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RENEWED CONGO RIOTING SHE CLAIMS TO BE
Africans loot, Court upholds
plunder as
sentence on
former
Europeans flee Miss Europe'
Leopoldville, July 11.
Rioting and rebellion flared up in the Congo again The today and Belgian troops went into action at
several flash points.
The station seemed worse rich Katanga province from in Stanleyville in the eastern the Congo Repubile, provitice where Congolese were looting and pilinging.
Thousands of Africans streamed into the town bent on picking the spous icft behind by fleeing Europeans,
African Afistes Minister and former resident General Walter Ganihot Van Der Medisch can- defled scheduled fight to Elizabethville,
They
were to have followed The African army Was In Congo Premier Patrice Lamum- rebellion and did not stop them ba and President Joseph Kasa- They plundered banks, houses vubu there this afternoon but and attacked the few Europeans met several members of the rumaining.
Congolese Cabinet instead with About 500 Africans were sur-whom they discussed the situe- rounding a four-story building tion.
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in the city centre where They will evidently stay in the Europeans had taken refuge, capital until the two Congolese The African civilians found leaders return from Elisabeth- arms left behind by Europeans ville tomorrow. and were Aring at the building, reports sold.
Belgium, troops were reported flying in. from Luluabourg where the situation was under control.
WOMEN HELD
Belgian troops went into nction in the port town of Matadi lower reaches of the on the Congo
where riyur
Alican troops tried to prevent a refugee ship from leaving the harbour.
In Matadi, too, reports saldi the Afriem population grabbed anything left by the fleeing Europeans,
A group of white women were reported being held by African troops in their camp near the
town.
The secession of the Katungs would be a death blow to the
London, July 11.. Court of Criminal Appaal- today, refused to reduce the sentence of 12 months' imprisonment. passed on 21-year-old Johanna Ehrenstrasser, Austrian actress. elected "Min Europe" in. 1958, for stealing jewellery and furs worth £6,900 in London's West End.
Her counsel said she had com- mitted the offences after taking large doses of a dangerous silm- preludin, which ming drug. could cause confusional insanity .even suicidal and sometimes tendencies.
It was then on free sale but had since been put on the pol- son list.
Congo which Ehrenstrasser, who did not will rei 60 per cent of its re-attend today's appeal, had also venue from this province, been recommended for deporta- Before leaving for Elisabeth- tion. She was sentenced last ville, Premier Lumumba had | Murch. asked United Nations" repre- sentative Dr Ralph Bunche fox UN technical and military aid to get the country back on its foot
UNITED NATIONS
Bunche refused comment but was receiving a steady stream of African representatives all day including Thomas Kanza, the Congolese delegate to the United Nations.
One of the judges asked her council if he thought the case very different from that of a man who said he heit too much to drink,
HARMFUL DRUG
"It is because people know the effects of drinic,” council replied "But if a drug is 02 the market people do not know it is harmful.”
She was taking poison with- Economic life is completely cut knowing it was poison disorganised and threatens to produce famine and large scale Counsel, submitting that the Katanga provincial Premier unemployment, Food supplies sentence was too beavy asked Moise Thembe declared a state were already showing signs of for a conditional discharge su of emergency in Elisabethylle diminishing because of the dis- that she could be sent out of the country immediately; and not of ani named Belgian
ransport, Major organisation
swell the prison population. shipping on the Weber, commander ON the especially
Aalted by Lord Parker, Congo river.
Lord Chied Justice, whether Tension among the African
COD- population in Leopoldville was Ehrenstrasser bund been
Vienna in 1057, rising, following Lumumba's victed in declaration this morning that counsel said that matter was all wages would be Increased deliberately not mentioned by Immediately by 30 per cent. the prosecution at her trial The few employers still in and she had "a complete exx- rounding up African By business said this was an implanation of it."-China
paratroopers, as chief peace. officer.
In the outlying reaches of the vast mineral-rich province re- ports sald. hostile Africans continued to mutiny.
Belgian paratroopers were
rebels 4 How miles from possibility at the present time. Special. ` .. Elisabethville. Some resistance As
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result, hundreds
ci
was being met, and shots had workers, including employees of
been exchanged.
SECESSION
The Belgian troops disarmed the Congolese army without my resistance in the mandated territories of Ruanda and Urundi.
Congolese
the Belgian World Airlines
went on strike--UPL
Castro's condition
Havana, July 11.
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro
Premier Patrice was reported resting comfortably Lumumba und President Joseph in Havana today but government Kasayubu were on their way officials said they had no fresh to Ellsabethville where, Tshombe information on his exact condi- was believed to be considering tion. He is reported to have announcing the secession of the ❘ prieumonia.--AP.
