KONURA
LENS
SOLE AGENTS
GILMANS
THE WEATHER
CHINA
No. 37666
MONDAY MAY 16, 1960.
LATE FINAL
Price
Comment At this minute a sputnik is flying over France Big gáin Of The DE GAULLE PUTS ONE OVER G
Day
Replies to Mr
SAVE US FROM K's attack
OUR FRIENDS
does not seem to be a
Tpropitious year for inter-
national conferences. Dis- armament talks, the fisheries convention and discussions
on
nuclear weapons are among those that have falled so miserably as to be written off as waste of time.. The Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, was held in a far from congenial atmosphere of apartheid, ending in a moral defeat for
South Africa.
on spy planes
After a violent attack on American spy
planes which Mr Khrushchev made in an interview with General de Gaulle today, the French President replied "at this very minute a Soviet sputnik is flying over France observing my country." General de Gaulle is reported to have said this while pointing out to Mr Khrushchev that the subject of overflying other people's territories was not confined to one nation,
Today the, Western Powers meet the Soviet leader, at the summit talks in Paris. Previous approaches to
Mr Khrushchev on the other heads of state talks have hand is said to have taken a not been strewn with roses, tough line in separate talks with but to say that the path Preddent De Gaulle and Mi leading to the present talks Harold Macmillan, the British has been scarred by a light-Prime Minister, on the eve of ning-bolt is to put it mildly, the summit talks,
THE · lightning-bolt came
out of a blue sky over Bussia in the shape of Mr Powers at a time when the world held every hope that, the atmosphere was clear and calm.
Unfortunately there were no conductors over the White House and the State De- partment with the result that the air around Moscow and Washington became charged with electricity. The utterances of the light beaded gentlemen...io Washington have not only caused extreme embarrasS- ment to their allies and put them in a precarious posi- tion, but they also gave Mr Khrushchev four aces and the joker..
The American "aerial watch" aver Soviet Russia dominated these discussions according to
Crash lands
plane after
usually well informed sources. husband dies
But there was no mesting be- tween President Elsenhower and Mr Khrushchev themselves.
According to the sources General De Gaulle was some- what takan back' by. Mr Khrushchev's violence of ex- pression at their one-hour mest
ng at the Elysee "Palace, the French Presidential residence in the heart of Paris where the summit self will be held.
It is no wonder that the coun- tries on the edge of the Iron Curtain have taken. ex- ception to the statement authorised by the President ton
No comment
at controls
Dallas, May 15. Alone in the cabin of a wild
aeroplane fighting to control it over the body of her dead husband— this is the story told to." day by Mrs Spencer Black,
39.. But, the sources ‘said, Gen- erat De Gaulle refrained from
With a broken arm and facial making any comment ilkely lacerations, Mrs Black recalled.
to embarrass the chances of from her hospital bed here how B 50-year-old helping to smooth relations her husband,
during the coming week be- olkman, died at the controls tween Mr Khrushchev and of a single-engined plane while President Eisenhower.
flying from Fort Worth, 30 miles from here, last night.
Relations between Washing- and Moscow have been
"I was terribly frightened,"
that the flights were both severely strained since the May she said. "Personally, I don't necessary and would con. Day shooting down of an Ameri know how to fly those planes,"
tinke.'
"President - Eisenhower
can "spy plane" over the Soviet Union.
"I flew around for about half a tank full (of fuel), however long that is, and then decided
Dimagine that the countries Wester into jur dry art, set, down
concerned would continue to allow their bases to be used by the United States; that Mr Khrushchev would take It lying down? There appears to be little or
no control over the various United States agencies and this is continually aggra vated by inter-service rivalry with generals and admirals willing to commit the country at every.press, con- ference.
The impression prevailing in taught was that Mir Khrushchev was likely to prove a much less conciliatory partner at the sum- mit conference than had been hoped,
Pessimistic
“The shadow of Communist
without a crack-up. / I was try- ing to fly the plane from across his body.
SHOUTED SOS
While trying to master the controls of the weaving plane, she shouted 5.0.5. Into the radio.
China is cast over the summit conference,” was - how one Startled firemen at Love Air- conference diplomat summedfield here hastily, rélayed in-. up the situation tonight, sttuctions to her.
