Camelots du Roi

Last week the Camelots du Roi (Royalists), emulating Facismo, attacked three socialists with tar, ink, sticks and castor oil. The Socialists are: M. Marc Sangnier, leader of the Socialist Radical Party; M. Marius Moutet, a prominent defender in the Caillaux trial; M. Viollette, formerly Minister of Subsistence. Said M. Sangnier: " They can cover me with tar and force castor oil down my throat, but they can never win me to their methods! "

The rowdyism of the Royalists met with hostile comment in the Chambre des Deputes, where within three months another riotous scene occurred (TIME, March 31). Leon Daudet, leader of the Royalist Party in Paris, editor of l'Action Franc,aise, Royalist journal, was assailed on all sides by irate Socialists when he took his seat in the Chamber. It was with difficulty that the ushers and saner deputies were able to prevent grievous bodily harm being done him. Despite Daudet's valiant efforts to fight the entire Chamber single-voiced, he was obliged to succumb to the superior yells from the Socialists. After a vote had been taken condemning the action of the Royalists, he walked out of the Chamber amid hoots. The attitude of the Govern-ment was that it would not tolerate attacks on individual liberty from any source. As proof of this the police are guarding Daudet's home.

The Camelots du Roi (King's Hawkers) are said to number more than 150,000. They were formed to assist the Royalist cause by hawking copies of l'Action Franc,aise on the streets. Later on they became an organized body to disseminate Royalist propaganda. Their audacity and hotheadedness is doing much to ruin the cause for which they fight.