STATE OF EMERGENCY
TROUBLE IN LIBERIA (Rec. 10 a.m.) MONROVIA (Liberia), Feb. 14. The Government proclaimed a state of emergency to-day after rubber workers, armed with cutlasses, clubs and other weapons, staged riots at a plantation 50 miles from the capital.. Riflemen and machine-gun squads have been sent to the trouble spot. ' The independent Negro Republic of Liberia (West Africa) has a 2,500,000 population descendants of freed American slaves.—Reuter.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 104, 15 February 1950, Page 5
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69STATE OF EMERGENCY Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 104, 15 February 1950, Page 5
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