WARNING BY WELSH EXTREMISTS

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31863, 16 December 1968, Page 17

WARNING BY WELSH EXTREMISTS

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 15. Welsh nationalist extremists have said that they would step up bomb outrages unless next year’s investiture of Prince Charles as “Prince of Wales” is called off, the mass circulation newspaper, the “People,” said today. The newspaper said Scotland Yard detectives were examining a Welsh-language tape-recording, said to contain details of bomb attacks for which the "Free Wales Army” has claimed responsibility. There have been widespread demonstrations and several bomb blasts in the last year. Prince Charles, heir to the British Throne, will be invested at Caernarvon Castle in North Wales next July. The title, Prince of Wales, is borne by individual conferment and is not inherited at birth. It was conferred on the Prince by his mother, Queen Elizabeth, on July 26, 1958. Prince Charles is the twentyfirst English prince to receive it. • The first was Edward, son of Edward I, born at Caernarvon on April 25, 1284, two years after the Llewelly, the last of 19 independent sovereign Welsh princes to rule the country, had died. On Saturday the Prime Minister (Mr Harold Wilson) described separation of Scot-

land from the United Kingdom as a “backward step” but said the Labour Government was aware of Scottish desire for greater participation in decision-making. He said separation would cut Scotland off from Britain’s economic resources. Scotland in many fields already had a large degree of devolution. Mr Wilson thus appeared to take a tougher view of Scottish Nationalist sentiments than party moderates who have been expecting concessions. Labour is electorally wellestablished in Scotland and Wales, a supremacy threatened by the upsurge of nationalist sentiment. Protestant extremists cry-

ing “Hands off Ulster” greeted Mr Wilson as he arrived to address a Scottish co-operative society meeting in Glasgow. Placards derided Mr Wilson’s “Christmas gifts,” the Falkland Islands to Argentina, Gibraltar to Spain and Ulster to the Pope. Mr Wilson said he recognised the strength of feeling for greater participation in governing. This was why the Government had decided on a constitutional commission to examine Government institutions, he said. The commission to be set up early next year, would not prevent action on the report of a local government commission on Scotland, due shortly.