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Alleged violation of air space by another RB-47 reconnaissance plane. of the RUSSIAN PROTEST TO AMERICA

day

DISORDER IN

ANGOLA

THE eruption of violence Portugal's Angola

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follows the recent pattern of uprisings which have swept colonial and the s culled emergent territories of Afrien recently. Whether it is part of an organized, conspiracy 115 Angola's Governor Tavares is suggesting, it is too early to tell but the recent dis- turbances Bex Angola's border with the Congo following upon the riots in Luanda, the capital, are ominous and clearly, en- phasive that the Salazar

:

Incident now considered

closed

Washington, Mar. 21.

Russia has protested to the United States

near

that an RB-47 reconnaissance 'plane the violated Soviet air force island of Vize in the Kara Sea, the| State Department said today,

CROSSMAN

repine cannot hope to keep ADDS WEIGHT

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their possessions in Africa hermetteully sealed from the wind of change sweeping the continent. Writes commentatur in Lon-

dun: "For almost 500 years | the native populations have been proud of being Puctu- guese, and such things as: colour bars and self-govern- ment have not bothered them. Now the tides of African racialism are lap- ping round the frontiers of the last colonial empire in the free world." The trouble in Angola lies part- ly in internal, partly in external causes. It has been a momentous year for Portugal already, The ro

bel standard was hoisted defiantly above the pirated Santa Maria and the de- feated presidential candi-. date Humberto Delgado proclaimed it as the first step

the towards

over- throw

the Saluzar government

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IN addition to this, The

Nulions

debate

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TO PROTEST

The

Richard Crassman

department said

the The United States, after an investi- gation, told the Russians that

it "did not believe that a viola-

tion of Soviet ar space

urred."

Portuguese ANOTHER SETBACK Tornado Wheat for China

mopping up

in Angola

FOR NEWSPAPER- MAGNATE

Belfast, Mar. 21.

Luanda, Mar, 21. Portuguese

planes, army paratroops and police are mopping up remnants of

A High Court judge today refused an application Congolese Invaders who

by Mr Roy Thomson, the Canadian publisher, hore murdered and pil-

for approval of proposals for representation Jagod along the Angola. Congo border, reports

on the board of the Belfast Telegraph, a reaching here said today.

daily evening newspaper. Raports Trom the north vi this

officials territory,

Mr Thomson,

Interlocutory of Thomson granted indicate safd, Lunnda

that Allied Newspapers Limited, had junction preventing the com-

for pletion of the sale of the Belfast "quiet" has been restored, with also asked for permission walle settlers returning to their the registration of one-third of Telegraph farms and settlements and the the company's

shares in his Newspapers Limited,

The in the name

Minor

marauders

had

hiding. ADS

The protest was made a few days after President Kennedy was inaugurated

January 20.

on

Vize is some 300 to 400 miles newth of the nearest Soviet loud mass in waters near the Aretle area.

Tic Soviet protest, according to the U.S. version, was made orally by a Russian Foreign U.S.

lo

Offer official Embassy in Moscow,

the

The United States, in its reply,

по

in retreat

In

In

Luanda reports tha! order has been restored Era north Angola conflicted with statements

made today

in Brazzaville, capitul of the former French Congo, by arriving fugees

there from Angola.

JC-

Inese refugees were quoted as saying that all Europeans in the San Salvador area of north- have been un Angola may wiped out. They also said Por- uguese troop and police casual- tes have been so heavy that the Angola-Congo border is now completely open).

FÜLL PURSUIT

fold Russia that President According to the reports Kennedy had ordered that reaching Luanda from the norih, there should be

more the invaders, under full pursui fights American aircraft by Portuguese forces including over the rir space of the USSR. special Jungle-fighting army In light or seeking to

of

prits, are

Diplomatic channels love themselves in the jungles

and mountains.

Some of the negre "agitators," Mr Lincoln White, State De- partment spokesman, said "this these reports said, are riding in matter was dealt with through the Gamba. Hits and also in diplomatic channels and is con-rough mountain sidered closed."

He was unable to give the exact date of the Incident but said it was after Mr Kennedy's Inauguration and "within a few days" of the end of January.

The

irrident apparently occurred at about the ume that January 23, Mr Kennedy, on Was reporting the Soviet

London. Mar. 21. nairman of the Labour United

Parly. Mr R. 11. S. Crossman, decided

the tonight added his weight to the troubles in Angola, und petition to have five Labour Asian, Africa and Com-Members of Parliament, expelled munist countries have been last week from the Parliament- decision severely critical of condi-ary Party. tions there. Africans have position.

restored

to thelr

to a protest letter sent to

Labour Party leader. Mr Hugh Galjskell, last night.

