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SSnES Que (CP) - Res-
I r-itcr* d«a °n wearily de-
,>;vie rain Tuesday night
.... ■■inJieit ^r seven men
LjV i»orc l'ian *ive *lours
Li-i**i'I rock and ground in
Lf excavation,
Lt:;): *»f -owe-200 volunteers
r.*i-Ii: through to the men
Vr-. rot-re difficult by the
Ti::!*. bo^.»n lightlj about 8
j.j increased  in  intensity
„ ■■[ fvprtina.
I.'ijia* and the rain has made
[.» \  like   quicksand," ' a
L-fn v.sre trapped Tuesday
lyi-i'nhen limbers shoring up
I,"'** nf the ditch collapsed,
'J.'t;;ht workers in the 30-
-.[p excavation. Onc man,
i, ForUnd of Montreal.
^ io tafety as the ground
closed In.
FEAR MORE FALLS
Hundreds of curiosity * seekers,
flocking here from other communities and from Montreal, 15 miles
southwest, presented an additional
dangr to the rescue  workers.
Joseph Black, head of the rescue crew, appealed to spectators
to move back from a 50-foot high
bluff dl yeveolrlcrlooking the ditc
bluff directly overlooking the ditch
for fear It too might collapse and
(rap the volunteers.
Newspaper men were asked to
move back too, to' set an example
for the crowd. More than 200 car?
lined a road on the shore of thc
St. Lawrence river and ' others
were parked in nearby fields,
Despite the heavy rain, occupants of Ihe cars wandered dangerously close to the excavation.
Volunteers had to go through the
tedious job of again -shoring up
iebec Students Stage
joisy Demonstration
It (H'V RONDEAU
foiiia Prrs* Staff Writer
kilC i'CPi — Hundreds of
ft Kiieri'.iy students tossed
{"uaiioei and oranges at the
rtbUturc buildings Tues-
itirbelBB rtrnied an immedl-
l-yrvie*' with Premier Du-
cedents, mainly from La-
[Kierjiiy and estimated it
Itaca's, milled around the leg-
b:ilding chanting "We
rf-tfeiMs" in French ai they
titchen pots and act off
lit:',
refused to break up im.
ir liter ndebert Huard,
:• (■'. the general tssocla-
Ulivil students, told them
l*r Duplessls hid agreed to
lelepllon of 12 itudenti
tli discuss Increased provln-
Ifutj to universities.
STAND BY
;», we want a hearing to-,
■'tier shouted.
100 provincial pollct eon-
birring the entrance to
jeplituie, made no attempt
pk up the demonstration,
tits the  students   began
wins it them.
Tuesday night, after the
iitions at the legislature
itj, small bands of 100 or
■■ With!—many of them not
-J - wandered   llmlessly
the streets.
p te. on the alert all day
[iflaj under direct orders of
*to*er   Lemire,   followed
lyrftrim groups lo prevent
»ad tn keep traffic mov-
y -demonstration   started   In
I^JMIC, and when Mr. Du-
refu*eri ■■> see the 12-man
npresp-iiin** Montreal and
* wivmitics.   Mr.  Huard
'fit students to disperse and
pJt^ afternoon. '
F» the interim, Mr, Huard
r ■-< received assurances that
f'p-ttl group would be  re*
r'ti later date by Mr. Du-
ple5sl5,
PURPOSE MISUNDERSTOOD
As the milling, placard-waving
crowd re-assembled on lhe legis-
la ture grounds Mr. Huard lold
them to disperse. He said the reason the delegation was not received was because the Quebec
government was not clear on just
what the students wanted.  v
Ha said the demonstration had
been   "misinterpreted"   and  was
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the banks of the ditch to get to the
trapped men. Some still held hope
that the original timbers might
nape collapsed In such a way as
to provide a type of protective
tent for some of the men.
PUMP IN OXYGEN
Oxygen was < being pumped
through the sewer pipe In thc
hope" of keeping the , men alive
until the rescue party could reach
them.
Dr, Jean-Paul Bouchard of Montreal's St. Luc's Hospital crawled
Into the open end of the sewer
pipe and reported seeing two
pairs of legs In the rubble at an
•underground opening In the pipe.
The men were completing thc
last scctionof a sewer pipe leading from the Canadian Titanium
Pigments Ltd., plant to the river.
More than a quarter-mtle of pipe
already had been laid and co/-
ered.
