A Traitor's Death

Early in April a young, black-haired French officer-candidate named Henri Francois Maillot deserted his comrades in the 504th Transport Battalion, and went over to the Algerian rebels with a truckload of guns and ammunition. His reason soon became apparent: Maillot was a Communist.

Last week the 5O4th, made up mostly of green young conscripts from Paris, was flushing out a rebel detachment near Orleansville. After a quarter-hour's firing they came upon five rebel dead, one of them a European with henna-dyed hair. Something about him looked familiar. When soldiers daubed his hair with black liquid dye, there was no disguising the features of Traitor Henri Maillot, his body riddled by 14 bullets fired by the comrades he had deserted.

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