BELGIAN CONGO: Late Returns

The Belgian government last week regretfully announced that it could not give the final results of the Congo's nationwide elections. Among the reasons: ¶In the Sankuru River, a motor launch carrying ballot boxes downstream struck a sandbar and sank. Boxes containing 10,-ooo ballots disappeared in a swirling mass of crocodiles.

¶ In Kindu and the province of Kasai, candidates who believed that they had been defeated nullified the results by setting fire to polling stations and ballot boxes.

¶ At the big Belgian airbase of Kamina, an election dispute ended with four voters hacked to death by machetes and 14 wounded.

¶ At Luebo, Baluba tribesmen armed with flintlock rifles and spears set fire to 200 homes and huts and slaughtered at least 18 Lulua tribesmen. Lulua warriors retaliated by raiding nearby Baluba villages, and six more died.