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Blame for recent developments in the Congo

of the GHANA BREAKS WITH BELGIUM

day

Elegy on

I'

a Post

Ambassador

Office queue given 48 hours

the busy world of Hong- kong is too much with

aoise with the

Psa,

of

traffe, the rapil passage of commerce, the frustrat- ing density of the populace. The din of construction and

the cacophony of street noises, try stepping into the main Post Office to purchase a stamp. Here, hard by the madding crowd, Aime sind the assistants stand still. Here, ! by joining a quene before a wire cage which protects the assistant from the customer, is peace, perfect pence in this clamorous work of din."

No sound disturbs this balmy atmosphere, save the soft drone

where of voices, some office boy, making the

week's purchase of stumps, holds the assistant in cen. versation. Then

sudly, the

and almost slowly,

office boy plots; his weary way back to his office, and the queue moves up one, hopefully.

But begone vain hope,

who is this with

for

col-

tenance firm, who appears,

at the privileged side of

the hur?

to leave

Accra, Dec. 4. Ghana has broken off diplomatic relations with Belgium and given the Belgian Ambassador 48 hours to leave the country, the Ghana Foreign Minister, Mr Ako Adjei, announced here today.

Customers cut down

in cafe

shooting

Paris, Dec. 4. Two people were killed and

another six seriously in- jured in suburban Corbeil tonight when an unknown number of assailants open- ed fire on the customers of a cafe.

In his hand is Police satel they could not

a long list, and with immediately establish a molive

patience, he reads for the incident.

mense

even

A Cintement issued to the Prera and signed by Mr Adjei seid the Ghana Government beld the Belgian Government responsible for recent develop- me is in the Congo and for the breakdown in the administra- on of the Rgitimate KOVETN- ment and parliament in Corgo of

the

which Mr Patrice. Lumtiniba was Prime Minister,

Tho lutement said:

Statement

"The Government of the Republic of Ghana has broken cf diplomatic relations with the Government of Belgium and Mr Gerald Walravens. Belgian Ambassador to Ghana, has been asked to leave Ghana within 48 hours.

Buses fired in Caracas rioting Bank to

Two buses, one on its side, blaze in Roosevelt-avonue, Caracas, Venezuela, on December 1, after being

set on fire by Communist risters.

Firemen wore prevented from putting out the flames by sniper shots from

nearby university buildings where the rioters took sanctuary-AP photo.

Ikeda's Cabinet 13

resigns

Tokyo, Dec. 5.

Hayato Minister Ikeda's Cabinet resigned the today in en masse first stage of a Japanese

13 killed in reprisal

Government reshuffle that will bring no change in Mr Ikeda's leadership:

basic pro-Western

reprisal actions against Lumumba's men

Leopoldville, Dcc. 4.

Thirteen people have been killed in Kikwit 250 miles east of here, in re- prisal actions taken by Congolese troops for the welcome given there to Mr Patrice Lumumba on his flight from the capital.

put up

28-floor building

A plan to erect a sky- scraper of 28 storeys in Portland-street, Kowloon was revealed today, It. will cost $13,500,000 and take three years to com- plete.

This scheme was outlined to this the Tenancy Tribunal morning by Mr D. A. L. Wright, counsel for the applicants, the Lu Chong Hing Estate Co, Ltd.

Mr Wright Sald his clients were applying for exemption for Nos 172 to 194 Partland-street, which was a corner site with Soy-street.

The applicants had previously Required an adjoining alte and Intended, to develop both in this rcheme.

The applicants and their asso- ciated companies the Liu Chong Hing Bank Ltd, on insurance and a godown company, owned about $00 million worth of un- mortgaged property in the Colony,

The site which is the subject [of this application....sald – Mr. Wright, is probably worth $650 per square foot

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"This action has been laken because the Government of Ghana holds the Government 'of off list of his wants.

The dead and Injured were Belgium responsible for recent CITAMPS are Lorn from all Europeans, they added.

dovekuments in the Congo - and for the breakdown in the admin- | Prime their sheets, and, at long

The attack from outside was Istration of the legitimate Gev- Inst he departs, and the

so sudden and unexpected that ernment and Parliament of the quena stis from ita

not

unifoaned Congo of which Mr Patrice two slumber. But the assistant, police drinking at the bar had Lumumba is Prime Minifles" as ff aroused by the un-time to eztch a glimpse of the Last month Ghana's senior warranted arrogance of the assailants who are believed to diplomat in the Congo. Charge

glares

Welbeck, at them, have fled from the scane to 'Affaires Nathaniel quake,

waiting ear to make was expelled from the country. vacates his scat, and as if nearby

He. their getaway. too fired to speak, places a

the Ambassador Mr Djin notice etched in becoming Residents of Corbeil, specul. 1- and an embassy official had been declared persona non grata by

The Cabinet resignations were who disclosed this today, said a Franequi, Kasal, on Thursday. style, that his portion of ing on the shooting tonight, said

President Kosovubu. But the l'it might have been carried out

where Mr further 22 people were injured | night

and the counter is closed.

was certain Ikeda

to be re-12 seriously.

Leopoldville. But with that eager, if foolish

other two were already out of sent to Parliament, the Congo.

