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COMMENT OF CANADA MAY

THE DAY

Leading The AS A BASE

Way

ISTRESSING as it was,

Dthe addon disaster which

overlook

tho HOW De Havilland jet fighter plane ut Farnborough last week could not deprive . British aircraft manufacturers of the distinction of placing Britain in the forefront of civil and military aviation. The Farnborough display provided a climax to a series of brilliant achievements during recent weeks by planca

conceived and constructed by British ex- perts. The appearance of the wonder civil fet airline, the Comet, and the record- breaking flights which these machines have made, astonished and aroused the admiration of the entire

Western world. And as if these

Dissatisfied With

Conditions For

Her Forces

From R. M. MacCOLL

Washington, Sept. 9.

Canada has become so dissatisfied over the long delay in obtaining the same rights for her goldiers and sailors in Japan as are enjoyed by the Americans - including the all-important privilege of trying her men in her own courts that she is considering giving up Japan as a base altogether and withdrawing her men and ships.

achievements were This possibility has been discreetly conveyed not enough to demonstrate to the State Department where it has created dis- Britain's leading position in aviation, the Canberra jet, may. Such a move would be highly unwelcome to bomber recently proceeded America. to acccomplish what no All the British Commonwealth nations with forces other aircraft had even in Japan have become restive at the way things have before attempted to cross gone in determining the status of their respective the Atlantic both ways in forces

compared with the "most-favoured nation" one day. The performance treatment accorded the Americans. Was of profound signi-

ficance, pointing to ontirely Canadian public opinion was new possibilities in military alarmed by the care of the two aviation tactica and British sailors sentenced to 30 strategy. Moreover, it can months guel for stealing a taxi-

cub. be confidently predicted that the Canberra is not Britain's last word in the amongst them think it was a production of jet bombers, major blunder to wait until after Improved models will most the peace treaty was signed to

America's

ollies Canada

ove

try to negotiate agreements governing troopy.

of

certainly emerge from the established ingenuity British designers.

Now the Canadian authorities are keeping their fingers crossed

UNDOURTEDLY the most over the possibility of other in-

and

5 JET FIGHTERS

rivals in the production of inferior 10 Americans.--Landon British

Express Service.

planes capable of flying at least 700 miles an hour in

the stratosphere. In fact,

the Farnborough display Iron Lung For

was able to satisfy Britain's friends, as well as

any

"potential enemies, that In the field of military

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Appalling Ferry Disaster

SINKS IN STORM:

90 LIVES LOST

►

Belgrade, Sept. 9.

An official announcement on Tuesday night confirmed that about 90 persons lost River on the their lives in a ferry boat Danube and, approximately 30 others were saved.

disaster

The ferryboat, Nis, sank

Only

the announcement said. those passengers on the open deck could be saved.

few seconds after it overturned,

Dazed survivors said a storm

caused panic aboard the craft. They expressed the bellet that the rushing about of the pas

contributed to the unsteadiness of the boat in the storm.

sengers

Thero were wild screams for help as the bout went down. Hundreds of peoplo-including weeping women and children went

to the docks on Tuesday night seeking news of their missing increased hot

relatives.

full impact itself

The number

hour by hour. The

the news made DI felt on this city. Authorities said they belleved that the Nis is now resting an the bottom about 30 feet below the surface of the river. There is still some confusion, however, as to the exact spot where tho boat went down.

100 people are miss-

Explosion

Phosphorous shells seen exploding, on a munition dump during one of the recent periodic spells of action in Korea, London Express,

Middle E.

Policies

Discussed

Anglo-American Coordination

Foreign. Secretary: Mr An- thony Eden, and Sir Oliver Franks, British Ambassador in Washington, according to informed well usually sources.

Communists. Stone Police

Dotimand, Germany,

Sept. 9.

More than 200 Commu- nist demonstrators stoned police.tonisht as the officers moved in to break up a protest parade.

One- policeman was in- jured, with an undeter mined number of de- monstrators. Five demon- strators were arrested.

