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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1961.

83 die in Shannon tragedy

RESCUERS SEARCH FOR AIR CRASH VICTIMS

Shannon, Sept. 10. Rescuers scarched through the slime of the Shan- non River estuary tonight for the bodies of 83 persons killed when a Chiengo-bound airliner crashed in fog early today.

As the first 03 broken bodies were brought to the shore, onelais said they had no idea why the chartered DCG President Alellaen eraft plunged into the estuary within minutes of "normal" takeoff from Shannon Airport,

It was the worst air disaster in the history of the British Istes,

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At feast four members of the six-member crew were Ameri- The passengers were formers, Industrialfats and tourists,

including 05 Germans, seven Austrians, two Swiss and two Dutch.

Newfoundland and Chicago.

Newed us out from Duesseldorf, Germany, to Gander, Cause sought

The passenger list was expected to be released late tonight by the German firm which chartered the airliner.

Omcials seeking a cause for the disaster pointed out that: The plane was delayed here by some form of mechanical trouble for almost eight Hours.

Eyewitnesses said the plane's engines seemed unusually The pilot gave no indleation of trouble.

· Just before the crash, the pilot apparently banked to the left, inslend of to the right on on the night plan.

• Two loud "thud" followed the crash and some of the bodies looked as if they might have been blown apart by an explosion.

loud.

NEW ARRESTS ANNOUNCED IN PARIS

Plot to kill de Gaulle:

The hunt goes on

Paris, Sept. 10. M. Roger Frey, France's Interior Minister, tonight announced new arrests in the hunt for rightwing plotters and said it was believed napalm was used in the unsuccessful bid to assassinate General de Gaulle on Friday night.

If the whole charge of about One wax named as Domini-ed to be General de Gaulle him- 22 pounds of explosive, buried que Cabanne de la Prade, who self.

and

he

"Nothing scares the General," one of the police on duty in the village said.

by the roadside between Paris furriedly left his home at dawn He was entirely relaxed and and the President's country on Saturday

I si at waved to applauding crowds as home at Colombay-les-Deux-large.

drove to the church at Eglises had gone off, M. Frey "Another in being identified.] Colombey today--in another car wald, there would have teens We know two other only by to attend muss. "appalling results."

their surname," Mr Frey added. The Minister identified the The plotters held a dress alleged would-be assassin, nr-rehearsal of the attempt on the rested near the scene of the at-spot on August 30. Everything tempt, as Martial de Vilmonday, was minutely prepared. in- 30, reported to be n former cluding escape routes.

Salgun announcer on Radiu

Only "technical defects" had who returned to the Paris area prevented an explosion which from Indo-China a year nge. would have severely damaged the car and produced an im- penetrable barrier of flame and fire.

Operates

M. Frey said de Vlimanday confessed that the anti-Gaullist

ceret any organization witch operatus both Frattes and

against

Investigators into the attempt

American watch

dealers tell

of smuggling

Washington, Bept. 10, Tit American

Watch Association, a private group of watch and watch move- ments importers, has asked a private detective agenoy 10 belp curb watch amuggling into the United States.

ed

They said in a statement that smuggling had reach

"huge

proportions,' parity because of high customs fariffs,

and estimated that between 500,000 and 3.000.000 pieces were brought in legally each year. China Mali

Special.

TERRORIST

are puzzled by three questions: EXPLOSIONS

•

How did the authors of the attack know that General de Gaulle was planning to leave on Friday night for Colombey,

since the decision was taken at the last moment?

anty

How did they know which

there are at least four ways of driving between Puris and Colombey, and the President ures alternative routes?

M. Frey sald the bomb plol- ters had carried out plastle at-route he would follow-since lacks in the Paris area but were taken off this task to concen- Algeria wus under the orders trate on the attempt uf ex-General Raoul Salin, General de Gaulle. condemned to death in his

The Minister announced three absence Sur his part in the

drive in arrests

the abortive "Revolt of the Gen-other

against the secret

army or- erals" last April.

and men ganisation-1wn

Also arrested

Colenel was Herve le Burdier de Blignieres. "Everything allows one to sup- pose that de Blignieres is the chief of stalt of the OAS in France and the central pivot uf

woman.