Crash that killed Aly Khan
12 killed Many pay
in train
collision
Berlin, May 18.“- Twelve persons " were killed and 80 injured when two crowded. 'Ɛ passenger' trains callided last night outside Leipzig, East Ger Kany
The crash occurred just outside Leipzig's main rail- road station when a' semi-
fast-train from Leipzig to Halle was leaving > the station packed with week- enders returning to "their si homes.IS, MORA
It erashed head on Inlo strain from Halberstadt to Schandau coming in the opposite direction into the station, strewing coaches Bercas the tracks, ----UPL
Western officials appeared The first time she approached pessimistic about the the runway, her approach was We can only be grateful that more
President Eisenhower atmosphere under which the too low. "Get it up, screamed changed his mind at the summit conference was opening, the control tower operator, "turn RUSSIAN FILM last, minute and decided not The Western powers, parti- it round." The plane swung round in a wide sweep, steadily to make a takeoff statement | cularly the United States, would
losing height. THROAT and thus worsen the already go into the opening summil On her second attempt, the overstrained climate.
session tomorrow with a "walt nose was pointed. down, too What today holds for us re- and see attitude" the sources steeply; 1 struck the runway
mains to be seen as the
said
Initial meeting between the If Mr Khrushchev takes a President and Mr Khrush tough line President Eisenhower
and bounced about 40 feet and twisted in a shattering crash, folding its left wing beneath the fuselage. The engine" lay 100
ON U.S. SPY FLIGHT
Moscow, May 15, A film entitled "Caught Red
chev should prove to be in- could be equally tough, the feet away when the wreckage Handed" which tells the story teresting to say the least sources added.
and it may well-indicate the tenor of the conference.
An air.
Tpectancy, not only in Parls
came to a rest. * 15
of the American plane shot Mr Macmillan. is having
Firemen found a dazed woman down over the USSR, will soon breakfast talks with President Eisenhower tomorrow morning beside the wreckage-Reuter
have its debut in Russian Reuter
theatres UFL
but In every part of the WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT
world The length and prospects of the conference will depend largely upon the Soviet leader's attitude, Mr. Khrushchev is bent on using the meeting as a Blatform for abuse and pro
ganda in a show of Ighteous indignation, an
can walkout is not the bounds of pos
lenders
"This," maid - Mr Khrushchey, is the root of all this trouble. -
·Daily Express'arilat, John Hodle; drew this map showing the route this U.S. spy.plámé took andỳ thn áron. It) could have photographed on its flight over Bassinet,
PLANE SHOT}
DOWN HERE
pay last respects to
playboy Prince
Paris, May 15.
Ismaili leaders from places as far away as India, Pakistan and Madagascar called at the late Aly Khan's luxury villa near here today to pay their last respects to the playboy Prince, killed in a car crash on Thursday,
The embalmed body of the the site would be kept secret 48-year-old Prince is lying in until consent had been received state in a dower-decked first from the country. floor salon at the villa,"
A stream of diplomats and friends of the family visited the villa today. They included Per-
Crash" with a÷ May 12, in the pris suburb of Suresnes. The 48-year-old Aly, father of Prince, Karim Aga Khan, died olmost im- mediately from -- his His long-time frien the, Paris mo car with him and deep cut on and a minor
Prince's chauffeur, the rear sout, was injured.----AP Photopopu
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Hongkong yesterday.
The sccident » occurfre Shaukiwan yesterday when car mounted the, pavement and crashed down an emben Into the compound of the. kong Society, for the Protect of Children CCE
"The father. » of children was, killed in, the He wer Leung Hol 49 Hla wite whe
sound waves and even of the gen
Moscow, May 15.
It will lie there until Tues- day evening and will be trans ferred to his Riviera villa, the sian Ambassador, representing Soviet scientists in the Chateau D'Horizon, on Thursday the Shah of Persie, the Pakistani Caucasus have produced rain for temporary burial at a private and Spanish Ambassadors, Lord artificially with - sound family ceremony until a mauso
Astor and many people from the Moscow radia reported
is built, in the Middle East.
KEPT SECRET
A spokesman for the family said the Prince bad named the place of his choice for the mau- soleum in his will,
Negotiations were in progress with the country concerned but
horse racing world, passen
It said sound waves were pro- Aly Khan's horses have been cuced by powerful!” générators withdrawn from cacing for 10 and directed against the clouds, days because of the family's causing drops of molature mourning His colt Venture them to combine Sogell tipped to win the French 2,000 quickly. The result was ver guiness at Longchamps today; heavy rain the radio added;
Reuter did not run Hester
were seriously injured th
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