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Tories' Test

T not very surprising

that

newspapers and periodicals have been devoting New Year editorial comment fa the possibility or otherwise of Sir Winston Churchill relinquishing the Premier- ship during 1954. It was a subject for tentative speculation inst year, aroused very largely as a result of Sir Winston's unexpected liness, But current nonlysis goes rather deeper. It concentrates on the Conservative Party's position and suggests that the future of the party might be better served it a new leader (presumably Mr Eden were installed this your. Viewed in the light <f Sir Winston's full recovery to health and his undiminished apparently menta! and physical vitality, this appears to be 4 somewhat thin argumetit. If the British Prime Mini- ter did not wholly dominate the Bermuda conference, he W#เส undoubtedly, the strongest. personality those talks and was able to present the British point of view more forcefully und more effectively than any of his colleagues. There is, in fact, no visible evidenco that Sir Winston is unable to remain Britain's political leader and to continue to ondow his high office with the

afrondy BULCONN achieved.

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CHINA MAIL

No. 35713

COMET

· Kutablished" 1845

MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1954.

DISASTER:

RECOVERED

The Official Passenger List

London, Jan. 10.

The British Overseas Airways Corporation here inued the following official passenger ist of the Comet jet airliner which plunged Into the sea off the Italian inland of Elba today!

JOINED KARAÇİN; Mrs D.

Miss

Baker,

Fairbrother, T

H.E. Schichmann,

E. Moore.

JOINED SINGAPORE:

J. P. HO, J. Steel. TOINED

BAHREIN:

J.M. Bunyan. A. Bunyan

(no

Bunyan

and

Initial)

(all believed

ed to be child- ren), B. Buller, J.B. Crilly and B. Crilly (believed to be

child). Miss

1. Khedourt, aged 13. Mise N. Khedouri, aged 15, Min I.. Yateem, aged 17, and (no Initial) Israel.

JOINED BEIRUT:

Mrs R. E. Geldard, Miss C. Geldard, Master M. Geldard, D. Leaves. 8. F. Naamin, E. H. Maclachlan. J. V, or J. Y. Ramsden and A. Vries.

JOINED BANGKOK; F. J. Greenhouse. Cap. tain R. V. Wolfeon, Master R. Sawyer-Snelilng, aged 14.

JOINED RANGOON: C. Wilmat

JOINED ROME:

and

Captain C. A. Living- stone.

Mr Livingstone is a pilot of the British European Airways.

Captain R. V. Wolfson is the General Manager of BOAC subsidiaries oveTSCAN and

member of the

Danel.

management

Reuter.

Atomic Talks Opening Today

Washington, Jan. 11.

Eyewitness's Story Of Crash

BAG OF MAILS SALVAGED

Porto Azzuro, Elba, Jan. 10.

The bodies of 15 victims of today's

Comet crash were brought here tonight by local fishermen and carried to the tiny, white-washed chapel of the local cemetery.

The Island's Police Chief said two of the victims were boys about five years old. Another was a girl about 17.

The others were adults.

Tiny fishing boats, painted in faded blues and reds, lowered their flags to half mast as they arrived in port just after dark with the bodies.

The victims had been laid on the foredecks and covered with blankets from fishermen's bunks. A priest came to the quayside and imparted benediction as the bodies laid on planks were brought ashore:

***

Then the fishermen marched slowly to the cemetery chapel where a temporary mortuary had been arranged.

were

| Mediterranean the blue skies,

Flowers

Inid in building by school children | the village.

Candles wire lighted rs bodies were brought

One

ut the ishermen Giovanni di Marco, first person to report the crush to the island authorities.

morning

list were

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15 BODIES This Was The

Unfortunate Mix-Up Over Serum

Officials Meet \Wrong Plane

Innsbruck, Jan. 10. A container of

serum which could

Save the life of a dying Austrian was being flown to boy Innsbruck by the US Air Force tonight and was ex- pected to be delivered early

tomorrow morning. '

be

NEW RUSSIAN

PROPOSAL LIKELY

London, Jan. 10.

Russia will probably propose at the Berlin conference this month that all foreign troops be withdrawn from Germany by the end of 1955, diplomatic sources here said today.

Ill-Fated Plane

YET ANOTHER PLANE CRASH

Shreveport, Louisiana, “

- Jan. 10. A United Gas Company aeroplane crashed. Wallace Lake, “15 ' 'miles south of here, tonight.

