ALL-AFRICAN CONFERENCE

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28766, 11 December 1958, Page 17

ALL-AFRICAN CONFERENCE

“Imperialism” Under Fire (NR. Press Association—Capvrioht) (Rec. • pm.) ACCRA, December 10. Mr Hamed Bakari. head of the Egyptian Labour Confederation delegation to the All-African Peoples’ Conference in Accra, said yesterday that imperialists were trying to draw away the spirit of a “United States of Africa.” “They will keep on worrying until the day of their doom in Africa,” he said. “Imperialists have always believed the African would be perpetually a slave,” he said. Imperialist exploiters now looked on Africa as their last chance after losing almost all of Asia, he said. Mr Ato Getachew Makasha (Ethiopia) said his country regarded the “rotting out” of the evils of colonialism and imperialism from the African continent as a “sacred mission.” Dr. F. Omar, leader of the Algerian National Liberation Front delegation, called for a formation of a strong force of African freedom fighters. “In this our struggle to liberate Africa should we exclude violence? After all we have the right to take by force what belongs to us,” he said. British Observers

Three British members of Parliament have arrived in Accra to attend the conference as observers.

They are Mr Robert Edwards and Mr William Griffiths, Labour members for Bilston and the Exchange Division of Manchester respectively, and Mr Philip Goodhart, Conservative member for Beckenham, Kent.

Mr Fenner Brockway, Labour M.P. for Eton and Slough, the Rev. Michael Scott and Mrs Paul Robeson have also arrived. When this was announced, the conference cheered.

JAPAN’S TOY EXPORTS Australia Urges Restraint

(Rec. 8.30 pm.) CANBERRA. December 10.

The Australian Government has asked Japan to exercise restraint in its exports of some goods to Australia.

It is understood the request covers exports of Japanese-made toys.

A Department of Trade spokesman said the request was in accordance with the terms of the Australia-Japan trade agreement. Several similar requests had been made since the agreement came into operation more than a year ago.

Continuing reviews of Australian trade on a departmental level have shown that imports of Japanese toys have reached a level which might threaten Australian toy manufacturers. The toy situation is at present being investigated by the Government’s adviser on the Austra-lia-Japan trade agreement (Mr McCarthy). Left Baby Lying In Road (Rec. 10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, December 10. The father dt an 11-month-old baby found in a heavy rainstorm, lying in the middle of a road on the night of November 28. was today sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. The father, James Richard Jenkinson, aged 45, Was convicted on a charge of having exposed his son to physical danger. The mother, Mrs Annie Roberts, told Mr W. N. Thompson. S.M., that Jenkinson was her de facto husband.

After an argument on November 28, Jenkinson said he was leaving her. He took the pram with his clothes In it, put the baby on top, and left the house. The next day he asked her where the baby was. She found out later that her baby had been found.

Jenkinson told Mr Thompson: “I was terribly drunk, and I didn’t see the baby fall out of the pram, which was what it apparently did do. I thought my wife or someone had got the baby back when I found it missing.”