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EYEWITNESS: SAW THE PLANE HIT BY A

HIT

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BAIR

SERVICE TO

TOKYO

PAN'AMERICAN

STREAK OF

OF LIGHTNING

68 DIE IN HORRIBLE AIR DISASTER

Was mment The Sky

Littered With

Comment Of The Day

Falling

Debris

Milan, June 26.

A NEW POST A Trans-World Airlines Constellation en

PARISH priest's life in a

A place like Hongkung is

other

different from kny place in the world. His parlah includes the clubs, the beaches, the cinemas, A well as the Ants, the rooms and the stately residences of his congregation - English homes, American homes andj Chinese homes. There is

one

who has distinguished himself in this unusual cos mopolitan atmosphere,

route to Chicago burst apart in a thunderstorm and crashed tonight, killing all 68 persons aboard.

Finming parts of the. It was the worst cly

of the year. huge plane fell in a wooded on disaster

tupped even the death toll

area,

avia-

It

in

at the height of the New York crash of Lock- thunder, lightning and hail heed Electra, on February 2,

flying from storm.

Chicago to New York, in which 63 persons w[ killed

Disintegratos

Witnesses fa nearby towns stew n flash of fire in the sky To most readers he is known and heard a crash. One piece formally as the Very Rev. of the plane fell near on oc- Site of the F. S. Temple. He is the cupled farmhouse.

crash was Cascina Aglese.

Dean of Hongkong. On hamlet 10 miles from Milan's

enthusiastic, hard-working, airport. fun-loving person who has

made many friends in his

six years here, many of whom have no connection with St John's Cathedral, the Church of England, ari Levon Christianity.

H

The

plane,

Mrs Rina Bruno of Legnano, one of the first persons to re- port the crash, said she and her husband EDW un iftah" and then heard the noise

of the crash.

BRITISH GIRL HELPS IN ROUTING

SANDHURST CADETS

RIMY

Salisbury, Jane 26. British hundred endelrouted by an £1-.) vading foron of 45 French cadets, can lay at least part of the blame on a pretty Southern girl, a. Englis Command spokesman reveal- ed hero today. The riri, Mian Jean Richards.

had a rendezvous

#

Their two objectives - electronle

to equipment supposed

abte la reverts the direction of guided missiles, and the professor who invented the on the dovlec-were both other side of the river Frost, the spokesman said,

the Sandhurat Royal Mary Academy.

"The Sandhurst cadets are not the at all upset about it," army spokesman said, "They infiloted quité heavy

́ensualties on the French and they may have their revenge later this year' when they'll probably invade Britanny.

invaded English cadela France lost Year and

The Sandhurst (British) cadets

were guarding all the bridges | "The with pne

but

of the French leaders. In a prab

Dorset,

ii Warthani,

near the fleld where the in- vaders landed by parachute on Wednesday night.

Mis Richards led the French aeroze a shallow part of the river and through the British new,

"Bhe flyes In Camberley, near

won

Soviet Official Defects

To The

West

Rangoon, June 26.

hands down with the help of Alexander Urekitch Kaznacheev, an information

a Frenchman who met them with a car."uina Mal

Special.

Rain Again Threatens

Heavyweight Fight

New York, June 26.

"normous The hard-luck Floyd Patterson-Ingemar Johansson heavy- weight title fight was threatened with rain again to- night as ring time approached at Yankee Stadium.

officer at the Soviet Embassy here, has defected and sought American asylum, the United States Embassy announced today.

tu

Kaznacheev said he was as well as on my Burmese diellusioned with the Soviet friends.

I have freely left my posl Communist. "regime and tion In the Soviet Embassy in wanted the protection of Rangoon because I want the American Embassy. struggle against the cruel and The announcement, sald. Kaa- oppressive tyranny of Com- nacheey went to the US. In munism."-Router. formation-library in mid-town Rangoon on Tueday and asked the American Ubrarlon in charge to put him in touch with an American Embassy official..

