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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1949.
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Plane Disaster SOUTH HAMMERSMITH HELD
Investigation BY LABOUR
The Director of Civil
Aviation Mr A. J. R. Moss) this morning informed the
Telegraph, in
answer
to
questions, that investigation into the CPA plane crash has already started.
It will be a private in- quiry, and will be attended by any person against whom a charge may be made, but any such person will have the right to ask questions.
un-
Because the wreckage of the aircraft was so hot yes- terday. Mr Moss was able to carry out the neces sary inspection, and he is going to the scene of the disaster today for this pur- pose.
CRASHES ON
TAKE-OFF
22 Persons Killed
Cuzco, Peru, Feb. 24.- Twenty-two persons were killed and two injured seriously when a Peruvian Air Force C-47 plane crashed on its take-off.
Twenty passengers, the pilot and the radio operator were killed. The co-pilot and mechanic escaped vir- tually unscathed.
The plane was being used to carry commercial passengers between Cuzco and Lima. The decident oc-. curred when a tyre blew off during the take-oit, causing the plane to swerve.
A motor caught fire and the flames spread rapidly to the main gas tank. which exploded, enveloping the plane in flames-United Press.
Majority Down
To 1,613
HEAVY VOTING IN BYE-ELECTION
London, Feb. 24.-Labour retained its House of Commons seat for the drab West London district of South Hammersmith in a bye-election regarded as a straw vote for the next national elections.
Mr Tom Williams (Labour) polled 15,223 votes against 13,610 for the Conservative candidate, Mr Anthony Fell.
Labour's majority, however, was reduced. to 1,613 as compared with the 3,458 by which it took the seat in the 1945 general elections.
With today's victory, Labour successfully de- fended 31 Commons seats in bye-elections since it took office in 1945. So important was the South Hammersmith election regarded that Labour and Conservative leaders from Mr Attlee and Mr Churchill down campaigned actively for their men.
Official returns showed that about llamentary bye-election since the 70 percent of the electorate voted, general election of 1945, demonstrated compared with 05 per cent in the in a body today. 19-15 general elections.
U.S. AIRMAN KILLED
In the 1945 general election, the Frankfurt, Feb. 21.-An American South Hammersmith division figures airman Was killed today in the were: third U.S. Bghter plane crash in Germany In the last four days.
W. T. Adams (Labour) 12,502 Douglas Cooke (Conservative) 9,044.
In yesterday's. bye-election, there-
His plane, an F-00 jet Shooting Star, fell about 15 miles southeast fore. Labour increased its vote by
of Heidelberg-Associated Press.
Makes Gift Of Bacon
Auckland, Feb. 24,-The curenses of the world's record bacon litter of 15 pigs, weighing o ten and a half, killed recently at Auckland, are to be given by the owners, a bacon company, to the people of Britain.
They will provide one, week's ration for 25,000 people.-Reuter.
EDITORIAL
with the
1,721 and the Conservatives by 4,568.
United Press.
POLLING SCENES London,
24.---Vens Feb.
Loured blaring loudspeakers streets of Hammersmith, the river side borough in West London, from carly morning till after midnight 10- day urging electors to vote in a Par Hamentary bye-election which attracted exceptional interest.
has
Thirty Labour Members of Par- llament, who have each won a Par-
The Hotels Ordinance
WEDNESDAY'S
Council
enough,
dc-
bate on the Hotels Ordinance
was conventional
and rather colourless. Sir Man Kam Lo, who
measure oppoard the argued on principles, but seemed
to appreciate elreum unwilling
of qualifying stances capable those principles. That ft hay been necessary to apply controls to the hotel trade is generally deplored: but the necessity can. not be ignored. Both Mr. Chui forcefully em- and Mr Cassidy
phasised the circumstances which made Himperative for the Hotels Rates Advisory Commlitee recommend allocation accommodation
for
to
of hotel Hongkong residente at controlled rates and Government would have been remiss if it had
dented
femisa
those
exigencies and refused to incor- porate the recommendation In The Ordinance. We observed
at
Was a far com- endeavour a chronic
that
the Ume the Advisory Com- mitice's report was made publie that represented a promise-an acceptable
and solve to meet
suli hold problem. We
But,
Mr view. Dotated out, some provisions
will not be put into effect and because DCT- tain anomalies aro
arive, the
да
Cassidy of the cary to
certain to RAKUTANDO made by that General
the Allornoy
how
10
Govemment will closely watch the Ordinance operates In the welcome. In ration to
along argue reneral lines, the debaters lost sight of
of certain speciño points which deserved some attention. For example. the Government spokesman made no reference to the
the five amendments to Ordinance, each of which goes some way toward, moeting earller eritielama. The amendments in- einde cono
to the hotels
аго
j
of
Described os a "Cavalcade Victors," they toured every part of the constituency as a counter-blast to a tour made yesterday by Alie Conservative
Churchill
leader, Mr Winston
The bye-election has caused con-| siderable stir in political circles as
ˇ
possible pointer to next year's gencrat election. The vacancy was caused by the death of a Labour Meniber, Mr WT-Adams, who the seat in 3945 with capturea a mujority of 3,458.
