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Comment Caravelle jet crashes and burns in dense fog FRENCH AIRLINER DISASTER

of the

day

ALL TAKE

AND NO GIVE

THE "neutralist" world's

Tleaders may, bave done a

disservice both to their own countries and to the cause of peace.

Their finger-waving toward i the United States and their i reluctance to ruille Kremlin : feelings Janve increased rather than lessened the tensions In today's tense world,

The men who call themselves non-aligned had a magni- ficent opportunity in their meeting at Belgrade. They lost it. And they indiented once again they are not necessarily either neutral or non-aligned.

A forthright statement of the

25 nations, or

even of

majority of them, could

enunc

have done much to the Kremlin to ponder the propaganda cost of its cur- į rent policies.

Gambling

UT the "neutrals" have

Bindicated to a

that he can get away with perilous

gambling.

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hand is strengthened and he is likely now to be even more huid.

The Russians

ended

the ex-

nuclear test ban und ploder three nuclear devices in the atmosphere in quick succession. They deliberately stirred up the Berlin crisis.

PRINCE OF Seventy-seven MUDBANK HORROR AFTER PLANE CRASH

KUWAIT

ON BOARD

Paris, Sept. 13.

A Prince Sakhry of the Porsian Gulf Sheik- dom of Kuwait, and member of the Aus- tralian Embassy in the United Arab Republic named John Quinn, were among the victime of tonight's Caravelle crash, Air France an- nounced.

M.

Passengers included

Pierre Laurent, economic counsellor at the French Embassy in Rabat, and Modamo Nadine Clouzet, hood of Agence Centrale da Prossec's burcou ia Rabat.-AFP & Reuter.

MAUSI FLEES

FROM

REDS

Berlin, Sept. 12.

is not only humans who are bothered by the Com- munist woll across Berlin -dogs are affected well.

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The non-aligned leaders seem-

ed to brush all that aside. A fox terrier named Mausi There was no hint of con- finally got back to his mistress demnation of Moscow for in the West today. the nuclear tests, but A people's policeman #t rather an approach nug- Friedrichstrasse Ted the dog gesting equal responsibility on a leash to the border and for the violation of the ban.

then turned him loose. It is by no means the first

Mausi dashed cross the time the "neutrals" have border

feaped into the and strengthened Mr Kruschev's arms of his owner. a hospital cked her face, hand. They did so a year nurse, and

three She had been waiting

ago at the nerve-shattering days at the crossing point to 15th United Nations see H her relatives In the session in New York, even Eost could get on her message supporting his attacks on

the fundamental structure

of the UN itself.

Vast masses

to send Mausi back.

The Communist policeman remarked to Western photo- graphers "now you've got an- other one who escaped."

On Monday it was the re- verse. A man led a dog to the border and a Communist

Meet at mussen enery-watting 30 feet away. -AP

TEN purporting to repre- pofleeman led it to its owner

ing from a colonial past

seem

to consider them- selves judges of the United States, apparently ringling it out, despite all the ovid- ence, as the main threat and principal sinner in the cold war.

Perhaps it has been too easy in the past for politicians

do that. to

The Russian bear, when annoyed, has The growled ominously. American eagle, affronted, has seemed to flutter in embarrassed, apologetic

confusion.

..

It has coat two billion dollara over 10 years to watch the foggy ideological fight be tween Yugoslav Commu- j nists and Moscow.

IT

The cost

has cost three billion dollarn to extend a help- ing hand to India. In return the United States more often than not gota the austere disapproval of India's Prime Minister, Mr Nehru. Today in Washington there in pressure for reviewing ald policies and for examining the ponsibilities of channel. An ing U.S. money towardo more friendly beneficiaries, pressure is bound to in- creano and the United States can hardly be blamed if there is reappraisal in fla thinking in regard to the "neutraliste." Much has been

This

CHOLERA

FIGURES

The cholera statistics position at 9.30 am today Wie as follows:

Confirmed cases to date 125 (including 14 deatha), Confirmed

on

danger Bat Suspects under ob.

servation

NII

2

Cases

recovered and

discharged Carriers recovered and

discharged Contacta held in the

49

12

Chatham-road quar- antine venice Contacts discharged to

date People Inoculated

3D

at Government in- eculation centres and by mabile teams yesterday (Tuesday)

2,600

STRIPTEASE IN CHURCH HALL

Croydon, Sept. 12. English Bapital Minister, 55-year-old Erlo Betteridge, wax jailed for iwe mentiis to- day after admitting that ho Invited two girls, ages 18 and . lo stage a striptease in bis church hall.

waited for the girls to undress The court was told Detteridge and then gave torm piggy-back given but there has been ride.. Fa piended guilly to in little gratitude in return, decent moskull-SAP.

passengers & crew killed

Rabat, Sept. 12.

A French Caravelle jet airliner-carrying 77 people-crashed in denso fog three miles outside Rabat tonight and caught fire. There were no survivors.

Many of the passengers are reported to be French. The twin jet airliner, belonging to Air France, was due at Rabat from Paris.

