Arizona republican., 1918-05-16
DIRECTOR BONNET ROUGE SENTENCED
 ID BE EXECUTED
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PARIS, May 15.-M. Duval, who was director of the suppressed Germano- phile newspaper, Bonnet Rouge, was condemned to death today by court martial for treason.
 The six other defendants were sen- fenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from two to ten years.
 Every decision of the court martial was voted unanimously.
 The trial of the directors of the Bonnet Rouge, a Paris evening news paper, closely following that of Bolo Pasha, who suffered the death pen atty for treason, attracted much at tention throughout the allied world and directed the eyes of France to a political situation that for years was a closely guarded secret.
 Was Started in 1914
 The Bonnet Rouge was started in the spring of 1914, and had as its edi- tor one Miguel Almereyda, against whose record was an arrest on charge of swindling.
 After the outbreak of the war there appeared a number of articles in the paper attacking the french high com mand. and when the articles were cut N--N paper as it appeared in Paris was above reproach, but copies containing the objectionable articles were sent out bv Underground" methods and dis tributed among the soldiers at the tront.
 Subsidized by Minister
 Soon after 1t was found that the Bonnet Rouge was subsidized by tht ministry of the interior. over which M Malvv presided. The paper was no suppressed until last summer. This event followed sensational encoun- ter in the chamber of deputies betweer NJ, Malvy and Maurice Barres, a dep uty.
 When Joseph's Caillaux's ministr. fell in 1918. Caillaux remained leadel of the radical socialists, the larges political party in France, and had therefore, much influence over Rem Viviani when the latter became pre- mier in 1913. When the Viviani cabi net was formed. Caillaux nominated M. Malvy as minister of the interior a post which is most important iron the political standpoint. M. Malv! held office on July last when, in tn chamber of deputies. M. Barres asked
 Bonnet Rouge Seoundrels
 What action does the minister O the interior intend to take agains those scoundrels of the Bonne Rouge"
 Malvy flinched. but did not reply. II the storm that followed, NJ. Ribot, thel premier. informed the house that check for S30.O00 had been seized ol tho person of NJ. Duval. manager O the Bonnet Rouge, when he was tryin; to cross the Swiss frontier.
 The next week NJ. Clemenceau mad a terrific attack on the whole govern ment, especially on the ministry of th interior, declaring that there had beel complicity with traitors in the minis try. That speech swept M. Clemencea' back itno power.
 Facts Become Known
 Gradually the facts in the Bonne Rouge case became known. It de veloped that the money was given N Duval by Herr Marx, a banker c Mannheim, for the purpose of financ ing the "defeatist" propaganda | France, in which M. Caillaux had been prime mover.
 Bonnet Rouge were shadowed by tn military police, ana then Almereyd was arrested. He died in prison unde circumstances pointing to suicide.
 In the meantime. the whole Ribc ministry had been swept out of offic and a series of arrests followed.
 only one of the principals in tn ease is still at liberty. He is NJ. Malv. who was able to secure a trial by tn high court instead of court martia