ALGIERS RESTIVE

Press, Volume C, Issue 29509, 10 May 1961, Page 21

ALGIERS RESTIVE

Appeals To Settlers

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) ALGIERS, May 7 Leaflets signed by French Army conscripts today called on European settlers in Algeria to give up their underground fight “before we force you to do it," the Associated Press reported. The leaflets were scattered throughout Algiers by soldiers riding in army cars Addressed to The Settler, “Underground Army.” and signed “The Conscripts,” they said: “W’e blame you for all the wrongs which you have done to our country . . . surrender before we force you to do it.” The leaflets accused the Europeans of avoiding military service to “build barricades and make plastic bombs.” The conscript members of the French Army in Algeria remained loyal to Paris during the April 22 generals’ putsch in Algeria. Scores of riot police vans patrolled Algiers as reports of tension in Moslem quarters continued to rise. Last night, 20 minutes after the 10 p.m. curfew, a plastic bomb of European make shattered a Moslem grocery store

in the suburb of Bab el Oued. For two hours in various areas of Algiers, Europeans screamed their usual slogan, “Algeria is French,” and blew bugles and whistles.