O.A.S. RESUMES KILLINGS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29843, 8 June 1962, Page 11

O.A.S. RESUMES KILLINGS

Four Moslems Die As Truce Ends (A JZ.P, A.-Reuter—Copyright) ALGIERS, June 7. European gunmen killed four Moslems in Algiers today—the first day of the renewed O.A.S. terrorist attacks. An O.A.S. machine-gun squad shot a group of Moslems from a speeding car, killing three, and another Moslem died in a second shooting incident. Security patrols were reinforced throughout Algiers last night after an O.A.S. pirate broadcast announced the end of the truce.

The O.A.S. spokesman broadcasting on the television sound channel, said attempts to negotiate new guarantees for Europeans in Algeria had brought no results. and blamed the French Government for this.. Women. children and elderly persons were advised to leave Algeria to “free the men for the campaign of scorched earth.”

"We And ourselves today tn an impasse because we cannot accept that the future of the European community should find its only guarantees in the Evian agreements and that it should come under the yoke of the A.L.M. (the Algerian Army of National Liberation*," the broadcast said. “As a result, the O.A.S is resuming its freedom of action beginning tonight. “We ask our commandos to resume operations aimed above all at economic objectives." Quiet Week Until the shooting broke out. Algiers had had its calmest week since the Algerian cease fire while local O.A.S. leaders sought to come to an arrangement with Moslem nationalists. The truce was not observed

in western Algeria, where the former general. Paul Gardy. and other heads of the military section of the O.A.S have moved their headquarters.

Two O.A.S men. Claud Piegts and Albert Dovecar. were executed by firing squad at an Army fort on the outskirts of Paris early today, it was reported. Piegts, an Algerian-born Frenchman, and Dovecar. a Jugoslav, were sentenced to death by a Special Military Triunal in Paris on Martth 30 for their part in the murder of an Algiers police officer. Roger Gavoury. in May, 1961. The execution took place in the fort of Trou d’Enfer iHell's Hole* in ,Marly Forest on the western outskirts of Pans. Speculation that the former general. Edmond Jouhaud. second in command of the Secret Army' Organisation was being executed was aroused when a large, heavily guarded convoy of cars and prison vans drove to the fort from Fresnes Prison, where Jouhaud is in a death cell. The convoy drove into the fort, up the main roadway guarded by carbine-carrying gendarmes and into a court-

yard where sever.) squads of soldiers could be seen. Three minutes later a salvo of shots was heard, followed by two pistol shots—th° “coup de grace.”

After the shooting a vehicle left the fort. Steel-helmeted soldiers presented arms as it passed, and drove to Thiais Cemetery south of Paris where two coffins were takenfrom it. Two Army chaplains who had been with the condemned men in their last moments were present at the burial.

According to the British United Press, Piegts went to his death with a defiant cry of “Al-ge-rie Fran-caise”— the slogan of the O.A.S

Dovecar was ' allowed to w'ar his uniform. He shouted: “Vive I’Autriche” as the execution salvo rang out.

The “Scotsman” newspaper said yesterday that the French Government is expecting between 400.000 and 800.000 Europeans from Algeria to settle in France, together with between 100.000 and 200.000 “compromised” Moslems.

“To help them settle down, large sums of public money will be required, which could mean higher taxes. This money will, however, be repaid through the expansion of the economy which the new labour force will make possible—6 per, cent, and even 6.5 per cent, for 1963 is mentioned in Paris as against 5.5 per cent, as at present planned. “France, in fact, could be heading for a boom as big as that of West Germany after 1948. which was largely •he result Of the flow of East German refugees.” said the newspaper

Squadron Waiting (NZ.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BANGKOK, June 7 New Zealand’s Special Air Service Squadron is still stationed at Korat. in central Thailand, while final details concerning its planned move to the town of Na Khu are ironed out. An authoritative source in Bangkok said last night that it was even possible the plan to move to Na Khu might be scrapped but no decision had been reached yet. Na Khu is less than 50 miles from the border of Thailand and Laos.