STOLEN DOCUMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 9

STOLEN DOCUMENTS

THE HAKAU AFFAIR DEVELOPING INTO FIRST-CLASS MYSTERY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, April 13. (Received April 14, at 9 a.m.) Tho fresh Madame Hauau affair is developing into a first-class mystery. Tho police officials and the Ministry of Finance are baffled as to how thp documents disappeared from the drawer of M. Flandin’s desk, of which he alone lias tho key. The document was a secret police report about madame’s activities, which she printed in a cojiy of ‘ Forces,’- which the police suppressed. In pursuance of their search the police demanded the directors of the bank where madame deposited her papers to open the safe or to hand over the keys. The. directors refusing, the police called on locksmiths, who, after three hours, opened the safe by means of an oxyacetyleno plant.

[A previous message stated: As she is believed to be about to publish in her financial weekly paper, ‘ Forces,’ details from a secret document lost from the office of the Minister of Finance (M. FJandin), the police arrested the famous Madame Hauau on a charge of theft of public documents. She is also accused of attempting to depress the Stock Exchange by articles professing to expose the real motive behind M. Tardieu’s Danube Plan. It is recalled that Madame Hanau was charged with fraud in connection with her ‘ Gazette du France,’ and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. She had already served eighteen months in prison, and was, therefore, released, when she lodged an appeal which is pending.]