UBRARY, SUPREME CODAT
Olivetti
THE WEATHER
PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS
GILMANS
Comment
Moderate Easterly winds, cloudy with widespread rain and occasional thunderstorms. Noon, temperature #73-degroom. - Humidity 93 per cent,
LATE FINAL
CHINA MAIL
GA-34
No. 37957
Established-1845-
MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1961.
French Premier warns
Price 20 Centa
6 JETS
A WEEK TO
EUROPE
DAILY EXCEPT THURSDAYS
PHONE 37031
nation invasion imminent
of the PARIS PREPARES FOR ACTION
day
STABBED IN THE BACK
ENERAL de Gaulle had good
reason to belleve earlier this year that one of the last major hurdles confronting him over Algeria had been quered when 76 per cent of
con-
the electorate In France and
0$ per cent in Algeria voted In
Rebel paratroopers reported ready to land in France
Paris, Apr. 23.
favour of self-determination The French Prime Minister, Mr Michel Dobre, announced on
for the territory, The nows
that yet another coup has boon staged with the Army claim. ing to control three key cities will come as a shattering mot- back. Not because negotia- tions with the Algerian robei FLN movement had reached a stage where a final Dolution was in sight, but there was a hope that the recently past. poned round-table conference might get underway in near future.
The Algerian robels
I'
the
will un- doubtedly goize upon the coup as evidence that de Gaulle in
In no position to negotiate
on behalf of his country, and that whatever ho or the politicians cay, the Army, to- gether with diehard Franch Boitiers in Algeria, are strong dictums. anough to flout his Just what proportion of the Army'a allegiance de Gaulle can claim lu uncertain. Pariz says the vast majority in loyal but I may only be whistling to keep it courage up. Cer tainly a number of the gener. motivated no doubt by sincere, but nonetheless min. mulded patrlattam, cannot be trusted And the question that must be aukod today 11
military
whether the
tali
Again ways the political dog.
not, the General will have
to act fact, not simply to
cuppress the currant revolt, but to make it clear
to the
дл
18
a
Algerian rebels, the Algerian
world people and the whole that de Gaullo rules the ha roost today a firmly did when he was brought to power by an goriler coup in May, 1958. And if a military dictatorship is not to succeed
the existing administration
the television tonight "we must expect an attempt by the rebels to carry out an action of force and surprise in the region of Paris. Planes are ready to take off from Algerio."
G. O. Jones
Swallows 168 oysters in 18 minutes
entitled to an assurance that Mr Gerard O. Jonos,
the French people are surely
nover again will auch an em-
barrasing debacle be allowed
to nullify the policy of the Government and people.
In simple terms the coup pease the question: Who ruten
an In
merchant Australian Hongkong, consumed 14 18 dozen oysters. in minutes to win a bet to- day.
"The Government has taken measures. Orders have gone out to all units of the forces to use all means—and I say all means-to repulse this mad attempt.
"All fights and landings on!
are forbidden coredromes from midnight onwards,
all
the "As co
as you hear shens sound go in big numbers to the nerodromes to convince the soldiers of their crTOT."
The United States Ambassa dice, Mr James M. Gavin, called on President de Gaulle at the Elysee Palace tonight.
No details of their meeting were immediately available,
Keep contact
An announcer on the televi- sion and radio and television programmes would stay, on the air a night so that the Gay- ernment could keep contact with the population.
In his broadcast Mr Debre naked Frenchmon to go "on foot or by car" to the nerodromes when the sirens sounded.
The Algiers rebels were pre- paring "In a very short time" to drop or land parachutists en various aerodromes in order to selze power, be sold.
Immediately after Mr Debre
television spoke a
announcer to alert the asked Frenchmen nearest police or gendarmerie station of "ali suspicious activi- ties."
A United States Embossy the American spokerman said Ambassador handed over a lel- ter from. President Kennedy "strongly supporting De Gaulle" when he colled at the Elysen Palace.
Strong forces of police and troops including tanks and It all started Iasi Friday when moured cars of the "gendar- France? Two days ago the Mr Jones, managing director of merie" took up positions tonight Henso Ine Ply Lid, met Mr in various strategic positions in- tudlercus, but it is not so to- James Hannon, sales managerside Paris and in its suburbs.
of Flying Cargo Ltd of lunch.
