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SUNDAY. JUNE 3. 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Lange Reports on Troublesome Areas of Eastern Africa (Editor'i nott This U an other in series of articles by Lukt Ling, former Medford resident who li on an around lha world cruita aboard lha freighter. SS Fritiland. Today's articla eoncarnt lha eastern eoait of Africa.) . By LUKE LANGE Port equipment and facili ties In Beira had been pretty badly damaged by a recent hurricane, and ships of all types and sizes were at an chor outside the harbor wait ing for a berth. We were anchored for six days before docking. Most of us had hand lines, and fished from the ship's stern. Our ship must have been anchored at the hottest fishing spot in the Indian ocean. More than 200 were landed in one day. A group ol sharks showed up, and within a few days had broken ail the lines and ran off with mo of our hooks. We got a meat hook from the galley, and baited it with a complete front shoulder of pork, and used a half-inch line. The sharks would make passes it, but they were too smart to take it. Gang Plank Lowarad The gang plank had been lowered, and we had been swimming beside the ship. This was stopped when the shark! arrived. News of our visa trouble at Laurenco Marqucst must have been sent ahead, because we had no trouble going ashore at Bcira, and were treated well by custom of ficials, who did not ask to see any passports or visas. Two Racat This town was also full of Portugese soldiers, and they have more than 30,000 of them in East Africa. With such an armed force, they may not have the "blo up" they anticipate. The natives seem to hate the Arabs and Indians more than whites. The two races run all of the stores and are traders. They are sharper than the blacks, and own every thing. The blacks have no use for them, but can do nothing about it. I have talked to black work men on board ship, and they have said that when they get their freedom, the white peo ple can stay, but they will get rid of the Arabs and In dians. But if I were In Portu guese East Africa at the time these people are given inde pendence. I would lose no time in getting out. The atti tude of all of them I have talked to convinces me it will be another Congo. Our cargo loaded, we left Portuguese Africa with no re grets, and two days later docked at Dar-Es Salem, a town which along with Zan zibar, is one of the main ports of the country of Tanganyka. This country was a British protectorate, and recently re ceived its independence. It shows it. Here, as In Zanzibar, natural , nearly all of the Europeans i shops and good homes, are to have gone. I blame, and should be elimi- The people, who clamored nated. for freedom and were pushed j This thinking was pretty on bv their leaders, were I well proven to me by a na- promised the lands, automo biles and possessions of the white man. They are begin ning to realize the leaders have occupied the homes and plantations, taken over the automobiles and refrigerators. At the start of one of these revolutions, the natives are led to believe that the whites are to blame for their pover ty, and as soon as they are freed, they will have the bet ter things of life like the white man had. They are not lold these things have to be produced and worked for. Then, when they get Indepen dence and the white man has left, they are disillusioned. This is the case in Tanga nyka, but the leaders being equal to the situation have given native a new whipping boy. They have pointed out that members of the Indian race, who own most of the 1 v jtz'it in & &Mftlc ?' Ml Hi a I vm & mm UU BIO E5 r4 sari Brufte cfla ta My CMS erf FR9E Parking with a $2 minimuw aurche ny orai ( eur Park anal Srit memlaer Slerea. 'in tit tar w tive black policeman who be came quite friendly over a couple of African brewed beers. He told me, among other things, that they would eliminate the Indian popula tion of Tanganyika within six months. I asked him how they intended to do this when the Indian was a citizen of the country just as he was. He said the all-native gov ernment would take care of the citizenship, and if the In dian did not voluntarily leave the country, the only other al ternative was to deport him forcibly. If that didn't work, killing them would. All this was from a black man who had received inde pendence. This gives you an idea of what they have learn ed of "their struggle for free dom." They even have race preju dice against their own people. If the other fellow is not a i nember of your tribe, be is I an enemy; and if he has more worldly possessions than you, I he too, is an enemy. .Tribes Fight ! These tribes have fought '! each other for centuries. White control has kept it to 1 a minimum, but now the big I gest problem of the independ ! ent black governments is the outbreak of tribal warfare, which is beginning to occur i throughout Africa in , newly 1 independent nations. Zanzibar wa the most in teresting town in Africa we have visited. The population is nearly all Arab and black. This was the Arabian cen ter for the slave trade. The Aralts set out from here for the interior, going inlaid as far as 1,010 miles to capture their victims. Those who sur vived the march to the coast were shipped rem Zanzibar ta the Arab markets in Egypt, Indie, Arabia ami other Ian. It has been rumored that the Arabs still are dealing in slaves on a small scale in this area. It would seem highly passible with Egyptian and Arab dhows sailing the Indian sees) and the Bed sea by the hu-ntk-eate, with no check on them it would be easy enough to smueole a few blanks into these countries, especially AraMa. & Teach W Mi Tea miles out of Zaazibar is a tawh af heme. After much argument, persuasiea U.S. to install one of 17 space checking stations. We visited the installation and were shown the works by an Army boy from Miss issippi. They have complete recordings of their conversa tions with Glenn as he passed over Africa. It was to this station that he first reported the yaw that his space ship was developing. This was on the second time around. Yo'i could hear him tell Zanzibar that he had corrected the yaw by manual control and will go around again. The voice of the man on the ground became quite ex cited, but Glenn seemed to be calm about ' the whole thing. The station was full of scientists, medics .and equip ment. The entire program seemed to be headed by the thought of getting the man back safely. Equipment Duplicated Every item of expensive equipment was duplicated in case of failure. One item did fail during the flight and ! there was a break in the con I versation between Glenn and the ground for several sec onds until the duplicate ma chine was adjusted. 1 The tour was so fast and the terms used were so techni cal we didn't understand much of anything. It did give you something to think about, listening to a man in space from a spot on the globe where within a few miles there was a possibility of 18th century slave trade with more modern methods, al though on a small scale. The native open air mar kets in Dar Es Salam and Zanzibar are he best we have encountered. They can be smelled for a great dis tance. Fish of all kinds, fresh, smoked, dried or salted were sold. Animals slaughtered at daylight were sold and eaten the same day. There is no re frigeration, ateaas A Delicacy Goat heads seemed to be a delicacy, and sold for high prices. They were complete with horns. Quite a contingent of Ma layan and Indian troops in United Nations uniform were being shipped inland from these ports. They were headed for the Congo by train to re lieve troops that have been there too long. Mombasa in the country of Kenya is the next stop and we will be able to see the large game reserves around Nairobi and the mountain Hemingway made famous, Kilimanjaro. ffxf llO'-creetari tldmMk far mUf a tyray TearJif with ' nDicAizznKJcrPM INOCCTIClOa e.W'et4I ejy- n-om4nm mM ttmntee Diazinen offers fruit grewe ecenemy and eenvenieriee in ony spray prajram-it is arte af the safer hotehate Imeeticides-ean ha applied class ta harvest. Profeat yeur eeorj lha meeVe, raved way wilfj Diazinen. Ntimrtm a ear MecaaiV Saw Mm M Rate, adata an n.narti nrerrey we atlonued the ! no Is Action Time for Y0.UTH &t LH "Ma Job! 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