Warrants

u

He said warrants were out

the whole organisation." Mfar Jean Brune, former editor of

Frey said.

the

Depeche Quotidienne

The arrest of de Bilgoleres, a d'Algerie, who was expelled

tank oficer and the father of seven children, follows that of

from Algeria after the January 1000 "Barricades" revolt In Algiers, and

named a captain

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Ceneral Paul Vanuxem, 57 and Sergent whom M. Frey deserlu- General Jean Boucher le Crevecoeur, 54, identified by M. Frey lost night as apparently the leaders in France of the secret_army urganisation.

a deserter. They were belleved to have fled abroad,

• How did the man who touched off the charge know he had spotted the General's car zince it was a Citroen with no visible Presidential markings and was followed by exactly the same type of car filled with armed police?-Reuter,

No serious

war threat,

Pope says

SHAKE ITALY

from

But the actual reason for the crash remained a mystery as

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Several Lodles, thrown clear by the crash, lay half-buried in

the airliner at dusk, and balled all rescue operations for the night. | some and they Jay garbed only in the estuary mud,

The airport's special rescue squad rushed to the scene when Other bodies were smashed almost beyoitd recognition. But the plane crashed and found only one survivor an intured 23-many were hardly, marred and appeared to have died by shocit or year-old trying to swim to shore. She was brought to the river drowning. bank, whispered an act of contrition into a priest's car, and died.

Impenetrable as the tidal water and slime which rolled over the sucking mud. The force of impact had ripped the clothes oft

·

Rescue work

All the rest apparently died immediately.

As the morning tide ebbed to the sea, rescuers waded 100 Yards to the smashed plane, is tall section and part of its fuselage pointing grotesquely to the sky. Its nose jammed into the muddy river bank.

The rear of the plono was almost sawed in half. Heaps of twisted metal blorked the rescuers' path to many, of the victlan.

'It was awful'

Inside the plane, bodies lay strewn around the aisles or slump- ed over the safety bells-atili fastened for the takeoff.. Rescuers sald a few appeared to have been ripped, at though by an explosion.

"It was awful there," Michael Casey, a farmer who was one of the first men to the scene, sald. "The water was stained. There were bodies everywhere. Most of them were badly mutilat ed, There were some lit several pieces.”~~~UPT.

UN TROOPS RESCUE OFFICER

IN CONGO INCIDENT

Elisabethville,. Sept. 10.

United Naitons troops, led by Dr Conor O'Brien, chief representative in Katanga, today rescued a senior UN official arrested by police here while trying to telephone his wife in Paris.

WORST EVER'

Carla hits Texas, Louisiana coast

D O'Brien' and throc armoured troop carriers with 60 Swedish soldiers, rushed to the heavily guarded Contral Fost Office after journalists, who saw the Incident, had telephoned Michel Dr O'Brien to my Tombelaine, deputy civil head

of the UN in Katanga, had been arrested.

Mr Tumbelaine was released after being detained 30 minutes In the post office building which

troops had Katongese

with machineguns on the roof.

Katonga police said he was

entering the prohibited

arrested for acting suspiciously

Galveston, Sept. 10. Hurricane Carla hurled shattering blasts of wind and water against the Texas-Louisiana gulf coast today as a prelude to its full 150-mile-an-and hour fury. Piers and buildings collapsed and rising tides breached at least one dike.

The heart of the monster storm, worst ever seen along this section of the coast. churned closer to ahore and was expected to hit full force and carry perhaps 100 miles inland somewhere between Galveston and Arkansas Pass, Tex. Hurricane warnings were

10 extended

already-flooded Grand Isle, La.

No casualties have yet been reported but damage was ex- pected to be extensive.

Rome, Sept. 10. A waya of bombings

the Alps to Rome shook

and Italy today,

Galveston was being pounded Italian Government source by, 73 mile-an-hour winds that blamed terrorists trained sent

in Austria.

