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LANTAU 'PLANE CRASH

Four Believed Killed In R.A.F. Disaster

Serious Man-Power Shortage

London, March 26..

Police Officer

A Passenger?

THE CREW OF THREE, AND A CIVILIAN PASSENGER, ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED WHEN A ROYAL AIR FORCE "'DAKOTA" TRANSPORT *PLANE

PEAK CRASHED INTO WEST LANTAU LATE YESTERDAY MORNING, A SEARCH PARTY ARRIVED WHICH IS ON THE ISLAND HAD NOT AT THE SCENE OF THE CRASH AT THE TIME OF COING TO PRESS.

A frank revelation of the sortous man-power and mater- ial

made by shortages was Minister of Works Tomlinson In a Housing debate in the THE House of Commons last night. Exceptional effort would be needed from owners, workers and the Government, he de- clared, if disaster was to be averted,

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"You're A Liar" Says Petiot

Paris, March 26,

Solved

London, March-20.

A Moscow radio broadcast Generalissimo Josef quoted Stalin as saying that the question of the withdrawal of Russian troops from Iran was "Already solved in a positive Renae by the. ogreenient be- trees the Soviet Government and Iran:"

to

"The statement was in reply a telegram sont by Hugh Baillie, president of the Unit- ed Press, taking Stalin's on the international situation.—Associated Press.

Madame Renee Cuschl Peace Good

now. widow of a Pole alleged

to have been murdered by Dr. Marcel Potlot in

for.

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HESS TALKS OF A SECRET TREATY

NUERNBERG, MARCH 26. RUDOLPH HESS AND JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP YES

TERDAY BASED THEIR DEFENSE AGAINST WAR CRIME CHARGES ON AN ATTEMPT TO EXPOSE THE SOVIET UNION AS NAZI GERMANY'S WILL- POLAND ING PARTNER IN A PLAN TO DIVIDE AND THE BALTIC STATES.

AN OBJECTION BY THE RUSSIAN PROSECUTOR, HOW- EVER, PREVENTED COUNSEL FOR HESS FROM BRINGING INTO THE COURT RECORD EXCERPTS FROM WHAT HE CALLED A SECRET TREATY CON- CLUDED BY GERMANY AND RUSSIA THREE DAYS BEFORE THE NAZI ATTACK ON POLAND. The lawyer asserted before]

Sinister Body

of

the International Military Tri- The first witness at this

· 1942, - was to-day the

bunal that the alleged NAMES OF THE CREW HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED

treaty afternoon's session of the War BY THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, IT IS BELIEVED.

witness in the resumed, trial Los Angelos, March 26. contained spheres of influence in Crimes trial was Ernest WII- HOWEVER, THAT THE CIVILIAN PASSENGER' WAS

one of the three of the 49-year old Paris doc- Norman Chandler, publi-jeastern Europe and that details helm Bohle, SUB-INSPECTOR W. H. CARR, PASSPORT, OFFICER

sher of the "Los Angeles were contained in an affidavit witnesses for Rudolf Hess, AT KAI TAK CIVIL AIRFIELD. HE IS KNOWN TO

submitted by Dr. Friedrich Mr. Griffith Jones, assistant She told the court in a voice Times" and a vico-president |

uncovered HAVE GONE UP IN A PLANE YESTERDAY MORN-

Gaus, former German Ambas- British prosecutor, choking with emotion that she of the Associated Press, said sador to Moscow.

the sinister background' ING.

had sewn ten diamonds and

The Soviet prosecutor object- Bohle's Ausland organisation in The missing Dakota took off beral allowance, she should have several dollar bills in the cost to-day that the United States The possibility of a disaster from Kai Tak Berndrome vester-

at least come in sight of the of her husband when, he left to had demobilized too quickly ed to the reading of the "sur-the course of cross-examination. He surprised the witness with prise document" on the grounds to fans for new homes, facday morning to do some prae- airfield again.

see Petiot, who had promised to and is too weak in the Pacific that it sounded like hearsay to quotations from the organisa- tories and public building tice homing runs. Visibility

Another ten minutes passed, help him to escape to Argentino. areas.

him as he was unaware of its tion's year book for 1943, Inced the country if the co

was better than it has been for

Book rang through the courth He wrote in the first of a nerico {exlatence,

which Boble said he had not operation of the workers and some days mat, although clouds and when she still failed to re

when Petist, pointing a shaking of articles dealing with his recent Hess' lawyer countered with read throughout. "Dangerous industry Was witsalad. The and mist ocensionally obscured ply to signals, the Flarm was

