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COMMENT OF

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Comet Crash

T is unfortunate but true

that the general public regard # Comet crash

very differently to

the

why they crush of a platon-engined nireraft. There is Home-

the regard

thing specially signi-

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Sloss Committal Proceedings-Back Page

THE WEATHER--Moderato East Winds. Fair; becoming cloudy this evening.

CHINA MAIL

No. 35789

Socialists And Liberals Score In

Belgian Elections

Comet crashing CATHOLICS LOSE

because for one reason it is

a jet airliner and, un auch,

it is unique. It is not that

they think it in any Tess falliblo than a

Established 1845

MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1954.

ALLEGATION

Stabbed With Scissors

Paris, Apr. 11. The Police today were searching for an impulsive

MAJORITY dressmaker, Elisa Jana,

Brussels, Apr. 12.

Belgian Socialists claimed last night to have propeller ousted the ruling Catholic Party in the country's Bees lus the Comet a glimpse: fourth postwar general election and are expected

driver pinne but the world

of long distance air travel, to form a coalition with the Liberals.

but

of the future. There were, of course, hopes that tlus new aircraft would prove to be safer than its piston enginest counterpart many of the older genera- tion feared this high-speed travel woR dangerous nud that BOAC was being too hasty in introducing jet airliners to fly around the work! at the sluggering speed

miles of Reven minute. It is unfortunate that any distinction is made the crashings of

between

the

because

two types of aircraft the result in the JOAN of human lives in the Blume. Death is sudden, violeal

and ugly

in both

cases. It is also unfortunate

that

the must obvious in-

only

The Catholics, who with

a slender majority have ruled for four years, would now go into opposition, political observers predicted.

who used a pair of scissors to Jab in the back her former boy friend during a quarrel last night. The man, 34-year-old Yugoslav Tony Zalovi, was taken to hospital where his condi- tion was considered not serious.-France-Presse.

Socialists cheered loudly when M. Paul Henri Spank, Fortress As

former Prime Minister, announced at the Party Head- quarters "The Catholics have lost their majority."

According to some polling officers, the Catholics have lost between eight and 16 per cent of their following. Their losses were even higher in Brussels than in the provinces.

Govt

Reprimands Council

The Socialists gained from five to 12 per cent on their pre- vlous pool, and the Liberals Boored similar successcd.

Comununist

Heavy varied between cent,

As

Strong As Ever

Hanoi, Apr. 11.

Rene

Commander

General

Cogny. French Union

Indo-China, said losses in North 10 and 40 per here today parachuted re

inforcements had made the A Socialist-Liberal alliance in jungle fortress of Dien Bien the Luxembourg and Limbourg Phu as strong as when Viet

brought Joint divi-minh rebels launched their

big onslaught

ference to be drawn from WRONG DECISION achieved

Thursday's Comet

crush--

the fifth in almost two years that the aircraft Are

There not safe.

many in the world who be Heve that jet aircraft and world developments general- ly are going too fast und it

in high time we cut down

their civil defence arrange- All other small lists, mainly ments because of the tre

hydrogen bomb.

both the speed of transportmendous power of and the pace of develop- ment. Of all the conclusions one can come to, this is the since, must

dangerous

con-

breakaway

Catholic the failed to score.

parties,

As the

on

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WINDING UP

An allegation that in the light of correspon- dence exchanged and what had actually happened an exhibit referred to in Mr M. W. H. Seymour's affidavit of February 12 was being deliberately

withheld from the Court was made by Mr Brook

Bernacchi, leading Counsel for the petitioners,

when he made an application for the production

of documents at the hearing of a petition for the

winding up of Messrs George Falconer and Co.,

(H.K.) Ltd., Union Building, before the Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice T. J. Gould in the Supreme Court this morning.

The petitioner, Mr James Joseph Osborne King, goldsmith and silversmith, of 20 Braga Circuit, is petitioning for the winding up of the Company under the provision of the Companies Ordinance, Cap. 32.

The

George

has

Communist KIDNAPPED

Demonstration In London

London, Aрг. 11. Several thousand Lon- donors took part in Communist-organised Hyde Park demonstration urging the abolition of the hydrogen bomb today.

