Evening star., 1949-02-28
French Major
Admits GIVING
Data TO Alien
Government Relates
Reds Link to Attuche,
Coptuin Also Held
BY the Assoeioted Press

muniSt army major has confessed
turning army documents over to
"a foreign military attache."
The attache was not identified
nor was the country he repre-
SentS named.
A communique issued by the In
terror Ministry said an army cap
tain was questioned about his
relationship" with the major and
about defense documents he is
charged with turning over to a
Communist magazine.
Popular Democracy" Mentioned.
The semi-official French News
Agency said the major, Louis
Teulery, had given arms produc-
tion secrets to a popular Democ-
racy" This is the term the Com
munists usually use to describe the
countries they dominate in East
ern Europe.
The other officer was identified
only as Capt. Azema, an instructor
of airborne troops. Six persons
thus far have been jailed in the
current purge OF Communists. The
other four, arrested last week, in
cluded an aircl aft craftsman and
three newSmen.
Maj. Teulery, 81, is former
resistance leader now attached to
the French armys administrative
center. In 1916 and 1947 he was
assistant chief of the counter
intelligence service in the NUM-
tionS Ministry.
The communique said Teulery
admitted handing over numerous
documents" which he had been
able to collect in his jobs in the
Offices of the Ministry of NUM-
tions and National Defense.
The ministry said the case was
connected with the one against
Robert Penillaut, business mana
ger of the Communist weekly
France d'Abord" France First ,
who was arrested Friday.
The major was identified as a
stockholder in the weekly.
Purge of Communists.
Another officer. captain
charged with giving defense
secrets to the paper, also will be
court-martialled, the ministry said.
The announcement came as
Frenchmen wondered nervously
how far their government would
go in present moves for a purge
of Communists.
The campaign against Commu-
nists on the parliamentary front
continued today with an official
request for lifting the immunity
of Florimond Bonte, one of the
Communist leaders in the Ma
tional Assembly and the party S
press spokesman.
On Friday the National Assem-
bly, is due to debate a similar re-
quest in the case of Marcel
Cachin. 79-year- -old editor of the
Communist daily, L'Humanite. As
in most countries, members of
the French Parliament are pro-
tected by law against arrest while
the House is in session.
Other Complaints Reported.
Press reports that other requests
have been made for lifting of i'm
munity of 20 other Communist
deputies were not confirmed.
1t has been reported, however
that War Minister Paul Rama
dier has filed complaints against
all 81 members of the party S
central committee.
In Bonte's case the request was
based on articles he wrote last
October. These, the prosecutors
Office said, were part of "a cam
paign to demoralize the army"
During last falls coal strike many
Communist leaders wrote urging
the army not to fire on strikers.
A similar debate on immunity
has been reported in the ofing
for Maurice Thorez, secretary
general of the party.
Three Newsmen Held.
Three Communist news
men and craftsman in an anti
aircraft plant are in the hands of
military courts, charged with en-
dangering national security by
possession of national defense
secrets. The offense is punish
able by one to five years in prison
They were picked up in police
dragnet last week in raids on
several newspaper Offices.
A statement by Gen. Charles de
Gaulle'S Peoples Party charged
the Communists with preparing
a Soviet invasion and occupation
and the government with reply.
ing only by orders of the day OF
laughable police measures"
However, CASTOR Palewski, Gen
De Gaulle's chief adviser on for
eign affairs and a bitter anti
Communist, said in a speech al
Limoges:
Il am certain that if, by some
misfortune, France were invaded
by the U. S. S. R.. the French
Communists would again join u;
in the 'maquis' of the new re-
sistance."
MOSCOW, Feb. % (P).-Gen-
eral political tension in France
was reported today by the official
Communist newspaper Pravda.
1t described intense "persecu-
ton of Communists in France as
concentrated presently on French
journalists.
Pravda also said the parlia-
mentary immunity of French
Communist deputies was under