NEGROES CAUSE TROUBLE IN LIBERIA
(Rec. 11.45 a.m.) WIESBADEN, April 28. Two American officers and 11 armed soldiers have been sent by air to Roberts airfield in the independent negro state of Liberia, West Africa, to strengthen the United States garrison comprising two officers and five men, which is threatened by rioting natives. The airfield was formerly an important stop on Army North African flights. The trouble began with the discharge of 800 native workmen when the airfield closed down on March 31. The guard shot a native prowling about the airfield, after which several hundred natives, armed with clubs, stormed the airfield and demanded that the soldier who shot' the native should be handed over.
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Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 5
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116NEGROES CAUSE TROUBLE IN LIBERIA Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 5
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