The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)(about) |
Previous issue
Saturday 5 April 1952
Next issue
of 38
Next page
Send to:
|
No corrections yet
Troops
Occupy Tangier
-r
LONDON, April 4 (A.A.P.).-French and
Spanish troops marched -
into the international
city of Tangier yester- J
day to preserve law
and order.
The move was a precau- tion after nationalist upris- ings, which have inflamed North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia.
British troops at Gibraltar are standing by in case they are needed in Tangier.
French and Spanish mili- tary leaders agreed to the temporary occupation of Tangier because of the forthcoming trial of 72 natives arrested in last Sun- day's riots. Seven persons were killed and scores in- jured in the riots.
Fresh disorders broke out yesterday.
ATTACK BY NATIVES
In Tunisia, new violence is marking the efforts of Salah Eddin Baccouche to form a new pro-French
Cabinet.
Natives attacked and seri- ously injured the deputy mayor of the coastal town of Sousse in a bomb attack. At least 300 natives were arrested.
Two bomb explosions oc- curred in "E^nis.
Algerian Arabs demon- strated in sympathy with their Tunisian neighbours, but no major violence oc-
curred.
Moslems in French Morocco declared support for the Tunisian nationalists in their fight against the French, and pressed their own demands for indepen-
dence.
DEMAND
Nationalists in French Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia all demand indepen-
dence.
| Observers see in the cur-
rent wave of Moslem nation- alism a danger to the West's plan to use strategic North African bases to protect the Mediterranean and the
Allied nations bordering it.
Some observers in Tunis say that the Bey.of Tunis may make a dramatic appeal
to U.N. on the Tunisian question.