Banda Bodyguards Beat Europeans

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30172, 2 July 1963, Page 13

Banda Bodyguards Beat Europeans

(N Z.P.A Keuier—Copyngnt) JOHANNESBURG, July 1. Members of the bodyguard of the Prime Minister of Nvasaland (Dr. Hastings Banda) vesterday beat three whites, including a teen-age girl and a 12-year-old boy;, according to the South African Press Association.

In a dispatch from Blantyre, Nyasaland, the agency said all three were taken to hospital in Blantyre. and allowed to leave after treatment. As Dr. Banda, followed by a convoy of Malawai Congress Party itility vehicles was driving to a footbal' match in Blantyre. the agency said a car driven by a 27-year-old Austrian. Joseph Knieli. of Blantyre approached from the opposite direction. He was accompanied by a 17-year-old gir' and 12-year-old boy. both Portuguese After the Prime Minister had passed Mr Knieli was about to drive oft when a utility vehicle swept out in front' of him, it was said Eight uniformed Malawaf police leaped out and tried to drag Mr Knieli from his car Unab to do so they beat him about the face and head and they also beat the <?irl and boy on the head and faceMr Knieli sustained injuries to his right eye and cuts and bruises, and the girl and boy were severely bruised the agency reported Dissolution Talks At Victoria Falls. Southern Rhodesia, the four-govern-ment conference on the Central African Federation is today expected to discuss the trouble-laden issue of how the Rhodesian Federal Air

Force and Army should o<_ split up between the territories.

Delegates now discussing the break-up of the Federal unity of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland were also expected to get a preliminary report from a committee which is studying the redistribution of the Federal Debt, estimated about £3OO million.

Some delegates teas there will be stormy sessions before the final policy decisions are taken, probably by Thursday Federal and Southern Rhodesian delegates las: night held a flurry of toplevel talks after a speech by Mr Kenneth Kaunda, the Northern Rhodesian African nationalist leader He indicated his readinass to meet the Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister (Mr Winston Field) for talks on the explosive poltical situation in Southern Rhodesia. Federation Talks In Kampala. Uganda, Government leaders of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanganyika met yesterday whiel legal experts worked out a constitution for their proposed East African Federation.

The Uganda Prime Minister. Mr Milton Obote, was host to President Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika and the Kenya Prime Minister. Mr Jomo Kenyatta.