Protest Team Stopped

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29107, 20 January 1960, Page 15

Protest Team Stopped

ACCRA, January 18. French authorities, deep in Africa, have again blocked a seven-man international team planning a non-violent demonstration against French plans to explode a nuclear device in the Sahara. They have returned the team “forcibly” to Ghana, according to a radio message from the team received on the night of January 18. It was the third time the team led by the Anglican clergyman and champion of Africans, the Rev. Michael Scott, had crossed from Ghana into French territory and the third time it had been stopped. Tonight’s message said the team was detained by French authorities in the Upper Volta region and sent back to Ghana territory yesterday, after managing to penetrate 66 miles into French territory. The message said the team slipped across the frontier by a “secret” route and on foot and through lifts given them by friendly lorry drivers got to Tcmkodogo. a small town about 66 miles north of the frontier. They were then spotted by Upper Volta police who put them “forcibly” on to a lorry and sent them back to Ghana. J