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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1953.

EBAY SOVIET

SOVIET JETS SHOT

THE

Britain' And

Egypt

T remains to be seen what

I

General Nagulb's sudden decision to hurl unfounded allegations against Britain concerning the Sudan agree- ment: whether, for example, it is a prelude to repudiation of a pet se painstakingly , negotinted, or whether the Egyptian Prime Minister is merely trying to create general, embarrassment und to low down implementa- tion of the agreement. First indication that Naguib han his own peculiar ideas of the meaning of the pnet was given recently when he interpreted certain -clauses JAHI giving the Sudanese the right to align themselves with Egypt, but denying them the privilege. after attaining full independ- ence, of jolning the British Commonwealth.

BRITISH PLANE

Earlier Incident

Soviet

Gienerni Version

Now, It

What

Of

Happened

London, Mar. 18.

The Soviet Union has ad-

would appear, he is seeking mitted that Soviet fighters

Britain's assurances to the bomber shot down over Ger-

Reported

PROTEST NOTE ORDERED

London, Mar. 12.

The jets that attacked a RAF Lincoln

Επ discount completely fired en the British Lincoln bombor today definitely wore Soviet planes,

many yesterday but charged a Foreign Office spokesman disclosed. that it was about 75 miles At the same time, the Air Ministry inside East German territory.

Soviet controlled disclosed that the tack was the second A letter sent by General Chud- incident today.

Southern Sudanese that their rights will be strictly anfeguarded when the new constitution becomes effec- tive. Thin. however, from

Commander- 10 Sir

Earlier, another Lincoln on a similar

Britain's point of view is a kov, the Russian basic condition of the agreo-in-Chief In Germany. ment reached with Egypt. Ivone Kirkpatrick. British High exercise had been the object of a "threaten- and under no circumstances Commissioner, and reported by

Tass, the Soviet official news ing mock attack" by two Soviet MICS near Kassel, well within the British Zone.

can it be permitted to be

violated. General Nagulb's anxiety to rid the Sudan of any sort of British influence fust becoming an obsession; also being cast into doubt his sincerity for the complote independence of the Sudanese, and his respect for the terms of the agreement under which tho Sudanese are to obtain full

agency, early today said:

"According to a report from the cummand of the Soviet Air Force section of Schwerin, which was checked by me, bomber observed over the place was territory mocratic Republic in the scion

of the Germun De of Boizenberg at 1420 o'clock, Berlin ume, on March 12.

"The plane was flyint on the

Boizenburg, route

Parchim,

untionhood. Egypt'a Rostock,170

obstructive altitude the formation of

"Five of the crew were killed and two wounded,

A statement issued by the Air, secret coxle book and other Ministry said: "A RAP Lincoln documents over the British Zone of the Flying Training Command, tefere the plane exploded in on n routine exercise, was shot the air. These were recovered the Hamburg-Berlin air corridor down by MIG Aghters today in by British agents.

sald A spokesman

it was near the zonal frontier.

understood some Eighth Hussary. at the scene of the incident had picked up a

a shell case and a shelf clip. added:

significance of this is that with connons. Lincoln aircraft are not armed In other words, the shell case and the clip ap parently came from the attack- ing Russian planes and could

to identify serve

them."-- United Press.

"Earlier today, another RAF Lincoln of the Flying Training exercise, had been the object of a Command, on a similar routine threatening mock attack by two Soviet MIG fighters near Kassel, well within the British Zone,

"Her Majesty's Government

a grave view of this serious within the Hamburg- Berlin air corrider. The United

The letter continued: The ovor nin

plane has thus flown a distance of 120 kilometres into the Ger Commission whose duty man Democratic Republic. As it will be to advise the plane continued its course the Sudan Governor-General two Soviet

planes, which were during the

demanded of at that time in the air, power to the country in that the trespassing plane should

these suspicions, follow them to land on

the vent and Mr Selwyn Lloyd's nearest airfield, according declaration that Britain is rules in force for the Soviet

other countries.

creases

transfor

to

take

HO

"determined to ensure that Air Firce, as is also the rule in! to protest to the Soviet High ordered the "strongest possible |

and officials

to his

official

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DOWN Triumphant

These two pictures were taken this morning when Sir Arthur and Lady Morsé were drawn in their car

Tel. 21433.

