SEARCH INTENSIFIED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 279, 24 November 1937, Page 7

SEARCH INTENSIFIED

CAGOULARD PLOTTERS GERMANS DENY SUGGESTION GUN-RUNNERS IN COURT fßy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) PARIS, Nov. 22. While the Cagoulard search has intensified and extended, officers of the Surete Nationale are working throughout the night to co-ordinate the mass of material for a report to Cabinet on November 23. The police activity to-day centred at Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Lisieux, where many searches were made. The police are convinced that Toulouse is an important arms distributing centre. The investigators there are particularly giving attention to the activities of Spanish emigres. De la Meuse is now charged with “close association with malefactors.” Further discoveries of arms include 300 rifle bullets in a stocking on the Dieppe-Rouen road. A Berlin message states that the Voelkischer Beobachter describes the suggestion that the Cagoulards are financed from Germany as “silly suspicion.” The Berliner Tageblatt says that the assertions are “founded completely on guesswork.” The London Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent charges the Cagoulards with illicit arms traffic, involving the shipment of several grenades to Spain several months ago. Eleven Extreme Leftists appeared in the Lyons Court. The ringleader was sentenced to four months’ gaol and three others to suspended sentences. The remainder were acquitted on the ground that they had acted in good faith in carrying out an order, not knowing the destination of the grenades. The judge remarked that the idealist nature of gun-run-ning did not condone the offence. FRENCH PRETENDER bid for throne. . GENEVA, Nov. 22. The Due de Guise, the Pretender to the French Throne, in a manifesto says: “The situation at home and abroad is grave, and the nation will be forced to turn to a dictatorship of the Right or the Left. There is only one solution, the restoration of the Monarchy. lam determined to reconquer the Throi.e. The Comte de Paris was discovered in Geneva receiving loyalists. He has apparently not been expelled from Switzerland, only from the frontier area. DETECTIVE’S STATEMENT TWO THOUSAND SUSPECTS. ROADS TO PARIS WATCHED. PARIS, Nov. 22. Army officers are declared to be involved in the Cagoulards’ plot. The first hint of the plot is said to have come from de la Rocque after the plotters had been active for at least three months, A Surete Nationale detective states that 2000 people are under suspicion. Twenty-one prisoners have been charged with the illegal possession of arms. Several have been detained for questioning. The police attach importance to the arrest of Jean Moreau de la Meuse, who is allegedly the “War Minister.” All roads to Paris were closely watched at the week-end.