New Britain herald., 1918-08-07
MALVY EXILED FOR
 PRO-HUN ACTIVITY
Former Minister Of Interior
 BaniShed for Five Years,

Paris, Aug. 7.--Ltouis J. Malvy for mer minister of the interior, was found guilty late yesterday of hold ing communication with the enemy and was sentenced to five years ban ishment, The sentence does not carry civic degradation.
 The French senate. sitting as the high court in executive session, by a vote of 1O1 to S1, reached an af- tirmative decision on the question whether malteasance in office had taken place.
 The judgment of the court will be carried out as soon as the minister of justice is formally notified of the verdict Malvy will have the choice of the frontier by which he will leave France, and will be conducted thither by police inspectors. The former minister forfeits his seat as a mem- Der of the chamber of deputies as conseQuence of his condemnation.
 The sentence of five years banish- ment is the minimum for the offense under the penal code.
 When Joseph Cail1aux, former pre-
 
 the interior or of the treasury, Louis J. Malvy was always found to be his right-hand man holding an under secretaryship. It was so at the time of the Agadie crisis, which almost brought war With Germany in 1911.
 After the master left political fife for a time in the spring before the war on account of his wife having killed M Calmette of the Figaro, Nal wy was left in charge of his political fortunes and, through the still pow erful influence of the absent one, was made minister of the interior in the war cabinet of Viviani, in the coal- tion cabinet of Briand, and in the centralized cabinet of Ribot
 In July, 1917, M. Clemenceau, who later was made premier principally for the purpose of vindicating his charges, began his campaign against the De featists," the Bonnet Rouge gang. in cluding Duval who was executed on July 17: Bolo Pasha, who was execut- ed April 17, and Caillaux whose trial was voted for by the Chamber on Dec 22, and whose operator were reveal ed in the intercepted Bernstorff dis patches on the 16th of the following January.
 Malvy, as Minister of the Interior, had charge of the national police, and after the revelations of July, 1917, it was charged that the police had not pursued the "Defeatists'' as they should have done. Moreover. the mili- tary police complained that they were often thwarted by the national branch of the service. Aside from the alleged present delinquencies, Clemenceau in his L'Homme Enchaine and Leon Dandet in L'Action National, revealed the past relations between Cai1laux and Malvy.
 The latter resigned from the Ribot Cabinet on Aug. 31, 1917, declaring that he would vindicate his honor. He had proceeded to do this in the press when M. Clemenceau became Premier on Nov. 16. Thcn things began to happen in the shape of the arrest and indictment of the "Defeatists'' who were all tried and convicted by Mill tary courts, save Caillaux who awaits trial. Amid this confusion Malvy pe- titioned for trial before the high court of Justice.
 Before this court his trial began on July Is, the charge being high trea- son and having communicated with the enemy. JnG prosecutor hndllY withdrew the charge of treason, while still maintaining the prisoners guilt in communicating with the enemy and of encouraging or nurturing Defeat ism to the extent of being responsi- ble for certain cases of mutiny and assertion.
 Malvys defense was simple. He was aware of the "Defeatest" propa- ganda, but did not wish to interfere and so em barrass the Government with what he felt sure could amount to nothing. His seeming laxity had been merely a blind to encourage traitors to hang themselves. In his defense, for mer Prcmiers Viviani, Briand and Ribot, and Ribots successor, Painleve, testified.
 It is most unusual, if, indeed, it has ever happened, for the high court of justice so composed to inflict the ex- treme penalty on a former Deputy or Senator, and Malvy was a Deputy from the Department of Lot One Army.