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French Investigate New Algeria Torture ChargesPAnrc m r. . 9® ~ France s armedforce* ministry Mys it b inves-tigatwj new charges by five Rrs-ntan Catholic chaplain that the french army is torturing and summarily executing Moslem* In Algeria.The priests, reservists recalled to duty with the French army.'♦rote their bishop* that arbitrary arrests ar.d imprisonment are numerous and that questioning of prisoners and suspects is too Often carried out with means that must be called torture. execution* ‘Covered Up* Summary execution o! prisoners. military and civilians alike,are decided by Judicially incompetent authorities ... and covered up by official reports.It often happens that in the course ol operations, wounded persons are finished off./ the letter said. -tThe priests conceded that military authorities in several areas of Algeria had forbidden such practices arri that some responsible for such acts were punned.Nevertheless. the letter added, such acts are widespread in Algeria.”The French Roman Catholic Church confirmed the existence of the letter, which wa* published in Christian Testimony, a weekly often criticized by the church hierarchy for Its advanced views. T}c army in Algeria Is pcradically accused of using torture.In Algiers, meanwhile, some ?.(») European . rightist’ booed President Dc Gaulle’s name yesterday and applauded a demand for a formula of replacement of his gowmmer.t.The demonstration was staged by - Popular Movement 13 an organization which sprang up after last year’s May 13 coup that brought De Gaulle back to power. Speakers blasted the government's unwillingness to approve the right-wingers' demand for Algeria's integration with Franco as a means o! keeping Algeria French and their own favored position intact.Speaker Awlaudcd .The crowd applauded one speak-er who called for replacement o 1 the French government by a “cor-porate system patterned on Mussolini's fascism.The Czechoslovak ship Lidice left Algiers yesterday, leaving behind 3S1 tons of arms and ammunition ecirrd by the French navy on suspicion that they were destined for the Algerian rebels. The navy seized the Lidice clt the Ncrth African coast last Tuesday. The Communist Czechoslovak government protested and claimed the arms were for the Moroccan government, which the French claim arms the rebels.
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Corpus Christi Times
Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Mon, Apr 13, 1959
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