FRANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1918, Page 5

FRANCE.

BONNET ROUGE CASE. ACCOMPLICES SENTENCED. ■ Paris, May 19. The sentences in the Bonnet Rouge case include Duval's accomplices. Marion was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, Goldsky to eight years, Jougla and Landau to five years, Bereasson to two years. Marion, Landau, and Goldsky were members of the Bonnet Rouge staff, and were charged with complicity ;n the dealings of Almereyda and Duval with the enemy. M. Leyemare, head of the Home Office and political police during M. Malvy's Home Secretaryship, was fined 1000 francs.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

Received May 17, 1.45 p.m. Paris, May 10. Leymarie was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in addition to a fine." ATTEMPTED AIR RAID ON PARIS. . Paris, May 16. Official.—The air raid alarm was given at 10 o'clock in the evening. The guns opened fire and°the defending aeroplanes ascended. No enemy machines reached Paris, but bombs were dropped in the suburbs. The signal "All dear" was given at midnight—Aus. N.Z Cable Assoc, and Beuter. YIELD FROM LUXURY TAX. _ , Paris, May 10. Contrary to the Government's estimate that the year's yield of the luxury tax would be 20 or 30 millions sterlimr, the rb-Bt month yielded only £600,000. Postibly the Easter eaodos accounts for the deficit.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.