FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
SENSATION IN FRANCE. ( ' BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— .'JOPYEIGHT Received Dec. 30, 10.40,a.m. PARIS, Dec. 29. A spectacular but fruitless search of the offices of Eclair followed the decision of the Government to prosecute Eclair for disclosing secret .documents of importance to national defence. The announcement raised a storm of protest on the part of almost the entire press. Maleche, president of. the Pai*is Press Association, has- written to the Premier protesting against a flagrant attack on the freedom of the Press. M. Herriot replied that journalistic indiscretions had several times hindered diplomatic negotiations, stating that Eclair’s publication of the abridged memorandum of the Chequers meeting involved both M. Herriot and Mr MacDonald, while General Nollet’s report, an especially confidential document, was not publishable without the consent of the Allied Governments.
Opposition newspapers prophecy that prosecution will mark the downfall of the Herriot Government.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 December 1924, Page 5
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