BOULANGER'S FLIGHT.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7279, 8 April 1889, Page 5

BOULANGER'S FLIGHT.

V [per press association.] Received April 6th, 10 a.m. Paris, April 5. The Procureur's indictment against General Boulanger recites the particulars of his career in Tunis, his machinations to obtain the position of Minister, the circumstances under which he was compelled to retire from the .army, and his complicity with the proceedings of the Patriotic League. The Government intended to arrest him whU.6 leaving his home on Tuesday morning, and had told off twenty police commissionaires for the duty, but Boulanger waa warned in time, and escaped at two o'clock in the morning. Received April 7th, 6.30 p.m. Paris, April 6. A manifesto, published by General Boulanger, declares that the indictment brought against him by M. Grevy, the Procureur General, is a tissue of falsehoods. He admits that his desire is to wrest .the Jfc_epublic of France from the hands of those who are degrading and ruining France. The Premier of Belgium intimates that should Brussels be made a centre of agitation he will expel General Boulanger from the country. Received April Bth, 1 am. Paris, April 6. The Government have ordered the arrest of General Boulanger, should he return to France. In his second manifesto the General says that the indictment accuses him of frequent instances of sedition previous to entering tho Ministry, therefore his colleagues were culpable of condoning the offence. He expresses himself confident that the nest general election will place him at the head of the nation. Paris, April 7. M. Naquet, member of the Senate, and a colleague, were acquitted on a charge of belonging to a secret society, and 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 Boulanger." A decree making the Senate a High I Court of Justice for the trial of cases in which accused are charged with conspiracy against the State will be submitted to the Senate on Monday. :