"TEE RED CAP"

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3175, 28 August 1917, Page 5

"TEE RED CAP"

FRENCH NEWSPAPER' SENSATION INTRIGUE UNVEILED Paris, August 20. A surprising development has occurred in the 60-called "Lβ Bonnet Eouge" affair.'" AT. Almeryeda, the late editor of the "Bonnet Rouge" newspnper, who waa recently arrested on a charge of possessing a secret document, committed suicide mysteriously in prison. Many officials have been cashiered or reduced for negligence. M. Duvnl, manager of the "Bonnet Eouge," who was simultaneously arre3ted on the Swiss frontier on a charge of trading with the enemy, has since been charged with treasonable relations with the enemy. The police found a compromising cheque on Duval, and returned it to Duval after photographing it. Tho Chief of Police has now been, dismissed. The "Liberte" states that Almeryeda conferred in Switzerland with a notorious Austrian financier, Rosenberg, whose operations wero partly responsible for tho Second Balkan War.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ~,,,■ TThe Paris police recently raided the offices of a mysterious subsidised newspaper, called "Le Bonnet Rouge" ("The Bed Cap"), which was described by a correspondent of "The Times" as devoted equally to the pacifist propaganda and tho interests of M. Caillaux (an exPrime Minister), whose conduct during the Agadir crisis, when Franco-German relations wero strained, was unfavourably criticised.]