J"LAction Francaise," "the Royalist organ, and M, Joseph Delest, manager fof that paper, appeared in' cou day charged' with "ineitemen murder" as the result of articles directed against M. Leon Blum, the Socialist leader and probable next Premier of France.
'After a short hearing, M. Ma: trras Iwas sentenced to eight months' imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of 200 francs while M, Delest_ was fiven eight days with the bennett of the First Offenders' Act, which, bow-ever, was not extended to his companion—Reuter.
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