Her estimated posi-nager at Madame Guschinow five-week, tour of the Pacific way "In that case I must ask per tasks were undertaken by mem- Minister adidled

the tous of Taimushan, Lantanent, out,

that went cried: "You are a liar." The AT4B her wireless

"we are alarmingly mission to call Foreign Com-bers from the moment war be- A brighter spot in the ple- and other high-lying ground tion when ture was that the production of other aircraft made normal ar- dead was over Lantau Island, witness had told the court that weak militarily along the very missar Molotov to establish if am, the book stated. The

wah started in her husband had anid before dis-line that the United States must some materials had risen from rivals and departures during the and the search

appearing that Petlot was giv hold from Hawail to the Asiatic this agreement was not actually completion of secret work was

COMBL

concluded."

revealed on April 9, 1911 (the twenty-five to thirty per cent. day.

ing him injections "to conform

and. Russia."

Earlier, n document Intro invasion of Norway), the book with this ec-operation.

The aircraft made two un- Sea Otters

with

He said that "the American

not. do- "It seems to me that at time eventful run in and then flew H. Nabcatcher," the fleet gut the Argentine health re- public might as well forget about duced by Hess' counsel claimed added. Bohle "could we have ever emphas! w the off for the third time. At Air Arm base at Kai Tak, while The witness proceeded to tell surpluses and wastage in the that the former deputy Fuehrer fine" the meaning of these pas- need for getting out of the Ser2 Inbout 11" a.m.. wireless com-1.M.S. "Serene,"

Pacific." and added that Russia is had warned the British Govern enges. Fleet mine the court that the first letter the "now bugaboo in the Orient" ment a month after parachuting Previonaly the witness had vices building trade workersunication from the plane was sweeper, and H.D.M/L 1105, from her husband, after his des when we have not made sure abruptly est off, Nething fur 1106 and 1082, which were on-parture, showed great disorder and that her influence grows with Into Scotland that the Nazis stated that the use of the term

leaps and bounds.

planned to establish concentra "6fth column" in connection. that workers in the materials ther was heard from her, nur

gaged in It With

sweeping operations of mind, and was written in n

"But I doubt that the seeds of fion camps and to starve the with Russia was completely un- industries would precede them."

id she reply to signuls.

"Serene" west of Hong shaky hand,

Immediate war have been sown in Faid Tomlinson.

was possible that her wireless

Kong, combed the waters in the Petiot said to the witness: Asia. My guess is that peace, of British population if an attempt justified. He denied that when Up to February 8, 8.10 set had gone out of order and vicinity of Lantau Island in case "You have read the newspapers a sort, is good for another 25 was made to continue the wor various countries of Europe of a total allocation of 19,000

so no undue alarm

said. Associated after the invasion of the British were invaded the Ausland local was folt

the Dakota had come down in and are inventing all this now." years.

Isles.-Associated Press. building trade workers,bari beer

until noon when, with even a li-

The President of the Court Press, released from the Services,

interrupted to say: "Stop argu- Every effort was being made te

Hour after hour went by withing: there are 80 more wit- speed up labour recruitment and

no news of the missing plano. nesses to be heard, and if each Then, at 4.20 p.m, one of the Inate as long we shall be here patrolling Sea Otters called up until July."Beuter. Kal Tak and reported having

to employ German pristof FELLOW P.O.W.

war in building work.

Tomlinson announced that

scheme would shortly be IntoMURDERED

'duced to allow a builder engaged

on housing or other priority.

work to

obtain preference in

that area.

out from

the sea.

Been a crashed aircraft on Weat Lantau Feak,

Broken Back

"BLUNDERING

was frequently INTO WAR"

Landon, Mar 26 Herbert George Gibbs plead- the supply of materials by aus:ed guilty on a charge of mur- There dering a fellow prisoner-of-war

The Sea Otter said that the ing a priority number.

crashed 'plane was no doubt, he said, that in the Hakodate prisoner-of-war

un-camp in Japan in March, 1943, hidden by mist, but it appeared considerable amounts of licenced and unecessary build before a court martial here to-to be a Dakota with its back ing work was being done, and it day.

out this The hearing was adjourned was essential to cut "black market" if progress was sine die, the defence having in- sufficient time to prepare the to be made with houses, Reutér.

case. Reuter.

High

Flying Made Him Sterile?

London, March 26.

An American soldier claims that he cannot be the father

of his wife's child because him: sterile.

