CZECH ICE PLAYERS’ DISAPPEARANCE

Grey River Argus, 13 November 1948, Page 5

CZECH ICE PLAYERS’ DISAPPEARANCE

LONDON, November 11. A search bv the R.A.F. for a chartered light plane carrying six mern--bers of the Czech international ice hockey team, which is overdue on a flight from Paris to London was called off at dusk after all-day The disappearance of six Czech ice hockey players on a flight to London three days ago is becoming a major political issue in Czechoslovakia, says the British United Press corresponden .A Central Action Committee announced that it was conducting a strict investigation of a E th ? stances connected with the departure from Paris for London and reasons for dividing the s 9 aaa ®.- Reuter’s Paris correspondent sajs the newspaper, I’lnstransigeant suggested 1 that the aircraft flown over the Atlantic. An Orleans listening station picked up a message indicating that the aircraft a flying towards Lemans, which is in the direction of Brittany and the Atlantic. .j™* The Times Paris correspondent says the French are holding an inquiry into the circumstances unaei which the plane left Le Bourget on the afternoon of November S. All landing fields in France have been warned. The plane is not yet presumed lost. The secretary of the British Ice Hockey Association announced that the Czechoslovakian tour would be cancelled and the players now in Britain would return home by air to-morrow.