Eight men were 'working In the
section of the ditch where. the
timbers gave way. One jumpe-l
clear as the rushing earth closed
in behind him.
Two of the trapped men were
Identified as Pierre-Paul Dupre of
Contrecoeur, Que., and Valerlen
St. Germain of St. Robert, Que.
Both communities ire near hcre.
Names of the other men were4
withheld pending notification of
next of kin.'
MEN RELUCTANT
Rev. Rene Desochera, vicar at
the wvarennes Roman Oatholic
Church, arrived at' the scene
shortly after the cave-in and gave
absolution to the men.
■"I am waiting now to"' admlnis*
(Continued on page 20)
Adlai  Makes   Foreign
Policy Campaign Speech
.     By ED CREAGH
NEW YORK (AP) - Adlai E.
Stevenson Tuesday night called
for help for Pol-tad's bid for free-
dom from Russian control and
again urged the United States to
take the lead In "curbing this
ghastly  killer," th*  H-bomb.    .
The Democratic presidential
nominee started the final two
weeks of his campaign with an
pearance In Madison Square Garden. It was the first speech in a
non-stop drive aimed chiefly at
swinging big city votes. It was
broadcast and televised,
Stevenson related that he had
suggested ."long before this campaign that we take.the lead In
curbing this ghastly killer," 'Ihe
hydrogen bomb. He termed it a
matter .of moral responsibility as
well as national security.
He said the Democrats "have
broken through the blanket of
warm, wet fog with which thc administration had planned to
smother the country," and have
turned the campaign into a debate on policies.
CAN BREAK ARMS RACE
And he said the United States
should be prepared to join other
nations In oflrlnf economic aid
to Poland.
Stevenson returned to his duel
with President Elsenhower on tbe
Democratic candidate's proposal
that agreements be'sought to ban
further H-bomb tests.
"Here Is one place where we
can break out of the deadly vise of
the arms race," he said,
"I think we must make this effort In the name of humanity. I
don't think President Elsenhower
should Irritably close the door to
discussion or agreement on a matter of such vast importance to
mankind."
Stevenson reiterated his support
of President Eisenhower's view
that Soviet Premier Bulganin's
latest offer to discuss thc subject
was interference In the U.S. political campaign, but he added:
<"Yet 1^ regret that Mr. Eisen-
howcr has once more enabled the
Russians to present themselves as
apostolea oi peace. 1 think the .anxious world awaits positive action
in this field.
RETAIN DEFENCES
"If the Russian offr |5 a fake.
let us call their bluff, If It Is genu-
.ine, so much the bettr."
By ANDRE MARTON   •
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP)-
Tens of thousands of demonstrate
ing Hungarians pushedinto Stalin
Square Tuesday night shouting
"Huskies (Russians) go home''
and "Down wllh Geroc," Hungary's Communist party chief:
Secret police fircdt shots into a
crowd near Budapest's broadcasting station. One eyewitness said
one man was killed. <
The crowd tried' unsuccessfully
to pull down a 2G-foot statue of
Stalin, then managed to haul down
a huge red star on top1 of a trade
union building facing the statue.
Their demonstration came after
Ernoe Geroc, successor to Maty as
Rakosi as chief of the -Hungarian
Communist .Party, made a surprise broadcast'calling lies any
rumors lhat Hungary wants to
loosen its ties with the Soviet
Union.
. Geroe had just returned from
talks with President Tito in Yugoslavia where the parties of the
two'nations pledged non-interference in each other's Internal affairs.
SOLDIERS FRATERNIZE
Police were not visible near tlje
square but five trucks of soldiers
who rushed to the area around
theb roadeast sUtlon .fraternized
A  delegation  of demonstrators
got into the radio station and was
with the demonstrators,
prevented from leaving. Thc crowd
formed   police   used    tedr   gas
bombs to eject them.
/Thousands of students, and workers took part in demonstrations
jliiring the afternoon, crying "put
with the Russians" and "We want
a change in the government."
By night the crowd grew into
an unruly group numbering probably 100,000.
Following up afternoon demand*;
that lhe statue of Stalin be removed from thc square because it
was a symbol of tyranny, thc
crowd moved into Stalin Square.
STATUE STILL STANDS
Young workers! whn had
marched in the afternoon demonstration in oil - stained overalls,
brought trucks wilh mounted
winches.
