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Death toll mounts as more riots reported
FASTRET DELIVERY
Pro
LEADING
MARKETS
OF
THE WORLD
Of The S. AFRICA'S 'BLOODY MONDAY
Day
Bishops jailed
FREQUENT statements by
Fine Chinese authorities
supporting religious free- dom contrast strangely with last week's news that twa bishops of
Romun the Catholic Church have been jalled, one for life and an other for 20 years. The
charger of treason and
inciting, rebellion appear to be an over-dramatic attempt to describe their opposition to Communism, but to aug- gest that the two men ac-
tually engaged in a plot to overthrow the regime
to
IM
carrying hostility "
vicious extreme.
The Communists have been at !
with loggerheads
Police shocked Seven die Mystery phone call 10 traffic
at carnage
after
clash
Johannesburg, Mar. 21.
in Langa
riots
Capetown, Mar. 21.
Seven Africans were
killed
and 46 wounded
when police opened fire on rioters in the Langs now- white location tonight.
This followed the deaths
South African police admitted today they jured in riots during the
were shocked at the carnage which re- sulted when they fired into a crowd of Africans demonstrating against carrying of passes.
the
According to latest police counts 56 Africans were killed and 191 injured in the Vereeniging area on. "Bloody Monday."
tu
thei Vatlean ever xince the
Police opened fire on Afrleans Seven buildings, including two Liberation because Peking
in the two areas as thousands schools, were reported destroy- bax refused to accept the
Heinonstrated against the laws; d. Cats were set on fire. bishops it has appointed, that require every African Police opened fire as reversi The dispute
been bas
hundred
swarmed Bren
Africans carry a pass-identity cards es-
through The
throwing BICA, nggravated by the fact that inbishing their identity, have Communists
Centres of the disturbances
and stoner
Aring buildings. the townships appointing were
Toby rloted after police ordered bishops who have not had Vereeniging-Sharpeville, Bophe-a large protest meeting to dis- the backing of the Vatican, long and Evaton, some 30 miles The result has been a steady suuth of Johannesburg, and the decline in the authority
the insisted
of Rome in China.
10 nccelerate the process of
encouraging
nation
Catholic Church, the Chinese have resorted to persecution of those who have clung to the Vatican. The jailing of Blahop Kung, Bishop Walsh and fourteen others, must be seen another
of
nga district of the Capetown municipality.
Blood ran in the streets and women, screamed and
walled as police opened tiro with rifles and ston guns in a drastic bid to to restore order.
Lenga, Roman than will join in de besleged in
in this
step in
more
Many
ploring
for
mure
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process
of
perse.
Mangled bodies
The loll in the riots was the highest of recent years, There have been several racial la
Union since turbances in tho
1958.
of Mangled bodies
men, and women
children Jay sprawled on the roadway in the square of the African township, which had the appearance of a
battlefield.
of Sabre jets A squadron swooping over the heads of pollee wore
thousands of demonstrators in i the local police several townships seemed to the action and station for two hours before anger rather than cow them.
Police came to their ald
reinforcements with TENAONY than my units
rushed to the armoured cars chief trouble spots,
the denial
of freedom
of worship. The persecu
tion parallels the recent Police scandal
brutal suppression of religion in Tibet - again ostensibly because it oppos ed the established authority.
The Vatican however
may regard the treatment of its bishops, pricats and laymen as a credit to their faith and loyalty, and a tribute to the spirit of invincibility that the
revealed in
murder probe
Chicage, Mar 22.
Church Inculcates in her The Chicago police scandal
sons.
On the other hand, in jailing
Д handful of Christians, the great juggernaut of Com- munism reveals its most vulnerable spot. A regime really sure of itself and its following among the people would have ignored their activities altogether.
A
Refugee aid
and
and a "vicious-tempered" criminal who hid guns in the caves of Starved Rock State Park furnished new leads Monday night in the bludgeon murder of three society women.
One scene stood out in the chaos and bloodshed. A policeman helped carry a body and heave it into a Then he waiting truck.
wiped the blood from his hands on the coat of tho and walkod dead man away with an expression of disgust.
drivers In Vereeniging bus
taxis stopped, many struck, State police also pieced to-Africans stayed away from their and thousands the work places, gether evidence indicating Chicago
might have massed in the streets.
women
where they were
hitchhiked a ride to the canyon Mr Owen Hodges, a commer- drove who clubbed
traveller to cial death a week ago,
through the arco, said African Searches were ordered for. amen urged on by womur pelt-
same description, who has ler- rorised women in the nearby man described the scene as be-
village of Utica.
