Vast Organisation Revealed

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 53, 25 November 1937, Page 5

Vast Organisation Revealed

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CAGOULARD PLOT Elaborate Plans for Armed Uprising NETWORK OF FORTRESSES

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(Received 25, 8,45 a.m.) PARIS, Nov, 24. The Minister of the Interior, |f. Dormoy, has issued a statement on the Cagoulaid plot, saying: "The searckers revealed plans to attack the Mipifters aud wholesale importation of arms aud also °r material intended for the production of false identity papers, arms and transport permits, "The police found' papers stolen from military bureaux from where the potters learned the quantity of m#terj«ls in the possession of the regular army units and the names of the commandr ing officers. The Cagoulards had a lift of Paris houses with double entrancei, a precise plan of the Paris sewer, traeing the rohtes leading to the Chamber of Deputies, and maps tfaeiug lines • leading to the homes of Socialisf deputies and the offiees of Left-Wing newspapers. "The police found facsimile signatures of certain Ministers and deputies who would have been arrested after the signal for an uprising, The Cagoulards planned to seize arsenals and municipal huses and convert them into " armoured cars, "The preparations were hroken np thanks to the vigilance of the Government. Bepublican institutions have nothing to fear from, these Fascist enterprise. The guilty will he severely punished. We assure the Erench democracy that any criminal action against the Eepuhlic can he crushed." The police raided chateaux, including that of the late scent king, Erancis Coty, the Chateau de Love at Chinnes, once owned by Madame Dubarry, on the top of a strategic hill dominatuur Paris. . ' It contained a mysterious underground foxtress network, concreted. bomb-proof passages, vaults, telephone exchange and electrical machinery built by fbreign workmen who were regularly replaced every fortnight. Eive more Cagoulards have been arrested in Paris. The police net dragged in an organij sation of 2,000 conspirators at Toulouse allegedly backed by individualists. Arms and concrete trenohes were di&covered. Cagoulard plans were found at tbe flat of Eugene de Lv.cle, director and consulting engineer of the Penhoct Doekyards Co., builders of the Normandie, who is at present visiting* Italy. De Loncies, a brother ef Henri, lias been arrested at Nice.