18 AUGUST 1961, Page 13

SOUTHERN RHODESIA

SIR,--In reply to W. R. Ferris, Information Attach6, Office of the High Commissioner for Rhodesia and Nyasaland, I wonder what publicity would have been given to the information that: 'one English- man (or Southern Rhodesian, white variety) had been shot, and five others wounded, by the police'? Would the 'disturbances' have been described as widespread? Does 'one African' more or less mean nothing?

T. H. HOTCHKISS

Woodbine Cottage, Manchester. Road, Tides well, via Buxton, Derbyshire