The Archive · 1937

Trial of Italian Terrorist

Ceret, Sept. 23.

The name of Gen. Francisco Franco, the leader of the Nationalists in Spain. was mentioned during the trial here to-day of an Italian terroust, Gardella, who is alleged to have been concerned in the recent bomb outrages in Paris.

In the course of his evidence Gardella. who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, said that when he lived in Italy a Spaniard, named Armando Ruiz. asked him, on behalf of Gen. Francisco Franco, the insurgent leader, to perpetrate a series of bomb outrages in France.

Being jobless, Gardella continued, he agreed and went to Marseilles, where he met an Italian, Carlo Alte-monte. who gave him several bombs and asked him to blow up the Spanish Consulate at Toulouse and the military hospital at Perpignan, but he refused.

Ruiz and Altemonte were each Twr Union Church congregation will hold their regular morning service to-morrow at 10.45 at Bubbling Well Chapel, when the Rev. C. Wilfrid Allan will be the preacher

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