RELEASED FROM PRISON.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19150, 5 November 1927, Page 19

RELEASED FROM PRISON.

DEPUTIES ALLOWED VOTE UNUSUAL ACTION. (bt cable—press association— coptmoht.) (Sydney "Scn" Service.) (Received November 4th, 7.45 p.m.) PARIS, November 3. Immediately the Chamber reassembled after the vacation, the Communist, M. Garchery, moved for the release of the Communist Deputies, Cachin, Doriot, Marty, and Duclos, to enable them to attend their Parliamentary duties.

The Socialist, M- Barou, supported the motion, and declared that the Deputies owed duties to the electors, which they could not fulfil while in prison.

The Conservative, M- Maginot, said that it would be a disgrace if men convicted of encouraging soldiers to defy the Government's authority were not allowed to serve just sentences. The Ministerialist, M. Barthou, admitted that the Communists' anti-mili-tary propaganda was a national danger, but pointed out that their release did not commit tho Chamber to its approval of their action.

Tlie motion was carried by 264 votes to ?91.

The Deputies were freed within two hours after the utmost precautions against a repetition of the Daudet hoax.

[Leon Daudet, a director of the Royalist paper "Action Francaisei," was sentenced to five months' imprisonment for libel /in connexion with a statement made concerning his son's death. Daudet accused the police of murdering the boy as part of their campaign against the Royalists, and considerable feeling was aroused. When called upon to surrender to undergo imprisonment, Daudet barricaded himself in his offices and a bodyguard of armed Royalists surrounded the building. Bloodshed seemed probable, but .the Prefect of Police made a personal appeal to Daudet to surrender, which he did. A Paris message dated June 25th stated that a Royalist practical joker, imitating the voice of M. Sarraut, Minister for the Interior, telephoned to the prison authorities; and ordered the release of Leon Daudet. The authorities complied with the order, and Daudet departed from Paris. All Paris was laughing at the.hoax, which was declared to be a century's masterpiece of practical joking. It was also moat popular owing to the widespread resentment against „ Daudet's imprisonment. The inclusion of Seniart, who was also released, was regarded as a refinement of subtlety, doubling the embarrassment of the Government. The Paris correspondent of the "Sunday Express" Btated that M. Daudet was unaware of the hoax till the conspirator who acted as chaufjoked about the plot. M. Daudet, fearing that M. Catry would suffer, expressed a wish to return, but he was persnaded to go to a secret rendezvous to continue the fight against the Government.]