ANOTHER RIOT IN GOLD COAST
DEMAND FOR RELEASE OF ARRESTED MEN
GOVERNMENT ALLEGES COMMUNIST PLOT
(Rec. 10 p.m.) ACCRA (Gold Coast), March 17. A riot occurred yesterday at Kumasi, 120 miles north of Accra, in which some people were fatally injured. The trouble started when former servicemen met a Government spokesman and demanded the release of the six Gold Coast leaden who were arrested last Saturday. A conference of representatives of the African press adopted a resolution protesting that the Government’® imposition of a press censorship after the recent cost of living rioting, in which 21 people were killed, was “a deliberate attempt to hide from the outside world what is happening in the Gold Coast.” They demanded an immediate end to the censorship. The Gold Coast Government accuses Communists from abroad of being implicated in the rioting last month. A Government statement says: “The connexion of six members of the United Gold Coast Party detained on March 13 with the Communist Party abroad was clearly demonstrated through the apprehension of a European emissary. There have been clear indications that the demonstrations were but part of a larger plot for the formation of a union of African Socialist republics.” Four of the six men detained are barristers.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25446, 18 March 1948, Page 5
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