Among those addressing the gathering were Pro-

who fessor Burhop, atomio

mako

xald

warfare would Britain unin- habitable, and the former Left-wing Member of Parliament. Mr D. N. Prii. who denounced the United States policy which, ho claimed, prevented French negotiations in Indo-China. -Franco-Presso.

Police Seize

Red Red Paper

Paris, Apr. 11.

The Communist weekly L'Humanite Dimanche was seized in a dramatic police raid here today for pubilah- ing an inflammatory article on the Indo-Chinese war.

The article In question-a the cable five-column banner across

and

front-pagowas entitled: "The Indo-China Rises Bloodshed in on the New York Stock Ex change."

WOMAN MURDERED

Manila, Apr. 12. ^ Wealthy'matron, Mra Damland, Magsrili Ongkiko, held captive for 37 days by kidhappers in the Cavite province, was mur- dered and her body was die- covered on a lonely road in that province on Sunday afternoon.

Two .45 calibre slugs were found under her body and kick in the back from her cop- tives had torn the shabby black dress she was wearing when she was kidnapped.

An autopsy revealed that she bled from four gunshot wounds.

Although the army authorities have thrown more troops in the hunt for

the kidnappers, no contact was reported till late Iest night.

The wife of the government auditor, Mrs Ongkikö, was just back from Inspecting her farm- Janda In the Cavite, when she was aclzed by the kidnappers,

Some 30 miles south of Manila, Cavite province ia notorious for banditry and cattle-rustling and was the pro- vince where violence flared up violently in the last November election.-France-Press.

Rain Brightens Crops Outlook

and

the

of the rest

"day

in the heart

section last right. The Texas rains came only a

provinces dends of from 20 to 30 per cent, These results

were second with the support of March 80.

Petitioner is represented by were three letters and ↓ Mr Brook A. Bernacchi, Mr from Swan, Culbertson the Communists, who did not

Dallas, Texas, Apr. 11. the Company, which

Wookend rains in portions of enter a separate list.

In an interview with Reuter D.A.L. Wright and Mr Patrick Fritz to

drought-stricken West today

hard-pressed Yu, all instructed by Mr M.A. were rend to the Court

Токар London, Apr. 11.

The Catholic "rebel" leader stronghold

for the da Silva. prepared

"Now, I am going to say that

the Lower Río Grande The Government tonight

Brussels, In

M. Andre Saln; } third rebel attack expected

raised petition is opposed by in the light of the correspond- told the Socialist-controlled Remy, barely mustered sufficient daily, General Cogny said the Mr J.B.

and Shortly after midnight, police Valley of South Texas Ipekdjian and Mrence that has followed

of the farmers' hopes today for Coventry City Council that votes

in fact

the plant happened surrounded to secure a scat

also in in the garrison waз

as good M.W.H. Seymour: share what

is that this

paper L'Humanite 1954 crops, exhibit MWHS47 Communist holders, quality as it has ever been,

on behalf of Messrs

Locally BS the referred to in paragraph 123(c) and,

delivery trucka

heavy storms totalling. they were wrong to disband Chamber.

Co. Falconer and

police seized as much as six inches of rain- out, the His announcement that there (K.)

the of the affidavit is being Lld..

dell-rolled for

whom the

fall, drenched areas of Weit 100,000 More in

than would be

berately withheld from the them. as many troops

Hon. Leo, d'Almada, QC, Mr Dien Bien Phu for the next

Court and from John McNeill,

Mr copies 48,"

of the Sunday weekly and set off flash Roods QC, and Mr A.J.

were consented, Vietminh attack as for last Cifford, all instructed

by Mr Bernacchi, said, Rival party supporters clash-is a triumph by efficient staff

untter Action In answer "la his Lordship,

Was talkek City The Coventry

Counelled in several towns yesterday.

offleers, daring pilots and deler- Hampion of Meters Hostings

that the Article 10 of the Criminal Code after thundershowers dumped Counsel confined are

appearing documents were and Company Urcided last week that it was "a

traditionally In Liege,

not in

the seizure of after amined parachutists.

the which Mr R. W. S. Winter, instruct waste of public time and money"

my publin which threatens from ab to 12 inches of mois- Courte file. It

stormy political centre, a man

Hammond of

Lower Rio to carry on with elvil defence

critically definite barrier arrangement

injured when The fortress is probably the ed by Mr F. D.

