The Archive · 1937

Seizure of Paris by Communists Alleged

Paris, Dec. 28.

A sensational story was unfolded to-day before the examining magistrate by M. Eugene de l'Oncle, direc-for of several shipbuilding companies and head of the Cangoulard (hooded men) organization in France.

M. de londo's statement alleged that Communists had framed a plot, which was to be executed on the night of November 15, to seize the capital with 83,000 men, to assisinate M. Leon Blum, former Socialist Premier, and other Cabinet members and prominent personages, and to capture about 400 hostages, mostly industrialists, financiers and military chiefs, Discovery of the Cagoulard movement in France was revealed November when, after intense

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