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COMMENT OF THE DAY
Japon
Sea
Air Clash
USSIAN jet pilots have
RUS
shot down another US. Naval bomber off the const of Siberia. Is the attack to be denounced as another bintant example of irres- ponsible trigger-happiness by the Russians, it is to be excused as "one of those un- fortunnie misunderstand. ings", or are the Americans to be blamed for flying in this dangerous area which has already earned the name of the "graveyard" of American patrol planes? Certainly the polley of "shoot first" is reckless and dangerous and one that is
to be deplored when a com- paratively harmless "viola- Lion
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CHINA N
No. 35915
TUESDAY, SEP
1954
Cerita
NOW
MOUNTBATTEN TIPPED FOR TOP JOB
To Give Up C-I-C Post In
EARL MOUNTBATTEN
Mediterranean
NEXT FIRST LORD?
London, Sept. 6.
Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma will re- linquish his past as Commander-in-Chief, Mediter ranean, in December, the AdmiraltyTM announced tonight.
But an Admiralty spokesman said no future appointment for Earl Mountbatten, who is uncle of the Duke of Edinburgh, was yet known. How
Eisenhower ever, he has been unofficially tipped as the next
Angry With Knowland
First Sea Lord of the Admiralty.
Earl Mountbatten assumed the additional post of Cin-C Allied Forces, Mediterranean,
its in- ception in March 1983.
he succorded
1
In 1944. and 1945, he attended conferences as a member of the the Quebec, Talia and Potsdam staff of the First Sea Lord.
He is to be succeeded in both Admiral Sir Guy Grantham, indeed that In what
posts in December by Admiral 84) was naval liaison officer tu Sit Guy Grantham, 54, formerly the 8th Army in the western happened) could be settled
Washington, Sept. 6. scond in command Mediter-debert in the last war. He won costly through normal
President Eisenhower is racon Flect..
the Distinguished Servico Order Mountbatten har been for gallantry during the with- diplomatic chanuels. Con-sald to be angry with Send Bitish Commander-in-Chief in drawal of Allied fighting mon sider the American version tor William Knowland, the the Mediterranean since May from Greece,
the Republican Party leader in 1062, when incident: the
the Senate, who publicly de Admiral Sir John Edelsten Russians medo an
manded that because of the war Fourth Sea Lord, one of He was appointed when he provoked attack on
the shooting down of the US. many distinguished positions he naval patrol plane in inter-Naval patrol planes by Com has filled in long career during national waters. This would munist fighters, the United which he has been Viceroy of India and wartime Allied not be at all surprising States should never diplo
East Asia. the Russians have done it matic relations with Soviet Supreme Commander in South- before in that same resulting in the loss of two American patrol planes, one in 1951 and another in
Russia.
area, Mr Eisenhower was reported
PURELY 'ROUTINE! to be indignant and upset be
"An Admiralty official cause Senator Knowland made public a telegram to film urging later that the changeover this reversel
of polley before purely routine" received
1969 The Russians have the president's Pattitude 2018 |
The
done the same thing in well known-that such a demand Europe in the Berlin air is likely to create unnecessary
corridor. Now consider the Russian version: the two Russian plance approached the American plane to warn
"10 and
confusion
misunder standing among
States United allles. He is on record as say. ing the United States cannot possibly serve its best interests
by
by breaking completely with Russia. it that it was out of bounds Though Mr James Hagerty, and "to propose that the White House press secretary, reporters in Denver that
fold
Six Die
said was
In Nigerian Rioting
France-Presse said, för come
time rumours have been current in political circles that he would be appointed First Sea Lord,
TORY OPPOSITION
U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (right) wearing dark suit, walks past the Philippine colour guards with Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs Raul Manglapus (centre) and the Philippine Guard of Honour Commander at a brief review. ceremony, at Manila International Airport shortly after Mr Dulles arrived last Friday, for an eight-nation Southeast Asia Security Conference which he called, "one of the most important International conferences of our time."Asso ciated Press Photo,
REVOLUTIONARY WINGLESS JET PLANE
Britain Takes New Lead
In Aircraft Development
London, Sept. 6.
New and exciting experiments on a wingless aircraft may well lead to "a revolution in aeronautical development every bit as important as the that which has resulted from the introduction of the jet engine, Minister of Supply, Mr Duncan Sandys, said yesterday.
Surprise Verdict On Air Crash Deaths
Shannon Airport, Sept. 6.
Gasoline fumes, not drowning,” killed 25 of the 28 persons who died in freak, slow motion disaster when a Dutch airliner crash. ed in the River Shannon. yesterday, the airport's medical officer disclosed" to- day.
Death was due to inhalation „of"
petrol vapours. causinit asphy dullen,” Dr Flynn told an official inquiry, after he con
ducted postmortem on the bodies..
