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No. 36693
COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Gaza Danger
with growing Indigna-
Ition that many people here
In
and abroad are watching. Colonel Nasser making & fool of the United Nations in the Gaza strip. In, thoroughly unctuous
and. provocative manner he bas wanted no time in re. establishing Egyptian con- trol in the area safe in the knowledge that UNEF 18 there to prevent a renewn} of hasulitica.
the meantime, Saudi Arabia has declared the Gulf of Aqaba an exclusive Arab waterway. ruising
this time a religious pre-
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MAGSAYSAY'S BODY FOUND
GROUNDS ITS
VISCOUNTS
Philippines Go Into BEA
National Mourning Support For
WASHINGTON, MAR. 17.
THE PHILIPPINES AMBASSADOR SAID TONIGHT HE HAD BEEN ADVISED THAT THE BODY OF PRESIDENT MAGSAYSAY HAD BEEN RECOVERED FROM THE WRECK- AGE OF AN AIRLINER ON CEBU.
The Ambassador, Brigadier-General Carlos Romulo, said
text for its claim. Israel he had been advised on the finding of the body in a message
from Manila. There were no further details, he said.
in alarmed by all this. Pro-
perly so because one of the avowed objectM of ita in- vasion of Gaza and Sinoi A Manila report says the Jast October was to bring an United States carrier end to Egypt's border raids, Shangrila tonight headed Now it seems the position for the waters of Cebu in is to revert to its original the southern Philippines to unsatisfactory stale, with help in the search for pos guarantee that Egypt ble survivors of the air- will cease in ammatilts upon Israeli territory.
craft crash in which Presi-
ho
The result is that Mrs Golda dent Magsaysay died yester.
Mely the Israeli Foreign | day.
Minister.
12M suddenly The carrier was to send four taken a plane to New York, helicopters to scorch the moun- and after a brief stop attain ravine into which the air- Paris for talks with M.
craft plunged after taking of? Mollet, has flown on to con-
from Cebu City, The authorities fer urgently with Me Dulles, place at 0140 local time, abou! announced that the crash took She has made the Israeli 25 minutes after takeoff. position quite clear. And
Newspaper
reporter Nestor that is that unless the Mata, the only known survivor United States exerts some of the 25
people aboard the. pressure on Egypt--though | presidential aircraft, was carried
it is dcnit to see what | 14
on R
ien miles to hospital stretcher through the thick
can be done now-israel is tropical forest. He was reported prepared to renew its war. by his doctors to be out of dan LEGALLY Iardel has
ger tonight although suffering quarrel with the United from second and third degree Nations whose only tank burns.
no
was to ensure the with- In New York, Mr Felixberio drawal of the Israeli forces. Serrano, Philippine permanent It may chide Mr Ham-
representative at the United Nations, officially informed. Mr marskjold with not showing Dag Hammarskjold, UN Secre much. imagination so far in tur General, of President Mag- his attempts to solve the saysay's death.
border problem, but
no
Mr Hammarskjold then sent specific resolution on the his condolerices to the Phillp- future status of Gaza has pine government and people. *--- been passed by the General Reuter.
Assembly. It might be said that the United Nations is doing its diplomatic best not to overstep the mark, but in that case it is also true to say that its scruples havel led it to step rather short of the mark.
It would seem that Mra Golda Meir has more chance of getting a satisfying asaur ance from Mr Dulles than Mr Hammarskjold, Egypt must be restrained and the Aqaba Galt opened to free navigation, Mr Dulles must remember that unless he can give substance to such a Assurance, Israel may forced to seek its solution.
OWD
A Great Loss THE news of the trugie
the
NATION MOURNS
Manila, Mar. 18. The Philippines went into national mourning today for President Ramon Magsaysay.
The Cabinet was expected to enounce within the next few eurs officially that the 40-year- eld Prezident was dead.
hou
His body was to be brought out early today from the tangled Jungle near Cebu
ly, where
THE
NEW PRESIDENT
.MR CARLOS GARCIA
ת!
his C-47 plane, carrying 25 per- used in identifying the bodies: efforts sons, crashed early Sunday. of the dead. The National search
Vice-President Carlos Garcia Bureau of Investigation flow and to bring out the dead. was speeding toward Manila four experts experienced from Australlo in a chartered such identilention to Cebu this Australian
Reports received hero sald
scheduled to arrive in Manila
airliner. He was inorning.
to conduct a thorough for possible survivors About 200 Philippine soldiers were reported to have arrived at the scene, as have special detachments of the Constabulary. Unconfirmed reports sald at
least four bodies had been re-
late today to take the oath of the plane crashed in extremely office and run the country until damcult terrain and rescue par-
November's presidential üles were hampered in their covered.—United Press,
nex
elections.
