CAUSED BY HOT, DRY WEATHER
95 forest fires rage in Manitoba
Winnipeg, Aug. 21.
Ninety-five forest fires raged across. Manitoba today and a forecast of continued hot, dry weather threatened to worsen the situation, already at its peak this year.
Some 550 men were battling the blazes which, to the end of July, had destroyed 1.5 million acres of Umber.
Provincial Forest Protection Officer A. W. Braine sald crows were slowly gaining control of the worst two fires,
They covered 50,000 neres in the Gypsumvlile area, 100 miles north of Winnipeg, and 5,000 acres In the Duck Mountain Forest Reserve near the Saskatchewan border in northwestern Manitoba.s UPL
FLN and OAS
OPPOSING FACTIONS
IN ALGERIA CONTINUE KILLINGS
Algiers, Aug. 21.
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Bloody riots erupt in Dominican Republic
Ciudad Trujillo, Aug. 21.
Opposition political leaders charged today that Dominican troops, police and pro-Government crowds in the Santiago area battled opposition- ists yesterday with clubs, stones and machine guns, killing at least two persons and wounding 40 others.
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No oflot comment on charges
available. Liri- mediately.
Leaders of the opposition UÊN party said members of the group returning Santiago
from a mass meeting in San Francisco de Macoris were stoned to the city of Moca.
Opened fire
Tho battage af skanes kifted 10-year-old Fausto Jimenez and wounded 18 others.
In Santiago, a little later, the UCN leaders said, troops opened Gre with machine guns on an angry crowd that assembled out- side the mortuary to which Jimenez's body had been taken.
Erasmo Bermudez, a 31-year- old selon of the wealthy rum family, was killed by army gun- Arc, the UCN statement said,
Another crowd outside the Santiago police station was dis persed by police wielding clubs, Rafael A. Lienas was injured in the clash.
were
A total of 35 persons wounded in the Two clashes in Santiago, the UCN sold.
At the height of the dis- orders, warplanes Лен Tow
tack,
A total of 14 people were killed as a result of rebel over Santlogo, but did not at-
FLN attacks in Algeria during the past 48 hours, it was announced here today.
Armoured division
to be sent back to France
Paris, Aug. 21.
A French armoured division Is to be transferred from Algeria to Metropolitan France ho tween now and September 15, an authoritative source reveal ed here tonight.
Those killed were 8 Moslems and 'Europeans. One European was listed as "missing", while 19 persons (12 Europeans and 7 Moslems) were injured in the FLN attacks.
Over the same period, French
units Army
made control checkups in Algiers, Dran and Sabul-Abbes in districts of these towns mainly populated by Mo:Jems. Several arrests were made, and weapons and, were seized, speci- bere, documents was understood although unconfirmed by any deally in Sidi-bel-Abbey. oficial source, that this division
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provincial capital near the north const, ct nbout 90 miles northwest Ciudad Trujillo.
In Cludnd Trujillo, 238 phy slclans met on Saturday night to protest against the killing of. Dr Alejo Marinez a week earlier, following a UCN meeting in Puerto Plata.
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A letter to President Joaquin Balaguer drafted by the meet- ing charged that a police machine gunner shot and killed
SEQUEL TO
RACE RIOT
IN THE UK
London, Aug. 21.
Sixteen people were sentenced today to between one and six months' imprisonment for their part in drink-inflamed race riots on Saturday and Sunday nights outside a Pakistani-owned cafe in Middlesbrough.
TARA SINGH
IN WEAK CONDITION
New Delhi, Aug. 21. Master Tam Singh, 76-your- old Sikh leader, on the seventh day of a "fast unto death" in support of a Sikh demand för a Punjabi-speaking state,
was reported to
was in a xorious condition today and “very weak.” Martinez without provocation His Chlef Lieutenant, San after summoning him late at Fateh Singh, night from his home in Sosua, have written to Mr Nehru, In- a suburb of Puerto Plata, pre din Prime Minister, offering to sumably to tend an ailing mvisit New Delhi for talks on the Martinez fell dead with eight Sikh demand for a Punjabi- bullets in his body, the letter
speaking state within tina This account of the doctor's Indian union.
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being transferred to Observers here noted Metropolitan France in necord while the FLN was concentral- nnee with the declsloa taken lag its attacks on right-wing by the French Inner Defence Europeans and pro-French Committee lhet Werk to Moslems, the rightst "OAS" strengthen French defence (Scerel Army Organisation) forces in France and Germany was attacking pro-FLN Mosleme
and "liberal" Europeans. to face the Berlin crisis.
The division concerned-the. Seventh French Light Armour- ed Division at present i persed in different areas of Algeria AFP.
Special cake for Princess Margaret
is
Balmoral, Aug, 21. I'rinccse Margaret, who expecting a child in November, celebrated her 31st birthday to day with private Royal Family party in Balmoral Castle.
The Queen arranged a dinner party that climaxed the festivi ties tonight and the castle's chef baked a special cake for Princess Margaret UPI.
PLASTIC BOMBS
However, while the "OAS" restricted activity to mostly exploding plastic bombs out- side the homes of their victims, the FLN used knives and re- volvers in their terrorist al- locks, apparently with intent to kill.
two
The activity of the rightist European “OAS” since Friday night has resulted in injuries to one European
and to Moslems and considerable damage to property during 10 plastic explosions. Seven of the "OAS" plastic banbs exploded In Algiers. AFP.
