GENERALS ON TRIAL
Challe tells why he staged revolt in Algeria
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1961.
Says Eichmann carried out Hitler's orders
Jerusalem, May 29, Rudolf Hoess, who ran the Auschwitz death camp, regarded Adolf Eichmann as the "King-pin and driving shaft" of the Nazi extermination machine which killed millions of Jews, the court trying Adolf Eichmann was told today. Dr Gustave M. Gilbert, acupied Poland, commented on New York psychologist, cald she Hoess's evidence: "Just imagine, there questioned Hess while probing Captain Gilbert, silting Paris, May 29.
the minds of the leading Nazis and saying: I murdered two and Mary Tribunal at Nuremberg children. people will talk after the war to find out what about it for a thousand year."
Ex-General Maurice Challe said here today that he decided to stage an uprising against the Government's Algerian policy last April 22 in Algiers, because he felt there was still a chance to defeat the Moslem rebels and to win the peace.
Challe 56, expressed this
The development of "Com- opinion i'n his preliminary manist cells among units made statement at the opening of his up of draftees," trial by a special nine-Ba!!
• The Insurgent leaders' military high court today on refusal to cause bloodshed and charges of organising and part-thus Are against those reluctant
Insurrectional to side with them. elpating movement and assuming an
Turning dressed illegal military command.
21 ail
on trial before the International a hair raillion men, women and
made them Uek."
Dr
A STATEMENT
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written
Glbert Kaid that after talks with the Nazi Chiefs and with 5.5. officers "It gradually statement from Hotas said that
Dr Gilbert sald dawned on me that this man Eichmans, who was the Only (Eichmann) must be a key
person permitted to keep lists figure in of the extermination regarding exterminations, cave programmes."
never Jews
Lat
in a gure for Auschwitz 02 2,500,000 in April, 1845. Hocas 'NOTHING PERSONAL'
said that figure seemed much The Nazi leaders had said too high and that at most 1,500,- "they
tanci
000 people met their deaths anything
Auschwitz-Router. the to
personally," Dr President,nguinst his senriet robe Gilbert told the court. trinuned with white crmine, cross-examination by Dr Robert
Eichmann's Servatius,
West lawyer, he said the German Nazis had told him that Hitler, who gave the orders, was guilty
Under
Houss
On trial with him is 03-year-Challe said in a choked volee:
ex-General uld
Marie-Andre "Mr President, it le your army
with ex- Zeller who together
you are going to judge to Д Generals Edmond Joubaux and certain extent. What remains of Raoul Salan, still at large, led
the army's unity is only its of the crimes against the Jews the four-day uprising mainst
despair. Our officers and non-but that Elchmann and President Charles
Both Jouhaux Algerian polley.
sworn and Salan have fled and have been unheard of since the cul- lapse of the uprising 25th.
de Gaulle's commissioned Meers have had carried out the orders.
INCIDENT
the Moclems they
s outl not abandon them, but on Apri: now they are forced to abandon
them."
Challe brought out in sup- port of his view
an incident which occurred last year when he sid three Mostem rebel Tallitary leaders had informed the French they were ready to lay down their arms.
He said the three, including Si Salah, head of the Wilaya (district) four had come to the Elysee Palace in Parke, but that their move falled as a result of the government's preparations for talks with the FLN al Melum Just suramer.
"We had just passed close by the peace which our men had
Challe stated.
Won,
Challe was formerly Com- mander in Chief in Altela and Commander of Nato's Central Europe forecs. Zeller was at one time chief of the General Staff of French Land Forces. Both were brought to the Palace of Justice where the trial is being held in a police van from La Sante Prison. court is composed Dí civilian jurista and five military senior oficers, It is presided over by Maurice Patin, chair- man of the Commission for Safeguarding Civil Liberties,
TRIBUTE
The
four
Challe paid tribute to the leutenants. non commissioned ollcers and lower ranks, whom he said had worked for Irater- nisation. He said the army had worked "in depth" against "n political and subversive war."
He expressed the view that a Moslem could not understand political changes such as switch-
Ho concluded: "Obedience, discipline-yes. Unto death. But not unto perjury, a thousand perjuries. We are not domestic animals."--AFP.
