Indians jdemonstrate

The Nehru government obtained extension of its powers to
arrest progressives and hold them without trial only after bitter

opposition in the Indian parliament.

Demonstrations, such as

that shown above outside the parliament buildings in New Delhi,

Were staged in many cities,

People driven from
land, African leader

will ; appeal to UN

LONDON

The spokesman for the 3,000 African people of the Wameru
tribe in Tanganyika, whose homes were burned over their heads when
they were brutally evicted from their land last year, is now in London.

Out to get justice for his people, he is Ngura Kirilo Japhet,

‘secretary of the Meru Citizens’ Union.

York to place the case of the
Wameru people before the United
Nations Assembly next month.

The story he told in London
last week is one which has so far
been kept from the British peo-
Dle by the British Governor of
Tanganyika, Sir Hdward Twining,
who ordered the evictions.

These 3,000 men, women and
‘children of the Wameru tribe live
—or rather lived—in the Arusha
District of Northern Tanganyika
‘Where they have always been.

In 1859,.when the Germans
Moved in, the land was taken
‘Way, but was sold back to the
Wameru people in 1923 by the
British government.

Last year, however, the Brit-
ish government in Tanganyika
‘decided to evict the Wameru so
‘that the land could be given to
white settlers.

_ The government claims that it
has “offered” alternative land in
the Kingori and Ongatongishu
area, but this area is arid, ridden
With the dread tse-tse fly and is
UNsuitable for cultivation or
‘Cattle raising. .

The Wameru decided to place
their case before the United Na-
tions and pleaded with the Tan-
8anyika government to hold up
the evictions for the time being.

But the government refused
@nd last year some hundreds of
British-armed Askari police mov-
ed into the area, accompanied by
White officials led by the local
district commissioner.

When the Wameru refused
to be evicted, the 3,000 people
Were driven from their houses
and to make sure that they did
not return homes, storehouses
and cattle compounds were
burned and crops destroyed.

The whole eviction was carried
Out like a military operation and
24 Wamern people were arrested
“nd imprisoned,

Soon he will go to’ New
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Seretse Khama’ s
supporters given

e
prison sentence
vt CAPETOWN
Twenty-nine of 31 support-
ers of the deposed African chief
of the Bamangwato, Seretse
Khama, have been sentenced to
hard labor by a British court
in Lobatsi, Bechuanaland,
They were accused of caus-
ing, or aiding, ‘public violence”’
on June 1, when armed police
attacked with tea-gas and
batons a crowd which was try-
in to hold a tribal meeting in
support of Seretse Khama.
PECL LULL ULL Lh oe ee te nL

women from all branches of the

stress that the call to convene
this congress, issuing from the
World Peace Council, offers
broad possibilities for uniting
people of good will of the most
varied social origin, political al-
legiance and religious convictions,

“The preparations for the Peo-
ple’s ‘Congress,’’ wrote Izvestia,
“aye unfolding in conditions of
growing opposition to the crim-
inal plans of the fomenters of a
new war, ... In many sections
of society the peoples of Eastern
and Western lands are becoming
increasingly concerned about the
crude infringements on their na-
tional - sovereignty, honor and
self-respct.”’

It is to the failure of American
policy to convince an ever-grow-
ing number of people it is
beneficial to them that Soviet
opinion attributes the haste with
which treaties with Japan and
West Germany were rushed
through and it is likewise among
those people who see the danger
of these treaties that new allies
for the peace movement are ex-
pected. Germany and Japan are
likely to figure largely in the
proceedings of the Vienna Peo-
ple’s Congress,

greatly heartened by the broad-
ening of the ‘world peace move-
ment. This movement has grown
to embraee people of most varied
allegiances, a fact that has been
brought home to many in this
land by the composition of dele-
gations of visitors sponsored by
the peace movement. And ft is
the vital importance of keeping
the movement broad that is
stressed in all press comment on
the preparations- for the forth-
coming Vienna Congress.

Within the Soviet Union the
movement for defense of peace
has assumed a huge breadth. It
has brought believer and atheist
on to the same platform, the plat-
form of peace, united Christian
and Moslem; collective farmers
bring in their crops under ban-
ners bearing the words On Guard
for Peace, and you may read
these same words. on banners
over the factory’ bench.

man who recently visited the So-
viet Union report that the “Soviet

people are passionate for peace.”

