The Daily Worker

PARIS. France, March 19.-Another of those investigations of the military, which could not be delayed any longer because the stench of the details was increasing with every hour and there would be less scandal now than later, has just been completed here. As a result, Generals Goubeau and Departouneaux and Colonel Marminia have been censured or relieved of their posts.

It is estimated that the activities of the three military men resulted in the death of at least 300 French soldiers in the army of occupation in the Rhineland of Germany.

Goubeau was found guilty of ordering a review at 4 below zero, Marminia of the same offense. Departouneaux was found guilty of organizing masked balls while the hospitals were full of dying soldiers.

Obviously the crimes of these three were far graver than this, as the dead soldiers would attest if they could accuse their murderers, but the French courts are anxious to whitewash the ferocious administration of the army which official France winks at. The actual details of the scandal which made necessary so open an investigation and trial will remain in the files of the French war department.

A portion of the European liberal press is rejoicing over the exposure of the officers' guilt. But the French workers will not be deceived by such talk. It is the opinion of the liberals that officers of the stamp of these three clog up the smooth working of the imperialist armies.

The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is the fiercest and most merciless war of the new class against its more powerful enemy, the bourgeoisie, whose power of resistance increases tenfold after its overthrow, even though overthrown in only one country.-V. I. Lenin ("Left" Communism).