The fight was touched off by Communias demonstra- tions held throughout the --10 : protest against the trial in Dortmund of five lendets of ···

JAY

Gernian Youth organisation. - United Press.

Communist Frewed.

Dieting Is Piffle Says Centenarian

Dr

When Man

Becomes Most Dangerous

Belfast, Sept. 9..

A man becomes a special kind of animal as soon as he buys a motor car and should be treated like a juvenile delinquent paychologist told scientists here today.

The psychologist, B. M. Foss, addressing the psychology ecc-

PHUR DECANT British 2 CAM

for the Advanterncat of

Red Troops Obstruct

US Military Police

Berlin, Sept. 9. Armed Soviet soldiers and East Gorman police today barred three attempts by United States military police to reach the Ameri- can checkpoint at the Berlin end of the Autobahn to. West Germany,

The United States High Com- missioner, Mr Walter J. Don- nelly, told a press conference here that he had protested - against this interference to the Soviet authorities.

He said a fourth attempt was duo at 6 pm. GMT today.

The Jeep-load of police were trying to relieve their col- leagues in the checkpoint office, which .controla American vealelor uslny. Tho. Autobahn. They were not trying to enter the Autobahn itself.

Before reaching the American checkpoint ut Dreilinden, American military police have to cross a strip of Soviet Zone territory for about half a mile.

Lemuel Major General Mathewson, American Commun- dant of Berlin, said the "United States soldiers were confronted People's police and by the Soviet soldiers handling their weapons in 'overy menacing manner. Tho United States soldiers were cutnumbered."

abio

BY LONGER ROAD

The police

wero eventually to reach the check- point by a longer road which does not pass through'. the the Soviet Zoao of tongue territory," he added.

Allied patrolling of the 100- mula Autobahn stopped owing Interference in May. ta Soviet

said there was so much de- Chill recently Briush and Inquency among motorists that American patrol vehicles made preventive measures should be daily attempts

to pass Soviet Mathewson to taken similar

applied to guards, those

General criminals. juvenile

Attention said today that these attempts should be focused on the first censed on August 18. hours and days spent driving a Milltary police at the check-

it is then that point sald the 5 pm car becmise

patrol did not get through the Lasting habits are formed.

A road research expert, R. L. Russian guards. The next at- Moore, told the same section tempt is to be made at mid- that women make better pede night.

trians than men and are Ices llable to street accidents.

take risks all along thej

General

He

GMT

London, Sept. 9. An investigation has been London, Sept. 9.

Coordination of British Five British Meteor jet launched into the cause of the

disaster.

and United States policy in The Nis, which connects Bel- the Middle East was dis Apectacular performance at cidents on the Kobe pattern fighters crashed over Eng- the Farnborough aerial this time involving. Canadian land today. The pilots of grade with suburbs across the show was the breaking of force

19 Canada

Jealous of her two were killed, two parn-river, was hit by the storm and Lussed ut a meeting here to the sound barrier by now.

and independent chuted to safety, while the overturned only 10 minutes after day between the British types of British jet fighter ved gaty

it Canadiang were fifth, whose plane was frat she loft Belgrade FULL

BOAT status: the Japanese courts. machines, the import of le

- in the Ben off The boat usually carries 150 gnoled which was to demonstrate the to crash that the British aircraft undoubtedly face

owkward Weymouth was picked up people out on this occasion was He not full. The approaching storm her men by a passing tanker. to why

was seen by the passengers who industry hus completely questions us caught up with any of its were forced to necopt a status was later transferred to the hurried on deck so that the small aircraft carrier boat overturned. Only a few had

Sir Oliver arrived in Britain a chance to save their lives.

Pest at the weekend on holiday. The Belgrade River

London and Washington have authorities had not establishe

Mathewson added Tangmere, Sussex, came to the exact number of victims but be in touch through diploma- the last few

that standstill eight yards from

though British and United asaid they understood 98 persons Lic channels in The had bought dickels. However, days to concert the view of the sleeping baby in a pram.

