PLOTTERS IN FRANCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 275, 19 November 1937, Page 7

PLOTTERS IN FRANCE

POLICE REGULATIONS BIG STORE OF MUNITIONS FORTRESS-LIKE CHAMBER CAGOULARD HEADQUARTERS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) PARIS, Nov. 17. Enough cheddite to Mow up the entire district, seizure of huge arms stores, and the revelation that a “high command” was operating behind the elaborated system ’of sliding walls and secret rooms marked to-day’s nationwide investigation of the Cagoulards. The searches are proceeding, and further arrests are expected. The inquiries point to a nationwide plot against the Republic. The police were searching a suspected house at night when a lorryload of arms drove up. The house was found to contain 100,000 cartridges, 500 machine-guns, many sub-machine-guns, several cases of hand grenades, and a large quantity of cheddite. The police also found a sliding wall behind which was a fort-ress-like concrete chamber, equipped with telephones, loudspeakers, and microphones, obviously the headquarters. The guards at several of the Ministries in Paris have been reinforced, it is believed, as the result of the Cagoulard discoveries. BRITISH TRADER FINED THOUSANDS OF TERRORISTS GIBRALTAR, Nov. 17. Herbert Louis Barton, British trader, was fined £2O for the unlawful importation of arms, also £2O for attempting to export to Spain a consignment forfeited in Paris after the arrests of the Cagoulards. The police report that sensational revelations are expected. L’Oeuvre says that the organisation is composed of thousands of terrorists, called secret revolutionary militiamen, who were preparing a vast armed plot against the Republic. PARIS, Nov. 18. Seven were arrested. All were charged with plotting against the safety of the State.