Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 22, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fec Kess monday july 22, 114.iit but is courage by Alfred Friendly Aba Biafra special tons . Pat Rick Amadi 30, grinned from one Side of his plate round ibo face to the other. He had reason to feel pleased. Two Days before troops of his Lith division had made a second Cut in the nigerians Enugu awake Onisha line capturing a Bridge intact eight Miles East of aka along with for the loss of Only Trone Nian. D Piston Hani Irie r he fist into the Palm of his other hand. He to the operations map Wall its overlay dripping with order of baffle symbols in the Best Benning tradition. Not for nothing had he been through courses there in the British command school. They re making a Des Perate attempt to link up to restore their Supply route to Onisha from Enugu. But we be got this forma gestured toward pressed on both sides. We e grind them Down Liet you we. Did to them last with an epidemic of Salut ing presenting arms stand ing to attention shouting of in impeccable British the Convoy was assembled for the ride. It ended 15. Miles North of the Enugu Onisha Road at the Headquarters of the 57th brigade at Guleri on the Way at the Road itself the general stopped to conduct a hike. About two Miles of the nine mile Gap in the nigerians line was covered with the Black skeletons of., 200 vehicles. That March operation had been a Nice ambush. B i a f r an Intelli Vietcong Ese in effectiveness the local population had known Rural municipality of Assiniboia a Public notice Public notice is hereby Given that the Rural municipality of Assini Boia has decided upon intends to construct the following local improve ments in for the local improve ment districts k mentioned of a 24 Portland Cement Concrete pavement on Almy Road Between the first Lane North of Portage Avenue Ness Avenue at an estimated Cost of. Part of the Cost of constructing the Portland Cement Concrete pavement is to be levied assessed Over a period of to years in equal annual instalments on All property fronting or 1 abutting the said improvement the balance of the Cost of constructing the said local improvement will be levied assessed on a Mill rate basis Over the whole of re i Cal improvement District no. 8 in equal annual instal ments to include principal interest. 2. Construction of a 14 Portland Cement Concrete Lane pavement in the Lane bounded by Raquette Street Best Street Aliard Avenue Portage ave nue at an estimated Cost of part of the Cost of constructing the said in to be levied assessed Over a period of-20 years to equal annual instalments on All pro Perty fronting. Or abutting the said local improvement the balance of the construction will be levied asses sed Mill rate basis Over the whole of local improvement District no. 8 of ?0 years in equal annual instalments to include principal interest. 3. Construction of storm sewer on Vimy Pao Between. The first Lane North of Portage Avenue Ness Avenue. At an estimated Cost of the Cost of constructing the said storm sewer is to be levied assessed against All properties fronting the local improvement in equal annual instalments Over a period of 20 years to include interest 4. Construction of the following local improvements on Almy Road Between the first Lane North of Portage Avenue Ness Avenue Boulevard ing tree planting ornamental Street lighting part of the Cost of sodding the said boulevards tree planting Orna mental Street lighting is to be levied assessed Over a period of 20 years in equal annual instalments to include principal interest on All property fronting or abutting the said local the balance of Cost of extruding the said ments be levied assessed on a Mill basis Over the whole of local improvement. District no. 8 Over a period of annual instalments to include principal interest unless a majority of the owners of the land affected As defined by Section i of Section w2 of the municipal act representing at. Least one half in value of such As shown on the last revised assessment Roll of the municipality petition Council against the same within one month of the Date of the first publication of this notice. Further take notice that pursuant to. The provisions of Section of the municipal act the Council of the Rural municipality of Assn Boia will sit As a court of revision in the Council Chambers Kirk fed Park in Manitoba on the 13th Day of August . Ims at the hour of Pirn to hear complaints against the proposed assessments. Further take notice that prepayment of frontage Levy on the above mentioned local improvements will be or before comple Tion of the work. Dated at the run municipality of Assn idols in the province of Manitoba this 11th Day of july . 1961. L. E. Jones municipal clerk of the prospective Supply Convoy. A few hours before it rolled an enormous tree four feet in diameter had been felled across the Asphalt Highway. The pause while it was being sawed up meant that the vehicles in the Convoy became bunched bumper to bumper. Once the obstacle had been removed the motor caravan proceeded for about two Miles. The biafran lying Doggy in the i topical Bush on both sides of the Road went to work. All that was necessary was to blast the Lead vehicle. Small arms fire into the Gas tanks munitions cargo of the following trucks did the rest. At Guleri . Ephraim Opara with the Beard Abe Lincoln wore when he like col. Opara was 27 years old fumed in the Best Sandhurst accents he had been four years at British military schools at the nigerian map makers. Misrepresentation. You re standing Here 15 Miles North of the line this says they he said if it was t so late i d take cd up Here he stabbed at his map at Adam on the Anamara River right on the Border of Northern where our troops r All very Nice the sceptical reporters said but in the Long run How can you win you know that Biafra is surrounded land locked with no outside sup ply beyond a few miserable tons flown in each week by Creaky constellations one of them crashing after another. All your enemy has to do is sit tight starve you out riot Only in terms of military Supply but quite literally. Not at the general boomed. The nigerians Are our ordnance department a very Good one. If they get supplies Wes capture chafing to licks in col. Opara chimed in who talk s of starving they talk about is milk i never had milk after i stopped working on my Mother s b r e t. We re africans. We can live on what we grow in the Bush. Milk you know Why Well Gen. Addal asked rhetorically. Because this War is a matter of survival. Ask any Man you see around Here. He knows. We re fighting for some thing we understand. The nigerians Don t know Why they re fighting. I Don t worry about their superiority in men or Wea Pons. It s the spirit of our people that counts. Every one Man. Woman or child is a Soldier. It s a sheer matter of we All know that every ibo old enough to understand what this is All about will be it s just a matter of time until we win. There la be a second the colonel said. Driving South in the dark past Check Point after Check Point reporters wondered to themselves just How much More gasoline Biafra had to make their trips the military Supply process v possible How much Niobe of All the intricate equipment necessary in the at least Semi modern War being fought Here. They wondered what would happen to col. Opara s b r i g e if the nigerians retake that Bridge close that nine mile Gap thus slicing the brigade off like a mole from the face. 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