Indian medical team in
Korea won't be replaced

TOKYO

The Indian government, it is

reported in New Delhi, has decid-

ed not-to replace its medical team

serving with the American forces
in Korea,

Disapproval of the American
refusal to make a truce in Koréa,
and of the American terror, bomb-
ing of civilians, led to the deci-
sion. « \

Major-General Cassels, retiring
commander of the British Com-

monwealth Division in Korea, at

a press conference in Tokyo last
week did not deny the report but
said that it was a serious matter.

If the Indian unit withdrew,
he said, the division would only
have two field ambulances instead
of the three it needed.

‘Bulgaria orders
second price eut

SOFIA |,

The Bulgarian government has
ordered the country’s second re-
tail price cut in consumer goods.
‘This month’s reductions include:
Bread, by 10 to 30 percent; milk,
18 percent; meat, 5 to 8 percent;
fats, 6 to 10 percent; textiles,

10 percent; cattle fodder, 25 per-

cent.

Bulgaria’s people will be saved
some $4 million a year by the
new price reductions.

The first price cuts, made in
May—when rationing was com-
pletely abolished—saved consum-

Jers $3 million,

be held in Vienna next December.

The Soviet people have been)

Truly did one English clergy-:

By RALPH PARKER

national economy and public life.

Soviet people heartened as
world peace movement grows,
prepare for Vienna parley

MOSCOW

Throughout the Soviet Union preparations have begun for the People’s Congress for Peace to
The attention of all peace committees and public organizations is
now focussed on this important event at which the USSR will be represented by leading men and

Soviet newspapers have drawn the public’s attention to the event in editorial articles. They

British Labor MP
convinced germ
war charges tiue

LONDON
“The attacks on the Dean of
Canterbury have been organis-
ed in such an irrationally vehe-
ment fashion that I have no
doubt germ warfare has been
carried, out in the Far East,” S.
O. Davies, Labor MP for Mer-
thyr Tydfil, said last week.
Davies added: ‘I am abso-
lutely convinced of the auth-
enticity of the evidence of the
use of germ warfare brought
back by the Dean from China.
When the House of Commons
meets in October I shall defin-
itely be raising this subject.”
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Armor vest
said useless

By ALAN WINNINGTON
PANMUNJON
Plastic ‘“‘farmored” vests worn
by American troops in Korea and
now being issued to others, in-
cluding Commonwealth troops,
are morale boosters only.

Not only are they useless at
keeping out bullets, they are an
added danger since they prevent
ease of Movement.

I have seen a simple test car-
ried out of these vests. A Chin-
ese volunteer hung one on a tree
and fired at it from a range of 60
yards with an American carbine.

Two thicknesses of vest were
penetrated and the bullets bur-
ied themselves about 1 inch in
the tree.

Australian
delegates

\defy ban

SYDNEY

The president of the Australian
Council of ‘Trade Unions, A. E.
Monk, has protested against the
Menzies government’s ban on
Australian delegates going to the
forthcoming Asian and Pacific
Peace Conference in Peking. ~

And Rev. G. Van Eerde, who
attended the meeting in China
which called the conference,
declared: “Some people want
to go—and they are going.”

If the government maintained
the ban, which was announced on
Wednesday last week, Australia
would be criticized for erecting a
“oum-tree curtain,” he added.

Questioned about the _ ban,
Prime Minister Robert ‘Menzies
admitted that the United States
“was doing the same thing,’’ but
claimed that his was an ‘“inde-
pendent decision.’’

Dr. John Burton, former Aus-
tralian High Commissioner in
Ceylon, who led the Australian
delegation to \Peking in June, al-
so protested.

Hongkong hard hit

: LONDON
The American embargo on
trade with China has created ex-
tensive unemployment and des-
titution in Hong Kong, states the
(British government’s official
Report on Hong Kong for 1951.
It says that “the Korean war
and world events following it
have put Hong Kong in an eco-
nomically impossible position.”’

New UN building

The United Nations will meet October 14 in the new UN
General Assembly Building (in foreground,
Building in background), on which work was to be completed
this week. The building seats 636 delegates and provides space

with Secretariat

for 800 visitors and 236 newspapermen,

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