Follower of the Tiger Defeats the Communists Paris, Feb. 15, A very interesting election took place yesterday at Belfort, where Andre Tardieu, a former lieutenant of M. Clemenceau, was returned, defeating Socialist and Communist, candidates, 'M. Tardieu, who did not return te public life after his defeat at the general election of 1924, carried on a whirlwind campaign at Belfort, which was a stronghold of the Left Bloc. M, Tardieu championed the malcontents, it is reported, and declared that he opposed the Locarno Treaty on the ground that it gave Great Britain control of] Europe and would push _back France from the Rhine—Reuter,
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