U.S. Embassy

An officer from the EmbesBY, In the next street, arrived and

for the light-talked for about an hour with. the Russian, who said he want- ed to leave the Soviet foreign service,

Kaznáchvov went

The plane's body and tail crashed far apart, rescue squads B9 saki with

Thunderstorms in the area Promoter B!! Rosensohn -sald Joey Maxim Passengers and a *Brow of

Like A Fire.

caused intermittent. drizzles and he expected a crowd of 35,000 heavyweight title, at the Yankee off had taken

from

a lot gato of haif a stadium Firemen and police rushed to forged the attendants to unroll with Millan's Malpensa airport 80

Patterson, who took a long miles outside the north Italian the scene from Milan and half aa terpaulin over the framework:llion dollars.

Bazen nearby towns.

above the lights, high over the Although the weather, a few walk and ate a light breakfast, the fight, con- said he was in due shape, and hours before ring.

warm and humid, with said he didn't think the post- The crowd came very slowly Uinued

ponement would make hovering around into the wet stadium. Many of the mercury them wore raincoats and some the 80-degree mark, the New difference to either one of them. of those who didn't bring their York Weather Bureau held out the promise of Alghtly cooley's temperatore by the time the two men, enter the ring at about HK

time 11.30 am.

elly, and was in the ale five minutes, fighting for altitude,

disintegrated When it james.

in

Anether witness who wa K few miles from the scene of the crashi said he saw "some thing like a fire in the sky. "At first I thought it was only lightning, then I saw something fall and smoke rise from the ground," he said. Rain hampered the work of the rescue qunds.

TE leaves early next week for England for a big

One of the victims was iden- appointment senior chap tiled as Prof. Maritz Schet- lain to Dr Geoffrey Fisher, fermi, sister of the late slomic Archbishop of Canterbury, scientist Dr Engico Fermi who Hongkong will miss him for helped develop the first ctom Butalde his unusun parish bemb. She was en route to the

fait pelted dowdy'on' the res "round" and his general visit her brother's grave. TWA offelals in Rome ht

счета. Lightning whipped church duties, he has done first believed there might have through the sky.

TWA ofcials] dis-been-three extra much work for the

Eyewitnesses sald the plane a total

of 71 treased and needy, for the boord, making

flying Way

at an altitude of But a further

check about 2,000 feet and was bare refugees and the people victins, called streetsleepers. Bishop showed they were among the 50 y visible in the clouds and rain Hall called him one of the passengers.

The plane, 23 feet longer than when the disaster occurred. hardest-working people he Super-G-Constellation was part of the "Jetstream" feet of

had ever known.

It

Was

A

[2

Explosion

in

The plane disintegrated the air and fell down in bits and pieces-first a wing, then other parts, then the engines and the fuselage, they said.

A hall of lighter pleces kept falling for several seconds after the big parte crashed.

The burning engines fell on

a 5,000-volt power line. They Fled

He is an Englishman who has TWA.

adapted himself to life in .this East-West city in s

fort from villagers said. way that all his friends will

affection. they thought the plono had been remember with Among those who paid struck by lightning, although destroyed tribute to him earlier this were has been no instance of a

-commercial aircraft week was the Governor, Siehy Ugh ning bolts, Robert Black.

There have been at least six thunderstorm where high honour, but a well de cases served one. The Cathedral turbulence has destroyed plantes, "I saw A policeman said: loses a much loved minister.

Farmer Davide Barbieri, 50, the airliner hit by a streak tireless Hongkong loves

wife. A wing

22-year-old of lightning. First

daughter and a 16-year-old ocemed to come off, then the

farmhouse, son, inside thing the whole fail, then

escaped injury. They fled in and burst Into Games

+1

Terror. plunged down, hitting the ground with a great explo-

for."

him

worker for the well-being of All over the Its' people. Colony people wish good luck, Godspeed, and happiness and fulfilment in his new job.

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Violation

London, June 20.

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JOHANSSON Stronger

BELTHUNDERSHO "Aiurday-

Chier

Ehest There

meteorologist, Christie, told newsmen was only a light chance" of thundershowers, but predicted that If they did occur, they would be over before the night.

RESULT TO BE

PUBLISHED

The

of

the resuit Johansson-Patterson world heavyweight flüo fight will be published in later issued of the Saturday Mali," soon as it is received in 1Ionskun.......

