ROYALISTS IN PARIS
DEFENDING M. BAUDET
RESISTANCE TO POLICE
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) PARIS, 10th June. Amazing scenes were witnessed at the offices of the Royalist Leon. Daudet's newspaper, "L'Action Francaise." M. Daudet was due to surrender' to undergo imprisonment for libelling the driver of the taxi-cab in which his son. was found shot. He refused to go and said: "If the police want me they "must fetch me." Hundreds of Royalists were sworn iv to prevent Daudet's arrest. They surrounded the six-story building and began constructing barbed wire aud sandbag defences, while others, with their pockets bulging with revolvers, carried mysterious boxes, supposed to contain machine-guns, into the premises. "I am lighting for the honour of my son," said Daudet, addressing the crowd. "There arc thousands of resolute men at my back prepared to face death."
The siege was still iv progress late to-night, but there are no besiegers, the police not attempting to take the prisoner.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 9
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157ROYALISTS IN PARIS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 9
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