VIGOROUS DEPUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 143, 20 June 1927, Page 7

VIGOROUS DEPUTY.

" Wanted " Communist Suddenly

Appears.

APPEAL AGAINST SENTENCE.

PARIS, June 10.

Great surprise was caused at a meeting of Communists in Paris?. M. Caehir. was speakinpr when in walked a Communist member of the Chamber of Deputies, M. Doriot, who had been niiss-

When the commotion had subsided M. Cachin finished his speech. He claimed an amnesty for deputies against whom proceedings had been instituted.

M. Doriot had last been'heard of. in Moscow. He was sentenced ia bis absence last year to 18 months' imprison ment on a charge of anti-militarist propaganda in connection with the war in Morocco.

M. Dorio still has a right to appeal to the Court. There is another prosecu tion pending against him for alleged treasonable conduct and speeches while he was on a visit to China.

M. Doriot took off his coat, rolled up his sbirt-sleevus, and, amid prolonged cheering, dealt with the Chinese revolution and the syndicalist movement.

Prior to this there had been a debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the subject of the order which had been issued for the arrest of M. Doriot. There was .in atmosphere of tension, owing to a rumour that the member referred to would make a dramatic entry, but he did not appear.

The debate in the Chamber followed the decision of M. Barthoti, Minister of Justice, that M. Doriot should be arrested immediately he returned to France. This decision was nullified by the announcement that M. Doriot had exercised his right of appeal.

Further action was therefore sue ponded.—(A. and N.Z und Svduey "Suii.")