Hospital Killing Of Moslems Feared

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29791, 6 April 1962, Page 11

Hospital Killing Of Moslems Feared

IN .Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) ALGIERS, April 5.

Terrified Moslems, who have been the main victims of violence in Algeria since the cease-fire, have begun refusing to let their wounded go to hospital for fear they will be killed there.

The development came after Tuesday’s attack on a clinic near Algiers where 10 Moslems were killed when Europeans shot patients with tub-machine guns and then blew up the budding Moslems said wounded bad been taken away by relatives and friends, and one added; “They dare not to go to hospital. They kill Fifteen persons were killed. 13 of them Moslems, and 37 wounded, all but one of them Moslems, in acts of violence throughout the country yesterday, military officials said early today. In, Algiers nine Moslems were killed and 20 wounded Tney included three killed when a hail of bombs from a hidden O.A.S. mortar rained down on the hillside suburb of Belcourt, and at least two were wounded when five or six more mortar bombs exploded in the centre of the Casbah last night. Time Bomb Found The Associated Press said one time bomb discovered first before it exploded in Algiers yesterday, could have caused hundreds of deaths — it was concealed in a huge store of metal containers a Belcount gasworks. A bomb hidden'm a packing case destroyed a generator tn ’he docks but caused no casualties Injured were taken to an improvised clinic in a side street \ oung guardmg the building pleaded with reporters not to divulge its British United Press said a European, who was alleged to be a member of the O A S and to have killed a Moslem, would stand trial tor murder in Algiers today Manv Europeans and Moslems feared the trial might provoke increased O.A.S violence said the agency In spi’e of repeated attempts by the O.AJS to

provoke the Moslems into a full-scale battle with the Europeans to smash the cease-fire agreement, police officials said last night the Moslem population had remained remarkably calm. The flow of people from Algeria to France continued yesterday under the guard of riot police armed with machine-guns. About 100 persons waited at the airport yesterday morning, but no special aircraft were needed. A ferry service ran yesterday to fly nearly 900 persons to France.