Dr Flynn, airport-medical officer, who performed à post moriem examination on the 23 bodles recovered from the wreck.. sald.blio cntiru ́skin” of most
them was reddened as if burned. There had been no sign of Injury to
· pad to-bodies or no evidence of drownHER
nid.
The death of an
oron-American
woman who died in, tiospital after being zeszed, was ascribed to shock, and multitudo injuries, including a bilstered back from petrol burns,
FUEL TANK BURST Arrangements are being made 10 y 20 cotins containing the bodies to Amsterdam - domorrow. From there they will be shipped to their homes,
Dr: Flynn's testimony boro' out” the reports of the 28. passengers And members: off the crow" who - exempra, almost unhurt, from the
They Bald mowing, fuel" tank. had burst, flooding the cabin with
unhe United Reuter
Amsterdam-New York airliner.
German Official Arrested
This suggestion is opposed by certain Conservative quarters, including the London newspaper "Daily Express, which re- proaches Lord Mountbatten for groparing for the departure" of The British from India when he served as Viceroy of India under a Labour government.
father, Lord Mountbatten's Admiral Battenberg, was First Sea Lord in 1014. He changed his namo to Mountbattenin A British firm, in conjunction "The necessary upward life is. He was also sure that 18 1917. Although he showed great with the Ministry of Supply had provided by downward-facing months could be chopped off vigilance in the face of the Ger- produced the experimental wing-jet streants, whose direction. can the time required to get a new Into production. He man danger, he had to leave his less plane which could take off be varied to control the angle aircraft
noted the sense of impatience" post as a result of a campaign vertically from a horizontal post of climb."
He said that, in collaboration existing in Britain, owing to
Wiesbaden, Sept. 6. Lagos, Nigeria, Sept. 6. against people of German origin. tion without the ald of wings or should leave immediately, the reply to Senator Knowland
90 i malors, Mr. Sandys a half Royco had built a test vehicle the past.
with the Supply Minister, Rolls lengthy delays in production in
Dr Horst Krueger, formur Riots finred at Oyo, 140
Ironically, Winston Churchill It weighed three
West German Intelligence "off- the air space of the Soviet would not be disclosed, it is miles from here, yesterday was the First Lord at the Ad-tons, tie itself into the air an this principle.
understood the President is con-
Stating that the real dynamic cial, has been arrested on a few weeks -i Union". The American plane sidering whether he should also claiming six deaths and 28 miralty who reluctantly had to and at its first tests a
Ho expected the British air porblems of the scund barrier charges of supplying Informa anti-German prejudice Reuter, for about ten minutes and landed crat industry to gain a world Supply Minister said the new units to an East Germani scuret could have been off course; make a public statement which people were injured, it was let him go because of popular ago, it flew around successfully
had now been largely solved, the {ion about American troops no room for doubt
France-Presso and United Press without trouble, ha added. reported today. the Russian plines could would leave no
lena in jet driven hellcopters about his
P(faster than sound, in level servic polley.
Mr Sandys said that the
agent, Police have approached it, as they Senior United States foreign
Oyo is a town of 45,000 in-
contraption" had a heat prob- as it had in jet airliners.
It was readily admitted, height) produced by English lem when miles north of
Electric, had recently, "slipped attained
the speed
dismissed from 'was say, to warn it of its pileged polley officials broke their holl-habitants, 300
the day today for top level confer- Ibadan, seat of the Western Re-
of 1,700 miles per hour at an ences on the shooting theldent.
of 40,000 feet. The was now ahead of the rest or through the sound barrier by 4-Hesklan Office for the pro- 1fection of the constitution Zast glonal Government.
year after allegations that he There was such broke out
complète The rists
absence of bunteung," he said, had transmitted information to that the pilot, who was not in which he had access in the tended to dy, supersonic, found course of his duty to the head- that he had got well beyond quarter of the Social Demo each one (the speed of sound) cratic Party. without noticing.Router, Fiance-Presse and United Press
and
the
when
to
-30
transgression
They were in constant touch Americans could have mis-
with President Elsenhower at his unuerstood the intentiona "holiday White House" in Den-rival political parties began of the Russians and, fear-ver, Colorado, and with Mr John assemble during a meeting
Foster Dulles, American Secret-ganised by the National Council ary of State, in Manila for the of Nigeria and the Cameroons SEATO conference-Reuter.
ing av.ack, opened fire. This may cause many people to doubt the words of the American airmen. It is possibly calculated to
just that,
do
VE would prefer to accept
WE
the American version of
Six Killed
In Swedish
Train Crash
(NCNC). This is one of the
1сть
WORLD LEAD
said, that the United States Labour Group
Both the surface of the world in-piston
Leaves
major political parties. which For Singapore
will contest the Federal elec- tions later this year.