Youths scaled the statue on
opes and fastened cables in its
neck. Rnl their work was amateurish. The cable snapped several
times. s
Then   they
torchs,    Thp
apest were blocked by an an-1 with the Poles who ousted Stalin-
nounccment from the Budapest with the Poles, who ousted Sl
telephone office to the Vienna long ist elements from Poland's Corn-
distance office that "we cannot munist party leadership Sunday,
connect you to any Budapest num- 'With demonstrators shouting for
bers  because  repairs   are  being I free elections and freedom of the
made on equipment." It said thc
repairs may go on all night,
LOCAL NEWS BLACKOUT
On Us final newscast at midnight, which usually includes domestic news, thc * Budapest radio
broadcast only foreign news dispatches. This indicated a local
blackout on  Budapest events.
The U,S, embassy in Vienna
said it was unable to contact the
U.S. legation in Budapest by telephone.
- While the tumult engulfed this
capital, Yugoslav and Hungarian
officials joined in a call for independent communism "without
any imposition, freely and voluntarily.''
A communique signed jointly in
brought acetylene: Belgrade underscored what thc
colossal   statue < Yugoslavs  consider a   movement
press, the rally turned into a mass
demand for a similar Hungarian
"declaration of independence"
from  Moscow control.
Before these outbursts developed, lhc Hungarian Communist
party leadership had promised
government reforms looking toward a "new leadership, democratically elected," but begged
the country to be patient.
The official party newspaper.
Szabad Nep, carried one of the
frankest party public statements
to date,, directing it to the impatient youth of the counry who
have been demanding he reconstruction of the government under
former premier Inire Nagy.
Nagy, purged from office when
Malyas Rakosi w'as the party
leader, has been restored to prestige ami Rakosi is in virtual exile
swaved but did not fall and the : of Hungary into the "Titoist" or-
workcrs were still trying Tuesday; bit of Communist states indepen-' in Russia.
niTht to bring it'down, ' .! dent of Soviet control. |    Budapest students  warned sev-
Radio Budapest, in a broadcast! SYMPATHY*WITH POLES i oral days ago thcy would stage
heard in Vienna, said that former
Premier Imre Nagy, whoso restor-
One big Budapest demonstration j street demonstrations  unless  ths
was held in front nf thc statue of j Communist government complied
within 14 days with demands for
more frecdtFln and improved Hv-
ation the' demonstrators   are   de-; Gen. Josef Bern, a Polish grnera
mardlng. talked to then and later; who headed Hungary's revolution
conferred with their leaders and, ry army in this country's 1S4S-40! ing xc p g)ns for the whole coun-
sevcral   parliament   member?.   IU war oMtuIependencc agr.inst the
gave no other det "nils. .    I HaDsburg monarchs.
Altcnrnts to -estiblish telephone'    ThU was advertised as a £es
try.
But thcy decided to demonstrate
immediately because the govern
began to surge to the rescue. Uni-  contact between Vienna and B>id-j lure of "sympathy and solidarity"' ment-controiled   Hungarian   radio
and the newspaper of the Communist Youth Organization re.
fused to make public all their demands. ;
The students were especially
angry because the radio and th*
youth paper, Szabad Ifjusag,
failed to print their No. 1 demand,
—that Soviet troops statidned, in
Hungary be withdrawn immediately.
SOLDIERS JOIN IN
A second big demonstration wai
held on Budapest's Pctoefi Squara
on the banks of the Danube in
front of the statue of Sandor Peto-
cfi, a poet and national hero of'
the last century.
Students marched into tha
streets and were quickly joined
by thousands of workers and off-
duty soldiers.
Among the  demands  made by
lhe demonstrators were these:
Revision of worker production
quotas, wage increases, aid' for
private farmers, revision of compulsory crop delivery quotas, revision of all political trial verdicts, release of political prisoner.-; and freedom for Hungarians
held in the Soviet Union, whether
prisoners of war or civilian internees.
Thc crowd also called for reexamination of Hungarian-Soviet
relations and for lhe sale of Hungary's uranium—raw material of
atomic power—to the west for
hard currency instead of to Rus-
•sia.   j
Joyous
rate
New
ssian Force
;  By  SIDNEY TAYLOR
WARSAW (Reuters) - Communist party chief Wladyslaw
Gomulka Tuesday restored his
close friend and former fellow
prisoner, Gen. Marion Spychalski,
as deputy defence minister In the
first major move of his new regime.
At the same timc, Gomulka appealed in a letter broadcast Tuesday for continued friendship with
Russia, but on a basis of "mut.
ual trust and equality of rights,'*;
Later, authoritative sources re-1
ported that Nikita Khrushchev
Tuesday night called off Russia's
strong-arm tactics against Poland.
