Evening star., 1952-12-09
Troops Flown
To Moroccan
Rioting Scene
Europeans Evacuated
From Area; Toll Cut
To 80 Dead, so Hurt
BY the Associated Press

0.-Troop reinforcements were
flown today into Casablanca,
where Moroccan rioters sharpened
their knives and continued to
menace white residents.
Police beagn large-scale evacu-
alton Of French and other Euro
peans from native populated
areas after nationalist-led riot
ing, which broke out Sunday,
reached nearly revolutionary pro-
portions yesterday. An uneasy
calm prevailed as evacueeS were
moved to safer residential quar-
terS of this North African me-
tropolis.
French official figures scaled
down previous police reports of
casualties. The French said five
Europeans and Is Moroccan
rioters were killed in the last
three days and about so persons
were wounded. The Moroccan
press said 40 Moroccans and eight
Europeans were killed and IL
Europeans were injured. The po-
lice estimate had been so killed
and IA wounded.
800 Arrests Made.
French Foreign Legionnaires
were flown in from Agadir,
frontier city in Southwest Mo-
rocco. Some 200 Legionnaires
arrived in trucks to strengthen
police and troop forces patrolling
trouble areas. Press reports said
800 arrests had been made. The
French lifted an all-night curfew.
saying normal activity has been
resumed in all of Casablanca."
Three labor leaders who yester-
day demanded the murder of
TRAITORS" to the Moroccan inde-
pendence movement were among
about 140 natives arrested by the
police.
The disorders, which reached
nearly revolutionary proportions,
broke out Sunday in sympathy
with Tunisian workers whose
leader, Farhat Hached, was ma
chine-gunned and beaten to death
last week.
Nationalist newspapers called for
q demonstration and police found
copies Of hand bills demanding
the murder of traitors" who failed
to respond to the independence
movement.
European Couple Attacked.
Demonstrators attacked a Euro
pean couple and their three small
children today as they drove in a
truck along a street. The woman
was hurt on the head and her
husband on the arm but they man
aged to reach their home with the
children.
The local Moroccan Pasha sent
criers into the town pleading with
merchants to keep shops open to
provide food supplies.
Tanks and armored cars pa
troled the streets and police laid
virtual siege to headquarters of
the General Labor Federation, re-
portedly Communist controlled,
where several hundred demon
strators took refuge when Moroc-
can soldiers charged them yes
terday.
Gen. Augustin Guillaume, the
protectorate's French resident
general, announced in Rabat that
all measures necessary for security
were being taken.
The Europeans who died yes
terday included three killed and
burned in a quarry and four
others beaten to death with
stones and so badly mutilated they
could not be recognized.
Automobiles Burned.
Three native soldiers were killed
and two were captured by the
rioters, but were later rescued.
Their guns had been taken by
the rioters.
A number of automobiles have
been burned.
Native youngsters of IL years
or so were in the thick of the
fighting.
The riot broke out as the inde-
pendence demands of Frances
North African protectorates are
being debated in the United Ma
tionS. The Casablanca labor
union promptly sent cable to
the U. N. asking its quick inter-
vention here.
Meanwhile. in Tunis. the other
trouble spot of French North
Africa, the French authorities lift
ed the 10 pm. to 6 am. curfew
established on December 5 when
Mr.. Hached's death was an
nOIInced