ON TIPTOES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 40, 26 November 1937, Page 5

ON TIPTOES

FRANCE AND THE CAGOULARDS. EXCITEMENT IN THE COUNTRY. MORE SENSATIONS EXPECTED. !United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) PARIS, November 25. The Surete National© investigators are still questioning the Cagoulards (“Hooded Men”), who have been arrested. France continues to be on tiptoes with excitement, pending full disclosures, which are expected to be even more sensational. M. Moitessier (Surete Chief) says the name Cagoulard has been dropped and changed to Csar or Comite Secret D’Action Revolutionare.

The police declare they have discovered a link between certain arrested persons and a periodical conducted by the Due de Guise.

RUSH TO GET RID OF ARMS. SEQUEL TO POLICE SEARCH. PARIS,' November 25. The fear of being branded as Cagoulards has made the getting rid of arms a popular occupation. Throughout France the police are finding much ammunition, revolvers and rifles on river-banks, roadsides, and in parks. The owners, although not connected with the Gagoulards, apparently consider the arms too hot to hold, as no mercy is likely'to be shown to the possessors of illicit weapons. The police are continuing the Cagoulerd hunt. They questioned to-day General Duseigneur, a former Chief Secretary at the Air Ministry, and Rightist sympathiser. The police have arrested all the persons found on the premises of Eugene Deloncle’s flat, which was raided yesterday. Others arrested include an air force pilot .nd a former navy captain.