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A British Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Force acquiescence (6)
Affliction of the swollen, headled? (5)
The man to serve the Church
8 Drive a ball badly (5)
Catch round the neck (6)
11 Slated on the charge sheet
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DOWN
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Mall
General complains to Leopold II
Picture show's David Lean, British m director, with his fourth wife, Indian girl Lella' Devi, after their qulet wedding in Paris last week. Lean, whose last marriage was to actress Ann Todd, and Lella fave been inseparable companions, since they met while he was filming "The Bridge on the River Kwai" in India-Express Photo.
Australian
ban on Dutch warships
• Forth, Jaly H. The seamen's union at the western Australian part of Fremantle, today declared "black" The . Dutch air- craft-carrier Karel Door- man and two destroyers which are due there to morrow on their Dutch New Guļneo.
to
The union decided not to sup- ply crews for tugs or a pilot boat to service the warships, due to stay six days in Fre- mantle.
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Squally winds are forecast for tomorrow morning when the Brussels, July 11. ships are due to berth and this General Emile
Janssens could make it difficult for the onsted commander of the carrier. The two destroyers. Congolese Publie Force Limburg and Groningen, are ex- pected to be able to berth (Army), today expressed without assistance. his disgust with the pre-
sent situation in the Congo by addressing himself to the equestrian
DIFFERENCES
Request for
British rule
is rejected
Unrest in India:
workers arrested
New Delhi, shuly 12,
RIGHTFUL QUEEN OF WEST IRIAN
From GORDON HUNG
Singapore, July 11. The disputed piece of territory in New Guinea, now occupied by the Dutch but claimed by the Indonesians, now has a third claimant—a year-old matronly Indonesian princess.
Princess Emiris Sumassa Fotice Flying Squad cars now in Singapore on her way to last night rounded-up the United Nations in New. Yoric the several hundred govern- to present her claim as ment workers as Labour rightful monnch of West Irini, otherwise know as Dutch New leaders defied a govern-Guinea.
ment ban by calling an
Ber
Speaking of her 20-year-old
illegal · nation-wide strike struggle to establish her claim. of lower-pald civil
she said that she has all the proof she needs, get vants at midnight.
A document in Arabic dated The strike, to enforce wage | 1894 was, she claimed, her birth demands, threatened to disrupt certificate clewty showing her essential services and develop to be the daughter of the Queen" * into India's worst labour stop-of "Onim Paca" (West Iris) page since independence was and the Sultan of Tidor, an achieved 13 years ago, nato island in the Mokiccas, group.
Mr Nehru, the Prime Minister, has warned that if the strike succeeded it could bring the, collapse of the government
First reports indicated the strike call had only a limited response but the complete effect is unlikely to be seen until later. today.
She also has a glittering necklace which she said was the traditional symbol of Princess of Onim Papua.
the
The document and the neck- lace were going with her when she puts her case this time before the United Nations.
PROOF
Armed police had been Princess Emiria was satisfed stationed at rallway junctions, † that after seeking legal advice in I post offices and telegraph centres many parts of the world—and in case of mob incidents ́crf she is in Singapore for the sanle sabotage. But there were no purpode she had suttebent, immediate
of proof to establish that she is violence.
the princess of West Irlan
indications
STANDBY
She said that soon after she was born, her mother died. It The three armed services also was a time, of great unrest in stood by to maintain law and | West. Iris „ko her fülber gave order and operate railways and her in adoption to is friend who other public services.
took her away to safety in North Celebes.
A few hours before the mid- night deadline yesterday Fly- Ing Squad men swooped on leaders of the strike arresting nine people in Bombay and 14 In Delhi.
The
has re- goverment Jected the wage demands which It mid could lead to spiralling Inflation.
Nairobi, July 11.
The strike leaders who Sir Patrick Renison, the claim to represent the two Governor of Kenya, today million workers said yesterday told......... Mosal tribesman [no further negotiations were their request for conting-poible unless the government List|made concessions over pay and ed British rule was im-
allowances. practicable.
Mr
was
reported
Nehru The tribesmen had asked that equally, adamant.
A member of Parliament British rule continue until they were ready to rule themselves in acting as go between sald the conjunction with the Masai in Prime *Minister refined to
meet the Labour leaders Tanganyika,
Hess they first
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· It was not until 1912, she said, that she leamt of her true parentage when her foster father gave her the key to k chest which_ber father had entrusted to him.
Among the many items ship found in the chest were be royal birth certificate and the nociclace.
