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an intimate Of President Poincare's =
end il Bolo could show friendship for
Monier 1t might be assumed that he
was on good terms with the President
Of the republic.
To the intrepid Leon Daudet, editor
of the Paris daily, "L'Action
Francaise" is due a large part of the
credit for the bringing to Night the
treason plot against France. Daudet
began openly with the death in
prison OF Miguel Almeyreda, editor
of the Bonnet Rouge" This paper
was the organ of the anarchists of
France. and it was pretty definitely
settled that It was financed by Bolo
with German money. This paper was
to stir up unrest in the army and
with the civil population to the end
that a peace could be demanded by
the government.
This Miguel Almeyreda was simply
the tool of the ringleaders. When
IL became too warm for them it was
determined to sacrifice AImeyreda.
who knew too much, and he was ar
rested charged with "communica ting
with the enemy" At the same time
DuYal the financial manager of
Bonnet Rouge" was arrested be-
cause of cheque traced to him from
Germany, it was charged. Almeyreda
was sent to the prison of La Sante
and there complained of being i'll.
He was transferred to the prison
inhrmaTy at Fresnes and shortly
after it was announced that he had
IaN
the south Of France at that time,
but his partner, Charles Maurras.
commented on The death of Almey-
reda and hinted that there was a
mystery. This the censors would not
permit to be printed.
Then Daudet hurried back to Paris
and wrote an article for his paper,
declaring that Almeyreda had COM
mitted suicide in prison because he
had been ill-treated and harassed
there. The government-Painlev
was premier then and Malvy was
minister of the interior. which de-
partment controls the police and Sc
cret service in France-refused TO al
low this accusation to be printed In
stead, a statement was prepared and
sent to the press. attested by the
prison physician at Fresnes, that AL
meyreda had not committed suicide
that he. the physician, was with him
when he died and that death was
from natural causes.
The finesse of Daudet was shown
in this connection later. He never
had an idea that Almeyreda had
killed himself, but he used that ac-
cusation as a method of getting the
government on record in the case,
which he did. Having got this
statement OF the government Dau-
det announced his real thought,
which was that Almeyreda had
neither killed himself, nor had he
died natural death. The unfor-
tunate man had been murdered,
charged Daudet, while in prison
because he knew too much. He
went further and openly charged
MaIVy. the minister of the interior,
and the man responsible for the
conduct OF the prisoners, with hav-
ing instigated the murder, Daudet
then wrote a letter to the president
OF the republic, reiterating the
charges which his newspaper was
to print and this letter
was, naturally, given to the prem
ier. PainleYe.
Painleve had nothing to do now
except call upon Daudet to subsran-
tiate his charges. Also Capt. Bou-
the Investigator for the
military court, took a hand and
Daudet welcomed the chance to an
pear before him.
The upshot of this was a compIete
somersault by the government, which
declared that there was no truth in
the Daudet murder charge because
1t was true that Almeyreda had COM
mitted suicide in the prison at Fres-
mes! He had strangIed himself with
bootlace, the statement explained.
Now, mark this; there was no effort
made to explain the statement of the
physician that he had been with AL
meyreda when he died and that death
was from natural causes. That phase
was passed serenely over-except by
Daudet.
Then came Malvy's resignation and
demand from him that he be tried
by high court to prove to the world
MS innocence, he said. The high
court is composed of eleven members
OF the Parliament and Daudet charged
that Malvy felt certain that, his. poll
tical friends being in the ascendency
in the chamber of deputies, a white
wash court would be appointed. The
French papers opposed to the govern