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Cripps

11 DIE IN AIR CRASH

PLANE CAUGHT IN TREES

Frankfort. Feb. 12. Seven passengers and the crew of four | were killed out of a Fotal of 21: on board when a Danish airliner į crashed after being caught in trees, about. 22 miles From Frankfurt, today,

There

are 10 Injured survivors, but seven of them are "ww.kize" casualties. Three of the survivors are women

Eyewitnes reports of the crash reaching the nearest German police station at Lanterbach ski the plane, which was flying to low over the hilly Oberwald in pour

visibility, had been enght in the trees before making its crash landing.

The plane, which belonged to the Lines. WIN OIL the Danish Air

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1948.

Demands Lower Prices, Less Profits

TIGHTER CONTROL

London, Feb. 12.—He had asked employers to work out a plan to decrease prices and profits, Sir Stafford Cripps, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the House of Commons tonight.

Sir Stafford, who was stating the Labour Government's case in a one-day debate on wage policy, said he had asked employers to let him have their proposals within a month.

The employers' main organisation-the Federation of British Industries--had already given its answer and "will do their utmost to assist in that way",

"I want to see a voluntary ceiling on all prices of goods which do not come within price control”. Sir Staf ford declared.

"Excess prolits upset the whole Copenhagen-Frankfurt-Zurich route. "nie system and create false

The survivors were taken to the 1 values,” German hospital township of Lauterbatch,

the

SUDDEN DROP

early

uf

Commander Paul Schietzel, Copenhagen, a pilot on board the airliner who was not seriously in Jured in the crash, said the plane becn flying high when it suddenly dropped,

Weather

conditions adverse,

he said, but he believed: a technical difficulty bad caused the

Hisaster.

Leating for the Government In

to buy food and the raw materials necessary, and we shall suffer un employment.”*

PRIME SAFEGUARDS

the debate, Sly Stafford went 101: More production and lower costs "We cannot disregard the necumu-

were the prime safeguards against lation and distribution of large prothese possiblities.

all aretions of ts at a time when the community are being asked exerriku

is restraint as to their per- sonal Incomes.

10

be

There were three ways in which the tendency to inflation could arrested. The first was by the "Reasonable profits are a fair re- voluntary commansense and self- distri- Ward, but excess profits upset the restraint of manufacturers, bren

workers. The second whole economic system and create hutors and false values. If this measure of re- was by direct Governmental action Atenint of sacriflce can be shown by

and the third a combination of the those who draw their income from other two. profits, then there is a good chance

points Sir

One of the surviving passengersi said the plane hud crashed at exact- ly 12.15 p.m. local time. 1 toggy and raining at the time of the crash, he added.

The 10 survivors, who were given emergency treatment at the German

th hospital in Lauterbach,, were taken by ambuinnce to an American Army hospital in Glesen.

One of the three injured winnen htt survivors described how she seen her husband die in the names

ור.

The

other

of persuading wage and salary made were that controls and earners also to exercise retraint in ridles had saved Britain from the use of pressure which the scar-neontrolled inflation.

of lamur. enables them rty

apply

NEW CEILING

Stafford

sub-

an

10

The situation is not yet out of hand, he declared.

A clear danger was the continued rise in personal incomes without any

The Chancellor of the Excheqter more goods being available on this unmouneed that the Government markets.

proposes an immediate ceiling ati

"If we are to achieve even with

the level ruling last December and Marshall and the balance of puy- that constimmed the plane when it lank month on manufacturers' prices|ments, we must greatly increase ex- of all gands which come within the ports. If we cannot increase them crashed, um ambulance driver said.

American and German police were prive contrisk system but have not sufficiently, we shall then be driven tonight still continuing hele rescue already got a sutleiently close price to reduce our imports still further." Therefore no more-goods-could-be "work"at the zeene of the crash -------- control-

A polics sergeant of the German "Our objective is to reduce prices: made available for the home market. police post at chstein said he, wherever possible and so to reduce saw the plane flying low over the prolita". Sir Stalford declared. villages

EDEN'S CRITICISM

Mr Anthony Eden, deputy leader

Sir Stafford said that in the face of the Opposition, who had openent then heard the explosion whichy of overriding national difficulties, the the debats, said that if the Chan follower the crash," he said, "Forest Government met ask that negotia- cellor of the Exchequer intended to workers found the wreckage. When tions for wage increases shall either face the real fact, he had the Oppo I came on the scene soon afterwards, be put off or sise conducted esition's support. the back part had broken off and light of the principle it tund laid down. had fallen burning to the ground.

