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From the town of Agona Duakwa on the Gold Coast, Liberian Correspondent Henry B. Cole last week reported the following news of Africa:

> "In Nigeria, one Mark Dike, a semi-educated African with a pouchy jaw, was sentenced to ten months' imprisonment and six lashes for forging the names of two prominent African chiefs in a sensational letter addressed to Herr Adolf Hitler, in which he applied for bombs to 'bomb the English people.' "

> "Last month the pro-Nazi Vichy Government in French Mandated Togoland (part of Dahomey) called a conclave with all the native potentates, including prominent Paramount Chief Oba Ghehinto. Reason for this conclave was to foster anti-British feelings (because of its being sandwiched between Nigeria and Gold Coast) and also to collect men for training to combat De Gaulle's forces in Central West Africa.

"After Vichy officials had made this plain to P.C. Ghehinto, the Chief made it plain that he could not possibly collaborate with the French Government on a pro-Nazi policy, and as a protest he stabbed himself to death after the meeting. This act of the Chief is creating much unrest. . . ."

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