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THE CHINA-MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1947.
DE GAULLE "ON THE SPOT"
"Black Maquis" Murder Plot Revealed
Ramadier Denies Rumour
“Commandos” As A Spearhead
Paris, June 30, General Charles de Gaulle was to have been as- sassinated sometime in July as part of the plot which was officially disclosed today to over- threw the French Republic, the Paris evening paper "L'Intransigeant" reported tonight. General de Gaulle, it said. was to be killed "in what would have appeared to be a Communist act so as to arouse the indignation of the French population." The plot wns, revealed today by
As Inspector
Pushbutton Warfare Debunked
Washington, June 30. Two Admirals gave pushbutton warfare a de- bunking today.
M
Paris, July 1. Premier Ramadier de- nied persistent reports he would today that
of the Gendor-
Admiral John Towers, naval shake up his Cabinet in
M. Depreux, Minister of the In merle (the armed police whlels in air expert and former Commni- an effort to avoid resign-terior, who said that a Fascist country places provide the only der-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacifle 2,652 ing and plunging the na-"Murch Paris-apparently police forec) he had considerable Fleet, and Rear Admiral Ralph tion into a governmental[mewhat on the lines of Musso.control over the policing of rural 001, atomic expert, said anch
al's march on Rome-was to be areas.
warfare was a long way off. crisis.
carried out by Bightwing Resis. The Paris newspaper "Ce Soir" They testified before the House The future of his government,tance men, Monarchists, Vichy sald that police inspectors und Executives Expenditures Com be told reporters, is dependent
aurrounded miter,
Js cursldering Ull the National Assembly'supporters and former collabara. Republican Guards
culling themselves the the stateau et Lamballe ánd ors|jegislation for uniĝention of the action on a motion of confidence
rested the owner, whom the news "Black Maquils "
armed forces, That he suld he would propose
Admiral Towers and Admiral| soon, probably Wednesday.
Official invertigation has been paper described as the Comte de His denial conflicted with re- going on since the end of last Vulpain.
Ofat opposed the provision to General Guillaudot was warn establish
an Independent air office port Team his own
on year, he salt, and eonclusive evi- Monday night
Admiral Towers told the that be conten- dence had been' umassed by lasted that he was wanted fur ques-fence. plated making several changes, In | March.
Honing as he was about to pres Committee it would be "utterly
Belgian informant
at a banquet for his Cabinet which.
Ualled Jave side The rising appeared to
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some time in police officers. He was allowed States but of action in a matter been planned for signation.
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Ramadier's troubles are evnine/July or for August 4, though he attend the dinner, after which' he of a few hours or few days by:
fo hon at the start of the not know of any special signl erucial math of July, which therence in that date. Tunics and were lu have Communist dombated Labour, med vehicles Union Federation has set a dead-been used.
ne for dieussion of the revision Three prominent people, includ. of wage scales fog all Frenching a general, have been arrested. workers.
Strikes
Approximately 1,000,000 metal workers have scheduled a 24-hour sation-wide strike today.
Bank employes said their 1} day walkout for higher wages would continue indefinitely.
It is announced that a middle. aged woman, member of an old French family, has been question. ed by the police un reports that
much of the
plotting was done
In her salon, allegedly beneath u portrait of Mussolini.
was arrested and driven to paller. headquarters.
The "Blue Plan" The plotters named their opera. tlun "the Blue Plan."
According to "Ce Soir," the a hunger conspirators fomented strike a fortnight ago in Fresites Prison, where many cullaborators are still hell. Their liberation was said to be part of the plul.
The conspirators are reported The plot Included plans for to have held & ineeting in Paris on Paris, last week at a memorial service double-pronged march from Brittany in the west and for Philippe Henriot, the Vichy from the French Zone of Germany Minister of Information shot by
A strike #I the nationali tobacco industry was averted only by last minute negelintions. Dis agreement among the Socialists, the central MRP, Radical Social-press conference. 3«ts and Independents on how far to go in meeting labour's demands
is une cause of the shakiness of the, Cabinet Associated Press.
Reunited After 37 Years
Dundee, Julý 1.
1
in the East, M. Depreux told patriots during the occupation.
The first objective of the plot-In
A comb.out was Inode today
Brittany, especially m
lers was to organise a jailbreak | cities
the
of Rennes and Vannes,
rebel forces were to have been
at Vannes, In Brittany, to create where the main elements of the an atmosphere of civil war.
From evidence obtained, M. De.recruited. preux sak, some or even all of
the gendarmerie guarding Vannes Prisun would have been involved in the break, offering only "token" resistance by Bring revolvers in the air.
Monarchist und Rightwing
Catholic stronghold, with an auto
nomous movement of its own.
inass atomic attack.
"We haven't the control of gulted missiles you have been led to hellere," he sakt
Admiral Ofstil said puslibut- ton warfare was at least five to twenty years off. He said the event of war high-speed jet planea rather than heavy bomb- érs would carry atomic bombs.- Unlled Press.
Australian Dispute With U.S.
