BOLO SCANDALS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14450, 9 November 1917, Page 4

BOLO SCANDALS

GIFTS Td LOVELY WOMAN

TRUNKS FULL OF MONEY

LONDON, Oct. 8. Tlio Times correspondent at Paris states tliat France is angrily absorbing every detail of the 8010 scandals. . lt appears that Lenoir and de Souches attempted to *gaitt the financial control of Le, Journal 'before 8010. did. A trunk containing ' £360,000, and another containing £40.000, arrived m. Paris from Switzerland m July, 1915, addressed to a financial institution for the credit of Lenoir aiid de Souches, respectively. Lenoir hastened to present £20,000 to a baroness, a. lovely, woman who. once non a beauty prize, and a friend of Prince Hohenlohe: Lenoir explains tliat he met a big manufacturer m Zurich,' w^io gave evidence of a desiro to buy Lo Journal, and Lenoir undertook the negotiations, on the basis of a commission for himself and. de Souches.

M. Humbert sold shares valued at sovei'al million francs to Lenoir and do Souches, who attempted to compel Lo Journal to begin a malicious campaign of slander and* insinuation against Britain, on the grounds that Britain was profiteering and using France as a dupe. Humbert then, called on Lenoir to provo that the money was of French origin. Later, Humbert- accepted BoWs .money, which he thought was untainted, an order /to buy ou-t Lenoir. Le Journal 1 throughout . maintained a vigorous patriotic policy. lie Journal states that Lenoir's anti-British inspiration oame from the former Khedive's agenta m Switzerland.