TRUCE TALKS OPPOSED

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29051, 13 November 1959, Page 13

TRUCE TALKS OPPOSED

Demonstration In Algiers

(Rec. 9 p.m.) ALGIERS, November 12.

President de Gaulle’s renewed offer to the Algerian rebels for cease-fire talks touched off antiGaullist demonstrations in Algiers yesterday Armistice Day. Thousands of demonstrators shouting “de Gaulle to the gallows” pelted police with stones and tomatoes at a ceremony at the Algiers war memorial. The demonstrators also shouted: “Paratroopers With Us.” and “Soustelle Treason,” and hurled stones at the building of the proGaullist newspaper “Journal D’Algier.” Several arrests were made.

Earlier, during a parade, the crowds lining the route shouted “A French Algeria,” “Army to Power.” and “Shoot Ben Bella’ (an insurgent leader held by the French).

The memorial ceremony was attended by the Delegate General to Algeria (Mr Paul Delouvrier) and the Commander-in-Chief of French forces in Algeria (General Challe). /

Reuter’s correspondent said General de Gaulle had intensely annoyed the European nationalist extremists at home qnd in Algiers by insisting again that self-deter-mination for Algeria meant what it said and the future elections to enable all Algerians to choose their preferred regime would be authentically free.