It

authorities to the

on

waves crashing against closing of seawalls and forced

was the first time that of all escape routes, The island violence, allributed by Italian city was sealed ott, its remain- Alto Adige ing people fighting floods and (South Tyrol) dispute had preparing for worse to come. spread to the Italian capital.

The

Rome blasts six In ulone, plus half

#

об dozen

ABOVE NORMAL

almost 8 Scot

The tide wis in at least five other above normal and may rise to

more cities injured seven.

The sudden burst of explo-15 feet, sions came after more than a An estimated 300,000 people- month of relative calm in the 250,000 in Texas and 50,000 in troubled Alto Adige on the Louisiana-fled yesterday and to- day in the greatest mass exodus Italian-Austrian border.

of modem 1knes in the face of M. Frey said police belleved four or five men had been in

Feeding and natural calamity. when the the neighbourhood

was a hercu- sheltering them attempt was made to blow up

Reinforced anti-putsch mea-Popo John said today he railway tracks entering Rome tean task that involved moving General de Gaulle's car as it sures went into action after the belioved there

at from the north. Water and power people to cities as for inland us

around the Italian Dallas, 300 miles inland. sped along the road to Column unsuccessful, assassination bld--

present no serious threat stations bey.

capital were put under special

The authors of the attempt on General de Gaulle foce the death statence under the French Con- stitution,

but the least concerned appear-

A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

1 Hard bread!

4 Rau,

7 Tropical.

Dulldings.

11 It's beaten with a stick!

12 Equip.

18 Albe from Ireland?

15 Hugo.

10 Because it's in favourt

10 A white giril.

20 Those that be?

23 Take her to court?

24 Cooker for cowboy?

20 Itunning walori

DOWN

1 Insect larya.

a dirt with a book!

3 Holght,

5 Island.

Flowers made of 'cloth?

Ruler, oftče.

10 Judicial wear.

18 Stop ill

14 Prem.

10 Fruit,

17 Weakens the jultos?

10 Cuntge.

21 Not at home.

22 Little.

Rome, Sept. 10.

was

He said they should "face aquarely the tremendous respon- sibititles they bear before the tribunal of history and, what is more, before the judgment seat of God; and we entreat them not to fall victims to false and de- ceiving provocations."

NORTH Special guards were put on all

Terrorists in the Alto Adige In the past have made rati lines and power slations their special targets.

due

of "immediate or remote surveillance. So was the main Carin moved northwesterly war," but Issued a pas-antenna at the state radio-TV up the Gulf and was located

almost about 160 miles sionato appeal to world network, leaders to face up to

south of Galveston, moving at 10 miles an hour in the direc- their responsibilitios.

tion of land.

Heavy rains of from 6 to 15 Extromlets in

the storm the Alto inches accompanied Adige, where German-speaking at its centre, and advance rains face- have Bought shed the shore with residents long

autonomy. have stinging fury. greater local

Meanwhile, The Red Cross often threatened to carry what they call their "liberation war" sald in Washington the feeding to Rome.

And sheltering of refugees Carla "*$ the largest On Saturday night, italian feeing People must empty their hearts of malice, he said, de-authorities sold, they made good of all time."

Robert their threat with six bombings,

Edson. Director of claring: "The world has no need

the Red Cross Disaster Service, -AP. of victorious wars and defeated

colled Texte zid Louisiana res people; but of the renewed

fugees flight a "modern day strength of salvation and of

exodus.” fruitfulness and calm of peace." The Pontiff, broadcasting from his summer residence In Castelgandolfo cald "the clouds seem to gather darkly on the horizon,"Reuter,

: Memorial rites

held for

Dr J. Heng Liu

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Taipei, Sept. 10. President and Madamo Chiang Kai-shek of Na- tionalist Chine dmong more than 11,000 parsons who attended a Memorial Service today for Dr J. Hang Liv, 71, Health Minister of the first Republic Government in Chino (1912).