FORMER PADRE Today's condidates are a former
This graphic picture shows the still smouldering wreckage of the ill-fated Cathay Pacific Airways, C47 Dakota aircraft which crashed on Mount Butler yesterday on the banks of the Braemar Reservoir. Nineteen passengers and a crew of four lost their lives in one of the Colony's worst air disasters. - Photograph by Staff Photo- grapher.
Pirate Booty Claimed To Be Located
Baptist Minister, Mr Tom Williams, for Latour, and a New Zealander, Mr Anthony Fell, for the Conserva-
Mr Fell is an engineer. tives.
The southern part of Hammer- zmith, which forms the constituency In question, is traditionally Conser vative, but was captured by Latiour
Los Angeles, Feb. by a relatively small majority in 1945. This time a very close result Searchers
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Yesterday's Plane Crash
COLONY
Commons Again Discusses Hongkong GIVEN PAT
WAR DAMAGES COMPENSATION
onc.
AND THE
AIRPORT
London, Feb. 24. Throughout the Far East there were people who had lost everything during the Japanese occupation but no single individual in any country had yet received a cent in compensation, Mr Leonard Gammans, Conservative, declared in the House of Commons today.
He asked if any of the £1,000,000 which Britain was giving Hongkong would be used to compensate individuals.
Govern-
of
ON BACK
London, Feb. 24.-British traders in the Far East should not pull down on themselves an "iron cur- tain" of their own
Mr making, Walter Fletcher, the rubber mer-
chant Conservative Member of Par llament, who files to Singapore next Wednesday, sald in London today.
Inter- nts in Hongkong for
Praising British commercier
cats
"At
The question of compensation scheme there was being considered, with he added. Reuter,
Reuter.
heads" over the new regime in North
China, Mr Fletcher told Router: "By so doing, they have gained prestige which Britain has not had in that part of the world for many years. Trade has opened whether The Chinese, up again. Communist or not, are always in-
in The Under-Secretary of State for to safeguard the well-being
terestel
doing business and the Colonies, Mr David Rees WI- people there now," he said. linms, replied that various For East
Mr
said Rees Williams Northmaking money. Borneo was the most badly de-
this moment, we ought not is forecast, with the odds slightly have located the fabulous lost territories which suffered enemy oc-
vastated country in the world during to try and assess the outcome of in favour of a Labour win.
"Loot of Lima," pirate booty cupation were all asked to consider
the war and could be congratulated things and which side we ought to voting opened slowly
on its recovery.
back. Instead, we ought to seek to morning in showery weather but in estimated to be worth $500,- schemes. The Hongkong
establish some sort of decent footing could well and
they as such
steady the afternoon a
government stream of 000,000 and supposed to be ment decided they would not have,
the de facto have been explained and em-
The Government could not be ex- The buried under the shore of tiny voters suggestd a heavy poll.
a war damage phasised by the Attorney General,
30 Labour Members of Parliament Cocos Island, off the west const pected to force Under the amended Ordinance
scheme on them. h their capacity as Labour's "AS-
of Costa Rica. controlled botels
liable to
AN IMPERIAL SCANDAL" sault Force-finunted the slogan: apply laid down accommodation
"We have all the winners."-Reuter.
The "Loot of Lima" is supposed Mr Lennox Boyd,. Conservative, rates for new Hongkong Residents
ZILLIACUS REPUDIATED Lo have been carried by the ill- urged that substantial sums should accommodation only where the
Mary be spent on the Hongkong airport London, for such re-
Feb. 24. The National Laled British merchantman, used is reserved for
has Executive of the Labour Party has Dear, to Cocos' when Simon Bolivar, which he described as "an imperial: sidents. Furthermore onus
asked if any. declined
the Labour the Liberator, stuged his March on scandal," but when placed
endorse been
future on
Parliament, Mr Member
K.Lima, Peru.
thing would be done about building Hongkong residents to declare in writing to the management that Zilliacus, no candidate for
Ellis Paterson, a former Lieuten-another airport, Mr Rees Williams it was officially so qualified. Another they are
general election,
ant Governor of California who sailed shook his head.
