Evening star., 1962-01-06
5000 Extra Police
Curb Reds i'm Paris
Crowds Mill
In Center
OfCity

PARIS, Jan. 6 (AP).-Sev- 4
eral thousand Communist DEM
onstrators tonight milled in the I
center of Paris, kept in check 3
by heavily armed squads of riot :
police.
No violence was reported but /
the atmosphere was tense and
demonstrators, defying a police
ban against their plan to stage
a protest against right-wing
Secret Army terrorism, jeered {
and hooted police.
THE OAS CSecret Army {
shall not pass and death to
the assassins," the demonstra- |.
tors shouted. {
Riot squads kept the area In (
front of Communist headquar-I
ters clear of traffic, and barri-
caded streets leading into the
square before the building.
Crowds SweIled &
Early crowds of demonstra-E :
tors were joined as the day.
wore on by comrades from thes
Paris worker suburbs arriving
by subway and train.
The government brought in
5000 special riot police 10 aug
ment Paris police and the dem
onstration area was co"doned
off.
Demonstrators, many of them
teen-agers, shouted slogans
against the Secret Army, whom
they blame for the machine
cunning of a Communist head
quarters guard Thursday night.
Communist cliieftains claim
that France is in danger of a.
Fascist putsch from the Secret
Army Organization. The Secret
Army, savagely determined to-
keep Algeria French against
President Charles de Gaulle'S
program of independence for
the North African territory, is.
blamed for much of the bomb
ings and shootings in metropoli-
! tan France as we'll as Algeria.
Terrorism in Algeria
Although the Communist
were warned not to go ahead
with the demonstration, the
police order was ignored and
the Communist newspaper
l'Humanite called for a mas
sive turnout.
AS the prospect of violence
loomed in France, terrorism in
Algeria continued almost with
out letup.
b Just after dawn today ter
roriSts struck twice in tense
Algiers. A European merchant
was seriously wounded by a
gunman near the Casbah. A
little later, terrorists shot
another European to death.
At Lille in Northern France,
a plastic bomb, apparently set
by the Secret Army, heavily
damaged the front local Com
munist Party headquarters.
Party tracts were quickly
printed calling for a protest
turnout to coincide with the
CommuniSt-called Paris dem
onstration.
Vehicles Searched
| At crossing points on the
Belgian border, police REIN
forcements carefully searched,
vehicles entering France. There
were unconfirmed rumors that
the Secret Army leader, ex-
Gen. Raoul Salan, had arrived
in Belgium from Algeria where
he has been hiding since he
led last springs abortive mill
tary putSch.
A savage upsurge of terror
ism in Algeria since the first of
the year has left at least 80
Europeans and Moslems dead
and about twice that number
wounded. The clashes have
centered in Algiers and the
territory's second largest city,
Oran.
At the same time, the Secret
Army has called for general
mobilization" in handbills and
on broadcasts over secret trans
mitters. This has increased
fears of new European rising
in Algeria and a similar at
tempt in France.
Although the Big French
Communist Party has led the
cry OF alarm against a possible
attempt by the extreme right
to overturn Gen. de Gallle,
Socialists and other groups in
the moderate left have also be-
come aroused. -.