Pearce causing clashes -claim

Workers Press no. 668, 21 January 1972 · scan page 2

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ARMED riot police and soldiers patrolled Salisbury's strike-bound African suburb of Harari yesterday after a night of street fighting. Police had used tear gas and threatened to shoot 'looters' on sight.

For the second time in three the Tory- appointed days pearce • commission was forced to drop plans to take 'soundings' of African opinion on the hated settlement between the Tory government and Smith.

The Centre Party, with seven African MPs, yesterday warned that law. and order would break down completely if the Pearce commission continued its 'consultations'.

Meanwhile, Rhodesian premier lan Smith and security chiefs were holding an emergency meeting to discuss the upsurge.

A top British official was on his way to Salisbury from London to make an on-the-spot assessment.

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