11-
Although an officiul nouncement wis yet to come, the nation had anticipated the death and went spontaneously into mourning today.
FLAGS HALF-MAST
were at
Fings
Widespread Mourning In Hongkong
President, Ramon Magsay- say, will be received with shock throughout the world, The people of the Philip-
half-mast. Hongkong's 800-strong Filipino. pine Islands have lost *L Grim-voleed
community radio announcers
was shocked to renowned leader who earn repeated over and over again,
learn of the tragic death of ed widespread admiration The President is dead."
President Magsaysay this for the tough realism which The Manlin Times carried
morning. Last night, Filipinos he injected Into his ad-the blackringed
held special prayer meetings ministration, He will rank "Ramon ig
In their homes hoping that among his young country's | mourns,"
President Magsaysay would be greatest lenders after only
among the survivors of the aircrash. four years in office,
headlines: dcad." "Nation
No-
Constabulary troops and donal Bureau of Investigation The son of a blacksmith- agents took over at the sile schoolteacher-farmer, Mag-ļ of the crash and began the saysay was an Army officer grim task of identifying the before his election to Con- dend.
gress. He broke with the
Mr Eduardo L. Rosal, Consul- General for the Philipplaes in Hongkong, has canceled and all social engagements told the China Mall this morning that a memorial ser- vico would be arranged and 'hold later.
Reports of the plane disaster former Quirino administra- were still varied and confusing. tion In 1958 because he was It was known that the plane, a misfit
among men who with the President and 24 were torpidly passive. His others aboard, smashed into a Flags flew at half-mast from
area shortly the Philippines greatest quality was that he Jungled mountain
after taking off from Cebu City He early Sunday morning.
There
was 'speculation Due the plane had developed engine largely to his energy his trouble and crashed while ot administration struck bold-tempting to return to Cebu City
abhorred hypocrisy. was also a fervent exponent
of "Do It Yourself".
ly at two great problems — altport,
and the uk rebellion.
that
corruption in government, Other still unconfirmed re- ports, however, told of a mid- ir: explosion before the crush.
SABOTAGE FEAR /
The power of the Huks has
been weakened consider- ably, if not entirely broken.
large-scale
atrength. Hacles were as possibility.
was
+
Consulate- General and all other com- sulates In Hongkong, Business firms which have close trad- ing connections with the
Philippines,
Shipyards
Strikers
Geneva, Mar, 18. The International Metal- workers. Federation is to day to call on affiliated national federations in all countries not to carry out repair or construction work which should have been, done in British shipyards.
Mr Adolf Graedel, Swiss Secretary-
-General of the Internationa Federation, which has its headquarters
in Geneva, mid today this action would be taken in solidarity with the strike decision by Brush ship- yard workers.
He stressed that the call would be sent to every country in which the Fed- oration has affiliates, which meant virtually the whole world, including the United Bates, with the exception of Communist countries. ---- China Mall Special,
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Election Brings ...
Riots Bombs & Casualties
Calcutta, Mar. 17. lating broke out be tween Communista” any Congress Party sym pathisers today over the result of a Congressional election race in West Bengal.
Several bombs exploded in various parts of the city and an unknown number of persons, Including newsmen, were in- Jured.
Some thronged
SEQUEL TO LAST WEEK'S CRASH
London, Mar. 17. Britain "temporarily” grounded its Viscount turboprop 700 series airliners tonight, following its first fatal crash in commercial service, and in- dicated that overseas airlines were being advised to take "precautions.”
Trafalgar Sq Crowd Protests Rent Bill
London, Mar. 17. Mounted police today broke up a crowd of 5,000 strong after a demonstra- tion against the govern- ment's Rent Bul now before
The pioneering propjet plane, the world's first Parliament. used by airlines, flies on all continents-100 in the The bill has been hotly at- United States and Canada.
