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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1960.
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Comment Eye-witnesses say airliner was struck by lightning Of The 30 DIE IN PLANE
PLANE TRAGEDY
Day
SECURITY
BERNON MITCHELL
M'und Mr Williams Martin
of the U.S. National Security Agency packed their bags and secretly stole into Russia, and having arrived and scarcely had time to unpack, have
Explosion in mid-air
near Argentine
Montevideo, Sept. 7.
already given the world All thirty people aboard an Argentine air-
quite long stateineni,
President Eisenhower, in his
forthright
manney
has written them off with the terse remark, they are elf-confessed traitors." Now although we are getting
used to this two-way trafic between the Communist and the free-zone world, when a couple of security people slip away, it is always a nine-day wonder.
recall Barguss and
Drama at race track
grass track.
liner were killed today when it exploded | Second by second.......drama at race track. Two cars collide, tumble on in mid-air and crashed near the Argen- tine border.
The plane, a DC-6 of Aerolineas Argentinas, was flying from Asuncion, Paraguay, to Buenos Aires with 24 passengers and a crew of six.
Report from Uruguayan police. nume the northern town Salto sakt the plane had up- parently been hit by a thunder- bult before bursting into flames
leet and their trip to and splitting in two.
IL
and while, in true British manner, they have hecome the subject of few jokes, and at least the Iden for a humorous hook and fim, such things can- not be taken lightly.
RAITOR is an ugly word,
temp associated with sound.
its
has by implication become Associated with thirty pieces of silver and the kiss of decolt, and no mat- welcome ter how worm such men can receive from the other side, you can bo
that It
marked
sure
is
Blazing debris felt over an į area of four square miles on a
und also in
runch near Salto the River Urugupy.
People in the area said they heard two explosions, but claimed there was no storm.
Envoys on board
Among the passengers were
two American women diplomats from the American 'Embassy in
and a former Buenos Aires Argentine Minister of Health, Mr Raul Conrado Bevacqua,
Eye-witnessas said one or more molars "burst in flames"
plunged just before the DC-6
to earth.
SOLICITOR CASE
CHANCE MEETING
IN LONDON
a
TL-
A police superintendent told the Victoria District Court this morning of a chance meeting and a brief con- versotion ho had had with Hongkong solicitor while he was in London in connection with other matter. The officer, Me Derek Harris, who is in charge of the Com- mercial Crime Office, Colony Headquarters, was testifying at the trial of 31-year-old "Robert A doctor who arrived on the Ell Low, who faces 23 charges scene said it was impossible to of fraudulent conversion, cor- identify any of the boules ruption-and conspiracy to gone beyond the
"They were not only badly bounds of human decency. i burned but literally smushed to To have arrived is one thing--plores in-the-full from the
down in their sceret Ale that they are men never to be trusted again. But Mr Mitchell and Mr Martin, doubtless anxious 10 Ingratiate themselves
their new
with have
manters
Only scattered wreckage was found at the crash site. Bodies were strewn for hundreds of yards.
Pleres of the plane literally rained from the sky." farmer said.
to have taken all your skies," he said.
B
over from Argentina on news of the (rash searched
the i
home country can offer and Rescue teams which crossed then sell it down the river is another; but to start talking your head off about idealism before you have had time to take a bus trip, and to try and crawl for
muddy waters of the Uruguay River for victims.-
An Aerolineas
spokesman the aircraft. named raid Mariano Morenu after Argentine national
hero, was last heard of flying over the town of Monte Caserus, close to the Uruguayan border.
Caused by bomb?
Brigadier Miguel Moragues, President of Aerolineas Argen- tinns, would not answer directly when questioned about 110- armed reports that the explosion might have been caused by a bomb.
defraud.
Low, who has been sitting in the dock since the trail began yesterday, was allowed this morning to sit with his counsel at the epinsel's table.
CBsc.
Mr Harris told Judge P. R. Springall that he was in charge of the investigations of the pre- Lam Chun-kit, sent formerly a clerk in the Messrs Wilkinson and Crist, convicted on March 10, 1800, he said.
was
During the investigation, he had come across a name, Yung Dick, and to his knowledge, Yung had not been found since the enquiries began. Another man, Chan Hung-yee, hod also disappeared, and he understood that Chan was not in the Colony.
DID NOT KNOW
faveur by turning on your own people, makes the or dinary person feel sick.
OR when you get down to bruss tacks, does America deserve such trentricul? These men have been raised under the
of govern most liberal
they have had the ortunity not only to learn, but to find an ex- cellent and well paid post
Mr Harris said in April, this the possibility of trust following their Academic training.
engine failure which, he said, year, he went to England in the course of another matter. could never have produced such And during that period, he had Having these advantages, and
Only a a violent explosion.
a chance meeting with the so- having, before taking their technical report would reveal
cursed. of trust, sworn the real cause of the explosion,
protect their he added.Iteuter and UPI. welfare, they slink off, their honour not worth a cent.
expected that of any intelli gence can agree with the
It eunnot be
uny
man
policy of his all the time.
part of our
government In fact, it is social life to
say what we liko about our governments, little reckoning on what we take
inf
He dismissed
Prince wins
gold medal
and gets
for granted, many people a ducking
'all over the world aro giving their lives to attain.
