New Algerian Bombings

Press, Volume C, Issue 29608, 2 September 1961, Page 11

New Algerian Bombings

(N .Z.P.A .-Reuter—Copyright)

PARIS, September 1. Right-wing opposition to President de Gaulle’s Algerian policy flared afresh in street clashes and plastic bomb blasts in France and Algeria last night In Algiers, a plastic charge badly damaged a dress shop, a car parked nearby, and a cinema full of people. The home of the administrator of the Bank of Algeria, Mr Zouai el Hadj, was damaged by another bomb.

A plastic blast extensively damaged the block of flats where the Chief Rabbi of France, Mr Jacob Kaplan, lives. The previous night a similar blast occurred at the home of the French Protestant leader, Mr Marc Boegner, who last year was associated with Mr Kaplan in an appeal to end the Algerian war.

Minutes after the blast outside Mr Kaplan’s home, a further explosion badly damaged the former left-bank home of a life-long Gaullist, Mr Geoffroy de Courcel, Minister Plenipotentiary and former Secretary-General to the French Presidency. In Constantine, eastern Algeria, insurgents last night shot and killed a European and wounded an Army doctor. Earlier yesterday, se-

curity forces in Constantine arrested 15 insurgents and 13 European activists. Riot police in Oran, western Algeria, hurled tear gas and percussion grenades to break up a crowd of demonstrators who clashed with them after violent disorders in which five Moslems were killed on Wednesday.

In clashes earlier yesterday, European youths injured three Moslems and Moslem insurgents shot an Algerian dead and stabbed a European in the back, seriously wounding him. Police in France detained for questioning 20 people in Paris known for their extremist views, and questioned about 10 people in Bayonne, south-west France, about recent plastic bomb explosions there.