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by his mother, differed sharply Although the government held from the official version. Pro-out hopes today of "new deve. government newspapers saldopments," Mr Nehru told Par- Martinez and a companion were lament here that the Sikh de. and killed by an army mand was a commurai: isue shot sentry when they attacked him under the garb of language,
with knives.---UPI.
Reuter.
Warm reception for Mikoyan
Tokyo, Aug. 21,
Mr Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet First Deputy Prime Minister, told about 8,000 cheering Japanese leftists here tonight that the Western world need not worry about the Soviet Union “plan ning something" in Germany.
The Soviet Union only wished to establish a legal boundary by concluding a peace treaty, he addivd.
Mr Mikoyan was giving the Soviet Union's views on the Berlin situation at a rally here spofired by the Japan-Soviet society.
REPEATED
A few minutes before the raily opence police arrested three rightists for fear might cause trouble,
they
Most of Mr Mikoyan's speech repeated what he told Japanese reporters last night in Kyote at
a press conference.
Communist labour
and socialist
unionials
interrupted his BD minties speech with cheers
and clapping. It was his warm-
He told the crowd, the Soviet
Berlin with the abrogation of the occupation system,
"But this is what the West German people should decide for themselves."
A police inspector declared the riot was "unparallelled" in the history of the Yorkshire town.
Thousands of people took part, throwing bricks and bot- ilcant the exte, the "Tat |Mahalt.and eventually setting i
on Are, the court was told,
The Pakistanis hid "In cup- boards"
from the mob, and some had left town for their own safety, the inspector said.
The first riots were sparked off by the death of a 17-year-old
youth in a stabbing on Friday, and young thugs made violent use of a gathering of local peo- ple, many inflamed with drinic, the inspector added.
Many pers0019 were injured, including three policemen, one of whom had a fractured skull and another a fractured spine, he stated.
The inspector described one scene in which a polleeman "disappeared from sight under screaming
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crowd lunatics." Thirty-six people appeared in court today. The 16 sent to jail were men aged between 22 and detained, 59. Two others were five sent to detention centres. four remitted to a juvenile court, and a woman was condi- tionally discharged.
QUIET
The remainder, eight, Aned.
were
Before passing sentence this afternoon the Judge said: "This le the most disgraceful state of Ditaire I have ever had to deal with in Middlesbrough. Riotous conduct on this scale is absolute-a ly intolerable.
"I agree with the Chlef Con- stable that it does not seem to be the sort of racial riot there
has been in other parts of the "we have had some coloured population here but I think that this business started in the pub- ile houses.
country," the judge continued,
"Tho evidence shows that on this occasion the coloured population were quiet and peaceful and never dild anything at all to create provocation, but they were attacked.
we have louis who
"Kere He told the cheering leftists the Soviet Union had been pro- have attacked these people posing that West Eeriin become without provocation, and af In free cily since 1858 but there | acked the pollco who were try- had been no constructive pro- | Ing to do their duty. This state posal for
solution a peaceful
of ariales caffiot go on," the from the United States.Reuter, judge declared AFP.
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Banned party m
3 POLITICAL LEADERS
ARRESTED IN NEPAL
Katmandu, Aug. 21.
Unlon or the United Nations Three leaders of one of Nepal's banned political
could form an organisation to
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parties were arrested here last night.
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They belonged to the Praju Parishad, an opposition group outlawed with other, politieat parties when King Manendra dismissed the Parlament ded took over the Government him- self last December,
The actosid word Chuda Praend, a former Foreign Minister; Pushkar. Nath, the Party's former General Heard- tary, and Rambari Sharma, who last weck Inade a pubile statement - dënimruding restora- tion of civil liberties. ·
This demand was repeated today in a statement by the forthor` Pesja‚„Pärišïind · Landar Mr T. Pi Acharya, who was Julled after last years topat edupi but Juter falékred to Become Chairman of a Hóyat Cómmie- alon on land rétorin.
Mr Acharya eich the time had come for dvli übertier, lo' be. rostored and it, woen up in the people so grove wiseibwe ⠀ then:
SAS reveals plan to cut staff by 1,250
› Stockholm, Aug. Si. The Scandinaylan Ale- lines System today nousood It was dismissing about 1,110 of is grea staff as part of a pro- igrainme to cut costs.
The annotéediheni was trước bờ mi Carl Nicoti BAB General Mażdger, who Bald the Company w]}} have END estinated 100 million kroner (about £7,000,000) deficit operationa this year,-Neu-
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Soldiers sent to battle
African rebels
Lusoko, Aug. 21. For the fourth time in two
wooks, moro soldiers of the Northorn Rhodesian African Rifles were air- lifted to tho northern provinces of Northern. Rhodesia today to roln- forco security. forces battling there to suppress African robolu engaged in anon and sabotago.
Canberra jet bombers were to 'do acrial engaged reconnaissance of the disturbed, provinces.
also
The officially announced count
killed of Africans
in einsbes with security forces of the white government remained at 16.
However, there was a new outbreak of sabotage over the weekend including fire daenage to three schools at Chilubi island in Lake Banaculu.
TRAIN STONED
At Mabole, near Kitwe, in the copperbelt, a freight train
*VES stoned and the train guard hospitalised.
Courts continued to sentence
Africans. More than 400 have been arrested so far.
In the copperbelt, an Afri- ' can was imprisoned for thred yours hard labour for being in possession of a sick of gelly- nite."
Other Africans have been
Of arrested
of con- charges to destroy spiring
buildings with explosives AP.
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