Paris Communists Protest At O.A.S.

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29715, 8 January 1962, Page 11

Paris Communists Protest At O.A.S.

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) PARIS, January Well-armed riot police put down a noisy Communist demonstration in the rain-soaked boulevards of Paris today. About 4000 to 5000 leather-jacketed youths, men and<irls obeyed the party summons to parade in protest against the terrorist tactics of the “French Algeria” underground Secret Army Organisation.

But they dispersed without violence whenever they met the helmeted mobile guards, a med with sub-machine guns, said the British United Press. A cordon of 1000 mobile guards and police completely blocked aU access to the Communist Party headquarters, where the main demonstration was called for 4 p.m. The police used 40 police

vans to barricade the Six streets leading to the party headquarters, the scene of an O.AjS. machine-gun attack early on Thursday There were no anti-Gov-ernment shouts. Instead the demonstrators, shouting in unison, concentrated their slogans against the OAS. In Algiers, Moslem terrorists shot dead a prominent French-born judge, Mr Charles Causse. aged 41, today as he walked about 100 yards from the law courts in daylight. Mr Causse. the father of five children, was hit by bullets in the back of the neck. Judge Causse was one of two Europeans and three Moslems killed in Algiers today. The wave of European and Moslem terrorism has now killed 05 and wounded 217 in Algeria since January 1. Angry Moslems attacked Europeans with stones and knives in Oran today after riot police killed three Moslem terrorists in a siege of a house. Two Europeans were injured—one with a stone and the other with a knife—after a hail of Moslem stones forced them to stop their car. Although terrorism in the cities has continued to decline since Wednesday—when the death toll for the day was more than 30—the situation is still chaotic, particularly in Oran, where European youths have been running amuck in the wave of terrorism. ft>lice believe that not even the OA.S. has any control over the youths, who have been daily hunting against isolated Moslems in the streets of the city.

than at any time in the past. The French Socialist Party yesterday declared in its party newspaper: "Civil war has already begun." The former Socialist Foreign Minister, Mr Christian Pineau, published an article saying the O.AS. was dearly Fascist. “Let’s not wait to fight it until it goosesteps down the Champs Elysees.” he said.

Some people believe the danger of civil war between Moslems and Europeans, or a new attempt at a “putsch” by the OAS. is greater now