LYNCHING BY MOB

Press, Volume C, Issue 29604, 29 August 1961, Page 18

LYNCHING BY MOB

Suspected Terrorist (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) ALGIERS. August 26. A suspected Moslem terrorist was murdered ” by a mob of Europeans on the St. Cloud Beach near the modern residential quarter of Bone, in Eastern Algeria, yesterday. He was killed after terrorists bad thrown three grenades on the beach, wounding 12 Europeans and Moslems. Seven children were among the injured. A mob of Europeans chased the three Moslems suspected of hurling the grenades. One was beaten senseless and died as an ambulance took him to hospital Another of the Moslems was shot dead by security forces, but the third escaped in streets bordering the seaside promenade. Violence also flared in Algiers and Oran. Three people were killed and three wounded in Algiers and seven were wounded in Oran. In Algiers two of the dead were Moslems, killed by shots In the street in separate attacks, and one was a foreign legionnaire named by police at Sikoll Schwartz, who was fired or. in suburban Belcourt while with another legionnaire, Kurt* Neidzolka. Niedzollca was seriously wounded. Two Moslems were wounded in street attacks near the Algiers Casfcah. In Oran, reinforcements of mobile gendarmerie were rushed up to restore order as groups of young Europeans roamed the streets seeking vengeance after the killing on Saturday of a 17-year-old European, Paul - Michel Renault. The demonstrators sacked a Moslem grocery and later i i four Moslems were wounded V by a grenade thrown Into a i Moslem group. Two more ‘ Moslems were injured when mo Europeans beat them up in ’i the street. Gendarmes broke up the , demonstrations. A Moslem working for the ? French authorities was also . wounded when attacked in the street by another Moslem. S-' Hospital Laboratory Frac- vtice.—G. M. Collyer, of Christchurch, passed the cer. ' ” tificate of proficiency-exam- s'; ination in hospital labors- «<■■ tory practice held on August 22-24.-(P. A.)