Show ANARCKlSr MAD I I Europeans Especially the Trench In a State of Alarm Approaching Panic I I The French authorities are in a state I I of alarm approaching panic over the warnings of fresh anarchist plots The information has been furuishsd principally princi-pally by London and other foreign police I po-lice and extraordinary precautions have been taken to prevent the execution oi the bloodthirsty designs These measures meas-ures are so stringent that all foreigners in France are likely to suffer inconvenience inconven-ience Merely stopping to admire the architecture of the public buildings is likely to lead to arrest on suspicion as an innocent Englishman found who gazed curiously for five minutes at the foreign oflico The customs inspectors have been instructed to investigate the contents cf everything larger than a small orange The bill for tho suppression suppres-sion of anarchy is ono of tho most drastic dras-tic pieces of legislation in history It literally fulfills Macanlays prophecy that it might provo necessary to destroy liberty in order to preserve civilization It almost forbids people to think anarchy an-archy It certainly forbids them to mention men-tion it in a private letter It tries offenders offend-ers without a jury aud on conviction tends them to solitary confinement and possibly to Cayenne Arrangements international cooperation coop-eration against anarchists are believed to be making satisfactory progress Gey many is the principal obstacle More complete police cooperation will un dpubtedly be agreed upon The French police system will be reorganized antI placed under one national head Chief Inspector Melville head of the special or secret political department at Scotland Yard has been pretty well worked to death in the last few months what with murderous anarchists and roving royalties Tho latter are a perpetual per-petual worry for in these revolutionary days they have to be watched with the greatest care and Melville has to do the work with a scanty staff and inadequate funds New York Suns European Lester Les-ter |