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Disturbing Sign
HIILE the final results of the Italian local elections! do not give Signor de Christian- Casperità
Democrat Party any cause for jubilation, the Premier elin congratulate himself that the prophets who had been foreseeing a Communist. landslide have been con. founded. The expected Red victory did not materialise and, although the cause of Democracy has not been advanced as a result of the polling, the fact that the Centre has maintained its majority all over the coun- try is some reassurance.
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No. 35215
Established 1845
FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1952.
France's No. 1 Communist Sent
To Prison
ORDERED TO BE TRIED ON SECURITY CHARGE
Paris, May 29.
Jacques Duclos, arrested No. 1 French Communist, was sent to a prison tonight on a charge of acting against the internal security of France, and the Communist-controlled Confederation of Labour promptly called for nation-wide strikes and demonstrations to free him.
doubtedly
of the neo- emergence Fascist Party. This party, which RA been elcc- tloneering an 4 platform reminiscent of Mussolini's Black Shirts, is now the third strongest force in the country. Commentators ascribe a certain proportion of its strength at the polls to the party's alliance with the Monarchists, but even if this were true the fact that only seven years after Italy's disastrous showing in EL war fomented by Fascists, this name political philosophy, which might
The strike call may touch off next to Duclos together with a, Humanite when the demonstra-
tions were over, the paper said. reasonably have been labour trouble similar to that crow-bar wrapped in rubber.
The The Prosecutor-General had
Interior Minister, M. thought to be discredited, in 1947 when a series of Trikes should have again acquired was finally amashed by the earlier demanded that Duclos Charles Brune, told a reporter thut Moderno so many followers, is ʼn din then Minister of the Interior, be formally arraigned under this morning
de- Articles 87 and 80 of the Penal Duclos had, in fact, been turbing commentary on the M. Jules Moch, a Socialist. state of mind in post-war. Duclos faces a possible sen- Code which was drafted in 1800 tained as she was in her buy- She was not the band's car. in and which still refers to one year Italy. Economic conditions tence. of from
arrested but asked to Indefnite solitary Monarchy, undoubtedly have played a TiKON
confinement
Both on tho security
articles cover crimes pany her husbond. major part in the con- charge.
against the internal security of
Police today The
released tinued atrength of the
Madame Duclos after questiom'> Communist Party and the He has already been changed the State.
*Entered "7 Lawyers formally by the Police newly-gained support for legally carrying arms. This come necinst the 'Examining her for about 30 minutes. Duclos doctor was admitted Fasciais. A portion of charge carries
Magistrate for abuse of au- by the Police to see the Com- the electorate, whose daily į tense.
thority refusing to release munist leader. Ho
by
brought a provisionally. living conditions have not
Ducalmed that the charge suffers from diabetes and should certificate attesting that Duclos been improved under the Examining Magistrate Andro
him was political. Jacquinot Aigned the Prosecutor against Gasperi regime, have no General's Indictment against Therefore, argument for detain- doubt voted Left or Right Ducios after a 20-minde hearing him in that he was taken in the actual act of committing o It is still not certain whether crime could not apply, the law Duclos can be tried without an yers said. Assembly vole during his The public Prosecutor has Parliamentary immunity.
decided not to press the lesser But the Judge accepted the charge of illegal possession ot Prosecutor's argument that arms.
Maitre Michel Bruguier, caught in the net
Visibly shaken by the decision to hold him for trial, Duclos was led handcuffed from the Palace of Justice and driven in a Police car to the huge Fresnes Prison, 10 miles south of Paris.
It is the strongest legal action ever taken against the French Commu- niať Party and followed a general crack-down on the Communists after bloody riots which they staged last night against" General Matthew B. Ridgway, the now Allied Supreme Commander in Europe.
The Communist-controlled Executive Board of the Confederation of Labour called on its estimated 2,000,000 members to "assemble in every enterprise, demon- strate all together and stage walk-outs for the defence of peace, bread and liberty." "Demand the liberation of Jacques Duclos and all those imprisoned," the Con- federation ordered. "Make your claims and demand that they be satisfied so that you may break the conspiracy against the workers.”
In the hope that some į amelioration of their difficult conditions might result.
Ing.
