S. Africans Kill 4 Blacks at Funeral

Security forces who have arrested 795 people under a five-day state of emergency opened fire on a crowd of 4,000 stone-throwing blacks, killing four of them and wounding 16 others, police said today.

In New York, the U.N. Security Council scheduled an urgent meeting to consider requests by France that U.N. members suspend investments in South Africa and prohibit nuclear agreements to protest the government’s policies of apartheid, or racial segregation, and the state of emergency.

France recalled its South African ambassador Wednesday and suspended new investments to the country in protest of President Pieter W. Botha’s decision to impose the state of emergency Sunday. (Story, Page 4.)

In West Germany, opposition parties urged the government to impose sanctions against South Africa, but a Foreign Ministry spokesman said West Germany would prefer to act in concert with other Western European nations.

Washington’s response was muted. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the Administration is “reviewing the situation in South Africa” but is not conducting “a wholesale review of our policy.”

In the black township of Daveyton, 25 miles east of Johannesburg, soldiers and police armed with shotguns and rifles fired on mourners leaving a funeral late Wednesday. The crowd was stoning an army patrol and had injured one soldier, police said.

Shotgun and Rifle Fire

“A police patrol arrived on the scene and assisted in dispersing the mob with shotgun and rifle fire,” a spokesman said. “Two black males and two black females were fatally wounded, and 13 black males and three black females were wounded.”

A 16-year-old girl was reported among those killed, and her grandmother was quoted as saying it was the first such funeral the girl had attended.

Elizabeth Mjoli, a mourner, said: “We were marching along on our way from the cemetery when I heard shots and saw people scattering in all directions. I was among those who ran away.

“I don’t know if anybody died on the spot but I saw injured people being taken into vans that had earlier carried mourners. There were many people on the ground, but I cannot say if all of them had been shot.”

The deaths brought to 15 the number of people killed since the state of emergency began in large areas of the country in an attempt to end 11 months of racial violence in black townships.

Blacks Question Figures

A police spokesman today released the names of an additional 130 people detained by authorities. The arrests brought to 795 the number of people taken into custody during the emergency. All but four of the detainees are black.

Black community leaders disputed police figures, saying as many as 1,000 people have been arrested. Arrests continued today in Alexandra, near Johannesburg, and in Sharpeville and surrounding areas, one leader said.

In Johannesburg, Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, lambasted the United States for withholding criticism of the white-minority government.

He accused President Reagan of giving “aid and comfort to the perpetrators of one of the most racist systems since Nazism and communism.”