1.
GV.PRIME MINISTER NYERERE INSPECTS TROOPS.
0.04

2.
SV.DITTO.
0.08

3.
SV.PRIME MINISTER WALKS PAST.
0.12

4.
SV.PRIME MINISTER AT TABLE UNDER BALCONY WITH TORCH.
0.16

5.
CU.PRIME MINISTER SMILES.
0.20

6.
LV.PRIME MINISTER STANDING SPEAKING.
0.24

7.
CU.PRIME MINISTER SPEAKING.
0.27

8.
LV.LIEUTENANT NYIRENDA WITH TORCH WALKING AWAY.
0.33

9.
LV.SOLDIERS CHAIR.
0.37

10.
GV AND CU..NYIRENDA HOLDING TORCH.
0.44

11.
SV.PRIME MINISTER INSPECTS PACK PONICS.
0.47

12.
SV PAN PRIME MINISTER WALKS PAST.
0.52

13.
CU.PRIME MINISTER.
0.54

14.
LV.EXPEDITION MOVING OFF.
1.00



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Background: IN POURING RAIN NOV. 16, MR. JULIUS NYERERE, PRIME MINISTER OF TANGANYIKA, ARRIVED AT MOSHI, A BASE CAMP AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT KILIMANJARO, TO OFFICIATE AT A PRE-INDEPENDENCE CEREMONY.

HE HANDED OVER TANGANYIKA'S NEW NATIONAL FLAG TO 25-YEAR-OLD SECOND LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER GWEBE NYIRENDA WHO IS TO HOIST IT ON THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT KILIMANJARO ON DEC.9. TANGANYIKA'S INDEPENDENCE DAY. HE ALSO PRESENTED A TORCH, WHICH IS TO BE LIT ON THE SUMMIT AT MIDNIGHT DEC. 8.

LIEUTENANT NYIRENDA, THE FIRST AFRICAN FROM TANGANYIKA TO BE COMMISSIONED AT THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, SANDHURST, U.K., THEN LED OFF HIS EXPEDITION OF POST AND TELEGRAPH TECHNICIANS AND THEIR PACK HORSES ON THEIR LONG CLIMB...MOUNT KILIMANJARO (19,340 FT.) IS THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN AFRICA.

IN A SPEECH AT THE HANDING OVER CEREMONY, PRIME MINISTER NYERERE SAID KILIMANJARO WOULD BE RE-NAMED DURING TANGANYIKA'S INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS. THE NEW NAME HAD NOT YET BEEN DECIDED, HE SAID.