150 REBELS KILLED
French Drive In Algeria
(Rec 10 p.m.) ALGIERS, June 11. Nearly 150 Moslem insurgents were killed and many more wounded and captured in weekend operations in three zones of Algeria, according to reports reaching Algiers today. The final casualty roll of the big clean-up drive by French forces m the Western part of the country between Tlemcen and the sea was 67 insurgents killed and another 600 rounded up as suspects for screening Algerian troops in South Constantine co-opeiated with Tunisian forces along their mutual border to attack an important armed band, killing 45 of them and taking 10 prisoners after a bitter engagement which started on Saturday.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27992, 12 June 1956, Page 13
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