ALGERIAN CLASH

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29905, 20 August 1962, Page 9

ALGERIAN CLASH

Troops Fire On Crowd (N.Z.P.A .-Reuter—Copyright I ORAN ’West Algeria’, August 18 Algerian troops opened fire on a crowd of Moslems at Inkermann 100 miles east of Oran, killing tour, usually ••eliable sources reported. They said a demonstration broke out during a meeting to discuss the nomination of candidates for Algeria's first Constituent Assembly A detachment of troops, called in to restore order, opened fire.

In Algiers, usually wellinformed sources said scores of employees of the Pasteur Institute there had been taken off for interrogation after the discovery of an arms cache in the institute’s garden last Thursday Algerians in battledress and in civilian c’ thes raided the laboratory of the institute several times and kidnapped two Europeans The body of one was found by a roadside later and was buried today. The other is still missing. The laboratory authorities warned that if further raids were made and the Moslems touched infected animals, they could spread a plague through the city.

Bishops Protest At Expulsion

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) LAGOS. August 18 The Bishops of the Province of West Africa today expressed “horror" at the action of the Ghana Government in expelling the Rt. Rev. Richard Roseveare, Anglican Bishop of Accra.

American soldiers inspected the scene and an American helicopter hovered over it

British United Press reported that an East German woman today escaped to West Berlin unharmed under Communist gunfire. She go’ through barbed wire in a country area on the border of the Spandau district, in the British sector.

Communist border police fired at her with machinepistols but missed. Western police said.