Ten

aboard,

persons

were

According to the sheriff's offles, and Bomb unidentified bodies bave been recovered.

occurred

during snow and sleepe United Press,

Mr Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Will Defy Minister, is also expected to suggest that a re- unified Germany should have its own land, sea and air forces for self defence. The size of these Regulations would be laid down in a peace treaty guaranteed by the "Big Four" powers and underwritten by a pan-European deferice pact.

Soviet

Westera at present

Stalin's

an-

Georgetown, Ján, ' 10.

Some one hundred Negro and Indian supporters of the un- Gulana Industrial recognised

#colony-

A mix-up occurred earlier to- the authorities at day when Innsbruck opened a package

policy experts here States and Britain in rejecting Workers Union have volunteered which was delivered on

this carlier plane and found it to be have reached conclusion any such Ruastan plan

to risk imprisonment (bra

defy “sertim" after a study-of-the proposals But M. Bidault will not speaking the beemophil globulin, which could Moscow its put to the west on with the authority of the French and picketing Constructions save the life of eight-year-old Germany In the past two years, National Assembly in arguing mission hearings when they be Gottfried Eder, who is slowly and an analysis of Russia's re-

Community as gin on January 18, according to for the Eanned. There is no People's bleeding to death from haemo-cent propaganda

Progressive" · "Party majority for the scheme in sources here today- philia

Europe.

Chamber and many Deputies. The Innsbruck the It dived into the sea belching

officials met The plan to rearm a reunited

The union called --- of black smoke on

bright the wrong plane which happen-Germany would be a variant of additionally influenced by events

strike last September. death, of a Soviet since with ed to

Would Wide carrying smallpox one of the articles

three-man The doubtless be

Constitution settlement with

to take serum intended for other pur- proposed peace

ready submitted to other look at the Soviet plan if Commission has been sent, from The right scrum arrived Germany, Drst poses.

Molotov

backed it with England to consider factors in on schedule at Frankfurt.

Britain, France and the United Mr

further

proposals for holding the setting up of a new constitu- Doctors again resorted to blood States in March, 1952.

Included

for Germany down.

British Gulang,---- One of these tien This tranfusions to save the slowly-

suggestion,{ Grenj life of eight-year-old repeated

Q could well be for ebbing

mutual Franco-Presse. security scheme that would Gottfried

powers last hereditary linesa

occupation troops be spread across the Iron Curtain has left him that all

to Eastern Europe, it is thought near death since last Thursday, removed from Germany within

after when doctors

ratification pulled a badly one year

of here.

Probably the seatest danger the peace treaty. infected tooth.

US officials in Vienna said the The Allies rejected the plan for the Western Powers in Berlin shipping blunder had been as a "step backwards" in the is that Mr Molotov may reize the lasting propaganda initiative in this way traced to a mix-up at Westover efforts to give Europe

In and do tremendous harm to their French opinion, Massachusetts, from peace. Police officials on the main-Field,

by increasing Western particular, was horrified by the cause land said the Comet seemed on where

anti-haemophil

Germany Europe's hesitation about their fire when it crashed,

globulin was ticketed for prospect of a united

polloy aims. with its own army. sold the correct

Given an apparently reasonable fufufufufufufufu

alternative, European epinion France might tend to lose sight of the bas shied at the hurdle of principal Western objetive in

was The official passenger

showed

childdren ten aboard, most of them presumed to have been flying to school in Britain after spending Christmas with their parents.

been directed at the pre- sent Conservative Govern- ment in that it lacks to- ordinated effort in dealing with home and foreign prob- lems. The Economist goes so far as to bluntly state that "the time when there is a need for a co-ordinator who must strive to strike n balaner un a dozen different policy, has of plainly arrived." And it is suggested that some of the balance which has to be found relates to farm price policy. between the rights of the farmer and the needs of the

Consumer; That labour policy must be made more balanced, na between

"I was fahing just south of the disadvantages of wage

the the island when I heard inflation and the din-tary of State, and Mr Georgi whirr of a plane above me," ha "It was above the clouds. advantages of strikes; that Zarubin,

sold. Soviet Ambaxsudur.

