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...inimitable, irrepressible, M. Léon Daudet, editor of the Parisian Royalist newspaper L'Action Française, escaped last week from the Prison Santé. He went there only after 3,000 policemen, firemen, soldiers, had overawed a band of his Royalists numbering 980, and forced him to submit to arrest (TIME, June 13 et seq.). It was a group of these keen-witted, although sometimes foppishly clad, Royalists who filched M. Daudet deftly out of jail last week and spirited him into hiding...
...bloodshed and trouble. I do not wish that others should feel the grief I have known. I surrender to the cry of Vive la France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank you, M. Daudet! I salute you!" Soon, one by one, the 980 Royalist youths who had stood ready to defend Editor Daudet filed out, were allowed to go unarrested. M. Daudet himself rode away with Prefect Chiappe in a limousine. They went first to Editor Daudet's house, picked up his wife (who is also his cousin) then motored to the Prison...
...hour of 1 p. m. approached last week, tout Paris kept an eager ear for news that policemen had swarmed over sandbags and barbed wire, rushed the "Camelots" and dragged a plump, irate editor to jail. Instead it was a group of Communists who first molested the Royalist premises...
...Soon a Royalist-Communist free fight with canes and hurtled rocks began. Because the office of L'Action Française is near the Station St. Lazare, many an arriving tourist thought that revolution had broken out in France. At last police reserves separated the combatants-though not until some 20 civilians and 10 policemen had received major bruises. All the while Editor Daudet stood at the window of his office, cheering on the "Camelots" hurling such epithets as "Pig-men! Assassins! Red-Snouters! Bandits! Jelly-Bellies!" at the Communists...
...Polish Government suppressed Novaia Rossia, placed the editor in jail. In London Lord Rothermere's violently anti-red Evening News declared: "The slain man (Vojkov) signed the death warrants of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family. By Vojkov's assassination at the hand of a royalist, retribution has come to one of the chief perpetrators of one of the foulest murders in history...