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Explosion destroys jet airliner

B.E.A. COMET CRASHES, BURNS

NEW GUINEA 29 dead

A

DANGER

NUMBER of Countries4

are presently engaged in studi wars. Sune huva faken a violent turn. Berlin

has had its moments and

there has been il Certain amount of shooting.

There

still exista the division of opinion in the Coromunist Ikor

Albania. The

over

in 1:4

Congo turmoil word it is hard th see what the eventual out come will be and whether i the United Nations, like it predecessor, the League of Nations will fail iu the balance. Korea and Vietnam are stil

potential sources. for PHON sible trouble. Under the

in Ankara

disaster

Ankara, Dec. 22.

A British European Air- Comet 4 jet- ways liner crashed in flames moments after take- off last night. First reports said 29 of the board 34 people on were killed.

guidance of the professed They said four passen-

pacifists Nehru and his

Defence Minister, Krishna

Menon, India has invaded

the Portuguese enclaves

which have existed for hundreds of years.

TOW we have President

N

Sakarno ranting gam

gers were injured and taken to hospital. A fifth survivor who was only slightly injured was being treated at the airport's medical centre.

The officials said the Comet's crew of seven were ali kuken

The second

Early reports that the plane bad

En exploded

mkdair proved false. Airport Officials, who were witnesses to the disaster,

said: "The

the "liberation" of West New Guinea. How far he will go remains to be seen, but in the light of the Indian liberation" of the it is Portuguese enclaves possible that another amall war will break out. Presi

plane dent Sukarno endeavoured

did not explode until it Lo blackmail the Dutch

touched the ground. The some years ago by national-

violence of the expleston was laing their plantations.

such that it literally diskote. This falled and Dr

grated the forward part of the (uselage

the entire Sukarno and his Foreign Minister, Dr Subandrio, i cockpit."

One added have apparently pressed on with their plan of drawing pression--but it is only

red herring

the pression--that the crew noticed over

of, the beginning of a fire on board nation with the object

as the planie look off, and at- taking the Indonesian mind tempted to make a forced land- off internal troubles.

ing at

the rod of the airstrip Fresident Sukarno's claim tal when the Comet touched the

West New Guinea (or as he ground, it exploded · prefers to cali it. West! Control tower operators said

gained big plane Irian) is frankly imperialis- the

12

"

זיי

have

the im

an im-

only

in

tic. The only thing Indonesia about 1,000 feet of altitude be

and fore it crashed

split ever had in common

Wreckage was scatteri the Dutch as their colonial two.

ever a wider Tea aixit five masters. The people of West miles east of the airfield, locat- New Guinea are a different

MAI 12 miles from the ruce from the Indonesians, They don't even speak the same language; they do not have the same ideas or Aviv, vla Nicosia.

customs; they are primitive in the extreme.

heart of Ankara

The big jet, BEA fight 262, was bound from London to Te

The time of the disaster, the second involving a Comet with- six werks, was 2145 GMT.

in

HE Dutch are on the way | An Argentine Air Laes

To educating these people

cutie: crashed in a similar ac

and if President Sukarno cident in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last

month. persists in demanding their

there liberation

will be A passenger list was not a

However, in further trouble Asia.mediately available.

Am-

Any solution must be based the daughter of British en gradual self-government bassador to Turkey, Sir Bernard the people of New Burrows, disembarked from the Guinea. The only effect of plane at Ankara just before the

for

an

Indonesian takeover!

8

crash.

change of

would be colonial masters a change

which, we say, would be decidedly for the worse.

Attache

Among the survivors was

Cypriot National

a

roads.

The invaders ride into Goa

Indian troops riding in jerps enter to as people line the Three tiny Portuguese cuclaves, Goa, Dlu and Deman, were seized by the tndian forca two days after the start of the invasion.-AP Radio photo.

MACMILLAN MEETS KENNEDY

Russia's advances in

N-arms on agenda

Hamilton, Bermuda, Dec. 22. President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan yester- day heard their atomic experts report essential agree- ment that analysis of recent Russian atmospheric ) test explosions showed considerable progress in the nuclear weapons field.

scientifle

The joint presentation of separate British and 0.5.

studies of the Soviet series was a major highlight of the five-hour dission that marked the opening of the Kennedy- Macmillan merling here

Berlin and the Congo

Other topics domirating the first session were Berlin and the

Congo. On all three major subjects, the spokesman for both sides said, there was complete agreement" in Thursday's meeting, although this did not necessarily mean a sudden adjustment of policy differences between the two nations. Berlin, informed sources said Mr Kennedy and Mr Macmillan agreed on the resumption of "exploratory" talks with Russia early next year, seeking once again to determine Soviet readi- ness to negotiate a settlement on "an honourable basis.“-----UPI,

On

POPE JOHN APPEALS FOR PEACE

Vatican City, Dec. 21. Pope John tonight launched a Christmas peace appeal to the rulers of all nations to halt a possible "chain reaction of acts, decisions, resentments that could erupt into rash and irreparable deeds."

he

*

The Pope, of foRTICE. Think of the tragedy speaking เก of initiating a chain reaction of resentments decisions, solemn tones in nets,

!

that could erupt into rash and world wide

irreparable deeds. broadcast from "You have received greal the library of powers not to destroy but to

divide but Vall-build, not his сал apart-lunite, not to cause tears to be ments, said he shed but to provide employ-! refused to be-

ment and security.

The

Ki

to

Pope's 3,000 - word lleve that man would deliber- Christmas message, the

fourth

ately

destroy of his reign, was translated into himself by the 30 languages including Rus- very wonders stan-and beamed to the corners of science and of the world by a complex of has already Vatican and international trans-

missions.

was televised.

