THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1960.
ALLEGES ATROCITIES BY UN
Army action stops CONGO JOHN'
wild rioting in Venezuela
Caracas, Nov. 29:
Army troops and tanks restored order here today after four days of wild street rioting in which eight persons were killed and 200 others wounded.
Some waste,
waste, but no graft in Vietnam
aid projects
Washington, Nov. 29.
Mr Christian Herter, the Secretary of State, said today that some waste, but no graft, has been found in some U.S. foreign aid projects in Vietnam.
Mr Herter made his statement department has explored the in as report to Senator Mike sul-committees recommenda- Mansfield, Chairman of # lien" Foreign Relations sub-commitler Hector Manlicht madoned, which investigated allegation i a 40 per cent eut in the of of laxity and possible mis- today wied .appropriation in the aid pro-14 in Vitom, a true-
Bramman in Vietnam.
ition in catly paper work, and flexible staff operations,
cars by U.S.
my story takea to emply with his sub connittee's Feroti mandolins.
The Secretary of State saictory wante had been found in the financing or major highway project and that poor planning had resulted in lùng delays in the construction of a radio nat- work.
His report was in two volumes. One was made public by Senater Mansfield, the other,
classified containing
material
was not released.
Senator Mawostleld, kin letter
Mr Hester, praised
"the thoroughness with which your
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Death of inventor
Pittsburgh, Nov. 29.
THREE HIGHWAYS Mr Hart's tepat said it had been und that three highways being built in Vietnam of a crat to the U.S. government estimated at $70 million are wider than will be required in the foresee- ably future”
fle also said lighting arrange- menis'en twn bridges in the pro- jeet were in the luxury clarr and
COMES HOME
London, Nov. 29.
Congo John-Captain John Roberts, the 23-year- old Englishman who fought his own private war in the Congo — arrived home yesterday with the nightmare story of atrocities com- mitted by United Nations troops.
The UNO troops were Negro
He added: "During my im- prisonment I was myself beaten
Lantos, and Congo John re- ported that he had Information up and battered with rifle butts
They laughed and joked { degraded,
That
by Liberian troops-slapped and
us tha mowed down 95 bow- "No charges were ever laid and arrow tribesmen.
against 'me. I still don't know on what authurity they held me prisoner."
Dawn brought the first galin to the city since last weekend. when according to the Governm meat, Cominuunists launched campaign to set the stage for a revolution.
Army troops called Gutt by the Government to restore urder, alled three people and wound ed 30 others between 6 pm yes- terday, when they went Into ne- tion, and midnight.
RAMPAGES
The wild,
leftist-lod mubs
They herded 100 prisoners the railway trucks so that 52 died in the "black holes."
They boasted of their ex- ploits.
Roberts, six feet Lali, tarsied In Nottinghamshire yesterday
wearing jungle battledress Kusni which he fed a guerrila band through swamps
In
and forests,
IRONIC
Aller being imprisoned. In a burned 20 vehicles before their stifling room 10 feet by six by four days ago and ordered to
quit the Congo,
He says that what he saw of
him terrified refugees turned Into a dedicated soldler against the troops of then President Lumumba. And what he saw him and heard later tumed into a bitter eritic of some of
the sellons of the United Na tions.
Devonshire-born Roberts went lato action, he says, almost by accident. He'd planned a trek from the Cape of Good Hope to the North Cape of Norway. when
it rampages were baked. UNO Liberans, he was released It ended in the Congo,
oniclat sources said.
Energetic army action also Less halted disturbances of a
rious character mi severni in- terior citize, the government re- ported,
It was "business as usual" in Phraear this morning, withough the schools and universities re- mined closed.
The government shut down The high schools carlier in the week to prevent teenagers from
gillore
being used by professional
· Subsequently",
university students wen en a solidarity" sirike with the high school students.
President Romulo Betancourt
yesterday proclaimed a state of siege and called out the army le restore order yesterday. He did not impose censorship, how- ever, although political broad- Cats were susponderi.----UPL
"enuld have been dispensed Greater demand
with."
He said investigation showed
La foreign aid offlelal not identi-
Raleigh, N.C., Nov. 29.
fied by name who was deeply Raleigh Police, who ordinarily involved in planning the pro-hand out up to 500 traille tie- Dr Jannes Bert Garner, in-jeet "wes not a professional en-kets a day, ron ventor of the gas mask during
gineer and was working nutside monses yesterday.
competence."-Reuter
ht
of sum-
**** Weeld War 1; died on Monday al ine area of his professional A shipment of 60,000 is ex-
pected idday--UPI.
the age of 10.—AP.
White woman attacked for bringing child to school
MORE RACIAL VIOLENCE IN NEW ORLEANS
New Orleans, Nov. 29. Cursing housewives attacked
a white woman, today as she picked up her child from an integrated school. About a dozen women fell upon Mrs Jesse Cabrille
when the Cumo out of William Frantz Element- ary School with her six- year-old daughter Yolan- do, one of four white students who showed up
at the school this morning.
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The women, who earlier had cursed and shoved a white minister taking his child to school, were waiting for Mrs Cabrille across the street from the school.
his canne was bitten in half by a hippo.
"It was ironic that I should be Then, he explained, he need- suspected of atrocliles," Roberised money. said last night.
NO TIME
"I've indisputable evidence from people who have witnessed "I disliked Lamumba, I offer- it and natives who escaped thated to help fight him, and in four UNO troops have been respon- days I was a Kasel captain." sible for most of the dreadful nels,"
EXPRESS PLOUGHS
INTO
SCHOOL BUS
Lamont, Nov. 29.
An express goods, train sliced into a crowded school bus at a level crossing at this Canadian town today kill- ing 16 children and injur- ing 25.
The rear of the bus was re- ported to have been sheared off and carried 160 feet down the track. School books, lunches, clothes and budits of victims were strewn along the
320W- covered railway lines.
TORCHES Acetylens torches
were wed to cut through the wreckage to reach one of the children
The bus was within sight of
crossing.
They shoved and hit her and the school as it went over the sho began swinging her The bus driver, Frank Hud- big black purse. Har hus-ncy, 38-year-old father of five band, who had been wait- children who were not riding injured ing for har, ran up, and with him, was also police dashed from across Royal Canadien Mounted the street to hold the Police Staff Seracunt J. R. women off. Mrs Cobrille Sangster said that besides the suffered a cut on her hand 16 doad, 25 children and the
bus driver were injured. in the molec.
Yolanda was not hurt.
"I can't understand it," Mrs Cabrille said. "I thought
some of these people were
my good friends."
scriously.
Ten were listed in serious condition.
Only one child was unhurt, Sangator said-Reuter & UPI.
Lock of hair
Kingston, England, Nov. 29.
EarBur, police had to hold
the women back so the A student was charged yester- minister could get his from an unknown female" in day with stealing a "ock of hair child to class.-UPI.
Kingston street,--UPI.
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He was put in charge of 120 tribesmen, a Belgian officer and a Belglan sergeant-major.
"We had no time to train," Sald Roberts, The situation was desperate. Lumumba's men had driven a hundred miles into Kasal state, leaving behind them burned villages, slaughter- out- ed children and bestially
raged women. I felt I could take pride in helping end this horror,"
He added that they went into battle with "black magte und
military Belgian
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