Hongkong

Departure Must Live Says Eden

from the Hongkong Bank to Queen's Pier en route to STATE

the RMS Canton. Top shows Sir Arthur smiling and waving to the huge crowd, and above, members of the

Bank staff hauling the car to the pier.Staff Photo-SIEGE

grapher.

Sir Arthur And Lady

Morse Given A

CHURCHILL'S ORDER

London, Mar. 12. The British Prime Minister, Kingdom's High Commissioner in Germany has been instructed

Mr Churchill, tonight personally

the Sudanese shall have the

Commissioner in Germany In

protest

the shooting against "OPENED FIRE"

the strongest terms against this | right to express their views

Jown of อ Royal Air Force free from interference or only failed to submit

"The trespassing plane not deliberate attack upon British

to this aircraft involving the death of Air Force fighter.

Lincoln bomber by Д Soviet undue pressure from any lawful demand but opened re British toquest that an in-Tonight he summoned experts quarter" ix therefore on the Soviet planes. A Soviet

"He is warmly welcomed.---

alune was

vestigation be undertaken vas obliged 10 answer-by-

Imesidence at No. 10 Downing mediately by the Soviet author Street, to study reports on the a warning shot. THE Egyptian Government The trespassing plane, how-ties, that those responsible for grandiloquently announces ever, continued aring at the this outrage be punished, and

ancident. that it expects to reach an Soviet pinne.

that due reparations be made for with agreement

Britain

The

Soviet fighters were damage and property." regarding the Suez Canal obliged to open fire in return. Zone very shortly," but such after which the aircraft began confidence munt con- to lose height and fell southwest sidercil misplaced while the German Democratie Repub-stood the bodies of three missing | sources kopt silent on the in- Morse made a triumphant departure from Hongkong

be

REDS HOLD BODIES

The British protest will be lodged with the Soviet authorities in Berlin by the British High Commissioner, 'Si; Ivone Kirk-

Russlan and East German

In Lueneburg, Germany, Bri-patriak,

they under- of Schwerin, on the territory of tish officials said

General Naguib and his fle Ministers persist in trying

airmen were being held in the "Debris of the shattered air-village of

of Horst, Just inside to torpedo Lhe Sudan pact croft have been found at the the Russian Zone. and

* the same time spot where it fell. It was found The plot of the Lincoln and

10 be a military aircraft two other crowmen were approach the Canal Zone bomber of the Avro Lincoln West German hospitals. question with dictatorial Hatements such as "We pe with British ideatification

marks.

Spectacular Send-Off

OF

ON

FRONTIER

US "Must Accept The Fact"

New York, Mar. 12. Mr Anthony Edon, the British Foreign Secretary, assured Americans here, to- day that the British people were with them "as loyal comrades in the world struggle for peace and free dom,"

But

be complained to ปี Foreign Policy Association inner here that British Far Eastern policy had been "mis represented in all sörts of ways and places,

Mr Eden told the 1,200 guests that since the Korean war began no arms had been sold to Com- munist China from any British territory, and that under the new measures to which Britain had promised

to stop leaks take Hongkong could not play Its normal economic role, and the United States had to accept the fact that Hongkong. must Uve.

GOODS DENIED CHINA

Even before the United Na- tions posed its resolution deny- Ing strategie materials to China, Britain and her colonies had denied auch goods to China.

Bellain had done all she could to prevent the evasion of her ban

on carrying strategie

ale materials to China by sc0 Mir

Eden mid. and she was constantly on the lookout for posible loopholes,

Mr Eden described the new measures Britain would take as a result of his talks in Washing- ton last week, but said they did not represent a new policy—they were designed to stop leaks in. an existing system.

Britain accepted, the fact that as a result of this polley Hong- kong could not play its normal economic role, Mr. Eden snid.-- Reuter,

Prison For

Anti-Semitism

Cologne, Mar, 12.

Ewald Hotter, 2 year-old truck driver, was st nced to three months in gaol by German magistrate's court hero

a

to

Belgrade, Mar. 12. today for publicly making anti- Tanjug, the official Yugo-Semitic statements.

