COMMUNISTS BLAMED
GOLD COAST RIOTING (10.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 16. The Gold Coast Government has accused Communists from abroad with being implicated in the rioting last month. A Government statement says: The connection of six members of the United Gold Coast Party detained on Monday 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.
A riot occurred yesterday at Kumasi, 120 miles north of Accra, in which some people were fatally injured. The trouble started when ex-servicemen met a Government spokesman and demanded the release of the six Gold Coast leaders.
Reuter says that a conference of the representatives of the African press have adopted a resolution protesting that the Government’s imposition of a press censorship following the recent cost of living rioting in which 21 people were killed as “a deliberate attempt to hide from the outside world what was happening on the Gold Coast” and demanded the immediate lifting of the censorship.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22588, 17 March 1948, Page 5
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