"We are dealing

"Probably the survivors are all year and pot with

not the people who were seated in the declared. back part of the plane.

Som

of that there the bodies, had mid been retriever salary

forward part is until yet because the still burning

The Danish Air Lines ut Copen hagen tonight gave the following ensually list of their aircraft which had crashed at Frankfurt today.

Passengers kled

In the

171

It-

Mr Eden then accused the Gov- with the next i ernment of making an "alternating eternity," he succession of warnings and optimis- not suggesting lie forecasts."

Recalling a Christmas time sprech never be wage and increases in

But In the future.

by the Deputy Prime Minister, M 11

Herbert Morrison, in which he sait ser are of our difficulty, we should all holl-

that Britain was "reding the re- hold our bands in this matter of personal Income and be

covery corner," Mr Eden compared It with the "menacing gap" prepared to await a time when the

Britain's balance of payments urgent needs of our nation are not

ferred to on Tuesday by Sir Stafford | so overwhelmingly pressing as they

Cripps. loubtedly are today."

"I do not understand how it is Stressing the effect on exports of

of the same: Mrs Ebba Euters, Swedish; Mrs rising wages and prices, Sir Stafford slute for members

such completely Elsa Olsson, Swedish; Carl Oppen, saiti: "If our prices frighten off Cabinet to make

foreign buyers, we shall be unable contradictory statements." he com-

mented. The

declared. Opposition, he wholeheartedly subscribed to the principle that there must be equal distribution of the burden to check inflation.

whatever

Miss Thirthe Sundstrom, Swedish:

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EDITORIAL

Sadistic Criminals

THE savagely

brutal

on two European hikers

attack

the Kowloon hills on Wednesday, which resulted in the death of one, and severe Injuries to Le "other, rauks as one of the most dempleable crimes ever carried out within the Colony's boundaries..

Detalls of e wretched drama Succest that the four

Chinese brigands were moved to follow up their robbery of the two men by murdering one and all bat kiting the other, eller becauso, -they feared the victims would be in K position to raise n quick alarm, or because of sheer blood Just. The sequence of

avents alows all too clearly that the rob. bern. having

achieved their

original purpose, deliberately re- turned to submit their victims to physical violence, and of such a manner as to suggest schooling In the Japanese art of madistle Il-treatment. This holiday, crime, so wanton in ile brutally, will naturally be deplored by the general public, who will also ex- nect the police to spare no effort down the criminals. in tracking But it also ralsen other points. It demonstrales, yet again, if this were necessary, that the armed robber of today has no compund- tion in taking the most

draatlo

nor

measures to allan his ends, to show any mercy towards those who would dry or resist film. These are ruthless, desperate men whe waylay hikers, stage raida private on shops,

break into houses, and resist the pollee. How Is the wayfald hiker or the dis. householder to turbed

protect himself from such characters, for the omluous feature about Wed- nesday's crime was that submils- sion to be robbed did not prevent a subsequent murderous assault. One obvious necessity is enlarged police patrols, but these have to be conditioned by the availability of constables and officers, a fag- tor which has for two years proved a bugbear to the effective- ness of the police force. Alterna- tively the authorities may serious- ly have to consider revising palley regarding the possession of firearms by reputable and respon- sible citizens for their self proteo- tion, Armed marauders cannot be permitted to rule undisturbed in the rural highways and hikers' paths, and if these cannot be safe- guarded by the pollee, then these who require or deatre to use them must be entitled to carry their own weapons of self defence. It in the duty of the police to davise some method of protection for pedestrians, whether they be on busiftess of hiking for pleasure.

an

But

steps might bel in respect of distributed" necessary profits, he hoped nothing would be ploughing done to discourage the

That back of pronts into industry, was indispensable to Britain's long- term survival as on industrial A- tion.