At the time of the notice to the "Internal or external safety" Grande Valley Stokes and

and brightened In

view of the

on inspection of the Stato. overwhelming devastation caused Socialists ambushed a Jurryload worst porachute drup in the Master, he appearing for Mr J.B. admit there was

for prospecia

сторы....би cotton cro of warfare. Dropping Ipekdifan and

scized Catholic

with history supporters

Marseilles all these documents in the Mr M. W. H. of

More than 100 persons were by the hydrogen bomu,

zones uro narrow, hemmed in

copies of L'Humanite forced from their homes by the The Coventry City

as individual share-notice to admit, and it was his advance Council stone and other missiles.

ense that in this condence then

Dimanche. By Catholics and Socialists fought by barbed wire and mineflelds Seymour

mid-morning, floods, holders

The Hidalgo County forwarded their decision to Sur

most French Catholics with broomsticks in Verviers, and dominated by hostile gun-

Mr Winter, also instructed MWHS47 would be

Health Offleer, Dr David Maxwell Fyfe, the Home

Charles while planes must fly another Industrial town. and fire

coming out of church, Miller, ordered typhoid shots through anti-aircraft fire direct by Mr Hammond is also repre- evidence that a profit was made were several people were mured).

as contrary to the statement of Mr holding

Sunday administered to more than 300 senting Mr J, B. Ipekdjian Flemish Socialists and

ed by radar-Router. cx-

Com-residents his and Seymour in affidavit in greenery, raucous-voiced

of Alamo, where creditor of the company. tremists also fought near Ostend.

123(1)

that there munist Party members were on sewers and septic tanka over- paragraph Ipekdjian About 5,500,000 Belgions

WES no proat to any one, the streets peddling a five-franc flowed.--United Preso went to the polls.

Counsel

one-page news sheet, continued. SAME NUMBER

"The Communist Party Mr Bernacchi drew the Court's speake to you"

ou" proclaimed a

psychologically, stitutes

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to progress.

POAC made a bold decision when it ordered its first Comels straight from the drawing

Sir David's permanent under- Havillands, before the Brst

secretary today told the Council been that he had been directed prototype had even built. There was no sugges- tell them that the Home Secret-

"entirely

with tion whatever of a hit or

disagrees" ary ent the City Council view. misa gamble on a new, fast

Office The Home highly-

Secretary potentially and

told the Coventry Council It was profitable aircraft. BOAC

"the regularity 10

10 continue insisted at the time that the

resolutely with the Ineвsures plane be thoroughly and

which they have been asked to undertake." 11 added carefully tested before it began service for the

When corporation.

that

Was

of

OLD PARLIAMENT

Terrorists Fear Trap

In the old Parliament, the Catholes had a majority of four in the 212-member lower house and seven in the Senate. The Socialists, with 77 and 02 seats respectively, were the country's A second the

party. The Lib

had 20 seals in statement

Bid

the

the Home Secretary wanted Council to reconsider their decision and hoped to hear soon

MensTa

Johnson,

Места creditors.

Bros.

Mr W. K

Thomson appears; for the Official Receiver as pro- viziono liquidator.

Polico in

their Palm

at the top, and

Mr Bernacchi said that before attention to paragraph 124(10) block banner

in cven larger underneath, case he had of the affidavit where possibly he opened the

it sold: "L'Humanite reluctantly to apply for a one-owing to a typographical error letters,

seized because it day adjournment and he asked an exhibit bore the same num-Dimanche

with ber as the earlier exhibit deal- spoke the truth on the Foster Nairobi, Apr. 11.

that

adjourned it be

of petitioner Ing with Swan, Culbertson and Dulles plan to extend the Indo- Government costs in favour Kenya

China war. "United Press, Fritz, Issued tonight

That document was also miss. for the application on

both log from the Court illes, Mr

Bernacchi said.