Dr Gilberi said many Nazi leaders had expressed rage 02 disbelief when they heard The Nuremberg testimony about the extermination of the Jews,
Field Marshal Hermanu Goering said: "This, of course. was not any business of mine." Hans Frank, Governor of oc-
Now he's afraid
to play cricket
Situation
in Kivu
now 'tense
Elisabethville, May 29, A tento situation has arisen in Kivu Province, in the costern part of the former Belgian Congo and in Bukavu, the main city, banks have posted up notices saying "no monoy", well-informed sources said here today.
Big reinforcements have ar- rived
Bukavu from
!
-And is awarded damages claim Gizenga's Lumumbist and
Melbourne, May 29.
A former club wicket-keeper, who said he was afraid of cricket now because of an accident
Stanleyville-seat of Antoine
Communist-recognised govern- mensal the sources.
TENSION
They added semu of the
injury, settled his claim for damages in the troops had not been paid, and
Supreme Court today.
Indonesia
invites
delegates
Djakarta, May 29. Indonesia has offered to
play host to 300 dele gatos to the conference of tho Pacific Area Travel Association in Hongkong next year.
The Indonesian Council for ing from the concept of "Al-Tourism is offering the dele- gerie Francaise" (Keep Algerin gales (lourist officials and travel | French)
that of self-deter- businessmen) a post-conference
mination-the policy outlined by trip to Djakarta to Inspect pre- President De Gaulle for theparations for the Asian Games, first time on September 18, 1958. which are to be held in the capi-
Challe said he thought selt tal in September 1902. determination was good because
it was democratle but that it
could only take place after 1
FIRST HAND
period of peace. He was con- The Executive-Director of the vinced the army could win over Indoneslanı Council, Mr Sri the Moslems to choose in favour Buduhu, told reporters that in of France and that, therefore, this way, prospective tourists self-determination would finally would "be able to get first-hand mean "Francization".
Information, fron the Pacific's He then stated:
best travel advisers, on what to "The Prime Minister (Michel Debrej nad
see during their Asian Games trip to Indonscia."-Reuter. told me: "You may say that the army is fighting so that Algeria should always remain French.
Asked by prosecutor Besson it he thought 3 Sala's demarcho had failed through the French Government's fault, Challe res piled: "Yes, it was a tactical error,"
COLLAPSE
To attend
Princess
London.
The three doctors who will attend Princess Margaret at the Challe went on to say that he birth of her child are Sir John quit the army he asked to Peel, 56-year-old obstetric and be put on the retired list before gynaecological surgeon, Lord reaching the age limit because Evans, 58, the Queen's physi→ he was completely opposed to the clan, nnd Sir John Weir, 81- idea of creating an Algerlan year-old physlelan-t-ordinary executive. This would mean the to the Queen, China Mail victory of the FLN, he said, add-Special.
The man, Thomas Brian Ham- mer, 24, clerk, suffered brain damage on May 5 Inst year.
He was a passenger In a car which hit a tree in a Melbourne suburb.
The terms of settlement of his claim agains! the car driver Patrick Tuck, were not disclosed. Hammer told Mr Justice O'Bryan and a jury before the Betilement was repched, that he was a wicket-keeper will the Preston Firsts In sub-District cricket in the two seasons be-
fore the accident.
He said he wouldn't be game" to play cricket now because he was afraid of being hit on the head with a ball,"
He said he had also stopped playing quns); because of cramps in his legs since the incident. China Mail Special.
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that this accounted for increased tension in the area,
An African recently fed Bakavu for 11 unknown destination taking with him four million Congolese France, it was reported.
According
to reports from coffee plantations is disastrous. Kivu itself, the position in the except in the few small sections still managed by Europeans,-** AFP.
Shah of Persia
Rome, May 29. The Shah of Persia and Empress Farah Dibal will fly home as planned tomorrow morn- Ing, and are due to arrive in Teheram tomorrow night, Persian Embassy spokesman said here tonight.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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‘Purely informal, Mr Butler says
of his remarks
London, May 29.
Mr R. A. Butler, British Home Secretary, return- ed today after his holiday in Spain.
He told reporters that the dinner in Madrid at which he made his reported remarks that Spain should be "fully incorporated in the Western world"
was "purely informal."