Hefter pleaded guilty slav news agency, said to making statements in October, day that Rumania had im- 1959,

earlier and

this month posed "virtually a state of in Cologne. The youth admitted siege"

frontier saying "Far too few Jews were should all have gassed. They with Yugoslavia following been killed. Then we would at Stalin's death.

least have peace from the whole pack of them.”

оп

her

With the cheers of thousands of well-wishers on the

Big Soviet units were expect- quayside ringing in their ears, Sir Arthur and Ladyed soon to reinforce Rumanian frontier forces, the agency said. Restaurants and public houses this morning.

in Rumanian frontier towns had As their launch, the Wayfoong, headed for the main- been closed on Government' land, where the RMS Canton, which is to take them to orders and gatherings of more before coming down in flames. England, was berthed, thousands of fireworks were let han four

Reuter. off in a louder-than-21-gun salute, a typical Chinese ex- pression of good will.

eldent.

The Foreign Offee said the doomed plane made A sweep

¡

into

of the crew had

Naguib Injured airman has been taken Curtain frontier which separates torn them up befoto jettisoning sight of the launch and the ac- | Hongkong, were waiting to greet

shall demand unconditional evacuation by British troops." General appears to regard the future to hospital. stutus of the Canal Zone

two

that

were:

and dropped secret papers in

the British Zone.

British military police in the The shattered wreckage of the bomber

ars obsolescent World aren sald they had picked up "The bodies of four airmen War II Lincoln-8 was strewn thought one

torn log-books and maps. They The Areworks continued long which the couple have taken an have been found. One badly over a wide area of the Iron

after the onlookers had lost interest during their stay in

them.

Sca, Scout boat them. the British and Soviet occupa-

A Foreign Ofee spokesman companylos "On the shattered plane were tion zones.

Among those present aviation guns, a machine

the said that the fighter had been among the junks and ferries and The greater part of gun of large calibre, ammuni- | wreckage, British officials said. zecognised as an MIO. He said sea-going vessels in the harbour, The Governor"; ADC, Mr D.A.R. the an Eighth Hussar officer in and many of the crowd remain-

Colborne (representing tion and spent cartridges.

Governor), LL-Gen. Sir Terence plunged in a flaming crash near the locality picked up the "cared for longer still, storing and "Informing you of the above the village of Boltzenburg-a and

(Commander clips" of

British. concerning the Soviet Zone village just across which Lincoin

of a cannon shell waving in the direction of the Airey annoying facts

walting Canton. bombers do not

Forces in Hongkong), Maj. - Gen. mentioned British military air-the Elbe from the British Zone, carry. The bomber was heading

R..C. Cruddas, Commodoro Long before the couple were craft also protest to you against Other parts of the wreckage for the British Zone and was the violation by British air landed in British territory.

due to leave the Hongkang and H. G, Dickenson, Col. L.. T. very close to it craft of the demarcation line of In an official report of the

He said that it was not Shanghai Bank at ten o'clock, Ride, the Hon. R. B. Black

and enthusiatic German Democratie Re-Incide it, the British said "some

Jarge

crowd (Colonial Secretary), Sir Robert aircraft to carry

the Hon. John Th collected outside, lining Keswick and Mrs Keswick, the had unknown hero" among the Bri- confidential papers. public frontler,

the route to the Queen's Pier. Hon. D. J. R. Crozier, the Hon. "Signed Chulkov."--fleuter. tish crew Jettisoned the ple's

He said the Foreign Secretary: More than fifty policemen were: R. Todd, Dr the Hon, S. N. Mr Anthony Eden, who is at

Inspector Chau and Mrs Chau, the Hon. present in New York, had been pronounced by one

"not nearly kept in touch

with the toxing

hold H. J. Collar, Mr C. Blaker, thom back." events following the shooting down of the bomber.

as being important only so far as it should conform to Egypt's nationa! aspira- tions. But it is an area of much greater significanco: it possesses strategical and tactical importance to the whole of the Middle East, and any precipitatę moves capablo of rendering it vulnorable to aggressors would automatically wesken the defences of Egypt's neighbours. Total evacua- tion

British of

troops without compensating con- ocasions that will ensure the future safety of the Canal Zone, and with it the defen. sive security of the Middle. East, is not to be con templated. Egypt's ability to withstand aggression and to Fafeguard the Canal on her own is strongly doubted by all military exports: indeed autiner crashed in Berlin at

1. April 5, 1948: A British they are convinced that collision with Д Soviet Yakj without powerful assistance, | fighter,"

Reds Blamed For Sever.

