WORLD NEWS

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31908, 8 February 1969, Page 13

WORLD NEWS

Queen As Head

The Canadian Prime Minister (Mr Trudeau) said today that Canada should continue to be a sovereign State with the Queen as its head, and proposed that the Crown be maintained at both federal and provincial levels. His views were contained in a brief prepared for a constitutional conference opening in Ottawa on Monday. “Too great a diversity between federal and provincial institutions would create major barriers in understanding and function, introducing an additional source of difficulty in federal-provincial relations,” he said.—Ottawa, February 6. Bank Robbery Two men, armed with a sawn-off shotgun and a baseball bat, held up a Melbourne suburban bank today and escaped with $35,000. The men, both aged about 20, broke in through a toilet window and rounded up bank staff as they arrived for work. They bound up the bank’s cleaner with rope, and locked six members of the staff in a back room one by one. When the bank manager arrived, the men forced him to open the strongroom, took the money, and escaped in the cleaner’s car.—Melbourne, February 7. Fierce Storm Eleven Japanese vessels have been sunk at sea and 13 American airmen drowned in a fierce storm which swept in from the Pacific and rampaged through the Japanese island of Hokkaido. About 170 small fishing boats were destroyed at their moorings in the island harbour, while troops have been mobilised to rescue 2000 motorists stranded in the heaviest snowfalls in the island’s history. A United States Air Force transport plane from the Philippines crashed into

the sea, losing all but one of its 14-man crew, while searching for seven survivors from a sunken boat.—Tokyo, Feb. 6. Troops Called Out Troops were called out in Lahore today for the second time in 11 days to help the police disperse student demonstrators. The students fought the police, who tried to stop them forming a procession after a meeting to press demands for a reduction in school fees. They had also wanted to demonstrate in protest against the detention of certain student leaders, and the entry of police into education institutions. — Lahore, February 7. Burial In State Dr E. C. Mondlane was buried in state in Dar-Es-Salaam today, as a pledge was made to avenge his death by intensifying the struggle he led in Mozambique. Tanzania’s President (Mr Nyerere), who ordered a hero’s funeral after Dr Mondlane’s assassination on Monday, shovelled the first earth on to the coffin after a 19-gun salute. Dr Mondlane, aged 48, and president of the Mozambique Liberation Front, was killed by a bomb explosion at the beach-house of an American friend.—Dar-Es-Salaam, February 6. Prince As Judge Britain’s Prince Charles, the 20-year-old heir to the throne this evening helped select a beauty queen. The prince, an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, will be one of three judges who will select the university’s “Rag Queen” from 18 pretty, mini-skirted contestants. The girls, some undergraduates and some town girls, will parade in the annal “Rag” gala to raise funds for charity, and will be judged on good looks, dress sense, and personality.—Cambridge, February 7.