PARIS SIEGE
POLICE DEFIED SANDBAGS AND BARBED WIRE ONLY THE ATTACKERS MISSING (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Paris, June 10. Amazing scenes were witnessed at the offices of the Royalist Leon Daudet’s newspaper Action Francaise. Daudet was due to surrender to undergo imprisonment for libelling the driver of a taxicab in which his son had been found shot. He refused to go, and said, “If the police want me they must fetch me.” Hundreds of Royalists were sworn in to prevent his arrest. They surrounded the six storey building and began constructing barbed wire and sandbag defences, while others, their pockets bulging with resolvers, carried mysterious boxes, supposed to contain machine guns into the premises. “I am fighting for the honour of my son,” said Daudet, addressing the crowd. “There are thousands of resolute men at my back prepared to face death.” The siege was still in progress late tonight, but there are no besiegers, the police not attempting to take the prisoner.—A. and N.Z. DAUDET ISSUES BULLETIN. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Paris, June 12. Daudet is still defying arrest. He issued a bulletin this morning that he “passed a good night and is now taking cafe-au-lait.” His partisans caused a riot last evening, when the Royalists’ ironical cheering of their opponents led to a free fight with sticks and bludgeons, then the police were reinforced and arrived in a lorry and dispersed the rioters, twenty of whom were arrested.—A. and N.Z. and Sun.
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Southland Times, Issue 20202, 13 June 1927, Page 7
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244PARIS SIEGE Southland Times, Issue 20202, 13 June 1927, Page 7
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