■ The sources said Soviet troop
concentrations built' up in central
Poland, were dispersing and a
Russian naval squadron sighted
off Poland's coast was withdrawn
In another development, a lead'
ing member of thc new Polish
politburo flew to Poznan whre a
crowd of hundreds of thousands
threatened to turn a mass meet,.
ing into an anti-Russian demonstration.
BROKE UP QUIETLY
A   reliable   source .here   said
trouble with the anti-Russian elements had been expected at the
rally but it was reported to have
broken up without incident after
hearing  a  letter  from  Gomulka.
The* letter was read by politburo member Ignacy Loga-Sowin*
ski. Afterwards, the people went
home, an eyewitness said.
The shakeup in Ihfj defence
ministry camc as a blow to Defence Minister Kcnstanlin Rcl:*is-
held by-the deposed Witaszewski.
Gomulka's letter, troatlcast oy
Stettin radio, called upon Poles to
give a "firm rebuff to thc whispering and voices aimed at weakening our friendship with the Soviet Union." ■
Rut the letter added: "We shall
nnt stray from this road of de-
moefcrtizatinn and wc shall net let
ourselves be pushed off this
road."
airmen with other Polish military
men in support of the new regime.
Condemning all who followed Stalin's methods, the airmen demanded prosecution of thosc who
doomed innocent  Polish military
the former German city of Bres*
lau; in Szczecin, formerly Stettin,
and in the old university city of
Krakow.
In Wroclaw, a Western eyewitness said, angry crowds stormed
sovsky. who was ousted from lhe! WILD  DEMONSTRATIONS
Communift party and whose ful-     This was the general picture in
urc is sti!l in doubt. '       Poland'Tuesday:
The 49 • year . old Spychaiski, I Joyous workers and student-
jailed with Gomulka from 1351 to | blew 'off anti-Russian slcam in
19"* without (aeins trial, replaced! wild demonstrations in three ma-
Gen. Kazlmisrz Wilaskcwski. who ; jor cities Monday night and new
is known  for bis Stalinist ideas, j support  for  the  bloodless   revolt
men to death in the past by false   the headquarters of the Polish-So-
accusations.  They  called  for  an
army shakeup.
The proscutor - general ordered
revision of all indictments resulting from the June 28 "bread and
freedom"   riots   in   Poznan.   He
viet Friendship Society, tore down
and trampled Soviet flags, and
yelled slogans such as: "Rokossovsky to Siberia!" and "Tell tht
truth about the Katyn murders!"
The Katyn forest was'the scene
Though Spyclialski's appointment
as first deputv minister was mad?
by the politburo, Rokossovsky
porter as political chief of the
army,  a   position also   co 3rSg
willi murder or robbery.
The Polish Scjm (parliament)
Tuesday opened a scvciwlay session, expected to bring decisions
anainsl Moscow's political riomon- of vital importance fnr Poland's
alion camc from mililarv siurces nrw policy.
Tuesday. ! CHEER FOR GOMULKA
A ma'ss rally r>f Polish *ir force j   .Penl-tip .Polish   feelinn   against
personnel   in   Warsaw  linked  thr-   the Russians exploded in Wroclaw
moved to have lhe courts please] 0f the machine-gun massacre ol
all persons held as a result of the i 10tooo Polish officers in 1940, be-
riots,  unless-they  were charged; forc  Russ*a  entered  the  Second
War.  The  Russians,  who
World
had moved in to occupy eastern
Poland when the Nazis invaded
in the West, have denied Western
charges lhat Russians were tu
blame.
The   crowds -cheered   for Go-
(Continued on pa-je 20)
IK. Might Accept Suez Compromise
L^RTHVR GAVSHON
f »S fAP--Foreign Secre-
rxlwyi* Lloyd dropped a
; *^t Tuesday that Britain
'ittept a compromise settle-
r^U Suez dispute provided
hjjyiii 0* user-nations ire
*Wt*J by Egypt.
Jteards French Foreign
ii  ?ii!,ian Plneau took ott
yi!««n and  unannounced
iTjje in   London   Tuesday
'■a Uoyd on the Suez situa-
["! -i-iister Eden and Uoyd
J wnilar hurried flight to
L™F last week in crder lo
agree next, steps In the dispute.