PATTERSON 'Fine Shape

any

There was very little betting on the outcome of the fight, with adds favouring Patterson 5 to. 1.

A spokesman for the closed television circuit said the fight would be seen by an estimated Both Patterson and Johans 550,000 persons in 170 theatres 135 cities spread zon were still at their New in over York hotels and

"incom-throughout the country.

A referes and two judges will municado" until they enter the ring. Both

took light officiate, scoring the fight by men

24-hour rounds according to the New

York System-UPI and AFP.

exercise during

postponement,

the

Reporters, concerned over the

RECOVERS

possible effects the heat and KING HUSSEIN Promoter Bill Rosensohn humidity might have on the closeted himself in a room a Swedish challenger received The sladium offices. He te word from the Johanssun' en- fused to sto reporters but seni tourage that "he can fight under out word he would put on the any circumstances." bout if at all possible.

Hosensohn was extremely re-

Amman, June 20. THE HEAT

King Itussein of Jordon has recovered completely from nia) The New China News Agency luctant to make a second post- Johansson sent word that he recent finess and will resume

of the international felt little stronger than he did his duties said today that two United Donement

the next Monday, States Navy aircraft violated 15-rounder,

which had been yesterday "because I have had royal palace announced today. Chinese territorial air spaco over washed out yesterday.

more rest," He has not boxed At the end of May, the King the Haisha Islands of Kwang-As the evening continued, in uimast a week

woa-tound-to-be-suffering_fram | The New York heat was re-glandular fever and trach100 jung province yesterday morn- the sprinkle developed into

At HK Time miniscent of the night in 1952, bronchitis (Inflammation of the Ing. The agency said a recon- steady light rain. naissance plane few twice over 9.18 m. Saturday spectators when Sugar Ray Robinson and nostrils) and was advised by his the islands while a patrol plans on the field began hastening referee Rudy 'Goldstein collaps doctors to take a month's rest. Intruded once.--Reuter.

ed when Robinson challenged | Router, into the stands for coyer,

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He Declines Royal Invitation

home Prince

After arranging another meat ing for the following day. He kept the appointment .~und- woul to the American. 'Em- Linaat, - whiere he had been Ever since.

Kaznachcov, 27, was born, in Moscow and graduated from the International - Amiry~ Institute there. He speaks. Burmego "and | ; English bdalies Russian,

When he ought asylum in the American Embassy on June 24, he brought with him a statement In his own handwriting which sald, according to the anounce meat, that tro had decided on his own tres will leave his former Hie and responsibilities.

Freedom

Kaznacheev's statement added: **I destro

a life of freedom which is not possible for a citl zen of the USSR and request sylum. I hate the regime that is presently ruling the Soviet Union

Boviet Government uses terror, subversion and police state · melboda to achieve its aims.

Brussels, June 26.

Charles, Belgium's former regent has declined on Invitation to attend the wedding of his nephew Prince Albert of Lloge and Donna Paola Ruffo Di Calabria here on July 2, a Royal palace...spokesman sald today...

Prince Charles," B0, was èhtef of state during King Leopold's captivity in the last stages of the wdr and subsequent" six-

oxito year self-imposed Switzerland."

He now lives in Belgium.

THE RIFT....... According to well-informed sources, the rift between the ex-regent and the royal family complete. The reasons Wa were not quito clear,

The palaca spokesman told a press conference that the rest of would all the royal family

and the civil attend both religious ceremonies.

All the royal guests invited were Princo Albert's relatives,

royal

Refugee Year

I believe and he invitations had been

sent.to. other foreign that Communiam la evli de-

courts-Reutér, CaUJO deprives the in- dividual man of his pride and. self-respect....and reduces a lo s sub-human Iovci

United Nationis, June 20. where he is a slave of the

Some 12 countries end 55 non- party and lis ruling masters""

governmental International or- "Since 1 have been in Burmaganisations, have agreed to have been forced by my participate in the "International

Year" superiors in the Soviet Embassy Refugee

starting on

maa

to spy on my fellow Russians Sundby-AFP.

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