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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1958.
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FRENCH AIRLINERS AND ONE BRITISH
Of The AIR CRASHES KILL 9
Day
Aftermath
THE brióf interlude
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Christmas is now over; the relaxation and cheer that it brought are gone; the workaday 'world' le with ua again. Back into moth- balle go Santa Claus suits, the excess of indigestible and presents, the baubles trimmings of the Christmas tree. The season of giving and
Indeed 18 goodwill brief. The sentiment which Christ- mas evokes today la of a different order to that the which characterised first Christmas, for if men had reason to hall the birth of their Saviour, it was a sobering fact that He was. bors in a hovel frequented by cattle and that shepherds were the first to The Him homage. pay church calendar
DC-6B Struck Russia Gets
Gust
By Of Wind
There were three bad air crashes over the Christmas holidays in which only nine people were killed and in one crash 34 had miraculous escape French airliner crashed and when a burst into flames in Vienna.
a
In Salisbury, Rhodesia, three port, owriers
passengers died when a French engined DC-UB.
burned
sirliner crashed and out in taking off in a binding 1ainstorm here on Boxing Day, Five others are untraced.
reminds In Hospital
Os of the transience of the девнов Following Christ man is the feast day of St Stephen, first martyr, and tomorrow commemorates one of the most ghastly alaughters that human his- tory records-Herod's mus-} Bacre of Juda's infante which, followed the birth of Christ.
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of
poat
of the · four-
A hospital official estimated
and
that more than 60 passengers all suffering from burns shock, were treated at an air force hospital near the airport, Some were later transferred to a Salisbury hospital-
Mr Welas gald three people There were 63 passengers
crew of seven on the from Johannesburg, who board- and n
bound for ed the aircraft here were found which was plane, Paris via Brazzaville, French dead. Equntorini Africa,
The plane had been airborne
them
New Police Head
Moscow, Dec. 25.
ALEXANDER Mikallo-
vich Shelepin, 40-year- old youth leader, was to- day named new head of the Soviet Bisle Becurity forces. Ile replaces Army General Ivan Berov.
Mr Berov was removed from the security post upon his transfer, to other work on December 9.
Mr Shelopin was pro-
by posed
Mr. Mikhali Georandre, Secretary of the Presidium
the of
during Supreme. Bovies. they afternoon's session of the Presidfim,
No Indication was given of General Berov's. present occupation.
IR-
The appointraent of Me Shelepin presumably dicates retention of the State Security forces in their.. present form, and dispols' speculation about a.reorganization or amal- gamation under the MVD of Internal
Adairy),
(Ministry 'Twenty people are in hospital, for 30 seconds when a téfride.
of some
badly hurt, gust struck it, and passengers according to Mr A. P. M. heard a bang and saw a flash Weiss, a spokesman of the of dame. It dropped back on Union Aeromariume De Trans-tae mway-Reuter.
ET for all who may feel today relief or remorse there must be many more who regret the passing this great sensan-bumper sales, overflowing churches, inundated charity, office revenue, staff bonuses, holidays all, betoken the pleasure and satisfaction that the season brings. A Regrettably Christmas comes but once a year and the uninspiring business of day-to-day existence re- asserts itself as our lot for another year.
Britannia Fog
Crash Kills 6
Bournemouth, Dec. 24:
Airways | near
the
ground,
The Soviet News Agency Tass, reporting Mr Shele- pin's appointment sald be had recently been working "in the apparatus · of the Central Committee of the Communist Party." Reuter.
(See Page 5. Col. 1).
HUNDRED FISHERMEN
MISSING
Tokyo, Dec. 27. hundred Japanese fishermen
four-engined Bristol Brilaudia carrying 12 persons on a routine test flight crashed into a fog-bound: fleld near here today and disintegrated as it hit the ground.
Overseas British
crashed corporation announced that six through telephone wires, nar- persons were known dead. Four rowly missed a cycilst, bounced One The need in to carry some thers were seriously Injured. In a field and disintegrated in
thing of the essence of this All were BOAC personnel. a small woods. brier season into our daily lives. For most, Christmas
Britannia had The prop-jet provides us with a reflec- been on a 10-minute flight from tion of better, nobler, London Airport 190 miles north and apparently was richer living. Here then ist here a thought to help us in the coming in for a landing at Hurn Eye-witnesses said there was year ahead. The goodwill port outside Bournemouth..
and love and charity which this season inspires are
A trail of wreckage a third of a mile long traced the course the Britannia had taken in its lust fatal seconds. At the end of the trail lay the bulk of the
scorched grass.
wreckage and a huge circle of
word missing and believed drowne, to- day in a series of ship sinkings in suddon Pacific storms that lashad the longth of Japan.
