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Protest Over Plane

Plane Crash Soviet Fighter's Aerobatics Cause Of Accident

Very Serious View Taken

Berlin, April 5.

General Sir Brian Robertson, the British Commander-in-Chief, lodged a protest personally tonight with Marshal Vassili Sokolovsky, the Soviet Commander-in-Chief, over today's collision between a Soviet fighter and a British European Air- ways Viking, in which all 14 occupants of the British plano were killed.

General Robertson tonight ordered that all British

planes over Germany should be given military

escort.

The escorts will not be withdrawn until assurances have been received from the Soviet Marshal against any further circling of British aircraft by Soviet fighters.

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Washington, Apr. 5. Three shiploads of emergency aid for France and Italy were on the way across the Atlantic to- Steel-helmeted Royal Norfolks,Į day as the State Department be- carrying rifics, were then station-gan working out details of ed around the wreckage, and one operations under the full Mar- Russian sentry was allowed to shall Plan signed by President

remain.

The Russlan major, accom-Truman on Saturday.

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The State Department disclosed panied by three privates, drove

one shipload of lord across the frontier a few hundred that 1

yards away and drew up outside France and two of wheat the cordon guarding the Russian Italy were on the high seas wreck.

ready

the

Royal Air Force officials af A number of Soviet officers Gatow Airport, Berlin, suid to-who hurried to the spot of the night that from eye-witness evi-Soviet fighter crash were turned dence, the Russian fighter dived away and nobody could get closer

200 yards to on the Viking as it was making than about a left hand turn before landing. crashed Russian aircraft.

According to these witnesses, dived behind and the fighter came up underneath the tail of

occupants of the Viking- the Viking. rose too sharply | 14 in all-included two Ameri- as the Viking was making its cans. Eight of the passengers turn, and the wings of the two had left London on the Viking

and the two planes met.

others joined the British Air Force officers be-aircraft, which had a crew of lieved the Russian was engaged four, at Hamburg

The British European Airways in "ghter acrobatics" of which tondon

said the Soviet there had been a few officially fighter

the nose

at the confirmed incidents in recent airliner and both came down in weeks.

flames. The collision occurred red A British spokesman in Ber-five miles north of Berlin over Hhe edge of the Russian Zone. lin, declaring the British thorities took a

The British alrcraft was in con- fact with the control tower at view of the Incident," said the Galow Airport at the time of the Foreign Secretary. Mr. Ernest collision. Bevin, was in close touch with General Sir Brian Robertson. and that the Foreign Sucretary would make a statement in the House of Commons tomorrow,

a3-

"very serious

The spokesman sald the so- viet fighter, a Yak, had no right

to be at the spot where the col

itslan occurred. It gave по notification of ite position to the flying control, which it was required to do under the pre- sent regulations.

London

the

British and American camera- men immediately began to take photographs, but as soon as major saw this, he reversed his jeep and drove back into the Russian Zone.

Blow Up

the

photographer zonal

An American

across who drove frontier to take pletures of the wrecked Viking in the Russian Zone had the film torn from his camera by Russian guards.

A Royal Air Force medical or- derly kept unarmed guard to night over the wreckage of the British Viking and the bodies of Rs 14 occupants.

nossos,

blew up

The wreckage of the Viking, which, according to

eye-wit bafore it hit the ground, was scattered over more than an acre of young wheat

Two of the passengers on the

a hillock a hundred yards On Viking were women. The Vik-away stood two young Russlan Ing was on a regular flight and soldiers while two Royal Air was not one of thous operating Force ambulances waited in a because of the new Soviet lane a quarter of a mile away restrictions.

for the Russians to give permis- sion for the bodies to be removed.

RAF Ambulances

A BEAC official in London said

there was no reason to suppose that the plane was not in the ap- proved corridor by which British planes approached over Berlin over the Russian Zone. "It was a perfectly routine fight."

hat

"TREVEAN” "TREVEAN”

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Orders under the Interim scheme will be carried out until the full Marshall Plan is work- ing. The State Department

not yet asked the 10 nations

tho which are to beneft from $3,300 million

programme for Tetters of intent"

their signifying willingness to adhere to the pro- visions

of bilateral agreements to be concluded Inter.

cont

President Truman is expected to submit to the Senate today or tomorrow the name of the man he favours as Director of the European recovery programmo.—— Reuter.

Hungarian Debt To Britain

London, Aprl. 5. Hungary is to repay 22-2

crossed the Soviet zonal border to term debt owing to England, and doctors per cent of a pre war short-

the airliner. The Russians made the Hungarian financial delega- no attempt to delay the rescue tion in London announced to- parties.

night. Na

on the casualties

ground were reported in both crashes, it wan learned.

The

United States Military

This settlement implies a cop!- tal reduction of 77% per cent and The Soviet fighter crashed on Escort For Monty

cancellation of any interest due. an empty site in the Charlotten- burg district in the British sec- Government announced tonight which took place in February and The negotiations la London Before seeing Marshal Sokolov-

tor. German police removed the that no sky, General Robertson had con-

more American flights ferred for two hours with leading body of the pilot and handed it would be made today, and that March ended in "full agreement"

the problem of to British police

short-term who starting from tomorrow, (Tues- officials, of the British Control

cordoned off the area,

day), all American aircraft would debts, the announcement said. Commission.

An eye-witness sald the planes be accompanied by nighter escorts £300,000 made available by the

Payment will be mada plans, were flying at 500 feet when they unless the British received a

collided. The Russian plane

According to present Field Marshal Viscount Mont-

Staff, will fly from

the Bri-

over

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on

with

Komery, Chlef of Imperial General knocked a wing tip off the Vik.! antiafactory explanetion of today's? Hungarian Government. The off-

air crash-Reuter. ing and the British plane's port tish Zone to Berlia tomorrow engine burst into flames. orning.

In Red Zone

'Soviet Regret

If no assurances have been re-

Berlin, Apr. 5. ceive from the Russians, the CIGS's plane will come in with The Russlan aircraft dived to

The Soviet Military Administra- a fighter escort.

the ground, but the Viking came tion late tonight issued a com- Just before dark, Berlin city down more slowly and crashed. munique expressing its regret at mile away, inside the today's air collision between a police squads cars drew up near about a .discharging Hong Kong early May

British passenger plane and a the wreck of the Soviet plane in Russian Zone.

Immediately-after-the-crish, a Soviet. Aghter over Berlin... the British Zone and disgorged

Soviet Military Ad- 15 German plain clothesmen to Red Army officer and 12 soldiers

In Gurmany on- take statements from all people with tommy guns surrounded the ministration

wreckage in the neighbourhood who

with deep of the Russian plane nounces

regret the and would allow no one to ap- unfortunate collision of a British the crash.

proach.

on its passenger airplano Whan, Major General E. o. from Hamburg to Berlin with a Herbert, Commandant of the Soviet fighter aircraft, about to British sector of Berlin, arrived land at the Russian

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