M. Herve, the notorious French anti-militarist agitator, has been found
guilty of libelling the French Army in his paper, La Guerre Sociale, and sentenced to a year's imprisonment and a fine of three thousand francs. The case was tried before a jury at the Paris Court of Assize ; and M. Jaures, though he sent a letter supporting M. Herve's charges against the action of the French in Morocco, failed to appear in person. It may be noted that M. Rene Millet, formerly French Resident in Tunis, stated that M. Herve and his friends. were prominent accomplices of the tribes hostile to France, and that the prosecuting counsel dwelt on the suicidal effect of the anti- militarist propaganda. " Without discipline there was no army, and without an army to guard the open frontiers what would the morrow bring forth ? " The Humanite professes to regard the result as a triumph for filibusters and financiers, but disregards the main issue on which the prosecution relied, and there seems little doubt that the vast majority of French- men will approve of the sentence, and support the Govern- ment in their efforts to suppress this criminal and anarchical propaganda, and to punish its instigators.
