HONDURAS DISPUTE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29716, 9 January 1962, Page 11

HONDURAS DISPUTE

U.K. Proposes Talks (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) LONDON, Jan. 7. Britain has proposed to Guatemala that the two countries should meet to solve their century-old dispute over British Honduras. Guatemala has laid claim to neighbouring British Honduras for more than a hundred years. Britain’s proposal is for talks in April or May in London on "outstanding issues in Anglo-Guatemalan relations,” a Foreign Office announcement eaid. Atlantic Solo Flight (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) STOCKHOLM. Jan 8. A 20-year-old Swedish high school student, Olle Rmgstrand, landed safely at Stockholm yesterday after completing a transatlantic solo flight the youngest flier to achieve the feat. A tumultuous welcome greeted him at the Bromma Airport, on a small scale resembling the one Charles Lindbergh received at Le Bourget in Paris in 1927. Exactly on schedule Ringstrand's small one-engined Piper Comanche touched down on the runway, looking like a tiny gnat among the big airliners. Tall and lanky, the young Swede climbed down on the wing and stood shivering in the cold, dressed in a slightly threadbare black suit, a homeknitted pullover, and with his tie awry.

Wall Collapses (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BERLIN. January 8. A short section of the Berlin border wall collapsed in the French sector last night. East German guards threw teargas grenades to keep people away until it was repaired, West Berlin police reported today.