Ja
Tokyo, June 20....... The Australian Minister of External Affairs, Dr. Herbert
Rennes before the war was the Evati, will walk into a "touchy centre of Rightwing and Munar. situation" If he comes to Japan demonstrations and the in July as reported, but it is chist
rumoured here that the separatists, currently headquarters of who looked upon it as the "copl-"the trip may be cancelled in view of the controversy over the Japanese Antarctic whaling ex- pedition.
tal of Brittany."
main rebci army formed
The plot had been prepared to the minutest detall, including Central Hqs.
American officials said his re- even, a list of members of the
cption would be "warm" if he The plot appears to have been
"rchel government.” Two childhood sweethearts, largely engineered in Brittany
A "Commando". force was, came, but the general attitude. Mrs. Rose Waldron; of Buffalo, the
into the Australian protests on whai- New York, and Colin McMahos,
spearhead the attack, with the of American officia's was that of Dundee, were reunited
that The Americans believe Monday but no wedding bells
The central organisation of the divisions. Detalls were found in ing were "rather unfair.
documents seized at the Chateau are in prospect—yet.
plot, the authorities bellove was
des Bols at Lamballe, seat of the the charge that the move to They separated in 1910 when at Lamballe, 25 miles southwest Comte de Valpian, when the police permit a second Japanese whal- Mrs. Waldron-then Rose Conor St. Malo and seven miles from
made their search.
ing expedition was made with- entirely nor-moved with her family to the coast. Comte de Vulpian, a
consultation is Recent Investigations into the out Ameries. Each married but six Brittany, landowner,, whose coun: activities of certain former Vichy without basis. Also, they object year ago Mrs. Waldron waa try house at Lamballe was saldaffeers led the police to Lam- to total blame being placed on widow and MeMnha's wife to be the plotters headquarters, baile.
Genera! MacArthur since the died. Two years ago the -child-was one of the three leading per-
The rising, which ilmed at derision was reached in Wash- hood sweethearts began to cor-sonages so far arrested.
overthrowing the Fourth Repub-ington. respond.
The others were General Guil.
The Americans here think the Ile, was to open with attacks on On Monday Mrs. Waldron, laudot, inspector of Gendarmeric, telegraph and telephone centres real reasons for the Australian now 61, arrived in Dandee after and M Loustonenu Laciru, whose all over the country, Rebel forers protests are not yet out in the flying the Atlantic to spend a mue was linked before the war were, at the same time to march | open.
Mc- with the Fuschat seercl society month in Scotland ni
on Parls and seize the main 'Gov known as the Mahon's livitation.
"Cagoulards"
crnment 'offees. Asked if he intended to pro- (Hooiled- Men)." pose marriage, MeMahab, 55. General Gulllaudot, aged 64, said: "Not this time, but when described as on carly collaborator f visit Rose in Biffalo two juf Marshai? Petpin' and later in- years from now I hope to popterned in German concentra
Įtion camp. was later mude the question."
"Companion of the Liberation". one of the highest decorations clamations by Marshal Petain #t awarded to French patriots.
the time of the Vichy Covern ment.
Mrs. Waldron gave no hint what her answer would becom Associated Press.
BRITAIN ASKS FOR AN EXPLANATION
London, June 30.
Major Christopher Mayhew, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, told the House of 'Commons today that the British Ambassador in Washington had been instructed to seek an explanation of United States action in au- thorizing a, second Japanese Antarctic whaling expedition without consultation with her war- time Allies.
navy,
"Battle Orders"
They believe Australin wants Qa Japanese whaling fleet as reparation, and see difeully in 48 the realizing this as long M. Depreux said that battle or ders, posters and preclamations United States permits the use announcing the formation of a of the feet by the Japanese- Directory to inke over the Gov. United Press.
They ernment were discovered.
on similar pro- were modelled
Mountbatten To Stay?
The "Black Maquis" had also prepared ostensibly Communist
London, July 1. pamphlets which they planned to
India's "last Viceroy." Vis- distribute as justtention for the emunt Mountbatten, it is belleved "anti-Communist” march on in Labour Party circles, will re-
Paris,
General
In answer to a question whe. main in India for some time- Governor-General of both ther any members of
Hindustan and Pakistan after Charles de Gaulle's Rally of the they become Dominions.
French People were also
mem-
The Governor-General of a hers of the "Black Maquis," M. British Dominion is, in effect, a Thepreux replied: "Certain mem- "Atau in" for the King. Unless bers of the Black Maquis tried the two Indian states now be to join, but they were eliminated
from
by
Charged
the leading official of the ing formed break away
the- Commonwealth, King Rally."-Reutor.
George VI will remain the King of both. Paris, June 30.
Mountbatten's prestige has Formal charges of plotting to shot skyward since he persuad- the French Fourthed India's Congress Party and
Mortem League
tion of war veterans.
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Great Britain reluctantly as-, strable at the carliest possible overthrow sented to the first Japanese what moment. The spokesman also Republic were filed today against Ing expedition last year on the curdorged General MacArthur's two alleged lenders of the Righist understanding that London and statement that the date of the "Black Maquis" who allegedly the Dominions would be consult signing of a peace treaty with planned, an armed march on. Paris
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