REBELS DRIVEN INTO HILLS
French Advance In Algeria (Rec. 8 p.m.) ALGIERS, June 7. Six thousand French motorised and Alpine troops, scouring the wooded mountains 50 miles south-east ot Algiers—the haunt of the Nationalist insurgents for the last six months—have found villages abandoned. European-owned houses wrecked or burned, and roads blocked by boulders and tree trunks, according to reports reaching Algiers today. The insurgents melted into the wild country before the advancing French troops. French officials said they appeared to have taken the inhabitants of most of the villages with them. “Operation Basque," which began at dawn yesterday, follows the big French drive in Little Kabylie, farther to the east, which killed hundreds of insurgents and re-established French control over a large area.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27990, 9 June 1956, Page 9
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