Paris, Jan. 10. ridiculed their fellow countrymen's claims to Tunis, Corsica and Djibouti yesterday, when members of the huge Italian agri-cult colony in south-western France, which numbers nearly 1,000,000 persons, staged a protest meeting at Auch, capital of the French department of Gers.
At the same time, a resolution appealing to the brotherhood between the French and Italian peoples and protesting against Fascist intervention in Spain was passed enthusiastic cally.—Reuter.
Domiciliary searches are made to discover hidden men, arms and other forbidden material,' but stringent orders have been given to the troops to prevent looting and wanton destruction.
The War Office statement categorically denies propaganda suggestions of wholesale demolition of the houses of innocent Arabs. It says that individual, selected houses only are demolished for well-defined and urgent reasons, and it points out that, whether from sympathy or terrorism, practically every village has, at some time, harboured or sheltered rebels.
For months now, a relentless campaign of assassination has been waged against Arabs suspected of giving the Government information. Consequently, the villages are terrorized by minorities.
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