THE HUMBERT CASE
CHARGE EQUIVALENT TO.
TREASON.
(Received February 21, 9 a.m.)
\ PARIS, 20th February. The charge against ex-Senator Humbert has been altered from trading with the enemy to intelligence with the enemy, a graver charge, equivalent to treason and punishable with death. The police visited the bank and opened Humbert's safe.
The French Senate decided early in December to suspend Parliamentary immunity in regard to the prosecution in the case of Senator Humbert, to enable the Attorney-General to prosecute him on a charge of trading with ths enemy in connection with the investments of M.M. Desouches and Lenoir in the. attempt to purchase Le Journal. Lenoir was formerly proprietor of Le Journal, and Desouches is a well-known solicitor. Both purchased shares in Le Journal. Humbert, a- director of the paper, was reported to have suspected that they were connected with, the enemy, and he.bought' them out with 8010 Pasha's money.,
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 45, 21 February 1918, Page 7
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