CAUSED A PANIC
SEIZURE OF DOCUMENTS. FRENCH FIRMS ALARMED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, January 22. Tho “Morning Post’s” Paris correspondent says that the seizure of original documents by the French Commission investigating the devastated region frauds has caused a panio in industrial concerns. The commissioners are now in possession of the original claims made in 1917; and also the revised statements made in 1919 and 1921, which, contain damaging evidence of the manner in which the inflation of claims was carried out. It is stated that 76 per cent, of the leading industrial firms in the North are involved. Many papers have disappeared from the dossiers, but, unfortunately for the guilty parties, a record of their various claims was made in the books when the original papers reached Paris. Officials connected with the Ministry for the Liberated Regions will be asked to explain why one controller retired within ten months and others received important posts with firms in Northern France.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 6
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162CAUSED A PANIC New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 6
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