Staton

patrol cars had stopped to enter the Autobahn he said. pilot, though thrown clear in his they said it was possible there two governments on the work-

woman scientist, Dr M. & tag to West Germany, this elmer seat, was killed.

were more passengers than that end developments in Persia and

that they re- London, Sept. 9. pilots, whose jets collid on board, because some people Egypt, it is believed in diplo

100 Coates, told the physiology did not mean

to patrol Bottrell, Henry ed over Cambridgeshire, made had free passage or had pre-paid matle quarters here. New York, Sept. 0.

section that chickens on an all-linquished their right these Following

contacts were tickets.

road.

Bald the next aviation, she is fully able! A 675-pound iron hing left parachute jumps, and

Eye-witnesses pgreed that be- Britain is not disposed to ac-years old today, says enting and vegetable diet had increased in the to make a 100 per cent con- New York today on the first saved. Fart of one of the planes

cept Persian counter proposals drinking has nothing to do with weight when given such things stop was now under discussion like streptomycin and penicillin, between American, British and tribution to the defence of part of its journey to Bangkok, dropped in a village close to a tween 85

ing.

for settlement of the oil dispute old age.

"I eat and drink what I like

Fifty per echt of boy offenaces French officials. the free world against where it will be used to combat newly built house.

The British military authori The Afth plane dived to earth The day was clear and hot. uired by Premier Mossadegh at

and do what I like," he said. the weekend, it is understood.

reformatory institutions aggression. It is a satisfying the pollo epidemic.

winds with the achievement. And so

the iron at Sutton Bank, Yorkshire. The Suddenly strong A plane will take far

consultation is made good soldiers, an army ties reported that Soviet guards But if is thought that com-"All this talk about doting is from rain and hall struck Belgrade,

today stopped British piffie. A sound

for the ! military police reliefs civil aviation'.

saved from con- lung first to Frankfurt, where pilot was killed.

Arst Today's crashes brought the Passengers

thepensation sought by the Anglo- what makes for long life, and psychologist told the, psychology twice

Company for the

A wool research expert-told

British

situated checkpoint cerned, Britain's leading It will be loaded on the

plane to leave for Bangkok. foll since the first of the year river said the crew of the Nis Iranian Oli

malbematics section that alongside the American check- position is, at least for the the lung is expected to arrive to about 75 with at least 70 apparently could not stear the Persian nationalisation of ita oll that is with you have to The sprightly, good-humoured time being,

oat against the strong wind industry would not include a

man's point. At 6.30 p.m. GMT a Brl- more than half of a the before

disaster claim for loss of revenue right Genuine recognition of this in Bangkok sometime on Thurs- deaths.

shortly

to 1993, when its oil conces little doctor passed his century woollen three-piece suit did not tish military police, vehicle up day.

mark today studying

cancer exist 60 per cent was of air, anally allowed through-Reu occurred,

the sions would have expired.

and treating Rescue boats spod to

women Reuter.

ter. for British opinion remains soene. Rescuers looked

outpatients for rheumatoid arthri- bobbing heads and pulled sur- hesitant in assessing the

come of the resignation

of the

The treatment is free, though Moher Government In vivors out of the water.

Most of those saved Jumped Aly into the river just before the Egypt and the assumption of Dr Bottrell does not work under power by General the National Health scheene. Ho The London Daily Mail sald boat turned over. Some pas-supreme recently: "Surely somewhere sengers, cyewitnesses Bald, Mohammed Ragulb as Military gives his services without charge. I shall go on studying cancer the Governor General and Prime na long as I breathe though I there must be a wny of re rushed into cabins when

sometimes wonder if there will ducing these shocking accidents." storm struck and were trapped Minister

opinion here there. The boat sang almost

ever be a real cure for it. But sympathetic to General Nagulb's when I get a bit older I may give Immediately.

boat left Belgrade at 1.07 programme of land reform and up medical practice," he said." for the suburb of Zaun. The anxious about

as the boat his cabinet of at least three southwest London, where people storm struck just reached, the confluence of the ministar extremely hostile to come and go, as they please.

the West and to foreigner There is no nurse, Save and the Danube an are generally to a question the

and be answers the door.himself.. of strong currents. Associated

In reply

He also does his own cooking Foreign Office spokesman said and household chores. today that the question of ro- He qualified in medicine at cognising General Naguib's gov. Dublin 70 years ago-Reuter. ernment did not arise. as the change came through the re- signation of Aly Maher and not the use of force-Beuter.