BUT
which
ho
UT if, say, a man is in
position achieves quite sincerely of diengreeing with the policy of his country, he
сил
always rosign. For no man
In either the British Com-
monwealth or America can
be forced to do a job
of
high security work unless ho wants to.
Naples, Sept. 7. Queen Frederika of Greece
IL was about 3.30 pm
met Low, he said.
on
"I was walking in Oxford-
street in London in the Direc-
tien of Regent-street.
Debris showers from the barricade on Car 22. Car 14 ploughs on.
Car 22 turns over, the driver underneath. Then (below) driver walks
away unhurt.
Arms shipments
pour in for
Katanga troops
Elisabethville, Sept. 8.
BRITISH
NEWSMEN
RETURN
Leopoldville, Sept. 7. Three British journalists, Mr Henderson Galt of Reu-
First-banter
and then a
warning from K
Moscow, Sept. 8.
Mr Khrushchev said at a Kremlin reception tonight Russia had information that Nato was pre- paring "new aerial provocation” over the Black Sea but Soviet forces were ready to shoot the plane dovri.
The Premler, who was in a boisterous mood at a state re- ception for the Egyptian vice- President made this remark during a lively half-hour con- versation with the American Ambassador, Mir Llewellyn Thompson.
Vice-President Kohali had already left the ornate Grano- vitaya hall.when Mr Khrushchev grabbed Mr Thompson's elbow and began :lking.
NEW PROVOCATION After turning the conversation persistently to the topic of the U-2 and I.B.-47 flights Mr Khrushchev then said the Soviet Union had "Information" that Nato powers were pre- paring "a new provocation" in September by sending a plane over the Black Sen.
He added: "But we are rendy and the orders are to shoot it down."
Clutching Mr Thompson by the arm Mr Khrushchev insisted the two mon posed for a Soviet commenting photographer, "aren't you afraid you will have to answer for this to Allen Dulles?"
Mr Khrushchev then turned to the Ambassador's wife Jane Thompson with you come here so you too will have to answer to Duties"
Informal
talks on HK
London, Sept. 7. Informal talks on constitu- tional advances for the crown colony of Hong- kong Ace scheduled to
open here tomorrow. be tween the Coloniul Office and representatives of Hongkong's only two poll- ***Lical organisations — the Reform Club', and the Civic Association, “.
The representatives include Mr Brook Bernacchi, chairman of the Reform Club, Dr Peter C. Y. Lee, secretary of the Civic Association and Mr Hilton Cheong Jeen, vice-Chairman of the Association.
Dr Lee told Reuters today: "In addition to constitutional Mrs. Thompson reminisced affairs we will discuss issues of with Mr Khrushchev on how vital interest to the community. wonderful It was a year ago A joint memorandum hus when they accompanied the already been submitted to tho Soviet Premier on his American Colonial Ofee and will form the ~VIEIL
hasis of the -talks-which--aro Mr-Khrushchey-replied-who--expected-to-be-concluded-by-ig- ever conceived the idea of send-morrow evening.
We
London
ing a plane to the Soviet Union? Mr Cheong-leen arrived in
had cleared the way. RUSSIAN WELCOME "You known how we Russians could have welcomed President Elsenhower with traditional Russian hospitality, and sudden
yesterday from the Trade fair in Stockholm.“
Но sald the fair was "an unqualified success as far as Hongkong was concerned" and added: "I am sure that there will be a notice- able increase in the volume of "Put yourself in our place. We Hongkong-Scandinavian trade said President Eisenhower didn't as a result of Hongkong's parti know about the plane. Then he cipation in the fair," Router. said he knew. What could we
ly the plane came.
have done?"
Then Mr Khrushchev added "I am convinced that President Eisenhower did not know about.... the U-2."
Dyer Alaska,
U.S. weather plane crashes
Mr Mikoyan, First Deputy Fremier, who stood beaming at Mr
elbow, Khrushchev's
Tokyo, Sept. 8. quipped: "The American Am A U.S. Air Forco weather bassador is in a very difficult reconnaisance
with plano cleven men on board erashed in position."
Me Thompson charged Mr Ishikawa, northern Japan, that the Soviet early this morning, the "Ú.8, Khrushchev April 10 when Mr Horris fra Fairly considerable shipments of arms from Brus-ter, Mr Richard Williams Union had been sending planes į Air Forco reported,
An Air Force spokesman said.
of casualties + Was sels were reported by a Katanga government of the BBC and Mr George Mr Khrushchev retorted that the number
Gale of the Dally Express this was untrue. It was an not immediately known. The spokesman yesterday.
arrived here today with their invention' of the press."
Japan Broadcasting Corporation Mr Khrushchev
national police, Alan Keorna
continued, quoiing the In the last few days. at last pilot five DCT aircraft flew. Into Rhodesia.
