GRAVE SITUATION REPORTED IN MADAGASCAR

Chronicle (Levin), 21 April 1947, Page 5

GRAVE SITUATION REPORTED IN MADAGASCAR

Received Sunday, 7 p.m. PARIS, April 20. Tlie sit nation in Madagasear is mtic.i graver llinn has been reported, said M. Uisleiluni, Rudical Deputv f»i M adagasi-ar. There have been tnain atiDfil ies and more than 30 kVeiudiinen have already been assassinated. A weak polic.v in Madagasear wouid enn in disaster. The lligh 'onimissioner, M. -Mareei de f 'oppet, opening 1 ln; lirst session o. tlie A! adagasean Hepresenlati ve As sembly at Anlsirabe, said large inili lary 1'nn-es wero on their way froin Fraiu-e to restore order in Madagasear. FmnHi Xews Ageno.y reports state that planes bombed a native stronghold i ji the cuastnl village of Vohilava, 17i> miles sMiitheast of Antananerivo. The planvs 1 ransported paratroop rcinl'oree nients to Mananjary. Optiniistic reports that the Madagasear revolt had been inastered in the lirst few days had been wide of the truth. The revolt, aceording to an oftieial statiunent, was ainied at the lotal evietion of Fremdi authorit.v, and Ihe displaceinent of Ihe French Iligli ( 'oiniuissioner by a Gove.rnmeut headed 1) v Dr. Havaehangv, the leader of the Malagasv Autonoinist Movement. The Il'igh Coimnissioner is reported te have jjcvured proof that the five Maia gasv Parlianientary depnties and als. Dr.' Raseta, who is the only Malaga.-v deputv no w in Paris, weiv guiltv oi coniplieity in the revolt. it seems that an extreniist wing of the Malagasv Autonoinist Movenient prepafe.d anu stimuhited the revolt although the cireunistances of the revolt were by ua means (dear. •