SECRECY OF THE PRESS.
FRENCH JOURNALIST FINED
.UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT.] “LONDON, June 13.
The authorities at Strashurg, Germany, are trying to discover who it was that divulged to the French press the Government’s intention to suppress foreign publications in AlsaceLorraine. Yesterday they summoned M. Bourson, the Strashurg correspondent of the Paris “Matin,” before tho court, and ordered him to disclose the names of his informants. He refused, on the ground that the matter was one of professional secrecy, and was fined.3os. He will be summoned again to-morrow, and is liable to be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3966, 24 June 1913, Page 5
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97SECRECY OF THE PRESS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3966, 24 June 1913, Page 5
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