Uniformed 'Soldiers' Rule People Almost at Will in Congo City
Arrests, Beatings
Drunken Brawling
Commonplace
By WILLIAM ANDERSON
Stanleyville, The Congo-OIPD
- A uniformed rabble rules
this frightened city.
Arbitrary arrests, beatings,
extortion and drunken brawl
lngs have become so common
place that they no longer are
a subject of conversation
among the 500 Europeans who
stay close to the Stanley hotel.
Once these soldiers were
the Congolese Army Third
Group. They have arrested
their officers and elected new
ones three times since July.
They act on rumor and whim.
The rule of the soldiery be-
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are met with a bayonet in the !
stomach and are herded single-file
like prisoners into the
immigration building. Unem
ployed Congolese hanging
around the, airport scream "we
are the masters" and "free
dom." Formality Lacking
Congolese passengers are
ushered through customs with
out formality, Europeans are
searched, money is counted
"to ensure you are not carry
ing money to pay Belgian
spins."
The money is thrown oh
the ground where the pas
senger must stoop to pick it
up.
One British subject unfor
tunately was listed in his pass
port as a "general manager"
for a business firm. He was
pushed around for an hour by
soldiers who thought he was
a British army general. Only
the arrival of another plane
diverted their attention from
him.
Col. Yohanna Chites, com
mander of the U.N. garrison
in this town - seat of deposed
premier Patrice Lumumba's
power - said he can interfere
only if U.N. personnel are
arrested.
Several Severely Beaten
But Ethiopian troops used
"good offices" to secure the
release of 74 Europeans. A
U.N. official said several had
been severely beaten.
Last week, virtually every
automobile was confiscated
by the soldiers. They demand
ed owners show bills of sale.
Few of them carried a bill of
sale with them and lost their
cars - without any receipt.
Now the army rides in style
In civilian cars with gun muz
zles sticking through the windows.
The hard-drinking soldiers
have several sources of reve
nue. One of the most lucrative
is the threat of arrest. The
present going rate for not ar
resting a European is $60.
This carries no guarantee the
troops won't come back when
they have used up the money.
Rural Africans, friendly
and hard-working for the
most part, must pay a "tax"
at troop roadblocks when they
come to town.
Occasionally a platoon of
soldiers will surround a vil
lage and take It over for a
night.
Officials are arrested In
discriminately, Charles Ba
joko, provincial assembly
president, was seized just af
ter agreeing to an interview
with this correspondent. He
was accused of "secret deal
ings" with Europeans.
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SECTION J MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1960 PAGES I to
Czech-born Slavomlr Brzak
has been trying to organize a
$100,000 vegetable farm
scheme to provide work for
3,000 Congolese.
"But as soon as I start walk
ing with the civilian officials
they get arrested and I have
to begin all over," he com
plained. Inflation is rampant. Bank
notes which were intended as
replacements for worn out
currency and which have no
gold backing were given to
the troops.
For more than a month, sev
en members of parliament
have been held prisoner. Their
crime was disavowing Lu
mumba, who is in Leopold
ville. Alphonse Songolo, a parlia
mentarian, now is in a Con
golese army hospital under
guard. He is almost blind from
a four-hour beating after his
arrest. He was left without
medical aid for four days.
Believed Shot
Other members of the par
liament were reported taken
"up country" by soldiers.
People here believe they have
been shot.
The leading politician in
town now is Louis Lumumba
brother of Patrice. The de
posed Congolese premier's
deputy, Antoinc Gizenga, who
engineered the arrest of Son
golo, is in Stanleyville, but
sticks close to home since his
own, brief arrest.
A provincial cabinet of
ficial says he thinks Louis
Lumumba is planning to cut
the province off from the rest
of Tile Congo, under his
brother Patrice.
Another cabinet official
solemnly assured news m e n
that the U.N. command is
sheltering a band of Belgian
paratroopers who plan to at
tack Stanleyville.
Most of the European popu
lation here now is composed
of Portuguese and Greeks.
Businessmen and planters,
they sit watching their money
dwindle, their lifetime's work
melting away. Once bustling
Sawdust
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Medford Fuel Co.
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and busy, Stanleyville
dead city.
is a
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Pioneer Sites
Group Discusses
Restoration Plans
Jacksonville - Arch Itects
plans for restoration of the
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were discussed last week at
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Sites foundation. Members of
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Plans for the, restoration,
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approval by the city council.
Jack Batzer, contractor, will
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Contributions to the hotel
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bert st., Ashland.
Jack Sutton presented a
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board stressed that it is inter
ested in historic sites of this
area, many of which are un
known or have been demolish
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Vern Smith, Francis D. Haines
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gon history.
New International
Length Adopted
Paris (Science Service) - A
new international standard of
length has been officially
adopted here by the Interna
tional General Conference on
Weights and Measures.
The new standard defines
the meter as 1,650,763.73
times the wavelength of the
orange-red spectral line of
light emitted from atoms of
krypton 86.
With the krypton standard
now designated as the primary
standard, the platinum-iridi-um
meter bar housed at the
International Bureau of
Weights and Measures in Sev
res, France, drops to the posi
tion of a secondary standard.
The chief advantages of the
change are that the primary
standard is now non-destructible
and that the meter can
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