MILITARY ORDERS LOST.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 August 1925, Page 9

MILITARY ORDERS LOST.

FALL INTO WRONG. HANDS. A new decision of the French Government to take stronger measures against the “Communist peril"’ has been forced on by the Communists themselves. What is called “the last straw” is the sequel to the divulging by the Communist deputy, M. Doriot, in the Chamber, of a private letter written oy M. Vatin Perignon (Marshal Lyau‘‘•ey.’s civi] secretary in Morocco) to. M. P.ierre Lyautey, the Marshal’s nephew, iii Paris. M. Vatin Perignon had to resign his post in consequence of a slighting reference to a Spanish action in Morocco contained in the letter.

M. Pierre Lyautey has taken proceedings against M. Doriot, in connection with the latter’s possession of a private letter addressed to the former, and the affair is in the hands of the iudge d’instruction. ' In a domiciliary search in the flat rented by M. Doriot’s mother-indaw, the police are stated to have seized a number of documents —rincluding service telegrams exchanged among officers enghged in the Moroccan campaign. These, it is churned, M. Dorict had no right to possess. “THEFT OF MILITARY PAPERS.” The Public Prosecutor lias lodged a fresh complaint against M. Doriot. for stealing military documents. M. Doriot, having acknowleged that these papers were in his possession, the Public Prcs'jmitor will, on the p’aipt of the Minister of War, have now to consider whether judicial proceedings will not be taken against M. Doriot (who, ■is an M.P., should enjoy the usual immunities). If the reply is “in the affirmative” the Chamber will be asked to authorise the suspension of the Communist Dcntitv’s Parliamentary immunity from arrest. It is stated that M. Marty, Communist, member for the Seine-et-Oise Department, will be included in the motion of “leave to prosecute,” in consequence of an article by him which recently appeared in a Soviet publication in France, which is said to have “incited soldiers to disobedience.” HOW DID THF, MAILS GO ASTRAY? Questioned by the judge d’instruction, M. Doriot protested against the domi•iliary search. He declined to state who communicated the military documents to him. As for the Vatin Perignon letter, ho admitted that the original was still in bis possession. He had found it among his mail at the offices of the “Humanitc,” but the sender was not known to him. Meanwhre the Communists are continuing their propaganda with increased vigour. At a. mass meeting at Bordeaux a protest was entered against the Morocco campaign. M. Marty declared that the twentysix Communist deputies would persist : n their attitude, and were prepared to undergo penal servitude. At Dcuarnenez, in the Finisterre Department. Communist bills have been posted on the monument to those who fell in the war. At Lvons. a dealer has been arrested, accused of inciting soldiers to disobey their officers.