TIME BOMB ON PLANE

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27670, 28 May 1955, Page 7

TIME BOMB ON PLANE

Chinese Held For Questioning (Rec. 11 p.m.) HONG KONG, May 37. Hong Kong police have detained for questioning “a number of Chinese” in an investigation into how a time bomb got aboard the ill-fated Kashmir Princess airliner, authoritative sources reported. A Hong Kong Government spokesman would not deny nor confirm this report The airliner, with Chinese Communist officials aboard, crashed off Sarawak on April 11. A Hong Kong Government spokesman said his Government had every reason to believe that the time bomb which caused the disaster had been put on the aircraft while it was in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Government was determined to do everything it could to establish all the facts and bring the guilty persons to justice. Full police inquiries were going on, the spokesman said. ' ”7 A statement saidi "The report otthe committee of inquiry appointed by the Government of Indonesia establishes that an explosion in the wing of the aircraft was caused by sabotage. ft seems probable that the explosive device employed was placed in the aircraft at Hong Kong." Woman Envoy to Britain.—Mrs Dona Virginia Prestinary de Gallegos today became the first woman envoy at the Court of St. James. She presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace her credentials as Costa Rica's Minister to Britain.—London, May 26.