Paris Headquarters For Tshombe

Press, Volume C, Issue 29690, 7 December 1961, Page 17

Paris Headquarters For Tshombe

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

PARIS, December 5. While fighting raged in Elisabethville, President Tshombe was today in “remote control” of the battle from an office in the fashionable Trocadero quarter of Paris. Mr Tshombe told journalists the gendarmerie and the Katanga people would “fight to the bitter end” against United Nations “interference.” He said: “The United Nations attacked our forces.” Mr Tshombe, calm amid the feverish activity at the Katanga mission headquarters in Paris, spoke to Elisabeth ville repeatedly by telephone and telex, and lun-hed with a transistor radio beside him broadcasting news bulletins Then he called on jourua lists to tell them a United Nations claim that a Katanga battle plan” had been aptured was “false” and was made in an attempt “to justify the action which the United Nations wanted to undertake” Mr Tshombe later announced he would return to Elisabethville because of the

tense situation in Katanga. The Congolese Foreign Minister (Mr Justin Bomboko) arrived in Paris today from Leopoldville to attend the Ministerial conference of the European Common Market and its overseas associates but he said he would not meet Mr Tshombe.