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Explosion destroys jet airliner
B.E.A. COMET CRASHES, BURNS
NEW GUINEA 29 dead
A
DANGER
NUMBER of Countries4
are presently engaged in studi wars. Sune huva faken a violent turn. Berlin
has had its moments and
there has been il Certain amount of shooting.
There
still exista the division of opinion in the Coromunist Ikor
Albania. The
over
in 1:4
Congo turmoil word it is hard th see what the eventual out come will be and whether i the United Nations, like it predecessor, the League of Nations will fail iu the balance. Korea and Vietnam are stil
potential sources. for PHON sible trouble. Under the
in Ankara
disaster
Ankara, Dec. 22.
A British European Air- Comet 4 jet- ways liner crashed in flames moments after take- off last night. First reports said 29 of the board 34 people on were killed.
guidance of the professed They said four passen-
pacifists Nehru and his
Defence Minister, Krishna
Menon, India has invaded
the Portuguese enclaves
which have existed for hundreds of years.
TOW we have President
N
Sakarno ranting gam
gers were injured and taken to hospital. A fifth survivor who was only slightly injured was being treated at the airport's medical centre.
The officials said the Comet's crew of seven were ali kuken
The second
Early reports that the plane bad
En exploded
mkdair proved false. Airport Officials, who were witnesses to the disaster,
said: "The
the "liberation" of West New Guinea. How far he will go remains to be seen, but in the light of the Indian liberation" of the it is Portuguese enclaves possible that another amall war will break out. Presi
plane dent Sukarno endeavoured
did not explode until it Lo blackmail the Dutch
touched the ground. The some years ago by national-
violence of the expleston was laing their plantations.
such that it literally diskote. This falled and Dr
grated the forward part of the (uselage
the entire Sukarno and his Foreign Minister, Dr Subandrio, i cockpit."
One added have apparently pressed on with their plan of drawing pression--but it is only
red herring
the pression--that the crew noticed over
of, the beginning of a fire on board nation with the object
as the planie look off, and at- taking the Indonesian mind tempted to make a forced land- off internal troubles.
ing at
the rod of the airstrip Fresident Sukarno's claim tal when the Comet touched the
West New Guinea (or as he ground, it exploded · prefers to cali it. West! Control tower operators said
gained big plane Irian) is frankly imperialis- the
12
"
זיי
have
the im
an im-
only
in
tic. The only thing Indonesia about 1,000 feet of altitude be
and fore it crashed
split ever had in common
Wreckage was scatteri the Dutch as their colonial two.
ever a wider Tea aixit five masters. The people of West miles east of the airfield, locat- New Guinea are a different
MAI 12 miles from the ruce from the Indonesians, They don't even speak the same language; they do not have the same ideas or Aviv, vla Nicosia.
customs; they are primitive in the extreme.
heart of Ankara
The big jet, BEA fight 262, was bound from London to Te
The time of the disaster, the second involving a Comet with- six werks, was 2145 GMT.
in
HE Dutch are on the way | An Argentine Air Laes
To educating these people
cutie: crashed in a similar ac
and if President Sukarno cident in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last
month. persists in demanding their
there liberation
will be A passenger list was not a
However, in further trouble Asia.mediately available.
Am-
Any solution must be based the daughter of British en gradual self-government bassador to Turkey, Sir Bernard the people of New Burrows, disembarked from the Guinea. The only effect of plane at Ankara just before the
for
an
Indonesian takeover!
8
crash.
change of
would be colonial masters a change
which, we say, would be decidedly for the worse.
Attache
Among the survivors was
Cypriot National
a
roads.
The invaders ride into Goa
Indian troops riding in jerps enter to as people line the Three tiny Portuguese cuclaves, Goa, Dlu and Deman, were seized by the tndian forca two days after the start of the invasion.-AP Radio photo.
MACMILLAN MEETS KENNEDY
Russia's advances in
N-arms on agenda
Hamilton, Bermuda, Dec. 22. President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan yester- day heard their atomic experts report essential agree- ment that analysis of recent Russian atmospheric ) test explosions showed considerable progress in the nuclear weapons field.
scientifle
The joint presentation of separate British and 0.5.
studies of the Soviet series was a major highlight of the five-hour dission that marked the opening of the Kennedy- Macmillan merling here
Berlin and the Congo
Other topics domirating the first session were Berlin and the
Congo. On all three major subjects, the spokesman for both sides said, there was complete agreement" in Thursday's meeting, although this did not necessarily mean a sudden adjustment of policy differences between the two nations. Berlin, informed sources said Mr Kennedy and Mr Macmillan agreed on the resumption of "exploratory" talks with Russia early next year, seeking once again to determine Soviet readi- ness to negotiate a settlement on "an honourable basis.“-----UPI,
On
POPE JOHN APPEALS FOR PEACE
Vatican City, Dec. 21. Pope John tonight launched a Christmas peace appeal to the rulers of all nations to halt a possible "chain reaction of acts, decisions, resentments that could erupt into rash and irreparable deeds."
he
*
The Pope, of foRTICE. Think of the tragedy speaking เก of initiating a chain reaction of resentments decisions, solemn tones in nets,
!
that could erupt into rash and world wide
irreparable deeds. broadcast from "You have received greal the library of powers not to destroy but to
divide but Vall-build, not his сал apart-lunite, not to cause tears to be ments, said he shed but to provide employ-! refused to be-
ment and security.
The
Ki
to
Pope's 3,000 - word lleve that man would deliber- Christmas message, the
fourth
ately
destroy of his reign, was translated into himself by the 30 languages including Rus- very wonders stan-and beamed to the corners of science and of the world by a complex of has already Vatican and international trans-
missions.
was televised.