IGNOR de Gasperi and his
coalition of Centre parties. are-still-in-the-saddle but Ductos was
with
a lighter sen-
1
have a special diet.
to accom-
ILIOTERS CHARGED
the writing on the wall 15 of his alleged crimes and, there-of the Communist leader's law- African, dead, 200 Police injured
plain for all to sec. An Intense effort is needed on fore, immunity lifting action yers, told reporters that two
was not necessary.
the part of those Italian political parties favouring
FACE DRAWN alliance with the Western
Ductos' face was drawn, his powers. The Communists |
unpressed grey suit was baggy and Fascists have been on his bulging form, and dirt making the running; it is smeared his grey Fedora hat time for the middle-of-the- as he was, led away to prison. road groups, on whom rests
pigcons found in Duclos ear, which the Police described last night as "carrier pigeons" were dead.
They were a gift from a farm labourer, M. Bruguler said.
and 1
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Scenes at this morning's Urban Council election. (Top) Inside the polling station clerks check the names of voters with their electoral lists. ' (Right), Mr N. V. A. Croucher receives his stamped ballot paper. Above, Mr R. V. Lederhofer, places his voting paper in the Staff Photo- ballot box after registering his vote. member.
Of the 150 demonstrators in Marseilles lust Krrested night 50 were today charged with illegally bearing arms.
The latest casualty igures in In Central the demonstrations Paris were
one man,a-North-
17 demonstrators taken hospital.
The Police detained 78 people. Communist Party today The Con called
for a "torrent of
and demonstrations against the arrest of Ducios. A former Cabinet THUMPS TABLE
Francois Billoux,
one two Communist Icoders Duclos, aged 55, has been the
who recently returned from a Duclos was arrested on Wed-Party's leader stuce M. Thorez cement their precarious
article today and a Russian-born chauffeur at
wife, ed in an Together with his alliance. General elections the height of the riotous Com- chauffeur and
"action" instead of propaganda a Belgian body- munist demonstrations against guard, he was hustled from his campaigns. massed Police in deflance of อ black limousine near the Place
"Propaganda campaigns for Government ban.
fost la Republique de
no longer sufficient Into a
a nearby Police Station.
ve must direct ourselves now Eyewitnesses zald that Duclos, resolutely towards action and deathly pale, thumped the table organisation of such action in the Police Station, demand- against war or preparativna for | ing
Immediate release. war," he wrote in the Cahlera The Polles, disregarding du Communisme.United Press Duclos protests, seized his brief and Reuter.
which case
was buiging with papers. He appeared gravely perturbed.
the country's future, to nesday night with his bodyguard went to the Soviet Union, visit to the Soviet Union, call-
are to be held in the coun- try next year; it is urgent that the trend towards the extreme Right and extreme Left be checked now.
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grapher,
Steady Stream Of Voters At Urban Council Election
.
Murray Parade Ground was a busy scene this morning when streams of voters called at the polling station set up there to cast their ballots for two members to the Urban
Duclos was kept during la ANTARCTIC Council.
night in Police offices.in an en- nexe to the Palais de Justice.
His lawyers today fled a de- his release under Parliamemained in custody.
Immunity. But Duclos
Later, the lawyers issued.
declaring that statement
TRAGEDY
4
By midday approximately 1,200 out of a total electorate. of approximately 10,000 had recorded their votes and the response to the Colony's first public election was, according to one of the candidates, highly satisfactory,'
has
By the end of the morning the, crying While othera Inve stream of voters had increased talked, the Reform Club considerably, and
the polling acted." The Club had special officers in attendance had their cars to carry voters to the
full checking hands.
voling scene, hia life papers.
Canberra, May 20. The dog trainer of an Antare- ittle expedition has been frozen would have been impossible for to death on a glacier and his Duclos to have committed a radio operator colleague who crime
at the time of bis arrest had previously saved as the demonstrations, were then was drowned.
over.
This grim stery of a fight for on ice-covered Volcanic
"It is therefore evident. that life Duclos was arcated in defiance Heard Island, far to the south- east of Australia, became known of the fundamental safeguards of Individual liberty and in de-in despatches, received here to
day. once of the immunity which
Australla has a research sta-- protects the popular sovereignty
tion vested by the people in their
on the Island, re- Three of its 17 members were presentatives, the lawyers said. at work on Monday when, as
Communist
n beach, 'n huge Federation of Labour, France's they crossed. most powerful trade union
The dog trainer, Alistrik body, called on. ile members to Forbes, a Scot, was carried away stage country-wide, demonstra- but his two companions rescued tions and strikes.
bira.
