T here was no issue of the newspaper on March 23, 1967, on account of Id-ul-A zha. T he following excerpt and irnage are frorn the previous day`s issue.

DJIBOUTI: France airlifted more paratroopers to Somaliland today [March 21] as the death toll in incidents following Sunday`s referendum grew to 12. Yesterday 300 red-bereted paras, France`s elite fighting force, winged into this East Sahara port aboard Boeing jet.

The 12th person to die was a Somali who was shot dead in defiance of the curfew clamped down by chief of territory, Louis Saget, following yesterday`s pitched battle between security forces and Somalis. Twenty-five people were injured in the bloody riot.

Meanwhile, the heavily armed security forces have launched a massive clean-up operation in the teeming African quarter. There are about 40,000 Somalis in Djibouti.

According to reliable sources here, Mr Moussa Idriss, leader of the pro-independence People`s Movement Party (PMP)is to protest to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) about security precautions being taken in French Somaliland.

The sources added that Idriss would probably ask the OAU to send an enquiry commission to Somaliland. A Cairo report adds: Egyptian newspapers today challenged the f airness of the Somaliland`s referendum and charged that the French had whipped up inter-community feuding in the territory.

The semi-official `Al-Jamhooria` daily accused France of falsifying the Somaliland wish for independence by jailing opposition party members. Agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by agencies in Hong Kong,] China has protested to the Indian Government for using Tibetans for anti-China activity.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry in a Note yesterday [March 20] to the Indian Embassy here protested strongly against the instigation by the Indian Government of Tibetan refugees, `whom it shields and abets to carry out anti-Chinese activities before the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi` the New China News Agency reported today.