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London,, Apr. 19. British court of inquiry into the circumstancos of the collision between a British airliner and a Soviet Yak fighter over, Børlin on April 5 has reported that there was no evidence to show that the collision, was anything but an accident. The court, whose report was published today, de- clared that the collision was caused by the action of the Soviet fighter aircraft which was in disregard of the, accepted rules of flying and in particular of the four-power flying rules to which the Soviet authorities were parties.

The pilot of the British Vik-of the collision and in the area f

was 10- ing aircraft, the report stated, where it had occurred

many instances, the was in no way to blame for the miles. In

movements DI Soviet alrcraft collision and had

oppor-

were never reported to

to the Dir tunity to take avoiding action.

safety centre in Berlin.. All fourteen in the airliner and

for

по

the Soviet pilot were killed.

The court said the presence of the Soviet Aghter was never not- fier to the British authorities The fact of its being in the air at

the the time was not known to Soviet omells of the Berlin air safety centre.

The court of inquiry was set up by order of General Sir Brian Ttobertson, the Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the British Zane.

the

The Russians egreed to take port, but 1hter refused to attend because they did not think evklence of American or German witnesses should be taken.

Steep Turn

The findings of the court They stated were 'unanimous. that the Britian aircraft was in an airworthy condition, the time of the collision, it was

At

on Its normal course in favour able flying conditiona,

court

"After making allowances slight differences conditioned by the position of the observers from the ground, we were completely satisfed and convinced as to the main facts of the collision, and as to the position and course of the Iwo aircraft both immediately before and at the time of the im- Pact,"

"Mock Attack”.

Anglo-French Russian Air Pact

Kidnap Attempt

Paris, Apr, 19.

An Anglo-French air agree. ment, providing notably for reciprocal landing facliitika for the military aircraft of the two nations, was signed în Parla today by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Todder,

M. Georges Bidault.

French Foreign Ministar.

Рик

Bir Oliver Harvey, British Ambasador to France, and M. Herve Alphand, Director General of the Economic Affairs Department OT the French Foreign Office, attend- ad.---Router.

No Threats From Mr.

Bevin

London, Apr. 19.

Vienna, Apr. 19.

Three men, dragged from a

a car in Vienna today by Bri- tish French and American police after alleged kidnapping attempt, were identified as Rus- sian officers in plain clothes.

ал

Elsa

An American official spokes- man declared tonight that a young German expatriate girl. Pfeiffer, living in an American displaced persona camp, WOB walking near the camp today when she was stopped by a enr containing three men in civilian dress.

One of the men stuck a revol- ver in her side and ordered her into the cur.

The incident was spotted and the car halted by an international police patrol car containing Bri- tish, French, American and Rus- slan gendarmes.-Reuter.

Following the Foreign Ser S'hai Village

Mr. thry.

Ernest Bevin's, an- nouncement that Britain would claim compensation for the Vik- Ing airliner disaster, a Member of

Wiped Out

the House of Commons has urged By Fire

the most convincing manner, the oral testimony given before aircraft.

UE.

Bevin commented: "I am

Shanghai, April 20. Approximately 227 wooden sheds and straw huts, "covering an area of 67,000 square feet in the western district of Shanghai, were wiped out in a blaze early yesterday morning.

A technical investigation of that Bghters shout unhesitating- the wreckage "confirmed, Inly be used if there was any fur- ther interference with British

Mr. going to assume that the Soviet Union is going to be sensible and therefore I will not indulge in any threats of any kind."

This is said to be the largest The Foreign Secretary was number of dwellings razed in a satisfied that no blame could be single conflagration since the attached to the pilot of the Vik-termination of the war.

of one

"We WCTS conalderably in pressed by the evidence witness, who said that he thought he was witnessing a mock fighter attack on 4 bomber similar to many which he had witnessed over England during the war."

The British authorities in Ber-ing. A copy of the court of en- Almost as soon as the flames lin tonight published a detailed quiry's report was being sent to died down the residents began analysis of the Soviet report of the Commanders-in-Chief of the cleaning the debris, and greeting the cause of the accident, which Russinn, United States and new mat-sheds with bamboo was printed in the official French forces in Berlin.-Reuter.polos as beams-Reuter. "Taegliche Rundschau" on April

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The aircraft xas 200 yards Outside the two-mile circuit of the Soviet aired at

at Dalgow when the collision occurred and was

The Soviet description of the turning away declared

from it

accident, which lald full blame The

flatly that the on the British pilot, was Soviet

aircraft, fighter

which had contradicted in the British been performing aerobatics near analysts, which concluded with the area of the collision for sorne these words: "The only state- time before it occurred, dived ments in the Russian report down from a considerable height which are accurate are the types In a power dive and passed the of the two aircraft involved and Viking close to its starboard wing, the approximate height and time It then turned in a steep, left at which the collision occurred." -hand-swinging-turn...

While still steeply banking, the court said, the Yak collided head on with the Viking, with the re- nult that the leading edge of the

-Reuter

Cyril Smith

Yak's starboard wing and the Cancels

leading edge of the Viking's port wing came into contact, and both wings were severed,

Not Landing

Concert

When the wreckage of the

London, Apr. 19. Yak was examined, it was C. Smith, English concert plan- found that the under-carriage ist, announced today that he host

scheduled visit 10 and wheels were locked in the cancelled

upward position and that the Prague where he was to have tail wheel unit was retracted given recitals in the Prague spring: Into the "up" position, this festival and vet as a judge at an showing, that the Yak was not international piano playing con- preparing to land.

said he believed that "the

committee

the ground. There was no evi" festival

The Viking exploded on hitting

dence to prove such a fact. The Prague is no longer fully repre-. fourteen passengers and crew on sentative."

board met instantaneous death The famed Halle Orchestra of-

Manchester similarly has cancell- from the impact and explosion.

Other points from the inquiry (ed its scheduled trip to Prague report were: visibility at the time for the festival.-Associated Press.

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