FRENCH TRAITORS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1919, Page 3

FRENCH TRAITORS.

LENOIR SHOT, CAILLAUX ON TRIAL. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) | AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] PARIS, October 24. [President Pbincaire refused, to reprieve Lenoir, who l was shot at Vincennes. He had to be carried to tbe place of execution. Doctors previously examined hm and declared that his paralysis was only the paralysis of fear. Caillaux’s trial has begun before the Senate, sitting as a High Court, on a charge of plotting against the exterior security of the State. There was an impressive silence when Oaillaux rose, and delivered a calm, dignified speech, in which he declared that the accusations revolted his conscience. During twenty years of public life his only thought was his country’s good. He was now ready to vindicate his conception of France as a pattern for young democracies and also ready to refute the testimony of the swindlers, adventurers, an'd spies, who alone opposed him. The Cburt refused Caillaux’s applied tion for a provisional release, with a view of contesting the elections, and adjourned the trial till January 14t1i., when two-thirds of the Senate will be re-elected.