MAGAZINES TORN UP.
SELF-APPOINTED CENSOR
(by cable—press assoriatiok—copyright.) (Sydney "Sun" Service.)
PARIS, February 6
Arrested for the sixth time for attacking bookstalls in front of the Follies Bergere and tearing up magazines containing pictures of nude people, a parish priest, named Bethleem, accompanied by a gendarme ivhom the bookstall keeper summoned to arrest the priest, explained that he intended to force the authorities to realise the existence of scandalous publications. He added that the law called on all citizens to denounce offences r.jrainst the social order. Thus far th« law has taken the priest !e«5 seriously than he lias taken the law. He wn.s again discharged with a caution.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 8 February 1927, Page 9
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