Cagoulard Leaders Arrested

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 5

Cagoulard Leaders Arrested

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FRENCH PLOTTERS Confessions After Gruelling Third Degree MORE ARMS DISCOVERED

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(Received 27, 8.445 a.m.) PARIS, Nov. 26. The Surete Nationale lias branded Eugene Deloncle as ringleader and inaster mind of the Cagoulards and General du Seigneur chief assistant. It Was believed Deloncle fled to italy but he has been in Paris, sleeping under a different roof each nigbt. Deloncle was taken to the Surete handeUifer and unshaven. The poiice placed him ih an arm chair and put him thfough the third degree throughout the dhy and hight, after which he confessed. General du Seigneur admitted he was Deloncie's right-haivd |man after 15 hours' unbroken gruelling. The Surete claims that their arrests re&ch to the heart of the plot. The Cagoulards, in organising an anti-Communist putsch, paid hundreds of tKousands of Irancs to the Arab organisation "New Algeria" to recruit North Africans. A HotcbkisS quick-firer, 13 machineguns, 256 grenades and 14,250 rounds of ammunition, as weil as rifles, vvere found in a ceilar belonging to Pierre Parent, a Paris architec-t, who has been. arrested. Two thousand German cartridges and Mauser rifles and also English bullets Were found in a, chateau near Cambrai. The mobile guards hav.e been doubled at the Ministry of the Interior, and no person is allowed t.o enter without a passport. After hours under the third degree, Count Pozzo di Borgho, former lientenant of Colonel de la Rocque's Fascists, was arrested on a charge of associatioh with criminals. Surete detectives investigating the Csar plot state that General du Seigneur asserts that Gount di Borgho associatod with him in the leadership of the Union of Defence Committee to suppress Communism, Deloncle after his arrest was taken to tho Sante prison.