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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Jan. 9. 1961
African News Briefs
Violence Flares in Africa
Bv United Press International
By United Press International The rising tide of nationalism continues to erupt into armed violence on the African continent as riots run wild in Algeria and armed troops march in the Congo.
IN ALGIERS. ALGERIA two Moslems were killed in scattered outbursts of violence in the aftermath of the three-day referendum which endorsed President Charles de Gaulle's blueprint for peace in Algeria.
Rampaging Mossems, many waving the green-and-white banner of the rebels who have fought a six-year war for independence, clashed with security forces, looted homes, smashed cars and terrorized Europeans in at least the towns in this North African territory.
In Boufakir, 24 miles south of Algiers, French security forces opened fire on a mob of 2,000 Moslems when a funeral for a known rebel leader erupted into a riotous pro-rebol demonstration.
Two Moslems were killed, bringing the death toll since Friday to 38. Scores were wounded in scattered incidents during the voting.
In Batna, 180 miles southeast of here, Moslems ran riot, swinging axes and shovels and smashing European-owned cars. They included scores of veiled women and bare-footed children.
IN LEOPOLDVILLE, THE CONGO, followers of jailed former premier Patrice Lumumba were reported to have formed a new independent state by sending troops into secessionist Katanga Province.
Informed sources said that Remy Mwamba and Joseph Ilunga, cabinet ministers in Lumumba's old government established the state of "Lualaba" at Manono on the upper Congo and brought in 1,500 troops to enforce it.
The United Nations command said today a "number" of troops moved into Manono from pro-Lumumba Kivu and Oriental provinces and that they were "well received." The U.N. said it had no other details.
Manono is the fourth independent state to emerge in the Congo since the new country won independence from Belgium last July.
It is located in the swampy country of the upper Congo river, also known as the Lualaba River - some 300 miles north of Elisabethville.
KU Student Rescued By Campus Police
A KU student was pulled to safety Friday afternoon by Campus Police after breaking through the ice on Potter Lake.
Capt. Willard Anderson and Lt. Fenstemaker were cruising near the lake when they noticed four boys skating. They warned the boys that the ice was unsafe, but Tony Simpson, 441 Arkansas street, continued to skate. When he was about 50 feet from shore he broke through the ice and had to be pulled to shore by Fenstemaker and Anderson.
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Algeria's Referendum Only Beginning of Cure
ALGIERS, Algeria — (UPI) — In the shadowy, dusty Casabah, at the Cafe Grand Ismaila, bearded Moslems in turbans, robes and with slipped feet sit slack coffee and gaze impassively at the young French soldier with the tommy gun under his arm.
At the St. George Hotel, fronted by lush gardens and green grass, flowers and date palms, prosperous Frenchmen and their wives also sip black coffee and good Algerian wine.
There, a world away from the Casbah, Algiers is French in the same way that Beirut and Saigon were French in a sprawling but now dwindling empire.
And between the Moslem and the Frenchman stands the young soldier.
He is there today and he will be there on guard tonight as the 10 p.m. curfew falls across Algier's dark, deserted streets.
He was there yesterday enforcing the peace while Algerian Moslems and Algerian Europeans balloted in President Charles de Gaulle's referendum, called to chart a course for Algeria's future.
Among the European settlers it in the back country and in the cities, a terrible fear underlies their opposition to De Gaulle's plan for an independent Algeria.
It is a fear of what will happen to them if the French soldier ever leaves.
The Moslemse will outnumber them 19 to one in both manpower and weapons then and the thought brings a shudder of dismay.
"It will be another Congo," one colon said.
That is why they believe De Gaulle's referendum settled nothing.
The big test is still to come, they say, and they believe it will be violent.
Here in Algeria, De Gaulle's grand plan for an "Algerian Algeria" is a shadowy thing which even French administrators seem not clearly to understand.
De Gaulle has promised to Algerianize local governments to eliminate European domination.
He also said that in the event of Algerian independence, the European population must be protected.
Among poverty-stricken Arabs seen voting in the rural polling places, there appeared few who could meet the responsibility of government.
Certainly, there is no confidence among the Europeans.
Equally, there is as yet no real proof that the majority of Moslems here wish to be represented by the rebel FLN.
There were many Moslem abstentions in the voting yesterday in Algerian cities, and it probably was due to fears of FLN retaliation.
In any event, the task facing De Gaulle here is monumental.
Citadel Cadets Fired First Shot of Civil War Today,1961
By United Press International A group of cadets at the Citadel lined the shore of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, and with the pull of a lanyard, changed the course of history.
When the Cadets touched off the salvo of 17,24-pound artillery shells in the direction of the Yankee merchant ship "Star of the West," they triggered the War Between the States.
the firing on the merchant ship took place Jan. 9,1861.
TODAY CADETS at the Citadel will again line the shore and cut loose a barrage of rounds at a ship moving up the harbor. The action is part of a centennial pageant, which will re-create the events with near-authenticity.
Commanding the Cadets 100 years ago was Maj. P. F. Stevens, head of the military institution. History credits cadet G. E. Haynsworth with the dubious honor of pulling the lanvard on the first shot,
Today, a famous military hero headed the cadets. Gen. Mark W. Clark of World War II and Korean
THE CENTENNIAL weekend at Charleston began Saturday with a full dress parade by the Cadets, a speech by Civil War historian Bruce Catton and a military ball complete with hoop skirts for the ladies.
Yesterday, Virginia began its observance of the centennial with a quiet ceremony at the tomb of the greatest Southern General — Robert E. Lee. The ceremony coincided with one at the tomb of the northern General — Ulysses S. Grant — in New York.
War fame, portrayed Major Stevens,
and Cadet Richard Law was to fire
the first round. Clark is president of
the Citadel.
Firehouses Untrustworthy Now
YONKERS, N. Y. — (UPI) — The firehouse of Engine Co. No. 6 caught fire yesterday but no one was home to put it out.
The company was out fighting another fire when it learned of the blaze and rushed some of its equipment back to put out the fire in the hose drying tower.
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