LEON DAUDET.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19813, 28 December 1929, Page 13

LEON DAUDET.

AMNESTY TO .BE GRANTBO. (UKITKR r**at ** MUMMM T*i.a«a*.m -comoMt.) (Received December t7th, 9M p*} V'ABIS, DMtKhn IT. Leon Daudet, who **• exiM I® gium f«ir three year*, will eaUbwrte *b* New Year at hi* Faria home. The Ttrdleti Gorernmnil '!>•• i»iil*l him an amnraly on hi« tm eriminal libel, ant) his rack pa f*W» gaol in June, IM7. [ln December, 1W23, Philip** the fifteen jear old *<•«» of Lam Dwad«t, a director of tl»«r- !«iy»ti»t pap*f '* L'Artion Franca iae," **• »k«t d»ai He w«> reported, to have joined an »a archiot aociety, and it *'*• alleged I i»»t the police had him removed a« a ilsn geroua poraon, putting forward i.l«* theov that Iks had ei.timnttrd a«n» Uia father denied that *•» an »n*reM»t, mod bitterly utta*k«*i <•>» police, accuatiig thrm of m»riirrii>g th« boy. Rajnt, the driver of th* cab »» which Fhilippe vii found «lif»t, aw*«l M. l>»udet for £2OOO damage for b*» tng lihetloijuly eocuaed him of e«-mpti* ity in the auppoaod crime. The f<«ut found I'mid* i guilty of criminal HW ; and auolMH-ed him to #\e month*' m» priounmr nt. An appenl wan l®ilg»d against 1 li<' aesteuce in r«-Bru*r*. I!*'* but wan diKinlwd,. In June. r'.'T. when culled upon to give lnn»»« ;f uj for imprisonment, l>au'). t barrleeAm! liiintK If in In* which **»«§■ ftif rounded by a bodyguard of »nwMl roy aliMn. Fne day* later hi' ettrreMlered to lh« poli' CTi. Juiiti -i! ti a B»y»iic« Israel i• at 1 joker, imitating il;i* \ oicm mi M. Hsrruuf, Mini«t<r for th<* Interior, telephoned to the prlata untli'Tittee ai»>i ordered Paudcl'a rcleaa*. Tl.« author ifica complied wiih f!»• aider and Dun det Ifft. I'iim j