Fighting In Algiers

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28259, 23 April 1957, Page 11

Fighting In Algiers

(Rec. 7 p.m.) ALGIERS, April 21. French troops killed 101 insurgents in a violent battle which ended in hand-to-hand fighting in the wooded mountains of western Algeria, French sources said at Algiers last night. The battle brings the insurgents’ death roll in a week of severe fighting to an estimated 800 and known French losses to 74 killed, 40 wounded and six missing. French Marines, Foreign Legionnaires and Senegalese sharpshooters pursued the insurgents through wild country and yesterday encircled the main body. Reports of the fighting reaching Algiers tonight said weather conditions denied full air support to the French troops and violent hand-to-hand fighting raged in the mountains.

Thrown from Car to Telephone Wires.— Barbara Fraser, aged 30, came to rest on telephone wires 20 feet above the ground after she was thrown from a car that careered off a highway near Ottawa today and cart-wheeled along a ditch. Police arrived eight minutes later in time to see Miss Fraser tumble to the ground. She was not injured by the fall, but she suffered broken ribs when she struck and broke off a telephone pole crossbar during her flight to the wires.—Ottawa, April 21.