Three Deputies Sentenced to Gaol for Anti-Militarism Paris, Mar. 31.
'The communists deputies, Marty, Di clos and Clamamus have been sentenced to four years, three years' and two years' imprisonment, spectively, and two other cents buters of the newspaper Humani ha Wye been fined in connexion with anti-militarist articles appearing in that paper.
Marty, whose parliamentary immunity lapsed with Parliament so-ing into recess last June, already in the Santo Prison, where he has been confined since August.
Duclos, who is missing, has a previous sentence hanging over him.
The reply of the French Government to the United States Government regarding the proposal for a multilateral pact to outlaw war has been bandad to the United States Secretary of Sate, Mr. F. Kellogg.
The Note agrees that the Government of Franco shall join the Government of the United States in communicating to the German, British, Italian and Japanese Governments the whole of the correspondence between France and the United States regarding the out lowry of war, The Foreign Minister, M. Briand, in waiving limitation of the scope of the pact to wars of aggression, stipulates that the pact must be universal and if one of the signa. tories does not heap faith, all the others must be released from their engagement towards the breaker, Renunciation of war shall not exclude the right of a signatory to legitimate defence, The pact shall not replace or detract from anterior obligations such as the League of Nations Covenant, the Locarno Agreoments and neutrality guara antee treaties. The pact shall not operate until it is universally ace copted, unless the participants otherwise agree, providing the abstaining States are not exposed to the possibility of political conflict with any of the contracting States.—Reutor,
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