Air France sold the plube, airliner, on its way from Dus- carried 71 pussengers and a six- seldorf to Gander, Newfound- man crew. The passenger list land, crushed in fug at Shan- included 04 adults, six children non. Ireland. and a baby.

The flames

The plane burned for more than an hour in a ravine be- tween the villages of Douar Doum and Douar Dbagh, less than a mile from here, as re-

On September 1, 78 people were killed when U.S." Con- stellation crashed shortly after taking off from Chicago airport. In the only previous serious mishap to a Caravelle, 42 people died when one crashed into

illlop near Ankara in January, 1960.

Awo

men and volunteer re-fighters The medium-sized, mediuin- tried to put out the dames, Inge Caravelle, manufactured Despite the fog. rescuers by the French nationalised firm

carries its found many bodicome of Sud-Aviation, them horribly burned-cat-jet engines in pods near the tali. fered within 200 yards of the first went into service in Haming wreckage,

1050. Since then about a hundred French Ambassador, M. have gone into service on a In Europe, South Roger Seydoux, was waiting at dozen lines the airport to welcomic

and North America, All embassy staff members on the Agencies. Incoming light when he heard the plane was down. He sped through the night to the scene

of the crash.

Month's 'third

same

The plane. which had it Paris tonight, was to have put down at Rabat, en route for Casablanco, al 2210 GMT. remuined in

contact with the Rabat control tower until 2202 GMT. Then there was silence. The planc crashed minutes later.

Other airliner crashes this month have already claimed 181 lives.

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·UK JOURNALIST

MISSING

Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 12. The Brasiilan Air Force today began a search for a plane missing over the Amazon jungle with a British Journal- ist aboard.

He is Jack Comben, 42-year- old Dally Express correspondent assigned to cover the story of the killing of the British ex- Tonight's crash was the third plorer Richard Mason. Rir disaster this month Three There were three people un days ago all 83 occupants died board

missing when a United Státes DC-6 Reuter,

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the

Russia explodes 7th nuclear bomb

Washington, Sept.12.

The Soviet Union conducted another nuclear test in the atmosphere early today, the Atomic Energy Commission announced.

Arctic, опе cast

I said the yield was on the sumed nuclear tests which the the order of several megatons--the Soviet Union opened on Sept. | Stalingrad, and the rest on equivalent of several million 1. tons of TNT.

The test, conducted Arctic region in the vicinity of plane. Novaya Zemlyn, wax the seventh in the series of re-

Constable describes shotgun blast

that destroyed his sight

Towyn, Walos, Sept. 12.

In the

With slow, faltering steps, his white stick topping against the court furniture, a blind policeman ontered the witness box hore today to testify about the moments before his sight was blasted by 70 shotgun pellots last month.

Row- other police constables on 1

August 7. Boynton also faced further charges of Larceny and house- breaking, brought against him when the court hearing began. Boynton, who was not defended, listened as he heard 39-year- old Arther Rowlands, his face pitted with pellet scars, and

glasses wearing dark

give

Police Constable Arthur

fands told how a man, alleged to be "on the run" from the polles, emptied sawn-off shotgun into his face at two to three yards' range.

Before the court WAR crop- haired Robert Boynton, 40, of no fixed address, charged with the attempted murder by shooting

Rowlands of August 2. He was also accused

murder of attempted

on

of the two

evidence. Rowlands told the court that as

Kun came out of the shadows. He said the man spoke first saying: 'You should not have I am going to shoot

of

The amouncement said: "The Soviet central Ala-have been Atomic Energy Commission in the low to Intermediate kilo- announced this afternoon that ton range. A kiloton is the

equivalent of 1,000 tons the Soviet Union conducted an-

TNT.-Reuter. nuclear ex- other atmospheric plosion early today.

"The detonation took place in the Arctic region in the vicinity of Novaya Zemlya, and the yield wns on the order of several megatons,"

This is the second megaton blast of the series of tests in The atmosphere bexun ол September 1. The first, also перт the island of Novaya Zemlyu, was last Sunday.

The other five tests-one in

TOURISTS IN

CRASH

Bonn, Sept. 13,

come. you.'

A Belgion bua corrying 40 Brt- Rowlands added: "I look. the full blast of shot in my face."

Hish tourists — mostly Londoners When interviewed by the pollee,

and a lorry collided on the Autobahn Boynton was alleged to have Karlsruhe-Stuttgart said: "My object in life is to during the night. killing the destroy the jew-poxed poller, bus's Belgian co-driver and in- and have no regrets for furing 32 others. doing so."

The injured included 28 of the party. Ching

he walked towards a garage The hearing WAS adjourned British a man with a sawn-off shot-"} until tomorrow,—Reuter.

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Rescue workers toll amid the strown wreckage of a Provident Airlines charter-

of

on

ed DC-6 on a mudbank the River Shannon

in astuary Ireland September 10, after the crash earlier in the mom- ing which killed ll

aboard, 76 adult passon-

gers, ono child and six American crow.

The wreckage is ringod by the tracks of the rescuo workers.``

The river ground.

is in the back-

The plane came down after taking off from Shannon airport to con- tinue its flight to Chicago - fram Dusseldorf. Most of those killed wore. Ger- mans,Associated Press

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