RETURN OF COMMUNISTS TO PARIS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3025, 7 March 1881, Page 4

RETURN OF COMMUNISTS TO PARIS.

The last and final contingent of amnestied Communists has now returned to Paris from Caledonia to swell the ranks of the Revolutionary party. They arrived in two batches and on both occasions stirring incidents took place. The first batch, to the number of twenty odd, reached the Montparnasse Kailway Station early on January 8. Among them was Trinquet, the coblcr, whose attitude beforo the court-martial, his attempt to escape from the convict settlement, and his recent illegal election at Belleville, have transformed him into a Revolutionary hero. The meeting between Trinquet and his wife was most affecting. Both nearly fainted from emotion. After tho usual' greeting, the returned Insurrectionists and their friends withdrew to a neighboring wine shop where relief was distributed by the Communist Committee. In the evening Trinquet attended a meeting at Belleville, where he was at once proclaimed honorary chairman, and a gigantic red nosegay was presented to him in the midst of cries of " Vive la Commune, " "Vive la Revolution. " The Revolutionary coblcr spoko as follows :— " Citizens, I am a partisan to the backbone of the Social Revolution. I did my duty, in 1871, for tho emancipation of tho Proletariat. Ten years of imprisonment and suffering have not cooled or diminished my ardour. I belong to the cause of the people. So long as I have any blood in my veins I shall not forget tho tortures to which I have been subjected, and when tho day of revenge comes I shall be in your midst." The second batch of the amnestied entored Paris at daybreak on January 9. There wore about two hundred and fifty of them. M. Clemenceau was again in waiting at the station. This time he was accompanied by M. Louis Blanc. A small group of journalists and Communists, including Louiso Michel, completed tho attendance. Several touching scenes occurred as ' tho returned from New Caledonia alighted from the train and met their families. Relief was at once distributed to them by tho two Committees got up for that purpose. M. Louis Blanc, after his proteges had partaken of a substantial repast, made a short speech to them. Ho said :—" It is with deep emotion that I congratulate yoir on your return. Wo have shared your sufferings for a long time, but we hare done everything to bring your trial

to an end. At length the day has come, and I salute it. We are now re-united together, and wo must endeavor to make the Republic bear the fruit which wo have a right to expect from it." —European Mail.