The Archive · 1908

ANTI-MILITARISM IN FRANCE

EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT

London vis Bombay, December 27.

Telegrams from Paris announce [hat M. Herve, the leader of the French anti-militarists, has been condemned to a year's imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 fra. [120] for libelling and insulting e Army and Navy.

M. Merle, manager of the "Jour nal de la Guerre Sociale", and M. Almereyda, a member of the staff of the same paper, have been condemned each to five years' imprisonment and fines of 3,000 fre. tu contumaciam.—Reuter.

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