THE CAGOULARDS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 41, 27 November 1937, Page 7

THE CAGOULARDS.

LEADER’S ALLEGED CONFESSION

ANTI-COMMUNII3T PUTSCH

fUnited Press Association—Copyright.) PARIS, November 26.

The Surete has branded Eugene Deloncle as the ringleader and master mind of the Cagoulards, and General Duseigneur as his chief assistant. It was believed that Delqncle was taken to the Surete, hancuffed and unshaven. The police sat on him in an armchair and put him through the “third degree’ throughout the day and night, after which he confessed. Duseigneur admitted that he was Deloncle’s right-hand man, after an unbroken gruelling for 15 hours. The Surete claims that the arrest of these two men reaches to the heart of the plot. The Cagoulards, they allege, were organising an anti-Commu-nist “putsch.” They had paid hundreds of thousands of francs to the Arab organisation “New Algeria,” to recruit the North Africans.

A Hotchkiss quick-firing gun, 13 ma-chine-guns, 256 grenades, 14,250 rounds of ammunition, and rifles were found in a cellar belonging to Pierre Parent, a* Paris architect, who was arrested. Two thousand German cartridges, Mauser rifles, and also English bullets were found at a chateau near Cambrai. The Mobile Guards have been doubled at the Ministry of the Interior. No person is allowed to enter without a passport.

FURTHER ARRESTS MADE.

HOURS UNDER THIRD' DEGREE. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) PARIS, November 26. After being hours under the third degree Count Pozzi Bi Borgho, a former lieutenant in Colonel De la Rocque’s Fascists, was arrested on a charge of association with criminals. Surete detectives who are investigating the “C'snr” plot state that Duseigneur asserts that Di Borgho was associated with him in the leadership of union defence committees to suppress Communism. After his arrest Eugene Delonele was taken to Saute prison.