FRENCH ANARCHY.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17939, 6 December 1923, Page 9

FRENCH ANARCHY.

PHILIPPE DAUDET'S DEATH. (by cable— pbess association—copibight.) (australian and n.z. cable association.) PARIS, December 4. "With a view to clearing up the mystery of the death of Philippe- Daudet, his father has made a formal charge against an unknown person of murder by suggestion. Tho police are investigating the charge. The body is to be exhumed. M. Vidal, editor of the anarchist journal "Libertaire," now states that he is convinced the lad intended to kill his father, and later, becoming normal, realised the wickedness of this, and decided to kill himself instead. M. Vidal protests against the suggestion that, impelled by desire for revei:-go> on the father, ho hypnotised young Daudet, and then .'induced him to write a farewell letter to his mother and 6hoot himself. Tito affair is creating a sensation in France, and the newspapers are devoting columns to it. ROn October 25th, Philippe D-.uidet, the 15-your-cld son of 31. Leon Daudet. tho Royalist leader and director of the newspaper "Action I'rancaise," was found ciead in a taxi-cab with a Revolver bullet in liis head. It was generally assumed that the lad had committed suicide, but, following a statement by the anarchist journal "Libertaire" that PKilippe, before talcing Ids life, had enrolled as a member of the «inarchist party, the father came to the conclusion that his son had been'assassinated. Last January Maurice Plateau, secretary of "Action Francaise," was shot while in his office by a giri named Germaine Bernthon. According to "Libertaire,'.' Philippe visited the office of that journal, and offered, without revealing his identity, to avenge Mile. Bernthon in the event of her conviction.]