2 JUNE 1928, Page 2

The trial of the autonomists of Alsace-Lorraine, who were charged

with sedition, ended on Thursday, May 24th, when Dr. Ricklin, M. Rosse, M. Schall and the ex-Abbe Fasshauer were found guilty and eleven other defendants were acquitted. -Seven .defendants had fled to .Germany And could not be tried. The four defendants who were convicted were sentenced to a year's imprisonment, five years' exile, and the payment of costs. Autonomy is notoriously capable of various interpretations, and no one who does not live in Alsace-Lorraine could say exactly what form of autonomy is fashionable at the moment. It means kpaiatism at one extreme and a mere devolution (such as M.Millerand actually presided over when he was High Commissioner shortly after the War) at the other extreme.

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