Princess Emiria Sunasia
Appeal to kidnappers
in four languages
Sydney, July 11. Basil Thorne, father of 8-
your-old Groente Thome who was kidnapped last Thursday, sent out an appeal in four languages tonight asking the kid- nappers to contact him. The append was released through Sydney police and translated from English," kata German, Italian and Greek ---- the languages most widely used The Indonessiks. Consulater. | by!Australian immigrants.. General-here commenting on the Greeme disappeared soon princess'a whaim for the first time after he left his family's spert-
id:
ment for school. The "anity word since then has been telephone call, from a Wolo foreign accent. He with a called Greeme's parents two. hours after the boy lett home, demanding £25,000 ransom.
“Our Govertimens may ddo ilder" secepting - Queen of West Irian, after we have recovered this torrt tory from the Dutch, and once she had proved her elems to the throne."
But he advised her againgt going to the United Nations, a
PHONE CALL
for another phone call from The Thornes are still waiting
withdrew
there "ot the proper place to
the ddnapper to arrange a
Sir Patrick said that Britain strike threat-Rouber had promised independence to Kenya of which their territory is a part and it is quite im- possible for you to sever your connections with the rest of the country."
He advised them to "think in teams of playing a full part in economy of the politics and Kenya."--Reuter.
Nuclear tests
London, July 11.
5 more killed in
Assam
riots
Calcutta, July 11. Language riots how sweep
ing Assam state claimed five more lives today in two districts of upper Assam:
deal with the matter.””
meeting to hand over the
He suggested that she should money aring her evidence before as Ball Thorne last month win
Head that the whole mati. ter should be treated pirely family matter."
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The Princess, he said, is more famous in Indonesia for her paintings-than-her-politics It was reported here that "powerful and influential group” of Chinese talpans Had promised to finance Princess Emtria's trip to New York.
But why did the wait all these There were reports in these
to fight for what she BTS of arson, looting and Years assault, while the ang trak of med is hereby right? "I have the Begall speaking population been fighting but not very continued across the border for viguroitly." she replied. protection in West Bengal, The riots followed resistance of the Bengali population to Aresmese He had been askid in the ae the state language,—AP, House of Commons for a pro
Union officials said the ban Mr John Profumo, Minister of statue here of King was being Imposed because it State for Foreign Adaire, Sall Leopold II founder of the was felt the "ap-showing" trip today he could not say agree Congo.
could lead to war and unionists | ment on the banning of nuclear He said: Sire, they have believed the differences between tests was actually in sight, but fouled it up for you, (Sire, ils the Netherlands and Indonesia he hoped it was "oot far off
Lover West New Guinea should be
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(In the Hague, authoritative gress report on the Geneva East- sources said the ban would not West conference on nuclear affect the ships trip)-Reuter, testa-Reuter.
yous l'ont cochonne).
The Gentral who returned settled by peaceful means. here from the Congo after being replaced by an African as com mander of the Public Force made his remark while standing to attention before the guitare. The General told newspaper- men that on his arrival here by air, from Africa he had beam. received, by a mere NCO and that he was going to see King Baudouin "to tell him what ¿I have to my, about the Congo affair."AFP.
Disastrous fire
Brazil
Brasilia July 11.
The new capital of Brazil, al- ready i facing a shortage of water, food and housing, ulter ged
Not a serious CRI (5) Small remedy holder (6) What one might pall one sided (7)
Bit for a code jester (6)) 10. Parent to hangound and swing the lead (8)
8 Drapes designed to cover the
bed?, (6)
13 Sound of one who is amused 10 What addlers and in the
15 Went on another tack? (6) 12 Little beast (7)
13. Having a high-moral tone (5) 13 Lice Dick? (6)
19. It burns to serve us (8) --- 14 Arouse due's fancy
20 Mrs Ruff, the steward (5); Ky (8).
21 Cultivated (0)
16 Lease Broken
17 Dared to be
a disastrous, fire on Sunday which destroyed: 12 buildings, person was killed and many tamfiles were left homeless
AP
Tipsters collect
La Lolla buys Olympic horse
Toronto, Jnly
Film star Gina Lellobrigida can't go home to Rome for the Olympics but now she owns a horse that will, Attending a dinner, to raise funds for Canada's Olymple Equestrian team, Miss Lofobi gida, learned – one of the horses chopen after three days of Olymple trials was up for sale,
nership with Harry "Ad- of Taranto, the actres based the horse; and imanë- distely: renamed him Toma,
Ex-barber
acquitted
today, The, kidnappatu wil get the money if they keep | their word."AP.
Fair
reason
Middlebury College's "doan bi women, Mra John Kelly charge of 525 girls, says her own daughter June, atverds the Unl vergity of Vermont because "I'm
at Middlebury.
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