HOT ATTACK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 10, 12 January 1934, Page 8

HOT ATTACK.

FRENCH PREMIER. OUTBURST BY PUBLIC Sensation During Debate or Bayonne Frauds. M. OHAUTEMPS CHEERED. United P.A.—Electric Telegrapn-Cbpyrlghti (Received 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, January 11. A serious disturbance occurred ir Paris this evening arising out of the political crisis which has been precipitated by the Bayonne scandal and the death of the Kussian financier. Stavisky. The Chamber of Deputies met at 3.3 C in the afternoon, when ME. Herriot submitted a motion that the Chamber should determine to unmask the scandals. ' The Socialists are awaiting an explanation from the Prime Minister.. M. Chautemps, before voting. Tie street disturbance took place in the boulevard St. Germain, half a mile from the Chamber of Deputies. A crowd of 5000 people, including students, also members of a political association called the Young Patriots and many exservicemen wearing decorations, shouted. "Down with the thieves and robbers, down with Chautemps, assassins and murderers." The- crowd attempted to rusli the police and reach the Chamber of Deputies. Uproar in Chamber. Meanwhile, M. Dalimier, replying to M. ■ Monnet (Socialist), in the Chamber, said that it couM not T>e foreseen that the Bayonne Credit Municipal, presided over by~the Mayor,-who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and administered by a council under the control of the Minister of Finance, with a director nominated by the Prefect, could act incorrectly. M. Monnet announced that the Socialists did not desire to profit by the scandal to the extent of a Ministerial crisis, but they considered that _M. Chautemps was acting with judicial severity. 11. Bonnaure, the withdrawal of whose Parliamentary immunity was demanded by the examining magistrate, on attempting to speak, met with deafening cries of "Go pay your tailor. Go hang yourself." He subsided into his seat. Only Wants to Tell Truth. I M. Hesse attempted to explain why he secured 19 adjournments in the I Stavisky case, but he was greeted with derisive laughter. M. Dommage (Independent) attacked : the Public. Prosecutor and police for , leaving Stavisky free, and finally at- | tacked the Prime Minister; M. Chau--I temps, owing. to the fact of being a brother-in-law of M. Pressard, Procurer of the Eepublic. M. Chautemps, looking white and P tired, in replying; declared, amid cheers I from the whole- Assembly/ "I do not care whether I am thrown out of office. I I only want to tell the truth,and do my I duty without consideration of persons I or_family." <:;'_: . . The Prime Minister admitted that .:'■ repeated adjournments in the Stavisky % case had been, a most grave fault, and ' in connection therewith the Minister '■• of Justice was taking.action against the j magistrate concerned. . ... M. Chautemps declared: "I have decided upon a difficult reform, namely, *.-. the complete reorganisation of the I judiciary and. the police,." ■ .... Referring to r.umours that Stavisky I did not commit.suicide the Prime Minis-. I ter emphasised the fact that legal and I medical reports proved that he fired the I shot. : -'• ■ ;'-: ■ . ' ' Anti-Blackmail Bill. The Premier, amid cheers, said: "I must I also protect "tKe innocent against black - mail by to-day tabling a bill compelling f libellers to prove their imputations;": He I concluded his oratorical outburst by urging the' Chamber to rally to the I Government and save the regime and I public morality. He added: "The regime itself was at stake three days.ago, when I the Government's downfall ,was likely, i- millions of posters being printed demanding a dictatorship." The Prime Minister left the Tribune :; wildly applauded by the Radicals. There . were Socialist cheers, although the Right Centre was silent. The Chamber adjourned and will ; resume the debate to-inorrow morning, , but it is believed that the Government : is in a strong position.

SCOPE WIDENS.

Police Prefect Made Object Of. Attack. , PARIS DEPUTY QUESTIONED. \ PARIS, January 11. The latest; object of attack in, the itavisky scandal is M. Chiappe, the famous Police Prefect of Paris. Socialists and Communists are clamouring for M. Chiappe'a resignation on the ground that he. did not reveal Stavisky's .criminal record.. Further developments in the Stavisky ■*ase have occurred and the scope of the (.candal is widening. Following upon long interrogations of Joseph Garat, a member of the Chamber of Deputies and Mayor of-Bayonne, who also was chairman of the Bayonne municipal pa'wnbroking establishment, which, is alleged to have issued fraudulent bonds with a supposed face value of £6,000,000, and 'of Tissier, a director of the pawnbroking establishment, -the examining magistrate at Bayonne decided to ask the Chamber of Deputies to raise the Parliamentary immunity of•! Bonneure, one of the Paris Deputies! whose expenses last election were allegedly paid by Stavisky. The magistrate also issued warrants for the arrest of Dubarry, the editor, of. the Paris political newspaper, "Volunte," and Camille/Aymard, a former editor of "La Liberte," on the grounds that they received 2,000,000 francs, and 55,000 francs respectively from Stavisky, who is . • also said" to have ■ paid Aymard's tailor's bill of 15,000-francs. A section of the Press is demanding to know what has become of the revolver with which Stavisky committed suicide. The newspapers stress the fact that his farewell letters used the word "disappear," not "suicide." •