SABOTAGE OF AIRLINER
Reward Offered In Hong Kong
(Rec. 10 p.m.) HONG KONG, June 11. Hong Kong police today offered a reward of 100.000 Hong Kong dollars for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a person or persons responsible for the sabotage of the Kashmir Princess, the Indian airliner. The Constellation aeroplane crashed on April 11 in the South China sea off Borneo on a flight between Hong Kong and Jakarta, killing 15, including eight Chinest Communist officials and newspapermen on their way to the Asian-African conference at Bandung.
On May 26 an Indonesian Government inquiry after visiting Hong Kong announced that a time bomb had caused the disaster. The Communist Peking Radio claimed within 48 hours of the crash that the plane had been sabotaged in Hong Kong. In a Government statement issued today the Hong Kong police Commissioner, Mr A. C. Maxwell, said: "It has been established beyond doubt that the Kashmir Princess met its end through an explosion caused by some form of time bomb. “It is regrettably alihost equally certain that this time bomb was placed aboard the aircraft in Hong Kong.
“No effort is being spared to bring to justice the perpetrators of this ghastly crime which must offend the conscience of all humanity,’’ he said.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27683, 13 June 1955, Page 11
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