Dr
In the House of Assembly at Ibadan this afternoon, Obafemi Nwolowo, leader,
The Briush Labour Party de- of legation led by Mr Aneurin the Action Group the party Bevan left by CPA at 10,10
in power in the Western Region am today for Singapore,..
accused the NCNC of starting
lett He said if politics
They will stay in Singapore for two days and make a brief
returning home, k
the
reaches about 180
degrees Centigrade. This had been discovered in the first test flight of
of the
helicopter development.
plash to fly Assam
we
HTP the higher.
at an
speed,
we shall have to apply all our Ingenuity to design air frames which minimise air resistance, Mr Sandys said, "devise suitable methods of insulation and deve lop structural materials capable of withstanding much higher temperatures.” (long)
TRIED TO IMPROVE
driven
City Doomed By Floods
Thousands Evacuated
Calcutta, Sept. 7:
the were going to degenerate in this stop, over ut Rangoon before Mr Sandys sold the British Stockholm, Sept. 6. way he would give them up.
Replying Mr T. Q. S. Benson,
of the had undertaken to improve the The other members of the.
Vertical: take-off the attack but, in doing so, it
An express train ran off the Opposition leader, said that group were Dr Edith Summ
The city of Dibrugarh, one must be stressed that the the rails and plunged into a whenever his party held meet- merakil, Mesars W.A. Burke, H planes which take off bintus
attacked by Earnshaw, H. Franklin, Morgan
gan upwarde Americans are taking grave marsh in South Sweden to-ings, they were
Phillip and Sam Watson.
From the standpoint of con of India's big ten trading riska by flying so close to day, killing six people and hired hooligans,
Among the injured was H.
The party was seen on at the ventence and comfort this un centres, was near death last 0. D. Davies who assisted in airport by Mr A. J. Schouten, usual posture has obvious dia- night in the grip of the rog the Communist coast and it injuring about 50,
The accident occurred the defence of Mau Mau leader ADC den of the Colonial
Mr J. C advantages, would be better if this could Roerick, between Maimoc and Jomo Kenyatta, during his trial C
CWalden, of
For this and other reasons,ing flood waters of the
Latest Stockholm.
reports The killed and in in Kenya. Davies was at Oye Secretariat, Mr. 8. B.. Knowles, we in Britain are concentrating Brahmaputra be avoided. These "strategic Surero In the train's day samplgning. V behalf of the Press Omeer, Mr Ralph Win- rather upon techniques us off whole city would disappear in surveillance" patrols, in carriage,
INCNC.
ship, Assistant Director of Civil to enable aircraft to Lake off Sleeping cars remained on the
The town was stated to be Aviation and Mr T, A. Bax, sales vertically, from a normal hori a matter of hours" unless the
Brahmaputra changed course. many cases, fly perilously track..
manager of CPA.
zontal position. It was the worst accident on quiet again tonight,Reuter, the Government-owned Swedisti railways since January, 1981- Reuter and United Prem.
close to Siberia, the eastern and western coasts of North Korea, Port Arthur, Dairen and the China, coast. The patrol plane which was shot down on Saturday was only
NINE INJURED
Munich, Sept. 8. Niño persona WOTE
Injured, six seriously near here today when 44 miles from the Siberian switching locomotive rammed mainland. America would a bus (led with 18 workers at not appreciate the presence an unguarded crossing, United
of a Soviet aircraft so closo | Fress,
to its constino, Unless
pil
Knocking Heard From Sunken Tug
Man And Boy Believed Trapped In Hull
را
said
the
The relentless flood swallowed up the city plece by piece as the 50,000
fled from the the city
In
Anam State and an Allied the second world virtually lost today
{WARM Kentire led throt
When
the 1,500-foot wall the business and arcks Was swept
Cuxhaven, Germany, Sept. 6. Salvage workers tonight reported hearing knocking signals from a these patrols are very care- Japanese Volcano ug three hours after she had sunk off Cuxhaven in a collision with the th
liner Italia.
fully executed, they may lead to misunderstanding by the Communists who, as the Americans should know by now, are capable of turning the most innocent operation", into' a' tive
further:
Erupts
Tokyo, Sept. 6. Mount Asama," largest, setive volcano on the: Japanese laland of allonshu erupted with a biz exolosion, this eveningenuke túfnblings: wäre, mill hoir' after : the Initi
The radio operator and the They worked feverishly tinder skipper's Aven son went |artinfal #ht to drag'hen: downs with them
into the water, as Sie
protecting residential
ONE LOSE NERVE
of India
Mouring
mistake..
No date has been fixed for his trial. Reuter,
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