PLOT AGAINST FRANCE

Chronicle (Levin), 1 July 1947, Page 5

PLOT AGAINST FRANCE

Press Assn.

Police Nip Secret Move In " Bud

3y Telegraph

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LONDON, Jqne 30. - A French. news agenpy has annqunceq L,kat detectiyes, attgr seyergl mqnths -nvestigation, disepyerpd dqpijments at a. private estfite in Brittauy disclpsjjig ' a plwt aimed at pvqrthrowing thp Regubltpan regime and rpplacing it with an organisation qt clictatpfihl tend,encies. ' ' This is reported by the Associ.at.eu Fress correspondent at Rans xyho'addeci that t)ie dqcuments claimed to. provt that action was eontempifttfid fqr Jjxl} Against Paris and. itS ipogt importani strategic pqinfs, ipclnding pqst Qffipes and Fresnes prison which, "since 1944nas hpused arrpsted collabqratqrs, The documents listed members of a new directory type of goyqrnmpnt as well as draft laws and regulations foi jinmediate promulgatiop. The news ageney spid the police searched the hoiue of an organiser oi

war veterans at Lamballe ahd iater ar rested him. The "soul of the plot? is reported to be a foriuer ofiicer f'riend of Alarshal __Petain. Seyoral civilian and military personalities are impb' cated. The British United Press correspond ent at Paris, quoting-the French news age'ncy on the plot, says the plan was co sweep through Western France to 'Paris with- "folk commandos," follow ed by divisions of insurgents, two oi which were to be l.uobilised in Rennes and Vannes. The Assoeiated Press quotes a report from Rennes tliat the veterans' chair man who was arrested in conneetion | with the' plot was De Vulpian, aged 47. who is also editor of the weekly news paper France Vivant. The report adds thht a friend of Marshal Pc-tain was also arrested. Tlie Assoeiated Press learns seinr officially that the others arrested in eluded four French generals and several civiiians. All concerfied in the plot were well-known Riglitists. Genoral dc Gaulle's "Rallv of.-'ithe French Peo ple", was nqt involved, The British United lb-ess correspqnd ent at Paris say the police have jssue.l tlie names of four of the arrested per sons. They aro C'ount De Yulpiaji. General Guillodit, an Inspector-Genera) of Gendarmerie, M. Goorge Lousteneau Lacau, who wels arrested at his estatc in Houthern France and stated to hayc been once accused in conneetion with pvewar cagoulards (extremo Righl organisation whose members. worihoods). and Mare Jacquo't, a Paris wine merchant.