African Strikers Advanced In Face Of Police Fire
Received Wednesday, 11.50 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 20. .Although two of their number ha$ fallen under fire, striking African miners continued to advance towards armed police in a chanting, surging war dance round a pile of explosives during the recent Nigerian disorders. A British official, Assistant Police Superintendent Eric Ormiston. said this today before a commission at Emugu which is investigating the disorders when 20 miners were killed by police fire, reports Reuter's Emugu correspondent. Superintendent Ormiston . said the Africans had refused to allow the police to' take away the explosives, which the authorities thought would be dangerous in the mine during the stay-in strike. African miners, armed with steeltipped sticks bows and arrows, machetes, picks and shovels chanted and danced round the explosives. Wearing red rags — the war dance symbols — they advanced beating- the ground with their sticks. The police opened fire when the Africans were 12 feet away, Superintendent Ormiston said. Even after two miners fell the crowd continued chanting and surging forward. After another volley the miners broke and ran.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 December 1949, Page 5
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