Show PARIS PUTS A BAN ON WAR RUMORS police mercilessly hunt for gossip mongers bongers who tell wild stories of conflict SOCIALIST ED EDITOR SEIZED defeated schoolteacher now facea F court martial for her ariti writings ggs wealth or influence cannot ahle shield ld the guilty paris it was a famous french fqy pi v ch who said recently that rumor was one of tile tho evils ainone others of nil wars annd especially of tills this one lie ile pointed out that rumors were is as ball bad and sometimes did as much harm harin as tile the worst of enemy propagandists the truth of ills hla Ideas has apparently impressed tho the prefect of police who hns has begun a merciless hunting down of nil all gossip bongers mongers und find rumor dispensers pen sers the prefect has decided to take drastic measures to stop unthinking chatter tit in public places and the spreading of alarming ala ruling reports and defeatist opinions ions A warning issued tho the other day points out that henceforth any per person soll no matter how respectable ho he may be will lie be arrested nr rested and taken to the nearest police station it lie he forgets himself to tile tho extent of talking not wisely but too well the warning had hardly been posted when nhen the roundup round up began to show results of nil sorts were i brought before the lie local to explain their individual acts of indiscretion thero there were some whose sole offense iKe according to their explanations was I 1 that they had merely said they knew a friend whose cun con clerge had been told by the lie post currier carrier that on tho the day after tomorrow the 00 oo ahns would surely carry out 0 ut a terrible raid on lla paris rig wild theory about bly guns gum others were certain and let it bb b known quite loudly on tho the terrace a 0 tho the cafes that tile the cannon which recently bombarded paris was waa really not nt nil all as far away as the authorities announced it to be they were sure that somewhere not far from paris hidden in a forest a number of ordinary small cil giltinon tinon which had been conserved lit in dugouts once I 1 the battle of the aarne suddenly put Info notion action by ft ft battery of german prisoners who vito had escaped from tile the camps in france these and other gossipy bits of rule nils II information formation dropped indiscreetly by borne well meaning persons persona have been found to prove a source of extreme tin nn to tho the government authorities and have resulted in immense harm Iler haps the roost most sensational arrest under tinder title this new edlet edict although virtu illy madu ns as tile result of a law passed on oil august 0 1014 was that of chart charlea eg leon one of the editors of la and lo le journel lit du ile reuple tiple and a member of tile active of tile the flUd socialist party was mis taking refuge in ft a cellar luring during nn an air raid with him wore it n number of women nud and inell dwellers du ellers in the anino house accord ing to n R schoolteacher who ho heard him was directing anany derogatory remarks against the government find the army the alie teacher reported ported ic what lie had heard to tile prefect of police who ordered the arrest of tha socialist woman teacher faces trial after numerous interrogations by the lie military and police all I 1 was lockete up in tile santa prison vi here holo was aa detained find und senator Itu inbert tire imprisoned an a well veil as tho latest abille aille helen larion tile the defeatist schoolteacher who inces court martial for tier lier writings arrest created much comment in all UK tile nowa papers particularly in tho the und end socialist press the press of this week to say nothing of tile the wholesale who lesolo detentions condic alons find arrests of tile tho last few months to Is bringing home to ff tho the people more clearly determination of tile tho government to rid the country of its opponents tin and enemies one ogle thing has certainly bacomo very clear and that Is ili that tile the prominence of a man or his wealth und and political influence in no way cause cau je him to be invulnerable charges of interfering with the successful prosecution of tho the war premier clemenceau s decision casion Is that no one shrill shall bo be spared who ft ha schemes to undo the he work done by tile tho soldiers sold lers of franceda Franc edu tile tho filid Pairl patriotic liveryman st louisin louis in nn an ellort effort to increase tile the interest in thrift gardens J E caldwell proprietor of a balea inces stable in tills city has offered to fur furniwall urn niall loli a to plow anny thrift garden in tho the city ar caldwell y lifts haa received mart many y j calla call jaice too the publication of hla his octer off 1 |