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CHINA
GILNIANS GLOUCESTER ARCADE
No. 37999
Comment of the
day
FIRM HAND
ATIENCE
and
firmness!
Put continue to be
exercised in handling the teachers, students and other i obstructive elements in the Rennie's Mill Refugee Camp ares. They should be told as often as seems necessary the true purposes of the Government, which is really
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to bring modern improve- ments and amenities to the
the least possible ¦ place with.
The present
The
inhabitants of the area! are among the unfor- j tunates who have had better fortune than many i others. They have managed virtually to
large area of choice land, anci foreshore,
delightful prospect and to build quite a little empire upon it. This they have done with their own hands.
Established 1845 MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1961.
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Passengers watch as airliner's engine drops off FIGHT FOR LIFE AT 13,000 FT
Near-disaster Policeman shot, 50 PEOPLE DIE
Poles seize pamphlets
BBC CLOSES
over
STAND AT North Atlantic
POZNAN FAIR
Tho
Poznan, June 11. British Broadcasting Corporation stand at the closed Poznan Fair was
down tonight after Polish customs officials seized large numbers of pam- phlets displayed on the stand.
Prostwick, June 11. While passengers watched 'without panic' the engine of a giant KLM Royal Dutch Airline DC-7, fell "in a great ball of flame" into the north Atlantic early today, as the crew battled to save the plane and its 73 passengers.
The story of the emergency height and make a safe landing Was told
Angerican at the airport here. The emer- by the is passengers aboard the plane gene; lasted about 40 minutes.—
by a chartered
Connecticut | Reuter. company for a tight to Aarter- dain--who wailed nt the airport for a new flight after the crew of the plane had made a sue- cessful landing here,
Mr. Bilinski, who Poznan to run the BBC stand, said, "It is a waste of time to curry an
without the hundreds of specialy printed pamphlets, which ist BB3C special broad- casts to Poland."
EXCEPTION
with
A crew of investigators from Holland arrived here this after- noon to investigate the cause of the re in the plane's engine.
The fire broke out as the air- liner was flying al 13,000 feel the coast of northern Trolazi.
of
!
The pilot and the crew eight declared a full emergency,
Geneva
Laos
seriously wounded
A would-be burglar shol and seriously wounded policeman in Kowloon at about 3 o'clock this morning.
The shooting took place when the policeman, L Chok- kam. PC1234, Intercepted the man in a back alley in Dundas- street after a chase.
A struggle took place and the man knocked the police- man on the head with a spanner, snatched his service revolver, and fired three shots at him. The man then dropped the weapon and ran away.
The policeman was shot twice in the abdomen.and once In the thigh, *
The polleeman pleked up the revolver, fired two shots at the running man and then collapsed.
Before the interception, the man tried to break into No. 362 Shanghai-street, first floor, when residents raised the alarm and gave chase.
The policeman, answering the alarm, came on the scene, He then chased the man.
The policeman was sent to Kowloon Hospital where his condition was said to be serious.
The Police have detained a suspect for questioning.
conference on
to resume
Geneva, June 11.
and ditching procedures were The stalled 14-power Laos conference will restart tomorrow at
1000 GMT, a British spokesman announced tonight.
prepared for. As the plane imme dropped to 1,000 feet il was joined by un American Albatross unphibion from the Birport here.
is a far better thing they have done than to build miserable shanties on roof- tops or hillsides. The whole Polish ofeials said the Poll
took exception Co place presents a far different government
from the wo
in photographs
the appeurance
134inskio clusters of wretched hals pamphlet, those of Mr
The offi ascending the slopes above and a M Rosamak,
cials declared bal both in Causeway Bay,
konk fending part in "cold The first contingent were set war broadcasts in 1950-52.
nearly there
a decade ago
The British Ambassador, Slr been
the plight of the George Lisie Clutton, homeless
defeated and
lodged a protest *****diately soldiery, swarming around
The spokesman said that the Mr Witold Trampczynski, Polish The slopes of Mount Davis, Foreign Trach Minister who
Ferriga Earl of Home, British Secretary, na chairman of the general sympathy arterl and conecto. The regime in opened the Fair.
Mr James Mekissock, of New next plenary sesalon, had decid- Taiwan has too many other
in a letter handed to the Bri-Londen, Connecticut, told re-ed after consultations with Mr
Ambassador the worries to take in all of
Polisporter that he had just tuished Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign ubjected to six his breakfast when
"suddenty Minister and co-chairman, to them. they might have, authoritier
photographs in the pamphlet,
there was a tremendous vibra-convene the next session to- been expected to do.
Without its paniphlets the tion. What worried me was morrow morning. Since
then much
has been nu stand looked bare and that earlier I had seen all teak- done for them and they have interesting, with tary blacking on the port wing and I fear- He added: "The United King- dorie much for themselves, spaces. Nearly all that reed the wing would go on fire. dom and Soviet co-chairmen Church and welfare bobes mained
Forste colour rallied to their help. They photographs of Queen Elizabeth have fared as well as other ken thing her refugee groups in this res india earlier this year.--Reuter,
and perhaps better than most. The Colony has reason to nekamledge their! good behaviour and the re- fugees have every reason to be grateful for all that bas been done for them.