During the course of the con-
question would have
seemed
day. There was apparently no Inkling of the plot which was
carried off with a bloodless versation the two talked about
efficiency that even the Krem.
oysters. They got to the polat
Standing by
Numerous trucks of polleo lin might envy. For what this where Mr Hannon said "I can't stood by in streets around the
Paigee, President coup amounts to is a carefully believe a man can eat 14 dozen Elysee premeditated atob in the back oysters and a steak at one sit-Gaulle's official residence.
for de Gaulle by some of the Ling." very people who were in. strumental in bringing him to power. And to turn the clock back to those disastrous days fest
Franch when
Governmenta
Jones and Hannon appointed today for an oyster-caling con- If Jones finished 14 dozen were two a cantime, would be oysters and a steak at one sit-
France, for ting Hannon would catastrophio-for
bill, otherwiso her allies and for the West.
pay for it.
De Gaulle today will have the
sympathy of a wide body of be at the wall-wishers. To
foot the Jones would
14 platos
#
At noon today a table at height of one's power and local bar was lalt with 14 popularity and then suddenly
plates of oysters, one dozen to to have the carpet whippad unceremoniously from under cach plate.
Mr Hannon sitting at the side you, must be the most galling,
loosened the oyster meat from humiliating And Infuriating experience. More so when it the shells with a knife while threatens to undo much of Jones pushed oysters into his And careful mouth one after another with a the patient
glass.of beer to wash it down. groundwork which has brought tho French Government the verge of a solution to this prickly of all neities most that
'It has been asked grasp.
dc
Mr Debre's call for action when the sirens sounded was
in
repeated at 15-minute intervals on the television screens French homes and General de Gaulle's earlier broadcast was repeated on sound radio.
from
the communique Ministry of Information asked the population to be on the outlook for aircraft landing or Fany off 39 woll 23. taking movement of para-milltary nature" and to alert the nearest police station
Paris is two hours 20 minutes fight from Algiers by Caravelio jet airliner arid between
six hours fight in and
transport normally Nordatlas used for parachuting operations in Algeria.
Lu Orders have gone out French alt force fighter bases in Metropolitan France for fighte planes 10 fira,on any alterati
to "th which falls to respond normal challenge" an Informa tion Ministry spokesman said.
Paris buses with their destina. to plates removed moved into place at bridges spanning the Seine ready to be used as road blocks.
In the curly hours of Monday about 100 "ghock troops" of the Gouillst UNR Party (urned up at the Interior Ministry saying they had been rent by local party headquarters to help de- fend the ministry,
Reports from Marcelles, and Toulon said road blocks had been set up at strategic spots- and, security patrols increased:
Obstacles were placed on the ruhways of airfields near Parts.
Historic night
Mr Andre Malraux, Culture Minister told Gaullist civilian volunteers of the UNR Party the Ministry gathered Inside
of interior at i am on Monday. "The paratroopers will be here in three hours or they will never be here because you will be with the CHS (riot police) and they will not pass"
"France is living through an historic night," he said,
About 300 militants of the UNR have reported to the Interior Ministry in response to tele- phoned party appeals.
Mr Frey, acting Interior Minister, promised them arms "in the next half hour and said be they would! formed into groups of 10 coch headed by an ex-any officer and would resist : any attack from the rebel para-
police and mobile gendarmes.
troopers at the side of the riot
Twelve Sherman tanks moved into the grounds of the Elysee Palace this morning. They were stationed
Grand outside the
every Palais which
October
Organisation of the UNR houses the motor show. "eltiren army" began at once in a courtyard of the Interior Ministry after Mr Malraux had given the men "greetings from the Government and General do Gaulle.”
Trade unions Several parilammentary deputies were among them.
Some were in World War II battledress and a retired anuy captain reported for duty carry ing an American carbine.
The
troops were Party awaliing algnment to security forces already in place,
The Queen and the Prince of Wales, Prince Charlos, watch tho drossogo'avonts from a marqueo at Bad-
minton, on the
the first day
of the annual "Badminton
horse trials. At left is the Duke of Beaufort; at right is the Duchess of Norfolk.-AP Photo.
