1960-12-19 — Page 3

THE CHINA HAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1960.

Munich mourns for plane crash victims

scream" from the reas half of the two-car trein as the plane exploded in a sheet of Dame 130 fort, high

Munich, Dec. 18.

aircraft saw a fragment of all hanging fram the church roof.”***

Munich city authorities have called for a halt to all public amusements in the city until Christmas as a mark of respect for the 49 victims of yesterday's crash of an American Air Force plane on to a crowded tram. Black-ribbone flogs were already flying at half-mast when the Mayor, Mr Ilang Vogel, tald

Soon afterwards he was givə Press conference he had asked the Bavarian Interior Minister Nobody escaped from the Ing the last rites to charred to order the ban, which will halt | second car, though some parsɔn- bodies as they, lay in the street. the city's garish nightlife.

gere did front the first, tun- Salvage work

all sailed-off *treet Dancing in public places willing across the street with their night in the clothes on fire, be prohibited, there will be no

by the light of searchlights, and The priest of St Paul's the charred shell of the resond striptease at nightclubs, nd cinemas and theatres will be re-sald be heard "a frightful ex-Munich entery with Lurned Church, Father Karl Frochlich, tramcar was jaket bodily to a quired to put on programmes appropriate to the city's mourn- plosion....I man outside and corpses klíšt Inside #----Reuter.

ing. One theatre has already cancelled a comedy programm".

Medical teams

of

Cardinal Josef Wendel Munich today ordered special minsges for the dead in all the city's Catholic churches, O11 Turniny, the day of a muss joint open-air meinot laj service, the city will observe one minute's slicnce and all trafle will stop.

American Investigators and medical teams arrived today in

the once-gay Bavarian capital to And out what happened in the four minutes after the plane took off with a laughing crowd of American students and before it crashed on a street, busy with Christmas shoppers and burst Into fames,

Twenty-nine Germans and 20 Americana died in the inferno, In the plane were 12 ierauge students from, a college r American servicemen's

depen- dents in Munich, with seven crew } and a young American

fary policeman who was "hich- ing a lift. They were all go- Ing to Britain for Christmas,

Hospital authorities said this afternoon that 17 victims were till receiving treatment, and

badly-burned

nine

were on the danger list.

patients

wen on

2,000 protest

against

'Polaris' base

Glasgow, Dec, 18.

Two thousand people at a public meeting here to

day unanimously approved a resolution pro. testing against the proposal to set up a United States Polaris submarine base at Holy Loch, in the Clyde estuary.

AMNESTY

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(Continued from Page 1) Some of them are believed to be still held In prisons some where in the country.

(In July 1951, eight men were sentenced to death for plotting

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The resolution was read cut by the Chairman, Sir Myer Clappern, Erotfish Labour member of Parliament, who said it had been signed by 300 residents of a village near Holy Loel.

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Molution protested vigorously against the pros posal, and urged the United States to stop" the manufacture of these deadly weapons,"

'TREMENDOUS COST'

The meeting was addressed

One of them, Mr

Twenly pallents had already to assassinate the Emperor and by several Labour members of

to set up an Ethiopian republic Parlament. bren released and dozens

Negash, formerly President of

maru who had received slight The eight cluded Bitwaded Emrys Hughes, denied that the

injuries were sol recorded by the hospital. "It is imposable to say how many there were," u spokesman said,

Brushed church

A US. Air Force spokesman rair today it was reasonably well established that the plane's pilot had notifed Munich Con- iroj Tower that he had engine trouble and would return to the airfield,

But before the Convair trans- port could land, It. brushed against one of the 290-fool lowers of St Paul's Church in the heart of Munich.

Plunging into the street, il set fire to the tram, a number of cars and a building where tyres were stored.

A policeman on duty nearby

Parliament and a Minister of ent-Paris demonstration was State to the Prime

Minister's anti-American

office.)

The Emperor flew into Addis Ababa tari night from Armara, Eritren Province, after forces

loyal 16 him bed fealed the

rebela in 35 hours of fighting. The Emperor was accompanied by plant-loads of soldiers, anch immediately took control of the situation.

"I believe that when urze America to reconsider its Polaris bemarine policy we are speaking on behalf of the Americang themselves," kd declared.

