MADMAN WITH SABRE
SCENE IN FRENCH ASSEMBLY “ DESCENDANT OF JULIUS C/ESAR " (Rec. 12.J0 p.tn.) LONDON, Dec. 27. A man brandishing a large sabre and yelling that he was a direct descendant of Jufius Caesar and Louis XVI., leapt from the public gallery of the Constituent Assembly on to the floor of the House just after the deputies this afternoon had granted themselves an increase in pay says Reuter’s Paris correspondent The police and deputies closed in and wrested the sabre from the man. who when taken to the police station, was able to talk only incoherent nonsense The police, after interrogation.' detained the interrupter in the prison infirmary.
The salaries of the members of the Assembly. si> the result of the rise voted, will in future be £730 a year instead of £SOO.
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Evening Star, Issue 25677, 28 December 1945, Page 5
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133MADMAN WITH SABRE Evening Star, Issue 25677, 28 December 1945, Page 5
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