RHODESIAN RIOTS

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29263, 22 July 1960, Page 15

RHODESIAN RIOTS

25,000 On Strike

(Rec. 11.30 p.m.) SALISBURY, July 21. The Southern Rhodesian Government has ordered 25,000 striking Africans to return to work today, or risk dismissal, after a day of disorders and stonings in the African township of Harare, near the capitalThe city last night was quiet blit tense after African demonstrators had stoned vehicles and houses, and squads of armed riot police had broken up mobs of rioters with tear gas, British United Press reported The demonstrations resulted from the arrest on Tuesday of three leading members of the Southern Rhodesian National Democratic Party, who are accused of breaking the Unlawful Organisations Act Half the African laboui force in Salisbury stayed at home in protest against the arrests. During the day, a crowd of 60,000 Africans gathered in Harare and it was from there that disturbances were started by gangs threatening to attack Africans and Europeans. Police yesterday cordoned off the city’s two African townships after riot squads had broken up a march by 2000 African men and women who were heading for the home of the Prime Minister, Sir Edgar Whitehead A proclamation has been signed under the Public Order Act banning processions in the Salisbury area for the next three months.