ONLY WAY OUT

was

Scrounging For Water

Polluted Water For Drinking & Washing

SHOCKING SHEK-O CONDITIONS

Six hundred people who live in Shek-O village, adjacent to the popular Shek-O bathing beach, have no waterline and are forced to carry drinking and washing water from polluted streams almost a mile the hills, the Telegraph discovered this week as a result of a visit by a special representative to the district.

away

over

The village population is constant The above pictures taken at Slick- O are mute but eloquent, confirma- ly increasing and during the summer months some 2,000 bathers visit the tion of conditions under which the Leach each day. There is no fresh villagers have to obtain their water. water provided for the bathers who

be the village inhabitants.

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Price 20 Cents

New Radar Device For H.K. Shipping

ACCURACY TESTING

1BY HARRIET HARVEY)

All ships calling at Hongkong will be able to test the accuracy and range of their radar equip ment when, within the next few weeks, a radar ranging mark is erected on Channel Rock in Kowloon Bay.

Planned by the Royal Navy in co-operation with Hongkong's Marine Department, the radar beacon will be available to any merchant ship which desires to use it.

The beacon will face the Naval, Ferry path transmit messages- Dockyard and any ship passing into through Blackhead Point and ships Bie oren between Channel Rock and lying West of this path through tho the dockyard will be able, when Marlae tower.

sending out radar beams, to calibrate | Messages are sent from the vessels to these paints by flash signals. In all equipment with high accuracy,

with stref mesh. Covered

the this way, an agent or Interested beacon will be built in conleal shape

porly may communicate with his

signal stations.

011 21 triangular frame approximately him by telephoning one of the two 18 feet high. Since steel is the ideal

reflector for radar beans, and since In addition, the stations keep the distance between a ship and constant watch for ships in distress. Channel Rock enn be exactly enlcu-

lated in the harbour, the new testing device will enable ships to repair radar

equipment with far greater ease and accuracy than. was pre- viously possible.

At present, in order to calibrate their radar, ships are forced to put to sen and test against rocky consts or other ships where distances cannot

be accurately calculated by other

mercham

means.

At present onty a lew vessels calling at Hongkong Arc radar. The Marine

equipped with

Department said, however, that expects a large increase in rudar-

New Food Price Levels

In U.S.

Aid Plan Benefits

Chiengo; Feb. 12.-Prices of

ülted ships within the next two several basic food items drop- years, and that the new beacon will prove immeasurably helpful to' cap-

future.

ped "substantially".

in the

toing and shipping Arms in the United States as a direct result of the depreciation of stocks Feb- and commodities since ruary 4, the National Associa- tion of Retail Grocers said to-

COMMUNICATIONS Meanwhile, the entire port com- munications systemi has

been changed. Under the new scheme. day. ship's arrival is reported to harbour offices and shipping agents than 30 minutes before il arrives 10 the harbour.

niore

Signal-and-raido-stations have been set up at Waglan Lighthouse to the East, at Green Island to the West and at Blackhead Point on Chalbam Road. Kowloon.

Among the price fails they listed were the following:

Flour down between five and 16 cents per American pound (454 grammes), Butter tive to six-cents per American pound. Ready to serve hams five to 10 cents per American pound. Eggs 10 cents a dozen in some parts of the country. If a vessel is arriving from the Bucon Ave to 10 cents per Ameri- East, the station at Waglan, which is can pound. Beef cuts three to 12 miles out of Hongitong, picks up eight cents per American pound. her signals. Wagian reports

In New York, more food retailers mmediately by radio to the Marine are following the big chainstores in Office signal tower in Connaught | cutting their prices.—Reuter, Road.

From there, the messages are

relayed by telephone to agents and ship owners and to the Government

BACK TO OCT. LEVEL Washington, Feb. 12.-Breaks in

departments interested: Health Office, the stocks and commodity market Passport

Office; and the Water in the United States have put prices Police. if necessary.

Ships arriving from reported by telephone from Island. Blackhead Point is used a double check.

back where they were when the Marshall Plan estimates were first the West are made, the States Department said

Green

Functioning 24 hours a day, stations communicate with the coming ships by dush or signals at night and by sight wireless by day.

as prices thus

in-

readjusted by

the depreciation. the proposed expen- diture of $0,000 million will again wireless buy as much as it was intended that or they should when the plan was laid down Jast October, the State Depart- the ment added,

This system avoids delay in berthing of ships and full service

This claim was the signal for the can be arranged before the vessel anti-Marshall Plan forces In. Con-

arrives in Barbour. The consequent press to call anew for cuts In the saving of pubile funds runs Into American contribution. The group tens of thousand dollars a year.

