CROIX DEFEU LEADER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 17 November 1937, Page 10

CROIX DEFEU LEADER

CKOi’ OF Fit;Fl, ACTION'S nurcoMK ok ciiargls I United Press \ssoeia.l ioti Tel m :i nli - I 'opvriuht I PA MIS. lath November. Colonel de la Moeipie. former leader ol the Croix tie Ken. lias begun fifteen libel ael ions against edilm's and others responsible on Die stall's ol' Ihe newspapers widen allegedlv published defamatory articles, charging him with accepting seei'el funds Irom the Government. A diamatie episode oecurred last month in the Lyons Civil Court durum; a slander action against Colonel do la Moepue by the One Po/./.o di Borgo. one of his t'liief lieutenants in building up the Croix de Ken (Fascist > movement. The Due di Borgo alleged that de ia Rorque accused him of making false charges after the publication of an article in which the Due di Rorgo declared that de la Rorque received money from the Government secret funds. The former Premier. M. Tardieu. caused a sensation by staling in evidence that when he was Premier he regularly subsidised de la Rorque from Ihe Secret Service funds. De la liocque received I lie funds on the ground that he required them to intensify recruiting for the Croix de Feu and to start a national volunteer movement. De la Rorque. In evidence, sairi he received no money Irqm !Yl. Tardieu. Colonel de la Rorque was lined 1100 francs and ordered to pay the Due Po/./.o di Borya .TOO francs, damages.