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COMMENT OF THEDAY

Federation Doubts

TF, or when, Central African

Federation

comex Into

being, what course should The followed by those who have been against it so far? A practical answer may

Boun kave to be given. Should they accept the accomplished fuct and retire from the field? Should they continue

Oklit against federation even if it has been established, and put what obstacles they can in its way, in the hope that it will eventually break down or be abandoned? Or should they, while accepting

the fact of federation, con tinue to press within the new framework for all the sovint changes which could have been striven for

within the several terri

turies,

even if federation

make them more difment of accomplishment? The prob- lem came up recently at the

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MONDAY, MAY 4, 1953.

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Comet Disaster: High Court Save

Judge To Open Inquiry

22 BODIES

STILL TO BE

ACCOUNTED FOR

Calcutta, May 4.

The Indian Government today named a High Court judge to open the inquiry into Saturday's disastrous BOAC Comet crash, in which 43 people ~35 of them Britons-lost their lives near here.

Investigating officers from British Overseas Airways headquarters in London are expected here by air today to assist in the probe.

More than 200 police and rescue workers have now brought out 21 bodies.

bodies were

BOAC announced early today in Calcutta that 22

still unaccounted for. Some

may have been totally destroyed in the flaming disintegration of the giant fet liner.

Surrender

Of Alleged

Plotter

British Council of Churches conference in Birmingham, resolution which embodies the third choice wan adopted. The resolution, which emerged as promise after a good deal of controversy, may thought in some respects pusillanimous. It omits any reference to what many people think the main fault in the federal scheme--the lack of consultation with or Aupport from opinion-and it phrase, "Now that setreme is which is surely a little premature. Nevertheless the resolution makes a point which deserves earnest con- sideration from opponents of the scheme. It would have been a hundred times better so to have neted as to secure African confidence in the chicine, and in European good faith in promoting it, before bringing the scheme to its present sluge. There is a grave risk that the con: fidence of many Africans, if not all, may have been lost

General Zahedi, for good or for a long time. Senator, has been arrested, and But that is no reason for then released, several times for -not-doing-all-that-can-bullegedly plotting against-Dr-

done, in spite of federation, Mossadegh

determined Demanded

to regain what may have been lost.

Teheran, May 3. The Military Governor of Teheran tonight called for the surrender of General Fazuila Zahedi, a former

Some portions of the plane's tail were found four miles from the engine, which crashed in o dry ditch in a paddy field.

The spot, inaccessible except on fuo, is near Jangipara, E village northwest of here.

The village police station was the

first

to have news of the but disaster,

it was not yesterday morning-many hours later that they were able to get the news through to Calcutta,

*Communications

dis- rupted by the storm, which is Jeported to have brought down the Comet.

were

Widespread Attacks By Mau Mau

Nairobi, May 3.

The bodles so far recovered were taken la police vans to a

A gang about 12 strung cool house" last night. An at- Minister of the Interior, made today and

tempt to identify them will be swooped on European

A alleged

post-mortem farm north of Thompson's 10 have against the Prime Minister, including an infor, and a crew African

plolled examination will be performed.

The dead were 37 passengers. Fulls today and killed an Dr Mohammed Mossadegh.

house boy and of six. Ton of the passengers glashed three other African The denwand, which was joined the Comet at Calcutta only broadcast, called

servants with pangas (chop- General à fese minutes before it crashed. Zahedi's surrender within Nine of them were going home ping knives). ¦ hours,

to Britain.

A POINT which has been the

Dr

for

is one

A

former

Almost all the mail the plane was currying is considered lost,

The farmer Mr O'Keef and his wife were away visiting friends.

When they returned they found

Crown Prince Akihito of Japan began his six- weck Coronation visit to Britain last weck by spending £11. 2s. 6d. on three hats. Ono was a grey topper for the Derby, another a grey Homburg, and the third a grey snap brim soft hat-AP Photo.

Supplies Dropped To Guerillas

Prince Buys

Three Hats

STRIKE

CRISIS IN

SWEDEN

Stockholma, May 3. Sweden's Cabinet macels to day to face the crisis of the 44 biggest work, stoppage in years.

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Rosenbergs' Rally Held In New York

New York, May.3.