Lloyd made it clear in the House
of Commons that the government
does not maintain that international management of the water-
way is the "only method" of pro.
tectlng the interests of user countries.    •
Since the regime of Egyptian
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
took over the canal July 26, Britain—strongly backed by France-
has demanded that Suez should bs
taken out of the "unfettered control" of one power and be placed
Instead .under Internationa] management.
The issue arose Tuesday during
a discussion of the Suez situation
In the resumed session of Parliament.
NOT ONLY METHOD
Hugh Gaitskell, leader of-the op-
position, .asked whether the government considers that the interests of user nations can be
guaranteed only It there Is an International board of day-to-day
management.
The foreign secretary replied
that he still thinks international
operation doe> represent "the best
and simplest method" of achieving
such guarantees.
But then he added:
"We have never said- it is thc
only method." ;
Earlier,' officials reported Britain turned down an Informal suggestion by UN Secretary-General
Dag Hammarskjold that further
,talks should be held in Geneva
next week with Egypt on Suez,
Britain said In effect "no proposals from Egypt—no conference."
, Nasser's spokesmen have Indicated Egypt's offer to revise thc
Sum convention of 1888 and to accept international help in running
thc canal should provide a basis
of negotiation.
U.S.
Ike;
Must  Expand  Free
May Mean  Aid  For
Areas,   Says>
Poland
WASHINGTON (AP) - Prcsi-
dent Eisenhower said Tuesday
night that America has a mission
lo Vexpand the areas in which free
men, free governments can flourish." He held out what could be
an offer of economic aid to the
Polish people in their struggle
against Soviet domination.
The president said the United
States must "help those freedom-
loving peoples who need and want
and can profitably use our aid."
In a speech prepared for thc
Brotherhood ol Carpenters anti
Joiners at thcir 73th anniversary
dinner, the president used Poland
as an example of a freedom-loving country rebelling against ty-
p.&  Must Continue H-Tests   Says Ike
Kw!ysG f- giieen
NJNGJON (AP) - Presl-
l^nhon-er   said   Tuesday
ru -0r the sake of peace
L*"«nca must continue its
Kmb tesls "ntU secur-
I "■« international agree-
kv,e lt "fe to end- them.
h*' in deta»t rejected
UJenu advanced by Adlai
Vm'J-7 democratic presi-
C;heHbomb explosions.
^continue. . . .VEli-
!"<•■ "lo develop our
(J? the moat advanced
<4VitI. he saIte oI our own
y: Ior lhe lakt of peace
■n\L?,olWn«.ta post-war
,JJ'that we could even
^Pt anything len thai
:.-M
sound safeguards and controls for
any disarmament arrangements,'?
Eisenhower asserted that in' the
last two years Russia "has rejected no less thanh14 American
proposals, on disarmament and
controls of nuclear weapons."
WOULD LOSE LEAD
In a discussion of radioactive,
fallout, Including strontium M,
"Elsenhower referred to the Stevi
enson argument 'that America
should "stop sending this danger-
oun material Into Fhe* air."
The president said that-.fallout
cannot be avoided by limiting
tests to the.Btnaller nuclear wap-
ons, and to think that H can be Is
to show' :yi "apparent" unaware-
ness of the facts."
And for, America to suspend Its
work on the H-bomb, he said,
would mean "w'e could find our
preient commanding lead in, nu-
-t
clear weapons erased or even reversed,"
The president's statement accompanied and summarized a report drawn up on Elsenhower's orders by Defence Secretary Charles
E. Wilson, State Secretary Dulles
and Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of
the Atomic Energy Commission,
Eisenhower ordered the report
as a documentation of his stand
against a* halt to H-tibmb testing
In the present situation of no interna UohaL controls,
REDUCE FALLOUT
Some of .Eisenhower's major
points upholding continuance of
H-bomb tests:   ■ ,,-.
War deterrent—"The 'power of
these (nuclear) weapons t0 deter
aggression and to guard world
peace would be lost If we failed to
hold our superiority in these weap.
ons,"    ■   >
FallouWThe most' recent tests
enable us to harness ahd discipline our. weapons more. precisely
and effectively—drastically reducing their fallout and making them
more easy" to concentrate, if ever
used, upon military objectives."
Defection—"We believe we have
detected practically all such tests
to'date, It Is, however, impossible
—in view of lhe vast Soviot land-
mess that can screen future,tests
--Mo havc ..positive assurance uf
such detection, except in the case
of the largest weapons'. Nor is it
possible to state, Immediately following the long-range detection of
a test, Its size and character."
