ONE SOLUTION FOR FRANCE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20893, 24 November 1937, Page 9

ONE SOLUTION FOR FRANCE

RETURN OF ROYALTY TO THRONE

DANGEROUS ACTIVITIES OF CAGOULARDS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph -Copyright GENEVA, November 22.

The Due de Guise, he Pretender to the French Throne, in a manif. sto says:—“The situation at home and abroad is grave. The nation will be forced to turn to a dictatorship of the Right or Left. There is only one solution: namely, the restoration of the Monarchy. I am determined to reconquer the Throne.” The Comte de Paris, who was discovered at Geneva receiving Loyalists, was, apparently, not expelled from Switzerdland, but only from the frontier area.

SWISS NERVOUSNESS COMTE VSIIED TO LEAVE COUNTRY Uulu- Press Association—Bj eiir, Telegraph Copyright (Recz’ved November 23, 6.30 p.m.) GENEVA, November 22. The Comte de Paris handed the journalists copies of his father’s manifesto but the Federal police refused him permission to publish it and again invited him to leave the country. It is stated the Comte is leaving by air to-morrow.

CAGOULARD ACTIVITIES POLICE SEARCH INTENSIFIED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright PARIS, November 22 While the Cagoulard search was working throughout the night to coordinate a mass of material for a intensified and extended by officers report to the Cabinet, police activity to-day centred about Bordeaux, Toulouse and Lisieux, where many searches were made. The police are convinced that Toulouse was an important arms distributing centre. Investigators there have been giving particular attention to the activities of Spanish emigries. Further di'—overies of arms include 300 rifle bullets ta a stocking on the Dieppe-Rouen road. German Resentment A Berlin message states that the newspaper “Voelkischer Beobachter” describes the suggestion that the Cagoulards were financed from Germany as: "A silly suspicion.” The “Berliner Tageblatt," says that these assertions are “founded completely on guesswork."

INTRIQUE ON FRONTIER IMPORTANT ARRESTS IN ALSACE United Press Association—By Electric Telegrapn—Copyright (Received November ?3, 6.30 pan.) LONDON, November 22. The Strasburg correspondent of "The Daily Telegraph” states that the Alsace police arrested six men, all of whom have allegedly confessed to be engaged ta espionage on behalf of Germany. Those arrested include two members of Colonel de la Rocque’s French Social Party. Colonel de la Rocque publicly denounced them after the arrest. One confessed that they were seeking information from the local troops regarding the strength of the Alsatian defences and selling the Information to Germany.