.ciיאן
IT may seem to many a poor
recognition of the bene-
At the camp inhabitants
have received to adopt
影
policy of passive strike, na
the students and shops
have been doing.
abol the Government's announcement.
Allowance
th
s.ate vivit ta
Nigerian editor fined
Lagos, June 11.
No doubt many are uneray The High Court here yester
day fined the editor of the Sunday Express, Mr. Adpo Fatogun, £100 with the alternative of six months' jail on a charge of publish- ! ing a seditious and false against the article Nigerian Federal Govern-
上
must be made for this.! Their sentimental attach ment to the name of the camp is not to be despised and, moreover, conforms to the name-in part at least | by which this place has been known
Ever since
ment.
mill was erected there. The The court also ined Anal- thatgnated Press, publishers of the survey many are not refugees at Sunday Express, £100.
reveal may
all, but simple free-renters, Į
of an December
TAX LEAKAGE For the time being, pre- The charge arose out
all sumably,
would he article published on
18 st and relating to an aile- treated alike. No plan can be shown to the nation of leakage of tax changes induced towards the end of last year by the Federal Finance Minister, Mr Festus S. Okolic- Eboh.
have agreed to send a joint "The engine fell
15ssage to the International minutes later in a great ballControl Commission which will of fame and smoke. We were be despatched tomorrow.
the engine glad to see
"The message reiterates
the! irait of smoke drop into the
jappeal of the co-chairmen to the i Allanlig" he added.
parties in Laus made on April Another
passenger, Judy 24 to cooperate with the Inter- Walince of Mystic, Connecticut.national Control Commission in Have full credit to the stewardess exercising supervision and con- and stewards for preventing trol over the ceasefire."
panie.
"We know this was a life or death matter," she said, "but jeveryone was well behaved and
there was no panic at all. The luu stowards and stewardess walked up and down telling [people not to worry."
Meanwhile the 39-year-old Captain Wilhelm Bellak and his
crew were battting to fenther the propeller. He slow-
ect his speed and then asked the passengers to go through their emergency drill.
This has never happened to me before," he said, "and I hope it never wiil again." After the engine dropped off, the pilot and crew were able to resume their normal
fying
3 swept to
death over Niagara
Niagara Falls, NY,
Juno 11.
BACKSTAGE ACTIVITY
The cryptic and dramatic an- nouncement came after a day of intensive buckstage diploma- the activity starting with the arrival here by air from London of Lord Home for special talks with Mr Gromyko aimed nt breaking the deadlock.
Sheriff_escapes bomb blast
as
IN IRAN EARTHQUAKE
Teheran, Juno 10. An earthquake today killed 50 people and injured over 50 more at the village of Dekhouheh some 16 miles from the south Persian township of Lar, it was announced here tonight.
The entire village was razed to the ground, and
its 1,500 inhabitants fled to the open fields.
The 400 mud huts where they, GMT), when most people were had lived were pulverised by already at work in the fields. the shock.
About 3,500 people were kill- Tents, blankets, medical sup-ed or injured in isst year's quake plies, and food were rushed at Lar, about 1,000 kilometres from nearby towns and from south of Teheran. Shiraz by road and air. Further Thirty of the 50 bodies supplies were going from the
have so far been recovered capital, the announcement said,
from the debris at Dekbouheh,
Nine injured
and
rescue
teams
it was later nanounced, The Red Lica
and
Sun
Doctors, from nearby army units, went Society has appeated to neigh- to the stricken area to help re-bouring towns to send help. cover the dead and treat the injured.
tremors also
Severe earth shook the township of Lar It self, injurying nine people and destroying mud huis which survived a violent earthquake in April last year. The tremors were fell in 100-mile radius of the township. Army units and Red Lion and Sun Society (Red Cross) workers have been told to be ready to rush first aid and supplies to villages if fresh shocks occur.
Army planes carrying medical and other supplies from Shiraz encountered bad weather and further attempts will be made tomorrow to fly in supplies.
Goads have been rushed by
from mule jeep and
Bustak Jahrom,
B Fasso, other nearby towns and villages, the
continued. anaranetmenl
But, food supplies, blankets, and
tents are still urgatly needed
in the area,
All shops were destroyed in the old township of Lar, making
Bodies recovered it impossible to send supplies The population of Lar is being from there, the announcement moved to a new town of, brick ¦ added-Router. houses under construction near-
The new town was not
destroys his car damaged in torny's tremors ac-
Mississippi City, June 11.
A bomb blasted to bits the private car of Sheriff Curtis 0. Dedeaux early today, but he escaped with his life when he stayed at home.
The explosion hurled pieces
of the car over a wide area near the two-storey apartment home where the sheriff and two other families live.