Lu, who want to the UnRod Blato in 1959 for medical treat- ment, died in New York on After August

suffering & stroke.

Lu president of the Chinese Nationalist Red Crois Hocfely.

SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD-Adó 1 storm, D Moron, Hip. 10 Trene, 11 Emils, 12 Ted, 13 Lon, 14 The, 16 Bay, 18 Ensues, 21 Bide, 28 Pake, 20 Durnal, 20. Wet, 31 Aye, 32 ATS, 34 Rut, ad Piper, 37 Arena, 30 Bat, 30 lpen, 40. Lærdi. Downt. 1 Bhalls, fime, 3 Opined, 4 Misté, & Meleo, 4 One, ) Reda, d Nusy, 15 Hurry, 17 Ark, 19 Ned, 2D 8pm, 22 tee, 24 Kispen, 30 for the past 10 yeste, had been Exaris, 27: Onten, 18 Sepal, 29 Wehr, 30 Trap, 83 Read, 35 | in the Public Health Bervice for

mura than 10 yeÁMÁLAP,

Oto...

Seal dies

Edson said the press, radio Scattle, Sept, 10. and television stations in the Sammy the seal died at the disaster area Javed many lives zoo here

of copper poisoning by warning citizens of Carla's after swallowing 321 one-cent progress.

Earlier, ploces,

nickels 12

(five-cent

Red Washington beadquarters pieces) eight dimes (ten-cent Cross

reported pleees) and West German that nearly 23,000 persons fixe- pfenning thrown by visitors. ing the storm were lodged in

Texts apd Total wolght: Two pounds the organisation's

04 ounces-China Mall | Louisiana hellers last night. --- Special.

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KULE

Pet cat causes short circuit in gold

mine

Orkney, Bept. 10, Miners were trapped for three hours in skips half- way to the surfade in the Western Reels Gold Mine when a pet cat touched a 0,030-volt cable and caused a short ditonji. Electricians

In worked pitch darkness to repair the electrical system and the mixes air conditioning stopped. Ambulancës stood by the shafthead in cA20 rainers suffered from polluted air.

An official sadd the est

"blown to WIT..

bita."... Ching Mall Specia),

transmission centre of the post

office.

The Incident ellmaxed a tense 24 hours since President Moise Tshombe of Katanga told a hastily summoned press con- ference here that the central Congolese Government of Mr Cyrille Adoula planned to arrest him and his entire government, dizarm Katanga troops and send

support.

day

HEAT WAVE IN FORMOSA

Talpol, Sept. 10. The Weather Bureau to- predicted Formosa's record heat wave now fa Its 10th week, might be broken within the next few daye.

The heat wave, which began on May 21, waa la day today--AP, its 197th

Plan to recover

body of British explorer

Rio De Janeiro, Sept. 9. The Brazilian Air Force to

day decided to sond 12 tough paratroops Into the the Matto Grosso jungle

to

recover the body of Richord Mason, the Bri- tłok axplorer killed by Indians this work.

Present plans are for them to tomorrow, returning leave Rio

in Congolese troops, with UN about Tuesday or Wednesday. They hope to bring the body here for burial in the British: cemetery.

Mr O'Brien told Mr Tshombe last night there was no truth in reports that the Congolese Gov- emment planned Katanga tomorrow.

But the Katanga

to

invade

BODY STILL THERE.

Contrary to earlier, reports, Mason's body is believed to be army has still lying in the bush where: surrounded UN troops in Jadot he was killed with clubs and ville, 70 miles northwest of arrows while hunting alone. Elisabethville, and the Katanga

Mason, 20-year-old Government closed the elvli

student side of the international airport

medical of Cumberland Place, here for nearly three hours carly London, was killed less than two hours* walk from his party's today.

camp. He was leading a 10- The United Nations has given.man expedition, sponsored by officers in the Katengs Surete the Hoyal Geographiten Society, (security service) 48 hours to to map remote regions between leave the country, following the the Para and Matto Grosso post office incident.-Reutor. states, China Mail Special,

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