ing "ke Delvilie Wood (a Over World War I. battle) all again,"
The police acomed to bo rather shocked them-
A
BOUT three months are stocky young man seen talkinged cars with stones and trult, left before the World with the women near the canyon Sharpeville pollas station was besieged" and police a half hour before the estimated "literally Refugea Year ends
wavy- forced their way through to it people will
read murder time and for.a have
haired "Peeping Tom," with the with armoured vehicles, with pleasure of the dona-
After the firing one police- tions made by a number of big firms recently. One of the sorriest spectacles in
NEW FACTS this Refugee Year has been
Sherif Ray Utrey, meanwhile, the apparent lack of in- called a special news confer- terest in the local fund.
ence for today to reveal "new Yot in not hard to under. facts developed in the pictures
this in
taken from the camera of one stand. For yours, while the
of the slain women." Hongkong taxpayer дан
selves at the scono. The battered blood-stained been supporting refugee camera was found last Wednes
photographer work to the tone of about day in a canyon cave beside the
newspaper $200 million a year, the out- bodles
vacationing
"took pictures of alde world has neglected to housewives, Mra Lillian Getting help. For years their Gov. 50, Mrs Mabel Lindquist, 50,
bloodshed than I havo ent representatives and Mrs Frances Murphy, 47. A have told the UN they re-shadowy figure in the back-
ovor before seen in South Cornise
of Eround of one of the pictures the problem
appeared to be that of a Chinese refugees In thi
Africa." in- Colony as a matter of in hiding behind a tree. ternational concorn. Now it is their chance to prove it. But we have argued that
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Hongkong should also make special effort during this voar. It is one thing for Government to spend
tax-
of three
man
того
The latest facet of the in- vostigation sizelched vo miles
The clash came after thou- northward to Chicago, where
in the equare, facing. admitted burglars have set unda
saracena, began to hurl off the greatest scandal in the police history of the city's police by stones.
Poller replied with rifle and naming uniformed officers as thele partners in criois and its afen gun fire.
the police outsido Ronda profits.
paydra' money on refugees, Two of the "babbling bur-station wero literally covered in
1
another
for Hongkonglore . Willam Celley
and blood.
→
of LG Africans and 191 in- afternoon in the Sharpe- ville location near Vereeniging.
Latest reports from the township Bald seven build- Ings are blazing, including the town hall and two
out
schools.
Police have called army help and first units arrived at Langa soon afler.
The fires and damage to properly followed when an African mob "went berserk after police shot at them" to a arcording
newstan who saw the Incident- AP.
Mystery_phone
sparks big_search for kidnapped man
A mysterious phone call sent a party of police on a search on Lamma Island yesterday for Wong Ying-kau, local oil merchant kidnapped nine months ago.
MR AND MRS WONG TING-KAU
Princess at Jodrell Bank
The bare bowl of the radio-telescope si. Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, forms the backdrop transmitter fa as Princess Margaret toured the site last Friday, accompanied by Professor Alfred Lovell, Director of the telescope. During her visit, the Princess switched on the
the American satellite Pioneer V hartling through space at 5,700 miles an hour more than a million miles from earth-AP photo,
Saboteurs cause near disaster
Buenos Aires, Mar. 21, Saboteurs came close to caus~.
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GLASSES THROWN IN RESTAURANT FIGHT
Two businessmen this morning at Central Court admitted throwing glass tumblers at each other early this morning of the Majestic Restaurant, and ware each finod. $20 by, Mr Derek Cons.
An African minister of religion to donate their own William Blaha, both 20, told
Lung Shuen-shing. 32, of 22 | friends at about 1.80 am in the Aly. Wealthy In-State police
they had worked took a piece of iron and scraped ing a major train dikaster last night when they blow up. a
mile from the city Fung Rai Terrace and Zau Chen-morning when Leung thought and big firms have with A'
vicious sand over the pools of blood, powerful,
Ling, 2, of 43 La Salle Sirect, Zau was making fun of him. A couple of non-while Bolva-bridge must tempered criminal In the
tion Army workers in uniform, Hmite.
pleaded gulity to a charge ef to give a lead but
Taking offence, Leung took up not end there. A Colony-Storved Rock State Park aren
Arsenal of stolen irled to help some of the victims.
a gloss tumbler, and threw it at A train due to cross the bridge disorderly conduct in a public The scene of shooting after it wido drive to raise funds who hid hin
all over, was relatively was prevented from leaving place. in nacossary- & fund to guns in the Park's caves.
Celley and Dinha were driven was
Valentia Alsina railway station Inspector T. Y. Yip, prosecut- Zau Zou in turn took up one which every person Can ta Starved Rock under heavy quiet. contribute something. The gun for more questioning But in the background the after a race against me by aing said both defendants were and throw at Leung. The
Majestic Restaurant with their and both were arrested. firms are to be congratulated about the latest mupect in the walling and screaming of women policeman from the scene of the sowed in afferent tables at the management called up the Police
explosionHouter. for starting the ball rolling, triple slaying-UPI.
could be heard-Router.