I could not see it. colonial policy requires

will begin preliminary talks "Then I heard three <x- balancing, and so too, doch here today in an effort to dis-plosions very quickly one after trade polley,

the other. cover how negotiations may be observer has

"For a moment all was quiet, commented:

conducted ones President Elsen. "There can be no cohesion

Then several miles away I saw hower's

For plan if those tasks are left to

peaceful silver thing flash out of the clouds. Smoke came from it. It individual ministers who,

hit the sea. There was a great once they have almost made

A State Department spukes-cloud of water. up their minds to do one

"By the time I got there all man yesterday declined official thing, may get a

still again. There were minute note bidding them comment of any surt of United

There began to pick them up. to do something else, Inter-States plans for the preliminary s0ne bodies in the water.

was nothing else we could do."

Police raid none of the bodies reports here. said Mr

showed signs of burns. Doctors Dulles was ready to give Mos were tonight carrying out post- cow its cholce, within reason, jenorten examinations and trying

to

First of law to conduct discussions. identity each victim.

Indications were that sere allya when the The reports said the Secretary victims were

As

one

inst-

ventions such as those can only lead to disillusion both within and about the Government."

the stronger cohesion within the Government in

то Conservativos

also

Mr John Forter Dulles, Seere-

atomic pool.

negotiations.

Press

was

We

desirable because at the pre- of State would probably in-plane struck the water and died

Rent time the Socialists are dieste

preference

A

United States

limit 10

by drowning.

Police said none of the bodies suffering from Party strife participation in the talks-to the were so far identified. and are afflicted with

and the Soviet

BAG OF MAILS with Britain Fishing boats also brought in have them some wreckage, including a bag of mails, some coats and hand- bags.

They recovered 'nothing of the

Thus today the Tories have

vacillating overall policy Union, possibly

included-and to their recret in the first stages, not in

an outstanding opportunity of consolidating

political position. But they the United Nations.

have not a great deal of But 10 the Soviets proposed machine Itself except a jagged time at their disposal. It holding the main talks in

ports added.

mieco

of metal which bore the The BOAC insignia.

to be procedural, the Times

Italian rescue planes, fishing

craft and air-sea rescue vessels were soon on the spot and the planes reported that the ships were picking up the bodies.

(

Comets Not To Be Grounded

London, Jan, 10.

A BOAC spokesman said here tonight that there wis no truth in rumour that the Corporation intended to ground all Comets pending an investigation of today's crash near Elbs.

completely

*This

," the spokesman de- Wrong clared. Thi scheduled Comet service to the Far East left London airport on time

and this afternooi

there

is no intention of stopping Comet operations.**

Franco-Presse,

EdCT,

the

whose rare

Europe.

iginal shipment was expected

to arrive at Rhein-Main airport in Frankfurt, Germany, tonight and would be flown as soon as possible to Munich.

EXPECTED TODAY This time a helicopter, a State

sedan and Department military jeep were waiting for the arrival, of the second pack

age.

ת!

a note

the t to autumn,CULL

SHIES AT HURDLE Since then, however,

And

throughout

Escort Vessel

Missing

Etalları

Rome, Jan. 10.

escort in fessel Ti

The Brtego which was escorting a group of

ins Italfan trawlors been missing for two days, it was learned today.

The trawlers were forced by

a storm to take retigo, in, the Yugoslav port of Split where they were Impounded Germany The trawlers reported

that

CB❤

making West Germany a part-Europe that of holding free ner in a united Western Europe, eletions

one of her reasons has and allowing the resulting gov-they had lost sight of the

crament, under sultable safe cort vessel when they steerad been that the proposed six-guards, its own associations for the Yugoslav port-France- nation union would probably

*** | Reuter.. nat perpetuate

division the

of

Europe and might one day re- sult in West Germany's leading Communist-controlled East Ger-

the

coalition into a war

If there is no further hitch, the real globulin should be safe at the hospital in Innsbruck to-Can

many. sold one morrow morning,"

M. official, in Vienna.

Doctors said tonight that the French young boy, son of a merchant in confidently expected here the town of Kufstein, was stand serious condition but death was not imminent and transfusions

for

Georges Bidault,

Foreign Minister,

the

la

to

Arm with the United

could him alive for the BUGANDA AND

time being"

At Westover Air Force Base Massachusetts, oficials denied that a mix-up at the

The plane left Rome about base resulted in the wrong

Soldier Gaoled For Life

Antwerp, Jan. 10. A court-martial hero con Willmoermod a wartime death en-

THE QUEEN

that

any

London, Jan, 18, The delegation, from Buganda who are in London becking the return of the. Kabaka stated at a press conference tonight while there was never question about the loyalty of people of Buganda to the Queen, it would be advisable to post- pone the Queen's visit to Buganda duo at the end of April.

did

tha

They made it clear that th

not wish the visit to be cancelled, but.. only postponed until the Queen could be wel- comed with the traditional warmth and open-heartedness.

