TERRORISTS IN AFRICA

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27675, 3 June 1955, Page 13

TERRORISTS IN AFRICA

Struggle Against French Rule {Bee. 8 pan.) CASABLANCA, June 1. A Moroccan municipal councillor was shot dead in Marrakesh on Tuesday night, a few hours after El Glaoui, the powerful ruler of the Marrakesh area had claimed that his strong measures

This attack raised the death toll from lawlessness in the protectorate to five in 24 hours.

Meanwhile guerrilla raids in neighbouring Algeria caused seven deaths and 10 persons were injured. Crop-burning and the destruction of telephone and telegraph lines are reported from many parts of Morocco. Some Arab shopkeepers face financial ruin. They have kept stores closed for eight days in succession on Nationalist orders.

Jewish shopkeepers also rolled down their shutters after the distribution of leaflets threatening them with death if they ignored the Nationalist instructions.

Three Jewish shopkeepers have been killed in the last week. In Tunis the red-and-white flag of Tunisia flew over Carthage today for the first time in 74 years to mark the grant of home rule and the return from exile of Habib Bourguiba, who had fought to make it possible.

The Nationalist leader made triumphal entry into La Goulette. the port of Tunis, just three and a half years after armed French police escorted him out of the protectorate into exile. Tens of thousands of people cheered him all the way from the port to the ancient city of Carthage, where the aged Bey Sidi Lamine ignored protocol by leaving his throne to greet the father of Tunisian independence.