PREMATURE REVOLT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1942, Page 4

PREMATURE REVOLT

SUPPRESSED IN FRANCE . GENERAL’S IMPROVISED ATTEMPT. STRONG FEELING AGAINST NAZIS AND LAVAL. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 15. An attempt to set up a rebel army in formerly unoccupied France to fight the Axis is admitted” in a Vichy communique. It says: “General Lattre de Tassigny, commander of a military region, after learning that General Giraud had gone to' Africa, abandoned his post last Sunday and took several officers and men and two guns, intending to form a dissident unit in France. After moving about the country General Tassigny learned of the Government’s measures to preserve order and surrendeted to the police. General de Tassigny intended becoming Chief of the General Staff of the French rebel forces. He will be court-martialled. The Berne correspondent of the “New York Times” says reports from France indicate that General de Tassigny’s uprising was too improvised to be successful, but it appears that resistance against the German occupation is rapidly increasing throughout the country, also that a large part of the Army is deeply resenting Laval s insinuations against General Giraud s honour.