Pope John

progress mastered.

"We cannot believe," he said, "that the terrific energy now under the control of man will be released for the world's des-

Turkish Cypriot Deputy to the

sembly Goa invasion_protest HOME, SWEET truction.

Hadji Ahmet. Another survivor

the

How can it be otherwise was Hilmi Ulueren, of Ankara. when Indonesia has not yet! A third survivor was identified given proof that it can keep as Israeli Army Colonel Joseph its own house in order.

Kidar, military attache at Fresident Sukarno should not Israeli Embassy in Ankara,

forget that the Australians, who administer the other half of New Guinea, also have an interest in this question. They fought in the defence of New Guinea

pened near Anka passengers against the Japanese and Last September, will not take lightly any in- and crew were killed when a filtration into their area by Turkish twin-engined Fokker

Twelve of the 27 passengers aboard got on at Ankara.

Today's crash is the third in Turkey major air disaster in the past

two years--and both the previous

two hap-

a foreign power, particular airliner crashed into a hill near

ly one as unstable and as 10 Germans were vulnerable to

and

Communist dead. takeover as the Indonesians.

In January lost year D There is a possibility one day Caravelle airliner of Scandina

that the two halves of Newvian Airlines System crashed Guinea will be united into

hilltop near Ankara and

MACAO-BORN

HK RESIDENTS

EXPRESS INDIGNATION

Ankara. A British woman

Macao, Dec, 22, among the More than 600 Macao-born persons working in Hong- kong today sent a cable to the Governor Lieuten- ant-Colonel Jaime Silverio Marques protesting against the invasion of Goo.

in independent nationhood. 40 people were killed. Whatever

encouragement A total of 251 people have Australia gives to Papuan been killed in civli and military air crashes during the past two self-government, it will months-33 of them in Decom- never tolerate an extension ber-Reuter, AFF & AP.

of Dr Sukarno's "guided

democracy" in this area

of vital interest. If Dr

Sukarno persists in

his

BOATS MISSING

They expressed their indigna-

the tion over

invasion, and reaffirmed their solidarity with the "Portuguese nation.

THE TEXT

HOME

Charleston, Va., Dec. 21.

The department store elerk WAS filling out * sales slip during the Christ- mas shopping rush.

As the woman customer

her gave

address, the harassed clerk remarked: “A madhouse, isn't it?"

"No," replied the cust- omer, somewhat testily, "It's a private residence." —AP.

Fragile

side "For

side with by elements of fear and apprehen- sion, there are positive signs of constructive goodwill that t and productive of good."

"We appeal to the rulers of the nations, who today hold in their hands the fate of man- kind.

In Italy, it UPI.

BRIEFS

MONTY AGAIN.

Managua, Dec. 21. Field

Viscount Marshal

today it was Mongomery dziä "You also are men, fragile "madness" to try to keep the largest nation--Com- and mortal. Upon you are the world's anxious eyes of your fellowmen muntst China-out of the United Montgomery, who who are first your brothers be Nations. fore they are your subjects. arrived in Nicaragua today on

*With

the authority which his tour of Latin America, left have received from Jesus later for southern Nicaragua Christ, we say: firun all thought UPL

we

SQUABBLE OVER SALE PRICE OF ANOTHER

MAN'S WIFE LEADS TO MURDER

Rome, Dec. 21.

Police today said an Italian baker who had sold his estranged wife on a monthly installment plan in Reggio Calabria, was shot and killed by the purchaser during an argument over a demand for a discount.

for US$1,000 in monthly installments.

Police said Marino Insisted that

The text of the cable read: The baker, Vincenzo Maribo, 932, claim to the Dutch half, he

Tokyo, Des. 22. must expect the. ustive

"Macao boys working in Hong-way shot by Antonio Raffa in antagonism of the Aus- boats with 31 crewmen were mit population our voice of

Two Japanese tus fishing kong beg Your Excellency tran the squabble at the home of

the wife, Francorca, 29, last Raff 30, legal clerk, had trollans, as today's state-mining in howvy about indignation Gor event, night,

on

made mente totalling, 4900– ment by Opposition leader, 1700 miles esat of Tokyo, the maintaining our loyal faith an Polles said Merino agreed to

who he balked. Last night at Haffa Mr Arthur Calwali, inakes" "Marliline Safety Agenor report-nation; with honour of being sell his wife and mother

his three chlidren "to Rafta ed foilay,AP, clear, PA RAN

1 Portuguese people."UPI.

i

Baybg any more,

Raffa live up to his agreement add pay the full price, wheres upon Haffs killed him disappeared – aft shooting Upc

'Can't understand

why I did it'

A British Army sergeant, jailed nine months for snatching a Chinese woman's handbag, ex- claimed in court this morning: "I cannot un- derstand what made me do it!"

Sergeant

Normab Henry

Collins, aged 29,

picached the compaimant

Chat

of the Royal k-mui, 36, from behind in the rear lane of Knutsford Terrace

Warwickshire Regiment, station-

ed in Fanling, continued:

"All

my life I had been a goud soldier and a good citizen.'

SERIOUS

Then he heard the magistrale, Mr A. Garcia, tell him at South Kowloon Magistracy: "This is a serious offence. and the least sentence 1 can impose

nonths.

Kimberley-road, muffled her mouth with

hand one

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cathed the handbag.

The

and

handbag fell 10 the ground and was partly damaged. Defendant picked it up and ran. The woman raised the alarm and a police constable

is nine the defendant.

ber, the court had heard Inspector D. J. Collins, prosecut- ing, say that defendent ap-

arrested

The plastic bag contained US$20 and HK$41.

Defendant had a clear record Inspector Collins said.

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