FEARS OF ARMED RISING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20891, 22 November 1937, Page 9

FEARS OF ARMED RISING

AMAZING PLOT UNEARTHED EVIDENCE OF FOREIGN ACTIVITIES RESOLUTE ACTION BY CABINET Uulteo Press Association—By Electra Telegraph - Copyright (Received November 21, 6.30 p.m.) PARIS, November 21. The police who are investigating the activities of the Cagoulards, seized two radio stations on the outskirts of the city, after tapping the communications. The police cars are sweeping across France in pursuit of two supposed ringleaders in the arms plot. There is a disposition to dissociate the Cagoulards from that plot. The police have discovered an underground fortress.

Armed guards have been placed at the Bank of France, the President’s Palace, and Ministers' residences. Excise officials at Lille, on examining a lorry-load of port, found several cases packed with rifles and pistols. The police have discovered 27 cases containing 32 bombs, also rifles and ammunition, in a villa bequeathed to the community of Billa Monble. M. Jean Moreu de la Meuse, director of a textile factory, has been arrested on suspicion of being one of the main organisers of the Cagoulard arms stores. He will be charged with associating with malefactors and illegally possessing arms. The guards surprised four men rifling the drawers of the War Ministry but they escaped. The suspected leaders of the plot fled last week before the police searched their bouses. AH roads are being watched.

Firm Stand by Cabinet Referring to the Cagoulards, the Prime Minister (M. Chautemps), in the Chamber of Deputies, said that the Chamber may count on the Government to seize the criminals, wherever they might be from. He added that they had allowed foreigners to reside in France who had proved unworthy of the privilege. The Government would shortly demand new legislative weapons to strengthen its action.

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? EXTREMISTS OF RIGHT OR LEFT? United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received November 21, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 20. The Paris correspondent of “The Daily Telegraph” says: “High officials of the Surete Nationale declare that they have not yet determined what extremists, whether Right or Left, are implicated in the Cagoulards, but it has been ascertained that the plotters had accomplices in a foreign country or countries.”

The Paris correspondent of “The Times” says: “A notable feature is that most of the arms discovered were of German or Italian make.”