Eichmann
claims he
was chained
to bed
Jorusalem, Apr. 23. Adolf Eichmann claims he was kept chained to a bod for eight days after his captura in Buenos Aires
it last May, known today, ·
became
Philip and Tony don't hit it off
London, Apr. 23.
Prince Philip, sports-loving husband of the Queen, was reported today to be finding it hard to get along with Antony Armstrong-Jones," the society photographer who married Princess Margaret.
"What
from he needs now The London Sunday Dispatch by the arrival of another 'man-
Philip, more than from anyone said a state of antipathy exists figure in the family circles."
Mullally said. the Prince has else," the columnist said, "s a between the two men, whose in-
Mr helping hand from time to to make temperament are in his power terests and
warm A more time! Jones feci Armstrong Columnist Frederic Mullally secure inside the Royal Family. gesture,"AR claimed that the
and
far apart.
to
Prince the commoner have fasted hit it off together since Mr
the Armstrong-Jones married altractive princess nearly. n year ago.
In fact, Mullally said, Prince the resents. Philip actively presence of Mr Armstrong-Jones in the innermost circles of the Royal Family,
The report drew nothing but a frigid silence from court of. cials, who always decline to comment on gossip about the family
throne.
agures around the
But it is common knowledge
comradely
European fined $1,700 on traffic charges
that Mr Armstrong-Jones, the Christopher Martin, a 24-year-old bank officer was
artistic type with the cosmopo- litan air, has Ittle in common with the Queen's husband, inter- Columnist Mullally *said betrayed his Prince Philip feeling about Mr Armstrong- at a luncheon he Jones addressed in London last week. Gratuitous
The former Gestapo: leader
police told his Israell rogator that at the end of this he would have been ready to say anything in order to be left in peace.
.
fined a total of $1,700 by Mr L. T. Morris at Causeway Bay Court today for careless driving, failing to stop after an accident, fail- ing to report an accident, failing to have a valid driving licence and driving without a red rear light.
"I was chained to a bed for. "My eight days" he said.
The Prince referred in pass-
The prosecution did not give glasses had been fastened on to Ing to Mr Armstrong-Jones as evidence on a sixth charge of me with a strong rubber band my brother-in-law." and then aungerous driving.
The defendant of 3-C. Wang and I was I would have be added quickly: "Well, he isn't ready to say
Tal Hang-road, everything they really, but you know the chap Fung-terrace,
I mean."
changed his original plea of not wanted, simply to get some
Mullally said the remark was guilly to one of guilty on the peace."
This brief flash from theiso good-humoured in tone, "but it five charges for which he wis Prosecuting Inspector M. R. The headquarters in Paris of far largely untold story of what was delivered with an inflection aned. the three mala trade union con- Ave
the phrase Atlinson told the court that de pression that poised federations Communist Social happened to Eichmann after he and, an accompanying facial ex- was captured by isrocl agents. ist and Catholic were remain-
in a Buenos Aires suburb was only too narrowly midway befendant was seen by a police patrol car in the early hours of "It incorporated no intrinsie March 8 to drive throughs a red in open all night to prepare the "technical means" to thwart disclosed by him while com-tween irony and sarcasmi.
on crushingly in-
wit or bon mot. It was, in fact, Ught along Hennessy-road. a possible putsch. The head-menting
testimony criminating
against
anide that The paid our sounded its other possible siren and chased the defenthint "for reported
than.
stimuluto who instead of stopping acce- effect by his former top aide, Dieter could have no The French Communist Party
Wisllceny.
suspicions of antipathy between lerated to an estimatest 50 mph,
and Mr he added, ---*** the Queen's husband) Its
CONFRONTED
At the junction of Hennessy- headquarters appealed to followers to
Armstrong-Jones," "retuse do obey the generals of the coup d'etat Elchmann was confronted Mr Armstrong-Jones is the road and Canal-road West the not defendant's "ear collided with and get in a resolute fashion during his police Interrogation Queen's brother-i-law,
another private car" with with
ot Prince Philip's transcript
Mullally sald Mr Armstrong-force that the impact spun the Wialteeny's testimony, which
on to the will form
a major part of the Jones "tried an, hard as anyone private car around. state of Israel's caso against could to win the friendship and pavement.
respect" of the Prince... him.
