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11 Killed in African
May Pay Riots
POLICE USE GUNS
! Australian Associated Press
LONDON, Monday. — At feast 1 1
i African natives were shot' dead and 10 . .
| seriously wounded jn townships in the
Johannesburg goldfields area tonight, when .
j police fired on May Day demonstrators.
The demonstrators had thrown stones at
troop carriers sent to enforce the ban on public
meetings.
At Orlando, natives under
cover of sheets of iron ap
proached within 20ft. of the
police and fired on them.
The police dispersed the
natives with Sten gun and rifle
, fire.
At Bt-akpan about 1000
natives broke out of a com-
! pound nnd attacked the police,
' who scattered them with a
baton charge.
At Benonl the police used
bayonets and batons.
In Johannesburg and other
towns tonight shops were plun
dered and street lights stoned.
Near Tel Aviv, Israel, nine
May Day demonstrators were
cfnhhnri onrt tiPnten. nnd fwn
of them seriously Injured, in
clashes between Communists
and moderate Labor supporters.
The police cancelled Tel
Aviv's giant parade because of
scuffles between Right and Left
Wing supporters.
In Peking, the Chinese Com
munist capital, more than
200.000 people marched past the
historic Gate of Heavenly
1 Peace in the biggest May Day
i parade ever held in China, re
ports Peking radio.
riancs dipped and scattered
leaflets as the marchers
saluted Mao Tse-tung, the
Communist leader, and other
officials.
Army, navy and air force
detachments, including women's
units, led the narade.
BERLIN REDS "TRIED
TO MAKE TROUBLE"
Herald Special Service
LONDON, Monday. — Communist agents are
believed to have tried to provoke trouble at today's
rival May Day rallies in the eastern and western
sectors of Berlin. l 7
Among the 500,000 Ger
mans who attended the
anti-Communist rally on the
edge of the British sector
were 100 youths who
showered stones at the
cordon of black-uniformed
East German "people's
police" on the sector boun
dary.
The Daily Telegraph's Berlin
correspondent says the youths
are suspected of being Com
munist agents-provocateur.
Their efforts failed, as the
police withstood the attack
until West Berlin, police arrived
I and , cleni'efV.the; iiyt/yg:\
i The Cbriimiinisis, however; -
were not slaw to use the inci-
I dent as propaganda.
They boasted of their own
perfect discipline during the
huge six-hour march through
the Russian sector, and blamed
the disorders on the "machina
tions of the British and Ameri
can warmongers "
The correspondent says: "In
the Russian sector tonight, as
r.rmvHs t.hrnriffpH the streets
watching folk dancing and fire
works, the recurring propa
ganda point on the Communist
loud speakers was that only
the Iron discipline of the East
German police saved the day
from bloodshed."
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