Tie five

members-Mr

to

release

twn survivors of an RB-47 shot down by the Russians on Jul

the side their territory. The United rejected assertions States has that the July Ight violated Soviet territory but MC Kennedy, upon assuming offler. sent orders to the military services that there should be no nights of American aircraft over Russian air space.--UPI.

Michael Foot, Me Sidney Silver man. Mr Emrys Hughes, Mr and Mr William S. 0. Davies Baxter-were expelled from the Parliamentary Pariy for voting against their own party on a defence estimates bill fast week.

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carried opposition to the Mr Crossman's signature, | 1. The July incident ozcurrea extent of getting up two along with five others, brought | over the Barents Sea in waters organisations-one in Leo-lo 78 the number of signatories the Russians claimed were in poldville and the other in Conkary, Guinen-to work for independence in Angola, Mozambique and Portu- guese Guinea. Undoubtedly these influences have contributed largely to recent violence. Angola is a territory of marked con- trasts. Perhaps the only thing Portuguese and African

people have common is a denial of poli- tical rights. Otherwise the African way of life is still characterised by ignorance, isolation wid repression despite the recent economie:

which development

bas transformed the two main Portuguese territories,

in

SUBJECT of increasing criticism abroad is the system of contract labour In Anguin under which Africans are compelled to give six months' labo

Reluctant peer still

fighting

London, Mar. 21.

name or nominees,

of his

in January, the same judge, Mr Justice Herbert McVeigh,

Deported

woman

arrives

An

in-

strikes Pakistan -180 die

Dacca, Mar. 21.

A tornado sweeping over four East Pakistan dis- tricts

on Sunday killed 180 persons, officials re- ported tonight.

Thousands of houses were demolished and hundreds of cattle perished, they sald.

to Thomson Allied

Sollellor General for

from sought the injunction on behalf of nine year-old Richard Baird, for whom two- thirds or the company's shares are held in trust.

Opposed

Yesterday the boy's counsel opposed Mr Thomson's applica- tion for representation on the board.

Today, Mr Thomson's counsel sald his client had invested

nore than £1 million In

the company and asked But une- third of the shares be register- ed in his name.

(hrash

out a

Glving judgment, Mr Justice McVeigh said It was a pity the Mrs Louie

Yuet - Sun, parties could not meet

under mother of a 29-month-ine chairmanship of a wise old boy born in Canada | mediator arrived early this morning by CPAL without her baby after being deport- ed by the Canadian Government.

order after futiła

positions near

Mrs Louie, 20, left Toronto 19 under a Federal Emote. The same reports said on March army planes have been strafing deportation the hideouts while the jungle-appenis in court to make herself

troops

have moved a legally landed immigrant. trained

on the against the invaders

at Kal Tak, Mrs On arrival ground, alded by paratroops.

At several points, it was re-Loule evaded the Press by not ported here, the "fugitives" have revealing her identity.

Her name of pursuit of sought to cut blocking roads with felled trees nine in the flight manifest.

Mest of the passengers were and other objects-UPI.

Chinese.

Cannon-St

cleared

of debris

Some Rover operating

workers back

London, Mar. 21. Normal train services were into London again this morning after engineers had worked through the night to clear the lines blocked and damaged in yesterday's rush hour collision just outside busy Cannon-street station.

was among

the

Reporters discovered that they had been hoodwinked after the steward described her to them.

CHANGED MIND

Daughter of an Ottawa food merchant, Harry Toy, Mrs Louie originally planned to take her son David, with her to Hongkong.

However, she changed her mind when Mrs Toy offered to bring the baby up in Canada.

She was ordered to leave Canada on March 15.

Hor

appeals

the against deportation order were rejected; in court.

Leaving her husband and two sons in Hongkong, Mrs Loule entered Canada on A non- mrdgrant visa in December, 1957 to visit her father,

After the birth of the son, following August, ske Production at four factories an empty train pulling out sought unsuccessfully to have chaos to herself made a legal immigrant.

coming

Birmingham, Mag. 21.

The collision, between

In city packed train bringing

and the workers from the suburbs

af the Rover car company here the station, brought was resumed today with the thousands of workers recall of Over 4,000 workers into the City yesterday morn mude idle by a three-week olding. strike at a component plant.

at the

and

INJUSTICE

When interviewed In Canada Thousands more were helú up

departure, Mrs But the offelal strilee of 85 last night when Cannon-street, prior to her

a main outlet to the dormitoryment action against her was an Loule said she felt the depart- at Mr Anthony

component Wedgwood inspectors nominal wage. The

injustice. plant goes on. Nearly 600 men suburbs, remained closed, Benn, Britain's "reluctant there, who supply engines