T
The men wore aboard 10 ships The survivors had been trap-which were believed to have
gone down in glant waves.
a fog. The Britannia roared ped inside the flames-UP.I.
not the exclusive preserve 34
of any one day. In all the turmioll, strife and bitter- ness that follows, here are blessings which
are ours
for the asking and
ESCAPE DEATH
IN XMAS ‘MIRACLE”
Greatest single disaster oc- curred off the coast of Fuku- sima Prefecture where severi boats, with 52 men aboard, were missing,
Thirty boats belonging to the and Harekama Vienna, Dec. 25. and crashed in a rain-soaked Matsukawa
Fisheries Associations were modicum of effort. Diffusing A 34 persons on a Christmas }
FRENCH airliner carrying field near Schwechat Airport.
Air France Kald the pilot's struck by the storms, and all the Christmas spirit
made it to safety.- fractured and the but seven throughout the year can Eve fight from Paris to Vienna skull was make the world a better caught fire in the air last night, engineer-mechanic broke a leg U.P.L. pince for all.
struck a net of telephone wires and rib;
dead.
Airport police confrmed hours after the crash that they found no bodies in the charred wreckage.
Serve coffee in Style
GEC.
'2 HEAT PERCOLATOR
but there were no
King Sick
Copenhagen, Dec. 26. Eye-witnesses and rescua King Frederick. IX. returned workers who watched occupants here from his vacation cottage of the Constellation walk away in an ambulance, plane today from the wreckage called the and was put to bed to recover comparatively low capunity' toll from glung allment. a Christmas" "miracle."
The · Constellation had lett Paris Orly Airport on a regular scobduled flight from Paris to Vienna, by way of Munich,
Most of the pawengers were on their way to spend Christ- mas with friends and relatives In Austria-UP.I.
LITHIUM
LITHIUM MAKES
CHEAP H-BOMBS,
SAYS SCIENTIST
American
Death
Toll
Rises
Chicago, Dec. 26. American motorists appeared tot tonight on making a grim mockery of the Christmas holidays by sot ting an all-time record for death on the highways.
Washington, Dec. 20.
A top scientist sald today
that discovery of a pecu-
Fly to
79
lands tha
world around
Welth1
PAN AMERICAN
CLOUDS BLOCK
HONGKONG'S
VIEW OF ATLAS
The United States Atlas satellite, which passed to the north of Hongkong twice on Christmas Day, was not visible because of overcast skies..
Many residents, some with telescopes failed to locate the four-ton satellite which the United States Information "Service said would pass north of the Colony at 10.19 a.m. and 3.38 p.m. on Christmas Day.
Tried Vainly
Her twilight glow high A Radio Hongkong spokesman said the station tried vainly
to pick up signals sent out from the satellite.
over the South Pacific
last summer confirms the The Royal Observatory did not sight the Atlas,
United States is using
powerful H-bombs.
was
lithium to produce cheap, A Washington report wald the "talking" satellite
getting a partial rest over the Christmas holiday wock- ond.
The scientist said it had been "tende knowledge" for Боте
metal
Lime that the light Hthium was an important.part of this country's fusion bomb.
He said the report of the twilight
was phenomenon
further evidence.
His comments were prompted scientists associated with the by the disclosure yesterday that International Geophysical Year had spotted lithium for the first me in the high atmosphere from stations a Antarctica and Now Zealand.
by
The discovery was reported The traffic death rate had been setting a killing, record- Dr Hugh Odishaw, Executive breeking pace since, the start of Director of the US. Committee areport the tong holiday at 6 pm, on Wed, for the IGY In nanday. There was no let-up on published by Science Magazine. Friday night and, if it continued Nuclear Tests He said that Inasmuch
the death count would pass the all-time, all-holiday mark
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712 deaths set during the four-lithium is not ordinarily found day "Black Chistmas of 1956. in the high atmosphere, "n plain inference is that the (dla- "Theri is no justification for covery) could be related to out any optimism," a spokesman for nucleat tests carried.. the National Safety Council during the same period as the apid. "It just looks horrible." IGY programme.”
