THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1961.
VERWOERD BLAMES
NKRUMAH
FOR
FORCING ISSUE
London, Mar. 16,
Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa's Prime Minister, said here tonight that President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana had at yesterday's after- noon session of the Commonwealth conference given notice he might have to move for the expulsion of the Union from the Common- wealth.
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The South African leader in a He said that the conference] press statement tonight said that had been told by South Africa's Presiden Nkrumah gave notice opponents that they had to: that he would have to reserve take neepunt of publle feeling his position, and might either In their respective countries, have to move for the expulsion At Wednesday afternoon's of South Africa from the Com-session they then resorted to un- monwealth or Chuna might - bridled attacks. There were Prime Self decide to withdraw from sharp attacks by the the Commonwealth.
Ministers of Indlå and Nigeria, and Dr Nkrumah gave notice that he would have to
reserve his position and might either have to move for the expulsion of South Africa from the Common- wealth or Ghana Itsek night decide to withdraw. from the Commonwealth.
Dr Verwoerd
denied
press reports here that he had proved "wholly
unaccommodating" at the Commonwealth Prine Ministers conference.
Out of way
JAL
In a press statement he said it was necessary to state clear- Jy that he had gone out of his. way to meet the wishes of the Alic-Asian-Canadian bloc in the conference, though he no turally could not allow them to rule his country by sub- milling to their demands that he change his aparibek policy.
Dr Verwoerk sald
that he had in fact agreed to the in clusion in the draft CUT monique of most condemnatory attitudes taken up by the Afro- Asian-Canadian group.
'Successful' drive
against rebels
Djakarta, Mar. 16.
Vindictiveness
In view of what transpired at this meeting and the spirit of vindictiveness shown by 12 number of Prime Ministers, Dr Verwoerd's statement added, it was clear that South Africa was not welcome as a member of the Commonwealth.
It was also clear thal the United Kingdom would con- time to be
involved in such quarrels, while the real spirit of the Commonwealth should be to concentrate on points of agreements and not of differ-
ences.
In the circumstances, he had no option to withdraw his re- quest to relain Commonwealth membership after becoming republie on May 31
He believes,
others ***and prezent endast this," that he werat As far 13 he possibly could to be cooperative, and the Canadian and certain Afro-Asian
Prime Minders should rather be ac- cused of being headstrong 111 their
altitudes,
that
Dr Verwoerd sald he had, in fact, agreed to the Inclusion in the draft communique of most condemnatory attitudes taken The Indonesian army claim-up by the Afro-Anan-Canadian
ed today to have killed group.
Millions
slashed
off gold shares
London, Mar. 16. Millions
were of pounds slashed from the market value of South Africon gold shares on the London Stock
Exchange today following tha Union's overnight decision to withdraw her application to remain in the Com- monwealth as a republic.
Losses were also recorded in South African diamond shares, De Beers for example dropping 7s 9d to 140s 3d,
on
Dealers reported selling, " fairly large scale" early in the day before
small re- covery began.
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But the market value of shares in four leading gold mines had fallen by more than £13 million at close of busi- ness tonight.
HOPES
Free State Geduld shared a market loss of £5 million; Consolidated? Goldfields £3 Western Holdings, million;
Loraine about £3,750.000; and Gold Mines more thon £2 million
Reuters Financial Editor 89 rebels and captured The following extract, hu
polnied out that for some days large stocks of ammuni- sail was one of the less harm-
rising had been the markeL "Other Prime ful: tion during a week-long
on hopes of a favourable oil- drive against the "Darul ugly criticised and deplored
come of the Commonwealth the racial policy of the Unjon Islam" insurgent move-
Government, which
uppeared conference. ment in Siwa, south to them to involve a substantial
Today's drup in share prices Celebes.
measure of racial discrimina therefore reflected a dashing ef short-term speculative hopes as well as the wide Implications
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Ministers
tion They stressed the anxiety The information service of they felt it was giving rise in the army described the opera the hearts of millions of people-Heuter. tion as "the most successful in throughout the world." months" and claimed that t
had also resulted in destruction of the last strong-
thePrepared to accept 26 trapped
hold of Darul Islam leader The Kohar
draft communique Muzzakar. The rebel (which Dr Verwoerd
losses, it said, were caused in
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prepared to accopt) concluded a surprise attack by govern- with the following paragraph. ment forces on the stronghold, "After hearing Dr Verwoerd's from which a day-long battle statement,
other Prime ensued.
Ministers adhered to the views
the
The statement sald that Muz-they had expressed regarding zakar himself escaped with his belief in equality of opportunity licutenants but did not give the for all irrespective government casualties.-AFF. colour or creċd.”—Reuter,
of race,
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men
presumed dead
Yawato, Japan, Mar. 17. Hopes for survival of 26 men trapped in a smoke-filled pit were abandoned today more than 24 hours after fire broke out in tho Shin-Ohtsuji coal mines in southern Japan.
Police said confusion at the scene makes it dißcult to draw
a clear picture of the disaster. Newspapers said two perlined in the pit filled with cholting fumes and deadly Kas дя attempts to put of the fire so far falled.
GAS FUMES
Police had no knowledge of the reported deaths but said un- officially all the trapped
are presumed dead.
men
Poisonous gas fumes and heavy smoke have forced a temporary suspension of rescue operations. The plt has been plugged at 600 feet from the mouth in an effort to extinguish the fire which broke out 2,500 fcet further inside.-AP.
Yugoslavia protests to Hungary
Belgrade, Mar, 10. Yugoslavia today handed a note, to the Hungarian Ambar- sador bero, strongly protesting against the accusation mode by Hungarian Vice Premier Gyul Katlai that Yugoslavia WOS responsible for the Hungarian uprising of 1950,
The protest hole said that "such statements are apparently aimed at giving public opinion
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Worms
by mail
Loudon, March 16.
