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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 09, 1961
Page
8
Belgian unrest erupts as about 3,000 strikers clash with police and troops in Wallonia and Flanders after a Union leader’s speech. Rioters tear through central areas, wreck a railway station, loot shops, burn mail and furniture, and battle police and armored cars before being driven toward the River Neuse.
Attache Colonel Pundjailan announced a Russia Indonesia arms pact worth 107 to 142 million pounds sterling. It is the second major deal in under a year as Nasution arrives in New Delhi after talks in Moscow. Krushchev and Mikoyan praised Indonesian aims to end colonialism and highlighted Western bloc support for Holland over New Guinea.
Three elderly people were terrorised by two men who entered a Calder Highway house at about 4 a.m. They struck Harold Mutimer, 60, with a torch and forced £100 from him at gunpoint while twisting his legs. They hit housekeeper Nell Crockett, 61, took a mantel radio, sought more money from Charles Mutimer, 64, and ripped the telephone from the wall.
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