ILLICIT ARMS
DISCARDED BY FRENCH OWNERS FEAR OF IMPLICATION IN CAGOULARD PLOT Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, November 25. Fear of being branded Cagoulards has made the getting rid of arms a popular occupation throughout France, and the police are finding much ammunition and many revolvers and rifles on river banks, in parks, and ( on roadsides. The owners, although hot connected with the Cagoulards, consider them too hot to hold, as no mercy is likely to be shown to the possessors of illicit arms. The police, continuing the Cagoulard hunt, questioned General Duseigneur, the former Chief Secretary of the Air Ministry, and a Rightist sympathiser. They arrested all those found on the premises. SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES EXPECTED PARIS, November 25. (Received November 26, at 11 a.m.) Surete investigators are still questioning the Cagoulards who were arrested. France continues to be on tiptoe with excitement pending full disclosures, which are expected to be even more sensational. M. Moitessier, the Surete chief, says the name Cagoulard has been dropped and changed to Csar, or Comite Secret d’action Revolutionnaire. Tlie police declare that they have discovered a link between certain arrested persons and the periodical conducted by the Due de Guise.
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Evening Star, Issue 22816, 26 November 1937, Page 11
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196ILLICIT ARMS Evening Star, Issue 22816, 26 November 1937, Page 11
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