Catoctin clarion., 1918-06-20
PARIS puts BAH
ON WAR EljMIDf:o'
Police MerciIessly Hunt for Cos
sip Mongers Who Tell Wild
Stories oi Conflict.
SOCIALIST EDITOR SEIZED
Defeated SchooIteacher EcW Faces
Court-martal for Her WritinCs--,
Wealth or Influence Cannot
Shield the Guilty.

Paris.-It was a fumous French pSy-
chOloeist who said recently that runner
was one of the evils, among others,
If all wars and especially CT this one.
He pointed out that rum0rs were rs
bad and sometimes did as much BARN
as the worst Of enemy pyopagandiStS.
The truth Of his ideas has apparently
Impressed the prefcct of police, WHO
has begun mcrciless hunting down OF
all gossip mongers and rumor dis
pensers.
The project has decided to take dras-
tic measures to stop unth!nl;ing chat-
ter In public places and the spreading
of alarming reports and dcfeniiSl Ol!h'
ions. A warning issued the other day
points out that henceforth any person,
no matter how respectable he may be,
will be arrested and taken to the near
est police station if he forgets himself
TO the extent of talking not wisely but
too well.
The warning had hardly been posted
when the roundup began to show re.
brought before the local cumni%>nirei
to explain their individual acts of i''
discretion. There We're some whose
sole ofrense, according to their cN,'ir
nations, was that they had merely SAID
they knew friend whose con.
cicrge had been tolG by the post ca!Hor
that on the day after tomorrow the Go
thas would surely carry out a terrible
raid on Paris,
Wild Theory About Big Cans.
Others were certain, and let ii he
known quite loudly on the terraces OF
the cafes, that the cannon Wli' h re-
Gently bombardcd Paris was really not
at all as far away as the authorltit:
announced it to be. They were sure
that somewhere not far from fArlS,
hidden in a forest We're u number OF
ordinary small-caliber cannon which
had been conserved in duguutS since
the battle of the Marine and We're sud
denly put into action by Il hatt%ry al
German prisoners Who had cScapI1
from the camps IN France.
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information dropped ind.acr"ot!y hy
some wcll-meuniug persons have been
found to prove II source Of pElr"nc an
noyance to the government Nu,Euriti"2
and have r,ultcd IN immense harm.
Perhaps the mos s"n'ati"nN nrr"t
under this new cdjct, althoG-h vii't
ally made as the result oi II law pan>r1
on August 3, 1914, was lhHt OF Charles
Leon RappOpurt, one oi the "'i ,rrH
La Ncritc and lie Journoi du rtUMl
and a member nf the administrative
committee Of the unified socialist par
ty. Rapp0port was taking refuge ID
n cellar during an air raid. WAR hJ
were IL number of women and r"n
dwellers in the same house. Accord
ing to n SchOolteaChor who heard hlIur
Rappoport was directing many dcr"gt
tory remarks against the guvcrume!a
and the army. The teacher reported
what he had heard To the prcfrct oi
police, who ordered the arrest of the
socialist.
Woman Teacher Faces Trial.
Aitbf numerous lnltIIhSdlIbIlS ny
the military and police authorities,
Rappoport was locked up in the SaniG
prison, where Bolo was detained and
CaillauX and Senator liullhert are i'm
prisoned, as well ns the latest arrival,
Nile Helen Brion, the dcfeatiI
sChUulteachcr who faces urt-nartial
for her writings. Rarrupurt'S arrest
created much comment IN all The hcWs.
papers, particularly in the radical and
socialist press.
The press Of this waeh, to say nu!h'
ing of the wholesale dctcntiOnS, contiC.
tions and arrests OF the last few
months, is bringing home to tha
people more clearly the determination
of the government to rid the country
If its opponents ard enemies.
One thing has certainly become very
clear and that is that the prominence
of Il man or his wealth and political
influence in no way cause him to be
invulnerable against charges of inter-
fcring with the successful prosecution
of the war. Premier Clemenceau's de.
cision is that no one shall be spared
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