Description
of
Bourtes cioso to the Prima
to
to
The contest started off at 12.47 Minister said that as far as was quarters sold anany of their him gives in a prison in 1946 a quite aratullous
members had pm. In seven minutes Mr Jones known no plane loads had atomed through Elx plates, parachutists had yet taken off was, for. Me from Algeria. The original bet
For I mean, if the coup auo-
relations cando in rupturing hotween the rebels and Paris, an indefinite prolongation of bloodshed, it brings
nearer
Jones to finish in 45 minutes. International telephone calls The situation looks bad but out of Paris were blocked to- 1 have not concoded yet", said night. The Paris exchange suid there was an "Indefinite" wait" Mr Hannon:
for London and every alhes. European capital.
The bill: $98
The bli for, the oysters was
$80.
The steak cost another $7.
Incoming calls from abroad
were connected quickly,
Air Force orders.
duty."
to crush them."-leuter.
Wrong place
Naples, Apr. 23. -
敏
full
Eichmann branded hila former
to
0.
Helping hand
such
Laos Govt forces defeated
Vientiane, Apr. 23.
Laotian Government forces
have received, their worst beating so far in the civil war with the pro-Cams munist 'Pathet Lao-on the eye of the expected announcement of a cease- fire.
Reliable sources here, said to- day that Clovemment, forces last night evacuated the town of Vang Vieng, 5mlies to the | north;; aftér's heavy artillery the very danger that the coup
barrage. fenders are specifically hoping
last im- The town was the to defeat, that of the Com-
In 13 minutes Mr. Jenes muniste ostabilahing a foot-
eleaned up 1da oysters and The Information Ministry Is Salvatore Amorelli, 28-year-aide's allegations "false" "But Tony was disappointed. The defendant again falled to
In the mountains of" north-cent- held in the territory. Worst
finally topped it off with the surd an appeal after midnight old Neapolitan, released from start to finish. The obly and confused to find these stop and at this point another poriaus doveriament, stronghold
ho could ud for genuine, efforts rewarded with patrol car Joined in the chao.
patronage instegé' "of Martin Accelerated once more | tral Lads; the headquarters et of all it threatens, as long **
asking residents near the aerobicon with a meange til to it | Explanaiken Itists, to undermine the
One neerst Mr Hannon did dromes at Osly, Bourget, Brew Baying am looking for a job, them, Elobenarinald was that berused
The bird flew a few hundred thy were mads in jail and that the chruining, he was booke and drove along until he passed the Government operations in
Aho Junction of Hennessy-coRum region: West of the rebel authority of the most stablo administration France he had not know before the bet was bigly, Melon Villaroche, Crell,
that in 1942 in the USA, Mr (Tmusmia La Noble, Cormelled yards "to the homie (of: Leopoldo | for would havą bueg' | iRolk Lawahtabelik”: colili khaya | and Percival-strunt where he (teld pixíry of Jare; and that the Text many years. Thi
en Vexin, Orleans, Chartres, and de Vivo, who read the message. prepared a lo way anything Cat Cany Jones won a bol by eating, 10 faw days will be de“ Qxville's
will have dozen pgkiors and a steak in a Ferman Dosumust, all near Paris, she took the birds to the polio tik pont, just as he was him told him that Mile at Jagdh Glampposted of most of raportarily anding steld suprame test. Ho
to be prepared, to go to there to be returned to its owner, for self after being chained for petronsko Was group. Odrance tap, Atkinson said that all broersalles billion
the resentmen Felixkuchin him | (Osmünsed on back page, on, R) Reuter, scrudromes as soon as they were Leopoldo, loor looking for a "läbi daya to the bed "in"Bumios a kind or cinerator that happened to quickly that Prabung, the Royal capital,
Job-China Mail Specials Me Ares UFI warned by siren.
for
to not declively, Immediately If he hopes to come through with flying Triosier.
leak.
New York oyster bar,
"I was younder then, shid
Mr Jones who is now 18.