FRENCH SCANDAL
MORE DEVELOPMENTS CABINET MAY BE AFFECTED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) PARIS, Dec. 28. Developments continue in the Gazette du France case. Thus far two suicides are attributed to losses. Seven arrests have been made of persons allegedly implicated. Two are at liberty provisionally. Audibert can still not be removed. Tho latest arrest is that of George Anquetil, founder and director of the L'Arumeur a financial journal affiliated with the Gazette du France, on a charge oi swindling and breach of trust. Altogether, the affair is assuming considerable proportions, and it, will even possibly affect the composition of Cabinet through the connection of M. Dumay, Minister of Agriculture, with the Quotidien, which leased financial publicity to Madame Hanau's concerns. M. KLOTZ'S POSITION COMPLAINTS WITHDRAWN lAnstralian and N.Z. Press Association. PARIS, De#j 28. Twenty-eight firms which set the law in motion against the ex-Minister, Klotz, in respect of dishonored cheques for payment for motor cars, sent a letter to his counsel regretting that they had not foreseen that pressure would involve legal consequences and cause a public scandal, injuring a man who had been one of France's plenipotentiaries in the hour of peace. The letter concludes with a formal withdrawal of the complaints.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16838, 29 December 1928, Page 5
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204FRENCH SCANDAL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16838, 29 December 1928, Page 5
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