Lacked
for
exposing the The
occupants of 800,000 houses arid British European Airways, (BEA) "item-flats to rent increases or possible porarily withdrew from service" its 27 Viscount 701a eviction and
the for raising tonight, apparently after discovering a clue to Thurs-statutory rents of mone than day's fatal crash at Manchester which killed 22 four million other tenants.
The demonstrations started in persons,
Trafalgar Square, not far from oficial Downing Street residence of the Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan, who was away at his official country. residence, Chequers,
A BEA spokesman said the order
Was given "so we can look into The
flap-operating mechanism of the planes"
The spokesman said Vickers- Armstrong, Ltd.. which builds the Viscounts, "are to com- municate with other users on the 1 necessary precautionary measures to be taken," -
say
The spokesman did not if the precautions would in clude similar withdrawal. from service, He suld the "pre cautionary check"! BEA Wits giving its Viscounts would take "two or three or so" days.
Hongkong Airways Nat Affected.
Hongkong Airways said this morning the BEA decision to ground their Viscount 701 planes would not affect the HKA Viscount services between Hong- kong, Manila and Seoul. The Viscount machines which Hong- kong Airways operating are fitted with different engines from those of the 701.
are
Among the airlines using or ordering Viscounts are - Air
AIRLINER SAFE
Four contingents of tenants, some with their families
converged with pipo humily an Tunís, Mar, 17,
the square,
where they were A British De Havilland Dra- addressed
by throoLabour gon airliner, which who listed
members of Parliament and as misalig on flight from Gabes, Tunisia, to Tunis, landed over speakers. last night on Nabeul beach Bo- okuse it was short of fuel, It was learned today.
CROWD ROARS ·
The meeting was organised by the National Amociation of
The plane, which -only had Tenants and Residents. At its fuel for two hours nying time close, the crowd roared "Yes" when it took off, was forced to when walked to approve tha land some 45 miles south of the association's; “declaration to the Tunisian capital,
Prime Minister couchonning the bil
The plane's threo, passengers were all sufe.--France-Presse.
A Determined
The thie · TREBATE: forased them selven, intobra prdendone and
of Downing: Stewed,) wbars, they found a cordon, of more than 30 rhouted pollen,
Meanwhile about: 180 foot pollee
bag.bean bundled out of
Would-Be Suicide rucs and care to control the
demonstration. As each new
Dijon, France, Mar. 17. squad of police arrived they A 60-year-old retired railway were greeted with decisive jeers Employee, Louis Barlens, set from the crowd. fire to his mattress today after drenching it with petrol. Sur-
AWL
condition. — France
SCREAM
WOMEN SC
viving the explosion which some
screamed as the sulted, the old man stabbed mounted police sidled their himself in the chest with an horses towards them,
He was taken to hospital in aix arrests were made,
Police announced!" later that scrious
the crowd had been When.... Presse,
cleared from Downing Street, the association's secretary, Mr Tom Vernon, was permitted to deliver a declaration condemning résidence China Mail Special.
50,000 Communists the Chowringhee, facing Congress Party groups, as the results of a Congressional race between the West Bengal Chief Minister, Dr B. C. Roy, Moslem and the Communist-supported trade unionist, Mohamed Istamil, began to trickle in.
When Dr Roy jumped into a
France, Capital, Trans-Canada, Terrorist Attack the bill at the Prime Minister's lead over his Communist op- Aer Lingus (Irish), Trans-
mounted ponent,
Australia, Misrair (Egyptian), charged the Communist masses Companie Cubans de Aviacion,
policemen
Linca Aeropostal Venezuela,
Oran, Mar. 17.
OFF TO CAIRO Four terrorists today threw the face of a barrage, of Indian stones and shoes.
Airlines
Pluna hand grenades at a group Corp.,
New Delhi, Már, 17. (Uruguay),
Iraql
Airways, people in the centre of Tlemcen, Mr V. K. Krishna Menon, Enlilppine Airlines, Lince Acree in the Oran arco, injuring 24 India's Minister without
Colom-persona, some seriously.
portfolio, will leave Delhi to- biano fra hoyd Acreo
Hongkong Airways,
The attack took place in thamorrow morning for Cairo at Hundreds of police scuffled for BEA, which sponsored the square before. the city hall. the invitation of President 13 minutes with the demonstra-Viscount's development, was the Four grenades were thrown, Naster, it was learned here to- tors, using their truncheons, first operator. It uses the 701 France-Presse.
in
Pitched Battle
many and
Beating several.
arresting model. Other airlines are re-
ceiving slightly-varied models bearing different numbers in the The Congress Party sym- 700 series.
