Algerian Situation Deteriorates

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29722, 16 January 1962, Page 11

Algerian Situation Deteriorates

(N.Z.P.A.~Reuttr—Copyright)

ALGIERS, January 15.

Fears of wider massacre spread through Algeria today after a week-end of violence which cost 50 lives and left 117 injured.

Military officials today described the first fortnight of 1962 as the bloodiest since the Algerian rebellion started seven years ago.

Yesterday’s toll of 31 dead and 70 injured brought the total since January 1 to 228 dead and 489 wounded.

Nearly 7000 French troops and police were reported to have moved into the Algiers area over the wek-end to supplement the 10,000 security forces already there. Last week, the insurgent “Algerian Provisional Government” called for action to meet the attacks of the European extremist Secret Army Organisation (0.A.5.). Attack On Cafe In one atack in Algiers yesterday, five men in a car—blieved to be an O.A.S. com-mando—machine-gunned and

bombed an Arab cafe, killing seven Moslems, including an old man and a child, and wounding 16 more. Shortly afterwards a carload of Moslems machinegunned a car containing a European family, killing the mother. the fattier and two of the children and seriously wounding the remaining child, a girl of 14. Officials said last night they were receiving reports of new machine-gunnings in the Algiers area almost every 10 minutes.

Newman Still Seriously 11l (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) SYDNEY. January 15. The Sydney diesel engineer, Alan Newman, who was flown back to Australia from the Antarctic by Russian. American and Australian planes last week, is still seriously ill in St. Vincent’s Hospital. Mr Newman, aged 41, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at the Australian Antarctic base at Mawson last November.

After being operated on twice at the base he was transferred to Sydney, and a third operation was performed last week. A hospital official said today Mr Newman's condition wa* “unchanged"