2
Two marias piles launches, carrying
pollcemen detectives, sped to Picnic Bay, In the middle of Lamma Island, at 10.16.a. m.
The party
mado house-to- house enquiries in two villages.
Earlier
the
in the morning, Causeway Bay police station a mysterious. Phone
recelyed rall
unknown The
caller sold Wong was living in a house in villase in Lamma Island. The caller gave his noms as Ng Sun, and said he lived in the same vlilage..
NO SUCH PERSON However, the police search revealed that there was me such person named Ng Sun, nor had the villagers known body called Wong Ying-kau.
The polico party
Hongkong at 1pm
accidents in one
day
Fourteen people were injured in ten traffic accidents which OC- curred yesterday.
A double-decker bus in Kow- loon had to be lifted by crane to extricate an 80-year-old man pinned underneath last night.
The bus knocked down the old man, a'the junction of Chatham Road and Ma Tau Wal Road at about p.m.
The mon, Ll Pek, of 667 Gilles Avenue, first floor, Hung- hom, sustained serious multiple injuries and was sent to hospi- tal
A still more dramatic accident happened at 4.40 p.m. when a company van construction
down
↑ 20-foot plunged any embankment and landed up- side-down in the private garden left for of a villa near 111⁄2 milestone on
Castle Peak Boad.
Wong, the rich oil merchant
and sports enthusiast, has been
The acoldent, caused by a rear-wheel coming off, resulted
missing since Juno 19 Last in five people being injured,
year,
two seriously, Three-were knock-
The former honorary Presi-ed unconscious dent of the Chinese Athletic As-
sociation and the Hangkong and
Kowloon Basketball Association was last seen leaving the Coc-
SERIOUSLY HURT
Shortly afternoon,
an 11-
tus Night Club in the Lak Kwok year-old deaf and dumb girl, received parlous Hotel
Building Wanchal, at Yin Paic-lin,
injurice to her arms and legs
1.45 nm.
His car was found abandoned when she was knocked down by on the praya near French Street a private car in Lee Garden
next Road near No. 79. in Western District, the morning. The family received a ransom note for half a mil- lion.
Police had offered an award of $5,000 for information on his whereabouts and safe return.
The award was renewed on March 10 this year for three more months and will expire on
June G.
HISTORY'S LONGEST
PHONE CALL
Yin, living at 911 Tung Yung Terrace, second floor, was sent to Queen Mary Hospital.
At 1.p.m., a 12-year-old boy received head injury when hit by a military vehicle near No. 10 in King's Road.
At 1.20 pm, a
motorcycle driven by a serviceman knock- ed down a school boy in front of 490 King's Road.
the
At 140. p.m., a 50-year-old man received injuries on head and left leg when he was knocked down by a motorcycle at the junction of Stewart Road and Lockhart Road, Wanchai.
At 4 pm, 19-year-old man was knocked down by a private car and suffered injuries to his leg near Kowloon City bus ter-
minus.
At 5 pm, a 6-year-old boy suffered head injuries when hit by a taxi er 27 Pak Tat Street, Hinghom.
At 6 pm, a bus collided with two-year-old girl and injured
Street, Hongkong.
New York, Mar. 21: A coded message from a Batellite 1,500,000 miles out in space, relayed by her face in front of 21 Belcher's Britain's tracking station Shortly after 0 pm, a 40- at Jodrell Bank, was re- year-old woman was knocked ceived today by the New down and injured by a private ear in Taipo Road near Shek York Telephone Company. Kop Mel, Btreet,
the
The message probably longest "long distance" tele- phone call In history-gave the latest dats of the United States satellite Ploncer V's space Journey round the sun
Earlier, scientists had started the satellite's, radio transmitter by pressing a
opening
button at
thu
the annual interna-
tional convention hero of tho
STOP PRESS
Institute of Radio Engine NEPAL SIGNS
This had sent n signal to the satellite by
way of the transatlantic phone cable and Jodrell Bank,
In a similar experiment at | Jodrell Bank last week, Princess Margaret pressed a button and switched on the satellite's radio, ~~Router.
50 drowned in Red Sea
Calro, Mar. 21, Fifty Yemenites drowned in
sailboat capsized, the rem!- the Red Sea today when Hicks official Middle East agency reported.
Only the captálu, and ',the
menaged
tn to awin
crow
Ethiopia-UPL safety, The Yomeniten on their way home.
news
were Brom
AGREEMENT
WITH CHINA
Peking. Mar. 22. The Nepalese Premier, Mr B. P. Rolrats, left for home by air today after signing a boundary agreciment and an economic aid agreement with Premier, Chou En-lai at the end of a 12-day viest. Mr Chou' En-lat and Die Chen Yi, Foreign Minister, hotdod Chinese govern- ment Jesders saying goo by at the airport Me Koirala lefs for Hongkong.
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