Counsel next read correspon- Silva and Messrs Hastings and

that the Council had changed the lower house and 19 in the fsaid: "There is little doubt Mable forthwith. He was up-

their decision about disbanding Senate, and the Communists that the majority of terhaving relation

seven and three respectively. rorists are now

Comet finally began service,

grounds, both two separate neronautical experts

to documents its success

attribut- Was

the city's civil defence arrange-

convinced that were necessary to be be ments, able to the programme of

In 1950 the Catholics, the only that the whole surrender for the

Court and were not research work carried out

REVIEW REQUIRED

back the exiled ex- by the

Government before the Court, Counsel said. makers while the The Home Office said that party to

King Leopold's return to the project was a

In the first place there were a some civil defence measures being pre- designs wero

would have to be reviewed in seined power with the trap designed to bring them number of books, documents

help of non-Catholic Royalists, together so that they could and accounts of the Company pared and while the Comet

the light of recent develop Following Leopold's abdication was actually being built.

ments," but it did not think in 1051 in favour of his 23- he slaughtered." Virtually every nut and

much charge year-old son, King Baudouin, bolt, every part from the in the duting of local the "Royal problem" Ls controls and engines to the authorities which were mainly

and observers believed undercarriage and windows Was tested und checked hundreds of times far in

normal

excess

there would be

of civil defence volunteers.

ROW

in

It

the hands of the special managers,

way

Arranged

It would be a long process to between Mr da Silva and Mr convince the terrorists that this Hampton about 12 days ago that was not so and no large-scale a summons should be taken out in the recruiting and training dead

many "Royalist" votes were cast

organised surrenders could be by Messrs Haslings and Com- pany for consent order that It said that local councils elsewhere in the election,

The splinter Catholle parties, expected in the near future,

these documents be produced. It should carry on with these whose appearance in the elec- But Individuals could still was not taken up that Saturday safety duties until any changes were tion further threatened the

announced by the Home Office, delicate Catholic

surrender if they came out of and last Wednesday Mr da Silva majority, the forest bearing National- Alderman Sidney re-

green again approached Mr Hampton Stringer, ranged from Flemish

with their hands in the matter and urged him, to Labour leader of the Coventry Isis with neo-Nazi leanings to branches or City Council, who moved the French-speaking right-wingers Ing their weapons.

hold up above their heads carry take out the summons without

delay, said Mr Bernacchi, followed a similar patterng motion commented: opposed both to alleged growing

SUMMONS SERVED reply does not attempt to Flemish invence and the par-

requirements. But three Cometa have crashed cently and all disasters have

--"on reaching Dr про

proaching maximum altitude at full power".

APA

A

da

between Mr dence passed

(Contd. on back page, Col. 6)

Mild Earth Tremor

Nicosia, Cyprus, Apr. 11. A mild, two-second

carth tremor was reported here today, It was barely perceptible and there were no casualties or pro-

Ends Derty damages,--United Press.

Tragedy

In Happy

Romance

Santa Barbara, Calif.

Suzan Ball,

Apr. 11. smiling and on her new

answer our references to the doning of convicted wartime the attempt to induce the sorved on Mr da Silva on Fri- calm, walked

hydrogen bomi),

collaborators.

tullon

The letter is bound to be con- First task of the new Parlia- sidered most seriously by the ment will be' to revise the Civil Defence Committee and country's 123-year-old Consil- in to enable Belglum the City Council.

da is to play her "What we want to

full part "In the Community strengthen the hand of those European Defence

Euro who want to qutlaw the bomb," and other supranational

pean bodies.-Reuter. -Reuter.

General Erskine said he felt Ultimately the summons was terrorists to surrender had bren day last amd Mr Silva duly at artificial leg down the aisle worth. while, "It rourly came tended in the waiting room of to marry actor Dick Long

off,"

his

broken O PROND'S chambers but no today.

"Even though the mass zur- and render

on behalf of the

-

warming of many

The most heart Was Mr da Silva

romanco has attempt down we have gained a tremen- ultimately directed by his Lord-Hollywood

not years was climaxed when the ship's

clerk that it was dous amount of information

him to

wait couple exchanged rings in a necessary for

the at candle-lit about Mau Mau."--Reuter.

ceremony that the matter further and

Montecito EL would be dealt with today,

church while Counsel rald.

fans walted outside, The position

The spectatore gasped

the

Mossadegh Continues To Put On An Act

Teheran, Apr. 11.

