GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEME.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1928, Page 7

GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEME.

SIDELIGHTS ON MADAME’S CAREER. HER REMARKABLE .SELF-ASSUR-ANCE. .United Press Association—By Electric TelegrapH - Copyright..) (Australian Press Association.) BARIS, Dec. 8. Madame Ilanau, known as Madame la Presidente, who was arrested in connection with a get-rieh-quiek scheme, utilising articles' allegedly written by prominent personages, retains the self-as-surance that has made her one of the most remarkable women in France.

When the investigators talk about the total liabilities Madame calmly insists that there must bo a seP ara tc balancesheet for dacli company. 'She even threatens that if her views, are ignored she will wash her hands of the Avliolc affair. Reputed to have been once worth £040,000, Madame, who successively conducted a perfumery and a soap business, starred the Gazette des Nations in 1925 as a pacifist paper. Later she started the Gazette du France and used articles and interviews of publie men of all countries in order to give confidence to her subscribers. Though a keen worker she loved pleasure. Madame rose at 7 o’clock and .motored to her office, but at 11 at night could be seen at Montmarte, where she frequented two night establishments; also the Bar Rue Fontaine, ay here she Avas loioAvn as Madame Martho, a generous spender. A Avarrant issued for the arrest of Pierre Audibert, editor of the Gazette du France has not been executed up to the present because of Audibert’s critical heart trouble. The police are guarding his house in the meantime. Paul Hersent, legal adAfiser to the Gazette, du France, has been arrested.