The inhabitants are reported named Prime Minister in an

Before being transferred from outade the UN headquarters 14th to the 27th floors would anticipation, born of long

to have fled to nearby woods Leopoldville election later today.

to the military No Ineldents were reported. | bo offices. experience, the queue!

and the army has disarmed the garrison at Thysville, 100 miles | Reuter. divides itself, some de-

provincial police. parting for this section of the

who counter, others

stamp!

need a personally speculating upon the cost of a trip to deliver the message verbally.

But ns the houra roll on, and

the

darkness falls, there

I descends upon this peace- The murmur.

by Algerians who mistook the eate for another frequented by Algerians-Router.

OPHELIA HEADS FOR JAPAN

Tokyo, Dec. 5, OIT-sunson Typhoon Oriella, centie wind: nasuring

:

Sequestration

or

policies.

The Liu Chong Hing Bank would use part of the ground floor, part of the second, and it would have a staircase and two lifts for its exclusive use. Mr Cleophas Kamitatu. Leo- ville.. He was seized by Col awby, Mr Lumumba was beaten

From the first to the eight .at poldville Provincial President, Mobulu's troops

Port and kicked by troops

floors there would be shops Fro-Lutnumba supporters de-

bed arcados, C department returned to monstrated in his support in store would occupy the ninth

Lopoldville

cluding to the 13th floors and from the Loday,

Mr Kamilatu, whose home s

Election of a new prime Last week the United Arso minister and seating of a new Republic sequestraigd Bel-cabiner was the aftermath to in the Kikwit region, today ap- gian oxects in the country last

to month's general election pealed

Colonel

Joseph among them banking Inter- which renewed the heavy con- Mobutu, the Congolese army euls and the companies controling majority Mr Ikeda's chief, to control his men and trolling the famots Shepherds Conservatives hold in the Lower stop "this aggression against and Semiramis hožela.

House of Representatives.-AP. unarmed and defenceless clti-

zens."

In Calro the Belgian Ambasa- der to the UAR falled today for the second consecutive day obtain an appointment at the

to

with 127 mph, raced through The ful spot a

northern Parife today at 40. | Foreign Ministry to lodge a pro- doors are closed, and the rolles an hour. Its main force test against the United Arab queue moves up, the stamp was expected 10 buffet the Repubile's lightning nationalism- 1s at hami, and the cus-Tokyo-Yokohama

and | tion of Belgian assets. Reuter. tomer turns sadly towards other arca on Japan's the world of tumult and coast as it sweeps 10 bustle beyond the doors,

Lindt

noritas. UPI.

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SAAR ELECTIONS

Snarbrucken, Der, 5.

cun-

The Socialists scored siderable gains in Sunday's Saarland election but failed to threaten the leading position of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian

Demo-

crats, according to almost

complete returns.—AP.

Saigon club explosion

Sagion, Dec. 4.

A powerful explosion at 0. golt club about three miles from here kiled one Vietnamese and wounded 12 others today. One side of the building was blown out.

The explosion occurred about half an hour before a number

American and of

European members arrived at the club Router.

Japan atom bomb pilot missing

Waco, Texas, Dec. 4.

The pilot of the reconnaissance plane-which guided the first atomic bomber over Hiroshima has been missing from the Government hospital here for ex-servicemen since November 22, hospital authorities said today.

He said the 13 dend Included a junior army officer.

A prers statement from the President sald bodies were lying on the streets as the troops shot at ambulances coming to take them away.

Tense

Mr Kamitatu described the situation 19 "tense," UN Moroccan troops In Kikwit have been given orders to prevent further violence, it was stated..

Although long regarded as a supporter, Mr Lumumba

Last week declared Kandtat

was not a politician that he and that his task, as Provincial President, was purely admini- strative.

Mr Lumumba was reported to have been well received in Kikwit after his escape last Sunday, and to have been given profection betere continuing his journey towards Stanley-

Satellite attempt fails

New York, Dec. 4. An attempt to launch a satel lite into space for the first time with an all-solid fuel Scout rocket falled today when the

The entire 72-foot, four-slago 100,000 rockel fell into the Atlantic Ocean about 80 miles away from te in the Wallops Island, Va., fest sta- tion of the National Aeronautice and Space Administration,--UPI.

The ex-pilot, 41-year-old | A phychiatrist testified in 1947 Claude Eatherly. who also that Eatherly had a golli com-boond stage did not Ignite. carried out a similar assignment; plex and once said he felt res over the clly of Nagamaki when ponsible for Idilling the second atomic bomb was people in Hiroshima, Tho psychiatrist dropped, has been a patient at several hospitals eince his dis- when Eatherly stood trial in elvirgo from the Air Force as a Ablime, Texas, on charges of burgling post offlecs, He major in 1947.

pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and was acqulibid.

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· Mediki, Dec. 4. General Francisco

Framoo,

Guilt complex - Ealberly was also accused. of Spanish Chiot of State, was 60

Entherly, who piloted a B-20. trying to rob » drive in grocery today. reconnaisance plane in the store in Dallas, Texas, in 1980. Ho celebrated his birthday' atom bomb raids, was awarded The charges against him were quietly in his 'Fundo Palace re- the American Distinguished | inter" dropped and he was aldonos, where mesesgos of con- Flying Cross and other honours committed to tha ex-service- gratulations poured, in: from for his services,

'man's hospital here Reuter. Spain and abroad—AP,

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