France-Presso.

la most unlikely that a United Nations Diannament Italian warships, their search- 9.30 a.m., GMT on its way to parcel being delivered.-United General Election will

Commission, then Mr Dulles lights sweeping over the black- London. It had flown via Press. eventuate this year, but it would probably agree, the re-ness of the Mediterranean, Rangoon, Calcutta, Karachi and will in 1955, by which time

patrolled the area tonight. Af Beirut on an extra scheduled the Government will have

dawn they will be joined by a flight. The New York Times eern-fleet of the island's fishing craft It crashed about 100 miles to rely on ita record to convince the electors that mented yesterday: "Washington again.

north of Rome, on the direct Civic authorities mounted a air route to London, 16 miler no change is needed. It is is eager to learn whether Russia' recognised that one danger means to negotiate or to lay a guard of honour at the cemetery from Porto Ferrario, the biggest

gates.

town on the island of Elba: for the Tories is that a Con-anokese:cen of propaganda over

The wreckage was placed in a Among the passengers reported Bervative Government with the Eisenhower proposal."

Chester loaked room to await the arrival oboard was out Sir Winston Churchill

· Australian - born broadcaster tence" passed on a Belgian who will seem almost unbelloy. Though the talks are suppored of investigators

NO SIGNALS

who was returning from Aus- joined the Nail foros but able to the electors. Yet a added, "the Ualled States hopes The Comet crashed soon after tralia after natrating the round-later fought with the French

the-world Christmas Day broad Foreign Legion in Indo-China. second, and probably Mr Zarubin will provide cimo, 10 am GMT (8 p.m. HXT)

soldier, 33-year-old greater danger is, that chuc to the Kremlin's intentions." without apparently sending out cast which preceded the Queen's

(Conta on Back Pago, Col. 2) Armand Claeys, was captured any distress signals. whatever their leadership, Reuter.

by the Americans in Germany they will not have shown in

and transferred to a Trebelt 1954 the coherent type of

prison camp where he joined the Foreign

Legion. He re- For First Time ndministration for which

Burned to Belgium, kart Juna the electors might vote,

from Indo-China

Colombo, Jan. 10. Thus, for the Conservatives, |

Miss Petras tried to escape by Claeys win da deprived of his Passengers leapt from their it is not so much a question

and confined (-to | senta. and ran along to shake of who shall lead the party,

went on aed. In the head as the eat the opposite, door of the car, Glyi Ki Mang the death sen« ] hands: warmly · with “The engine- with her but she fainted the sutumia bancs has now been abolished driver when train arrived in but whether by polley and shooting spree here last night, watching television

ared at her, narrowly missing ce they can

shot and eariously wounded husband and son Kurt, 10.

In Bel fumki programme

her, and, fled on foot. woman, narrowly missed

The convince the nation that

another

and then ekided a 30- Half an hour later, the "gun"" they represent the one solld man police dragnet.

Thirty policemen, from Plain- bondemfed man appeared two blocks away political entity required to Police said the man Gred four in a shopping district. He ap deld and North Plainfield con guide the country through shots through the living-room proached Irene Petra, 23, who verged on the sea and began the difficult times which are windows of the home of Bir was sitting in a car waiting for a block to blocke 2: memrohal undoubtedly ahead.

and Mrs Coleman von Gróft/ft), à friend, and ordered--beát tô KUṇliede Frederikie

Suspected Madman's Shooting Spree

North Plainfield, N.J. Jen. 10. ascluded rosidențial district. ¿drive' tdm to nearby Biétiuneri.

An unidentifed man, belleved Mrs von Groft, 47, was wound- to be deranged,

опе

Befreni:

"another

for

Colombo on time,

martial

It was the first occasioni Helgien, two-yous thai this particular {ght |train"" carrying office workers having mio", the cells, had reached

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