PLANE CRASH

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20258, 29 July 1937, Page 9

PLANE CRASH

EXPLOSION IN MID-AIR. FOURTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. DUTCH LINER DESTROYED. United Press Assn.—ETec. Tel. Copyright. BRUSSELS, July 28. The entire crew of four, including a stewardess, and 10 passengers were killed when a Dutch air liner, en route to Paris, crashed in flames near Brussels after an explosion iu mid-air.

LIGHTNING THE CAUSE. ONLY ONE BRITON ABOARD. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received July 29, li a.m.) BRUSSELS, July 28. The disaster is believed to be due to lightning. All that remains is a smouldering mass of twisted steel In a held. Many bodies were charred, and a doctor is endeavouring to reconstruct them with a view to identification. There was only one British passenger, of the name of Whitehouse. WHEAT AND RYE. WHOLE CROP TAKEN OVER. CONDITIONS IN GERMANY. SAFEGUARDING BREAD SUPPLY. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. BERLIN, July 27. Herr Hitler has issued a decree taking over the whole wheat and rye crop, in order to safeguard the bread supply. It forbids the use of bre'ad grain for feeding poultry.

A COMMON POLICY. IMPERIAL DEFENCE. NEW ZEALAND’S VIEWPOINT. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. How the New Zealand delegates at Geneva had urged that the Covenant of the League of Nations should be made a reality and strengthened If necessary was explained by the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, in a statement on his return to the Dominion to-day. ‘‘We saw,” he said, “no alternative in the existing state of the world, and we felt that there could be no final end to the miseries of war until those nations that loved peace had made it abundantly clear that they were determined to maintain it —if necessary by force.

“On the subject of defence, the viewpoint of New Zealand was that just as we felt the Commonwealth should have a common foreign policy, so we agreed it must have a common defence policy. We made it plain that in the consideration of this subject in New Zealand we were con-

cerned not only with the defenoe of our own shores and our own people, but also with the defence of the whole British Commonwealth. “During the conference we had the advantage of lengthy and detailed discussions on this subject not only with His Majesty’s Ministers in the United Kingdom, but also with the responsible heads of the British Services, and I wish to say how greatly I appreciate the extreme helpfulness of everybody concerned, their anxiety not to force on any Dominion Government a policy that might not be acceptable to the Government, Parliament or people of that Dominion, and the complete and generous frankness with which every possible piece of information was placed at our disposal. I am convinced that New Zealand will benefit very greatly indeed from this aspect of the work of the conference.”

MARKET FIRST. THE MIGRATION ISSUE. REPRESENTATIONS TO BRITAIN. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. “Linked in one sense with the question of defence were the interconnected subjects of trade and migration,” said the Prime Minister Mr Savage, on his return from overseas to-day. - "Lengthy discussions took place on the question of trade generally, not only within the Commonwealth but also irom the international point of view. The Minister of Finmice, the Hon. W. Nash, had or course been engaged with great energy on these subjects for some time before my arrival, and indeed discussions are still continuing. "Du the subject of migration, 1 made it plain that the New Zealand Government could not, Jr only from the Point of view of the migrants themselves. embark on a renewed policy »f migration until it was clear wlSat mi their arrival in New Zealand the migrants were to do. “Clearly, in a country which is peculiarly suitable for primary production, migrants would normally be placed on the land, and 1 made it quite Plain Il ,; it until it was clear that a market was available for the additional produce that would result there could be no advantage to be gained by such a transfer of population,” he added. 1 • l added that ir New Zealand could 1 find no market for her expandm* primary produce it would be essential for I us lo endeavour In faeilitale a more 1 ■alarmed economy hi New Zealand by anil ding up local manufacturing in- . Iwstries and thus extending our j n - i cnial market,” Mr Savage concluded.