J pathisers booed as the Com- munists retreated.
and
Filipino family residences, also flew flags at half-mast, The Doyen of the Consular
Corps, Mr Mario E. Guillen, As the pitched battle doc- Consul-General tinued in one of the busiest ports Panamanian
Hongkong, personally of the elty, one police motor- called
Mr Rosal this cycle was set ablaze and several morning to
convey con- bombs were hurled at policemen, dolences and sympathies Several persons were injured
in
on
од
Not Grounding
In New York, Capital Airlines said today there was no ques ton of grounding its fleet of 68 Viscount turboprop airliners.
behalf of the Consular Corpa | and fire brigades and embulance said Capital was using the Vis
Mr
and himself.
Rosal spid gagements Philippines
Mr
A spokesman for the airline
count 725 series, an advanced were called in.
model specially
to adapted At one en- that all
point the pollee American airline specifications. arranged for the succeeded in chasing away the s
Vice-President, Communist rioters, who gather- is very different from the 701
type. the
spokesman said, Carlos C, Garcia,
od at a distance, while Congress have
Party
British models grounded also been cancelled. Mr Gar-
sympathisers,
jubllent European Airways today. .cla was due to come
over reports that their Party here
Trans-Canada
Airlines haa of the candidate was winning, took the no plans to grou after the conclusion
Its Vickers SEATO conference
initiative and Can-
ground began throwing
Armstrong Viscount
airliners stones at the Communists, ..berra..
desplie a grounding order affect ing Viscounts in Service
with British European Airways, spokeanian "said in Montreat night.
in
Mr Rosal added that Mr Garcia:
had left, Canberra and would arrive in Manila, at 2 pin, today.
TENSION MOUNTING IN ISRAEL
Bombs Burst
Bombs began bursting on the street and a second spate of rloting began.
CA
u
10
Vickers
Inform
The rioting flared again when them of any technical faults
Armstrong, it was announced that Dr Roy which the manufacturers might had defeated hig Communist rival by 401 votes, but police said, but that had not yet
come across,
spokesman
CABINET POSTPONES dispersed. the crowds with, bear
DELIBERATIONS
.
Jerusalem, Mar. 17.
tho
вест
with Emboldened by thele success, ("Every Viscount is built Congress Party Fympathisers different characteristics designed
challenged
for different airlines," said the Loftia crowd, In the melee, four may show up on Viscounts "of
́spokesman, and faults.
which bombs exploded, injuring and line might not necessarily number of people,
have been bullt into other Vis- counts co mother. airline. United Press
They aro
These reports had led to fear now said to of possible
Тор sabotage. possess a quarter of their security and intelligence agai former виссея with corruption probe into this defies auch 蟲 preciso There was only one known The Israeli Cabinet today decided to postpone its estimate, but the example survivor-Nestor Mata of the | “main' deliberation on the situation in the Gaza strip” he has
set by personal Philippines Herald. Mata
until the return of the Foreign Minister, Mrs Goldaat preqs photographers and re- honesty is one that will thrown clear of the wreckage long bo remembered by his and ley only a few feet from Meir, from the United States late this week, a govern associates Vice-President the plane, apparently watching rent spokesman announced tonight. García now becomes Preal lames devoured the other par
|helpfosely for several houre na dent. It can only be hopedpons cocard.
According to usually reliable deepening Gaza, crisis following sources, the Cabinet at its meet the return of Egyptian adminis he is equal to the many The Philippine Air Force in wes believed to have con-tration to the strip.
démands his now post will publicly appealed for any addent measures other than make upon him; 17′′
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Returning To NY
The angry mobs hurled stones parters trying to cover the riots, Several newsmen were injured. Although Dr Roy was elected, Leftists halfod, the narrow mar
London, MaTT. Sir Pierson Dizon, Britain's sin as a victory in the last permanent representative at the general election, Dr Roy won by | United Nations, lent London more than 10,000 vode, Airport tonight, for. Hey: York, United. Prem.
of
night. Reuter, D.
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