Need for yardstick—"Our evaluation of nuclear weapons tests
,m_ade by olher countries hai been
dependent upon the calibration afforded hy our ow*i tests of weap.
'.ons of known characteristics." '
DENIESIIEALT1I PERIL
Stevenson has said that the
United States could go on doing
research on H-bombs, even though
it halted the test explosions,
Soviet Premier Bulganin, in a
letter to Eisenhower last week, offered to negotiate immediately a
pact ending nuclear tests.'Bulganin said enforcement was unnecessary because modern monitors
can detect nuclear detonations
anywhere.
' Eisenhower also rejected the
contention that radioactive fallout
from atomic tests could cause far
.reaching impairment of the nation's, health. He .said:     ' ^
"The continuance of* the present
hhhhhhhh continuance of the
rate- of. H-bomb testing—by the
most sober and .responsible scientific Judgment—does not imperil,
the health  of humanity."-
ranny.
"A people, like the' Polos, who
havc once known freedom cannot
be for always deprived of their
national independence and of their
personal  liberty,"   he  said.
"That truth applies to every
people in Eastern Europe who
have enjoyed independence and
freedom."
Meanwhile, state department of
ficials, anticipating a Polish appeal for American economic aid,
began examining kinds of assistance which might be available in
view of Poland's needs.
Tentative estimates were that
food and clothing, especially for
hard-pressed city dwellers, seemed
to be most urgently required in
To avoid any accusation of interference, officials   decided   any
Poland at present. ;
such American aid should not be
volunteered but only given if and
when the revamped Polish regime
formally asks for it. >
Several diplomatic hints thai,
such a request-may be forthcoming have been picked i'~ by U.S.
officials during the last wcek.oi
swift - breaking developncnts in
Poland.
Killings^ Riots and
Algerians Protest
Strikes As
Rebels' Arrest
ALGIERS (AP)—Killings, riots,
general strikes and Arab anger
erupted across North Africa Tues.
day.
, The widespread violence was
the Arab reply to France's arrest
of five masterminds of Algeria's
nationalist' rebellion through a
dramatic aerial ruse Mop day
niaht.
Three Frenchmen were killed in
a clash at Mcknes in Morocco.
Street demonstrations broke out in
Tunisia and Morocco. A.24-ho«r
general strike was declared in
both those former French protectorates andstarted to spread in
Algeria. French security forces in
Algeria braced themselves for violent reprisals.
Ther whole   Arab^world  began
raising a diplomatic storm.'
PEACE TALKS END
The 23-nation- Asian ■ African
group at thc UN in New York
was reported asking Secretary-
General Dag Hammarskjold's
:sood offices in seeking release of
the.five revolutionaries. The five
were grabbed and handcuffed
after thii* French piloj landed
them in French-controlled Algicr*.
instead of independent Tunis on a
flight from independent Morocco.
A meeting of Morocco's Sultan
Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef and
Premier Habib Bourgulba of Tunisia, which had been billed as a
conference" Us bring peace to Algeria and weld it into a new
union of Norlh-Africa, appeared
to have been broken  up.
The five Algerian leaders were
en route to the confernc when
thy were dlvertd by th French
pilot's ruse.
Arab leaders called it a kidnap-
pln<; and an act of piracy.
The Moroccan sullen was Particularly incensed.. Thii conference-was his first big diplomatic
move in the Arab World.
But in Paris French Premier
Guv Mollet was lustily'cheered
bv'the French Nati<*n**l Assembly
when be announced lhc arrests.
He said e could not accent oncn
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CLASH WITH TROOPS
Angry demonstrators in Tunis
clashed with Tunisian police and ■
troops when thcy attempted te
march on government buildings
and the French Embassy. Foui
French cars were burned near th*
embassy. Trpops turned fire hose* j
on the crqwds to break them up.    „
Both in Morocco and Tunisia the
demonstrators shouted for a'"free     .
'Algeria"  and carried the greeo    -
"flag of the .Algerian rebel move     j
ment. ■;
Moroccan Premier Mohammed i
Bakkai and Foreign Minister Ah- »
med Balafrej, in Tuns for the ;j
scheduled North African confer- .
ence, left hurriedly for Paris.» ■*
protest. ;
But in Paris, a French spokesman declared after a three-hopr
cabinet meeting: "The arrests will
bc maintained."
Security police here said, thi
five Algerisn** were carrying two
briefcase'* filled with imporlant
documents. $
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