COMMUNISTS BLAMED FOR RIOTING ON GOLD COAST.

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1948, Page 5

COMMUNISTS BLAMED FOR RIOTING ON GOLD COAST.

(Rec. 1 p.m.) ACCRA, March 16. A conference of representatives of the African press adopted a resolution protesting that the Government’s imposition of press censorship following the recent cost-of-living rioting in which 21 people were killed, was a “deliberate attempt to hide from the outside world what is happening on the GgJd Coast,” and demanded the immediate lifting of the censorship. The Gold Coast Government yesterday accused Communists _ from abroad of being implicated in the riots. A riot occurred yesterday at Kumasi, .120 miles north of AcC\’a, in which some people were fatally injured. The trouble started when an ex-serviceman met a Government spokesman and demanded the release of six Gold Coast leaders arrested on March 13. A Government statement says: “The connection of six members of the United Gold Coast Party, detained on March 13, with the Communist Party abroad, was clearly demonstrated through the apprehension of a European emissary. There have been clear indications that the demonstrations were but part of a larger plot for the formation of a Union of African Socialist Republics.” Four of the six men detained are barristers. .