DAUDIT SURRENDERS
A DRAMATIC SCENE.
SPECTATORS WEEP. POLICE CHIEF’S APPEAL. iY CABLE- PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. PARIS, June 13. The surrender of Daudet, who was wanted by the polic-e for imprisonment for libelling a taxi-driver, was most dramatic. A procession qt motor-cars drove through the police cordon to Daudet’s office, which had been barricaded. against the police. M. Un.-a,.,,.. the new Prefect of Police, stepped up and shouted: .“I want to speak to Daudet!” whereupon the .Royalist leader appeared on the balcony, haggard and intensely fatigued. M. Ohiappe .said: “Daudet, lam speaking to you as man to man. You must surrender, .as the blood you may spill will not bring back life* to your bov.”
For a few moments both faced each other and hundreds Of' onlookers burst into tears.
Daudet replied: “Monsieur .le Prefect, you have used 'human language. X know -tilie for’ce’s.' tpeh.ind me do not wish to cause bloodshed or cause civil war. I surrender.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 June 1927, Page 5
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156DAUDIT SURRENDERS Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 June 1927, Page 5
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