A crowd variously estimated between 7,500 and 10,000 attended a "Save the Rosenbergs" rally today at the Randall's Island Stadium to demand clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, sentenced to die for a wartime espionage conspiracy.

The programmię was delayed one hour as late stragglers arrived at the stadium. by bus from Manhat- tan. The stadium, on a small island in the East River, was far from filled,

The National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case had hoped 25,000 persons would turn out. The police had a squad of 71 on duty. The crowd was a representative New York turnout of young and old. Many families came in groups, mothers and fathers carrying paper bags from which they pru duced stocks

of sandwiches, thermos jugs of coffee and baby Infants who

bottles for the

were brought along

Swing To Pinay's Party Continues

Paris, May 4. First results in the second The rally was held in the open round of the French munl. atadium under an overcast sky

and many couples wrapped cipal elections early this themselves in blankets to ward morning confirmed growing off the damp chill. It rained in nationwide support the morning and it appeared

for

that the weather had affected former Premier Antoine the turnout. Heavy rain last Pinay's independents and Sunday had caused the post- the virtual collapse of the ponement of the

rally for one right-wing Gaullists, week.

Voters svert to the poils Along with representatives of yesterday in 18,059 towns and all New York dally newspapers villages mainly rural-of leas and the three American news than 9,000 inhabitants, where services in the press box were

candidates failed to secure an newsmen identifying themselves absolute majority in the first as reporters for the China Dally ballot last Sunday. News, the National Guardian

In the first round Councillors weekly, the Rusaky Golos (a

wero elected in 455 large Russian language dally in Newtowns on proportional basis York), and the Glos Ondowy, and In 19,482 smaer Comm Detroit Polish language news-munities. paper.

M. Charles

Bruno, Minister The Rosenbergs have been in of the Interior, told a press Sing Sing Prison's Death Row conference carly today that for two years. Their execution though

yesterday's elections has been stayed several times

were fought chiefly on local

trials or clemency.

Thel: final

Supreme Court, which may rule

last week.

M

the Rosenberg Committee, who Joseph Brainin, chairman of has just returned from a European trip, had promised "sensational new disclosures" in the case. United Press.

Planes Collide

Algiers, May 3,

A feature of the second round was a Communist effort to per- suade the Socialists to make common cause with them.

The Socialista spurned this effer except in a very few places. One of these was Murot, the

sident Auriol, who was home town of the Socialist Pre- mayor there for 23 years before he bo- came head of the State.-Reuter.

Lady Slim Making Good Progress

Canberra, May 3

It was offically- announced

Three quarters of the coun try's fresh meat supply is cut while they appealed for new issues, they confirmed the off by today's strike in the item appeal is now before the political tendencies brought out slaughterhouses, which affects all except the co-operative 50 cleffes and some small butchery tomorrow on their request for concerns. Four weeks" discus review of their trial and con- sion and nine days'

enviction II they lose this appeal, arbitration have failed to settle the

their lawyer plans to make a work- creases. on appeal ers demands for wage increases.

to President Rangoon, May 3.

A lockout begins today in the

Eisenhowe: for executive Unidentified aircraft have delicatessen ark PARCELS RECOVERED the gang had smashed its way dropped arms and supplies margarine-factories, flour mills

pork shops, clemency. into the farm house, ransacking Two Crenation gift parcels it from cellar to ceiling and

factories, to a group of Chinese Na- chocolate His brother

of four from Singapore were about the stealing a rifle, revolver, radio, tionalist guerillas at Mong cessing end fruit

and vegetable retreil Brigadiers arrested on only things recovered intact by food and bedding. suspicion

Pulio on the Burma side of preserving plants. of being involved in villagers from the twisted metal,

per cent of the pro- murder

Ninety of Brigadier torn clothes and papers covering

A terrorist gunman shot an the Mekong River frontier ducts of these factories will go ruised by African mem- Afshartoos, the former chief the entire scene of the dimster, Arab in the back seriously with Laos, reports reaching off the market. Tomorrow the bers of the Nyasalandet pelice here.

