Swift Action in France: Leaders Arrested Paris, July 24.
The Minister of Justice presided to-day at a meeting of high police and legal officials which discussed the preparations being made by the communists for demonstrations on August 1., The'meeting lasted for two hours,"
It was decided to indict 96 com-
[munists, who were arrested at Villeneuve on the 21st on a charge of menacing the security of the State. Seven magistrates immediately opened the inquiry with the result that the 96 accused were all sent to prison, Yesterday the police raided various. Jcommunist strongholds, seized a of documents and arrested leaders. The Seeretarygeneral Confederaion of Labour, Duvillieux, was also. arrested.
The police to-day made further raids on the homes of Communists, Among the persons arrested were Midd, Secretary of the Railwaymen's Union; Duteilleux, the secretary of the Confederation of 'Trade Unions; Gourdeaux, a member of the Council of the Gonfederation of Trade Unions; Maiziovesy secretary of the communist: organization; and Mathieu, secretary of the Meat, Workers' Union, The Communist newspaper "Ha-manito" loudly protests against the attempt to outlaw the Communist Party and urges resistance, Suly 25. terday afternoon the police some printing-works and seized a number of pamphlets im Russian, Polish and Hebrew dealing with the incitement of soldiers to disobedience, The headquarters of the Workers Peasants Bank was also raided and documents dealing with the relations existing between the bank and the Soviet seized.—Reuter,
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