation asa and air search swept the tribute to a settlement in
waters daylong round the toe of Italy as reports came Indo-Chine, and that he
in of bodies and wreckage being sighted
south of wants the Western allies to Naples. guarantee Indo-China against further aggression 7 Mr Dulles himself has been from the anything but clear public
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muking a special visit London and Paris lo plain just what are Intentions. If he is thinking
of addressing in terms nute
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to Communist China
Earlier the
Eagle
which could be interpreted wreckage in the sea about 30 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, with
as an ultimatum then it isiniles north of Stromboli and 35 to be devoutly hoped that miles west of the Calabrian Britain, France and the coast.
Immediately, the Italian cor- bis, which had sighted a
vette,
search area.
the
a loss of 37 Ilves.
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Latest Soviet Allegation
London, Apr. 9.
A Soviet report radioed to ships at sea alleged today that American agents in Japan had tried by threats to force a Russian captain, held by Japanese Naval guards, to go to the United States.
States
As soon as the meeting open- The report, quoting Soviet { would be established later," ed, Mr Vyshinsky said: "It is newspapers, said when threats the report stated. illegal for the functions of the failed, the American agents tried "The newsDRPET · has already TWO POSSIBILITIES
He added that Mr Dulles ex-Chairman of the Disarmament in vain to forcibly carry Captain (forecast the final result of this Experts have noted that in pressed great gratification
at Commission to be entrusted to a Kulikov to the United States. game of provocation--the pub- the three
It called this a "new provoca- Ishing by none
unsolved Thailand's prompt acceptance-representative of the Kuomin-
the United has Comet riddles
the
radio United Press.
lang group, which does not re- tion" and referred to the "dis-press of false distortions by the operator been able to send out
present China and who unlaw. appearance" two months ago of American intelligence under even the fragment of a distress
fully occupies a seat in the Yuri Rastoverer,
A Soviet the guise of testimony-by Basto- diplomat in Tokyo.
his signal. This suggests either:
Today's Soviet report for Reuter. ships said despite requests for information, the American Gov- ernbient remained &lient оп Rastovorov's whereabouts.
-
1. That some violent elec- trical
other disturbance от
in each case has silenced the radio systems, or
Royal Visit Threats
Disarmament Commission."
Dr Talang is President for this month under the monthly system of rotation by alphabeti cal order.
MY
It alleged America was with...... holding information in order to intimidate Rastovorov.
VOTUV over
signature.
Five of the crew of 11 aboar United States Air Ford Commonwealth nations will Later on American plane said tanker plane were killed wha ernsted in flames ner have nothing to do with it, it had seen "bodies" further to
Nagoya, Central Japan. for it could achieve nothing the north.
A fuel leak while th terday.
Bighte tanker was loading except wreck the Geneva
caused it to catch fire. conference before it ever
large oil patch In the areo An Egyptian plane on a DI got under way. It is timely earlier today, set out for the
spraying mission crashed on to remember that the Geneva spot
pot indicated by
Eliza-
Cairo hospital yesterday inot conference is essentially a bothan.
ing, killing the
pilot and The Italian tug, Tenanes, put juring substitute for the original- ly
Korean out from here to investigate the patients, proposed
Two Belgian political conference and is, Italian plane's report.
pilots wee
2. That the 38,800-ton killed last night when Meanwhile,
the radio operator thar
General's. Offer Dr Talang replied to therefore, not to be sabot-
Eagle was stcoming into the Harvard trainer plane
crash and the other occupants of the
Vyshinsky saying he held the aged simply because of
Five
Shackleton in the Belgian Congo.
have been. stunned or plane
Chairman position of
Augusta, Georgia, Apr. 9. by the new military developments aircraft from Malia joined in.
Air Force
in the Metor killed
Kampala, Uganda, Apr. 9. fraction of a A Royal
rule
General of the Charter and the
Arthur Wilson Many Africans in Buganda
The report said that certain (retired) offered $100 today in Indo-China. The cautious
Cumot had been delayed jet fighter crashed near Cologe secon British and French re- for a day in Rome, while
yesterday, killing the pilot.
Another question
asked is today reported receiving threats rules of the Commission.
The legality
of my position United States
newspapers had anyone who would punch David the curtain over this Schine on uction to the Dulles pro-spare fuel gauge of a type un-
A jet aghter planc
the nose. The ực- crashed what would happen if there was that they would be beaten and
down if remains intact, the representa "raised
tired Unbod States-General sent posal is justified and the obtainable in Italy was flown out in dames into a house at some mishap of the pressurisa- their homes burned
Instance, the New York the Central
ing." he added
to cheque the training Frage. tion of the inside of the cabin they attend celebrations mark-ve of the USSR notwithstand mystery in must be from Britain. The gauge
uge arrived at lunch killing the pilot and a hove at a
height. Ercat
Experts ing Queen Elizabeth's visit adopted before anybody is time yesterday, but the pilot, wife-Reuter
Mr Henry Cabot Lodge, the Times on March 25 reported camp where Schine, the young
Rastovorov was in the protege of Senator Joseph Mc to any action 38-year-old
reply that even ifas is most April 20. committed
United States delegate, said Mr that Willem Captain
threats Vyshinsky's
United States in a secret hide-Carthy, is now •DOTVİNG MINISTRY'S ACTION unlikely Comet window was
remarka which might set the whole Karel Mostert, had to alter bis
London, Apr.
thero should be no that break, to
that his whereabouts) private-France-Presse. of "alacious." of the Far East aflame. fight plan to comply with ย
The British Ministry of To- disaster. One member of the Bugands would be assassinated
Mr Vyshinsky said he did not if they welcome the Queen. tonight withdrew its crow sport
consider it necessary to enter by regulation continuously
The Kabaka (King) of certificate of airworthiness call wears an oxygen mask and in
into a discussion on the question, province but he said that the pending Comet
situation aircraft
an emergency he could bring the Buganda-an African
at of about caus of aircraft down if necessary
1,300,000 within created when a seat on
the investigation into the
deposed by the Commission was occupied by a recent disasters.Reuter.
a speed of 7,000 miles a minute. Uganda-was
The effects of a leak In the British Government on Novem person not empowered by the AIRLINER INSURED
London, Apr.j.
fuselage would not be suficient, ber 30 last year.
rightful Government of China the
the Three regents were appointed was in itselt The BOAC
wrong and Injure seriously any of Comet oirner to
the short time be- to replace him. Yoke which crashed into the occupants
carrying out of the Chairman's African newsboys are refusing functions was performed without Mediterranean last night wain-fore the plane got down to
to lower oxygen-filled, altitude,
distribute the European any legal foundation. sured in the amount of 500,-
"But I repeat," he added, "I 000, 1
of the plane newspaper, Uganda Herald and announcediero was
The possibility tonight. Tho Cornet atiner being hit by a large solid object, the pro-Government vernacular do not intend to engage in any
argument on this point." Yoke Peter which crashed the such as an eagle or vulture, is newspaper, Matalisi.
They say they have been This closed the Incident and Island of Elba last Januarjwas also discounted because birds
death if they the President called at threatened with encountered insured for the
rarely stu aro spme
continue-Reuter.
Pierson Dixon-Reuter, France-Presse,
such helghts-Reuter.
name
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