CANADIAN SPY CASE

Montreal, March 26.

a

high-altitudo-flying_mado

The soldier, Gunnor Duke Mil ler, is seeking to divorce his British wife on this ground,

The wife is indignant at the suggestion, and R.A.F. doctora are sceptical.

was

Miller wrote to his wife, The Canadian Government Beryl, 22, of Ilford (Essex) :— introducod document in "Althougly I have never told court yesterday which pur-you, the Army found I ported to show that Fred Rosa, sterile, due to high altitude

flying. Communist member of the "Therefore the father of the

broken and was probably on fire.

Los Angeles, March 26, Doctor Robert Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago, declares "We are blundering into war with Rus-

The Commandos on the island sent out parties and these were reinforced by an R.A.F. party which attempted to get through " to the scene of the crash on foot before darkness foil. So far as

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being

or

becauso of American statesmen's "prejudices" inability to cope with the pro- blems of the atomic ago.

have

a

he

Talks On

Admiral Pierre

Indo-China Open Well

Saigon, March 26. Dargentieu and Ho Chi Minh, Annamite leader, met for the first time to-day in what was ́dos- cribed as "an atmosphere of complote cordiality." Unofficially the conference is reported to have laid the ground work for the beginning of negotiations toward -a final Franco-Viet Nam accord,

Iran

Nein York, Mar. 20. The U.N.O. Security Council- Meeting which is to discutan Iran opened at 4.11 p.m. G.M.T. to-day.

The Soviet delegate immo- diately submitted that the Iran question be excluded from the agenda -bocausa, it was "not fit to be placed on the agenda Reuter.

Scientists In

organisations assisted the Gor-. mans in a military, or semi- military, capacity.

Boble denied knowledge of i telegram from the Nazi Emg breay in Madrid received the rlin in October, 1939 concar- ing the installing of a "second secret radio." He knew that in wartime Germans. In the in terests of what they considered their patriotic duty zent in- formation back to Germany, but he had protested often against members of his organisation be- ing used for such purpose..

--Contempt Of Court- After a long legal argument, following which the Tribunat

The preliminary accord left went into a closed session-to unsettled the status of French discuss the documents and de- economic interests in the Viet cided to reject, them, Doctor Nam and whether, as a free Seid said that he had complet state, Viet Nam can direct ita ed his defence of Hess whose "attitude towards the com-. cwn foreign relations.

Court remains The first major Franco-Vietpetence of this

adamant:" Nam incident since the reoccupa~ Lord Justice Lawrence said:

of Tonkin was reported simultaneously with the confer the Tribunal wrt proceed ence. Press dispatches said the with the defence for Herr vont Hitler's former Viet Nam.army on Sunday oc- Ribbentropp,

tion

cupied the French-owned. Hanoi Foreign Minister.--Reuter, waterworks, ousting the French

staff and arming the native em- British Troops

ployees. The French immedi- ately protested and the matter is,under consideration.

In Greece

"Messrs. Truman, Byrnes, Van- denberg and Churchill talk about maintaining peace by force. In senilo disregard of the fact that Rockets were

I have force meand war.

до fired from or behind Lamma

that wo Taland at 7 o'clock last night.doubt their insistence

secret about the atomic H.M.S. "Hare", Fleet mine-

bomb is ferging other nations to develop dealler gases and moro uteper, was sent to investi gate, and at 41 pm. reporte

rted.

effective ways of biological war- the that a thorough search

fare. They do not understand that with the aid of her

it is no longer posible to win a searchlight had not revealed

They will not understand

Minor disorders were also, re- anything. No further report

that the alternatives besides

ported from Cochin-China,

Athens, March 26. had been received by 1 atth

now are peace or suicide.

Michel Peutin, who covered the but "Hare" was still It

out.

The Greek Prime Minister, "What are our, atatamen doing

Ho Chi Minh and Dargenlieu considered improbable.

avert this cataelyan which though not impossible, that

of people this faces not only the

meeting as a representative of Themitocles Sophoulis, said to- the combined press, reported lay that immédiately 'after this tone connected with the

Philadelphia, March 26, country, but the population of the crash of the R.A.F. 'plans on

March 31, world? They propose to have the

The

National Council that Ho Chi Minh, was accorded the elections on Lantau.

largest army, navy and air force

full honours of a Chicf

the Greek Government would Federation of American Scien- State. After the In the world. This was clearly enunciated by President Truman tista, which anded ́a two-day ference a full French naval ask Britain to keep the British in his Navy Day speech. No sotrot sossion here on Sunday, aquadron passed in review be- forces in Greece "for reasons

ia

war.

to

Secret Session

of

private con-

Dominion Parliament, was a child you have is, beyond doubwns known last night, they had statement starting off a worltauded tha" postponament of fore the Viet Nam Prosident.of internal ytrivė.“

.:

Press;

signed the task of recruiting Frank (Miller's friend).

