Negroes And Indians Riot In Guiana

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30173, 3 July 1963, Page 15

Negroes And Indians Riot In Guiana

(N.Z Press Association—Copyright) GEORGETOWN, July 2. Heavily-armed police reinforcements were rushed to the village of Plaisance, five miles from Georgetown, yesterday after a clash between negroes and British Guianans of East Indian descent.

At least one negro was fatally wounded in the riot.

attacked six policemen and the girl who went along to identify he- assailants. Police, who hurried to Success. made 25 arrests Reports from London say the British Colonial Secretary Mr Duncan Sandy's is considering an emergency visit to British Guiana, which is in the grip of an 11-weeks-old general strike Deal With Cuba Havana Radio said Cuba ano British Guiana have signed a commercial agreement under which the latter

would provide Dr Castro’s Government with ' rice and railway sleepers The broadcast said Cuba would receive 45 million tons of rice and between 250.000 and 500.000 railway sleepers. The radio did not say whether Cuba would exchange other articles or

The trouble was reported to have started when East Indian shopkeepers refused to sell goods to negroes. The negroes retaliated by sacking shops Rioting also flared in the village of Success after six Eari Indians allegedly raped a teen-age girl. A crowd of East Indians

pay cash. The United States Is said to be concerned by indications of steadily closer ties between British Guiana's Premier, Dr. Jagan, and Dr. Castro.