Monday, Jun. 04, 1923

A Warning

Georges Taupin, a young man, self-admittedly an anarchist, strode into the office of L' Action Franc,aise, Royalist journal, and fired a revolver shot into the ceiling. " Don't be afraid," he cautioned the staff, " I have come from the anarchists to warn you." He was then overpowered and arrested. His action caused a great sensation in Paris, as it was only last January that Germaine Berthon, also an anarchist, killed M. Marius Plateau, an editor of L'Action Franc,aise. She intended to kill Leon Daudet, proprietor of the paper,