"Why did you send the RB-47 however, said that nine people after the U-27 Surely you don't were killed...---AP. · · Elisabethville with arms for the They had boon held by intend to keep violating Dur Kalanga army.
tho Congoleso army
but borders?" Mr Victor Tigneo, Katanga | were Sseretory
This was a of the Interior ex- handed over to UN' forces. plaloed the arms were from Router. undelivered stocks ordered by the Congo Foreo Publique before independence. But the arms, meant for the whole Congo army, are now coming only to Katanga..
"I was about to turn into Re- gent-street when I saw the ac cused walking in the opposite direction,
"At that time I did not know he was in England.
"I followed him until we got to Bond-street Underground Station where I had a conver- |sation with him.
"On seeing me, accused said, 'I understand you are on way to Spain,'
"That was his first sentence,
I agreed that that was so and that I was going to Epain. exuberantly ducked her "I then and him why he had In defi Hongkong, and he said, 'I Naples harbour today for wes not required any further
royal climax to the and 29 a witness.
• medal-winning
Mon
Olympic yachting regatta.
Crown
Prince Constantine
ONE WEEK
HUKS BEHEAD
FORMER
P.I. OFFICIAL
Mauila, Sept. 8.
A former official of Arayat, Pampanga, a town about
A plane carrying nine tone of Elisabethville prins landed At
Bold.
Mr Tingce said it was now whether the private uncertain army of Mr Alberi Kalundi,
Gandalika In East
arrestari
A courler
foter
released
U.S. CLAIMS
'
AIR SPEED
A
RECORD
of
and
DIFFERENT CASE Mr Thompson: different dise,"
Mr Khrushchov: "How do you know?" You weren't there.... but our frontier-guards were,"
Mr Khrushchev suld the Soviet Union would all have to have "satisfaction" over the Powers flight,
Mr Thompson appealed Hot
Monty criticised
London, Sept. 1. Field Marshal Lord Montgomery of Alamein, made llitis comi» ment on charges against him in book: The Deseri Generala," which · han - juch' been published, t
Correlli
The
author, Mr
#11's
a free country, ho can say what ho likes."-Chiria Mall Special,
50 miles north of Manila, this morning, a reliable source
ds not aggravate the situation Barnett, claims that the battle апутотен,
of. El Alamein was, fought un-- Mr was reported beheaded by
Khrushchev, though necessarily, and that the Field Huks, the Philippine News!
Los Angeles, Sopl. 7.
hommed in by a crush of Marshal'a pursuit of Rommel Service reported today.
world record air speed of diplomats, then made us if to after the battle was "ditatory The PNS soldi former Arayat
1,210.78 miles an hour was slop on Mr Thompson's too shy and inept and the Queen embraced on the "I asked him where he had vice-Mayor Marcial Santos was
vialmed by the United States ing if I stop on your foot you'd Lord Montgomery said:
me to apologise. Why NAVY today for an FH-1 export quayside after he sailed the been and he told me he had found beheaded at the foot of mining state, president, actually Greek yacht Nirefs to a gold been in France und Spain, and Mount Arayat yesterday, be- ocupled
didn't you apologise 'far, the Phantom II plane.
U-2. If you are strong you can And men of honour would Class.
medal "vktory in the Dragon intended to return to Spain neved to be the victim of Philip Kasal as he reported yesterday.
about und woek.
The speed, If accepted by the ford to apologize", ca Mon- Have
| Ellsbethville airport resigned. But these
Then with a pinyful push, the "I then asked him where he be Communist terrorists,
International Aeronautic The Philippine constabulary two concolted windbags had Queen propelled her 20-year was living and he said, Strand headquarters here, however, day when Katanga authorities deration In Paris will be more
sewzel milliary docu- to show off, and talk about, old son Into the water.
Palace Hotel. Iid also said that] The a
The Prince, a student at United Press International inta lume idea of university tee. A hendenean, the should he be required as a witted us, amely a port nad elments on his person is now
been received. 4might not agree with his smiling.
country's polley, but he Quesn't turn snoak. Mr Elzenhower and
couple of truttore.").
A
King Paul and other members
turn to Hongkong.
(The converantlon then finishe
-37
Fe-
than die cumfient record de la 30 miles closed circuit.
400 miles an hour faster
Armed robbery
Mr Thempien niin appealed it's Joble ahead, let's look to the future",
Mr Khatishchoy then signalled below to a Kromiin waiter who hasten-
Buenos Aires, Sept. 7. closed..
Four, gunngen / escaped with: agency also The nonta
The navy reported that theeds up with glasses of Chame about, & 1,700 after breaking The courier will probably in-stand: trisi for espionage or for new record was not yesterday pagna. The Soviet Premier into a meat-packing plant on the of the Greek royal family roareded. We passed unrough the Deported that there was an
base, handed the glowes to Mr outskirts of Buenos Aires, today with laughter.
crease in fuk netivity in the endangering the security of the at Edwerde Air Force Bub kat office and to the
Triangular Thompson and other diplomats and locking the 20 employees in Hundreds of Italian bystanders station,"
province of Pampanga in recent sinte Mr. Tango indicated, Californie, over a
andi; all drank-a tossta-flouter, a freezing chamber, tester, course/Router. months UPI.
AP, applauded -AP.
(Conid, on Back Pago, Col. 1)