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Show GREAT INCREASE OF C8IMIM1CF. Police and Government Officials Unable to Cope With Bands of Thugs and Thieves. j i VICTIMS BY SCORES ARE STRUCK DOWN JN PARIS Newspapers Are Daily Filled With Stories of Robberies and Murders. PARIS, Ken. 2S. The general fe!lnE of alarm created by the lncreaa of crlmo In France was echoed in tho Chamber of Doputlcs today by nn interpellation of the Government on tho insecurity of life ! in ParlB and in the country. All along i the Belgian frontier an organized band of bandits has been robbing and murdering murder-ing for two years, and their deproda-tlonH deproda-tlonH continue in spito of tho fact that tho police, early in February, succeeded in arresting the Tlnglendera, During two years this gang committed thousands of robberies and murders. The streets of ParlB, especially In tho Mont-martre Mont-martre district, are terrorized by "Apaches," as they are called, and are no longer safe for pedestrians. The newspapers for weeks past havo been filled with stories of robberies and murders, mur-ders, the victims being struck down with knives. M. Cochin, .Liberal, declared that in many sections of tho country the, gendarmerie gen-darmerie were unable to cope with the brigands, and the Inhabitants wore arming arm-ing for solf-protootlon. Ho cited the case of a village constable, who was besieged In his home. Premier Clemenceau said the Government Govern-ment recognized the growing state of Insecurity, and a flying brigade of picked policemen had been organized In Paris. In addition lo tho regional brigades which wore being formed in the country to cope with the marauders. |