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...door. A moment later, dense smoke began pouring from the chimney. By the time the police broke in half an hour later, most of the evidence was gone. Other raids were more productive. Lyon yielded a rich crop of stolen French army seals, handy for forging identity papers. Clermont-Ferrand and Toulon produced enough nuts, bolts, clubs, buckshot and shoemakers' knives to equip a hundred riots...
...night last week the speedy auto-rail train which links Paris with the rubber-manufacturing city of Clermont-Ferrand ground to an unscheduled stop five miles short of its destination. Surprised passengers stumbled over luggage piles into waiting buses and heard a guard explain: "The station at Clermont-Ferrand is in the hands of Communists." The "Akron of France" had become the scene of France's bloodiest battle since liberation...
...have an easy conscience oneself." But some of Moch's Socialist colleagues were less mild. They surged across the aisles, fell upon Communists with flying fists. After the ushers separated the combatants, the Assembly killed, 404-186, a Communist demand for a full-dress debate on the Clermont-Ferrand affair. In effect, the vote was a vote of approval for Moch's new Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurit...
Through the somber streets of Clermont-Ferrand ran a frantic youth. "Protect me! My organization is out to get me!" he shrieked when he reached a police station. He said he had been summoned to a nearby villa, "Chez Lisette," where the other members of the "organization" had condemned him to death for treason...
...Masons Have Got Me." The trail led from grey Clermont-Ferrand to a brooding château at Lamballe in grey Brittany. Last week, up to the forbidding doors of the château walked a plainclothesman. He walked straight into the revolver of the château's owner, Count Edmé de Vulpian. Into the fray, toting Tommy guns, jumped other secret policemen who had been waiting in the shadows that enveloped the castle. Count Vulpian lowered his revolver and surrendered. A search of his château yielded the blue-bound revolutionary "Plan Bleu...