The British Post Office announced today 1 has decided that live may henceforth be seni through the mails.
Up
WOTILA
The concession Is for the beet of the
nation's thoptands of anglers.
to now, the only Living creatures which could be mailed were does, silkworms and which prey on
leeches,
parasites
plant pests.--AP.
Death of Chinese leader
Poking, Mar. 16. General Chen Keng, mom- bor of the Central Com- mittee of the People's China Communist Party and Vice-Minister of Na- tional Defenco, died in Shanghai today aged 58, the Now China News Agency reported. Quoting a Defence
Ministry
Mobutu's troops
NEW!
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golden illuminated dials
close
airport to UN planes
Leopoldville, Mar. 16.
Congolese troops loyal to General Joseph Mobutu today closed Coquilhatville airport in Equa- teur province to all United Nations aircraft and threatened to shoot down any which tried to land, U.N. sources said here.
arrived in
General Mobutu Coquilhatville, explini of Equateur provitice, yesterday. The army action was on he direct orders.
Faced with this threat, the U.N. has for Bie morient cancelled
11 flights to Coquilhalivile the sources said.
NO LANDING
When a United Nations DC- 4 plane carrying food tried to hord there Jast night, the Congolese refused to switch on landing lights on the runway, forcing the pilot to return to Lecpoldville.
Another aircraft managed to land today but the pliot wast told. "We will shoot down my ethe:s which try to land."
planes Alost of the U.N. rolna FE to Coquithatville have cargots of food,
The
firfield closing of the could be a further blow to the UN supply system, already humpered by the lees of ports on the Congo tuany-Reuter.
communique, the agency sald U Nu will stay
that Chen had been a com- munist party
since member 1922, took part in the 1927 Nauchung rising, and then was Elven a command in the Chinese "Red Army", with which took part in the "long maven".
In the Sino-Japanese war he commanded a regular formation with the rank of belgadier, and in the 1945-49 civil war he was a corps commander with Communist
the was
Ho forces. second in command of the Chinese "volunteer forces in the Korean war, subsequently becoming deputy chief of staff Army, of the People's China (1954), and Vice-Minister of Defence, (1955).--AFP.
Acquitted of manslaughter of African
Nairobi, Mar. 16,
David George Anthony
Johnston, 24, Kenya-born paint factory worker, was released by Supromo Court here yesterday after Q jury had been directed to find him not guilty of the manslaught- CS of on African on Christmas ove last year. "At the start of the second day of the trial Mr Justice drew the altention of Wicks Crown Cro counsel Mr
F. de F. Stration to a direct conniet in the evidence of two eye witnesses of the incident which Jed to the death of a Kikuyu
tribesman, Mutunga
Mbelcko
in Nairobi suburb,"
WITHDRAWN
Counsel then said the prosecution would olcr no Johnston nora
to receive the was released and congratulations or his mother, four brothers and three sisters. Johnston and a British soldier, Private James Anthony Mul- vaney, were originally charged with murdering Mbeleko, but charge against Mulvaney was
withdrawn, and it Was reduced to manslaughter in Johnston's case.
Johnston Was in custody he was until March 1, when
Supreme bailed, pending the
Mail Court hearing China Speclul,
the
4 DIE IN FIRE
Hamamatsu, Mar. 17.
Four persons were killed and eight others injured in an early morning fire today that gutted
theatre in Hamamatsu, central Japan, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation said. Another THAN WUS reporter missing as the fire broke out in the backstage where 10 members
troupe were sleeping, the radio added.-AP.
of
Kennedy ent
Washington, Mar. 10. President Kennedy today re ceived a "pretty deep" cut above his left eye when he struck his head on a corner of n
table while picking up an object for his three-year-old daughter, сат- Caroline,
false impression of the real causes of the events of 1958, at poisoning relations between the tive countries, and at justifying the new anti-Yugoslav palgn, the principle of which Me Pierre Salinger, the White was adopted at the Communist House Press Secretary, suld the Parties Conference. In Moscow cut did not require stitching/*~. 1-November."--AFP.
Router
as party head
Quads born
Melbourne, Mar. 16,
A set of quadrupleis- three girls and one bay - were born hero today to an Italian immigrant couple, the first quads born In Australia since 1950,
The parents, Mr and Mrs Michele Facila, arrived
year Australia soven
In
nga, They have one other chlid, a seven-year-old co11. The children were born In a Melbourne suburb AFP.
6 injured as
dock workers
clash in Chile
Valparaiso, Mar. 16. Groups of striking dock workers and non-strikers clashed today on the pier of this principal Chilean port.
Six persons were injured in the fight during which sticks, stones and nists were used. Police ended the battle 16 minutes after it started. There
were no arrests.
poris
In
of Chile for
Rangoon, Mar. 16. The Burmese Prime Minister,
U Nu, who resigned as It was the first violence President of the ruling the strike that has paralysed
the
main Union Party on March 14, nine days. The stevedores de- today agreed to continuo mand a 50 per cent increase in in party office for a year offered 20 per cent.
wages.
The companies have
with a new executive of his own choice.
the
Politicn1
said sources executive commitice present Yesterday decided to resign en blue to enable Ừ Nu to continue leading the party. The Prime Minister had tendered his re- signation because of "growing factionalism" within the party, the sources said.-Reuter.
Many ships are tled up at docks waiting to take on cop per. agricultural products and is minerals. The government conferring with both sides in an effort to settle the walkout. San Antonio In the ports of
major part of Chile's exports are loaded, 7,000 workerS cut strike.-AP.
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