The former Premier of Iran, Dr Mohammed Mossadegh, was carried into the Court-room today for the third day of his appeal against his sentence of three years' imprisonment, and started proceedi nga by asking the Judge for the loan of his spectacles.

this was that order had not been made and

orian

now before the Court murmured when

and

dark-

an hour

PART from the possibility of sabotage, which cannot he discounted, the investi- gators of Thursday's crash will probably examine the likelihood of

fault occurring in the structure duo to Bome peralatont stress or strain peculiar to this aircraft under certain conditiona, Examination of

it was the engines of the Comet

It was as far as he was con-haired actress, wearing a long iace gown and vell, which crashed off Elba on

cerned a consent order but he white

walked without crutches from, a frnd

the not yet hail

op- January 10 shed no light

portunity of glancing through ide door to the main entrance on the mystery and apparently they had

the documents and Counsel ald of the church. he understood, from Mr Thom- She had arrived nothing to do with the

son that they could not be got tailor, wearing lacks and on Her parents and crash. Whatever the reason,

Mosadegh gropanod

Studio He had forgotten his own, he the Court's competency to desi¡

In reply ready before tomorrow mom culches. the Chairman of BOAC, Sirald. It was pointed out that with the case at all.

that he was going to die

in ing. That was the first matter. Universal-International Milos Thomas, acted cor- the lenses were

Tho anyway and only different and

second matter was a pokesmen up to the last minute sald she probably would not be It was also contended that three days

should be released asked to bo given biek ' docu- [very serious one, Mỹ BOSTON Ahle to wear, the artifeal leg rectly when he ordered the

that they might not suit him. Mossadegh

menta establishing Anglo- went on, and referred the suspension of the jet ser- Mossadegh tried them on any on bail, pending the result of ranian Oll company, extortion to paragraph (123 (6) of Mr during datae right beg

་་ vice until the cause of the way but said he could not see the appeal. Mossadegh him-Trani

mein affidavit

But Buzan, whore of accidents 16 ascertained through them properly. Die-

of his house.

He February 12 dealing with the was amputated on January. 12 because of caricer, walked with certain detention was being prolonged looting

toa and corrected. It will be a cussion then got firmly on to self made the point that his which were stolen during the Beymour

If the Court did not let him transactions he rpocified that he would only die matter

would limp and held tightly to the long time before the Comets the subject of spectacles unul at Instigation from abroad.

of her father, H. Dala soldier nipped off to fetch fly again and the eyes of the A

have a lot to say in his opening sm the speak

Bali. Culbertson and This suggestion angered De the ex-Premier his own pair. world will be on

Mossadegh is on a "hunger with Swan

The Rev. Paul Clemmons per- After that Mosaddagh slept Army Prosecutor to saying that Havillands and their

Me Bernacchi said that way formed the 10-minute ceremony examination of the guineast of the time with his head Mossadegh was traitor and eirikes which was described by Trka, which Counsel read.

the Army's tho Prosecutor, as, a fake. Ho

him in secretty saling cake, the Pro back on February 2, 1954, before an altar banked with pig airliner, for the future his hand while his lawyer, that it was only

Colonel Boroughmer, tock protection that prevented

being "killed by the socutor told in AFF correspon- nolice, to admit four documents pink candles, ferns and spring

The doctimenta nowerki-United, Press. copious notes of the long, and from

dent France

was served, repetitious evidence and refuded i people.

maloty of jet air transporta tion may depend on it.

TUDO on the rich

SUDDEN VISIT TO LONDON

Bont, Apr. 11. The West German Vice-

Herr Franz Chancellor,

plue- cher, left unexpectedly, for Lon-

don tonight on a visit which was believed

to be connected with the arrival in London ut the US Secretary of Stato, Mr John Foster Dulles,

The official reason given for his journey was that the Vice- was planning "to Chancellor meet friends of the British Liberal Party."--France-Presse.

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