French Affairs

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 117, 9 April 1889, Page 2

French Affairs

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright, (PKB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Paris, April 5 M. Naquet, member of the Senate, and his colleague, were acquitted ou the charge of belonging to a secret society aud were condemned to pay a fine of 100 francs each for belonging to an illegal society. On the decision being announced there were triumphant cries of " Vive Boulauger !" The Goyernm«nt intended to arrest him while leaving his house on Tuesday inornlug and had told off 20 police com missionaries for the duty but Boulanger was warned m time and escaped at 2 o'clock in the morning. April 6. The manifesto published by General Boulanger declares that the indictment brought against him by M. Queeney, Procureur- General, is a tissue of falsehoods He admits that his desire ia to wrest the Eepubhc of France from the hands of those who are defrauding and ruining France. The Premier of Belgium intimates that should Brussels be made the cent:o of agitatien, he will expel General Boulanger from the country. The Government have ordered the arrest of General Boulanger should he return to France. In his second manifesto, the General says that the indictment at cusoß him of frequent lnstauo •» of sedition previous to entering the Ministry, therefore his colleagues were culpable of condoning his ofleuce. He expresses himself confident that the next general election will place him at the head of the nation. April 8. It has been decided to prosecute Comte Delhi, Henri Ruchefoit, und other adherei'ts of General Boulauger. It is reported that M. Tirard, the Premier bas demanded the expulsion of General Boulanger from Belgium. BRrfiS is A r '', General Boulanger, in the ouuise f an interview, stated that he anticipated that at fie next elections 70 departments would return his norai- i nees to the Chamber of Deputies. The General also expressed an opinion that ■he Senate would find him guilty of the charges now heing heard against him and sentence him to penal servitude for life in Ksw Qaledpsia-