STAVISKY AFFAIR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21708, 25 January 1934, Page 11

STAVISKY AFFAIR

STORMY DEBATE RENEWED

SCENE IN FRENCH CHAMBER CHARGES BY A DEPUTY ANOTHER STREET RIOT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received January 21, 11.a p.m.) PARIS, Jan. 24 There were further tumultuous scenes in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday on the revival of the debate on the Stavisky affair. M. Henriot again attacked the Government. He alleged that the name of M. Reynaldy, Minister of Justice, figured in the Stavisky dossier and demanded to know how the Public Prosecutor dared act in such an event. M. Bouesse (Socialist), who was in tho air force during the war, jumped up and shouted: " How much is being paid for this dirtv work?"

M. Henriot cried excitedly: "Repeat that."

M. Bouesse, complying, added, amid tremendous excitement: "I await your seconds." He then sprang to th« tribune, apparently with the intention of grappling with M. Henriot, but the ushers rushed up and ejected M. Bouesse.

Very wild scones followed, in which Communists sang the Internationale, the Right Wing members endeavouring tog drown their voices by banging tho lids of their desks. The president of the Chamber suspended the sitting for half an hour. When tho House reassembled M. Henriot was received with cheers from his friends and wails from his opponents. He was repeatedly interrupted. He declared that certain documents in the Stavisky case had disappeared. M. Reynaldy's explanatory communique, he said, was unsatisfactory, and he asked, amid uproar, whether M. Chautemps had always guaranteed the honour of certain directors of the Compagnie Foncierie, one of Stavisky's ventures.

M. Henriot continued his series of charges. He alleged the disbursement of secret funds by M.. Chautemps and M. Paul Boncour, and formally moved a no-confidence motion in " the men who protect swindlers." M. Chautemps, in reply, said he was not interested in hushing up the affair, but the Government's opponents were not thinking of justice. He defended M. Boncour, M. De Monzie, 'M. Reynaldy and M. Bonnet, after which the no-confidence motion was defeated by 366 votes to 201.

There was renewed rioting early this morning in the vicinity of the Chamber, mostly by students and Communists. As the result 120 arrests were made.

ARREST OF BANKERS CIVIL SERVANTS' MONEY ALLEGED MISAPPROPRIATION (Received January 24. 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 23 The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail says a new financial scandal has been revealed through the arrest of Georges Alexandre, manager of the Civil Servants' Bank, who is accused of swindles involving £2,500,000. It is alleged that with money received on behalf of the bank, the principal business of which was to make advances to Civil Servants, Alexandre floated 11 companies, the majority of which have become bankrupt. It is reported. that Alexandre went to Paris in 1926 from Rouen, where he had a small second-hand clothes shop. He started a concern known as the Credit Assurances and later founded the Civil Servants' Bank, of which he was director. He retained the majority of the shares, which enabled him to completely control it by similar methods to those of Stavisky in the case of the Bayonne Municipal Bank. From information lodged in 1930 an expert was appointed to investigate the affairs of the bank, but in spite of his reports Alexandre's arrest was, postponed. Charles Neuburger has also been arrested. He founded a small bank in Paris in 1907 with a capital of 7,000,000 francs. It is believed that an amount between 10,000,000 and 20,000,000 francs is involved in his failure.

The French press is calling Alexandre " Staviskv the second." It is stated that the 'directors of his ,various companies included two deputies, 18 prefects, 30 Treasury commissioners, 66 Judges and 12 police commissioners.