Rebel Generals Still Missing

Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 15

Rebel Generals Still Missing

(N.Z.P.A -Reuter—Copyright) PARIS, May 2. Police have made 350 arrests in France and hundreds of searches in the wake of the abortive four-day generals’ insurrection in Algeria, the Minister of Information, Mr Louis Terrenoire, said yesterday.

Speaking in Paris after attending a meeting of key Ministers, presided over by General de Gaulle, he said the police operations continued and that swift justice would be meted out to the guilty. Mr Terrenoire also announced that Air Force Genera) Jean Nicot. whose “fortress arrest" was announced on Sunday night, was suspected of “having facilitated the departure from France of ex-Generals Challe and Zeller”—two of the leaders of the revolt. General Maurice Challe is held in the Sante prison in Paris, but General Andre Zeller, with his colleagues. Generals Edmond Jouhaud and Raoul Salan. is still missing. President de Gaulle, still under heavy guard in case of attempts on his life, is believed to be planning a Cabinet reshuffle. In this he would make Mr Roger Frey Minister of the Interior, with control of the police and riot squads. Mr Frey, at present an official of the Prime Minister’s Office, played a key part in balking the threat of paratroop invasion. In Algeria a French Army lieutenant was shot dead and 32 persons were injured, two seriously, in three separate incidents today. The officer was killed when a gunman opened fire in an Oran street. Five persons

were injured when a grenade was thrown into a cafe tn the city. The other 27 were injured when a grenade exploded near a bar in Constantine.

In Algiers, about 1000 armed police made a surprise search of the university buildings as part of their hunt for illegal arms and missing leaders of the abortive revolt.