"I married you knowing this, not done so and when rain add-

Meanwhile, the repatriation of Soviet agents in the United

The Prime Minister did: not ed to the hazards of cerambling arms race could be clearer. and I think you did, too..

"More recently, the statements he Pacific Ocean atom-bomb 100,000 Japanese prisoners ofsay whether the Government Statos.

almost of Vandenberg and Byrnes have "However, by the time you up rough terrain in

to help the test and stated that it is not war and internees from Indo had accepted the British offer After the document was sub-receive this I will have my final ero visibility,cperations not been designed mitted, the Court sentenced Gor-divorce decree.

were called off for the night cause of world peace, Rattling the unfortunate that the aftenflon China is scheduled to begin im- of British troops for the main atomic bomb can hardly be called of the world is centered mediately with the first 4,000 tenance of order during the don Linan, who was arrested "I love you, Beryl, and prob-

The R.A.F. search party re-inspiring trust in America's during the capionage inquiry for ably always shall, but under mained on the island and the peaceful intentions'.

dramatically on "our-military sailing. from Saigem before the election themselves,

end of March. Associated The statement was generally contempt of court in rofusing to these conditions I don't want to search will be resumed at "first The forelan policy upon which proparations."

considered to mean that the testify at the preliminary hear-

the United States is embarked in see you again."`·.

light" thla morning...

The test, the Council Bald,

Greek Government present ing of the Rose case in Police.

heer folly and it will end in die would have only purely military His wife says: "Of course Court, to jall. N

Duko is the father. His claim No confirmation could be 80-aster Tila polley, le based value, and added that scient which is underway in the Unit (which is expected to remalo. In Lunan was a former Canadian

is fantastic.

cured from official sources-last forces that are oblivious to the

"In May) "We need no further bomb-parliament meets "I'd like same blood tests to night as to whether or not Sub- fact that nation which use iste recogaled that such bombed Nations Organisation. office after the newly plected of being associated with a group be made."

Inspector Carr was on the miss-fores will perish in the act of ings are not significant from the

standpoint of development of ing tests, to tell us that if this wants to guard against possible of agents which furnished war A high-ranking R.A.P, medling plane. It is known, how-using." Associated Pross,

atomic energy for peaceful pur- larger, trial of world order falls outbreaks of trouble during the time secrets to Russia. Hocal authority and that of the ever, that there was probably a

poses,

the great U.N.O experiment transitory period, --- Reuter. was summoned on Monday as thousands of air crews in the civilian passenger that Carr

Balentists, they said, believe will end in most destructive the Crown witness in Rose's R.A.F, he had not known a had gone up in a plane yester

THE WEATHER, that in the Atomic Age, no explosions, the most destruc- preliminary Court appearance, aingle case of flying cousing day morning and that he had

amount of military preparation tive this world has ever seen."

To-day's forecasti

Cloudy Another documents admitted

not returned to his office after-

could give any real security. If the Council declared emphatt-

becoming fair, light easterly wardr

There is another war with ato- cally.

The federation, ended two indi This Hong Kong

mic weapons, alf the world

Army captain who was accused

in evidence purported to show

sterility:

that 10-days after the atom

bomb hit Hiroshima Rusela,

on August 22, 1945, directed sent from Intelligence Head-air franh within a Colonel Nicolai Zabotin, Boyjet quarters in Moscow to Zabotin, other (fortunately Military Attache in Ottaweto | read ""Take measures to org get full details of the

the atom the obtaining of dool

bomb.

A materials of atom A telegram, identified by Igor technological prodess, Gouzenk, former ret E

-Em- |ings' and e calculations. bassy code clerk, as having been sociated Press....

popurring on Sub-Clent,

En Mirs Bay

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Igben, March 26,

Alexander,

Ickbine, world

doad

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Sunday. The federation claims The Council, pointed out that the affiliation of 14 associatione the great experiment to which of wartime project scientists, the leaders of the nation including 90 per cent, of the en should devote their greatest at who helped to develop the ato tention and energy in that mic bomb-Associated Press.

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