PROTESTS BY FRANCE

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27753, 2 September 1955, Page 11

PROTESTS BY FRANCE

Syrian And Cairo Broadcasts (Rec. 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 1. The French Government has protested against broadcasts from Syria and Egypt inciting the people of North Africa to revolt, ! the Paris correspondent of the 1 ••Daily Telegraph” said today. The French Ambassadors in Damascus and Cairo have made representations to the two Governments. The tone of the representations to Syria was more vehement than that adopted in the Cairo approach because the broadcasts from Damascus during the last few days have been particularly violent. A broadcast by Radio Damascus said: “Criminal France can do all she likes. Martyrs are strewing the roads that lead to liberty.” One passage of the Damascus broadcast confirmed the French • view that Arab instigators in the Middle East organised the recent revolts and massacres by North African terrorists in the hope that French punitive action would fan the flames of revolt. The speaker said: “We are not at all pained by the fact tr t France is executing wholesale the Moroccan fighters. This will only listen our victory which we want to complete. “The revolution of the Arab world has been transformed into a war of liberation.”