Asked what
Brilain action amendment sensibly offers pro-
announced tonight. tection for a a Hongkong resident
Zillacus, outspoken advocate from here on January 21 with an
for the gold, taken to ensure that capital funds expulition to search
following moved with Russin,
into Hongkong of co-operation other
returned last night. occupying accommodation
recent events in China were not ex- Labour Member for Gateshead, in- that that reserved for Hongkong
In north-eastern dustrial city when the
Ordinance residents
England. equally comes into effect, and
withdrawal appropriate
the from the Ordinance of the obliga tion
hotel's managements
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User
Elva
the
to supply electricliy for a "hot piste." These are important re-. visions which, while not affect ing general Intent of the Ordin- anco, do help to make the leria- latlon more acceptable to hoteliers and residents. It was recognised from the time the Advisory Com- mittce made their recommenda- flons that any legislation based
not upon them would
eneral
ден satisfaction. But needs of the moment
make it DIO- Imperative for some sort of
Wago-earners toption for who cannot find private accom- may modation,
and while this involve temporarily a degree
of hotel sacrifice on the part proprietors. the hardship is not likely to be excessive in effect; certainly the imagination needs to be stretched to visualse hotels which come under Ordinance having to close down because of operating losses, Thera are compensations as well
thome
of
tho tho
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disadvantages to hotellers under the terms of the new legislation."
Mr
to
the
19
had
He said that Mr James Forbes changed into non-sterling currencies claimed he had located the treasure on the Hongkong free market, - Mr
He was one of the signatories last under the bench and at the mouth Glenvil Hall, for the Treasury, re- year of the telegram of good wishes of a stream on the small island with plied that no action had been taken
This is Forbes" to Signor Pietro Nenni, leader of the metal detectors. then Communist-allled Italian So- fifth quest for the loot. He malt by the British Government nor so far as he was aware, by the Hong- cialist Party.
tains that it is shown on maps left
kong Government.
It is expected that the Party will by his great-grandfather, who was also refuse to support a number of a pirate. other leftwing Labour Members of
In The treasure. recorded
0.5 Parliament at the 1950 election, No extensive "purge," however, is ex-Spanish archives, consists of solid gold statues and other art objects, pected. Reuter.
relles of the Spanish Conquest of Peru.-Reuter.
The King Better
London, Feb. 24-King George VI appeared in better health today when he arrived at Buckingham Palace after his six-weeks holiday at Sand- ringham, his Norfolk estate. He had
"
One Man's Drink Is
Des Moinos'. Poison
"Even were it desirable to im- pose a control of this kind, I doubt be enféreed could whether it effectively," he said.
Asked about the possibility of
Chiacse labour importing
Sarawak, Me Burnco and Williamne
whether doubled would be a good thing, "We have this matter continually under view, but our first consideration is
Tax Relief For
Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 24-A Dance Hostesses bill requiring all liquor sold in Iowa
a very slight limp as he walked to the be labelled with the skull and cross- car which awalled him at
Crosa Station.
King's bones
At the end of last year, the King to cancel his projected tour of lind Australia and New Zealand because
been Legislature.
tha
Into Rees this
re-
Singapore, Feb. 25-The dance
of
have it Singapore and marked "polson" na hostesses
in introduced
State ofelally from the income tax comp- troller-money spent to make them pretty cannot be taxed. The measuro is called "an Act to
Members of the Singapore Cabaret
Association
the received protect the youth of the State of Girls"
the use of liquor." following tax reductions up to 125 He first big official engagement since fowa ogainst
require liquor labels to carry
of an affection of the leg arteries,
his finess will be at Buckingham One section of the bill also would Straits dollars: dresses, $40; shoes,
Palace next Tuesday, when he holds jan Investiture.
Ife will remain seated during the "ceremony-Reuter.
the 120; hair setting, $25; cosmetics $40. words "antidotes: pour contents of But they lost out on a claim for $40. transportation. Associated this bottle in the sewer and place for
the bottle in the ashican"-Beuter, Press.
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