FRANCE
S
SECRET FASCIST
so far as the
is
ARMY
mass membership
is
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concerned, nothing in writing
placed in their hands.
A
twenty-page handbook with instructions on street fighting
was issued to group commanders and, lest a copy fall into wrong
hands and betray the organization, it was boldly entitled: Secret
Rules of the Communist Party. The instructions are specific and
are based upon the insurrectionary tactics issued to the Nazi
Storm Troopers. They fall into six sections: General Remarks;
Group Fighting; Section Fighting; Choice of Terrain; Commis
and Policing Groups.
One or two excerpts from
sariat;
these instructions for street fighting
follow:
"The
particular force for street fighting is infantry, provided
with automatic weapons and hand grenades. Members of the
detachments should be instructed that automatic weapons must
always be used in preference. Essential arms are: sub-machine
guns,
including hunting rifles, hand grenades, revolvers,
(Petards are small bombs used for blowing in doors.)
rifles
petards."
With regard
to "mopping
up"
in houses, the instructions state:
must be opened with tools or
a heavy door, break it in by driving a lorry
explosives.
at it. Clean up basements and cellars by throwing bombs down
through the air holes or other openings after your men have got
into the house. Only after these have exploded should the cellar
"If
the door
barricaded,
is
it
If it is
doors be forced. Then, when ascending the stairs, keep close to
the walls while one of your men keeps firing straight up the
shaft.
Mop up
as
you go down
holes in the ceilings
floor
by
floor.
If necessary, pierce
and mop up by throwing down hand
grenades."
The chief of the Cagoulards espionage system is Dr. Jean
Marie Martin, a bushy-haired stocky man with dark, somber
and
eyes. Dr. Martin usually travels with several false passports
with the utmost secrecy. At the moment he is in Genoa where he