NO TRIAL YET FOR AIRMAN

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28747, 19 November 1958, Page 15

NO TRIAL YET FOR AIRMAN

Recent Arrest At Woonicra Range • Roc. 11.30 pm) LONDON. November '8 A month after being arrested —and having his name linked with an alleged leakage of rocket secrets to the Soviet Union—a young Royal Air Force man still had not been brought to trial, the “News Chronicle” said today Senior Aircraftsman Michael Julian Brown, aged 21. was still being detained at West Drayton near London. The newspaper said that he was flown to Britain from the rocket research unit in South Australia and charged with acts prejudicial to military discipline The Air Ministry said yesterday; “We have no further news about Brown. He is being held pending investigation's—we do not know what they are about.” The “News Chronicle’’ said that after Brown returned to England he was questioned about a leakage of Woomera range secrets. ALGERIAN REBELS IN FRANCE • Rec. 9 p.m.) LYONS. Nov 18. The police reported last night that they had broken up a network of the Algerian underground National Liberation Front in Lyons and arrested 35 men. all of them group or cell leaders. Actress’s Death.— Funeral services will be held today for Mrs Laura Roberts Taylor, a former dramatic and musical comedy star of the Australian. New Zealand and United States theatre, who died at the home of her daughter. Mrs Kenneth Comstock on Sunday night.—Ridgewood (New Jersey). November 18. Statue of Crusoe. — Hull Corporation yesterday commissioned the sculptress. Winifred Turner, to submit a 2ft 6in high statuette of Robinson Crusoe which might be thp basis of a life-sized study in bronze. Crusoe sailed from Hull on the voyage which began the famous story book adventure. —Hull (England), November 18.