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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1952.

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At Helmstedt, Germany, hoping to obtain visas to enter Soviet Territory, are 20 Accom- British schoolboys from Leicester High School, who are on a ylalt to Germany. Bauled by a teachey and director of the school, is their Infention to ket as far as Mos-

At present they still wait at Heimatedt for visas, Express cow if they can.

Photo,

Great Britain Preparing The World's Finest Air Fleet

London, Apr. 22.

Makers of Britain's wartime Spitfires and Hurricanes have been given the signal to go ahead with building what may become the world's finest and fastest air fleet.

The Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, recently announced a "super- priority" programme to strengthen depleted defences and prevent a recurrence a handful of Spitfire of the events of 1940, when Britain had to depend upon and Hurricane fighters to stave off the armed might of the Nazis.

Now the Ministry of Supply United States Air Force, which has declared that the defence dropped an American-designed pregramme includes warplanes jet bomber in its favour,

Faster than many

Stowaway'sTrick which are the direct descendants

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New York, Apr. 22. The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth docked here to- day with 1,524 passengers and two slowaways, American and a Briton.

The Briton, a 23-your- old Londoner, boarded the ner in a white steward's Jacket 瑞素 Southampton. Formerly a pantry steward Elizabeth. on the Queen

New Plan For Sudan

CONFERENCE MAY BE SUMMONED

London, Apr. 22. The Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, and his advisers had another meet- ing on the Sudan problem today and are understood to have worked on proposals to bring the Sudanese people directly into discussions be- tween Britain and Egypt.

Mr Exlen met Sir Ralph Stevenson, Ambassador 10 Egypt, and also saw Sis Robert Howe, Governor-General of the Sudan, at the Foreign Office, Usunily well-informed quar- tere end that as soon as a plan to bring the Sudanese Into the Anglo-Esptian tulles had been worked out, it would be put before the Egyptian Ambassador 10 Britain Air Pagho, la a bil fu break the present deadlock

elaim on the Egyptian sovereignty over the Sudan. Mr Eden is bound by Brilish pledge. several times reiterated, that no ellange in the status of the Sudan shall take place without consulting the Sudanese people.

This

for

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his morning, the Sudan Gov- ernment representatives in Lon- don and the African Department of the Foreign Office worked separately, on

ways of bringing

of the Sudan-into-the talks-with-Egypt

hairy representatives

when they are resummed..

Their views were submitted to Mr Eden this alternoon.

Of the various possible means of making contact with repre- sentative Sudanese opinion, diplomatie quarters here be- Jieved that one of the most prob- able was the summoning of round-table conference at which members of all Sudanese parties would be invited to be present.

current-Router, in design cf-the-pioneers-of-the-fighters the Canberra...like the bember,

of 1940.

is unarmed and speed to escape interception.

Battle of Brilən in the summer wartime Mosquitoes on its

Trets of the new types, all et which have been flying for some weeks or months, are being made 0s fast as possible and east of them are either in production or dag to begin immediately.

Much later than the Canberra, Viekeen announced the Valiant,

15

the

Among them are the world's Arst really successful jet bombers, fighters claimed to be the world's fastest, and all-weather Inter-bomber equipped with four Avon engines and so steek that ceptor aircraft which incorporate it is difficult to realise that it the "ying wing" and the "detta is also larger than the heavy wing", latest principles in jet bombers of World War II. design.

Sometimes referred lo

Antom-bom Valient Britain's

of the prototype first crashed in fames at Brazmere. near Bournemouth, in January while on a

a teri fight shrouded he was discovered shortly

in seccry. The accident was after the liner had sailed.

down to put He had lena luck than a

a minor fault 43-year-old Frenchman

First of the fighters is the which could easily to righted,

the Rawker Company's sleek P.1087, and

second who earlier this year put

prototype recently named the Hunter. steward's

Valiant 1, made its first flight whlie Jacket and did a 6,000- Its swept-back design is deve from the Vickers acredrome at cn. Good in Surrey the piston-engined Wisley joped from inile round trans-Atlantic

April 11. It was in the Tempest fighter, the veteran Friday, April trip on the Ile de France before being spotted. Hurricane and a long, continuous air, for five minutes and

by Mr G. R. Bryce, Reuter,

line of fighter designs which nilolet bagan with the Sopwith Camel Vickers chief test pilet, who

fram of the First World war,

Enfely parachuted

crashed. first prototype an it WORLD'S FASTEST

Detalls of the aircraft's weight and size are still secret.