Pope John
progress mastered.
"We cannot believe," he said, "that the terrific energy now under the control of man will be released for the world's des-
Turkish Cypriot Deputy to the
sembly Goa invasion_protest HOME, SWEET truction.
Hadji Ahmet. Another survivor
the
How can it be otherwise was Hilmi Ulueren, of Ankara. when Indonesia has not yet! A third survivor was identified given proof that it can keep as Israeli Army Colonel Joseph its own house in order.
Kidar, military attache at Fresident Sukarno should not Israeli Embassy in Ankara,
forget that the Australians, who administer the other half of New Guinea, also have an interest in this question. They fought in the defence of New Guinea
pened near Anka passengers against the Japanese and Last September, will not take lightly any in- and crew were killed when a filtration into their area by Turkish twin-engined Fokker
Twelve of the 27 passengers aboard got on at Ankara.
Today's crash is the third in Turkey major air disaster in the past
two years--and both the previous
two hap-
a foreign power, particular airliner crashed into a hill near
ly one as unstable and as 10 Germans were vulnerable to
and
Communist dead. takeover as the Indonesians.
In January lost year D There is a possibility one day Caravelle airliner of Scandina
that the two halves of Newvian Airlines System crashed Guinea will be united into
hilltop near Ankara and
MACAO-BORN
HK RESIDENTS
EXPRESS INDIGNATION
Ankara. A British woman
Macao, Dec, 22, among the More than 600 Macao-born persons working in Hong- kong today sent a cable to the Governor Lieuten- ant-Colonel Jaime Silverio Marques protesting against the invasion of Goo.
in independent nationhood. 40 people were killed. Whatever
encouragement A total of 251 people have Australia gives to Papuan been killed in civli and military air crashes during the past two self-government, it will months-33 of them in Decom- never tolerate an extension ber-Reuter, AFF & AP.
of Dr Sukarno's "guided
democracy" in this area
of vital interest. If Dr
Sukarno persists in
his
BOATS MISSING
They expressed their indigna-
the tion over
invasion, and reaffirmed their solidarity with the "Portuguese nation.
THE TEXT
HOME
Charleston, Va., Dec. 21.
The department store elerk WAS filling out * sales slip during the Christ- mas shopping rush.
As the woman customer
her gave
address, the harassed clerk remarked: “A madhouse, isn't it?"
"No," replied the cust- omer, somewhat testily, "It's a private residence." —AP.
Fragile
side "For
side with by elements of fear and apprehen- sion, there are positive signs of constructive goodwill that t and productive of good."
"We appeal to the rulers of the nations, who today hold in their hands the fate of man- kind.
In Italy, it UPI.
BRIEFS
MONTY AGAIN.
Managua, Dec. 21. Field
Viscount Marshal
today it was Mongomery dziä "You also are men, fragile "madness" to try to keep the largest nation--Com- and mortal. Upon you are the world's anxious eyes of your fellowmen muntst China-out of the United Montgomery, who who are first your brothers be Nations. fore they are your subjects. arrived in Nicaragua today on
*With
the authority which his tour of Latin America, left have received from Jesus later for southern Nicaragua Christ, we say: firun all thought UPL
we
SQUABBLE OVER SALE PRICE OF ANOTHER
MAN'S WIFE LEADS TO MURDER
Rome, Dec. 21.
Police today said an Italian baker who had sold his estranged wife on a monthly installment plan in Reggio Calabria, was shot and killed by the purchaser during an argument over a demand for a discount.
for US$1,000 in monthly installments.
Police said Marino Insisted that
The text of the cable read: The baker, Vincenzo Maribo, 932, claim to the Dutch half, he
Tokyo, Des. 22. must expect the. ustive
"Macao boys working in Hong-way shot by Antonio Raffa in antagonism of the Aus- boats with 31 crewmen were mit population our voice of
Two Japanese tus fishing kong beg Your Excellency tran the squabble at the home of
the wife, Francorca, 29, last Raff 30, legal clerk, had trollans, as today's state-mining in howvy about indignation Gor event, night,
on
made mente totalling, 4900– ment by Opposition leader, 1700 miles esat of Tokyo, the maintaining our loyal faith an Polles said Merino agreed to
who he balked. Last night at Haffa Mr Arthur Calwali, inakes" "Marliline Safety Agenor report-nation; with honour of being sell his wife and mother
his three chlidren "to Rafta ed foilay,AP, clear, PA RAN
1 Portuguese people."UPI.
i
Baybg any more,
Raffa live up to his agreement add pay the full price, wheres upon Haffs killed him disappeared – aft shooting Upc
'Can't understand
why I did it'
A British Army sergeant, jailed nine months for snatching a Chinese woman's handbag, ex- claimed in court this morning: "I cannot un- derstand what made me do it!"
Sergeant
Normab Henry
Collins, aged 29,
picached the compaimant
Chat
of the Royal k-mui, 36, from behind in the rear lane of Knutsford Terrace
Warwickshire Regiment, station-
ed in Fanling, continued:
"All
my life I had been a goud soldier and a good citizen.'
SERIOUS
Then he heard the magistrale, Mr A. Garcia, tell him at South Kowloon Magistracy: "This is a serious offence. and the least sentence 1 can impose
nonths.
Kimberley-road, muffled her mouth with
hand one
་་་
cathed the handbag.
The
and
handbag fell 10 the ground and was partly damaged. Defendant picked it up and ran. The woman raised the alarm and a police constable
is nine the defendant.
ber, the court had heard Inspector D. J. Collins, prosecut- ing, say that defendent ap-
arrested
The plastic bag contained US$20 and HK$41.
Defendant had a clear record Inspector Collins said.
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