6 JUNE 1958, Page 6

General Massu, a practising Roman Catholic, is known to have

been profoundly disturbed at heart by the third degree methods which sheer necessity obliged him to use in order to wipe out the cells and so save hundreds of other inno- cent lives from terrorism and restore the city to calm. On several occasions he consulted the church authorities here in an agony of spirit, but finally decided it was his duty as a Christian and a soldier to go on with the work.