"I think the consequences exaggerated," he declared.
of it have been
He added: "The general sense of what I said was reported but I have not the same, shall we Bay, wealth of language as other people.”
"I meant to convey what has always been Bri.. tish policy: that we should associate Spain us closely as possible with the West. There was no deeper significance."-Reuter.
Paro
Committee cuts USIA spending
-turns down
Kennedy's request
Washington, May 29. President Kennedy's request for a bigger budget for the US. Information Agency (USIA) was rejected today by the House Appropriations Committee.
of
the
Instead Increasing the America,
Information Agency'a funds, it trimmed Agency's programme of foreign 10.08 million dollars from the broadcasting. tower original request.
The Prezident originally The reduced budget did not, sought 151.48 million dollars for [however, affect the Voice of the USIA, America's forelga propaganda organisation. Last Thursday, in a special message to Congress, he asked that "the funda previously requested for this effort not only be approved in full but increased,"
$3M INCREASE The requested about
HILLARY'S CLIMBERS OUT OF DANGER
Khatmandu, May 29. Two climbers who contracted pneumonia during Sir Edmund Hillary's unsuccessful oxpedition to 27,790-foot Mount Makalu, were flown to hospital hore today and pronounced "absolutely out of danger,"
The men, London surgeon Mike Ward and New Zen- lander Peter Mulgrew, were lifted by hellcopter from Barun Valley to
anim- provised landing ground close to the American hospitn here.
Doctors sald that Mr Ward, who took over leadership of the expedition when Sir Edmund Hillary had a mild stroke, perfect shape."
WAS
P. 1849 AS
"In
During the expedition Mir Ward lost
for his memory. three days because of <X- haustion and lock of oxgyCT
Mr Mulgrew, who suffered Sir
frostbite mid exhaustion 43 well as pneumonio, was said To be "not in need of any drasite treatment," The doc- tors added that both men "neid a good res
Mr Word rald that the scientifle alios of the expedition-cludy
to
increasa amount
million dollars.
The committee action was in- of human reaction at highcluded in a 7513 million dollar altitudes-had achieved “com- bill financing the State and Pleie succes."
-DOS
Justice Departments, the USIA, the Federal Courts and the Civit Edmund Hillary.
Rights Commission for the fiscal
1. valescing after the illness year starting Ju which forced him
The 134.78 to hand
million dollars over leadership, was on
his alloted the USIA called for cuts But even many operationis. with the reduction, the USIA giving to the would get 3.08 million dollars
Ward more than it received this year.-
wash down to the village of in Khumjung 10 establish school he is
churpas there. Mr
addled.-Reuter,
AP.
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ing "Nobody would obey it, FLN
of not FLN. And executive
would mean the loss of Algeria."
He then described how the four ex-generals-himself, Zet- ler, Jouliaud and Salan-got in touch with each other in Algiere on Apri and drow up plans for the uprising whose
abjor-
Prince agrees to summit talks
Nice, May 29.
1 Touchy monarch?
ACROSS
DOWN
1 River Statel
4 Sticky andwich filling?
2 Snowy peak,
3 Sunny note?
7 Throw high,
9 Lathe,
11 Sack,
18 Alling.
13 Crime,
10 It's golden,
tive was: An offensive against Prince Boun Oum. Chlet of 18 Not a loud call? the rebels and othieving penes, the Vientiane Government, has 10 Quanlity, "This was Ansible and is still agreed In principle to take (20 Cake from France, fensible," the defendant told the port In a "ummit meeling" 23 Not now, here with Prince Souvanna 24 Saresam,
court.
He then ald that in Phouma, leader of the neutralist 25 Fraction. opinion the three main causes Laotian faction, and Prince Souphanouvong, leader of the the night of April 20/20 were pro-Communist Laotian faction.
of the uprising's collapse on
the following:
Tho mony
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, "lukewarm" the Cambodian Chief of State elements hesitating to alde with told
reportera here today.-- the insurgenta,
Beuter.
5 Gleam,
6 Author (two words),
8 Foreign letter,
10 Chum,
13 Short man!
14 Be contrile,
10 Slow,
17 Imprison,
18 Deceive,
21 Man of sk!!! 22 Driving support.
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