Other Plane Incidents

Frankfurt, Mar. 12.

unusual for

Outskle the

enough to

Ho

Lawrence Kadoorie, Mr Horaco Kadoorie, Mr E. E. Marden, Mr The news of the attack has Arthur's car, with sixteen of Hawkins and Mrs Hawidns, Mr Bank stood Sir J. H. Ruttonjec, Mr B, C. K. created a grave and painful im-

he Banic's Junior "foreign" G. W. Aldington. Mr and Mrs pression in London. It comes only two days after the choc ropes, waiting to tow it to the Dr and Mrs Arthur Woo, Mir employer holding two whilte Kwok Chan, Me J. R. Jones, States United

Pler. Other employees waited at J. M. Alves, Mr F. M. Ribeiro, the windows of the building to Mr Dhun Buttonfce and Mrs a last farewell to their Rutionjee, Mr U. Tal-chee, Mr former Managez,

and Mrs Geargo Kwok, Mr Ngan, Shing-kwas, Mrs Violet

of A

4. April 8, 1052: Two Soviet down The Communists, have been fighters shot up a French alr-Thunderjet over Bavaria by a blamed for bringing down seven liner between West Germany Czech Air Force Ruslan-bullt foreign planes over Europe be and Berlin. The plane reached Aghter-Reuter

Bertiny fore today's Incident.

passengers.

This is the record:

with tivo wounded; -

5. June 13, 1952: A Swedish the Baltic with screw of training plane disappeared over

eight. The Swedes said' it had been fired on and blamed

wave

3 PLANES IN COLLISION

A LOUD CHEER

Chan, Mr and Mrs Alla, Ng; Punctually at ten o'clock Sir Mr J. B. Kite, and Col ExC. Arthur and Lady Morse camo

Frederick. through the bank's glass doors

·· GUARD OF HONOUR for the last time. There was a London, Mar. 12. the Egyptians could not 2. April 8, 1950: An American Russia,

The Boy Three Royal Navy aircraft loud cheer from the crowd, and

Scouts' Association successfully protoct it Navy privateer bomber dis-

Three Cheers provided a guard of honour to 6. June 18, 1952: A Swedish from the aircraft carrier, Eagle, someone

for Sir against a full-stage attack appeared over the Baltic with Catalina flying boat was shot today collided in mid-tile whilst for Thiere le room for an agree is 10 crow. The United States down into the Baltic while on escort duty to President Tilo la ftroy suit, and it Arthur in the boat, and the Wayfong was

Morse In Lady

In escorted on its way by the Sea ment under which Egypt responsibility.

blamed the Russians, who denied searching for the Dakota

costume lost now on his way to Britain, grey

with a green hat Scout launch, Other

Associations three days before,. The seveni Four alım100) are reported and posy of violets, turned and will eventually assume full

reprovented

tha.

Junior 3. November 17, 1831: crew were pleked up.

missing in this triple crust. waved to the staff of the Bank Chamber of and. Bola

Commerce, control of the

United States Air Force C-47 7. March 10, 1933: A United President Tito who is on board they were leaving behind. Than

Thanking General Chamber of Canal Zone, but not, at this transport was dorced down over States Ale Force F-84 Thunder- the Yugosiny vessel, Galeb, Is they climbed into the car and merce, the Kowloon Chamber of time, one which provides no hungary on a flight from Ger jet was shot down over the being escorted by units of this were towed past the four-deep Commerce, the Chinese Chamber adequate safeguards for the many to Yugoslavia. The four American zone of Germany near Royal Navy including the air crowd on both sides of the road, of Commerce, the Victoria · No- crew were arrested and later the Crech border by Czech Aig-craft carrier, Eagle-France to the Pier, where represanta creation Club, the Hongkong released on payment of a fine. (18 Oghters,-flouter.

Prense,

Itives of all the Associations in (Contd. on back page, col, 2) *

gncurity of such a vital

'area,

A

werd

people prohibited.-

Hefter said he did not know why he sold what he did.

The City Prosecutor told the

Court that Hofter's slaloments were destructive to all decent social relations and that they could not be permitted in Ger- many today-United Press,

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