As far as he understood it, for the next ten years there would be 45 Polaris submarines "at tremendous cost" at a time The Emperor was met et when the United States was al Addis Ababa airport by Crown ready facing a dollar problem Prince Asfa Wossen. Even through having spent too much the Emperor returned to his on armaments,"Router. palace, there were reports of como "mopping up" operations against some rebels In the northern part of the elty,

Some leaders of the revolt were sold to have fled in Dakota aircraft to outlying regions of

NY DEATH

the country in an attempt to TOLL

reach the Samalla border to go

sold ho heard "one terrible into hiding.—Reuter,

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19 Merchandise. (B)

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in- 18 The beast to search out. (8)

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Now Yark, Dec. 13.

A spokesman for the Senate Aviation SubcommitteS said today that Federal investigators examining tho twisted rubble left by Friday's collision of twa commercial airliners are expected to pin down the cause of the worst accid- ant in aviation history. The recovery of two wh- Identified bodies in Brooklyn early today brought the toll of the collision to 141.

Police said there was a strong possibility that there werd more passengers on the planes than were named on their omelal passenger Hats, They were investigating reports that à women passenger on the United Air Lines DC-8 that colilded with the Trans World Airline Super-Constellation was

сату ing an unlisted baby.

RAVAGED

Three Brooklyn reudenis stli) are missing, indicating that 13 persona died on the ground when the flaming, exploding jet crashed down on a residential sirect and ravaged It.

Thomas Firmoy, adnunisira. tive assistant to Chairman Mike Monconey of the subcommitted, suld evidence from the Brooklyn crash scend, already gathered

rocura taped communications

that the cause and control personnel indicated of the midair collision would be ascertained;

The disaster probably will result in the highest insurance claims over gesuking · from a Miramit trogody.

SATURDAY's crosswonD/Accom: 1 Ballot, 4 Edyll, ? Landed, Using, 10 Hoof, 12 Pirates, 15 Niget, 10, Sane, 17. Need, 19 Newts, 20 Garden, 21 Etul, 28 Snail. 24 Baffe, 28 Aduge, Insurance

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Insulted New airliner put

Franco: 10 years

Madrid, Dec. 18.

A court marital here Hos sentenced a policeman to 10 years and ong day in prison on a charge of having insidied the head of state, General Franco, and Interior Minister, General Camilo Alonso Vega..

Alfteds. Circis of Spain's 598~ tional uniformed policy corps (Pollela Arnada) was accused

Having chalked at the bri- bar- trance to his company's ricks here:

"Long Bve Russin. Death to Franco. Death to the Minister of the Interior who has expelled Communist corporais trom the pollee. Long live Marxism,"

In his defenco Garcia said he was upset by financial worries. --Reuter,

on service ahead of time

London, Dec. 19.

Paris-bound travellers have received a sneak pre- view of Britain's new Penny Farthing air- liner, the Vickers Vanguard, which is claimed to have the cheapest running costs of any modern passenger aircraft in service.

The Penny-Farthing, so called because it is expected to cost one penny-farthing storling por title to run with a fuit load, was not due to come into regular service until March 1,

on the Paris run to help with Una pia-Christinas rish, Capable of carrying 114 pho sengers, the aircraft will also be used as a "holiday help" on fights to

deneva, Glasgow, Dusseldorf and Zurich in the But British European Air- | next two weeits, ... China Mail Ways has put the new airflner | Special.

HK yacht reaches

Singapore, Dec. 18, Two army officers and a Royal Navy radio meokarife, who salled early this month in a 22-14 meel yacht from Hong- kong for Belialu, arrived here | this afternoon.

The trio Are Captain J. 0. 0. Alexsader, of 246 (Gurkha) Signal Squadron, Hongkong,

GIFTS

reaches Singapore

2nd Lent R. French, of, 46 (Talavera) Battery, Kowloon,

French due to vilt Australa on leave this week.

and X. if. Bark, of RMS | THO Trohl, Ganga Devi—which Tamar, also of IlouskonÉ,

But only, two of them would make the rest of the voyYREU. They would be joined here by Lieti A. D. Corahin, one of the original planters of the venture, who replaces Lieut

in Gorkhall means “Goddess of the Bet"--t balls to Hol- land in 1939 and modifted in Hongkong for the 10,000 miles trip. Il arrived with a statue of Tin Hau, the Chinese “Sea Goddess" pus there to ensure s safo vojske för all-Reuter.

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