DRAMATIC SURRENDER
DAUDET SUBMITS TO POLICE ANSWER TO PREFECT’S PLEA ONLOOKERS MADE TO WEEP By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received June 14, " p.m. Paris, June 13. The surrender of Daudet, who was wanted by the police for imprisonment for libelling a taxi-driver, was most dramatic. A procession of motor-cars drove through the police cordon to Daudet’s office, which had been barricaded against the police. M. Chiappe, 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. Chiappe 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 boy.” 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.. I know the forces behind me do not wish to cause bloodshed or cause civil war. I surrender.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1927, Page 7
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164DRAMATIC SURRENDER Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1927, Page 7
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