STATE SECRETS
REVEALED BY NEWSPAPER
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
FRENCH GOVERNMENT’S ACTION
BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGH'J Received Dtec. 31. 10.50 a.m. PARIS’ Dec. 30. In the Chamber of Deputies, in' answer to an interpellation regarding the prosecution of the newspaper Eclair, the Minister for Justice, defending the Government’s action, declared that the only restrictions on the liberty of the Press applied to secret documents concerning the external safety of the State., He asserted that incriminating documents similar to those discovered in the Eclair office came from the archives of the public administration. The Government would have full light 'thrown on the affair, and whoever was responsible for the leakage would be struck down, however highly placed. The debate was adjourned.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 December 1924, Page 5
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119STATE SECRETS Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 December 1924, Page 5
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