They were handed to the police, wounding him, In the Nairobi here said today.

lockout will be extended to yeast ENIFS DENIES legislative counell also de

CHARGES

location who posted guards over the Aftlenn

of Pumjúni

baking confectionery trades, Baghat,

this serves consideration. It is

evening, widely strewn wreckage. Mozzatar

police head-

Earlier reports said the Nation-

food workers' unions have whether the federal scheme Majlis (lower house of Parlin-

The wings and some portion quarters here

reported.

alists were almost surrounded by demanded an average rise of 10 mint deputy, squares with the Charter of the Government's

today denied

The gunman.

pumped three Vietminh guerillas operating in crowns (14 shillings) a week for charge that Pf the Comet's tail were found the United Nations. Chapter he connived

-25 calibre auto-Laos. No clashes between the a man and 12 crowns (18/9d for four miles from the spot where thots from a XI of the Charter is a de- Brigadier Afshartcos

In the murder of the engine crushed in a dried up malle into the Arab as he was two groups have yet been re- women.

and was

ditch.

Hospital supplies will bo claration, made by ali mem- the brain behind a planned coup

About an hour after another As only 21 bodies were found

maintained during the stoppage. overthrow Dr Mos-

Burma his bera, regarding "Non-Self- d'etat in

an eighty-mile tangled the

frontier with Laos formed by the organised food workers

Over 25,000 of Sweden's 40,000 Governing Territories," that adegh's Government and him-ear

aluminiurn and steel,

DTO relf become Prime Minister.

thought that others might have compound la the same location.

as locked out after a the borders of China, Thalland. official

A crowd of Africans attacked Burma and Laos adjoin or are communique been caught in the fierce blaze. by Chapter XII. In this dy making the chars which only died

African railway employee

Gunnan Minister out yesterday an against Dr Baghai sold

all of Brigadier Afshartoos

the acting as a special constable in close to one another.

told journalists the was kill morning when

running highway

Vietminh frontier guards are ed because he refused to join rockage that would burn had the

had taken the Govern- been finally consumed.

through Pumjant late tonight, also reported to be entrenched at ment by surprise. the plot.

Firemen who found the road slashing him on the arm and Chelf in the South China Pro- He refused to say whether the Dr Baghal has not

been nearest the wreck washed away thigh with pangas.

vince of Yunnan, about 80 miles facialist-led Coalition Govern- arrested because of his Parlia-euld do nothing but salvage a Early tonight another African north of Mong Pollo. Chell is ment would try to ban the territories as paramount, but

|mentary immunity.

He said today the allegations mail bags.

huge stack of smouldering was alot in the groin in Walgleni, also the headquarters of the so- strike as it did a nurses' strike specifically "to take due ac in the official ecmmunique were

location adjoining Fumwani-called "Thal Autonomous Gov- Jast year-Router. Ambulances and first-ald undis | Reuter,

ernmeal". count of the political aspira- obtained by police "extortionis! tions of the peoples, and to molhods". Ile arked for his own were equally powerless to help. assist them in the progres- supporters, "Government oppost---Reuter. sive development of theirtionists" to attend the Majus to free political institutions." enable him to clear himself.

is, Colonial territories other

than trust territories covered

chapter (Article 73) the signatories bind themselves not merely in general terms to regard the interests of the inhabitants of these

Supporters,

An

An

All but one of the Deputies EGYPTIAN

of federation required to form a querumn are

closing his shop.

of

gunman shot an African dead in mass

ported.

it was the Church Missionary Society Mokong River in an area where stock in wages negotiations,

may argue that it is after reported to be now in Teheran.=| COUNCIL MEETS

Malik Returning

all in the best interests even Reuter.

of those who oppose it. But

it would be hard to maintain

that "due account" has been

taken of the political aspira-

To Britain

tion of at any rate, a large

Moscow, May 3 part of the peoples con- Mr Jacob Malik, Soviet cerned, when it is notorious Ambassader designate to Britain that their aspirations, in so

left Moscow by train for Prague on his way to London, far as they have been ex-

maln

Czechoslovakia Decrees Amnesty

About 40,000 Indo-Chinese with strong Vietminh affiliations

Social

are also living in the five DUKE TO ACT

Northeastern provinces of Thai- Land In the same general area.

The United Nations called last month for "foreign" troops in Bunna to lay down their arms, after an appeal by Burma to brand the Chinese Nationalists na "ogЯressoTS".