PUBLIC SERVICE

of so-called "revisionists"--20 Iegls- lators who have banded together eut and amend the European re- Any of the general public can re-

covery

that programme insisted ecive prior notice of a ship's arrival the commodity decline means that by paying 50 cents to the Marine Office in Connaught Hood.

After a ship arrives in port, ship. of its own accord, revise its figures to-shore communientions are range through two stations, Black- Office hendi Point and the Marine

ing at anchorage East of the

nr-

Star

the State Department

downwards."--Reuter.

should now,

INFLATION THREAT Washington. Feb. 12.-President

In the Inst resort, the only way to get out of the present position

.The streams are almost dried unust drink the local water, boiled signal tower. In general, ships ly-Trunan insisted today that inflation It was, by increased output. therefore essential that the Govern- and are covered with anti-Malaria ment's "very proper desire" to com- ot and alth from 'habitations above. hat Inflation did not result in any To wash, the Chinese women

action which might kill initiative.

For that reason, he urged that carry their clothes to the polluted workers should have further income and oily streams which run through relief, paid for by decreased gov-Shek-O golf course. Women gather ernmental expenditure.

underneath viaducts to keep off the Taking a

a long-term

view, there fairway. The stream above The was no cause whatever for despair, washing hole has been used as Mr Eden declared.

After referring to the great re-open Intrine and drinking water

below the washing" sources in the British Commonwealth often collected

and Empire and the key position place. geography hol given Britain In

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Western Europe, Mr Eden declared:

Shek-() Village which had 1,000

and

"Can anyone say, with all those op-inhabitants before the war, was re- portunities, that there is no hope for duced to 450 during the war, the future?

has now swelled, to 600,

"Of course there is, but only if we handle our business in the right way. the Government feel them- selves unequal to the task of government, it in my duty to tell them there are others who feel they can discharge that task with better

was still a major economic threat to the United States despite the lowering of prices in the last few days as a

preciations.

Drifts 42 Months At Sea In result of commodity and stock de-

Converted Sub. Chaser

Suva, Fiji, Feb. 12.-Ronald E. Johnson, 38-year-old seaman, made port Loday in a converted submarine chaser after an almost unparalleled saga of, the sea, in which he was virtually at the mercy of the wind and waves for four and a half months while he was drifting from a point near

Honolulu to the Fiji Islands.

the worse for The other crew gave him

his

pro-

U

The President told newsmen that It was still too early to tell what the Pffects of the recent drops would be. He said the latest developments did not, in any way, affect the urgent need for Congressional approval of his anti-inflation programme, which calls for price and wage controls and rationing powers-Reuter.

Fatal Experiment

Apparently tile

Alton, Hampshire, Feb. 12.--The big adventure. Johnson arrived visions and Johnson said he thought pilot was killed instantly when an aboard bis engineless craft in the the prevalling winds and currents experimental tailless Flying Wing tow of the freighter Fort Cudolfe, would take him to the Philippines, ellder crashed in a feld near here which sichted the drifting vessel on

foday, shortly after casing off from Wednesday.

Ile spend

its a month rington

towing pione.. Johnson sald he started

The other occupant, an observer, makeshift sail, but control was poor Tel-Aviv Robbery Journey on October 9, when he left and sometimes he thrifted

Honolulu aboard a sub-chaser in as 63 miles daily. He had plenty of

as much escaped safely by parachute.

down The glider turned upside Jerusalem, Feb. 12Twenty the tow of a second

sub-chaser. fresh, water and lived on canned, and plunged to the ground like a heart and the sincere conviction that. masked men today held up the The second day out, the

towing milk and miscellaneous linned goods, stone after it was released from the under their leadership, the nation biggest diamond shop in the centro pear parted and Johnson refused to while he also caught some dolphin Lancaster aircraft which could ride the gathering storm."— | of Tel-Aviv and escaped with tems abandon his ship because it repre-which he described as poor, eating, towing it, an eye-witness stated,...... Reuter,

valued at US$00,000,-United Press. sented his life savings.

-United Press.

Reuter.

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