FRENCH PLOTTERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 37, 23 November 1937, Page 5

FRENCH PLOTTERS

THE SEARCH INTENSIFIED. THREE MAIN CENTRES. BULLETS IN A STOCKING. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) PARIS, November 22. While the search for Cagoulards (“Hooded Men”) lias been intensified and extended, officers of the Surete Nationale are working throughout . the night to co-ordinate a mass of material for report to Cabinet to-morrow. Police activity to-day centred at Bordeaux, Toulouse and Lisieux, where many searches were made. The police are convinced that Toulouse is an important arms-distributing centre. Investigators there are giving attention to the activities of Spanish emigres.

Jean Delameus (a director of a textile factory, suspected of being one of the main organisers of the Cagoulards’ arms stores) is now charged with “close association with malefactors.” Further discoveries of arms include that of 300 rifle bullets in a stocking on the Dieppe-Rouen road. “SILLY SUSPICION.” REPORTS OF GERMAN FINANCING

(Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) BERLIN, November 22. The newspaper “Voelkiseher Beobachter” describes the suggestion that the Cagoulards were financed from Germany as “silly suspicion.” The “Berlin Tageblatt” says that the assertions are “founded completely on guesswork.”