AS PILOT

London, May 1. London, May 3.

For the first time the Duke of Cairo, May 3. Prague Radio announced to-

Edinburgh will plot the Queen Egypt's Revolutionery Council night that an amnesty had been

during a night from London to held a special meeting, under doorecd..

Scotland next Sunday, the Presidency of the Prime

The Nationalla troops took Detalls would be published

They are going to Balmorul for Minister General Nogulb tonight tomorrow, the Radio added. refuge in Use_remoto Northern a week's rest before the Coront-

discuss important matters After Marshal Stalin died an frontice areas of the border

tian

and will travet

in an air- connected with foreign polities, cmnesty was declared in Russia after being driven cul China craft of the Queen's Fight It

Government spokesman said on March 20 for all prisoners by the Communists-Reuter,

will be

flown by one of the Observers here believe the serving up to

im- five years'

Royal pilots, but it la belleved Council reviewed the current prisonment.

the Duke will take over con- trols for part of the journey.

Prince Charles and Princess Anne will travel by train in the care of the nume.---Kouter,

2

The British Ambassador, Sir Anglo-Egyptian talks on the A week later Rumania followed pressed, have been ignored. Alvary Gascoigne, saw Mr Malik future of, the Suez Canal Zone. Russia's lead and granted a

| similar amnesty,---Reuter.

If the British Government off at the station. Reuter.

-Reuter,

Mother Charged With Killing 4 Children

Mahwah, New Jerusy, May 3.

A woman estranged from her well-to-do husband, killed her four small children. today by running a car engine in a closed garage, police said. She was charged with

murder.

Parachutist Leaps To Death

Venice, May 3. Thousands of people at a parachute display at the Venice "trpcrt today watched 30-

Nehru's Daughter In England

London, May 3. The doughter of the Indian Minister, Mrs Indira In

Gandhi, arrived Eagland

lind continued in the cau- tious path on which Mr Griffiths set out two years ayo, pressing the federal Iden no further than he could find substantial (though not necessarily unanimous) sup-

year-old Salvatore Cannarozzo Prime port for it among both the

plunge 10,000 feet to his death mulin sections of the popula

in a nearby cemetery, tion, it could fairly be said

today for the Coronation. Mr One of the stars of the Nehru is expected to fly to that this article of the Char-

-Earlier, police said, she failed from, two to seven years had The hysterical mother's story popular Kallan sport

Britain at the end of May. fer had been satisfled. Can in an attempt to take her owndled of carbon monoxide poison was so hary, Mr Koup cald, parachute-jumping, Cannaruzzo Mrs Gandhi londed al

the same be said of the ufc.

ing when she returned to the that it could not be determined was the last of 50 men to leap Southampton with her wo garge, broke the glass in the whether the had been in the during the display.

sons from present policy? It would

the "Polish nor A prosecutor Mr Eills Kopp, door had tried to drag them out, car with the children for any be an ugly position if, saiti Mrs Carol MacDonald, 20,

during Batory. She intends The crowd Mr Kopp suid Mrs MacDonald Lime.

could see him her stay in Britain to revisi after federation had been apparently changed her mind evidently intended to commit

still struggling with the bars | Badminton Belicol, in Bristal, established, the General, after putting the children in the nutcide, and left six suleide Police who found her in her ness of his jammed paracute which the attended before Assembly were to conclude; car.

Inotes. He added thero was no home carly today said she was as ho plummeted the last few going to Oxford University that Articlo 78 lind been But the children-two boys evidence that she actually had moaning "Why didn't It kill me, hundred feet to the ground during the war. France- contravened.

Prosse. and two girls ranging in age tried to kill herself."

I why Midt it kill me?"--Reutor. | Reuter.

of

Five persons were idilled and here today that Lady Sum, wife

Governor General another seriously injured

Field when of two French planes collided a Marshal Sir William Slim, is hundred Lect above Malison "Continuing to respond to treat- ment and doctors are satisfied Blanche airport here today.

Both planes were coming in with her progress." to land along the game runway Lady Slim who has been and they collided despite an seriously Ill was given another rttempt by the airport staff to blood transfusion today and

remain warn them of the danger by must

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