BOLOISM IN FRANCE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16141, 20 February 1918, Page 7

BOLOISM IN FRANCE.

* : _ FRENCH SENATOR ARRESTED. (Australian and. CnT)le Association.) PARIS, February 18. Senator Humbert has been arrested. M. Charles Humbert, Senator for the Meuse Department, recently resigns! his position as editor of the "Journal. ' It will be remembered, savs one of the latest London "Daily Telegraphs" to hand, that M. Humbert was on two successive occasions unlucky in his choice of financial backers for his newspaper. These were, first, Lenoir, and secondly 8010, and both are now awaiting trial on a chargo of trading with the enemy. Leave to prosecute Senator Humbert on a charge of complicity in tho above crimes lias hist been granted by the Senate, on tho application of the Public Prosecutor, who, in a severe indictment. expressed his strong belief that M, Humbert could scarcely have erred through ignorance, and that it was hardly creditable that he should not have suspected Lenoir's money and Bolo's money to be of enemy _ origin. After this, 3VI. Humbert's position in tho "Journal" was obviously impossible. Indeed, the whole staff of the newspaper threatened to resign if he did not. They had a meeting with M. Humbert, and put certain questions to him, to which his replies were not, in their opinion, satisfactory. Thereupon he or they had to go, and he lias gone. The "Journal" reverts to its former proprietor, M. Henri Letellier. What exactly is to become of the German jnonev put into the paper by Holo is not clear, for M. Humbert in resigning has shocked public opinion considerably by signing himself "Senator for Verdun." Jioloisni and Verdun should not be mentioned in tho same breath.