SECRET RECORD OF BRIBED POLITICIANS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6804, 7 January 1929, Page 7

SECRET RECORD OF BRIBED POLITICIANS

MADAME HANOU’S NOTEBOOK. SIXTY-ONE HIGHLY PLACED PERSONAGES ARE INVOLVED. Sun Cable. Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 5. The Daily Mail Paris correspondent says M. Camille Aymard, editor of Libcrte, makes astonishing disclosures regarding the Gazetto du France affair, in connection with which nearly 20 persons have been arrested. M. Aymard declares there are 61 secret accounts, which Madame Hanou kept in a white notebook. These give details of the bribes she paid to prominent politicians to continue friendly' to herself and her schemes. He says each of these accounts, which arc only Identified by numbers, referred to some prominent personages, Including two exPrime Ministers, several deputies and senators. Account number 24 conceals the name of an ex-deputy who at present is accusing all and sundry in connection with the affair. M. Aymard adds that the secrets of theso accounts must be probed and all the names disclosed. Accusing Notebook Found EX-DEPUTY ARRESTED AND QUESTIONED. Received Monday 1 a.m. PARIS, Jan. 6. An arrest has been made in connection with tho Gazette du Franco affaii of M Charles Bertrand, an ex-deputy, who is accused of complicity in Madame Hanau’s alleged share-pushing operations, following the allegations that Mamade Hanau kept a notebook in which was a list of influential persons, including senators and deputies, and even two ex-Prime Ministers, to whom she had advanced sums of money, which were virtually bribes, in return for moral support for hor enter prises.

The examining Magistrate questioned Madame and recoived evasivo answers. She finally refused to answer a direct question whether she kept an account of tho sum paid out "as bribes. The public prosecutor, in an interview, insists that the ndtobook has been found.