The two trains collided as they

The Government action Was Portuguese claim this has a

peer" who today lost his gear boxes for the main car passed cach other on a bend,

not against "civilising" effect, and to

her but against fight to remain a com-assembly plant, are still Inld off. Only about 12 people needed her son, she sald. counter oversens opposition

The inspectors are moner and Labour Mem-

striking houpital treatment, none was The boy, D Canadian by the government has um-

over a claim for an incentive seriously hari, China Mati birth, was not subject to de. barked upon a policy ulmed

ber of Parliament, now bonusChino Moll Special. Special.

portation order. at the total assimilation of hopes a bill to remedy African peoples into a com- munity dominated by Porta- guese cultural values. It is a visionary scheme which will have to contend with the strong cross-currents of African nationalism beyond its borders. Meanwhile there has been ar

the position will shortly

ba brought before the House of Commons, "The idea of a life commoner La just

as sensible as a peer," he said today. "I not going to give up until I am licked, and I am not by means licked yet."

ilfo

om

any

The Bill, sponsored by Mom-

Kidnapped boy's

sobs in

Sydney, Mar, 21.

Team ran down her check again

increasing influx of Euro bem of Parliament trom all Graeme Thorne's mother, Men pean Portuguese, attracted parties, will first provide that Freda Thorne, broko down in many casca by rising anybody shall have the right to living standards in Angola, give up a peerage for life. If he but this

Go he will then be dis- bas caused new dors economic and racial strains, the flouse of Lords, and, if so qualified from ever sitting in and there are reports, of qualified, he will enjoy the sharply segregated patterns rights of any other commoner of Ife emerging in the two and be able to become a Mem- territories. All those Inc-ber of Parliament if he can.

tore lead the observer to The Privileges Committee of entertain grave concern over the current trend of avento concorn which no amount of extra guns, and troops can possibly alloy.

the House of Commons, in a report on Mr Wedgwood Benn's position, ruled thinl A peer "cannot surrender or renounce Mail his peerome." — China

Special

mother

court

trial of Stephen Leslie Brad

ley, 20, A Hungarian-born naturalised Australian, Trio has pleaded not guilty to charge of having murdered Graeme in July last year,

prosecution has cialmed [ihat clues that esme to Ught when Gracmo's ̈· body ---was found pointed 'to' Bradley, an l kidnapper.

and sobbed in court here to- day as she listened to poller evidence of an alleged threat to "feed the boy to the sharks" | The It ransom molley was not palā,

when ovidenco was given of the finding of eight-year-old Graeme's body on AYRORNÍ block of land in the harbour- side suburb of Besforth, Sho was comforted by her hus- band, AY year old Bazil Therne.

Today was the second day of the

The boy disappeared on July 7

• fow minutes after leaving home on lake way to school. Hila: father· earlice had, won

· AL 100,000 in a lotters. Sergeant Lawrence Thomas O'She told the court' he, was

A

In the Thorne's flat when the telephone rang on the morn- ing of July 7. Mr Thorno answered and handed the phone to him. He said he was Mr Thorne.

male voice with a slight nocent said, "I have your son. I want` A£25,000 onih berare Bo'clock this afternoon.” Asked by Sergeant O'Shea how he would get that money the voice said: "I'm not fooling. If I don't get the money bo- foro Ava'o'clock I feed flie boy to the sharks."!

The case is continuing --China

Mall Special

and scheme that could be placed be- fore the court of wardship.- China Mail Special.

The cfficials, who returned a tour of the stricken districts Faridpur, Mymensingh and Rangpur said 105 persons were killed and more than 600 injured · 12, one village alone.

on credit?

Melbourne, Mar, 21. The Australian Wheat Board announced today It will consider China's pro- posal for a further purchase of Australian wheat

credit.

The

on

decision will be takon in about 10 days when the board's General Manager, Mr Christopher J. Perrett, is scheduled ta return from a spectat visit to Hongkong-UPL

Cornered

The new

London, Mar, 21.

trame intorchange at busy Hyde Park Corner stijl contuses some Dacca,

motorists not used to clover-leaf circles and overpasses.

One driver, a newspaper re- porter, "while desperately try- ing to find a way out of the Hyde Park Corner Inbyrinth very lato

the

other night" passed a sign saying:

"Go to jail. Move directly to jail. Do not pass 'go. Do not collect. £200,”—UPI.

People were lifted up by the tornado and hurled several feet, they said.

CHURCH HIT

In Golla, about 20 miles from Dacca, 32 Roman Catholics perished in their church which was demolished by the tornado. About 100 worshippers, sheltering in the church after were buried in the

debris.

Twenty-seven of them were brought to Dacca.

Omoals sald the tornado left a 180-mile trait of damage in its wake.—AP.

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