AR

unassailable.

ix contained in the decision There are 60 coses

опе iron lung.

They underline the

recent

of polio call for an investigation of the Air Force's mounting of the United States and now in Bangkok hospitals and Royal

which accident rate. Japan to seek contracts for only

loan the purchase of the latest arrived last weekend on

The British Press has urged British designs in elvil jet from the United States armed that a special committee of air aircraft,

forces in Japan-Uniled Press. experts be established to find

the cause of crashes.

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The

he born

two

Dr Bottrel receives his patients

8 FISHERMEN p.m. local time. It was bound war on corruption, it remains

the inclusion in in a trim, whitewashed office in

RESCUED

Puson, Sept. 8.

A United Nations chartered Press. Japanese tanker on Tuesday morning rescued eight South Korean flahermen from o ship wrecked off Pusan and brought them to safety.

Overtime

The Fusan Port Command Ban Threat

Bald the tanker sighted a ship. wreck off Pusan on Tuesday morning. The tiny Korean fishing

vessel drifting holp-

was lessly for six days after the

propeller shaft broke while

fighting against the rough sea and typhoon last week.

The tanker also towed the boat to Pusan.-Reuter,

London, Sept. &

A ban on all overtime on rearmament export and ship- building work may be enforced

SNOWSTORMS

BLOCK ROAD

Vienna, Sept. 9.

4 Spies Sentenced To Death

Belgrade, Sept. 9. A District Court today Bcn- tenced four men 16 depth for spring for Moscow-dominated Albania, Seven others were given gnol' terms ranging from six months to 20 years.

Toll Of The Road |

by three million, workers to-. marrow in protest against the rejection of their demand for a £2 weekly rise.

Snowstorms, at six centi-

The defendants were accused. Leaders of

38 unions forming grades below zero have blocked

Intel- the

Ligence with data about the - MR CHURCHILL Confederation of Ship- the Alpine mountain road link of supplying Albanian

provinces of building and Engineering Unions ing the Austrian

Yugoslav army. Associated Salzburg over Press. PILOTS PLANE

will meet in York tomorrow to Carinthia and discuss a proposal by

by the Con-the. Grossglockner, Austria's Nico, Sept. 9.

federation executive that all mightiest 3,758-matro (12,345- Mr Winston Churchill piloted overtime and plocowork should foot) high mountain, it was re-

Chicago, Bept, 9: the aircraft flying him to a holl- be banned.

ported from Salzburg.

Nearly, soven, Elmes. Clearing teams with know leaders bellove day on the Continent for fen

union

tough Americans were killed in Car minutes today, the chief pilot, that the 22 claim is exorbitant ploughs are having a Charles R

in view of a plodge by the battle against the storms which accidents than in the Korean member Trades pile snow on the higher regions fighting during the first coven of the eight-million

bo First snowfalls in this European Airways, said wago demanda

The Korenti dead British

would

in the higher

totalled · Lees than 3,000. period the Prime

"moderate. One big union, year occurred tools over Minister

Tyrol, Alpino The nation's truffle droth foll plane over the Alpa.

the General and Municipal regions of the

of the Gross-waa 20,000, according to the Twenty- other passengers Workers, with 95,000 workers province west were in the aircraft at the time. In engineering, has opposed the glockner, on September 6. National Safety Council,ARE-

overtime, ban, Reuter.

Associated Press.. --Routes.

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