The Dofence Department said communications tests with the orbiting missile would be conducted only on a "reduced schedule” until Monday.-U.P.J.
HORSE RACING
FANS
RIOT
AT RACE TRACK
Durban, South Africa, Dec. 26.
Hundreds of fashionably dressed race fans heaved bottles and charged the judges office today protesting the running of a race.
Two Jodbeys, including ace rider. Basit Lewis, were, serious-
United Press International lithium slow was first is injured and at least the HOSTESSES
count at 7p.mattowed ~ 322 dentis: in traffic, 63 la area, three in plane crashes and 42 in miscellaneous accidents for a hollany total of 429-U.P.I.,
Quiet Xmas On Cyprus
Nicosia, Dec. 25.
km-upotted-on Anrusts when valuable race horses were hurt DASAAT nuclear tests were | In one of South Africa's worst underway in the South cases of Hoting
!
Lithium apparently is Used in
Blot squads were hard pressed
RESCUE
the thermonuclear" "bomb as ato quell the screaming fans OLD LADY
zource of tritium. *
who tore up fence: posts: and When the weapon ́is. touched throw sticks and atones: after off by an atomic bomb trigger, calling for a repeat of the eighth neutrons released by the A-race. bonity convert some of the Kulum "Into trillum, a variert
of hydrogan
Touched Off
the
The heat from the A-bomb The riot was touched off when also: caused. atoms of tritium to | four horses, including fuse, producing the gigantle blast favourite Mazdo View, were in- et the thermonuclear bomb. || terfered. “with, at start, of the
Using Ithium to produce ti | race. tlum inside', the H-bomb-itself
The crowds anger incredsed makes the weapon considerably cheaper to produce. Otherwise when the race stewards (Judges) Christmas Day passed hare trillum would have to be obtain- refused to
without incident in the ed by placing lithium in an cancel to run the race again or woke of a dramatic anatomic furnace and exposing it
to atomic neutrons—U.P.I.
As the horses came pounding nouncement yesterday by
down the final streich in the the Greek Cypriot under-
ninth race, the crowd began ground organisation Eaka
throwing objects at the riders und horses, striking Lewis and 'that it would cause activi-
another jockey. tios, if British security. forces did the same.
of Nicocia, while
No Appeal
London, Dec. 24.
白甘: Bot
The rioting tasted about ax
aurons
New York, Dec. 25. Two young airline hostesses risked their lives today to rescue a hysterical 78- your-old woman from a burning building.
Smoke md Alames prevented them from reaching another woman who died is the fro.
The hostesses, from their
smoke coming on a three- aparment across the street, saw storey frame building An tho borough of Queens.
They ran into the building and found Mary, Stalker 'oninging in terror the second floor. They dmgged and carried the, hysteri- cal woman from the building.
Roturning, they tried to aster a room where Anne Brennan treated | (43),' was trapped, "but
driven back by the fire-UPI,
the fans,
Ng Yeok-kin, a' 64-year-old hour. No serious casualties were Off-duty troups, moved about Hongkong doctor,
reported the streets throughout men and their families-many the disciplinary committee of for lacerations,UPI. recently rounited celebrated the General Medical Council to erase his name from the the the Christmas holiday In
medical register, an official of
the island service appealed against the decision of although several were
traditional fashion. However, the judicial committee of the
previous "truces" made all wary
of belloving that the island's Prity Council said here today. troubles had come to an end.
There was no official reaction yet to the Foka leaflet offering acessation of hostilities * just solution Is given.
Reuter.'
Ike's Holiday
An offfelal medical bulletin said that the King, who is 59, The leaflet distributed on incurred a benign pneumothorx Christmas Eve made clear that
Gettysburg, Dec. 20. amall, lung rupture--on a censoftre was conditional on
Prezident Elsenhower arrived Wednesday morning during a similar suspension of activity with Mrs Eisenhower and his heavy coughing speli.,
on the other alde. The leaflet grandson David at ble farm also.emphisland that the Eoka here today for a stay that will was ready for long armed last until after New Year's struggle."-U.P.L
√ Day, Reuter,
The bulletin said he would have to remain in bed sovorál. wteks.---U.P.I.
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