The
General
PAPERS CONFISCATED
surf wave swept over them,
Tables' were set up around the ground by most of the can- The Arst man to enst his bal-didates for the purpose of dis lot, when the doors opened at 8
tributing pamphlets carrying- a.m. was 'n Chinese in Part their respective platforma
(thoso 'not of the electorate normally, on the lists of special or common jurors).
Mr Kennedy-Skipton employ»! ed a sandwich-board man who was sent around the main streets of the city.
Ho was followed by many other early voters who turned
Among early arrival, were a up singly, in pairy or in groups party of Roman Catholic priests, Over 100 had completed their and members of this religious forms by 9 am, and some 400 denomination continued to call. had cast their votes by 10 am and cast their votes throughout Candidates for election are the morning. Other:voters.com- Means Broolt A Bernacchi prised business ment, architects, and P.C. Woo (the Reform solicitors, engineers, bankers, Club nominces). Messrs Percy office clerks and shop assistants, As they lay recovering on the Chen, G.6. Kennedy Skipton, Women were also well repre- beaches another wave swept
Clil-nal; William Kong
Sul- sented, including members of The authorities today fecated for the second day, run-Hoseason
con-away the radio man, Richard tale Loxicy, Peter Henry Sin, the Council of Women,
Two Teun-on and Daniel NeLady Lo, Dr the Hon. SN. The Hon. Sir Man-kam and ning all copies of the newspaper Though exhausted. 4Forbes Humanite and the pro- | doolded", to cross the glacier fang, Chou
of
Chau and the Hon. Kwok Chan candidates separating them from the carp A total of 13 other, Communias leaving a third man, John Aldin were present on Murray Parade were among those who newspapers were confiscated în son, on the beach.
Ground and assisted in direct their votes before 10 the Provinces
In-im morning, Atkinson
Ina voters to the polling station. Others who called 'inter includ- Today's Humanitolinda that it had no news, no, though leveroly
The Reform Club entered ed the Hon. Leo d'Almada, QC, was a lie that Duties and frost-bilten, he crawled back into the election, epirit and had and Mra d'Almada, and Me J. beca rooted during the đo the camp,
barkers at one of the en- H. Ruttonjec monstrations, Ho had been ar A guarda party then went out trances to the Ground who called rested with his wife when driv- and found Forbes' body on ing home from the offices of the glacier: 280/feat ups-flautir.
Communist Liberation
...
the
a.m.
'Proceedings were carriell out on all arrival to vote for in an orderly and smooth man "Mamers - Bermgeht, and Wood Could, on back page, col. 4)
DISORDERS
IN INDIA
POLICE
USE TEAR
GAS
Berlin, May 29.,
West Berlin police, armed with tear gas grenades and water jets, beat back an at- tempt tonight by 6,000-riot- |ing Communist youths to invade the United States sector and arrested more than 100.
The rioting, first Communist demonstration here. since the Western Allies signed the peasa contract with Germany, broke out shortly after the
British Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, had warned that attack on Berlin would be an attack on the Allies and, pro- dicted that Berlin would again be the capital of a united Ger-
some day.
The youths invaded
the. United States sector after 150 blue-shirted Communists had tried to demonstrate at the Hermannplatz Twelve, truck- loads of police quelled them and
ted 60 of them.
arrested
Police at one sector crossing point arrested In number of. Communist youths from East Berlin who tried to cross the border.
TIGHTEN SQUEEZE
The East German Communists, moanwhile, tightened their squeeze on West Berlin by be ginning. to search passengers.on the city elevated irsins crossing to the East sector.
The West German authorities also learned that, after, the Bant Germans cut off
many telephone lincs linking West Berlin with
Germany, the remaining Weat 100 circuits were being connect ed through a special monitoring switchboard Ifr Leipzig. The East Gamans
ang also replaced dial tele phone connections with manual changes for better control of exchanges conversation
E
"At
the Thuringian border, German police warned that they would shoot to kil the persons trying to cross East-West border illegally. In
border areas somo
declared
a curiow Bombay, May 20.
persons Arrests, strikes and civil dis-were not allowed on the roads obedience continued in many from 10 pm, to 8
G.m
Bast German travel.
parts of India today in protest New against the government's with restrictions go into effect on
drawal of And subsidies.
In Bombay
Sunday, after which West state, eighty Gemana will need special
cialists (wert arrested
for identity cards to travel in East
attempting to seize a govern-German territory-United Press,
ment food store. Socialists have
party
will
thel
annoureed that
members
make seize "peaceful attempts" to government · gralni stocks and sell them at the old subsidised price.
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