Glass fragments shuttercu over beds in which his wife and two-year-old step daughter slept. The blast damaged three parked Cars and 0 nearby
The conference has been ad- bouse. journed since last Tuesday when
An Air Force demolition ex- it held its 13th session.
pert from Keesler Air Force Since then Britain, France and base said a preliminary Inspec- tion Indicated someone otlached the United States have been con-
their governments a dynamite bomb to the frame the driver's sulting about what to do following last of the ear below
scat, week's serious violations of the teasere by the pro-Communist THREE ATTEMPTS
Pathet Lao
Strike by 100,000 called off
Bombay, June 11.
An indefinite strike of 100,000 port and dock workers due to begin in Madras. Bombay and Calculia after June 15 way called off 16đay,
To
The unions had given notice of the strike, in support of wage and other demands, on June 1. time It appeared to be n
it was called off after union Final agreement to restartbomb, from the forec of the and government representativen the conference came when
blast, the demolition expert suld tod signed
an agreement Lord Home made tele indications were as many as six abide by a report recently sub- phone call late tonight to
have mitted by Mr Gromyko to fix the terms of the message that they would send tomorrow to the Commission,
sticks of dynamite may been used,
Dedeaux, 40, sald three attempia were made to get him into the car just prior to the ex-
unidentified
Individuals
people pending completion of the survey, but no harin
The British statesman's tele-plosion. would be done in putting
phone conversation toak ploce "I received three phone calls Mr Justice G. B. A. Coker, up a few pictorial illustra
fler he had held consultations from tions showing the contrast presiding, said in his judgment
over dinner with Mr Averell complaining of gambling activi that the article left the reader with a sense of condemnation A motorboat was swept over Harriman
Niagara Falls tonight Chauvel, chief
and French delegates. They In each case, the caller asked and three persons in it
were joined for coffee by Mr the sheriff to make a personal were believed to have V. K. Krishna Menon, India's check. He cent deputles instead.
found Defence Minister and chief de- They been killed.
legate-Reuter.
Dedeaux said.--AP.
between old squatter areas
the modern trans- of the Federal Government, and and formation effected therein, that Its contents were falsified with ronds, water, light and in order to cause fear and alarm other amenities laid on. In the mud of the public. —
Tthe same time further China Mail Special.
Mensures hulta be
taken to make it clear to all that while the Government intends to institute modera amenities it cannot do
Bu
unleas it resumes adminis
Five feet
trative rights, and that it from death
Is wrong for the in-
habitants to try and live
live within the
Iaw
must
be expected to pay for it.
It is this that is probably the
Oakland, Juno 11.
outside the law. Those who An 80-year-old man and his wife escaped death by only five foot when 190-pound auxiliary fuel tank plummeted 3,000 feet from a navy fightor plane through the roof of
real obstacle. People who have extated tax-free for n long time rejoice in such : freedom. No doubt there will be no empeciai haste In imposing other taxen than ground rent.
a garage.
A woman tourist sald the oc- cupants were two women ond a
She said all three Jumper from the boat before it went over and that they disappeared. ~~AT.
GRAVEDIGGER'S
OBSESSION
Wolverhampton, June 11, Because he lost his pet rabbit
one should have
and Mr
United
governmen~
appointed committee.
The report recommended 4 tho substantial pay rise for workers and conceded most of their other demands.-Reuter,
Jenn ties at clubs on Highway US 90, 14 guards swept
States he said,
no
gambling,
HEADLINES ALL MY LIFE
-the autobiography of ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN
away by current
Rawalpindi, June 11.
A river broke its banks and swept 14 caravan guards to their death in west Pakistan, according to reports reaching here today,
Early reports said the guards were travelling with a cüravon along the upper Kaghan valley. They were asleep on the banks of the river Kunhar yesterday aflera tiring day's journey when the river overflowed and engulfed them,
Police are reported to have
boy, a gravedigger for nearly 25 years editor of the London recovered four bodies.-AP.
pet rabbits. Eo he went out
ihought no
night and systematically •
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killed them, a court was told here, The couple, Mr and Mrs The ከነከ admitted Elis in zitting in court when Leroy Weed, were
he admitted three kitchen, But not oven the most unfor- their
and to the offences of rabbit kiling,
tunate has
next
the right to garage. The wife was just put-asked
commandeer a great
of land.
fren
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for 35 other sitler FIRST EXTRACT from "Headlines All My Life," the ting an dinner when there was offences 10 be taken into
an explosion," he said.China account. He was jailed for six most discussed book of the month, begins in tomorrow's Mali Special,
| months.-China Mäll Special.
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China Fir inquiry
China Fir stranding inquiry
Орести
(See bacit page.)
cording to Mr Hossein Khatibi, director of the Red Lion and Sun Society.
He added that casualties would the
Politician
Taipel, June 11. Lin Tung-yu, 53, member of the Democratie Socialist Party, died of a stroke on Sunday ut Tainan in southern Formosa.--- am (0552 AP.
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