According to press reports, General Mobtuto has s : rebellious Kwilu Province. "He wants no witnesses to a i : Campaign of reprisal now under way to smash the Communist—inspired guerilla warfare," says the Daily Mail. Journalists have boem forbidden; Huropeans flown outs and 1,000 hoavily armed paracommandos flow in : from Katanga. “hat is knom of tho planned operation hore indicates that villages will be burned down and executions Carricd out as necoss= ary." Western embassies “grimly approve" this. It is not difficult to soe why. Theo Pritish~Dvtch Unilover rich palm oil plantations are in the area and the leader of the revolt is the Lumumba minister, Pierre Mulole who has spent 18 months in Moscow and Peking.
The revolt has had initinl suecess. In clashes tho guerillas “have shown a fanatical disregsrd for their lives in swarming ant-liko ~~ attacks reminiscent of Chinese actions in Korenee.e™ Four white mission— aries have boon killed despite orders by Mulele that Buropeans were only to be roughed up ond driven out. Economic damage caused by the fighting is reported to be considerable. One question mark over the outcome of the Government extermination campaign is the unreliability of the army. (Bd. notos sce page 9)