TAKE-OVER BY ARMY
Demonstrati on s In Canton (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) CANTON, March 16. Hundreds of thousands of workers, students and children blocked the streets of Canton last night celebrating the Army’s take-over of the Communist Party committees of Canton and the surrounding province of Kwangtung. Army lorries with loudspeakers roared through the streets announcing that the military control commission of the People’s Liberation Army had taken over the two committees. Then large demonstrations by rebels and Red Guard groups supporting military control began. They marched under forests of red flags and portraits of Mao Tsetung. After darkness had fallen, every street in Canton’s centre was choked with marchers.
Three Rescued,—Three of six adventurers who failed in their attempt to cross the Pacific from Ecuador to Australia >vere rescued from their half-submerged raft today by a German ship.— Quito, March 16.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31321, 17 March 1967, Page 11
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