America is believed to be as interested in the Valiant as she was in the Canberra,

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To Play Detective

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The Air Ministry and the Ministry of Supply, always Fight-lipped about their planes, have refused even to hint ab the performance of the Hunter. But air observers who

The Fairey Aviation Company, have seen it flying at the an-

ual Famborough aly display builders of the early Sword- naval bombers which claim that the Hunter is the fish wald's fastest. It is known to torpedoed and sank the German Stockholm, Apr. 22.

In 1911, The Swedish Prime Minkter, be Alled with the Rolls-Royce battleship Birmareis

Avon, one of the two most have Mr Taga Erander, today appcated

anti-submarine monoplane, the to all Sweden to play detective powerful British jat turbines,ve recently brought out an Parallel with the Hunter, Gannet, It is cquipped with in helping the authorities to

Vickers-Supermarine will pre- two Mamba turbines driving track down Communi spies.

their Swift, from the propellers and has the latest Replying in Parliament questions on the Government same stable as the wartime Spit-electronic devices for air-sea

fire and the racing seaplanes warfare. against Communist *

which won the Schnelder The latest class of fighter to espionage. Mr Erlander said:

developed by the British and "It is a civle duty to help tq- Trophies of 1927, 1920 and 1031

than 400 American air forces is the all- warda unmasking such eximinal and first flew faster

miles an hour.

wenther interceptor" which activities. If one fails to do so,

carries a crew of two, and long- ane's silence

Like the Hunter, the Swift is carrie have fateful

powered with the Avon engine range and radar equipmunt de effects.

down. ntom as alged to bring THE DOCUMENTARY FILM IN GLORIOUS COLOR

The pallce cannot be

usually described every and is where. They must be able to being in the 700-mile an hour hembers before they can

great class. It is king their work. Two of these are THROUGH THE SKILFUL TECHNIQUES OF THE ACTORS count on the help of a

machine. with

scheduled for priority mamtfac- the pubila. IN THIS FILM, THE WISDOM, BRAVERY, HARDINESS &

Rethou: belittling the work wings and is so fast that the ture in Britain-the De Havilland most people know of its DH-110 and the Gloster GA-5. say that Arst

noise like a The design of the DII-110 could FIRMNESS OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE CAN BE SEENI of the police, one can

the Enbum case would have presence is

the thunderclap which reaches them he salt to combine the best of his own secret and

two worlds. been

- Either or bath the DH-110 secret of his fellow conspirators cfter it has passed overhead.

Two. British jet bombers' de- If those in his immediate sur-

anmounded so

and the GA-5 may be chosen

But roundings, who had learned of signs have been

The first

for full-scale production. la the record- his past, had not broken the

complete. scorrey and given the police un breaking Canberra, with two their trials at present aro in- opportunity to set their investi- Avon turbo-jet engines.

The Canborra is produced by gation apparatus in action."

firm which Fritia Enbom, a Communist English Electric, a Journalist

and five other Com had not designed any ceroplanes munists, are nyalling trial for since 1920, alleged espionage for Russia. Enbom was arrested after 11 filend had informed the police that Enbom hed confessed to him that he had been spying for Russia, Reuter,

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Military and alr exports throughout the world are agreed that Britain has consistently led on aircraft design and that on paper she has the equipment for a formidable air armada, It 19 In the matter of production and numbers that phe Is lagging.

that Mr Churchill hopes "super-priority" will look after that.-Reuter.

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General Is Suspended

Reme, Apr. 22. The Italian Defence Ministry today suspended Brigadier- General Camilla Gastaldi, of the Air Force Reserve, who has been accused of attempting to

officers incite retired

against the Government's military policy.

The suspension will last until the result of an inquiry, orderea, by Defence Minister Rabaollo

Pacelardi, is known,

An cfficial communique sald Gastaldi had promoted a meat- ing of rotired offlcers, intended to take collective action against military the Government's policy and international under- takings cor eeted with it.

The Defence Ministry hind threatened disciplinary sanctions against my retired officers who attended the meeting-Reuter. MURDER OF U.S. MISSIONARY

Washington, Apr. 22. The State Department sald today that robbery apparently was the only motive for the murder in Northeast Thailand of Mrs Paul Johnson, wife of an American missionary,

The Department spokesman - sald, "There does not seem to be any political significance to this attack."United Press.

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