MASSACRE PLOT
S.A. Police Foil Tribe (Rec. 11 p.m.) WINDHOEK (Southwest Africa), June 30. South African police are reported to have foiled an attempt by one of South-west Africa’s northern tribes, the Okanyama of Ovamboland, to massacre some number of white settlers in their territory Last week rumours said the massacre would take place last Sunday, the traditional “freedom day” of African Nationalists. The rumours in Windhoek were not taken seriously at the time, but today reliable sources said three lorry loads of arms and ammunition had since been intercepted at the border between Portuguese Angola and Ovamboland The arms were said to be Czech made and were dispatched from "one of the black cquntries north of Angola.” Whites in Ovamboland are now being guarded by armed police flown from Windhoek on Sunday Meanwhile. rumours persist that the headman and various leaders of the Okanyama tribe have been arrested, but this has been officially denied, American Associated Press said.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29245, 1 July 1960, Page 11
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