french Fascist Leader Again Attacked

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 60, 12 March 1943, Page 5

french Fascist Leader Again Attacked

Widespread Unrest in France (By Telegraph—Pi’ess Assn.—Copyright.) Received Thursday, 9.30 p.m. LONDON, Mar. 11. A number of men using automatic pistols last night attacked Marcel Heat, che notorious French Fascist leader, at his country estate, says the Paris radio. Deat and his wife were not hit but a member of the police escort was wounded. The telephone lines to the estate were cut. Deat was wounded by a bullet in August 1941 and a bomb was thrown at him in March, 1942. He is the founder and leader of the Fascist Party Populace and editor of L’oeuvre. Twenty-nine German soldiers were seriously wounded and several probably killed when guerrillas in daylight attacked a German column in a workingclass district in Lyons, according to information which has reached the ligating French Headquarters in London. The Germans, who were young replacements for seasoned troops sent elsewhere, were thrown into a panic when the guerrillas showered grenades from an alley. The Germans machine-gunned wildly, killing a boy among the bystanders. The whole area was cordoned off and the Gestapo is searching house to house. Guerrillas blew up a munition train near Valence, killing the German train crew. The Morocco radio says two young men were executed in Alsace for disobeying the German labour orders. Several were deported and others sen; to prison without a reason being given. A German transport was so severely damaged when a bomb was thrown aboard it in Trondheim that it had to be beached. The Germans arrested six hostages. Reuter’s French frontier correspondent says fifty Germans were killed when two German trains collided as the result of sabotage near Saint Pol.