GUERRILLA WAR IN ALGERIA
(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, May 19. The French Government yesterday decided on drastic measures to fight the spreading guerrilla war in Algeria, according to Boris Kidel, the Paris correspondent of the “News Chronicle.”
They decreed a state of emergency in the eastern province of Constantine, and ordered out more troops and planes to reinforce the 90,000 men already stationed in Algeria. The French President, Mr Rene Coty, who is just back from a State visit to Denmark, presided at a Cabinet meeting called to consider the critical situation in Algeria. For more than six months the French have been trying in vain to wipe out a force of about 800 Nationalists in the Aures Mountains and areas 80 miles to the north and south.
The Nationalists are now using up to 100 men in their attacks.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27663, 20 May 1955, Page 13
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