SENSATION IN ASSEMBLY
(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 27. A man, brandishing a large sabre and yelling that he was a direct descendant of Julius Caesar and Louis XVI, leapt from a public gallery of the Constituent Assembly on to the floor of the House just after the Deputies had this afternoon 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 a prison infirmary. Salaries of members of the Assembly as a result of the rise will in future be £730 a year instead of £SOO. "••.'••■
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXVI, Issue 25, 28 December 1945, Page 5
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